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What the fuck is wrong with you? Eh? No. I fucking saw you. You were being mean. Not just to others but to yourself. No. Try again. Fuck.

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I love seeing the little freaks in the mobile games ads get tortured for our entertainment. Modern day gladiator battles. YES! Freeze to death, queen!

#musings #silly goofy mood #mobile game ads #ads #mobile games

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I've become extremely obsessed with something I've decided to call "hotel showers."

The rules of a hotel shower are as follows:

1. The bathroom itself must be cold. Enough that you might shiver slightly. Like just beyond what might be comfortable. Err on the side of colder. If the bathroom floor is cold to the touch that is a firm bonus.

2. The water in the shower has to be barely warm. This is extremely important. The perfect temp is such that the water barely warms your skin where it hits you but is cold by the time it hits your feet.

3. The earlier in the morning, the better. Dawn, or just before dawn is the ideal.

It is not enjoyable.

It may simulate the feeling of expecting to have a full day of vacation ahead of you.

Hope this helps.

#hotel showers #a thing i invented #try it #don't knock it 'til you try it #musings #silly goofy mood #shower #vacation #cold shower #hotel

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TIL that sometimes a compulsion in an OCD episode is internal or mental, not a physical action, and finding that out busted me out of an obsessive spiral that had been going on for about four days.

Specifically if you're having a weird obsession about your identity or whether you're a good person or stuff of that category, sometimes the compulsion takes the form of checking and rechecking your feelings on the matter to either confirm or deny the obsession. Which keeps reinforcing the obsession and amping the fear related to it, making it worse. If you can, figuring out how to give the obsession a nice big "I dunno, and it doesn't matter" can help break the cycle.

For me it was probably fairly easy, I have like OCD light (not bad enough to diagnose me, but bad enough that my therapist mentioned it and said it was something to look out for when it happens, which isn't often). I know that this advice may not be helpful for everyone, especially for people that have more severe cases. But learning this was extremely helpful to me.

Anyway. Hope this helps someone in some way.

#mental health #obsessions #compulsions #obsessive compulsive disorder #musings

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That is good to know thank you!

So apparently this was a big ol' farce because I just got a "three screen limit" notification from Dropout.

@samreich @dropoutdottv

Like I get that sometimes things have to change to keep things afloat, but spitting in the face of Netflix for the password sharing thing then doing the exact same thing a year later feels dishonest.

Maybe it's just me.

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So apparently this was a big ol' farce because I just got a "three screen limit" notification from Dropout.

@samreich @dropoutdottv

Like I get that sometimes things have to change to keep things afloat, but spitting in the face of Netflix for the password sharing thing then doing the exact same thing a year later feels dishonest.

Maybe it's just me.

#dropout #dimension 20 #game changer #dirty laundry #make some noise

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I feel like we could use a good schism. What happened to all the schisms? People use to love schisms.

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Ötzi the ice man was found with Birch Polypore in his pouch, it must have some medicinal property. Maybe he just saw a cool mushroom. Have you considered maybe he just saw a cool mushroom? What if he just saw a cool mushroom?

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America is just full of those apocalypse scenes where there's so many cars everywhere just sitting there. Parking Lots.

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I had a friend once who wholeheartedly believed it was unethical to teach pets tricks.

I once told him about a travelling show I had watched that had dogs trained to do really cool, and often funny, tricks with the message that all their dogs were rescues and that rescued dogs were amazing and great. The whole purpose of their show was to support and spread awareness of how bad the "dog industry" (is that a thing?) can be and how wonderful and beautiful rescues and adoptions can be.

He looked me dead in the eyes and said, "don't you think it's fucked up that they make those dogs work for their dinner?"

My brother in Christ. Dogs are a social species that LOVE TO PLAY and need almost constant enrichment. Your shitty ass do nothing dogs you are afraid to let outside for too long are living a far shittier life than those rescue dogs that get constant exercise, love, attention, and enrichment.

I don't really have a point here, but sometimes someone you think you know says something so fucking bizarre that it deals psychic damage. This was one of those times.

#musings #silly goofy mood

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One of my favorite "additions" to a post when people reblog is any variation of, "why is this so funny?" or, "I don't know why but I laughed so hard at this!"

Yeah. It's funny because there was a joke. Like the entire point of the post was in fact to be funny, Susan. That's why you found it funny. You laughed because it was funny, as intended, Harold.

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If a post is talking about the differences between a movie and the book a movie is based on, I think it be at least prerequisite that you have read that book and seen the movie to feel like you have something meaningful to add to the conversation.

"I feel that [insert movie vs. book difference] really made the narrative [insert change caused by difference]. I think that is [good or bad]."

"Well I haven't read the book, but I thought the movie was good. Also I think you are wrong."

Yeah, honey, good for you, that's not what we're talking about. AND how can you know whether I am wrong or not, you're coming in here with half the information needed to understand what we're talking about.

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Another Dune: Part 2 related tragedy is they absolutely dropped the ecology angle. Frank Herbert is one of the main reasons "ecology" is a word in the common parlance. He was fascinated with how humans could affect the world around them for both good and bad. In dropping the whole reason the fremen were even collecting water, and their dream and plan for a green paradise planet (and Paul's bastardization and then complete disregard for it) they removed one of the main reasons the book was even written.

#dune 2 #dune part two #dune part 2 #dune movie #dune

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I think one change from the Dune movie and the book that is understandable and also a tragedy is that slowly everyone tries to stop controlling Paul only to realize he has spiraled fully out of their control. His mother, who in the movie is basically relegated to a emotionless evil queen priest in the movie, tries to cut his ties and allow him to just enjoy his life with Chani. Even PAUL HIMSELF spends the entire book trying to avoid a holy war burning across the universe only at the end to realize every step he took for or against it led him to the point it would happen with or without him.

The book's end for Paul and Chani also is even more tragic than the movie. In the movie Chani sees what he's becoming and leaves him. In the book his final words to Chani which basically equate to, "I love you therefore you will NEVER LEAVE ME AGAIN," even though he has become a monster. In a sick twist of how everyone who "loved" him controlled him, he then shows his love for Chani by exerting control.

A tragedy within a tragedy within a tragedy.

#dune part two #dune part 2 #dune movie #dune #dune 2

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Dandelion seed wishes always come true as long as you wish for more dandelions.

#musings #silly goofy mood

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Green tea. In a mug I only use when writing.

Popcorn.

Trail Mix.

Hey writer of Tumblr what is your'e go to writing fuel? I'll go first and that's just plain water.

#writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #writer problems #writing community #writing asks #writers corner #writers

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They left out my favorite part of Dune, which is when the four year old tells the emperor he's a little bitch and the reverend mother her vibes are abhorrent.

#dune part two #dune movie #dune part 2 #dune #alia atreides #paul atreides