im too old to be baby

they/them

[institutionalized-gaming]

October can’t come soon enough

IT IS AUGUST

[its-an-ear-hat-john]

This has been in my likes since last year. It is time.

[bedhead-queen]

This is the 21st night of September skeleton. He only appears once a year.

[institutionalized-gaming]

October can’t come soon enough

IT IS AUGUST

[its-an-ear-hat-john]

This has been in my likes since last year. It is time.

[bedhead-queen]

This is the 21st night of September skeleton. He only appears once a year.

[inber]

Writing period dramas in the discord, lads

[mideastcuts]

Ghada Karmi and Ellen Siegel, in 1973, 1992 and 2011. Photos by Francis Khoo (1, 2) and Jean-Pascal Deillon (3).

[neontacos]

[mythoflight]

[casey-kat]

[guerrillatech]

[headspace-hotel]

I thought this was my hometown for a second

[enchantingcoffeenightmare]

[tacofriend]

So this has actually been cited by academics as part of the major draw to online spaces is the fact that just existing in public is reacted to with hostility and punishment. Gretchen McCulloch discussed this is in her book Because Internet, citing research that shows teens and young adults want to be outside! We want to spend time in social places, it’s just that there aren’t any places to exist in public without being charged for it.

[learn2anarchy]

[binch-worm]

When I was homeless as a kid my little brother and I loved to go to the library. We would keep warm in there reading good books all day long. Until residents of the town complained about us “loitering” at the library each day. The library staff then told us we were no longer allowed to stay more than an hour at a time. Imagine seeing two homeless children spending their entire days quietly reading just to keep out of the cold and having a damn problem with it.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

[regularlesbian]

fun fact: any policy on drugs that isn’t harm reduction is going to cause addicts to suffer and die

[uncanney]

fun fact: Drug addiction is a public health issue, and approaching it as if it were a law enforcement issue is prejudicial to addicts and will result in their suffering and death

[jumpingjacktrash]

if you just assume addiction is a method of self-medicating, you’ll pretty much never be wrong.

now, not everything people self-medicate for actually has a proper treatment. i’m pretty sure the reason my uncle made sure to be slightly drunk at all times ‘to round the sharp corners off of things’ was sensory processing disorder. i have that too, and i just kind of accept that i’m going to randomly get my brain sandpapered from time to time. there is no medication for that. all you can do is dull your senses. i’ve chosen not to, but i can’t blame him for his decisions. when a ringing phone feels like getting hit upside the head with a frying pan, liver damage sounds like a fair price to pay.

anyway, it seems really self-evident to me that people don’t enjoy living the life of an addict, they do it because the alternative looks worse. people don’t get addicted to substances just for funsies. they start making a habit of taking something because of insomnia, or grief, or headaches, or depression, or seething undirected rage and terror they can’t put a name to – something that they can’t ignore or shrug off. and for whatever reason – lack of access, lack of knowlege, lack of money, or it just plain doesn’t exist – they aren’t able to apply the Approved Correct Remedy. they use what they can get.

addicts aren’t some weird otherfolk who inexplicably just Do Drugs because they’re Bad. addicts are you with a problem you can’t solve.

[mikkeneko]

these facts aren’t fun but they are pretty important

[cosmokitt]

Covid mood board

[cv-dazzle-deactivated20210726]

[brunhiddensmusings]

listening to people repeatedly saying ‘oh yeah weve AAALLL been on quarantine for so long it must be driving everyone nuts” refusing to acknowledge the food service workers, store workers, delivery workers, factory workers, ecc as counting as people

[thebookworm0001]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

you ever remember there was an attempted coup in the US like a month ago? technically it's a huge historical event but it feels like nothing somehow

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[filmnoirsbian]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

OMG???? FUCKING EMERGANCY

[anarchapella]

Can’t sleep gonna read this zine

[anarchapella]

In case anyone is interested, it’s a great read:

http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/89858:why-misogynists-make-great-informants

[tiktokmuseum]

shhh! it was supposed to be a secret

[remy]

Sia deleted her twitter account

[remy]

Big day for the autistic community

[smalltownbeancan]

[caruliaa]

[Image description: two images. The first is a screenshot of twitter showing that Sia's account has been deleted. The second is the bugs bunny pleasant evening meme edited to read "i wish the autistic community a very plesant sia deleted her twitter day". There is also a party hat and party blower edited onto bugs bunny. /End description]

[gnslnger-deactivated20160804]