What Makes You Different Makes You Strong

@babyyagas

Not straight, not cis, and legally classified as a problem. System host, tabletop enthusiast, writer, and anarchist witch with a flair for the dramatic and the dead. This blog will be political sometimes and I will not apologize. Links available if you hover over the top bar. Tarot Readings: Open

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gentleaffirmations

Even if you were a difficult child, you didn't deserve to be hurt.

gentleaffirmations

I hope this message reaches all the neurodiverse and disabled people who were made to feel like their abuse was justified because they had "behaviors".

While this message is true for every child, you are who I had in mind when I wrote it.

lairis-invertedperspective

another movement drawing practice with dancing Fabian and Mazey

juniperseph

neurodivergent and queer people how are we feeling?

emiuli

No grave can hold my body down, I'll crawl home to her.

zacsoyama

to summarize: it’s bi visibility day. gender is cascading. someone needs to call 911

no context stills:

aye-of-newt

guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.

and I think about it every day.

nerdfromtheburgh

saw this on twitter and though tumblr folks would appreciate it

edit: realized I forgot to add alt text to the image! updated now. i don't have much experience with alt text so if I inadvertently made it harder for a screen reader let me know and I'll try to fix it!

trailmixlover

Glimmer/Glimmadora edit

@glimmah

moringmark

kedreeva

I offered to come check on my friend's animals while she's away for the long weekend

She thinks I'm joking

But I'm ready

eunyisadoran

Wait. Are there 200, but to be numbered 1-250? Did I read those tags right? 😲

kedreeva

Yes there are actually 202 of them, the company sent 2 extra in the package, and I will be numbering them on the bottom with sharpie marker 1-250. This will ensure even if she manages to find all 202, she will never truly stop feeling like there might be a tiny duck somewhere unknown in the house. Lurking. Waiting to appear at the strangest time.

talesfromtreatment

#sometimes you must be gently evil to your friends#so they know you love them enough

very very important

bogleech

If you're autistic and/or adhd and have difficulty getting to work on something imagine that the task is capable of having hurt feelings and by putting it off you are making it feel like you hate it even though it loves you so much and really looks up to you. There you go! Now this new outlook will help you feel monumentally more stressed while you continue to not do those things

bogleech

"what did we do wrong? Didn't we do a good job? Are we in trouble 😢" - dirty dishes in the sink I'll bet

tofumarinado

it's so funny to me when i see pearl-clutching articles about how "teenagers are diagnosing themselves with mental disorders via tiktok" because like. this is not happening in a vacuum. teenagers are severely and i mean severely medically neglected. i cannot stress this enough. teenagers do not have free access to medical care. those same news outlets would be clowning on women with housewife psychosis in the 1950's.

i sometimes go pale when listening to some of what my friends have gone through in their childhoods and teenagehoods. they talk about it so nonchalantly, things that would be considered straight up torture if done to an adult, can't fathom the effect this has on children. they are on multiple anti-psychotics and several antidepressants and anxiety meds now that they are adults. medical neglect has legally and effectively disabled them. a timely diagnosis and intervention could have saved them. of course teenagers are self-diagnosing using tiktok. if your knee-jerk reaction is to scoff at the idea and dismiss it as dumb teenager shit instead of being radicalized because the best shot young people have at attaining the mental health support they need is a fucking dancing videos app, you're categorically a political enemy of the youth.

genderkoolaid

i don't know what autistic person needs to hear this but they are not watching you. the entire world is not constantly waiting for you to do something weird and laugh at you behind your back. you do not need to constantly self-police whenever there's the slightest chance another person might see you. you have a right to be your autistic self in public spaces. stop fighting yourself for their sake.

#hey ash thanks for putting this on my dashboard i needed it

slow-drowned-angels

“Do it scared” but please realize that, if you Do It Scared too much and don’t let yourself rest + relax + have fun in between, you will fuck yourself up. If you “do it scared” all day every day, you will burn out badly and quickly. Sometimes this is temporarily necessary but please keep this in mind.