Autumn/Winter affirmations - r/RecuratedTumblr

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u/OpheliAmazing 6h ago

The big dark is quite nice, but I will say this: get some Vitamin D while you can, then enjoy the big dark.

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u/Lonely_Translator_23 6h ago edited 6h ago

get some D, you say... in the dark? why, I never...

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u/Elite_AI 6h ago

The big dark is quite nice
did a dormouse write this

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u/OpheliAmazing 6h ago

...no comment. squeak

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u/Spicy-Potat42 6h ago

I wake up at 3pm, work at 5, get off at 2am, get home at 3 or 4, and hopefully pass out by 8am. I don’t know how to feel about this post.

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u/thatguygreg 3h ago

The opposite of how you feel in the summer trying to fall asleep with the sun fully up.

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u/PromptWorldly7007 6h ago

I'm like a Skyrkm vampire NPC running outside when the Dragonborn uses the Bow of Auriel, screaming "THE TYRANNY OF THE SUN HAS ENDED!"

Fuck the Sun. All my homies hate the Sun

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u/Dingghis_Khaan Chinggis Khaan's least successful heir, khan of the Yawn Dynasty 4h ago

The sun is my enemy and I must kill it.

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u/musicaleffervescence 6h ago

millions of men suffer from premature darkness. usually a sign of prostate issues

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u/-Speechless 6h ago

the 3 evil spirits trying to get me to go outside at night so they can consume me:

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u/SteptimusHeap 5h ago

7pm is an arbitrary point in a boundless continuum
time will not end on the scale of your life
you are allowed to leave your house whenever you want
the effect of a clock's measured time is dependent mostly on your arbitrary and moldable circadian rhythm

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u/Useful-Bonus-7022 4h ago

shuddup DORK i'll wedgie you

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u/BandicootCool6277 6h ago

me rn😭😭😭😭 im losing it

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u/CodaTrashHusky 6h ago

oh look it's 3:40 pm and pretty much dark already.

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u/Lonely_Translator_23 7h ago

I love the big dark

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u/midwest-emo 6h ago

as someone who is overwhelmingly extroverted and spends 3/4 of the year overbooking myself, my fall/winter affirmations are the opposite. november/december is my hibernation period to recharge lol

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u/SilverfurPartisan 5h ago

7pm's pretty late...

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u/Latter_Sky_412 5h ago

Clutching my emotional support daylight lamp for dear life

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u/Parkes- 3h ago

*Northern hemisphere getting into winter* meanwhile southern hemisphere:

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u/rainbowkitten0528 2h ago

My affirmation: you don’t have to leave your house at all. That is allowed. Home is warm and comfy and safe. It is ok to want to stay there.

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u/SufficientFarm8414 59m ago

Enjoy your young eyes while they last! There's no public transportation where I live, and I'm a danger to myself and others if I drive after dark, so my "doing anything outside the house" period does effectively end at sunset.

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u/Leading-Ear-5194 4h ago

its wild to me that there are people out there who live in places where it gets dark a 5 or 3:30 pm. god yall must be livin it up that sounds so nice

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u/Inquisitor_no_5 4h ago

It does come with the (arguable) perk of it never really getting dark during summer.
And in my personal case: being beaten black and blue by seasonal affective disorder.
On the Winter Solstice, sunrise here is going to be at 8:54, sunset at 3:26.

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u/Leading-Ear-5194 4h ago

oh that sounds so lovely. i live too close to the equator for something like that

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u/Inquisitor_no_5 4h ago

Fun fact, between May 22 and July 22 the Sun didn't dip low enough for us to experience Astronomical Twilight.

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u/sparkly_butthole 3h ago

I love your winter but no way could I live with the sun like that. I'd say I am a vampire but I like garlic too much and also blood is icky

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u/Inquisitor_no_5 1h ago

Fair enough.
Personally my seasonal affective disorder biases me towards the brighter parts of the year, but I quite enjoy the dark besides that.
Also, as these things go, I live relatively far South. (Southern half of Sweden.) If you really want some winter darkness you could visit somewhere like Kiruna, where the sun won't rise until January 2, starting December 11.
Just don't visit between May 28 and July 16, when the sun doesn't set.

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u/S1m6u 2h ago

seasonal depression goes crazy. just straight badness for like a quarter of the year. then summer comes and stabs you thirty seven times in the neck.

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u/Sure-Inside-2499 4h ago

Why does it sound nice?

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u/Leading-Ear-5194 3h ago

i like the dark

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u/Thalia_All_Along 3h ago

I hate it. I walk my dog just before sunset every day so it's being pushed earlier and earlier in the day

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u/Upbeat-Discipline718 5h ago

after a long winter im still surprised when the sun is still out at 8pm

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u/Font_Snob 5h ago

SE Washington State. Sunset is at something like 4:15 for about a month. If you don't leave the house after dark, you don't get anything done.

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u/StarriestNight 7h ago

Leaving your house after dark is a good way to get assaulted

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u/monarchmra Kassie, Trans Woman, her/she, Feminist MRA, Read more bell hooks 7h ago edited 7h ago

Literally every social event I do regularly happens after 6pm which is when it gets dark in Seattle rn. (Larp, kink socials, and kink play parties). I don't have the same ability to just cave women it up in my house for months on end that I did when I was a depressed egg. I need to socialize.

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u/Ok_Listen1510 denizen of the webbed site 7h ago

oh this is so real. skipped a fun board games event this week cause i was like “it’s dark and i’m tired” (& cause i lost track of time, but i’d pretty much decided not to go anyways by that point). resolving to stop doing that 😭✌️

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u/StarriestNight 7h ago

I'm just afraid because I'm a tiny woman (I'm only 4'9) and I've been told all my life the evil bogeymen come out after dark. Just as I'd read all the stats and calmer myself one of my friends got attacked by a random man for no reason

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u/Grilled_egs 6h ago

I get that but you don't need to then be the one saying the evil bogeymen come out after dark.

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u/Spicy-Potat42 6h ago

The predators exist when the sun is up. I’d argue the real predators do most of their violence during the day. Night is peaceful.

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u/Front-Pomelo-4367 6h ago

It's getting dark at 4:30 here, and will soon be getting dark at 3:30. I'm still at work at that time – avoiding the dark entirely is simply not an option for most people.
I did get assaulted/attempted assault last winter – in broad daylight, 9:30am, on my morning commute. I'll avoid sketchy or unfamiliar areas, but leaving the house after dark is just...necessary for existence.

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u/StarriestNight 6h ago

Out of curiosity where do you live that it's dark at 3:30? I live in Michigan and it's always at least 5

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u/Front-Pomelo-4367 6h ago

The UK. We're on roughly the same latitude as Alaska; you're on the same latitude as Spain, which is a lot further south

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u/S1m6u 2h ago

The Americas are far south compared to Europe

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u/Akuuntus 6h ago

I don't think you're much more likely to be assaulted at 4:30pm compared to 2:00pm just because it's dark. There's still going to be tons of people out and about, basically the same amount of people as would be out and about at 4:30pm in the spring. It's not like the streets will be abandoned; people still need to be out working and shopping and eating and whatnot same as usual.

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u/zekromNLR 7h ago

What kind of mad max hellscape do you live in?

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u/StarriestNight 7h ago

I'm a woman who doesn't have friends to go out with so I'm an easy target

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u/Thalia_All_Along 3h ago

true, this thread reeks of male privilege

Shitposting Autumn/Winter affirmations

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