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chthonic-pain:

nobody warns you this but addiction happens without you noticing and one of the first things that it attacks is your ability to care. if you find yourself using recreational drugs every day, stop and take one day a week sober. if you struggle with this or if you don’t see the point of the exercise, you are likely already addicted and you need help.

nobody ever taught me the warning signs for drug addiction, only that “it costs lots of money and destroys your life!!!1” which is not helpful if you can’t recognize a developing addiction in yourself.

so here’s some things to watch out for with recreational drug use:

• planning your day around drugs e.g “i’ll give myself an extra half hour before heading out so i can get high first”
• rapidly switching emotions around drugs. you love them but you hate that you love them so much. you hate the way you feel on them but you hate being sober. feeling guilty after using even when you didn’t give a crap beforehand.
• caring less about spending money. if you are budgeting for drugs like they are food, you are likely prioritizing them more than is healthy.
• getting high to do household chores and other unpleasant things because it would suck less and be more bearable on drugs
• feeling anxious or restless while sober, not knowing what to do with oneself, feeling lost or ungrounded.
• thinking about doing drugs constantly even while sober. maybe it’s the first thing you think of when you wake up. maybe when you’re bored or otherwise have free time, drugs are one of the first things you can think of to occupy yourself with.
• going to work or school while under the influence, especially if it happens regularly and if you’re seeing your performance suffer as a result.
• the idea of taking a ‘tolerance break’ sounds good to you until it’s actually break time, at which point you can come up with 20 very reasonable sounding points to explain why it wouldn’t benefit you actually and you should just keep doing drugs regardless.
• even if you succeed at quitting the drug, you keep your dealer’s number on your phone “just in case”
• you pretend to be sober when you aren’t. you worry about other people noticing how much time you spend high. you make efforts to hide your drug use or minimize how much other people think you’re using. you’re scared of other people’s judgement if they were to find out.
• you have mood swings laced with self-hatred, regret, financial worries, and guilt. these mood swings are then very quickly wiped away by feelings of “but it doesn’t matter, i can do what i want, and clearly i’m doing just fine while using drugs frequently”. news flash, if you are rapidly switching between feeling numb-ok and hating yourself more than anything because of your drug use, you are mentally ill.

yes this applies to weed. weed is a drug and you can get addicted to it like any other substance. addiction is not the same as physical dependence; it is psychological and it can happen to anyone. you are not immune to addiction.

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Concept: A witch cat that’s too fat to fly

This is legit great because it shows that it’s not the cat that’s the problem, it’s the broom. The cat just needed someone to make an accommodation so they could fly too.

happy fat cat with a hat halloween

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It’s October! You know what that means... 🎃 (via kxvo)

all my life I’ve somehow only ever seen the gifs of this. I never even knew that the pumpkin man was dancing to the Ghostbusters theme. This whole thing is so much better than I ever could have expected from the gifs omg

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fun discovery from today’s internet rabbit hole:

the first lesbian magazine published in the US, Vice Versa (1947-48), was entirely hand-typed by one Edythe Eyde (better known by her pen name Lisa Ben - yes, that IS an anagram for lesbian). she worked as a secretary with a ton of spare time on her hands, and her boss would tell her he didn’t care what she was doing so long as she “looked busy”… so she decided to use her free time to type out copies of a home-made periodical for lesbians, writing most of the content - editorials, book/film reviews, poetry, short stories, and more - herself!

overall, the magazine ran for 9 issues, 16 hand-typed copies of which lisa would mail to friends (well, until one of them advised her she could be arrested for sending “obscene” materials) and distribute at lesbian bars :)

all issues of Vice Versa are digitized here! (the website also has a scan of a great article on Lisa Ben ❤️)

a lot of the issues of the first widely distributed gay publication in the US, ONE magazine (1952-1967), are also available online on JSTOR. there’s also this article detailing the magazine’s ups and downs and general history, it’s v fascinating!

furthermore, a solid amount of The Ladder (1956-1972) - one of the other earliest lesbian periodicals in the US, published by Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization in the US - is also available for online viewing thanks to the Internet Archive

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Getting ready for NaNoWriMo?

Over the past six weeks, we’ve shared tons of resources, activities, and advice to help you get prepared to write a novel in our “NaNo Prep 101” course.

If you literally just decided “oh hey, writing a novel sounds cool, I think I might try that,” no worries! Here’s a round-up of some of our favorite NaNo Prep activities, or you can check out our full NaNo Prep 101 page and choose your own favorites.

Doing a bunch of prep work isn’t necessary, of course—there are many NaNoWriMo writers who identify as “pantsers”, a.k.a. people who “fly by the seat of their pants”. But we hope these resources will help you find some fun and inspiration, too!

jihaad:

“what about gay rights in palestine” “what about womens rights in palestine” idk maybe they can work on that once they get Being Alive In Their Homes Rights

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