Ash, he/him or zie/zir.
Male with a side order of non binary, British, chronically ill.
SFF, queer stuff, natural history, languages. Fandoms of my heart: Animorphs, TMA, Pacrim
thinking about hospital and university underground tunnels….
there is something about them….
like literally your doctor tells you to go to another building and to take the tunnel cause its faster and you end up in a literal backroom and depending on how new the construction is you will encounter all three pictured above in order
my favorite part of this post is most people in the notes are like yeah yeah scary underground tunnels under hospitals and universities we’ve all seen them but also there is a small group of people who never heard of these in their life and are very confused rn
In my first job there was a storage room we had to go to that was in the hospital tunnels. It’s a bit of a maze down there, all vents and concrete, and the way you could tell you were going the right way was that the route sloped downwards, became increasingly narrow, and got warmer as you went.
FINALLY making an actual post about this guy! This is Azurion the dragon. He’s an ~8 foot long puppet controlled entirely by my left arm and hand, including the blinking mechanism! I also made a fake arm, and I think it really adds to the illusion that Azurion is ‘real’.
The project took roughly 6 months to complete (including planning, slacking, and lots of trial and error), and he was finished just in time for the last 2022 weekend of the Colorado Renaissance Festival. I plan on adding more to him and refining the details quite a bit, but I’m pretty pleased with the current results!
I heard an interview, can’t remember the psychologist, but he was explaining this idea and encouraging people to stop and take a deep breath and literally drink in small moments like you’re a dryass plant when something is ever satisfactory, positive, mildly successful, randomly joyful so your brain can code and integrate that experience because our natural lizard brain will quickly tape over it with mostly unnecessary negative survival shit. Sounds dumb and dorky but sometimes I remember this when I’m feeling good about a moment because our cave brains are still catching up with modern life without sabertooths. I like that it’s not just a pollyanna gosh just be more positive thing but more of a legit brain wiring phenomenon can be gradually hacked through small behavioral changes.
Another super important one: Take the time to tell yourself, when something you did or bought or decided works out “That was a good decision and I’m glad I made it! Go me!”
Seriously, it can have a huge impact. suddenly you go from remembering nothing but bad decisions to adding in a series of Excellent Choices You Feel Good About, and it makes things so much better.
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” —Kurt Vonnegut
I repspect the grind of trying to empirically prove dean isn’t a misogynist but. My boy so misogyny they traced the origin of the word mansplain to a forum post about how he sucks. We gotta just take the L on this one
True: people over exaggerate the womanizing sleazing aspect and a sssssssolid 90? Percent of the time when he flirts it’s run of the mill and nothing outrageously offensive.
True: There Are Many Other Ways dean is misogynistic
Every now and again, I learn new Deep Lore about the SPN fandom and what it’s given to the internet as a whole, and it changes who I am as a person on a molecular level