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My free time includes me time and that means me without you time. (x)

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ohhHHH MY GOd. Just. Soapbox moment here. STOP saying “I’m super OCD about how things are arranged!” “Ugh, oop OCD moment haha!” “I’m OCD about washing my hands!” NO. YOU’RE NOT. You’re NOT. If you can HONESTLY laugh about it? If it’s a “funny little quirk” ??? YOU’RE NOT.

Just. STOP. And if you’re an author or a screenwriter??? STOP PUTTING THAT SHIT IN SCRIPTS.

It’s a serious fucking issue that is no laughing matter for anyone who ACTUALLY has it, and the fact that it’s routinely underplayed and made fun of in public and in media is INFURIATING. If you haven’t gotten stuck in a repetitive behavior for half an hour and gotten frustrated to the point of TEARS because you could NOT STOP, don’t FUCKING say you have OCD.

Maybe you have a compulsion, or are particular about something. Maybe you’re a germophobe. OCD is something entirely different. It impairs your ability to function in daily life, particularly if unaddressed or unmedicated and during times of great stress, so stop FUCKING joking about it. It makes me PHYSICALLY ill every time, and I SWEAR the “joke” has happened like five times in the past week just in media I’ve ingested. STOP. I’m DONE.

GREAT example of what OCD is REALLY like is in the handwashing scene in an episode of Scrubs my sister watched the other day. For most of the episode, I was cringing and getting pissed off because it seemed that they were doing the same old thing of having an “OCD” character there to be the butt of a joke because “Ooh he flips light switches and taps on things and washes his hands all the time haha he’s so crazy!!! What a weirdo!!!” BUT. At the end of the episode, the main character catches this surgeon in the middle of an ACTUAL compulsive loop, and it’s handled with surprising grace. Almost made me cry.

MAJOR props to Michael J. Fox for his work here - the moment of anger when he hits the soap bottle and later when he screams in frustration is one I’ve experienced COUNTLESS times, and it was so cathartic to see. His body language throughout, his focus, his attempts to be present for his colleague despite the chaos running through his head - perfection. Great work, comedy show. I’ve linked the scene below - THIS is the private world of shame and agony REAL OCD people work VERY hard to hide from the public. We desperately want to appear “normal.” It’s so hard, y’all. So exhausting and time-consuming.

It’s three minutes. Give it a watch and maybe think twice before you make or entertain another “OCD” comment. Thanks.

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A little late to posting lineart because my iPad decided to take a nap this morning

Image description: Digital lineart with dark pink lines on a lighter pink background. The art is of a woman with a unicorn skull instead of a human head. Her canine teeth are longer to suggest that she’s a vampire. She is dressed in early Victorian fashion, holding a parasol in her left hand and a goblet full of liquid in her right. Skulls are piled on the ground by her skirts

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Happy Halloween babes! Halloween is my all time FAVOURITE holiday 🧛‍♀️Let me know what you’re dressing up as this year in the comments!

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Image description: Digital painting of a female figure instead of a human head she has a pink unicorn skull. She wears a long maroon and pink dress from the early Victorian era with a low neckline and a necklace adorned with rubies. In her left hand she holds a parasol and in her right she holds a gold and glass goblet with blood inside. She’s standing in a graveyard at night. There is a Blood red moon, fog in the graveyard, and human skulls crying blood are piled on either side of her.