anythingbut-straight
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So it’s very late but I want to share the best piece of wisdom my mother has ever offered me.
One time, when I was having a very hard time, bad enough that I admitted I was struggling to my mother. My mother looked at me and told me: “Don’t make big decisions in February.”
I was very confused, because it was not February at the time, but she explained that one year, when she was younger but old enough to live on her own, she was having a very hard time, much like me. She found herself feeling especially low and especially stressed in February. And she decided she wouldn’t make any big changes for the rest of the month.
And the month went by, and she had a hard time, but time passed and it happened that by the beginning of March, she was feeling a lot better. And she was able to make big decisions she had avoided in February.
So now it’s a mantra for me: Don’t make big decisions in February.
February being whenever I feel down or angry or stressed.
Boss or coworkers being crappy? Don’t make big decisions in February.
Feeling lonely and it’s 2am and you have a bottle of hair dye just sitting on your bathroom sink? Don’t make big decisions in February.
Give yourself space to think through your decisions. Bad moods rarely give you the best judgement. Anxiety disorders, depression, and other mental illnesses will try to convince you the wrong decisions are the right ones, and in the moment, they sound very convincing.
So give yourself time to figure out if that’s what you actually need, what you actually want, and what would maybe feel good in the moment but have consequences you’re not willing or ready to deal with.
Try not to make life changes in February, whatever February is for you.
This needs to be a thing though
Unus Annus merch idea:
t-shirts or hoodies that say “I survived [video here]” and there’s a drop-down option for the video that you personally found hellish or unsettling in any way
Draw Dark M O I S T (this is a joke ajdsbd)
I’m sorry my brain only saw ‘draw dark moist’ and I blacked out
fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love
Its destiny
i don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that miles has a little sister now
When i first read this it nearly killed me, so i had to draw it :V
“but why do we need to teach or mention asexuality in health class”
well my guy, maybe so asexual teens dont think something’s wrong w them ???
I had a dream last night that Mark said in a stream that Illinois’ middle name was was Philadelphia
The whole community took to calling him Illy Philly
Trying to teach all the slang and ever-changing fashion to ancient people tho
I wish I could terrorize ancient people with things that are commonplace today
POC blush tutorial
Feel free to repost, but please credit me
jse egos but as john mulaney quotes
dr schneeplestein
jackie-boy man
antisepticeye
chase brody
marvin the magnificent
jameson jackson
jack
Marvin: Have you ever fallen in love, Jackie?
Jackieboy Man: I can’t even fall asleep.
generally i keep my egos pretty close in appearance with just like scars and haircuts and things separating them but man i do love me some change over time headcanons. like completely bizarre, random changes that just make them look less and less like Jack as time goes on, so like Jackie is just getting steadily more red-brown hair, and then a nice russet, and then full-on ginger by the time he’s like six years old. Marvin’s eyes are larger than they used to be and a slightly different color too. JJ’s hair is getting curly and his hands don’t look like Jack’s. Henrik’s pretty sure he’s getting shorter and he is NOT happy about it. Chase erupts into freckles and his face softens. None of them have the same nose anymore. Marvin has these mean sharp eyebrows now and it’s not just because he plucks them. Chase swears his ears stick out more than they used to but he also thinks he’s getting handsomer. JJ’s wisdom teeth grow in for some reason none of them understand and Jackie gets the wrong blood transfusion cause they could have sworn he was B+ two months ago. Henrik sighs and fixes it, complaining about how he has to be the one to always take care of everyone else before fainting from a sudden fruit allergy four days later.
And Anti, you know, Anti stays the same. Anti always looks just like Jack. and he kind of watches from a distance and sees them, fluctuating and whole and alive, and wonders what it would be like to let the idea of being Jack go and to see if he could change on his own. Maybe he’d get taller and his mouth would thin out and his eyes would take on a permanent heterochromia or even a nice rich brown. His fingers would grow longer and slimmer around the hilts of knives and his whole body would shift slightly, his hips narrowing and his shoulders rising up. He kind of likes the thought of it. To move, like human beings move.
But he doesn’t need that kind of weakness. And anyway, he has his goal. So he’ll just stand back, waiting to strike, watching Jameson’s eyelashes get longer and Marvin’s canines sharpening and Chase fitting into size nine shoes. Jackie doesn’t need glasses anymore, a development Henrik complains about at length in a voice slightly lower than the rest of theirs. It means nothing and everything. They’re their own people. At the end of the day, they still look like brothers.
Beannnnn
Doggy vs Christmas tree
One of the things I love about Mandalorian culture is that it basically involves loving who ever you want, raising as many kids as you want, wearing cool body armor and flying around on highly unreliable jetpacks, and trying to shoot a space wizard who can send bullets back at you which is peak herbo/himbo culture. But seriously you don't get in trouble for picking a laser sword that's the wrong color, being forced to never see your parents as a toddler because you could move blocks with your mind, or never allowed to have family or life outside the Jedi order. One of the things that the EU established is both how family oriented Mando culture and one of the reasons they dislike the Jedi is partially because they force a child to separate from their family.
This needs to spread
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I didn't know how many good affects they had
remember being little and thinking dandelions were fun or a pretty color or something and every adult in an 80 mile radius wouldn’t let you say that without screaming ITS A WEED
Let's see if it'll work
May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨
Oh my heart, I am deceased
An explanation.
This is iconic oh my god
Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.
This is incredible! It makes so much sense!
An incredibly dumb thought came to me when I figured out how to solve the password for aheistwithmarkiplier.com. Dark said that he put in the secret codes into every adventure in this story. HE put the codes in HIMSELF.
For a while I’ve been wondering. Mark said that William, the Actor, and Damien are basically characters borne out of different aspects of himself. And so I was wondering how the hell then does Dark relate to Mark’s charitable side? If Dark is a mutation of Damien, corrupted and angry, what does that say about Mark and his charity? Well, I’ve got it! It all makes sense to me now! Because of this stray thought because of Dark’s ending with the heist!
Willford is boundless, unrestrained creativity. With no one to hold him back or to make him settle down, he will do the most outlandish wild things, even if that means violence. Wilford is in essence the love for creating and imagination.
The Actor is unrestrained ego. He is charisma and the face and the smile that you adore. The Actor is the one you see on the screen and while the other two are always there and are always present, the Actor is the one who gets the credit. The Actor is what you see, but that is also all he is. A transient face. The Actor is in essence the love for Mark’s own self. But not necessarily in a narcissistic sense either. Because in order to know who you want to be and what you need to do to make yourself happy, you must learn to love yourself too. Or at least the person you want and pretend to be.
Dark IS restraint. He is knowledge and patience and anger and restlessness and rules and order. Dark operates unseen, unknown and unacknowledged. He may indulge himself every once in a while, but he has work to do. And the work is never over. Besides indulgence is what the other two are for. Dark cares more and more deeply than the either two do. He is the restraint that keeps the other two from doing anything that they will regret. He keeps us, the audience from ever getting hurt. He may play games, but ultimately keeps us from seeing the worst of the world. Dark is in essence the love for others and the audience especially.
Another way to put this. Wilford is the writer. Mark is the performer. Dark is the editor.
Dark IS the editor! Of course Dark’s always mad! He’s the editor! He’s the one who has to do the freaking WORK! He has to tie everything together. Make everything cohesive. Make it not insufferable for the audience. Because he cares about the audience. He has to schedule. He has to think. That’s why Dark is his charitable side. He cares about the audience. He cares about everyone! And he might get sour about it, but he cares, you know? In the end all three parts need one another to be the Mark that we all genuinely love.