It's about damn time

Sideblog for mental health related stuff

[acrowsthorns]

Greetings mortals.

This is a ✨mental health✨ sideblog.

This means that certain triggering topics may be discussed.

As always, stay safe. I will tag everything that might appear in a post. And it is your job to simply not follow me if you would rather not see my content. Tumblr is your experience. Curate it.

That is all. Have a nice day.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Artists switching seamlessly back and forth between "you don't need AI because everyone has the ability to create art, it's an inherent part of the human experience" and "if you defend AI it's because you're a soulless husk who doesn't have a creative bone in their body"

[captainjonnitkessler]

I'm also increasingly sick of artists and authors who clearly think that a) only ~official~ artists have any valuable to say about art and b) artists and authors are the only ~official~ artists.

Sorry to the woodworkers and fiber crafters and leatherworkers and musicians and metalsmiths and jewelry designers and candle makers but it turns out none of you are real artists. You've never created art. You could never understand what it's like to create art. It doesn't matter that all of your industries have already gone through automation and have been largely relegated to hobbies instead of viable careers. Only people who publish books or post digital art on Twitter are actually artists (and are therefore the only people we should care about or listen to).

[captainjonnitkessler]

"If you're not an artist you could never understand what it feels like to see people claiming they can do your work with a soulless machine" is something that could only be said by someone who has never witnessed r/woodworking devolve into a full-blown flame war until the mods shut it down because someone posted a project they made with a CNC machine. Or used pocket screws instead of hand-carved dovetails. Or used a colored stain on pine instead of using real walnut with a natural sealant.

The point here is that we could all be petty gatekeepers about what counts as real art but it's fucking stupid and annoying so we shouldn't do that.

[bloodonmybarbieshirt]

Local Charlotte trans woman needs help to get out of jail after ICE assaulted her, trapped her, and hunted her down.

Get a trans woman out of federal prison. They assaulted her, trapped her, and arrested her for fleeing from their assault. They're not releasing footage, they know their story is bullshit. Any bit helps

[bloodonmybarbieshirt]

[thegreatyin]

wait, WHAT happened on the wiki precisely?

to cut a long story short; the hollow knight wiki has decided to replace the pronouns of pretty much every single canonically nonbinary character in silksong (and i do mean nonbinary as in they are literally textually referred to with they/them in-game) with either she/her or he/him. this decision is based on secondhand reports from an unnamed translator who supposedly has access to the design document team cherry used to officially designate the gender of every character. it's important to note that

nobody besides the wiki admins knows who this translator is (or if they're even legally allowed to distribute this information)

nobody outside the wiki admins is able to verify this translator, or the existence of the list they're sourcing

the wiki admins continue to insist the translations used in this unpublished, unverified, and very likely actively illegal list take significant priority over what's directly stated multiple times in the published game

the wiki admins refuse to explain why they believe any of this nonsense, or why they thought this was a good idea to begin with

this pronoun fuckery has not happened with any other character. only the members of the cast who explicitly go by they/them have had their pages changed to use different pronouns according to the admin's obviously comically dubious sources.

many people, including myself, have attempted to voice our complaints to the admins for some time now. they have yet to reverse the changes, or apologize for pulling any of this bullshit.

if you want even more context, you can see their official ""explanation"" here. that link also includes a very excellent reblog with screenshots proving exactly why the wiki administrative team is full of shit. the notes go into even further detail on the matter.

[thegreatyin]

not now pornbot we gotta beef with transphobic wiki admins

[good--merits-accumulated]

collection of some of my favourite derek guy (dieworkwear on twitter/the menswear guy) tweets

[bigbigbigtruck]

"I list watches; you're on a watchlist" was my favorite

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage: Redemption 1x1- "The Too Many Rembrandts Job"

[his-dark-memerials-deactivated2]

He doesn’t even know, and he doesn’t want to.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I don't go here but I feel like "It's a metaphor. Don't force it to do the work of a fact." is a great statement about literature and fan-content in general.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Not everything that makes you uncomfortable is actually causing you harm

[alphagodith]

and not everything that causes you harm will be unpleasant at the time

[sorryicouldntsayitbeforejune]

I want to lie on your chest and listen to your heartbeat while you play with my hair and tell me everything’s gonna be alright

[depsidase]

[igottatho-deactivated20250417]

It was said by Resmaa Menakem, and the full quote is: “Trauma decontextualized in a person can look like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family can look like family traits. Trauma in a people can look like culture.”

This quote was taken from a podcast interview which Menakem participated in, which you can find here.

I highly recommend “My Grandmother’s Hands” for more of his thoughtful and nuanced words.

[cat-mermaid]

ooo ooo this feels like the same flavor of thing as that story about:

except that in the version i read, it was a guy asking the generations of women in a family why they cut off the ends, and the great grandma answered that it was because when she was young her family was so poor and didn't have a big enough oven to fit the entire ham in

the point was that often if you go back far enough, the origin of bizarre, backwards and even harmful traditions/rules of society were often the result of people in that time period making the best of what they had, not because they thought it was the "right" way

the family in this story now has a big enough oven to fit the whole ass ham but its tradition to cut off the ends, its just how its done and the crazy part is that two fucking generations removed don't even know why but they do it without questioning it because thats. how. we've. always. done. it.

so yeah i feel like this melds very nicely with the whole "Trauma in a people can look like culture" thing

[the-haiku-bot]

ooo ooo this feels like

the same flavor of thing as

that story about:

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

one time when I was really hecking tired i tried to phrase “i like steak and stuff on the rarer side when a restaurant or friend cooking for me permits that to happen” and it came out as “if left unattended I may eat raw beef” and i have no idea what PONG style antics my brain got up to to lead the train of thought down that disused rail line 

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

one of my fears is coming across this meme irl somewhere. like i make another set of queer oddball friends, as one is wont to do, and someone goes “well you know what they say, if left unattended…” and then I will have to evaporate from existence

[gryffinsvault]

The floor is a different plane of reality. Getting down on your hands and knees is the way to enter it. Crawling is how we traverse it.

It's a safer, smaller world.

[madambellepepper]

20k 10k notes and I come out as trans to my parents

One comment, one reblog, & one like per person.

(turned reblogs on cause I’m not an asshole)

(changed it to 10k cause I’m being realistic)

[bobwess]

[transfaabulous]

Like do you have any idea the kind of deals that any registered organization can have access to??

They can go directly to a supplier. a supplier with whom they have even made a prior agreement to get things for even cheaper.

The 99 cent can of whatever that's been sitting in your pantry? A food bank could get more than that of fresh food by several orders of magnitude for the same amount of money.

By all means, donate whatever preservable essentials you have! food, clothes, bedding, hygenic supplies, but don't buy new things with the money you are able to give: Give the money itself.

[positivelyqueer]

the phrase ‘this is my first time being alive’ has done wonders for me recently. Yeah, I don’t know how to navigate this situation! It’s brand new to me and I’m learning on the fly, aren’t humans such wonderfully adaptive creatures?

[plain-flavoured-english]

Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Thank you this is the first post about self love that hasn’t made me want to throw things

[rimonoroni]

teaching yourself how to deal with mildly annoying inconveniences is imo an essential part of treating the disabled people around you with compassion and no i'm not kidding

[rimonoroni]

sometimes you have to share a public space with someone who has loud verbal tics. sometimes a chronically ill friend will have to cancel plans because of a flare up even if you were really looking forward to hanging out with them. sometimes an autistic person will talk over you or interrupt you because they missed a particular cue. sometimes people who struggle to take care of themselves will smell bad. sometimes people with intellectual disabilities will need you to give them more detailed, patient instructions, even if it seems simple to you. sometimes you will need to give up your seat on the bus for a physically disabled person even if you don't want to move.

accommodating disabled people is not always easy or comfortable; being an ally means doing it anyway.