[projectiondepartment]

2023:

TIME IS NOT SLIPPING THROUGH YOUR FINGERS LIKE DESERT SAND

THERE'S A WHOLE WORLD IN JUST KNOWING THE SUN IS THERE

THE WOUND IS NOT THE SIZE OF YOUR LIFE

AN EXCESS OF PASSION IS NECESSARY FOR YOUR PRESENCE

YOU ARE NOT AN INDIVIDUAL

TIME TO FIND A NEW CREATURE TO BE

OPEN UP

THIS IS NOT YOUR GRAVE

GET UP COWARD

[butchboromir]

>hanging out >sudden inexplicable feeling that i shouldn't be here, and should instead be eternally backpacking in the appalachian wilderness >???????????

[braxnfog]

>relocate to the outdoors immediately

>scrutinize a tree for any && all differing kinds of life for 10mins minimum

>return to what was prev doing

>win ????

[cheese24k]

[clambistro-deactivated20161211]

Ahh, it’s back

[julierthanyou]

i have disproportionately strong feelings about this.

[rylandgraces]

there’s a friday ass vibe about this wednesday boys keep your wits about you

[braxnfog]

one day i will sit down and redo Every tagged post on my blog (lie)

[tlirsgender]

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

[tlirsgender]

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

[borrowed-thoughts]

I’m doing so fucking horrible but in like a super chill way

[otpadsis]

felt the joy of having a palette 👍 doing something very cool

[vityakys]

[phantomrose96]

I like when fic length/book length/movie length is its own punchline

[phantomrose96]

characters: Ah, I'm so glad that's all over now :). But luckily that's done and dealt with and we can all resume our normal lives now :)

fic length: Chapter 9 out of 48

[phantomrose96]

[medievalspecs]

[memorilore]

[epilepticfox]

Odysseus: Thank you for the concern, but brother, I can assure you Our journey is almost done.

Song 11 of 40

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[butchboromir]

a sentiment that i sometimes see expressed when people discuss adolescent psych abuse &/or the troubled teen industry is "many of the people in the system weren't even that troubled/weren't a danger to themselves or others, they just had parents who wanted to punish them". this, on the surface, is true. but the implicit message in sentiments like these is, at worst "those who were 'troubled enough' to be sent into these programs deserved to be there" and at best "it is at least understandable why those who were 'troubled enough' got sent to these programs (even if we agree that said programs are bad)". like, do you all realize that you can discuss these systems as mechanisms for parental abuse without throwing us bad kids under the bus, lol? "many of those in the psychiatric or troubled teen industry are there because their parents use these institutions as a way to further their abuse" see how easy that was?

[butchboromir]

like. there's a post that has over 8 thousand notes which was going around a while back, and it does exactly what i talk about above. & nobody acknowledges it? these institutions are rotten from the core — no child, even those who are "actually troubled", should have to endure what you have to endure within them. i didn't deserve to be there any more than my comrades who were sent there solely as a method of abuse did.

[buboplague]

[rickybabyboy]

agreement to no scary grabbing

IDs:

Image 1: Orange and white tabby is reaching under a door towards a person's hand

Image 2: They are shaking hands

[rickybabyboy]

lol

ID: Orange and white tabby reaching under a door with his claws out, his paw is motion blurred

[valdevia]

Some recent work I've done for the SCP Archives podcast!

This season I've been going for a scanned "declassified government files" look! It's been a lot of fun :)

[valdevia]

Season 8 just wrapped up, so here are some more of my favourite thumbnails I made!

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #13707

Recently, I sat at my kitchen table, cutting out paper pieces for a craft I was doing and kept thinking about how I cannot picture myself in 10 years at all. Not in a 'nothing in life is ever certain' way, just literally, no image of what myself at age 44 might look like. What her life might be.

And then a quiet voice inside me reminded me, that me at 24 also didn't have a picture of myself at 34 and me at 14 couldn't imagine the me at 24.

And even more quietly that voice said: "Maybe she'll just also sit at her kitchen table doing something creative. Maybe she'll even smile while doing it."

Maybe she'll smile. Guess I'll just have to find out.

  – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.) 

[osmanthusoolong]

It’s so funny to me how often ableists will use “this person sure has a lot of disorders!” as like, proof that they’re clearly faking or something. Comorbidity is a thing, and that’s something that anyone who knows anything about health knows? Like, a great many illnesses and conditions are in fact pretty predictably occurring along with other conditions that are related in some way, to the point where it’s genuinely unusual to find one and not the other(s)! Not to mention that for many reasons, including just privacy, people may refer to the symptoms of a condition and not the exact diagnosis, like “psychosis” is a symptom, “fatigue” is a symptom. All that, and a lot of people with one disability or chronic illness, by the way disability tends to force people into poverty and marginalization, tend to accumulate more, because it’s harder to access proper nutrition, healthcare, housing and work that don’t cause or worsen disabilities. It’s actually pretty unusual for someone to have just one disability, especially with time!

But smug dumbasses keep acting like it’s some big proof of fakery when disabilities in fact act exactly like real disabilities do

[diserbillyti]

Plus like, especially with psychosocial disabilities, a lot of disorders share severe overlap, and the distinctions between X or Y condition are so mired in academic bs that the field of psychology itself is moving away from disorder-based treatment and toward symptom-based treatment. That is, it's less about "this person has autism," and more about "this person has [list of symptoms] and responds to [individually productive treatments]."

Personally, I've been diagnosed with,

general anxiety disorder

social anxiety disorder

agoraphobia

all of which do exactly the same thing to you, I'm a big scared bitch all the time basically.

Plus I've also been diagnosed with

paranoid schizophrenia

complex post-traumatic stress disorder

autism

all of which present in basically the same way, so much so that autism is just the unwanted and unwelcome sequel of the real OG classic, dementia praecox. Autism is to schizophrenia as Alien 3 is to Aliens and I'm tired of pretending she's all that, frankly.

My point being, anybody who's been in and out of the system since childhood with a braindifferent disorder is probably going to end up with a diagnostic list as long as their arm, especially if they're in a country where access to medicine is like, a thing.