anxiety, stress, impostor syndrome

"i had a professor in college who used to start solving every problem with the same dialogue

proff: what's the first step to solving any problem?
class: dont panic
proff: and why is that?
class: because we know more than we think we do

i think about that a lot tbh. it didnt occur to me until much later that he meant for us to apply that dialogue outside of the classroom to any problem. because we always know more than we think we do. we are all an amalgam of random information that ends up being relevant with surprising frequency"

rest, self compassion, guilt, art

"reframing motivation not as an act of will, but a thing that naturally occurs when i am rested, fed, and am taking things at my own slow pace has helped me a lot"

socialization, boundaries

"dont blame a clown for acting like a clown. ask yourself why you keep going to the circus."

anxiety, socialization, venn diagram

'impostor syndrome vs reality:
what i know, what i think others know, what others actually know'

jobs, society

"people today are spoiled to shit [...]

you're not mad someone else might make $15/hr, you're mad you're not making $35/hr. and you should be. your enemy isn't the poor bastard finally getting a few more crumbs, it's the billionaire who's been robbing you of a living wage for the past forever, and will keep doing so"

socialization, affection, society

"some of y'all think that holding hands and sharing a bed is immediately romantic, and this is why people cannot differentiate between romantic, platonic, and familial forms of love

nothing is EVER inherently romantic. the meaning of a gesture is determined by the people involved in it, not some random outsider

the meaning of a gesture is determined by the people involved in it"

society, digital

"like, do you guys know that the attention economy thrives on hate? do you understand the most powerful thing you could do to something is to ignore it and not acknowledge it? do you not understand how anything works ever?"

emotional regulation, socialization, anger

"furthermore i truly believe you should eat a meal before making any big choices, confrontations, vents, etc. i promise 100% of the time you will feel better and more balanced with food in your stomach. you should never do anything that will have consequences on anything less than a full stomach.

orc logic
she's right btw"

food, dieting, parenting, medical

"my dad who wants the brussels sprouts to be healthy

me who wants the brussels sprouts to fuck like hell

food fun facts for dad types!!!

·adding butter or cheese or salt or whatever to your veggies so that you like them doesnt change the nutritional content you get from said veggies

·additional calories eaten dont negate the healthy benefits of food.
and, stay with me here, low calorie foods are not more morally pure than high calorie foods

·if making a food more palatable by adding butter (or whatever) is the make-or-break for someone to actually eat the vegetable, then the brussel sprouts with butter are FUCKING HEALTHIER for you than the brusel sprouts you dont eat. a salad with ranch dressing is healthier for you than the dry greens you dont eat. a sandwitch with cheese and mayo is more healthy than the plain sandwich you dont eat. the strawberry with whipped cream is more healthy than the strawberry you dont eat."

socializing, anxiety, activism, bad praxis

"waiting for people to fuck up so that you can cancel them, gatekeeping, communities self-policing to the point of self-destruction, debating each other's validity, communities infighting over terminology, fighting over the Best way to exist, trying to define what a Bad Community Member is/does, vilifying those people

besties i think we fucked up and internalized the surveillance state or the omni-present judgement of god or purity culture or perhaps just maybe all 3

kill the cop inside your head"

anxiety, impostor syndrome, morals, activism, socializing

"am i still a good person if helping others also benefits me?

hey, man
its me, the universe
be kind. i dont care why"

growth, healing, shame

"maturing is realizing you were toxic too

if you dont look back and cringe at your actions you probably havent been growing"

self compassion

"emotional regulation requires energy

when you're physically tired, emotional regulation is physiologically harder to achieve

so if you've used all your physical spoons and you start crying because you dropped a pen, remember its because your cells literally dont have enough ATP to coordinate the neurological processes that control your emotions. give yourself grace and rest and probably a snack"

boundaries, relationships, socialization

"its okay to need space
from people you love"

boundaries, abuse

"but there is something that happens when you are told you are Too Much
you begin to ask everyone, how small would you like me?"

{mary lambert, shame is an ocean i swim across, "you are with the wrong person"}

digital, emotional self harm, abuse, self compassion, rest

"you do not need to burn out to prove you care"

unscheduled post:

request for feedback on trannoscription, from those who make use of them. does it make a real difference to type "don't" instead of "dont" for screen readers? would it help to use «» instead of ""? anything else that is easier to deal with as a sender than as a receiver?

additionally, if there is a strong interest in using more formatting (E.G., embolden the first letter of every sentence), the possibility may be explored


this post has no expiration date and anyone can reply at any point, but please try to keep all the discussion to actual, real usecases, and dont chip in to add theories and fantasies born from maybes. emboldening letters only helps the reader if the reader is reading the post through the trannoscription and not the image.

feel free to provide illustrative links (especially for things like the aforementioned text formatting)

additionally, the majority of the post history of this channel has been transcribed now, and maybe about a quarter of the artists have been credited; but there are still posts that evaded the sieve

if anyone wants to contribute, the two main ways currently are:
-to reply #pending_trannoscription directly to the post, in its comments
-to locate the original artists in graphical posts, and reply to the post with their names, preferably but not necessarily with links

the latter is an arduous and demanding task to do for admin alone, especially with admin's technological setup, and any amount of help would go a long way :)