Brin's Convenience

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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guerrillatech

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How is it is supposed to work: your emotions are a response to your situation and surroundings. It is OK to feel the emotion. Now take that emotion and use your logical brain to decide which parts of the emotion fit the facts of the situation and which do not and why, and how you're going to respond to said emotions (which is what tweet said, and what therapists say)

How people seem to interpret it: any emotional reaction is perfectly fine and I am not responsible for what I do out of emotion.

elidyce

This is how I explained it to my kid and some other people with emotional processing issues. 

1. You are entitled to FEEL whatever feelings you have.

2. You are not necessarily entitled to ACT on those feelings. Only to HAVE them.

3. Some feelings are REAL but also UNHEALTHY or UNFAIR. Those feelings exist, but are not justified. Learn to identify these. 

For example: I want to bludgeon people who walk all the way to the trolley return then abandon the trolley two feet away to death with a brick. This is UNDERSTANDABLE, as these people are violatinga  social obligation out of sheer selfishness, but not ACTIONABLE, as it is an overreaction and also illegal to do.

aqueerkettleofish

Also: Your feelings don't obligate other people.

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Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

curlicuecal

I’m an ant biologist and I’d like to point out that ants also spend a significant percentage of the time doing nothing.

Turns out sometimes the most evolutionary useful thing you can do is chill and not wear yourself to shreds, whether mammal or insect. It helps you deal with emergencies and adapt to change. Plus, you can act as living food storage!

That last part is probably more an ant thing than a human thing, but hey, live your dreams.

jumpingjacktrash

it’s also a bear thing, which absolutely explains me

gallusrostromegalus

Doing absolutely fuck-all is how antarctic sea sponges live to be over 10,000 years old, so live your best, longest, laziest life.

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Babe, wake up, new religious observance dropped!

[BEGIN IMAGE ID: screenshot of a tweet from user named “rogue barnacle @LtCatra” with profile photo of Catra from She-Ra carrying She-Ra’s sword. Text reads: “my very religious but supportive elderly neighbor asked me what I’m giving up for pride because I think she thinks it’s like lent and the pride parades are like mardi gras?? anyway I panicked and said oatmeal

5:02 AM 6/2/21″

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mamoru

stop using hospitals as horror settings

mamoru

fun alternative: cruise ships. cruise ships exploit workers and can pollute as much as a million cars on a daily basis while dumping endless shit into the ocean and endangering all passengers on board because the on board air quality rivals some of the most polluted cities in the world while being a breeding ground for disease. cruise ships deserve to have negativity associated with them

markrial

also all crimes commited aboard a cruise ship is under the juristiction of whichever country they’re registered to once they’re a certain distance away from land so you have the added bonus of the crimes being very unlikely to be properly investigated (due to usually being physically so very far from the actual police whose juristiction they’re under)

mamoru

terrifying!

xcekait

On top of THAT cruise ships tend to have their own morgue, as people tend to die on ships all the time. Good for those spooky scenes.

bananonbinary

plus u can just like…leave a hospital. good luck escaping a killer or a monster or a curse or w/e in the middle of the fucking ocean

sketchyfletch

As an ex cruise ship employee, let me give you some stuff to work with!

Water tight doors! You get a special training video on interacting with these correctly because they will literally cut you in half if you try and go through them while they’re closing!

Freezer vaults for food in the sub decks - you can only get into these with the correct code and they have very thick walls. Good luck if you get shut in one of these just after the last round of checks bucko

There are cameras everywhere…except in the crew cabin corridors. Also there are no windows down there because unless you’re an officer, you live below the waterline. Day and night have no meaning because everything is in the same slightly unsettling yellow light.

Don’t piss off the guys who deal with the rubbish. They have machines down there that can crush metal barrels

As well as morgues, cruise ships usually have one basic operating theatre with all the attendant horrifying equipment in it

One cigarette thrown carelessly in the wrong place WILL start a fire that will gut half the ship.

When we’re pitching side to side, the anchor swings out and then back in, striking the metal outer shell with a noise that shakes half the ship

People disappear overboard more often than you’d really want to be a thing

A lot of cruise ships now have theatres on board (usually towards the front) with all the potential for dark corners, creepy costumes and electrical calamities you could want.

And as op says, you can’t really escape a ship in the middle of the ocean. Particularly during a storm, as then you can’t even evacuate to lifeboats unless the whole ship is going down. On the upside being on board during a storm means most guests hide in their cabins and the staff walk around like drunks, which would likely throw off a skilled murderer’s plans.

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Takes notes

You also have the bonus of a corporate overlord who doesn’t give a shit about anything but profits and can be reliably counted on to downplay any disaster in an attempt to avoid publicity.

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radicles-art

HALT! Do you have sensory issues? Overwhelmed by sound in a messy environment? Desperately wanting to write that essay/fanfiction but your ADHD is getting on the way? In need of atmospheric sound for your tabletop game??

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Missing the sound of a lively coffee shop during the pandemic? They have that. That specific, calming noise of a public park in a peaceful afternoon? they have that. Rain sounds? City sounds? Want to fuck around and listen to some uninterrupted Gregorian chants? They have that also!

According to the website:

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Just take a brief look at what the index page provides:

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There's something for EVERYONE. And it's all for free! It's been for free for years, and it is the creator's wish that it remains accessible to everyone who might need this kind of aid in life. I am using it to write this post right now. Though if you read some of the above index, you may have noticed that the support for the website has been very low lately.

Which brings me to the reason I'm making this post. Mynoise is curated and maintained by a single person:

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Please check out the Mynoise Index for yourself, donate if you can, and tell your friends who might be interested ♡

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sorcererslittledragon asked:

Thank you. The God of Arepo is one of my favorite stories from this website, and you have illustrated it beautifully. Thank you.

Will you be selling print copies of your comic? I would dearly like to have a copy to put up on my wall.

slightly-awkward-sunshine answered:

Hi! Thank you so much for your kind message, it means a lot to me. I have gotten a few people asking me if I will be selling copies of God of Arepo. I wouldn’t feel comfortable selling copies since I did not write the story, so I have made it available to download for free! 

Please keep in mind that downloading my comic is for personal use ONLY, you cannot sell or distribute the work yourself. Getting it printed is fine as long as it’s just for you! ^_^ (Also keep in mind that the file size is pretty big because it’s 30 pages of high quality images.) 

If you want to support my work, I have a Kofi account here! Any amount is greatly appreciated and allows me to continue making comics <3

You can download the comic for FREE here: https://bit.ly/2JdRpKy

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queer is a gender, sexuality, romantic orientation, political alignment, and mission statement, babey

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queer is literally a slur that means weird and strange

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and I most certainly am weird and strange, what else you got?

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