black and white image of a cat screaming. in large letters at the top it says 'why is the cat screaming?' and at the bottom it says '1. Why wouldn't the cat scream 2. If you were smart, you'd be doing the same thing' a low-quality photograph of a restaurant whose name, 'waffle square', appears in yellow letters on the roof. but part of the last 'e' is darkened so it appears to say 'waffle squarf' screenshot of two mastodon posts by @edstink@mastodon.social dated feb 5, 2021. they say: Please just let me be a weird loser. I don't wanna do anything / I don't want any hopes or passions. I just wanna sit around and do my dumb little shit a cartoon crow walking with a mischievous look on its face. it's looking behind it and saying \ a painting of a frog wearing old-timey trousers and a shirt with suspenders, standing on its hind legs and holding an old-timey gun threateningly off to the left. the background is sandy tan and text above the frog reads: Don't ever put me in a situation sisyphus, a heavily muscled and non-revealingly nude man, is pushing an enormous boulder up a hill, as he is cursed by the gods to do for eternity as punishment for cheating death twice. but text superimposed over it says \
master shake from aqua teen hunger force, a sentient, animate milkshake with a pink straw, leans over meatwad (a meatball with a headband and a chagrined expression) on a tennis court, saying: i am 30 or 40 years old and i do not need this.

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a panel from a powerpuff girls comic. one of the girls is yelling angrily: I'M NOT DUMB! I JUST LIKE NICE THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY! AT LEAST I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT AND BE MEAN ALL THE TIME LIKE SOME PEOPLE! a picture from the 'awards for good boys' instagram account. it's a crude drawing of a dude with short hair saying: i really appreciate you taking the time to painstakingly chisel away at my rough exterior to turn me into the relatively emotionally available man i can sort of be. a verbose meme with a header: STOP DRIVING CARS, followed by a bullet-pointed list. its items read: PLACES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DRIVEN TO. YEARS OF BUILDING CAR INFRASTUCTURE yet NO DECREASE IN OVERALL TRAVEL TIME. Want to go somewhere fast? We have a vehicle for that: It's called a 'TRAIN'. \ two panels from a comic strip. in panel one, a crudely drawn flaming skull wearing a pink party hat floats into a floating-skull-with-party-hat-shaped indentation in the wall labeled \
two tumblr posts. i'm starting with the bottom one, which is a claymation penguin angrily slapping a heart onto a piece of paper surrounded by red glitter. the top one, to which it is a response, is long. it reads as follows: fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says 'actually works' does actually work. hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response. hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho a mastodon post by @probgoblin@wafflec.one (screen name Johnny Normality) on mastodon. the post says \ an eagle walking over what looks like a shallowly flooded beach, hunched over and looking exceedingly surly. a caption reads: me going on a stupid little daily walk For my stupid physical and mental health a wikiHow image of a woman lying somewhat awkwardly in a hammock. a caption reads: Emma better understood her apparent inability to enjoy her days off when she realized that the space they occupied and the recuperation they demanded was just another mandate from work