At Pax East at the Experience Points booth today and tomorrow. Come by and learn more about the org!

A picture of a Stitch plushy with a typo highlighted on it

If someone could spell *Diseny* on a toy that was sold at one of their parks... you can forgive yourself for typos too.
I've had this plush for likely 10+ yrs. I've hugged it on bad days, my kid drooled on it. It's no worse of a companion or comfort because of this typo. Will love it for 10 yrs more

Screenshot from Papers Please

Ok one more, one more!

Interviewer: "Do you have any experience escaping a totalitarian regime?"

Me: (ah, immigrating from Russia is too on the nose, current context too painful...)

Image of a post on threads where someone says Interviewer: Do you have any management experience? Me: *picture of roller coaster tycoon*

Credit to this Threads post

Interviewer: "Do you have any policy implementation experience?"

Me:

For the truest realist!
I'm probably here beCAUSE of you. You left all other moot socials and I needed to find you! 💚

Marie making a millenial face like she's not so sure wearing a black t shirt with her hair curled

H E L L O W O R L D
Grown tired of reducing all of my opinions down to nothing, I've come back to Bsky to set them free.
Updates: Working on my MAs in Child Advocacy and Policy, internships, contracts, research, raising tiny human. Who else is on here worrying about our kids online? Help me find em!

Mxiety in her stream room with a black bow on with her hand under her chin

💜Live Now Mxiety on Twitch 💚
Tell me about the person who inspired you to be better.
They can be fictional or real, bonus points if they're a woman since it's the last week of Women's History Month

Plus PaxEast Recap.
✨See you here!

Being real is great.
Being yourself is amazing.
Feeling safe being yourself 🤌.

Keeping pieces of you just for you is good emotional hygiene.

All too often, people want creators to be authentic but what they mean is "someone who gives their whole selves" like it's owed.

The anxiety of making conversations about me has been taking up lots of bandwidth and I've spent lots of time stressing that I upset someone by sharing myself.

Now when a convo starts I start by framing my planned answers to be 1 of 3
▪️relating
▪️listening
▪️supporting
It's helped

On this extra day let me send you an extra reminder that doing something positive for you will bloom into kindness for others.

But time spent doing something you hope will get you extra points from someone else is better spent on finding why other's opinions of you matter so much to you.

Mxiety smiling with cup of tea in a rainbow mug in her stream room

What's your favorite way of helping others?

If you said you're tired of always being the helper, this chat is for you. If you need a place to rest, this chat is for you. If you need a place to get down and boogie, this is still the place

Mxiety on Twitch 💚💜 Short stream live now! 🔴

An article I wrote about not being able to "JUST" not have depression blew up on Medium.

My conclusion? We need to stop teaching people that everything needs to have a solution, and it's ok if a solution is just -living with the problem-.

I did it!
I was emotionally beating myself up and not at all motivating to myself but then I went and posted up and scheduled my new blog to go live on Wednesday.

Idk if this comes easily to some people, but it does not feel easy to me. But I did it anyway. Eat it, Anxiety and ADHD!

Back IT!

Today, I hope you can praise yourself for taking time to rest just like when you're traditionally productive.

Less: "I'm so lazy!"

And more:
"Hell yeah, look at me making tea and putting on a favorite show. I know this helps me do my best later, even though today is harder than I'd like"

I feel this so hard. I want to be everywhere but what I want more is to feel connected to others the way I used to. And until I feel like posting here would move me towards that, it's hard to do

Xitter needs to be done please. I can't keep checking it just to get upset at its state. But I need to find more friends!
Lemme know if
♥️we were moots before
♥you want someone bugging you to selfcare all the time
♥️you like streamers, writers and overthinkers
♥️you like star trek and/or wars

Hmm this helps confirm that I wasn't just doing things wrong

Ok so it's not just me. That helps Crev haha

You're always coming in with the good tips. Thank you 😊

To clarify, I love those 4 people, just wish there was more to see and feel like I definitely missed some memo

Ok I need to ask, are people not on here or is my account broken.

I've been quiet because everytime I log in I legit see the same 4 people posting.

I followed a decent amount of people and thought people migrated here but now it's been quiet so I've had nothing to add too.

Halp pwes

On one hand, imposter syndrome 😟
On the other, I always get to be surprised whenever people DO want me in the room/helping/working with me. And who doesn't like a pleasant surprise?

Done all of these as well for sure.

Mxietys desk with a pile of notebooks on it and TWLOHA merch

Hey, ADHD buddies! How big are your "I have to leave this in front of me on my desk or I'll never remember to do it" piles?

Are they all notebooks too?

If you're upset you can't seem to figure out next steps in your life, it's a huge sign that it's time to think about who
🌟you🌟 are not what you can do.
You'll be productive but in the right order: You->What new you can produce

This is so kind. Thank you for your sweet words <3

Reframe "I never get opportunities" to "It's ok to admit that I'm tired from pushing through the system, but all my work will pay off as I keep trying. Even if I need to rest a second before pressing forward again"

I know, I know it doesn't roll off the tongue

I mean accurate.
But I feel like a super hero not feeling depressed about it? Maybe I feel like part of the solution?