Art is the Weapon, Against Life as a Symptom

Alysen, 28

[inbabylontheywept]

in the effort of sparing you guys from a literal tidal wave of fallout new vegas posting i have been adding them to my queue. so. be prepared for several days of heavy fallout new vegas rains. as opposed to one deluge. thank you for your patience.

[acewolf456]

Oh, that’s like the wind resistance rain thing! Without wind resistance rain would just come down as a bigass sheet of water and fuck shit up! You added wind resistance to your blog!

[inbabylontheywept]

i added wind resistance to my blog!

[shamebats]

For context: Jonis Josef is a famous Norwegian comedian.

[brightlotusmoon]

[fruitgushers]

a dead scene kid is trying to contact me through captcha

[wholesome-animal-images]

@wholesome-animal-images

[lydiogames]

[lydiogames]

this reply made me laugh harder than any reply I think I've ever gotten

[blogfeind]

[unyieldingsilence]

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[lydiogames]

I never use Tumblr anymore but literally everyday that I login this has new interaction

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[notsoprettylankydetective]

@shittysawtraps

[shittysawtraps]

jigsaw apprentice here! this is actually a common misconception. the blades on the wheel actually cause you to be a better driver, because you’ll be more careful driving if you’re worried about hurting yourself. additionally, you’ll also learn a valuable moral lesson about that thing you did that one time. you know the one. happy driving!

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[gobusto]

saw someone mix up "abysmal" and "abyssal" today, so as a reminder:

her skills are abysmal = she is unskilled

her skills are abyssal = her abilities draw upon the forbidden power of the dark void

[hydrahowl]

i bite you?

Owwww

[raptorgirlfeathers]

i bite you?

[hydrahowl]

it Hurts

[raptorgirlfeathers]

i bite you?

[hydrahowl]

[raptorgirlfeathers]

i bite you?

[hydrahowl]

[raptorgirlfeathers]

i bite you?

[hydrahowl]

[raptorgirlfeathers]

i b. actually that looks pretty bad. i put a bandages on it

[hydrahowl]

[librarycards]

wild how this is a website full of people whose childhood “friends” only kept them around as irl lolcows, on-call therapists, and emotional punching bags. I’m sure this has done no damage to our collective online landscape whatsoever

[herainsorcia]

[fox-bright]

That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes

[grahamkennedy]

[peoplegettingkindamadatfood]

[crtter]

This pizza was made over here in Brazil and I’m happy to inform everyone that the method they used to get the toppings over the whole dough evenly is just slightly less funny than what the last poster in the thread suggested:

They hovered a guy over it using a crane and maneuvered him around by pushing him with a pole.

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

HELPPPPP

[charlesoberonn]

Reminds me of Jason Kander, former Missouri Secretary of State. When he went to the VA hospital to treat his PTSD, he told the nurse that Obama told him he should run for president, and she thought he was delusional.

[charlesoberonn]

Correction: It was worse. She asked him how long he's been hearing voices.

[therapyhorrorstories]

I think I'm gonna make this my go-to story. It's not the worst I've ever heard, which is an asset because people won't believe you if you tell them the actual bad stuff those people do. And it just perfectly sums up the casual arrogance everyone working in mental health seems to have. The way they treat you as inherently Lesser for being in their care.

[therapyhorrorstories]

If they can't even handle basic, easily verified shit like "I'm a lawyer" they are never going to believe you when you tell them that you know how to manage a condition you've been dealing with for decades better than they can or will.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

And then there's Alexander Morris, who was put in a straitjacket, called racial slurs, and denied treatment for his potentially life-threatening heart condition when he told them he was the lead singer of the band he was lead singer of.

Four Tops singer sues hospital alleging racial discrimination after he says he was placed in a ‘restraining jacket’ | CNN

The lead singer of the Motown group the Four Tops has filed a federal lawsuit against Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital in Warren, Michigan,

[plum-soup]

There are multiple parts of that article that are Jae droppingly awful but this one really gets me:

They almost let this man die in a straight jacket simply because they were too racist. And then when they realize their "mistake", they tell him that his life is worth a 25$ supermarket gift card. Of course he's suing them for $75,000 as he should but like. Can you imagine how insulted he must've been. The 4 Tops were one of the top Motown bands of all time. You can be at the top of the music scene and still, they'll kill you because you're black. And they'll use fake claims about mental illness and "aggression" to justify it

[genderkoolaid]

& to be clear: none of this is good for anyone. actually delusional people, people who actually hear voices or see things, do not deserve to be treated like this. there is nothing about a person harmlessly believing something fantastical (or which sounds fantastical to you) that requires you to put them in a straightjacket and drug them or deny them necessary drugs. Black mentally ill people do not deserve to be tortured and murdered in a hospital for being Black and mentally ill.

this kind of system is a weapon which can be pointed at anyone. in order to prevent shit like this from happening, we also need to deconstruct how we view mentally ill people, including people who are delusional and hallucinate, and what we view as "reasonable" or "necessary" when it comes to such people.

[doberbutts]

Black people- including famous black people- have been arrested for "breaking and entering" their own homes due to a neighbor witnessing them unlocking their own house door with their own house key and calling the cops. College professors, celebrities, politicians, and everyday people such as my own father.

It's common enough that young black kids are told to keep any identifying information on them at all times just in case someone reports a black kid breaking and entering by walking into the house they've lived at since they were born. Because that has happened.

When you add mental illness and the healthcare industry into the mix, things only get worse from there. To be clear, you don't need to be black or mentally ill to be treated poorly by a doctor or nurse that's decided they know you better than you do. But it sure doesn't make things easier.

And people have died as a result- or have we already forgotten the death of Adriana Smith who went to THE HOSPITAL SHE WORKED AT AS A NURSE reporting severe headaches and was dismissed as exaggerating and imagining the severity, only to be declared brain dead upon arrival less than 24 hours later and artificially kept alive to force her dead body to carry her baby to term- which couldn't even happen and they had to remove him via C-section anyway.

These are related problems. And until we fix the root cause, they will keep happening.

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[cikero]

people begging for all clothes to be made of cotton and linen when they don’t own an iron and throw everything in the washing machine and dryer on max heat