self care is listening to Africa by Toto for 22 hours straight, staring into the void until all your feelings, impulses, muscles, and skin melt away and you are but a pile of bones vibrating along to 80’s synth wave
That’s what it looks like. That’s really what it looks like
Being out in the ocean is actually so scary because when you look really far out you can kind of see how the Earth is rounded out. It looks like a few miles ahead you’re just gonna fall off or something.
Also fun trick: if ur on mobile, double tap zoom in and slide the picture side to side. It looks like you’re actually there looking left to right
Like most simplistic solutions to life’s problems, it falls apart the first time you have to apply it to someone you don’t already agree with. Don’t believe me? Go back in time and reconsider about fifty percent of your actions. Have fun discovering that “you know nothing, jon snow” is actually practical life advice
Anon: Why don’t you just decide that it’s okay for anyone to hurt you whenever they want?
Abuse survivors: Pfft. You call that grooming? Get gud scrub. 3/10 would set boundaries again.
So a quick search on Tineye got me the source of this image (seriously, folks, if you see an unattributed piece of art please use Google Image Search and Tineye to at least *try* to find the artist.) It’s the cover to the 1997 hardcover edition of “Curses Inc. and Other Stories”, a fiction anthology edited by Vivian Vande Velde in 1997. I can’t find any info on the artist, but I bet you dollars to doughnuts someone stole the art from their website and that’s how it got floating around the internet. Used copies start at $1.65 on Amazon, so hey–now you get the bonus of knowing there’s an awesome witchy fic anthology out there, too.
Also, the 1997 publication date totally explains the beige computer with an A: drive.
haha i owned this book. i loved Vivian Vande Velde. one of the few people writing good YA fantasy pre-HP.
hey @thegreenwolf and others, the artist is Tristan Elwell (you can check the copyright in the backflap of the book on Amazon to confirm) this artist actually did a lot of recognizable work on YA novels.
I’m gonna be real with you right now, Derek’s subconscious agitated and panicking and seeking Stiles out to tell him his fears is 1000000% enough to base a trillion fanfics on and enough to get me through the hiatus
