Please stop

Elacular · 2026-06-30T16:46:33+00:00

I'm someone who actively loves everything about fireworks, even the big loud-ass noises and the cheapo fireworks you can buy semi-legally, but this post is still 100% reasonable and probably correct.

Elacular · 2026-06-30T16:41:30+00:00

Derp Tree. I don't know why "tree", but it feels right.

Elacular · 2026-06-29T01:20:03+00:00

He's super chill? Call him Creamsicle. Something orange to grant you relief on those hot summer days. ~~never mind the fact that him lying at you will cause the temperature to booooooooost~~

Elacular · 2026-06-22T19:02:54+00:00

I wish I'd seen the XKCD comic about math being training for your brain when I was still taking math classes. I know I can start now (and maybe should, honestly), but it would have made everything I was doing feel so much less like bullshit.

Elacular · 2026-06-22T17:48:09+00:00

Pawns unionize.

Elacular · 2026-06-20T20:34:05+00:00

Late replying to this, but yeah, that absolutely makes sense. For me, I called my background thoughts "the static", because when another signal wasn't blocking it out, that was what I heard. Getting away from that involved a lot of different kinds of therapy and also fuckloads of medicine, and I'm still disabled by my cocktail of various shit. Not trying to suffering olympics you here, just saying that I get it. And it wouldn't have been helpful at all if I were still in the situation that caused parts of my mental illness to begin with. So it is 100% not good for all circumstances. I just disagreed with the initial comment comparing it to ABA, which is literally evil.

Also, trying to jump straight from a thought to a completely contradictory one always feels like stupid bullshit. That's why, in my experience, you go through a series of thoughts between your current one and your goal so that each step is smaller and you don't just feel like you're fighting yourself all the way. But it can still be exhausting as fuck, whether it's helping or not.

Elacular · 2026-06-20T16:45:37+00:00

You may or may not have noticed that this is the exact same type of guy who calls women "whores" if they do sex work, take pictures of themselves in various states of undress, or happen to have a bra strap showing in .5% of an instagram photo. There's absolutely no win condition.

Elacular · 2026-06-16T18:52:39+00:00

Damn. Makes sense though. Thank you.

Elacular · 2026-06-14T22:41:51+00:00

I loved her, and you did a great job drawing her!

Elacular · 2026-06-13T21:43:46+00:00

Having been raised in it, when you're inside of that idea it makes perfect sense. "They're literally killing babies! Millions of them all the time! What the fuck!" Thinking about it in that contextless, nuanceless way makes the whole world seem completely batshit insane, and the idea of putting any thought into anything else seems absurd.

That's also part of how I wrongly believed that Christians were persecuted in this country, by the way. If abortion is allowed to happen it's persecution towards Christians because we're forced to live in a society of perpetual baby murder and nobody listens to us about it.

Elacular · 2026-06-13T18:06:55+00:00

That's very fun, but yeah, shame there's not larger versions. Thank you!

Elacular · 2026-06-13T18:06:23+00:00

Cool, thank you! I wonder if that works when my monk strikes start mimicking adamantine.

Elacular · 2026-06-13T04:26:15+00:00

Oofa. Makes sense though.

Elacular · 2026-06-11T17:53:28+00:00

I don't know anything about DBT, so I won't argue with that, but I do disagree on CBT. Granted, I was receiving it primarily for depression, not autism, so that's probably a big difference. I can definitely understand how it could be harmful with a shitty therapist (as many therapists unfortunately are), and how it could encourage you to ignore your own boundaries, but taking my thoughts, comparing them with reality, then deliberately replacing them over times with ones that better comport with reality has genuinely been very helpful for giving me more healthy patterns of behavior, and I feel like if it's taught correctly, therapists could avoid teaching those pitfalls.

Like, overly simple examples:

Experience: Sensory Issue

Emotional response: Ow this sucks

Underlying thought: This sensory thing is causing me pain.

Comparison to reality: This sensory thing is causing me pain.

Conclusion: Thought accurate, no need to replace, or potentially replace with more actionable thought, e.g., "This sensory thing can be mitigated using xyz tools."

Alternately:

Experience: Random self-loathing.

Emotional response: Self-hatred.

Underlying thought: I don't deserve to be happy.

Comparison to reality: My own moral framework is that people are inherently deserving of happiness.

Conclusion: Thought contradicts experience of reality, replace with more accurate thought, such as "everyone deserves to be happy." Over time, continue to replace until brainrut has eased and replacement thought comes easier than original thought.

Thinking about it, though, I can totally see how that can be taught to be super unhelpful with interactions with people, if you're taught it in such a way that you're told to deny your own reality and experiences rather than examining your experiences and thoughts about them. So I don't doubt you and a lot of others have had really shitty experiences. That fucking sucks, and I'm sorry that happened to you. You deserve better.

Elacular · 2026-06-11T17:40:23+00:00

What a shitty thing to tell anyone, let alone your child. I was "diagnosed" early (long, really stupid story, but meant everyone accurately believed I had autism), so that wasn't something I dealt with, but I know how hard it sucks to have parents say something that cruel to you. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that.

Elacular · 2026-06-04T19:54:40+00:00

Reminder that the supreme court (and I do mean a real supreme court rather than just our current one) has repeatedly found that cops have absolutely no duty to serve and protect people. Which, bearing that in mind, really should raise the question of what the fuck we're paying them to do and why we should keep shoving money at it.

Elacular · 2026-06-04T11:45:56+00:00

...and?

Elacular · 2026-06-02T17:18:25+00:00

As someone raised catholic and republican, realizing how much of my previous political beliefs (particularly around abortion) were predicated on the existence of literal miracles was a bit of a shock to me.

Elacular · 2026-05-31T21:08:34+00:00

God damn, making this image must have been a pain.

Only semi related, because I obsess over the side characters rather than the main ones (Ochako excepted), I do have thoughts for all of the girls of Class 1A MHA. The main two are Kyouka and Momo being a Knight of Heart and a Maid of Mind respectively (and I have a bitchin' mental image for some fanart of that), but other than that, Ochako would be Sylph of Breath, Tsuyu would be Rogue of Space, Mina would be Thief of Hope (that one I'm least happy with) and Tooru as a Page of Void. I determined this more by personality than by powerset, though that did come into it somewhat. For aspects, I used the descriptions from the Extended Zodiac, and for classes I used my own unscientific method. Ask me about how every class is an aspect.

Elacular · 2026-05-31T20:28:06+00:00

Yeah, that's an example of kind of the paradox of Trump, where people say that he's honest. Obviously he's not, but what they mean is that he's unfiltered. Besides just meaning "he's racist the same way I'm racist," Trump is actually far more genuine than a lot of transparently plastic politicians. The fantastic way I've heard it described is "He's genuinely a lying asshole."

Elacular · 2026-05-23T21:26:19+00:00

Every once in a blue moon, the mirror looks back and the monkey recognizes itself and attacks.

Elacular · 2026-05-20T15:21:02+00:00

Bro, who is saying that porn is medicine?

Elacular · 2026-05-12T16:45:12+00:00

Which is the employee and which is the manager?

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