Dreams that Escape

A collection of my thoughts, images that strike me, writing I enjoy, things that turn me on, and anything else I feel belongs here. 18+ only. All images, unless otherwise stated, have been taken from the internet, and are assumed to be of public domain. Any break of the copyright is totally unintentional and noncommercial. Material will be removed upon request of the copyright owner.

[kamlo]

you guys hate schizo-spec people so much and it fuckin shows

[kamlo]

literally like. i have mutuals putting this fuckin post on my dash

and its like wow what is so funny about triggering someone who explicitly said they struggle with extreme paranoia and asked for basic consideration? like. how do you talk about your schizo-spec friends when they're not in the room? why are we always the laughing stock?

you guys ~support mentally ill people~ until it's someone whose delusion is just a little too "out there" then it's lets laugh at how dumb this person is hahaha can you believe someone could be so ridiculous hahahaha. like.

and i knoooow im gonna get people commenting about how we're Just Too Sensitive and that's exactly what im fuckin talking about!!! what is so funny to you about someone who genuinely struggles to keep touch with reality? what is so funny to you about a schizo-spec person asking for basic consideration in your interactions with them?

and its so frustrating having to see this shit every single day and knowing exactly how my friends would talk about me when im not around if i was more open about my symptoms. you Very likely have schizo-spec people in your life who will never tell you because we absolutely see how you talk about us and what you think of us

i know this isnt the most coherent post but im so serious when i say please examine why you think of us this way and why you think it's funny

ok to reblog but if youre not schizo-spec do not comment on this post

[diabeticlesbian]

Sweet Dreams - Rora Blue

2020.

“Sweet Dreams explores the intricacies of everyday ableism and everyday ableist comments. Some of the comments recount dialogue said to the artist. Other phrases were submitted by other disabled and/or chronically ill individuals as documentation of comments that have been said to them. Through using recognizable objects associated with disability in correlation with playful colors, Sweet Dreams aims to reclaim objects commonly associated with pain and disrupt the narrative on what it means to be disabled.”

[programmerhumour]

Funny how that works

[ferrousferrule]

I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of “I don’t fear the science, I fear the corporations who control it” because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us.

[brunhiddensmusings]

what people fear about GMO- ‘theyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea ’ what GMO actually is- ‘we made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow there’ what people SHOULD be upset about- ‘i made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seed’

[aniseandspearmint]

^^^ THIS

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

So Army of the Dead fired Chris d'Elia for being a fucking sexual predator. The problem is they had already shot the whole movie. So how did they move forward? They edited out the whole man and instead threw TIG NOTARO in the whole movie via green screen and special effects. Oh, and her promo images? A gift to the gays.

[round--robin]

Fun fact: editing out the whole man and replacing him with Tig Notaro is the correct response to almost anything

[milfsagainstroadhead-deactivate]

Really hate how “mommy and daddy issues” just a jab at the child and not the parent

[tiffanarchyforever]

Oh, so your parent(s) traumatized you when you were vulnerable and defenseless, and they let you down when you were reliant on them for your emotional needs? Lol idiot.

[phinarei]

My ENTIRE world just shifted to the left a bit. Thanks.

[amygdalae]

Keying/graffiti-ing someones car is old news now if someone cheats we go at their wardrobe with a seam ripper

yknow what? Fuck you *unstitches all your shirts and jeans*

[melyzard]

My mother did this to my father once. They got into an argument, my very pregnant and hormonal mother stormed off…except they lived in a tiny apartment so the only place to go was to shut herself into the closet for a good long sulk. And while she was sitting in there, fuming, she looked up and saw her sewing kit on the shelf, and all my father’s uniforms hanging right there.

So she picked one shirt and one pair of trousers, carefully, methodically ripped every third stitch out of every seam, and then hung them back up together so that he would be likely to pick them at the same time. This took her a couple hours, so by the time she was done, the anger had worn down. She came out, she and my father had a talk that ended in apologies, after which they were tired and went to bed. My mother swears up and down that she meant to warn my father about the sabotaged clothes in the morning, but he wore a different uniform set and they were both still feeling a little raw, so she didn’t want to bring up the fight again. She decided to tell him that night instead.

And then she forgot.

Anyway, about four days later, my father apparently came home roughly an hour after he left for work, his clothes slowly, gently shredding off his body, the most bewildered expression on his face. “Paula,” he said, his voice mildly shell-shocked. “Paula, my clothes are broken.”

My mother promptly burst out laughing so hard that she went into labor. And that’s the story of my birth, heralded by petty vengeance and utter confusion.

[rosalarian]

I spent ten years building up a following on Tumblr. I had 30k+ followers, great engagement, it helped my career thrive like nothing else. I could quit my day job and live off the fan base I’d accrued.

Then, their policies changed. Half my work was no longer allowed. People left the site in droves. I left too, for awhile. I came back to a ghost town. I still have 25k followers, but I don’t think more than 10% are active anymore. I’m followed by ghosts. Same with DeviantArt, although I was never quite as big there, and I’ve been gone so much longer.

This disallowed half of my work was never allowed on Facebook in the first place, or Instagram, but their algorithms are such that my stuff rarely makes it to anyone’s feeds, and if I post a link to where people could actually pay me for my content, it’s hidden unless I pay for it. Patreon swept my work away to a dark corner where no one could see it unless I personally guided them there. Twitch is so strict you can’t even show bare feet. The death of Google Reader means nobody follows RSS feeds anymore, so I can’t direct people to my own site.

So there’s Twitter I guess, where I can post whatever I want, but again, algorithms. But more than that, I don’t have the energy to build up a following once again on a site I don’t own that can delete my career on a whim. The thought of spending time jumping around through hoops for attention just to have it taken away again has stripped any motivation I had to try.

The internet has been gentrified. All the small cute houses and mom & pop shops have been shut down and replaced by big corporations that control everything. I’ve been making webcomics for twenty years, and at the start, the internet was a beautiful wild place. Everyone had a home page. It was like having a house and people came to visit you and you would visit other people in their houses. Now, we don’t visit each other in personal spaces anymore. It’s like we have to visit each other in the aisles of a megamart. Everything is clean and sanitized and the weirdos who made the internet what it was are no longer welcome. No space for freaks anymore.

People still ask me for advice on how to break into comics, and I don’t have any wisdom because I don’t recognize the internet anymore. I don’t feel comfortable working within its boundaries which seems to be getting smaller and smaller and smaller. None of the tools I used when I started exist anymore. They’ve been replaced by things I don’t know how to use. I don’t think I could break into comics today. 2002 had so few barriers compared to now. You might have started on Keenspace, but you could reach a point where you could break away to your own site and people would go to it. Now, you start on Webtoon or Patreon and I guess you just stay there? It feels so much like owning a hardware store for years and then having to go work as a cashier at the Home Depot that put you out of business. I’m looking at my career trajectory and it all points to being a Wal-Mart greeter with uncontrolled arthritis.

I don’t want to make “content,” I want to make comics, I want to make art, and I want to do it in a space that is mine. I’m not sure there’s a place for that anymore.

[firesidetextiles]

I don’t have the energy to build up a following once again on a site I don’t own that can delete my career on a whim.

It feels so much like owning a hardware store for years and then having to go work as a cashier at the Home Depot that put you out of business.

This post hits SO hard.

[cloacacarnage]

i know its the mets, but this is the coolest shit i’ve ever seen a human being do

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

Wtf????

[theryanproject]

Smoove with it too 

[meqabitch-deactivated20200901]

This is the kind of shit you see in anime that shows that a certain character is stronger than other characters. 

[bankuei]

“Pathetic.  You can’t even hold the bat you dare step to the plate? Have you no respect for the sport?”

[pardonmewhileipanic]

reminds me of this gif

[sueanoi]

[batter-sempai]

Baseball players are to be feared

[cynosurecosplay]

[thenamesdede]

Reblogging for the last one

[saito-91]

^Same for me

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

They just kept getting progressively more “woah”

[scp2008]

much woah

[lord-blongus]

Oh my god this is a lucky universe

[cleoselene-deactivated20260315]

every time this post comes around, my favorite part is the “I know it’s the Mets” qualifier at the beginning lmao like how baseball that this zillion note posts starts with “sorry for putting this hellteam on your dash, bUT”

[lostspirit101]

Y’all have no idea how hard I was trying not to laugh in class at that poor bird

[wazimoomoo]

They…they just blew up a fucking bird…

[greatcomputerearthquake]

Ball’s dead. Bird’s dead. I’m dead

[they-callme-ami]

I misses this post

[yunhokun-deactivated20161115]

I feel like we need some clarification

[fortunatossoliloquy-archive-blog]

This is a Kimono (Japanese):

This is a Hanfu (Chinese):

This is a Cheongsam (Chinese):

This is a Hanbok (Korean):

Any questions? 

ao dai (vietnamese)

[hellotailor]

THIS POST IS IMPORTANT.

[aliastrench]

It’s interesting to note that that the garments that have a cross over style when worn correctly are all worn with the left breast over the right.

[fulcrumstoried]

That is because these countries tend to wrap right over left when they are wrapping the dead.

[aetheroi-deactivated20221218]

Here are what some men’s fashion looks like if anyone is interested.

Kimono:

Hanfu/Zhiju:

Cheongsam:

Hanbok:

Ao Dai:

[decompositional]

So glad y’all have your guns. I feel so much safer. Y’all really getting the bad guys before they can hurt anyone. It’s just really working out. Really.

[thomaspaineslessarticulatecousin]

hmmm... Two things:

I don't have guns because of your feelings. Do something to deal with your own bad guys. 

When you are a spectator on the sideline, the players decide what you will see. If you don't like the way they play the game, then get in it and change it. But you don't get to force others to become spectators.

[jraker4]

Of course you consider it a game.:)

[thomaspaineslessarticulatecousin]

English must not be your native language. It's called a metaphor. They have these things called schools, you might look into attending one. 

[jraker4]

Yes, and my point was that you chose a metaphor where it’s a game, which is both disturbing and unsurprising.

[thomaspaineslessarticulatecousin]

You understand it is a metaphor and yet you have an issue because its a game...wow. Metaphors be like that sometimes. There really isn't a rule that says they can't reference a something unrelated just because the topic is gun control. That's sorta the definition of metaphors. You do get that, right? I mean it's kinda a basic concept.

[jraker4]

It’s always amusing to hear the people who think everyone should be armed all the time suggest *other* people are afraid. But anyway, as for the metaphor my issue isn’t with use of metaphor-it’s that it’s a shitty metaphor. But you do think it’s a game. Your assertion that use of firearms in self defense isn’t complicated demonstrates that.

[the-library-alcove]

[vulcanette-deactivated20260506]

fucking goldfish tiktok made me cry bro

[solarpunkcast]

humans be like “is anyone going to nurse this animal back to health?” and not wait for an answer

[beabaseball]

A summary of everything repeated in the notes:

The black color is natural for a black moor goldfish, but they do often change color as they age, sometimes in response to tank conditions. In this case, the vibrancy of the color is more important to note than the color itself. The scales begin very dull and then as Monstro recovers they become vivid.

Monstro is probably suffering from either chemical burns, dropsy, or both. Fish can probably become depressed in a fish way, but it is not the reason he stopped swimming.

Dropsy is an infection of the swim bladder which helps fish float. The water changes help reduce the inflammation and aquarium salt makes it harder for bacteria to grow in the wounds while he fights off the infection.

The chemical burns are probably from living in a too-small or badly filtered tank. Goldfish produce a lot of waste including ammonia, which in large amounts can cause the burns. The water changes are again helping reduce the ammonia level and keeps the water clean while he's recovering, like how for humans with chemical burns we flood with saline.

Because of the amount of waste they produce, goldfish need 10-20 gal each absolute minimum, but still think of that as living in a bathroom as a human. Even this setup may need to grow a bit larger as monstro and it's friends age

Goldfish can live 20/30 years, humans just are Extremely Bad at caring for fish the way we do other pets. Most goldfish need a whole pond and friends to be happy. The goldfish bowl was a temporary viewing object in China to show off the fish to guests in their rooms, and was misunderstood by European visitors to be how the fish were kept all the time.

Fish (and most cold blooded animals and birds) are exempt from most animal abuse protections and retail pet stores are almost fully unregulated in their treatment of animals. Woo!

Idk support well cared for animals including fish and while the bigger the tank the better, don't like.... Try to release your fish or any other animal into the wild. In this case, surrendering Monstro to the pet store was probably the best thing the former owner could've done upon realizing they didn't know how to care for them .

[fandomsandfeminism]

An excellent reminder that there really is no such thing as an "easy" pet. All animals require knowledge and care, including fish. (I have a personal vendetta against those tiny betta box bowls myself. Horrific.)

[jaubaius]

Tortoise shells have nerve endings and are sensitive to the slightest touch. This tortoise at Badger Run Wildlife Rehab loves to feel her shell scratched, so a kind volunteer made her a scratching device. 

 Credit: Badger Run Wild Rehab / Caters News

[sunshineandhope]

What Is Regenerative Gardening? (And Why You Should Be Doing It)

Regenerative gardening is a simple concept with significant environmental impact.

Over the last decade or so, you may have heard a lot about regenerative farming or regenerative agriculture. But you may not realize you can implement the ideas it espouses in your own garden.

If you are not already practicing regenerative gardening, you might consider taking steps to begin exploring it.

[utopiamutual-deactivated2022021]

If a peaceful protest is illegal you might as well riot.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Honestly if you’re gonna get 10 years for graffitiing a statue, might as well burn some shit down.

[paxamericana]

you’re hearing it more and more

[profeminist]

Source

Statistics Show Exactly How Many Times Trans People Have Attacked You in Bathrooms. Surprise: There are zero reported cases of this happening.

[transbrotherhood]

“If they showed an actual trans person”

This is a big part of the problem.

[crow-queen-art-deactivated20210]

Please share this!!!!! As you resident vitiligan and fellow artist I am here to educate people on how to properly create a character with vitiligo and other things to keep in mind about the disorder. And don’t forget, this trauma can be purely environmental. Even a small cut or scratch can trigger vitiligo to start appearing.

Only 1% of the entire world’s population has vitiligo but I see so many artists making characters with it when they sometimes don’t even know what vitiligo is and pass it off as “skin pigmentation”. Like— what does that even mean??? XD

It’s not an aesthetic and it won’t get you “diversity points” so stop romanticizing vitiligo!