Caz

Caz. Can legally buy beer. Follow me, I follow back. Artist, receptionist, mom, wife, over active imagination. I don't post a lot of personal stuff. Mostly reblogs of world issues and a mass of art and artist who inspire me. Feel free to message me...

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GIF Magnets from Famous Movies

Created by Miguel Sousa / Heymikel

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No one here seems interested in the grimy parts of mental health. Everyone wants to talk about mental illness as quiet introverts drinking tea and nervously stuttering over words. No one ever talks about symptoms like paranoia or hallucinations or hypersexuality or compulsions or homelessness or drug addiction or delusions or psychosis or violent urges. Every time a clearly mentally ill person commits a crime, and someone says, “Hey, maybe this is a sign that we need to improve mental health awareness in this country,” everyone goes to screaming: “This isn’t about mental illness! Mentally ill people aren’t violent!”

But yes, sometimes mentally ill people are violent. Sometimes we are bad people. And even those mentally ill people are in need of advocacy, maybe even more so.

When you post “Protect people with mental illnesses at all costs,” do you mean all of us, or just the cute ones?

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I get sick of tumblr’s version of self care, which 90% of the time threads into this beautifully: go pet a fuzzy cute animal! pile up your favorite blankets from childhood and watch disney movies! take a nap! play a game from this list of cute soothings games! 

More realistically: go take a shower because it’s been three days. Wash the dishes that have been in the sink since last Friday that you can smell as soon as you open your door because rotting food stinks. Pick all your clothes off the floor because that’s where your entire wardrobe is and you’ve already cried today because you tripped over a sweater and realized the cat puked on it. Call someone who can give you enough courage to pay that bill you’ve been ignoring. Put away the crackers because that’s all you’ve eaten for two days straight. Apologize to the friends who are worried sick about you, and if you can’t at least let them know you are ok and need space. 

One of the most empowering types of self-care is responsibility, but tumblr just wants to sit in a closet strung with fairy lights and read their favorite fic.  

“Cute” self-care for “cute” mental issues. That’s not reality. 

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A page from my story in Legends of the Guard vol.3 #4. At your local comic shop now!

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by Fat Heat

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Make-up at Christian Dior Spring 2014

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g ame ov er

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look at these wobbles

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Painting done by Carlos Torres.

https://instagram.com/carlostorresart/?hl=en

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Gustav Klimt Sketches 

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there’s no going back!

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done by mikhail andersson at white rabbit tattoo in nyc. “go then, there are other worlds than these.”

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Ethereal Black and White Watercolor Paintings by Elicia Edijanto

Elicia Edijanto is a Indonesia based arist and illustrator, currently lives in Jakarta. In her watercolors Elicia captures unique connection between small, vulnerable children and powerful creatures of the wild like elephants, wolves and bears with peace and confidence. Those dreamlike-scenes are both tranquil and contemplative. Follow her on Tumblr.

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posted by Margaret

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NICOLAS JEBRAN Couture Spring/Summer 2015