TFA Blurr in real life.

THIS IS NOT RP, I AM TFA BLURR. he/him. PFP art by me [PFP ID: A vibrant blue drawing of Blurr from transformers: animated in a side profile. BANNER ID: A gif of Blurr from transformers: animated dancing in front of a hue shifting background end ID]

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Literally Blurr IRL. [seriously]

PT: Literally Blurr IRL [seriously]

⚠️ This is not a RP blog

working to self improve, in therapy and will likely take/be in DBT

16yrs. Velocitronian speedsterqueer & aromantic mech, he/him. ENG/SWE. autistic, and maybe cluster B PDs. POC [Aramean & Khmer]

I draw, write and ramble. I'm also fictionkin and robotkin (specifically a Cybertronian) whoa. I’m also in the menhera subculture and will occasionally post stuff related to it.

TFA archive

VARIOUS MEDIA I ENJOY: transformers (esp tfa), no straight roads, vividlope, pink bitch club, sanrio (mainly mewkledreamy & beatcats), ultrakill, artiswitch, yunyun denpa syndrome, milky highway/milky subway

⚠️ The stances of others who interact with me do not indicate my own.

Pro palestine, congo, hawaii, puerto rico, sudan, etc.

I will block people who post content encouraging (irl or fictional) incest, child predation, beastiality and defiling of a corpse.

I dislike RQs, para discourse & shipcourse goofers yall are obnoxious and I’m too busy thinking about myself and my few equals to GAF about you.

I block for any reason & I will not justify my boundaries

thx @/hollowsys and @/graphics-by-stryke for certain graphics & stamps used

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TW FOR THEMES OF SUICIDE AND SELF HARM.

(Plaintext: TW FOR THEMES OF SUICIDE AND SELF HARM. )

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URGENT!! $1,400 NEEDED THIS WEEK TO SAVE A BABY!!

Chuffed link

Raneen, @a00h2, is my friend. She is trapped in Gaza, Palestine, with her family. She lost everything in the bombings and is now in poverty and homelessness. Her 1-year-old baby is in a respirator; he has very dangerous lung cancer. There is no treatment in Gaza that can save him. She needs to pay $1,400 more this week to get the baby out of Gaza, so he can receive proper treatment.

My friend doesn't have that money. She can't help him alone. Please, I beg of you, don't just reblog. Donate, whatever you can. $40, $20, $10, $5, whatever you can, it will all be useful. Thank you so much.

Her account is vetted by @90-ghost here, by @gazavetters (#576) , and by @bilal-salah0. This Chuffed fundraiser goes directly to her; for transparency, you can dm @a00h2 if you want to confirm it.

IMPORTANT!!: WHEN DONATING TO THE CHUFFED, PLEASE DO IT THROUGH PAYPAL, OTHER METHODS WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO ARRIVE.

PLEASE, HELP MY FRIENDS' BABY LIVE!!

$4,500/$5,900

ONLY $1,400 NEEDED!!

[bulbasauryeee]

happy pride month! an arab trans woman needs your (yes YOUR 🫵) help!!

(i know i’m late shhh)

the beginning is on the horizon

my dearest friend gwen is trying to escape her dangerously queerphobic country and family to move to canada, where she can go to college as well finally transition and live her life! however, she needs financial help!

it’s been over 2 months since she started her fundraiser and we’re still not a third of the way there. any amount helps! why not chip in a lil something?

here is where you can support her fundraiser directly as well as read her story:

Donate to Help an Arab Transfem Get to Safety, organized by Joseph McClung

Gwendolyne is an Arab autistic lesbian trans woman who unfortunately struggles with… Joseph McClung needs your support for Help an Arab Tran

alternatively, you can commission me. by doing so, your donation will be rewarded with an art piece of your choice! i offer some cool things give em a look. prices as low as 4 USD

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Commissions Open! Click to see ⊹₊⟡⋆ vee ⋆⟡₊⊹'s commission menu.

if you can’t donate, reblogging & sharing still goes a long long way!!

see my pinned for more

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wowowow another blurr art :D ayyayaayta

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I think it's crazy that in modern day queer culture your identity is starting to matter on your genitals rather than just what you feel. I'm sorry, I didn't know I required to have a certain part to be transmasc or transfem. I didn't know being born a certain gender automatically meant that you HAD to be one trans label, and you couldn't be anything else. Back in the day, we didn't do that weird bioessential shit. It's like some of these people don't even realize how much they're parroting TERF ideology. What, you wanna check my genitals to make sure I'm not "appropriating" a gender identity??? what about people who have gender-affirming surgeries? what about intersex people? what about what's in my pants doesn't fucking matter to my gender identity at ALL??? like I genuinely want to understand what these people think this is. They just sound like every conservative lawmaker ever wanting to peep on trans people and are obsessed with their genitals. It's none of their fucking business, nor should it dictate what I identify as.

I don't have much to add but yeah, nodding

[sockth]

Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay

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i cough really loud hey ive been busy making stupid videos for my tiktok but ive finally sat down and drawn blurr again :D

[jay-rayart]

FLY UPDATE: We’re officially 78% funded after just 7 hours.

Thank you to everyone who has backed, shared, commented, and believed in this story. Watching people rally around these characters has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

To celebrate, I wanted to highlight the incredible artists who created this epic piece of art, @awk3005_

I’ve been a fan of his work for years, so getting the chance to collaborate with him on FLY felt surreal. As a fellow Black artist with Ghanaian roots, his journey has always inspired me. Seeing him carve out his own path through art is a reminder of what’s possible when we bet on ourselves and our stories.

That’s why he was the perfect choice to draw the boys of FLY. This story is about discovering your power, and his work captures that feeling perfectly. Thank you so much @awk3005_ for creating this beautiful print for FLY.

We’re so close to the finish line. Let’s keep flying. BACK FLY on Kickstarter today!

FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

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donate to black trans groups

the following organizations accept donations via Venmo, PayPal or Cashapp:

Homeless Black Trans Women Fund: supports Black Trans women that live in Atlanta and are sex workers and/or homeless

Trans Justice Funding Project: supports grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people, focusing on organizing around racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, and incarceration

Trans(forming): membership-based organization led by trans men, intersex, gender non-conforming people of color, to provide resources and all around transitional support

Black Trans Men Inc.: the first national nonprofit social advocacy organization with a specific focus on empowering Black Transgender men by addressing multi-layered issues of injustice faced at the intersections of racial, sexual orientation, and gender identities

Kween Culture: provides programming towards social and cultural empowerment of transgender women of color

Heaux History Project: a documentary series and archival project exploring Black and Brown erotic labor history and the fight for sex workers’ rights

Tournament Haus Fund: mutual aid fund for protesters and trans/non binary BIPOC in the ballroom scene in Portland/Tacoma/Seattle

Black Excellence Collective Transport for Black NYC LGBTQ+ Protesters: raising funds to provide safe transport for Black LGBTQ+ protesters (NYC)

F2L Relief Fund: provides commissary support (and legal representation & financial assistance) for incarcerated LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit POC in NY state

Trans Sistas of Color Project Detroit: uplifts, impacts and influences the lives and welfare of transgender women of color in Detroit

Black Trans Protesters Emergency Fund organized by Black Trans Femme in the Arts Collective: supports Black trans protesters with resources like bail and medical care

Black Trans Travel Fund: a mutual aid project developed to provide Black transgender women with the financial resources to self-determine safer alternatives to travel, so they feel less likely to experience verbal harassment or physical harm

Reproductive Justice Access Collective (ReJAC): a New Orleans network that aims to share information, resources, ideas, and human power to create and implement projects in the community that operate within the reproductive justice framework

the following organizations can be donated to individually or all-together via this split donation form that will split your donation amount to equal parts:

Okra Project/Tony McDade and Nina Pop Mental Health Fund: provides Black Trans people with quality mental health & therapy and addresses food security in Black trans communities

For The Gworls: provides assistance to Black trans folks with travel to and from medical facilities, and co-pay assistance for prescriptions and (virtual) office visits ⁣

Third Wave Fund: an activist fund led by and for women of color, intersex, queer, and trans people under 35 years of age to resource the political power, well-being, and self determination of communities of color and low-income communities; rapid response grantmaking, multi-year unrestricted grants, and the Sex Worker Giving Circle

Unique Womens Coalition (Los Angeles, CA): supportive organization for and by transgender people of color, committed to fostering the next generation of black trans leadership through mentorship, scholarship, and community care engagement work

Black Trans Women Inc.: a national nonprofit organization committed to providing the trans-feminine community with programs and resources 

SisTers/Brothers PGH (Pittsburgh, PA): A transgender drop-in space, resource provider and shelter transitioning program

Love Me Unlimited for Life: helps transgender community members reach their goals and fulfill their potential through advocacy and outreach activities

My Sistah’s House Memphis (Memphis, TN): designed to bring about social change within the Trans Community in Memphis by providing a safe meeting space and living spaces for those who are most vulnerable in the LGBTQ+ community

Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project: builds and centers the power of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants through community-building, political education, direct services, and organizing across borders; provides cash assistance to Black LGBTQ+ migrants and first generation people dealing with the impact of COVID-19

Taja’s Coalition at St. James Infirmary (San Francisco/Bay Area): navigating housing, medical services, legal services, and the workplace, as well as regularly training agencies

Marsha P. Johnson Institute: helps employ black trans people, build more strategic campaigns, launch winning initiatives, and interrupt the people who are standing in the way of more being possible in the world for black Trans people

Black & Pink Bail Fund: national prison abolitionist organization dedicated to dismantling the criminal punishment system and the harms caused to LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by the system 

Black Visions Collective (MN): healing and transformative justice principles and develops Minnesota’s emerging Black leadership, creating the conditions for long term success and transformation

Middle Tennessee Black and Indigenous Support Fund (Middle, TN): a community fund for Black and Indigenous queer and trans folks to foster wealth redistribution in its larger community, direct the funds to Black and Indigenous community members, and build the leadership of Black and Indigenous community members

SNaPCo (Atlanta, GA): a Black, trans-led collaborative to restore an Atlanta where every person has the opportunity to grow and thrive without facing unfair barriers, especially from the criminal legal system

Brave Space Alliance (Chicago, IL): created to fill a gap in the organizing of and services to trans and gender-nonconforming people on the South and West Sides of Chicago

House of GG: a nonprofit, founded trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, that is raising money to build a permanent home for Transgender people  and be part of a growing network of Southern trans people who are working for social justice

TGI Justice Project: a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers challenging and ending human rights abuses committed against TGI people in California prisons, jails, detention centers

Trans Women of Color Collective: creates revolutionary change by uplifting the narratives, leadership, and lived experience of trans people of color

Youth Breakout (New Orleans, LA): seeks to end the criminalization LGBTQ youth to build a safer and more just New Orleans, organizing with youth ages 13-25 who are directly impacted by the criminal justice system

Translash: a trans-led project uses the power of individual stories to help save trans lives, shifting the cultural understanding of what it means to be transgender, especially during a time of social backlash, to foster inclusion and decrease anti-trans hostility

TRANScending Barriers:  empowers the transgender and gender non-conforming community in Georgia through community organizing with leadership building, advocacy, and direct services

My Sistah’s House: a trans-led nonprofit providing first hand experience and field research to create a one-stop shop for finding doctors, social groups and safe spaces for the trans community, providing emergency shelter, access to sexual health services, and social services

TAKE Birmingham: focuses on discrimination in the workplace, housing advocacy, support for sex workers, providing trans-friendly services, and working to alleviate the many other barriers that TWOC face

Dem Bois: provides charitable economical aid for female to male, FTM, trans-masculine identified person(s) of color ages 21 years old and older for them to obtain chest reconstruction surgery, and or genital reassignment surgery

G.L.I.T.S: approaches the health and rights crises faced by transgender sex workers

Emergency Release Fund (NYC): aims to ensure that no trans person at risk in New York City jails remains in detention before trial; pays cash bails

HEARD: Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities: supports deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, deafdisabled, and disabled people at every stage of the criminal legal system process, up to and including during and after incarceration

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition COVID-19 Community Response Grant: works daily to end discrimination and inequities faced in health, employment, housing and education to improve the lived experience of transgender people

Princess Janae Place: provides referrals to housing for chronically homeless LGBTQ adults in the New York Tri-state area, with direct emphasis on Trans/GNC people of color

The Transgender District: aims to stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces

Assata’s Daughters (Chicago, IL): Black woman-led; organizes young Black people in Chicago by providing them with political education, leadership development, mentorship, and revolutionary services

Collective Action for Safe Spaces: A grassroots organization that uses comprehensive, community-based solutions through an intersectional lens to eliminate public gendered harassment and assault in the DC area.

The Knights and Orchids Society (TKO) work for justice and equality through group economics, education, leadership development, and organizing cultural work throughout rural areas in Alabama

The Outlaw Project (Phoenix, AZ): prioritizes the leadership of people of color, transgender women, gender non-binary and migrants for sex worker rights

WeCare TN (Memphis, TN): Supports trans women of color 

Community Ele'te (Richmond, VA): provides safe sex awareness and education, linkage to resources, emergency housing assistance

TAJA’s Coalition (San Francisco, CA): ending violence against Black Trans women and Trans women of color 

Black Trans Task Force: intersectional, multi-generational project of community building, research, and political action addressing the crisis of violence against Black Trans people in the Seattle-Tacoma area

The Transgender District: stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces

Black Trans Media (Brooklyn, NY): #blacktranseverything storytellers, organizers, poets, healers, filmmakers, facilitators that confront racism and transphobia

Garden of Peace, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA): for black trans & queer youth, elevates and empowers the narratives and lived experiences of black youth and their caretakers, guides revolutionary spaces of healing and truth through art, education, and mentorship

House of Pentacles (Durham, NC): Film Training Program and Production House designed to launch Black trans youth into the film industry and tell stories woven at the intersection of being Black and Trans

Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition (Minneapolis, MN): committed to improving health care access and the quality of health care received by trans and gender non-conforming people through education, resources, and advocacy

RARE Productions (Minneapolis, MN): arts and entertainment media production company for LGBTQ people of color that promotes, produces, and co-creates opportunities and events utilizing innovative artistic methods and strategies

Baltimore Safe Haven (Baltimore, MD): providing opportunities for a higher quality of life for transgender people in Baltimore

Transgender Emergency Fund of Massachusetts: recently helped organize a Trans Resistance Vigil and March through Boston, in place of the Boston Pride Parade that was cancelled due to COVID-19

Semillas: in Puerto Rico, the trans, gender non-conforming and queer communities are facing many obstacles to survival

Street Youth Rise Up: change the way Chicago sees and treats its homeless and street based youth who do what they have to do to survive

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@hyprdeath

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enough about the horrors. let's hear it for the wonders outside of human comprehension

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I've never been entirely sure why "treat me like my kintype" and "treat me like a person" are antonyms to a lot of people. Treat me like my kintype. I am my kintype. In the context of interacting with me, that character is a real person.

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Menhera and Jirai FAQ

Time and time again, we get questions about jirai and how it compares to menhera in the menhera community. It’s understandable for people to have questions, and I’m happy to help, but typing up the same explanation over and over in different words can be tiring. So, I wanted to make something of an “FAQ” when it comes to common questions about menhera, jirai, and the relationship between them, that way a sort of “starter” resource on these questions can be linked when relevant. 

If you’re already familiar with this topic and have any corrections or additions I should consider please let me know! I think I have the general information correct, but I would not be surprised if some small details need correcting.

CW: We're going to be talking about a lot of different triggering mental health topics in this post. It’s truly too many to tag every thing that’s briefly mentioned, but major triggers include: self harm, cutting, CSA, abuse in general, substance abuse, ED, mental illness, and more.

Q: What is menhera? What is jirai? Aren’t they basically the same thing?

A: Menhera and jirai are not the same. The only similarities are that they are both subcultures from Japan that came to be as a result of Japan’s mental health issues and their culture of stigma surrounding it. 

Menhera is a subculture originating from the early 2000’s that started out as people gathering online to discuss mental health topics. Over time it has become a space for people to talk openly about their mental health struggles, share tips for coping, create vent art to get out their negative emotions, and often wear printed versions of said vent art on clothing as a form of self-expression and/or mental health advocacy. It’s important to note that while it sometimes is misinterpreted as romanticizing mental illness, menhera is a pro-recovery movement. The word menhera literally means “someone that seeks mental well-being (mental health)”. As implied above, there is a “menhera fashion”, but it’s not required to wear it to be part of the community; Menhera is a subculture first, fashion second type community in a way that’s similar to punk or emo in the west. The fashion is basically printed vent art on clothing (usually t-shirts) + medical accessories.

Jirai, in the context of the subculture and "fashion", is newer, dating to around 2020. It's a controversial term because before 2020 "jirai kei" referred exclusively to a stereotype. The word "jirai" means "landmine", which in Japanese can also refer to being triggered. So someone who is a "landmine type" (jirai kei) is someone you have to tiptoe around because you never know when they might blow up on you and act abusively. It’s kind of like if you called someone a “ticking time bomb” or even a “psycho” in English. It is misunderstood by some people as being a “reclaimed” word with positive meanings but this is not the case. People who call themselves landmines are usually either doing it for clout or because they genuinely identify with the negative and toxic traits of the stereotype, including but not limited to: self harm, forming cutting circles in public places, underage prostitution, homeless youth/runaways, substance abuse, gang activity and violence, behaving abusively towards partners, and more. Note that in the western tumblr jirai community, you will come across many jirais who don’t know this or who try to disassociate themselves from the original meaning, so you can’t assume that all jirai tumblr users are participating in these things. We’ll talk about that more later, but hopefully this basic overview explains why calling other people you don’t know “jirai” without them using that label first is very rude and inappropriate.

Q: Isn’t jirai a fashion? 

A: No, jirai is not a fashion. This is a common misconception. The main fashion most people in the west think “jirai kei” refers to is actually called dark girly kei. The connection between this fashion and the jirai stereotype became popular after a “psycho girlfriend” dress up challenge where its creator wore girly kei and referred to her outfit as a landmine type (jirai kei) cosplay. The actual origin of this connection probably lies within the Toyoko Kids, a gang comprised largely of mentally ill, homeless youth and adults that influence or enable them. Members of the gang have always worn dark alt fashions, and allegedly the reason many girls in the group wore dark girly was because it was the preference of their now deceased former leader “Howl.” The concept of jirai as a fashion may originate with what a man facing child rape charges thought was attractive on the minors he took advantage of. 

Over time jirai has become associated with multiple pre-existing fashions that became popular with jirais. Some of these fashions include (dark) girly kei, yamikawaii, mizuiro, and jersey maid. Calling these fashions “jirai fashion” forces people who have been wearing these clothes since before 2020 to be associated with the negative things we’ve discussed about landmines, sometimes to the extent that they may leave the fashion in order to escape the assumptions being made about them. A way to think about it is this; there is no “jirai fashion” but there IS “fashions that are popular with jirai.”

Q: Can I be both menhera and jirai? 

A: I’m not here to be the jfashion police, so I’m not going to outright say no? But I am going to say: these communities don’t go well together. My favorite way to explain this comes from someone in the menhera community on tumblr (no idea if they'd wanna be named here lol). The way they put it is: calling yourself a “jirai menhera” is like calling yourself a “feminist misogynist.” The two movements are so contradictory to each other that most people who know what those words mean are going to be confused and go “how does that work..??”

One of the biggest differences between the movements is that menhera is pro-recovery while jirai is anti-recovery. Menhera are generally trying to improve their lives, even if only a tiny bit, while jirai are generally not trying to improve, and may actively want to get worse. I understand that if you’re thinking about this in a black and white way you may feel like you don’t fit in either category, but trying to combine them really just makes things more confusing. The most important thing, though, is that you are using both terms correctly.

A common sentiment I see among people who want to be both is that they think of menhera as a toxically positive or “sugarcoated” community that won’t accept them if they’re struggling too much or too visibly. Personally, this has never been my experience in the menhera community and it’s a bit insulting when people imply that we’re “less unwell” than jirais just because we aren’t anti recovery...You don’t have to be positive all the time or even commit to trying to recover to be menhera. You just can’t make anti recovery posts or act toxically to other community members. That’s it. So if your main concern that makes you feel like both is that you’re too mentally ill for menhera, please know that this isn’t true. As long as you aren’t hurting others we want you here too.

Q: Why are menhera often uncomfortable with the jirai community?

A: There’s a large variety of reasons some menhera are uncomfortable with jirais, so it would be basically impossible to list everything. However, a few common points:

It seems like a lot of new jirai (and menhera) don’t know this, but a lot of the damage done to the menhera community stems from landmines. Not just indirectly, but by directly harassing menhera blogs and spreading misinformation about menhera. For people who were around for this, jirai blogs often raise red flags and make them wonder if they should be worried about getting harassed

On a very similar note, I need to emphasize something previously discussed. Jirai kei, when not being used shallowly for clout, refers to a stereotype and people identifying with the term are AGREEING that they fit this stereotype. The landmine stereotype doesn’t just include self harm and mental illness; it also can refer to abusive behavior, resorting to violence, and engaging in harassment. So when people see the term, a lot of people get worried that you may be here to start drama or cause trouble. This is a natural side effect of choosing to take on this term and it doesn’t just apply to menhera but anyone who knows what jirai kei is. If you willingly call yourself a “ticking time bomb,” you can’t be upset when people wonder what happens when you explode.

Jirai often use the menhera tags incorrectly, leading to frustration. Jirai usually are adding our tags for “more reach” but to us this is tag spam. Even worse, this tag spam isn’t just annoying, but often results in anti-recovery posts ending up in the menhera tag without any warning, which can trigger people.

Many menhera also wear other jfashions such as girly kei, and may find themselves frustrated at how the clothes they like to wear for fun and comfort have become associated with a stereotype they never agreed to. It doesn’t help that some landmines try to claim that jirai is “just a fashion,” which spreads misinformation and erases all of the history of these fashions and overrides it with this stereotype.

Some people question whether or not it is even appropriate to use the term if you never had to be called a jirai as an insult in real life, ie: Japanese women, or at least women who grew up in Japan. You can read more about that here and here. It’s worth noting that a lot of people don’t care about others calling themselves landmine at all, and just want to stop the spread of misinformation and for people to not label strangers as jirai based on their appearance.

Q: What do you mean when you say “anti recovery posts,” and why are they frowned upon in the menhera community?

There’s no agreed on definition on what exactly “anti recovery” means in terms of posting rules, but generally I see it as anything that encourages people to get worse or refuse help, is unnecessarily triggering, or promotes the idea that things never improve. People in the menhera community don’t like to see this because they’re often looking for support, but instead are exposed to things that make them feel worse when we allow these kinds of posts.

Examples of anti recovery posts: 

Posts or replies encouraging someone to hurt themselves, cut deeper, engage in risky behavior, etc.

Posting pictures of fresh cuts, EDblr type posts about your current weight, etc

Responding to other people’s positivity posts cynically 

Posts romanticising or encouraging real abuse (I see this a lot with “yandere” posts)

Overly graphic descriptions of something, such as exactly how you’re planning to hurt yourself (what would be “too much” is subjective)

Talking about self harm and other harmful things like they’re cute, funny, etc 

Posts about how the world is awful, there’s no point in living, etc stated as fact (NOT in a venting context. Also very subjective and relatively unenforceable, this is just an example )

Things that are NOT anti recovery and are fine:

Vent posts (bonus points if it’s under a cut or has warnings)

Harm reduction resources, such as how to clean wounds

Healed scars

Vent art that might be graphic (bonus points for putting triggers in the tags for filtering)

Discussing harmful urges

Talking about negative or triggering things outside of purposefully promoting them

Please remember that I am not The Authority on what is allowed in menhera/the tag, or what’s morally right, etc. These are not rules, I’m just giving examples of what comes to mind when the pro vs anti recovery discussion comes up.

Q: What is a fashion jirai?

If I had to sum it up simply, a fashion jirai is basically a poser. They wear dark girly kei and pose with cute deco knives and cans of strong zero, but in reality they don’t cut, binge drink, or do anything associated with landmines. Usually they’re just hopping on the trend for likes, and are often criticized for cosplaying as mentally ill and/or erasing the actual origin of jirai. 

It can also refer to people who think jirai is “just a fashion,” once again erasing the actual history and meaning of the term. They often throw “actual” jirai under the bus, claiming that those people are just “bad apples,” when they are the ones who actually represent the reality of what a landmine is.

Articles that I strongly recommend for a full understanding of this topic

“Jirai Kei” and the History of Girly Kei Fashion Stereotypes-- the absolute best resource for understanding the origin and meaning of jirai kei

Menheratic-- the 3 articles under the research tab are still the best resources for understanding menhera 

Is Overlap Possible Between Menhera and Jirai-Kei? 

Discussing the Harm of the Overuse of Jirai in Western Spaces 

You can find ALL the info posts I have on each topic by looking at the #menhera.txt and #jirai tags of this blog

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Happy Pride Sentinel

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Vaguely humanoid affections

[healerzombie]

what it feels like when i look up menhera and every single post is tagged with #jirai and has nothing to do with actual menhera