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consider this a sign...

...to be kinder to yourself.

no matter what life has been so far, you deserve more kindness from yourself.

treat yourself gently. care for yourself. go easy on yourself. you're precious ✨

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I deserve it

Saw these beautiful purple Calla Lillies 💜 Had to treating myself simply because

"Let people enjoy things", "It's not that deep", "Stop being a hater", No.

You are capable of criticizing something and still enjoying it. Criticism should add to your enjoyment of the thing. Contextualizing and analyzing media is the only true sign that you enjoy it instead of just consume it. Stop selling the straggling iotas of your final brain cell to a fascio-capitalist system that wants to gorge you til you burst. Not consuming anything is better than blindly inhaling whatever is put in front of you without discretion.

Be an intellectual and have respect for yourself so you can have some sugary Wattpad fanfic and a Netflix reality TV show for dessert.

Saturday, October 14.

Treat Yo' Self Day.

OK, so we may be a day late, but for something this wholesome, frankly, my dear, it matters not.

Treat Yo' Self Day may be traditionally celebrated on October 13th, which was yesterday. And a Friday, famously. So to make amends, we are going one further and celebrating not just one but two days in commemoration, across Saturday and Sunday, in tribute to both #parks and recs and #treat yoself.

Frankly, my dears, you deserve it. Happy Saturday.

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remember that...

...there is only one of you.

you're too precious to take yourself for granted. you deserve all the love, care, and kindness in the world.

be the first to show all of that to yourself. you're amazing ✨

u just gotta..

Source: la vie en rose

Or else!

I've been seeing a lot of posts about making your characters suffer as a healthy form of character development and I definitely will not argue against it.

My favorite character seen here has been touched by bad luck since inception. He's got the murdered family, trouble with authorities, trouble with gangs, drunkard lovers, lover infidelity, attempts on his life, and the endless humiliation of half of his inventions failing so badly they were weaponized. But I came to the realization that as cathartic as it was to make a character go through hell worse than I was experiencing in life, it did eventually weigh on me. I loved this guy so much, why couldn't something good happen to him for once that didn't have a caveat, or a hidden disaster in the wings because of it? Some of my hesitation was due to beliefs surrounding roleplay with others, and uncertain ideas about boundaries. What happened to my character, caused by or influenced by others became canon didn't it? And it seemed "wrong" to build more for the character without any outside interaction for some reason - although others certainly did that for their own characters. Someone once asked me why I couldn't just do what i wanted with my own character, since those good things were not happening in roleplay. Why indeed! So, I gave my character the clinic he had been wanting to build. I gave him the grace to have more successful inventions. I found him a lover who respected his boundaries and encouraged and engaged with his work. And you know what? That felt just as good and as fun as all the disasters he went through. I think it was important for *me*, that something good happened for him, for my own peace of mind. Don't hold yourself back with your own characters.