Stephen King's Book On Writing Is A Great Read, Part Biographical, Part A Look On His Career, And Part

Confirmed™️: the frogs are gay 🏳️‍🌈

I really needed some good news and this announcement made my whole year. I’m so curious as to how a magical girl transformation sequence is handled in prose I’m beyond excited to see my favorite author write my fave anime genre.

Unbreakable by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) is a book about magical protectors and cosmic horrors.

If you like the magical girl genre you will love this book.

If you liked Madoka you will love this book. But also, if you didn't, you will love this book.

If you want a more nuanced and dark take on the magical girl genre (while still keeping the sparks and rainbows) that doesn't introduce mature and gritty themes just for the sake of subverting expectations, because it was written by someone that understands how to embrace and successfully marry the magical girl genre and the cosmic horror genre, while at the same time packaging it all with a realistic portrayal of how our world would react to/deal with magical protectors, you will love this book. And if you have already read this book please come talk to me about it.

Ball gown, France, ca. 1865. Kobe Fashion Museum

hey everyone! it’s been a while since i made a masterpost, and i recently found some good health-related apps on the play store that i thought to consolidate into a post.

all these apps are available for both ios and android users! i’ve also grouped similar apps together.

fyi: these apps are not intended to replace your therapist/counselor – they only act as an aid. the apps listed here are those that seemed credible enough and had good ratings on the play store. some may help you and some might not. since i don’t have depression or panic attacks, i can’t speak for the efficacy of some of the apps here.

For stress, depression, anxiety, or panic attacks:

Rootd: exercises to help with anxiety and panic attacks, as well as lessons understand anxiety. it also includes emergency contact if you need help and a personal stats page.

Self-help Anxiety Management (SAM): exercises to help you manage your anxiety. you can also build your ‘anxiety tookit’ and chat with other SAM users.

PanicShield: for those who have panic attacks. it has a breathing tool to calm you down, information about panic attacks, and two techniques to train your mind to have fewer panic attacks (based on two types of therapy). 

MoodSpace: short, interactive mood workouts that may help treat depression.

InnerHour: a self-help app for stress, anxiety or depression. it has small daily tasks, helps you deal with distressing situations, helps control your stressful thinking patterns, and has a relief box.

Moodpath: an interactive two-week depression and anxiety screening program that tracks your emotional and physical wellbeing and generates a personalized mental health assessment that you can discuss with therapists.

Calm Harm: tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm.

To generally improve your life:

Youper: conversations with a bot to improve your mood and emotional health. it also has mindfulness and meditation exercises, a mood tracker, journal and symptoms tracker.

Wysa: similar to Youper, Wysa is a chatbot who reacts to the emotions you express to help with anxiety, stress, low mood, anger or sleep issues.

Primed Mind: a life coach to help you reach your personal goals and improve yourself. it can help you build habits, calm down, fall asleep quickly, and study effectively.

Headspace: meditation and mindfulness exercises

Just Rain: a soothing audiovisual rain simulator where you can control the degree of rain sounds.

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

Hi! I’ve recently discovered some posts showing that there’s an active fandom for predicting stuff in the Ocotber Daye series/discussing the series. Are their any tumblrs, discords, groups people reccommend?

Also I feel like such a giant pumpkin head reading this series as it comes out aside from the like eight book binge I did when I first got into the series.

#chain meme

Dropping this here for anyone who may not already know about it. paywallreader.com

Should You Take the Cryptid on a Roadtrip?

Mothman: Sure, as long as you avoid the Las Vegas strip.  We don’t need a repeat of the last time.

Bigfoot: Definitely, they make an excellent camping companion and are an avid bird watcher. Just be prepared for lots of your vacation photos to turn out blurry.

Loch Ness Monster:  I mean, if you can figure out how to transport a giant lake monster safely down I-80, go for it.

Chupacabra: Has this weird thing where it only wants to stay at B&Bs, particularly ones attached to farms.

Fresno Nightcrawler: It will literally pay you to take it somewhere else. Have you seen Fresno?

Flatwoods Monster: Super into glamping, really wants someone to share their gourmet s’more recipes with. Just don’t let them wander into nearby campsites, it seems to freak people out.

Jersey Devil: Keeps saying they know a great campsite deep in the pine barrens. It’s just a little farther. Don’t worry that the forest seems to be getting darker. It’ll be fine.

Jackalope: It will mimic the voice of your GPS and send you off a cliff or worse, to Fresno. Better not.

Beast of Bray Road:  NO

As an English Major/ person who gives a fuck about women that headline hurts me.