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inkskinned:

small summer self-care tips from one mentally ill person to another, based on ur hogwarts house

slytherin:

• more books if you can, video games that are happy if you can’t.
• find one project you love and chase it doggedly, even if it’s fanfiction. ideally, work on this project w/other friends that are working on projects, so u have accountability and community. 
• set small goals and crush them, even if they’re managing to get rid of the Depression Water that’s been sitting on the side of your bed for three weeks with a dead moth in it
• snack breaks 
• whenever you hear yourself call yourself bad names, whisper “shut up, salasar,” and fix it. call yourself the most ridiculously pretentious and complementary titles you can think of
• every time ur brain tries to kill you, tell it you will succeed out of spite
• acrylic nails, regardless of your gender. sometimes they are 50 cents at the drug store. click click click

gryffindor:

• don’t get caught up in the wildness of summer, try to take a few steps back from friends when stuff starts getting dangerous. write down “we are about to do X” and decide if it’s something your mom would be okay with.

• blanket cape + make urself a paper crown

• for every liquor drink please drink 1 glass water. friendship hydration challenges are also a lot of fun, but as a warning, i will win them
• roller coasters will make u feel awake for a bit and that’s fun but friendships shouldn’t make u feel like you’re trapped on one
• courage is your crest. remind yourself of that when ur facing your demons. also, dye your hair a fun color.
• you’re not too much for someone to handle just because you’re energetic or whatever. this summer relish in not toning it down. take your meds with water and bite anyone who makes fun of you for them.
• give urself time to recharge. know your limits. sometimes courage is also saying “no thanks”

hufflepuff:

• the sun isn’t out all the time. you don’t have to always be the cheery one. if you fall, your friends will catch you. keep yourself around your loved ones. they’ll forgive you, even if you’ve been gone.
• cooking and baking for other people is actually so much fun, try and eat a little while you get it done
• watch children’s movies and shows. it’s okay. take a little while and let yourself feel like you’re seven and the world isn’t as loud as it is.
• dark scary makeup and instagram photos
• be patient with yourself. okay you’re not getting better right now but that’s okay. the slope is very slippery. it’s a long climb to the top, but you got badger claws. start with washing your hair. you’ll get there.
• when they are only hurting you, they do not deserve your loyalty. it hurts to say goodbye, but it will be better when they leave.
• hard work does include dragging yourself into the shower after six days without it, good job, you

ravenclaw:

• find something to be curious in every day, keep that mind working. it helps to slowly teach yourself something, even the anatomy of a bird wing.
• you aren’t bad if you can’t focus. neither can i and i’ve been a ravenclaw all my life. 
• it isn’t about being “smart” and you don’t need to fit some neurotypical version of that to be clever; wit comes in all forms and if you chase something unconventional at least you’re chasing something
• tuna and rice is a good meal with a low price and v low production abilities. turn on TedED while it’s cooking and zone out to something vaguely educational. at least you’re learning?
• you aren’t and you’ll never be only good at things because of your disease. if someone says you paint beautifully because you’re sad, paint them eating their words. also, peaceful coloring.
• bird mouth from pringles chips. caw caw
• go outside. catch breeze, draw leaves, eat fruit, discover small happy.

thatbloke:

Bitten by a radioactive cicada now all I do is sit in a tree and scream all day

dracofidus:

personallyyoursrobyn:

elodieunderglass:

deputychairman:

hamsilton:

blxxdfae:

i dont think american filmmakers realise how huge london is, because sure you have the london eye and houses of parliament but when you say ‘london has fallen’ what??? so the nandos in catford is in flames? the tesco in peckham has descended into chaos? wtf??

@deputychairman

And even if Peckham Tesco goes down you’ve still got the Lewisham one open 24 hours, yeah you’re in trouble on a Sunday evening but even in a survival situation you can probably hold out till Monday because all the local takeaways would still deliver, no one can stop those guys and no one should try

yeah and making it a little serious for a second, the city has such a historical/cultural expectation of being (or at least appearing) resilient in response to destruction that these portrayals are not realistic at all.

If you talk to people who were in London on 7/7 I feel that they use very different language about their experience, vs. people who were in New York City for 9/11. The brush with destruction is not portrayed as a life-changing experience, if that makes sense. The expectation is that the city has to keep moving. That obnoxious “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster (now a meme) was actually designed and printed in readiness to be posted everywhere if London actually fell to Nazi occupation. the expectation was that “descent into chaos” would let everyone down.

Like, in the London Blitz people made “not giving a shit as the city is gutted around you” into an art form. 

this lady would make a great reaction image for drinking truth tea in the wake of drama:

like look at these guys here

“oh ffs that was my BUS”

I mean this guy is just delivering the milk like

TREVOR I DON’T THINK YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE GONNA CARE IF YOU’RE A LITTLE LATE

or this extremely safe community policing

“remember girls you need TWO policemen to go past the unexploded bomb”

or this 

“hey Bridezilla your window fell off”
“fuck off Helen this is my SPECIAL DAY”

or

“guys you’re supposed to be – guys pay attention”

or
“Hey what should we do we are literally being bombed right now”
“idk go hide in the tube??”
“but it’s the kids’ bedtime”
“yeah, but like… bombs”

“wait I’ve got a plan, we go to the tube and then…”

“ok so … so we’ve literally just tied the children to the train tracks”
“shh…. they’re sleeping…. they’re safe now”

or this cheeky lil shit

apparently he’s reading a history of London

rude

Anyway it’s not like Londoners are super brave or anything, it’s just that on the one hand there might be giant alien sea dragon robot tsunamis smashing the recognizable landmarks, but on the other hand they gotta make rent 

Pretty much every city in the UK is the same, Manchester proved that this week.
Wigan also proved this, there was an evacuation of a street because of a suspicious package and suspected terrorist, what did the evacuees do? Went to the pub and had a pint.

My Great Grandad was a green grocer and he would go out of the city at night to stay with family in the country so as not to die in an air raid, and one morning he went back to the city to find his home completely destroyed, the whole street was gone, but there was a pint of milk sitting on a pile of rubble where his front step used to be. So he got his milk and dug out his van from under the remains of the shed, and amazingly it still ran, so he got in it, and went to the shop so he could load up and do his morning deliveries. There were elderly people who couldn’t make the journey to the shop for their veg and he’d be damned if they’d go hungry just because his house was bombed. “Keep Calm and Carry On” doesn’t even cover it.

fishdetective:

no feeling will ever be as potent and visceral as the fear you feel when chrome suddenly shuts down and you reopen it and wait with baited breath praying to any god that may exist that it will restore your four windows containing a total of 67 tabs