An Ode to Subtle Beauty

Quill | they/she | major (not minor) | music! poetry! podcasts! general shenanigans! | quietly romanticising everything that comes my way | obsessed with my gay little media characters

[captain-price-returns]

[queer-as-city-folk]

That bitch is like dead dead isn't he...

[a-cold-glass-of-betelgeuse]

rip jesus you would’ve loved fig newtons and zohran mamdani

[milkooze-deactivated20260329]

[fedoraspooky]

whoever's idea it was to have womens t-shirts have those tiny sleeves that go way up into the armpits must have done that maliciously

[circusheart]

If I keep practicing I might even be a person soon

[lurker-mclurkerson-blog]

Since tumblr (at least according to the part I inhabit) is the mental health website, I thought this would be relevant to a decent number of you. (I know i have a default icon, but I promise I'm a real person, posting about a very real concern.)

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) announced last week that they're changing their billing policy next year so limited license mental health therapists in the state (21% of the mental health work force in Michigan) won't be able to bill them for therapy sessions if they work in a private practice or school setting.

Since BCBSM holds almost 70% of Michigan's commercial market, limited license therapists almost certainly will be forced out of private practice - interrupting care for (possibly hundreds? of) thousands of clients and severely restricting training opportunities for practitioners trying to get fully licensed.

Here are a few news articles about this:

Michigan Blue Cross to limit mental health benefit. Will thousands lose care?

‘Devastating’: Michigan mental health care workers concerned BCBSM billing change could cut access to counselors

Mental health providers warn BCBSM billing changes could disrupt care for hundreds

Ways Michiganders can help:

- Post about this on other social media platforms.

- Call your state legislator and say you're against this policy.

- If you have BCBSM insurance, call the number on the back of your insurance card and complain.

- Attend the rally that the Michigan Mental Health Counselors Association and the Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers are holding in front the BCBSM building in Lansing on Tuesday, June 23rd, at 4:30pm. (Facebook post about the rally).

[thebramblewood]

🚨 IF YOU SEE THIS POST, DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK!!! 🚨

Probably goes without saying, but I just got tagged in the comments. Be safe out there!

[distractionsfromthefood]

[r0sa4077]

Thought I'd share this meme that has been developing on the r/lordoftherings subreddit over the last couple days. Enjoy!

[r0sa4077]

[r0sa4077]

[the-queen-of-geese]

Three types of people

[i-am-a-fish]

I hope fifty good things happen to you within the next 30 seconds. I love you so much

[insomniac-arrest]

I wish AI would stop making so many animal story posts. I LOVE animals and they are ruining the loving-animals ecosystem. And also the real ecosystem

[insomniac-arrest]

The truffle hunting cat is AI, I’m so sorry guys

[lordnot]

I promise you

That there was a nearly inexhaustible supply of media of cute, very real animals doing silly things to be found long before Generative A.I. was a thing

And we are fast approaching the point where no one will believe that an animal in a video is real unless it is completely mundane and boring.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

AI is destroying my ability to enjoy cute animal/baby videos. I don't want to question if it's real. I want to watch a few seconds of video and go "aaawwww."

Is that too much to ask?

[cjsnaake]

I fuck with this

[qqueenofhades]

In other news, apparently Mitch McConnell is at death's fuckin door.

You know what to do, people.

[qqueenofhades]

Mitch McConnell's Office Won't Confirm If He's Conscious

[qqueenofhades]

Everyone in my notes right now:

[captain-price-returns]

Arrest everyone involved.

[captain-price-returns]

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

[noname-human-being]

I suggest getting angrier about misogyny.

[noname-human-being]

"at least be nice about-" no. Girl. Kill him over it. We're done. It's been centuries of this bullshit since time immemorial and he hasn't learned. Obliterate him.

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

happy disability pride month to mean cripples, nasty addicts, people with down syndrome who arent nice and talk constant shit, wheelchair users that WILL run you over, autists that dont care and arent about to pretend to, people who lie to their psychiatrists, people that sit on the floor in public places with no benches, amputees that lie profusely about "what happened"; to the "noncompliant", the "drug seeking", the "mean", the "difficult" and the "undeserving", and so on and so forth, i love us all and we deserve the world actually mwah mwah