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Hi! Mike here, this is my personal/reblog blog, my artblog is @bluejaypace. I also run a webcomic at @reversedcomic.

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i just astral projected back to 2009

[warriormale]

Im curous, whats your thoughts on Toxic Masculenity

Toxic Masculinity is Manliness as defined by the Consumer Culture, ourdominant culture, which is measured by the accumulation of possessions. If you’re a Man, the more possessions you have, the more Manly you are. If you have the rightclothes, car, house(s) partner, body (in most cases steroid based) and bankaccount, then you’re Manly. Also its very important to “appear” Manly so havinga huge muscular body and expensive clothes is how you need to look. Allthis make a Man self absorbed, thinking only about how he looks and what heowns. The Martial Culture, the culture of the fight gyms, proposes thatManliness is the ability and willingness to fight. It has nothing to do withwhat a Man owns or looks. Fighting produces and nurtures Manliness whichincludes fight skills, a trained and conditioned body and most importantly theMoral Virtues of Humility, Integrity, Selflessness, Self Control and alwaysshowing Respect. This is directly at odds with Toxic Masculinity and the Consumer Culture. I hope thisexplanation helped.

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Focus on what you can do rather than what you can’t. Small steps turn into miles.

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When time stands still.

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My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

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I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs her “10″ there, and so is like, well, I’m conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors don’t take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)

So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale of “nothing” to “how I’d imagine it’d feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fire”. 

I hate reposting stuff, but I’ll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, here’s a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I can’t embed images in a chat or an ask. 

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This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.

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Pain Scale transcription:

10 - I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.

9 - My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.

8 - My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.

7 - I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.

6 - I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.

5 - I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.

4 - I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.

3 - My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.

2 - I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.

1 - My pain is hardly noticeable.

0 - I have no pain.

[airagorncharda]

It’s also really important to get this kind of scale to people who have chronic pain, because chronic pain drastically lowers your perception of how “bad” any kind of pain actually is, and yet something like this pain scale is extremely user friendly. 

For example, if someone asked me how much pain I’m in at any given time, I’d say hardly any, and yet I’m apparently at a chronic 2.5, and it only goes up from there depending on the day. 

There’s also a similarly useful “Fatigue Scale”

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I haven’t been below a 5 on this scale for 4 years 

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Here’s the fatigue scale

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more artfite stuff i did, this one was for shrillard! 

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Ghost quarter

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PSA

y’all

need

to

read

Shimanami Tasogare

It is an amazing manga with an almost entirely LGBT+ cast and talks a lot about gender identity, sexuality and troubles faced by those within the LGBT+ community (especially for younger members). Also it is fucking BEAUTIFUL.

Kamatani Yuuki’s use of imagery and visual metaphors never fails to take my breath away.

Please just read the damn manga.

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Things like indie games and crowdfunding have seemed to open up new paths into the industry besides the traditional 'work your way up from the bottom' model, but a lot of people have failed miserably and even literally ruined their lives trying to take these new paths. Would you recommend them to anyone, and if so, what advice do you have? And do you find that fewer people are taking the traditional paths because of how attractive the new indie paths look?

One of the most valuable resources when performing any large task is experience. Experience tells you what is easy and what is hard. It informs you of how long things will take. It predicts potential problems and pitfalls so that you can avoid them instead of dealing with the consequences. Experience is super valuable partially because there is little in the way of shortcuts to obtaining it. We earn experience by trying things, failing, and learning from our mistakes. If we’re lucky, we have mentors on hand to guide us with their experience. But there’s no easy way to bypass its necessity.

Whether somebody earns their experience through doing things in the traditional way (i.e. working your way up from the bottom) or non-traditional means (jumping into indie development) doesn’t matter, because there is little in the way of shortcuts to experience other than trying, failing, and learning from mistakes. Whichever path you take, success will still require the same general skills and experience. There’s a huge difference in attitude and understanding between a new hire first-job game dev and one that’s worked in the industry for a year because the yearling has for sure seen some shit before that year is through. 

This means that trying to jump ahead (via crowdfunding, angel investors, venture capitalist money, etc.) without sufficient experience will result in a lot of mistakes being made. Sometimes the project manages to recover from those mistakes and reach the finish line. Sometimes it does not. Many fans and armchair devs didn’t realize just how much they didn’t know about game dev until they were on the hook for tens of thousands of crowdfunded dollars and unable to deliver. 

In my experience, most people who aren’t experienced in game dev often suffer from the [Dunning-Kruger effect] - they overestimate their own ability and underestimate the difficulty of the project because they lack the context to make an accurate judgement. There are all sorts of extremely important issues they just hadn’t thought about when considering their awesome game idea. While it isn’t impossible to succeed with a crowd-funded project without experienced developer leadership, it’s certainly much more difficult. With regards to your question, I would say that it doesn’t matter which path people choose as long as they earn the experience along the way.

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more people should talk about dan reynolds

in case you dont know who that is hes the lead singer of imagine dragons and an amazingly outspoken lgbt ally who specifically focuses on trying to help lgbt youth and i never see anyone on tumblr mention him or the work he does.

dan reynolds was raised mormon and in 2012 the first major imagine dragons single “its time” was on glee, and he started receiving letters from gay fans saying that they loved him and his music but that he probably didnt accept them because he was a mormon. he says that this broke his heart and he knew he had to do something.

not only is he really vocal about lgbt support and issues (which is more than i can say about a lot of people in the spotlight like he is) he created the loveloud foundation last year which is dedicated to supporting and helping lgbt teens and educate people about the things they go through, aiming to lower the rates of suicide, mental illness, drug use, etc.

the foundation puts on the annual loveloud festival in salt lake city, and the second one happened this past july. its an all-day music event that donates all of its profit to lgbt organizations (actually good ones, not shitty fake ones) and this year they raised ONE MILLION DOLLARS in one day.

but he and the people in charge of the festival actually GIVE A SHIT. a trans woman was harassed at the festival when she tried to use the restroom, being told she was in the wrong bathroom, and the loveloud festival not only immediately acknowledged it they ENCOURAGED other people to share any unpleasant experiences they had at the festival so they could reevaluate and figure out how to do better next year.

heres his speech from this year’s loveloud:

“…i wish you could understand… i wish you could see how much we care about you, how much we love you, how much we support you, how much we stand with you. i hope that tonight, and today, you know… you know that your sexuality is pure, and its true, and its clean. i hope that you know you are needed; we need you. i dont wanna hear any more stories of youth taking their lives in utah. we must change our culture. we must change the way we see each other. i know this culture! i know these people! i was raised in this world. i know it. i understand religion. i identify with the beautiful aspects of how i was raised. i cherish many of those things today as part of my life, but one thing that will not be part of my life, ‘cause it does not align with my heart, is to tell someone how to love, and who to love. it’s the most simple concept! its the first thing we’re taught! from a young age! all my girls [he has three daughters] know it. they come out of the womb, and they know, you love. you dont tell someone how to love; you just love. let… love and let love, thats it.

i accept you, i see you, i stand with you, i fight with you. til the end, i will fight with you. i love you all.”

i think allies could learn from him and the way he talks about being gay. its not just okay, its pure. its true. its clean. its perfect. specifically addressing the way gay love and sexuality is demonized and slandered.

idk. i just love dan reynolds and i think more people need to know about what he does.

[hopefulartandwriting]

I’m so glad you made this post! Dan and his producers have also said that the LoveLoud festival will happen every year until the Mormon church changes it’s views on homosexuality. It is worth mentioning that Utah has one of the highest (if not THE highest) rate of suicide in the nation, mostly by teens in the Mormon church.

Hoping to counter deadly trend, Utah officials confirm 425 suicides so far in 2017

Utahns continue to die by suicide at an alarming pace, state education and health officials said Tuesday in a joint effort to highlight the

Another major contributor to the LoveLoud festival is Tyler Glenn, the lead singer of Neon Trees, who has since been excommunicated by the church when he came out as gay. Excommunication is actually the name of his AMAZING solo album about his experience with the church.

As someone who is married to an ex-mormon, I’ve learned a lot about some of the horrible things the organization has been doing for decades. Here’s a source if you need it:

CES Letter - My Search for Answers to my Mormon Doubts

Letter to a CES Director - Questions and Concerns About Mormonism.