REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISM

Am I punk? I guess. Am I a hippie? Maybe? I dunno. I just want to be kind, and I like Hopepunk and Hopecore a lot so there's that. Additionally, I use She/her pronouns and am a(n) AroAce/Singlet/Vietnamese. Btw, link to my AO3 in the pinned post. Also, yes, I just changed my URL again lol

[atinybitofhopepunk]

¤ DNI: TERFS, SWERFS, HOMOPHOBES, TRANSPHOBES, RACISTS, PEDOPHILES/MAPS, RADQUEERS, FATPHOBES, MISOGYNISTS, ABLEIST, 18+/NSFW BLOGS.

☆ Some stuffs about me:

- You can call me Sangfroid (name from a quotev quiz btw).

- I'm a Vietnamese cis woman.

- I'm a singlet.

- I'm AroAce (romance-repulsed and sex-repulsed + Aegoaroace (I enjoy and am more comfortable reading and writing romance than sexual stuffs though)).

- I spelled Aegoaroace correctly right????

- I use she/her, but I don't really mind being refer to with any other Pronouns (including Neos). I just don't care enough about the english language lol.

- If you do send me anything, pls keep it sfw.

- I'm a beginner writer and sometimes I draw.

- I can speak Vietnamese, English and a tiny bit of Basic French.

- Additionally, I like reading and writing yuri.

☆ About my weird orginal worldbuilding project/magical girls story:

I'll update this section more when I finally sit down and start actually writing lol :)

Also, I have an AO3

[atinybitofhopepunk]

New fic!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/86537796

I'm expanding my reach outside of pmmm fics now >:)

[i-am-a-fish]

I hope you get your favorite food this week and your favorite drink and your favorite 2k dollars

[i-am-a-fish]

I'm sorry there's no magic in this post I'm just talking. I hope good stuff happens to people online I hope good things happen to all of us

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.

[depsidase]

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[homunculus-argument]

You ever think about how old people have no idea what “survivor bias” is, and take full credit for being excellent out of things where they lucked out?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of these childhood protective things, we were smart enough not to do stupid shit on our own!” Except your little neighbour, who got the funniest idea at the age of seven, and got his skull pierced when he slipped?

“Back in my day nobody got divorced, we stuck together and fixed our problems!” What about your cousin, who was slowly killed by her husband because she had nowhere to escape him?

“Back in my day nobody had ‘mental problems’, we didn’t whine, we just toughed it out and endured life!” Hey remember that guy you used to work with, who seemed really friendly and normal, and then suddenly hanged himself ‘for no reason’?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of this ‘gay’ or ‘transgender’ thing.” You did, but your family cut all ties with her before you were born.

 You kinda start seeing it in everything they think, if you start looking for it.

[thegrimzuera]

“When we were kids nobody whined about car seats or bike helmets. We didn’t use them, and we all survived!”

Yeah, except for the ones who didn’t.

[loveridden1999]

[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!

[atinybitofhopepunk]

(June 7th 2026) I watch the TADC finale in theater (with my sister)

It certainly was an experience (positive). On a side note, I have not seen any TADC episodes since the fast food one until now.

[faustique]

i love friendships that influence me to be kinder, smarter and healthier. i love when people have a positive impact on me.

[3liza]

i have a psychological hot take that I'm not very serious about and it is that Internal Family Systems and the pop therapy framework of treating yourself as a second person in some sort of bicameral personality splitting is going to be looked back upon as shocking, funny, and regressive in 20 years. and I'll still be posting on this horrible website about it to say "I told you so" when it happens

[3liza]

“Dick Schwartz [founder of IFS] started calling them ‘critters’ a long time ago,” Falconer tells me. “They had a staff meeting at one point, and changed the name to Unattached Burdens, because it makes it sound a little more academically acceptable. This idea is like the third rail, and Dick’s terrified it’s going to destroy the reputation of IFS. But I thought it was so important that I wouldn’t shut up about it. It led to me being exiled from the IFS community for a while. Finally [Schwartz] came around and wrote the foreword to my book, and now they’re talking about it in Level 1 training.” [...] A core IFS dogma is “there are no bad parts.” But it turns out this is not entirely true. There are some parts that are not part of your Self. On the positive side, there are the “guides,” or angelic beings. And there are Unattached Burdens, UBs, or what are traditionally known as “djinns” or “demons.” As Falconer said, UBs have been a bit of an IFS secret, only taught in Level 3 training until recently. But a year ago, he published his book about UBs, with a foreword by Dick Schwartz and praise from other leading IFS therapists. This book has been pretty influential in IFS, underground psychedelic culture (where Falconer is active), and the wider New Age / spiritual culture. (He was interviewed on the Emerge podcast and the Stoa has launched a talk series dedicated to the topic.) Demonic entities are having a moment. 

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reportedly, many IFS therapists are now routinely informing patients that they are possessed by demons lol

Here’s another client who emailed me: “I’ve been seeing my psychologist who specializes in trauma therapy for about 10 months now. I made it clear that I was not interested in anything spiritual because I had a lot of that pressed on me, and I wanted to set my boundaries…After our meeting on Tuesday, when I discussed a very frightening embodiment of what I would call the abyss, or death, which I felt had its sights set on me….she told me she thought I had an unattached burden. At first, I was interested, thinking it was some kind of trauma thing, and then my heart sank. And then I got really pissed off. I have suffered from delusions in the past, she knows that. I have experienced psychosis in the past. I have been expressing very suicidal thoughts, and I’m in one of the most vulnerable times of my life, certainly of my adult life. I feel disrespected, but more than anything, I feel, honestly, it’s kind of disgusted with the fact that she could say something so irresponsible to somebody in my situation.” IFS therapists can dismiss all these examples as “bad IFS,” but it seems there is clearly a risk of IFS therapists and coaches suggesting or imposing the idea of a UB, and clients finding it harmful — even more so if they’re working with clients taking psychedelics, which amplify suggestibility. In his book, one observer even tells Falconer it looks like he’s making hypnotic suggestions: “Participant 1: [Falconer], it seems like you implanted a lot of little suggestions, almost like a hypnotist. Falconer: Well, there is a general principle here. These things are often full of pride, and you can use their pride to manipulate them. “ In other words, Falconer thinks he is hypnotically manipulating the UB rather than the client… I emailed the IFS Institute to ask if they wanted to comment on these issues, but didn’t hear back.

this is basically scientology. i called it, btw. i intuited immediately there was something decidedly unchic going on here

[directactionforhope]

Holy shit????

I had already put IFS on my mental list of "therapies I do not recommend people look into anymore" (I'm an editor specializing in psychology and mental health books, and I have worked in mental health in the past), specifically because I think the idea that you should view the different "parts" of yourself as a "family system" that helps you live in the world and navigate it effectively and as a person is.............

A blatantly terrible idea for a modality of trauma therapy, mostly.

Such a huge portion of people with trauma - especially severe, complex, and/or developmental trauma - have family as a major source of trauma. So the idea of "ah our revolutionary trauma modality helps people by making them compare all the different parts of themselves as family members!" sounds massively, massively counterproductive and retraumatizing for a lot of people.

But this is unethical and counterproductive and harmful on a whole new entire order of magnitude.

This is especially alarming in the context of how IFS says people's brains work:

From the description of IFS founder Dick Schwartz's book No Bad Parts:

Is there just one “you”? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz’s research now challenges this “mono-mind” theory. “All of us are born with many sub-minds―or parts,” says Dr. Schwartz. “These parts are not imaginary or symbolic. They are individuals who exist as an internal family within us...”

Sooo that sure sounds like an efficient way to make your trauma clients dissociate from themselves MORE and view themselves as a functional and independent person LESS, imho. And I really, really don't like how it looks in combination with the articles and info in prev.

Aslso, peaking of "this is basically Scientology," gotta say, the part where historically they didn't mention an Entire Category of their system (UBs), which actually breaks their beginner definition of IFS by its actual text, sure sounds like "Insider vs. Outsider Doctrine" aka an informational practice literally considered a cult tactic.

Thanks for posting, OP, this is super important and I'm super glad to know about this.

[hollowboobtheory]

i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job

[hollowboobtheory]

listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. i don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion

[potsiefaerie]

Get peer reviewed:

[jv]

This is not just serious illness.

It’s any illness.

No one should be forced to work if they have the flu, or even a cold.

[the-haiku-bot]

No one should be forced

to work if they have the flu,

or even a cold.

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

[codexnuminous]

OK actually i am officially declaring it to be gay furry pride month on codexnuminous dot tumblr dot com. everyone who follows me needs to report to my inbox to recieve their government-assigned fursona. it's mandatory (unless you already have a fursona, in which case.... happy pride 🏳️‍🌈)

[potsiefaerie]

Who is Prev: High Fantasy Edition

your illustrious liege lord/lady/gentle

a noble of the court

a wizard/sorcerer/magical advisor to the court

a knight or soldier

a wandering bard/minstrel or else a court jester

a hedgewitch/cunning person of the woods

a mysterious stranger or masked rogue or some such

a peasant or merchant or shopkeeper or some type

a fairy or elf or nymph or sprite or some such

a goblin or dwarf or giant or troll or some such

a centaur or mermaid or anyone both human and beast, or capable of shapeshifting

a dragon or other mythical beast or else some kind of talking animal

Voting ended onJun 7

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[cranberry-branflakes]

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Voting ended onJun 8

when reblogging, please add the pride tags I've included! if not, anybody liking your reblog will only see regular tumblr hearts :)

[atinybitofhopepunk]

Happy Pride Month!

This is a new wallpaper I made for Pride month this year, with the same method I use to made all my other wallpapers (a.k.a putting random pinterest image together and hope it works lol). Definitely work very well as a tumblr banner too.