feeling this one, calvin

Take the quiz, post your results, and tag some people! (/nf)

@haunted-headset-alt @thesleepysystem @bugs05 @radio-to-trenchcoat-demons

i thikn about this image so often

I like to do this grounding exercise I jokingly call "go touch grass" but honestly it's... almost exactly that.

First you need to go outside. It doesn't have to be far, it doesn't have to be "in nature" -- just somewhere with a bit of wind and sky. A parking lot is as good as a pasture. Make sure you're safe and aware of your surroundings, that you're not about to get run over by a cow or eaten by a moving van.

Close your eyes. Become aware of the surface of your skin. Can you feel the wind on it? Can you feel how it's stronger on one side of your nose and there's a bit of a lee on the other cheek? Can you feel that strand of hair against your neck? Is there sunlight? Feel how you can actually register the heat of it wherever it touches. Maybe the wind competes with the sunlight. Maybe it's cloudy. Maybe there are tiny raindrops that hit your skin. Feel it.

Look down. Really look, like you're five years old again, looking for Special Rocks. Find a bug and follow its path across the pavement. Look at the pattern in the gravel, the way it piles up against the side of your foot. Grind your toe into the ground a bit, see how you cause a mountain range to appear in the dirt. Look at the individual blades of grass, and that dead leaf -- look at its delicate veins. See the little tufts of fibers on the heads of the grassy weeds and how they tremble at the slightest breeze. You can crush them underfoot if you want to -- they'll grow back. Smell the green scent of the broken stems, and then look at how many thousands more blades of grass there are around you, unperturbed.

Look up. See the sky, through the branches or between buildings or over your neighbor's roof. Are there clouds? Look at the way the light filters through them. Tilt your head to the side and see how changing your perspective can heighten your understanding of the shadows. Is there a plane flying over? Maybe a bird? Watch it until it's out of sight. Maybe there are stars. Look closely at their shifting colors and try to name them -- is it blue? or red? or something that's neither?

Listen. Take in one by one the sounds of distant traffic, of a neighbor's washing machine, of the kids next door or the dog three doors down, the birdsong across the creek, the squirrel chittering in the maple tree. Single the sounds out one by one and really listen to them, the way you'd listen to a new song that you're trying to understand the words to. Lick your lips and listen to the sound your jaw makes when you move, or the brush of your hair against your ear, the sound your jeans make as you walk, the crunch of dry grass underfoot or the sksh-sksh of gravel.

Take in every sense with deliberate intent. Focus on your skin, on the tips of your fingers brushing against a brick wall or clasping a porch rail or just rubbing the cloth of your shirt between them. Feel how the air moves over your arms. Listen to the sound of it and the sounds of the world moving around you, whether it's a busy downtown or a rural driveway. Wiggle your toes inside your shoe and be aware of how the pressure changes as you move them. Walk and try to register each shifting muscle as your feet bend, legs picking up and setting down again.

I have bad anxiety -- some weeks worse than others. I've taken to going on a walk every day during my break at work and doing this process as I go. It never fails to make me feel more solid and grounded, and while I've never had much luck with straight meditation, I think this comes pretty close.

You are real, you exist, the world is moving at its proper pace, and all around you life is blooming and growing and shifting and becoming.

"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO @applestruda :D

They are one of my favourite artists of all time! I wanted to draw her a gif for their birthday:3

The best thing Puppet History has ever done for me is allowing me to confuse my brother with lore and educating him on absurd topics. Once during a game show marathon he was having with one of his friends, I heard him answer a question correctly and after being asked how he knew such a weirdly specific answer he replied- and I quote:

"I have been burdened with the knowledge of the blue professor against my will."

Hunter? Moreso Hunted

Heyy I made a uQuiz to tell you which Drawfee member you are!

so like. you know those ‘fall asleep FAST! 12 hours relaxing rain noises!’ youtube videos? well i think i found genuinely the most cursed one today

Megalo(vania)don

Hilarious coincidence:

The only Robins to not die as robin had cars during their robin run.

If batman gives you a car while you’re underage, you will live, otherwise get f*cked ig.

when i was in middle school Rude by bruno mars came on the radio in the car with my mom and at the chorus it goes “why you gotta be so rude, don’t you know i’m human too, i’m gonna marry ya anyway” and my mom now had her Disapproving Aura on and sighed and said. see this is why [my divorced uncle] married [his mean ex-wife]. what a sad way of loving. and 13yo me was like Oh Damn That Deep. and mentally filed away the lesson Popular Music Promotes Toxic Behavior Therefore Don’t Marry Someone Who’s Mean To You. and ever since then rude by bruno mars has made me just a little bit sad. cut to 5+ years later the song is no longer popular. i happen to hear it over the tinny speakers in a random fast food place. all at once i realize the lyrics are not, in fact, about marrying a girl despite her hating you (gonna marry ya anyway), but marrying a girl despite her parents hating you (gonna marry her anyway). 13yo me and my mom misheard the same lyric and never paid attention to the rest of the song. i am flabbergasted. one of the pillars of my childhood development has just crumbled in a Subway. i am frantically realigning my entire internal ethics system. the cashier still wants to know if i’m getting a cookie. nothing is real

Yippee!

I love Saw

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R.I.P. atsushi sakurai, rock legend ⚡️

Because this is the third time I've had this conversation with a surprised young student this semester:

Your college library is free! You don't have to pay to rent books, they'll help you find resources, you have access to dozens if not hundreds of databases and journals through them, and most universities are even moving away from late fee systems! It's awesome and it's all there waiting for you!

It's not the same as renting a textbook from the bookstore -- you can check out the books (or dvds, cds, monographs, journals, magazines, dissertations, laptops, tablets, headphones, and more) for free, with no judgement or expectations beyond "return it in a timely manner and in good condition."

Please use your library! I swear we're cool. XD If you're uncertain how to find things out use resources, I can almost guarantee that your librarians will be eager to help you learn -- this is what we went into this profession to do. (and, side note: our budgets are determined by use. You want your library to be better, have more stuff? Use it! If we can't prove need we don't get funding, and that sucks for all of us.)

Your library is free, and your librarians are excited to help. Please check us out!

i just got a bot in my dms telling me about a site to date people. brother im aromantic and romance repulsed good luck with that