wait until it gets dark and make tea or coffee or hot chocolate, or if it’s too hot outside make yourself a healthy smoothie with your favorite things in it at any point during the day
put on your favorite underwear, it helps, trust me, it’s an old family secret (i’m not kidding)
if you have a pet, play the “how many things can i stick on you until you move or get mad” game (bonus points if they fall asleep, extra bonus points if a family member sees you and tells you to quit it, extra double ultra points if they join in)
rip a peice of paper into as many little pieces as you can
go to animeseason.com and click “random anime” until you see one that looks completely ridiculous (or actually good) and watch the first episode. repeat if it sucked or if you get bored halfway through
spend at least an hour making a music playlist for how you feel right now and save it for now or when you feel a bad mood rise again
curl up in bed and cover yourself with blankets and pillows and put in music and just lay there for a while (sleeping is also good)
eat everything
drink lots of water
it’s okay bad moods don’t last forever!!!!!! i promise!!! you will be yourself soon and there are people who love you very much, don’t be afraid to reach out to them
you are lovely
eat lots of bananas
here are some more friends
i bet there is still a box of crayons in your house somewhere (if not you can get them cheap during back-to-school sales); find them and use them (maybe while watching ridiculous anime)
sunshine if you can manage it or just a sun lamp trust me it matters more than you think especially in winter
hugs even if they are stuffed animals or your pet or your pillow whatever is on hand
if you’ve got a favorite lotion/soap/thing that is scented use it liberally
cry if you need, if it doesn’t start by itself or if you don’t want to attract attention put on a sad movie so you have an excuse
write this down to pull out on future bad days:
it is okay to have a day where you don’t get things done
it is okay not to have a reason for feeling bad
taking care of yourself is a worthwhile use of time
if you still don’t feel better it is not your fault (and it is okay to ask for help)
I needed this so fucking much rn
I’ve found this helps sometimes. Hope it does. Take care x @stxdies
2016 aesthetic: moonlight, sparkling champagne, faux fur, soft pinks, warm nudes, roses, health, positivity, gold, love for the self
Person: mentally ill and disabled people are horrifying and scary
Me:*making cookies* don’t put ur hand in the flour don’t put ur hand in the flour it doesn’t matter how soft it is don’t put ur hand in the flour don’t put
The boy in these photos is 12-year-old David Fox, who had been popular at school, was teased by his classmates and slowly edged out. ’Nobody wanted me on their side or anything like that,’ he said. ’Even the teachers used to pull me aside and ask me about this CD cover.’
At first I thought it might be his pipe, but actually I think Sherlock is burning what appears to be incense – look on the small end table in front of him – during the Victorian mind palace scene, before he took his seven percent solution and then encountered Moriarty:
A few minutes later, Moriarty appears and comments on the smell of 221b:
You may be thinking: what an odd comment, one that has no queer coding implications whatsoever!
And you would be wrong.
Burning incense or “perfumed tapers” was highly associated with homosexuality in the 19th century and was popular among those who self-identified as homosexual or were considered to be bohemian (aka–in many cases–gay). According to historian Graham Robb, many men who “scented” their rooms kept that habit rather close to the chest, although references to “two men burning perfumed tapers and keeping the shutters closed” appear in everything from queer-coded literature to Oscar Wilde’s trials. Here the prosecutor Carson asks Wilde about whether the procurer Alfred Taylor’s rooms were scented:
Carson: […] Were they always highly perfumed, these rooms in College Street?
Wilde: […] He was in the habit of burning perfume, as I am in my rooms.
Carson: As you are in your rooms?
Wilde: As I am in mine – a very charming habit it is.
I’ve come across this multiple times during the course of my readings (including Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century). Burning incense, dressing a certain way, being clean-shaven, wearing a green carnation in your button hole – these were all things that men could choose to do or use to identify themselves as part of the homosexual community in the late 19th century. These men would burn their incense in private, perhaps when they had a guest… or were simply at home with their partners.
It seems Sherlock’s rooms would smell “manly” indeed.
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