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Introduction Help, Empower, Affirm, and Love (H.E.A.L.) Purpose/Intent: Help, Empower, Affirm, and Love (H.E.A.L.) is a compilation of resources aimed to help support the needs of people in different aspects of mental health and different walks of life. Each resource contains a hyperlink, short...

Hi everyone! Back in the summer, I created a resource doc with a variety of resources for a variety of different issues and communities I could think of. I wanted to share this again because I want recognize how this time of year can be especially hard for a lot of folx and I think it is important that we help support one another! Please share this because you never know who may need it!

#mental health #support #resources #crisis #lgbtq #relationship #gender #poc #bipoc #latinx #black #native american #grief #eating disorder #self-harm #substance abuse #suicide #anxiety #covidー19

rylandsgrace

#just cancel season 8 already 😭

4utubing

OMGosh—I finally came across the one with the U-Haul…

How sad—but how amusingly cute that Ryan’s gotta lift himself up by his toes to settle his chin on Oli’s shoulder, for the hug.

🥹

penandinkprincess

ooooh, so we're not even a LITTLE bit gonna pretend it wasn't all a political stunt

inthemidstofbuddie

just. as a reminder.

vro0ms-evil-twin

The propaganda machine is working fine

fintan-pyren

academic who writes a paper and just puts "credit to original author :)" for all their citations

fintan-pyren

The WHOLE POINT of this post was that this would be a bad thing to do, so you shouldn't do it with art either. This is a PRO-CITATION post. Stop complaining about citations and saying that you wish you could get away with this.

speciose2

[Tweet from @/fozmeadows: "human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay"]

futureevilscientist

As a biologist, that is a fantastic comparison.

We talk about “fish” (which, cladistically, do not exist, there is no monophyletic group of “fish” that simultaneously includes all organisms we understand to be “fish”-like while also excluding, say, humans) because, despite the utter fiction that is fish, it’s still a useful label when we talk about certain features that “fish” tend to have in common.

Gender is absolutely the same way.

quasi-normalcy

Reject Essentialism, Embrace Nominalism

i think as adults it’s our responsibility to be nice to kids and treat them with the respect we wish we got at that age and im not kidding or exaggerating in the least

neuer-fruehling

padawanduck

thevibesbetterbeimmaculate

A white, openly queer main character shall be the fandoms favorite:

But you, their Mexican counterpart who has struggled with their sexuality and self-acceptance? You shall be mine:

atomictourists

There's this absolutely beautiful storyline in season 3 of 911 Lone Star where Carlos struggles with feeling insecure and jealous about TK's close relationship with his addiction recovery sponsor. It's a thoughtful study in how it's impossible to be all things to your romantic partner and the process of coming to terms with that.

There's one scene where TK explains why he needs his sponsor, not Carlos, in these situations; it's a tough conversation but at the end of it TK kisses the top of Carlos' head as if to say "we're in a rough patch but I still love you and I'm not going anywhere." The storyline concludes with Carlos calling TK's sponsor when he sees TK struggling and giving them space to talk through things.

It's so rare to find this in fiction, especially normie network television...this acknowledgement that even in a monogamous relationship, you can't expect to be all things to your partner, that deep connections with people outside your relationship is healthy and doesn't diminish your connection to your partner. And we get to see them have hard conversations about it! And come out the other side of those conversations stronger than before.

I dunno. It just felt very real, and of course both Rafael Silva and Ronen Rubinstein acted the hell out of it.

spritehouse

"pronouns are confusing" bro what in the fruit FUCK is going on between spencer reid and derek morgan

snarkylinda

No no, is quite simple you see:

-Spencer felt the need to put to memory Derek's heatrate, and this mf doesn't find that strange at the sightlest.

-Also after Spencer reveals there might be a God and he might had looked him at the eye when he died, Derek's response was literally"why didn't you tell me that? :("

-Derek's whole family, including his dead dad a d newborn son, knows Spencer by name AND quirks, also during this conversation, when dead dad compliment Spencer, Derek's only response is a sober "will I ever see him again?"

-Spencer was reciting an old proverb about soulmates that are together for a bazillion yearsto their newest friend, only to make it about Derek for some reason. Again- Derek isn't fazed by this shit at the sightlest.

-J.J, someone almost as young as Spencer, was almost mauled to death for rabid dogs and saw an woman ACTUALLY mauled by them- but fuck her apparently because pretty boy isn't safe (this is still so funny, specially because of what happened two seasons later lmao Amplification really said Karma is a bitch)

-Spencer who mostly stays at the station cause he is a sad Twink gave the most embarrasing tackle known to man to save Derek for the ass whooping of his life- this didn't work, Spencer was hit but that became Derek's motivation to clock this guy's ass with an telephone. Reminder- until this point, he was getting beaten- Spencer being hit ONCE gave him shonen superpowers.

-At the SAME FUCKING EPISODE Spencer felt the need to mention his co-worker well sculpted abs. Later that day, that same co-worker felt the need say (Spencer) had a pretty face.

-Again, Spencer who is an poor victorian Twink was able to run past trained agents while playing softball because Derek was waiting for him at the base. This all started because Spencer owned him a favor- and despite the fact they literally say each other more than their pets see them, Derek decided that that favor would be spending more time with him- alone.

-When Spencer was forced to confess the delicate state of his only family, despite the whole team hearing him, the camera felt the need to show an close up of Derek looking really really sad.

-Later that same evening, we had the longest hug in this stupid's show history. That thing lasted 2 minutes- and I know this was the season where one of them leaves so the line between the actors and the characters is blurred but this thing has a director and they didn't say fucking cut.

-Also also this scene ended with an pragmatic "I love you" that was downright spelled out 5 episodes later.

-The Angsty "someone is in mortal danger and the other person is behind a literally door glass helplessly staring at their sorrowful eyes" trope. What the fuck was that. The "someone wakes up at the Hospital and the other person is right besides them" Trope. At the same fucking episode. This literally do s nothing for the plot they literally just wanted to whump Spencer on Derek's face for the love to the game.

-Speaking of whump- both of this characters had a scene where they were getting loaded to an ambulance and the other is hovering over them hearing what could potentially be their last words (9x24 and 11x15 respectly), in the case of Spencer they had an WHOLE scene dedicated to it ON the ambulance- this time it wasn't purely for the love to the game since whatever Spencer said was relevant to the case- but is still really funny how they just REALLY love to have scenes of the camera focused at the fact that Derek is super super worried and hurt over the fact Spencer got hurt in front of him (again)

-This seems to be also acknowledged by other characters, as when Spencer was acting strange in Corazon, Hotch confronted Derek and asked him if Spencer was doing ok. Rossi did the exact same thing on Nelson Sparrow, Alex did it after Maeve's murder. Derek is just the one assigned to watch over Spencer cause the last time they didn't talk Spencer was doing heroin.

-Spencer seeming offended that Derek didn't want to share a room with him.

-Everyone was fucking weird about Spencer being on a relationship- but Derek felt the need to have an one to one with Spencer and for some reason confort him over the fact that even if they didn't talk much now cause adult life they will always be friends- seriously where did that even came from lmao Spencer has one secret and Derek suddenly feels they are drifting away forever.

-But Spencer is even weirder because ok- he has pre-fabric abandonment issues since he was born, is not weird he would react badly to Derek leaving his side- what is fucking weird and funny af is that after this man went to JAIL and they really really really try to convince us he is oh so jaded now- not even five minutes after meeting with Derek again, an serial killer mentions his name and he looks ready to cry. In ANOTHER instance before this ANOTHER serial killer clock his ass telling he has sad eyes and he downright says he grieving the lost of his friend. He can call him.

-But going back to Derek being the one to keep tabs on Spencer- now is not only for the other members benefit but for the audience benefit as Spencer hadn't been gone for a day but Derek felt the need to tell us Spencer is trying really hard to learn how to text just to tell him he misses the team and that his mom is doing ok. J.J was the one to tell him he should visit her mind you.

-Spencer isn't a big fan of touch with the exception of a emotionally charged hug/handhold/etc from his family in certain times- but he is very chill with Derek casually putting his arm around his shoulders in more than one ocassion for literally no reason.

-Reminder that these people spend most of their lives together cause of the job- on vacation Derek felt the need to drag Spencer with him and Elle. We don't see him extend this invitation to anyone else.

-Spencer wasn't really doing anything useful as Derek deactivated an bomb- so Derek tells him to step back. Spencer refused cause an world where Derek wasn't in wasn't a world worth living in.

-"I am sorry I can't stay by your side" "I just can't imagine that room without you"

-Spencer has a night terror, both in dream and irl he does nothing but yell for Derek to save him.

-Derek do math, Rossi makes a quip about Spencer, Derek smiles fondly to himself.

-SPENCER KNOWS HIS FUCKING HEART RATE-

They are friends :)

hotchnerbau

all of their impressions are spot on🤣

Oliver via Instagram ❤️

#oliver stark #911 show #911 abc #911 on abc #evan buck buckely #evan buckley #911 buck

pharma-serf

politijohn

Source

This entire article is worth the read. Fuck Gilead

tamale-papi

hey look at that he has a name

kendrysaneela

Okay so I wanna talk about Max’s relationship to queerness as we’ve seen on the show so far.

Starting with the gay quiz scene. Avery and Tristan show they are clearly willing to acknowledge queer culture and find a place in it even if they don’t yet identify as queer at this point in the show

Max is willing to acknowledge queer culture and respect it BUT he will only do so in the most manly of ways such as calling himself a jock and refusing Daddy that everyone else is calling him

I think this is illuminating since Avery and Tristan are both fully willing to continue with their throuple arrangement whereas Max was covering his face and refusing to even acknowledge it as a possibility.

I feel like this really plays into their throuple dynamics and how Avery and Tristan are fully into being a throuple (Avery is the most enthusiastic but Tristan also had no problem with being in a throuple before he was rejected by Max and shown by Avery that she was only really interested if it was the three of them)

And the thing about Max and queerness is he is seemingly no stranger to it he just represses it or hides it or rejects it every time it comes up somehow.

Then there’s the fact that he’s had a threesome before but refuses to talk about it.

We don’t know the genders of the people in that threesome but still. It’s interesting how Max had a threesome in the past and basically coaxes Tristan and Avery into asking about it.

Also Max is the one who brought Tristan and Avery back to his room AND Max just like Tristan and Avery put have a good threesome on his bucket list.

Not to mention him joining the threesome with very little convincing just one stare from Tristan, one stare from Avery and bro was on board. But then YET AGAIN he makes a pact for them to never speak of it again. I bet you the pact was Max’s idea.

His CLEAR crush on Ken whether he was aware of it or not. His flirty attitude towards Tristan in the pilot (probably not conscious but it was there)

He does these little forays into queerness and then immediately rears back. And we know as a person just from his general character he’s very repressed and we know that the whole reason he even came onto The Odyssey is for work life balance and for joy and new experiences like seeing the world. Adventure essentially is what he’s looking for. Life as he said. But yet he has to be pulled into adventure kicking and screaming every time. Avery and Tristan telling him the beach party was okay and having to convince him to go in the first place, Rosie and Corey trying to convince him to go to a party in episode 8. Once again the fact that even though he was CLEARLY on board with the threesome he still had to be coaxed into admitting it.

Cause here’s the thing about Max. He wants to broaden his horizons SO bad!!! But that takes work and effort and bravery and most importantly, NOT INTELLECTUALIZING YOUR EMOTIONS. (And as we saw from his reaction to Avery’s pregnancy he sees emotions as problems he needs to solve instead of things he needs to feel or examine) But Max is terrified of doing that. He wants to broaden his horizons but he’s terrified to do so. So he just does these little jumps in and out of his horizons where he’ll jump out for a second and then jump right back in. That’s why he did the threesome had fun with it and then essentially shoves himself right back into his little box and says that he doesn’t wanna do it again even though he literally acknowledges it was wonderful.

The reason Max is repressed is because he’s terrified of what he’ll find if he actually looks inward. But oh my goodness does he want to find out what’s inside of him so bad that’s why he does stuff like have a threesome with Avery and Tristan but break it off even though he enjoyed it. Actually does go to the parties and have fun at them and a bunch of the other random stuff he does. But every time he breaks out of his bubble just a little bit he panics and shoves himself back in again. He’s just not currently willing to do the work to learn what’s inside of him cause he’s afraid of what he’ll find. BUT HE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT HE’LL FIND SO BAD!!!