never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.
find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.
talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore
picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else
if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.
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That’s some pretty good advice. I don’t know what’s left of my humor after ‘guess I’ll just die’ jokes but it’s worth a shot.
Personally i went from “guess I’ll die” jokes to “IF I HAVE TO BE HERE FOR 5 MORE MINUTES I PROMISE YOU I WILL BUY JUST, AN ARRAY OF CLOTHES.” and other wild hyperbolic stuff. Just replace the death part with something ridiculous and off topic. Its very entertaining
This also works with calling myself things like stupid, worthless, trash, etc. Even if you do this jokingly to yourself, your brain still believes it, and keeps up the cycle. Seriously, I found that when I stopped saying these things about myself, even jokingly, it made a massive difference.
Here’s a tip I picked up from a friend that’s helped me a lot — replace self deprecating jokes with ironically self aggrandizing jokes
Like every time I trip and fall, instead of saying “l’m just a disaster human” I say “I’m the epitome of grace and beauty”
Or like, when I draw a picture I’m not 100% happy with, instead of saying “my art is trash” I say something like “you know I think it’s time we replaced the Mona Lisa”
When you do that you get to make a joke, but you’re ALSO getting practice building yourself up, y’know?
And eventually it becomes a reflex and you get so used to it that you can say nice stuff about yourself even when you AREN’T joking
Since I write quite a lot of fics and I don’t post all of it on AO3. A lot of people don’t seem to know I’ve written some of the following either, haha.
"No no, not at all. You just scared the kids there for a split second, it was kind of funny.“ “Well! That’s what they get for taking your attention away from me! We were in the middle of something!” Marina puts a hand over her mouth, giggling. “Can you not see, Pearlie?” “I can see fine! I don’t know what your talking about!” This only made Marina burst into a giggle fit.
A fic based off the theory that Pearl glares a lot because she has trouble seeing. So her girlfriend tries to help her out a bit!
Pearl had never exactly been the type to compliment people. So when Pearl started making specific, sweet comments towards Marina, the octoling was surprised.
There was something about keeping secrets that made them so exciting. There was something about this specific secret that, although hard to keep, was especially exciting. When they finally had the courage to grace the world with Off the Hook, things went better as planned. Marina was accepted into society, and they both became popular almost overnight. But the constant dread still clung to them like glue, even if they had no intention of showing it.
Follow You – F!Agent 3 / F!Agent 8. 14 March 2018. Complete.
After a series of rather stressful events, Agent 8 moves into Inkopolis, thinking her life would be easier that way. Unfortunately for Agent 8, the mix of culture shock and the heavy burden of what she had just gone through seemed to overweight these factors. Thank goodness Agent 3 was there to calm her down.
Maple – F!Agent 3 / F!Agent 8. 29 May 2018. Complete.
After leaving the Deep Sea Metro Station, both Agent 8 and 3 have some trouble adjusting to life above ground. So much has changed for Agent 3, and it’s a whole new world for Agent 8. So the two decide to explore together.
Pearl met Marina only met a few months ago, and neither knew how to communicate with each other. After Pearl managed to teach Marina the Inkling language, Marina wants to return the favor.
Sunsets– F!Agent 3 / F!Agent 8. Pearl / Marina. 20 July 2018. Complete.
Eight stayed up all night, brainstorming and writing all her feelings down. She woke up in an uncomfortable position on her desk, drooling on a notebook and paper. She paused for a moment, looking out the window beside her. The sun was just rising and the sky was an orange-pink colour. When she realized what she was doing, she leaned back and stretched with a loud yawn. She then collected her scattered belongings on her desk. In front of her was a piece of pink, cutesy expensive looking stock paper.
Within Palace Walls – F!Agent 3 / F!Agent 8, Pearl / Marina, OC/OC. 14 August 2018 – Ongoing. 2 Chapters / ??? Chapters.
After many difficult battles and gruesome tests, Agent Eight finally escaped Kamabo’s Deep Sea Metro and saved the world in the process. Now she’s tired, and confused, and has to try and survive as an adult in a world completely new to her. And even with Pearl and Marina’s help, she finds it almost impossible to adjust to the world she only thought existed in works of fiction. But before she can teach herself anything, she wants to do whatever she can to befriend Agent Three.
Sometimes i think about the idea of Common as a language in fantasy settings.
On the one hand, it’s a nice convenient narrative device that doesn’t necessarily need to be explored, but if you do take a moment to think about where it came from or what it might look like, you find that there’s really only 2 possible origins.
In settings where humans speak common and only Common, while every other race has its own language and also speaks Common, the implication is rather clear: at some point in the setting’s history, humans did the imperialism thing, and while their empire has crumbled, the only reason everyone speaks Human is that way back when, they had to, and since everyone speaks it, the humans rebranded their language as Common and painted themselves as the default race in a not-so-subtle parallel of real-world whiteness.
In settings where Human and Common are separate languages, though (and I haven’t seen nearly as many of these as I’d like), Common would have developed communally between at least three or four races who needed to communicate all together. With only two races trying to communicate, no one would need to learn more than one new language, but if, say, a marketplace became a trading hub for humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves, then either any given trader would need to learn three new languages to be sure that they could talk to every potential customer, OR a pidgin could spring up around that marketplace that eventually spreads as the traders travel the world.
Drop your concept of Common meaning “english, but in middle earth” for a moment and imagine a language where everyone uses human words for produce, farming, and carpentry; dwarven words for gemstones, masonry, and construction; elven words for textiles, magic, and music; and orcish words for smithing weaponry/armor, and livestock. Imagine that it’s all tied together with a mishmash of grammatical structures where some words conjugate and others don’t, some adjectives go before the noun and some go after, and plurals and tenses vary wildly based on what you’re talking about.
Now try to tell me that’s not infinitely more interesting.
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