#don't let this go to waste

[yukipri]

Hey, if you're a resident of the US, just a heads up!!

The USPS free COVID-19 Test Program will be suspended on September 2, 2022.

If you haven't ordered test kits, I urge you to take advantage of this opportunity. Test kits can be so expensive and difficult to come by, and even if your personal insurance covers a few kits, it never hurts to have more on hand for your loved ones.

Ordering is super easy, you don't input payment because it's free, just your name and address and they'll send them to you!

Even if you've already ordered, quote their info page: "Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order a 3rd round of free at-home tests."

That means you can order up to three times! I have!

Again, this is one of the few tools that the government has provided us with to protect ourselves and those around us. Please take advantage of it.

Again, the deadline to order is September 2, 2022!

The link, again for your convenience.

#COVID-19 #covid #coronavirus #USA #health #test kit #USPS #if this might help someone please share #I didn't know about the up to 3 times until I checked #don't let this go to waste #the government did so little to protect us against covid don't throw out one of the few things they DID do

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

finally at that age where i'm thinking i should get a tattoo. not bc i feel strongly about it, just seems like a waste not to. i've got so much skin i'm not using

#feels so selfish like. all this skin what am i saving it for? #open to design suggestions! (please make me regret this offer) #maybe some deep sea horrors. a pretty watercolor of a gulper eel #once saw a person on the subway with various Skeleton Tattoos on all their limbs #i respected their commitment to the theme #but more than that i respected how all the skeletons were engaged in Activities #dancing in a ballgown. juggling its own (and two other???) skulls. swordfighting. being a mermaid skeleton #ANYWAY. the only reason i haven't already gotten tattoos is i just couldn't be bothered #i'm old enough to know i don't have any strong-but-potentially-temporary feelings driving me towards it #aesthetically i prefer decorated to non-decorated surfaces. but i'm not artistic or thrilled with commitment #honestly it feels like sheer laziness. indecisiveness--nay. immaturity!--that i HAVEN'T gotten a tattoo yet #letting all this blank canvas go to waste. tut tut i need to grow up and be an adult and get a tattoo sleeve already. #really i've put off my responsibilities long enough #(in fairness i DID at one time have 18 different piercings) #(but i took most of them out bc they interfere with wearing headphones and/or shoving my face in my pillow during Sleep Time) #(i only kept the nape piercing bc oddly enough it ended up being the most convenient. and the least painful to get now i think about it.) #(neck piercing? no problem. normal pair of earrings? Tribulations And Suffering. i don't make the rules i just poke them with a stick.)

[inkskinned]

one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.

#writeblr #i was doing a lot with high school students. over and over again #other teachers kept asking me what i was doing differently - why the kids listened to me. i am not particularly foreboding #and i have a pretty firm personal policy of never reacting in anger #godhelpme. #i was always kind of taken aback #because in general the kids were pretty easy. i explained i needed to keep everything “PG-13” because this was my workplace #and it was kind of their workplace #too. besides #i love swearing #and since i couldn't swear #neither could they - so if they were going to say “fuck” or become violent #they needed to choose a really specific time #because we only get “the one”.. sure enough - nobody wanted to waste the one very specific “fuck” utterance. kids listened. #i think just because - that rule makes sense. the kids understand that i don't want to be unfair to them #that censorship is stupid #but that i'm under these rules too so like let's ride it out together #also i look young and tbh between me and u nobody wants to make the nice english teacher cry #the way these kids defended me to their friends was really genuinely so heartwarming bc the Grouchy Frat Boy #would be like MISS RAQUEL DOESN'T DESERVE THAT KIND OF AN ATTITUDE BRO DON'T TALK BACK TO HER

[lordzuuko]

We all got that 4th Secret Ending which is the real happy ending, right? When Pinocchio remembered who Romeo was? :') Print

#lies of p #promeo #carmeo #pinocchio #romeo #my art #there was obviously no way i would NOT draw for this game #i am obsessed with it and it's my GOTY i don't care what anyone says T_T #the amount of time i spent on the puppet string is insane it was almost removed but i salvaged it because no way i would let it go to waste #we might be a tiny fandom but i adore this game and i just needed to express it <3

[wildflowercryptid]

doodled some cycle nuts kiddos on a notepad i yoinked from a storage facility

#i'm actually not sure how i feel about elka... #the relationship drama revolving around her doesn't really interest me but her backstory is so intriguing oh my god #imagine your parents shipping you off somewhere bc you prematurely kicked off the downfall of their marriage #girl you have so much potential to become a villain i hope you don't let that sick ass surname go to waste #psychonauts #razputin aquato #lili zanotto #dogen boole #elka doom #🎨 : mj draws

[letojessica]

we are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. that is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

#duneedit #scifiedit #fyeahmovies #tvandfilmsource #dune #dune 2021 #leto atreides #duke leto #duke leto atreides #jessica atreides #lady jessica #leto x jessica #gurney halleck #oscar isaac #my stuff #my gifs #yeah um. asoiaf brainrot time #sorry about the thufir erasure but i don't like anyone who dares insinuate that jessica of all people was a traitor... #anyways. thoughts many but i am resorting to giffing #please don't let this flop and let the 10gb shady file i downloaded go to waste lol

[opbackgrounds]

The Franky Family and Galley La not being implicated in the attack on Enies Lobby is mostly plot convenience so the crew can leave them behind without feeling too guilty about it, but it makes for some really interesting characterization for Aokiji.

Also, tag yourself. I'm Chopper

#opbackgrounds #one piece #ch435 #Aokiji #Chopper #Oda's expression game is on point #writers take note #don't let your plot conveniences go to waste! #Use them for characterization

[rainymoodlet]

🌧 rainymoodlet is in full hiatus mode! 🌧

hoo... absolutely sick to my stomach writing this. ✌ for more information, please read below! thank you all for following my stories, loving my bachelor challenge, and loving my little pixels as much as i do. 😊

Well, my darling fellow simblrs... it's happened. It's been a bit of a long time coming over the past few months, but I've finally decided to put my blog into a permanent sort of "hiatus mode". I am a person who is riddled with executive dysfunction and lack of self-control, and I know that if I don't legitimately cut myself off from Simblr™ and the disassociation it's allowed me, I will. not. quit. 😅

I originally joined Simblr back in 2021 during a really difficult and isolated time in my life. I haven't been able to speak much to it because of the legal issues it's tied up in, but Simblr became my escape whilst in the throes of seeking justice against my abuser in a time where my entire family had abandoned me, and my fiance and I were living alone in my parents' house with only the two of us to swirl in deep and massive depression. Sims has always been my escape; from 2004 onward, it has given me narrative control and visual fantasy for as long as I can remember, and it will always be a deeply comforting and "safe" game for me.

But when I joined Simblr, it was out of many of the reasons that I think we can all relate to as writers and creatives. I had the idea for Loved by the Sun, and as I kept imagining and writing and building this world, I thought: "I deserve to show this to people. I really want people to see this. And I really want them to think it's good." I had been existing on the fringes of Simblr on my own personal Tumblr blog: I've seen countless legacies rise and fall, countless dramas spread out across blogs that are no longer active and haven't been for years. I wanted people to wake up and roll over and check my blog, desperate for updates, eager for more.

And more than anything, I wanted to escape the day-to-day hell I was living in.

But as the years went on, I've noticed that the excitement and creativity that drove my creation of my account has dwindled beyond measure. And I will put that on myself - starting a Bachelor Challenge like Kiss Me in Komorebi was one of the beginning nails in the coffin of my creativity and enjoyment of Simblr. I do not regret it one bit, and I am so grateful for the following it's gained and the genuine enjoyment you've all had with KMiK. It's my proudest achievement, it's pushed me to be a better editor and a better screenshot-taker, it's challenged me in my way of playing and it's introduced me to so many wonderful people.

But of course... I me'd it up. 😎

I've become obsessed to an egregious degree with the perception of my handling of this challenge. I want everyone to feel as though their sim gets enough screen-time, I want everyone to feel that the creative effort they put into submitting their sims was respected, and I desperately don't want anyone to feel left out or as though they're being ignored in favor of other contestants. It became so much less of telling Dan's story and journey, and all about how I was appearing as the Master of the Game.

And to be honest, my obsession with "staying relevant" in the fast-paced scroll of the Simblr Dashboard, believing you all would stop caring or stop reading if I didn't post as quickly as possible, was my own doom from the start, fkdfdjk.

In my life, I've had countless opportunities to turn my life around and start changing for the better. And time and time again, the energy that could have gone toward improving my situation or bettering my relationships has gone toward Simblr, and this online environment. I have practically no life beyond the screen: my days off are spent taking screenshots or spending four hours on builds that I still won't finish, obsessed over every angle, desperately seeking out that ~sparkle~ of simplicity and not-trying-too-hard I apply to all of your screenshots.

I am a dopamine and serotonin fiend, and though I can pinpoint in my life where trauma and isolation has pushed me to my online spaces, I was hyper-aware of the reality that in a few years, I won't be involved in Simblr. I won't be posting constantly, I won't care about the mods or the updates or the custom content.

And the stories I've written will be monuments to the time I've wasted, working on chasing the serotonin monster instead of bettering my own life and my own situation.

And now, I've got a real chance to do something better with my life. My fiance and I are at a crossroads of choice - we can change our lives for the better this year, or we can accept that the years of inaction we forced ourselves into out of the fear of moving forward have doomed us to a life we're not happy with. And I am one stubborn bastard when it comes to giving up.

The friendships and connections I've made here are some of the most meaningful in my life, and I hate that I've pulled back in the way I have. Along the way, it became much more about the notes, the numbers, the interaction, the reblogs over likes - and I lost myself and my friendships to my own mismanagement of my time and energy. I could spend five hours on one build, going from 7am to 12pm in a lightning speed of disassociation and obsessive Alt-clicking, and at the end of the day sit there and go...

What the hell have I done today? I could have messaged someone, I could have chatted with my friends, I could have done something. But no, I built a science lab, or a date location, and fretted the entire time until my stomach felt sick that it just "wasn't right" or wouldn't "look the way I wanted it to" in my screenshots.

I deeply, deeply love my stories, and I am so proud of them and what they've done for y'all and how you all have enjoyed them. I am incredibly lucky for the experience I've had on Simblr, and I know that there are plenty of blogs out there that sit with little interaction when they deserve so much more.

And yes, I will admit. The tendency of a 15-minute slapped together CAS edit of mine getting more notes and spotlight than the posts of my stories I've put legitimate effort into has fucked with my brain.

Simblr has changed from the story-laden place it was when I was following y'alls stories and legacies from 2015 onward. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that! Online spaces shift and change just as much as the social media sites like TikTok and Instagram, that go through trends and phases and fads and memes the same way we do. We are not above other social media in that regard, and I think there's a general sense from Simblr that we're some isolated island; we don't follow trends, we don't have fads, we don't have audio trends that get slapped on every other six-second video.

But I will raise you the Blender Phase and the Edit Phase as evidence every time.

I need to take some serious introspection time, and commit a lot of my energy to things that can bring me positive change outside of this online space. I hope to be able to come back as a better, healthier person, but to be honest, I don't really know when that will be. (Even this post is something I feel I have to do to be responsible, not just disappearing in the middle of this Challenge, leaving you all hanging djfh) I hope this doesn't come off as some high-horse rant, or leave a sour taste in y'alls mouths.

I just... I'll really miss this space. I'll miss the sims, I'll miss you guys, I'll miss your posts and your legacies and your sense of humor. I want to thank so many people, but I don't want to tag you all and shove this post into your activity streams dkfd.

I can't give any commitments to appearing more in Discord or even being present on this space - I've gone to the point of disconnecting the Chrome browser that's for rainymoodlet from my main icon bar, like I am going straight cold-turkey. I'll still be playing Sims, but I'm going to try and reconnect with it for myself - not for the screenshots, not for the stories, and not for the desperate want for people to understand what I'm posting or for it to make sense or satisfy, dfkj.

I am so, so incredibly grateful for every single one of you, and I hate to just drop this out of nowhere. But I need to do this, for me and for my future. And now I'm just sitting here like "Shannon, it's simblr, fucking chill." dkjfd I JUST... this space has done so much for me, and I genuinely feel a sense of loss in leaving. Especially in the middle of a story, fkgjfkg.

I really do genuinely love and care for you all. Please take care of yourselves, okay? Mama Shan does genuinely want the best for you, and I can't thank you enough for letting little old dorky ass me be a part of your community and your lives.

'Til next time, y'all. I'll see you soon. 💛

#txt #this will be my new pinned post. #going to go lay down on the floor for a long time now. #i feel sO SICK FUCK. #i really will miss you all so much. but i need to do this. it's like cigarettes at this point. if i don't go cold turkey... i won't quit. #i'll keep stressing abt how i'm not posting kmik or how i'm not interacting or how people are waiting and it will keep #affecting how i choose to spend my time and energy #and i just can't afford that anymore fff. #but ofc my blog will still be up!! you can still read kmik and my tjolc and everything i've posted #because gdi my contestants put a lot of effort into their sims and they deserve it #i hope i can come back to y'all in a better place 💛 #2024 IS THE YEAR OF CHANGE MY DARLINGS AND I ALREADY WASTED JANUARY SO LETS GOOOO

[eddyneedssleep]

!HELLUVA BOSS SEASON 2 EP 1 SPOILERS!

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He can have a divorce, as a treat

#helluva boss #helluva boss stolas #stolas #fanart #helluva boss stella #divorce selfie #meme #helluva boss imp butler #wtf is his name #helluva boss spoilers #I got a really bad nosebleed while making this #don't let my hard work and suffering go to waste #AVENGE ME MY CHILDREN

[owlmylove]

stop fucking say prev tags you annoying tiktoking fucking dumb cunt. fuck off.

this is. this is incredible. 11 years i've been on this site. 11 years i've spent painstakingly dodging any kind of fandom whump, controversial take, or ill-advised hill to die upon. do you have any idea the amounts of nuclear fallout i have delicately skirted around. the blogs i've seen deactivate, the sprawling call-outs written in google docs. i was raised in the bitter heart of this website and made a garden of it. and the thing that finally gets me cyber-bullied by teens is prev tags

#prev tags #i don't even have a tiktok! #are you going to every single person who says and sending these messages bc oh honey. that is not what you were put here for #do not waste your one wild and precious life on tumblr!!!! let alone sowing hate!!!! #may you go smoke some weed & find a joyful purpose<33 #owl post

[zingaplanet]

Yes but life is too short to not stare at J.M.W. Turner's colours:

#don't waste your life away! #go to the national gallery and stare at some Turner's #who doesn't need a spam of beautiful yellow ochre in their timeline #let me make your week with these masterpieces #jmw turner #turner's paintings #painting #impressionism #art #national gallery #colour

[rainbowangel110]

Putting this behind a read more for the SGB peeps

So there's this post here with tags saying that either we're purists or don't realize it, and that some of the cast has died + they're prepubescent teens what do you except??

I went to their blog hoping for an explanation and turns out they also said that they think the work "sexualization" is now a buzzword here and should be taken away....

*inhales* oh boy. If this is a response to people reacting to the fics out there about the kids well, buddy, congrats! That's the worst way anyone has put it!

They're all 14-15 as of right now, so they're not prepubescent my dude, and can drive (a bit), but even then, even then it's still weird to write a fic about what could potentially happen in a tango between minors. I personally have not come across anything but @girlscoutbrownies @b3achysurfur @planetarymesss @astronautica-ss @@itstivan have talked about how it's just not okay.

I am personally fine with sex in media but if it's between two minors I am out, that is not something that needs to be in there. Consenting adults are alright, certain themes of abuse can be added (if they are handled properly), and you can read/watch it all you want, I don't care. Just..... yeah no.

#school bus graveyard #if anyone else has anything to add go ahead #just for the record! If you see the guy I am talking about PLEASE do not interact with them because of this post just don't #I don't want another fandom war situation type thing going on OKAY? #Let's not #leave em be block em (doing so after this post) move on okay? #just posting #also I've never understood the reasoning behind “apocalyptic situation + group = some hooking up” like??? I'd rather focus on survival #I dunno if that's just the ace in me talking but still I not wasting any energy

[redladydeath]

cannot even begin to describe how bad an idea "no second and third covers with only three alts and one full-time super swing" is if it's true and not classic six misdirection. after what happened on the uk tour earlier this year when tamara and shakira were out, they should know by now how important it is to have multiple queens on hand who know at least three tracks.

#redlady speaks #six the musical #the reason sixmerica has been able to survive for so long with no second covers #is because they have *four* alts who know *three* tracks each plus a universal alt #and america just having a different work culture than the uk #we're going to be swimming in emergency covers this winter if they actually go through with this #(also it's a huge wasted opportunity if they don't let hannah cover boleyn at some point)

[goldrushgold]

Misogynist men should never ever talk about women's sports, I'm so tired of having to see their stupid comments every time. Like stfu forever

#you don't care about women and women dont care about you either #let it go #i shouldn't waste my energy on this

[skrunksthatwunk]

why the fuck did i write about birds this fucking sucks. i just found out birds only sleep for a few minutes at a time, hundreds of times a day. do you know what this is going to do to my structure? the logistics of their road trip? this is already like three days late and i've been fighting for my life to get A Plot Like Any Plot That Makes Sense out and now the birds fucking sleep for 5 minutes at a time.

#i should've just bailed and written another story when i had the chance #i'm not joking i've never fought a fiction piece this hard before. usually because i'm not writing for specific deadlines #and not a piece so big. and not one that's gonna be workshopped. i wanna blow them away but if things keep going the way they are everyone' #gonna tell me the pacing sucks and it feels pointless and the characters feel really confused. I KNOW. I KNOW THAT. FUCKK #i'm the type to do about 15 passes before i let someone see my 'first draft' and i'm just not gonna be able to do that if i want to get it #in time for a workshop. every day i delay is making things harder for my classmates y'know?? but i've been writing like 1k words a day #and it's still not done. GUHH #I DON'T LIKE WRITING THESE CHARACTERS THAT MUCH THEY'RE NOT FUNNY OR ENDEARING AND THAT'S MY LIKE. #MAIN SKILL AND VIBE WITH SHORT STORY DUOS. BUT NOOOO I HAD TO MAKE THEM DIFFERENT CUZ I WAS SICK OF DOING #THE SAME DYNAMIC OVER AND OVER. BITCH THIS IS YOUR FINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TRIED AND TRUE GETS THE BLUE (RIBBON)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #head in my hands head in my hands head in my hands head in my hands head #going to work on it some more. fuckk #the voices aren't consistent and i'm trying to make it clear that this is toxic bird yuri and not a mother/daughter thing but the maternal #themes are kind of fucking with that but they're important and i don't wanna get rid of them but it feels forced cuz im forcing it #sigh. i'm gonna have to cut the yuri. these two don't work romantically at all. what a waste of time. #i watched the entirety of mnthly girls' nozaki-kun in the past two days while avoiding writing. did you know that? the lengths to which i'l #go? anyway it was fun i appreciate fellow creative agony and i uh never knew how they did screen tones and wasn't expecting that somehow #so i learned something new (hooray). anyway back to. fucking. bird story stuff #i'm so mad i hate these two (<- lying. just pissy) i hate this story (<- mostly exaggerating. throwing a tantrum) #eughhhhhh i just wanna lie on the floor and cryyyyyyyyyy (<- completely deadpan irl. not That upset just kind of sick of shit) #i'm so burnt out and it's only gonna get worse. ughh #why can't someone just come in and write it for meeeeeeeeeeheheuhhh (<- would hate that)

[kayatoastkkat]

it's one day late i know shut up towards the end i started losing motivation it's a wonder i finished this at all

self-indulgent earth day fanart. it'll be the only day Hyde isn't allowed to trample on any plants

thing 1: also a (late) happy Hari Raya Adilfitri to my Muslim friends now my deskmate can stop complaining about how she's hungry to me.

thing 2: once again I re-establish my supreme laziness of backgrounds. it's a photo I took yesterday but blurred

I also hastily made a sketchy ass short comic but you click at your own risk

why did you click. why. i'd like to know.

ok so the context here is that Jekyll is trying to plant some trees and for extra comedy points I dropped him to my country because it's like really hot here and if I'm suffering might as well make him suffer too

end of post congrats you made it. decipher my handwriting at your own time but to help a bit out the last word says "heatstroke".

#the glass scientists #I could've just posted my traditional but actually it looked shit #so I decided to make myself suffer and digitalise it instead #reason I suffer is because all I have is ibispaint #and no iPad meaning I draw only with my finger #tgs henry jekyll #tgs jekyll #tgs edward hyde #tgs hyde #I don't know if I should post this but I guess I can't let a day's work go to waste #my art #finger art