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Its weird for me to think that dolphins existed at the same time as queens and knights and shit like that. I feel like dolphins were invented in the 80s by crystal shops to sell porcelain statues to divorced women
You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick
fifth humor just dropped
hmm how i loathe the "everyone is a little bi" mindset
like... 95% of the time this mindset is weaponized against lesbians! and it happens to gay men too, but most of the time it's people trying to tell lesbians to give men a chance and it's bullshit!
also it's so fucking biphobic; it dilutes the actual experiences and lives of actual bisexual people to a bending of other identities. bisexuality isn't a permissive aspect of the human condition, it's an actual fucking label people do (and do not!) use!
people who are actually bi are casually erased by the idea that anyone *could* be bi if they just gave up their 'restrictive' hangups. that's a very shitty way to frame sexuality and attraction.
YES!!! ALSO THAT!!!
online lgbt spaces went to shit once people decided that each sexual orientation/gender identity had to be completely homogenous with no variations so they began creating hyper-specific identities for themselves that have literally no meaning in real life
girl help i’m having creation ideas above my skill level
girl help i'm having creation ideas above my motivation level
As much as I mildly despair about the functionality of Tumblr, I’m forever grateful we don’t have the creative interface of other social media platforms.
I keep seeing youtubers talking about how the new algorithm on their creative dash is so detrimental to their mental health, both in terms of how they feel about themselves as creators and the content they make—dreading to find out their performance rating, regardless of whether they enjoyed it or not. And it’s the same across multiple other platforms, TickTock, Facebook, Instagram. Fuck, I’ve even seen people with business accounts complaining on Twitter.
And then there’s Tumblr. Where sometimes you can’t find your own posts even though you know you tagged it, time stamps are hidden in the ellipses at the top right hand corner of the post, your bread recipe keeps getting flagged as porn, too much punctuation causes asks not to send, and checking your activity feed causes the app to crash. You want to know your trending numbers? You want to know what’s performing well? Fuck you, guess.
18k notes, and 99.999% of them are people finding out we have time stamps.
my favourite bit is how some posts just don’t have any notes anymore, they’re gone
Starseeds. Thoughts?
Lotta people don't know about the conspiratorial white supremacist origins of the term.
what is a starseed and what are its terrible origins
Starseeds, also called star people, were introduced by a guy named Brad Steiger in his 1976 book Gods of Aquarius. It argues that certain people, mainly neurodivergent children, are alien-human hybrids who are partially possessed by the spirit of a psychic alien.
The term has a myriad of modern uses, with myriad definitions, but the original context is a stock standard new-age eugenicist narrative.
Doesnt "indigo children" have a similar backstory?
Nancy Ann Tappe's original description of Indigo Children wasn't as explicitly dehumanizing as Steiger's work, but it was still dehumanizing. Over time, the terms have sorts converged and are often used interchangeably.
Oh yes, I was called Indigo and Crystal Child in the 80s.
I was also called a crystal child by an elder witch. I hardcore believed in that for a while.
Luckily it's less common than it was back in the 70s and 80s but you for sure still see people using it in the original context. Most anti-medical sentiments from the New Age have largely migrated from neo-paganism and into the "alternative medicine"/antivax community. It's one of the biggest avenues for right-wing radicalization of women specifically.
@thebibliosphere iirc you have some insight on this
I'm still on hiatus but was made aware of this tag, and I felt it necessary enough to respond to.
The term indigo child was used to abuse me growing up and there’s a reason I’m so vehemently pro-science, pro-medical advocacy and anti-bullshit in my chronic illness work and why seeing new age definitions bleed into mental health topics and subjects of neurodivergence is extremely triggering for me.
Being labeled an indigo child was used to convince me I didn’t need medical care, both physical and mental. The premise of the thinking was that I wasn't chronically ill; I was special. I have vivid memories of being told I was put on this earth to be a healer; that's why I was always in chronic pain; I was absorbing the pain of others to make the world a better place.
I cannot begin to tell you the amount of psychological damage and trauma that occurred from being exposed to these sort of ideologies as a child/teen, but I can tell you at the age of 34 I’m still working in therapy to untangle it.
We know now I have multiple genetic disorders and disabilities, including Ehlers Danlos Syndrome a condition which causes a great deal of physical pain. Yet there are days when I wake up in agony and the thought still filters through my head: at least someone else is suffering less. It’s a work in progress.
Same with my neurodivergence. I wasn't mentally ill/struggling with school because of a learning disability (ADHD). I was struggling because I was a Pisces (yes, really) and academia wasnt ~spiritual~ enough for me, and I should be focusing my energy more on becoming a healer. I wasn’t struggling with emotional dysregulation, or executive dysfunction, I was just an empath and highly sensitive to the world around me. The person who set me on this path? A teacher who decided to take me under their wing and nurture my vulnerability. I wasn’t failing basic high school classes because I needed help. I was failing because I was meant to be “more than normal.”
I was an indigo child. A starseed. More than human. And thus, dehumanized, denied agency and gaslit into believing my suffering was what the world needed to be a better place.
(My parents were going through their own horrific stuff before anyone asks. My whole childhood is 13 types of trauma in a trench coat pretending to be normal.)
I was 16 years old. By the time I was 17 I was practicing holistic therapies on adults. Reiki, crystal therapy, energy work, angel therapy… and the thing is… I enjoyed it. It was new and stimulating and I enjoyed learning and having people to talk to who valued my presence. And it felt nice to be special and appreciated. I wasn’t just weird or awkward. I was special—that’s why I got on so much better with adults than my own peers. I was just too Spiritual to ever be a child.
Can we say red flags? 🚩🚩🚩
Fortunately there were adults in that social circle who realized I was being abused and stepped in to stop me being radicalized and act as a buffer. By the time I was in my 20s I had a healthier understanding of what holistic and alternative health therapies meant, and how they can be used in conjunction with medicine to help people cope with the trauma of illness. Some of which I implement in a healthy and safe way in my own care today. I also did a complete 180 and started reading proper medical journals and began trying to unravel my own health issues because unfortunately, the doctors I had access to then were as ableist as the people trying to indoctrinate me. Which is also why so many people fall prey to these types of predators*.
People who use these terms are not only perpetuating ideals founded in new age eugenics; they’re often hiding abuse, sometimes without even knowing it because that’s how they were abused too. They frame neglect or exploitation as enabling spiritual growth and it’s Terrifying to see their ideologies about reality and individual uniqueness and exceptionalism being perpetuated on social media. Especially in a lot of pagan and spiritual wellness circles. I can’t even go on certain apps without feeling bombarded by it and I’m truly concerned for the emotional and mental well-being of those being exposed to it.
I know some people still use the terms as self identifiers. And I don’t blame them. There’s usually a lot of trauma behind things like this, and not everyone has the means to break free from cult-like environments. I got lucky. But please, if anyone is coming across these terms for the first time and thinks it’s a good way to describe themselves, please know it’s rooted in ableism and new age eugenics made palatable by a sprinkling of fairy dust and wonder.
I’m going back on hiatus. Stay safe out there.
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*Being desperate to feel in control of your life or to get help can drive you into the arms of the first kind person willing to listen. Multilevel marketing companies thrive off that shit. Poverty, medical instability and ideas of individual exceptionalism all play a factor in the rise of unethical companies like d*terra and y*ung living becoming as prevalent and insidious as they are. When I refer to them as cults, I am not being hyperbolic.
i’m sorry but “making superhero suits more practical” trend sucks if it means making them boring and ugly. a good design should always trump practicality. also, it’s superhero media. realistically, a non-meta hero would be dead by now even with the ugly ass armor 😭
Person: “What’s your favorite song?”
Me with no object permanence: “UhHhHhh, it’s hard to choose.”
Person: “So, what hobbies do you have?” My mind: *goes blank*
Some guy: what’s your favourite film?
Me: I have never seen a film in my life
(Image description: six pride flags with the words "a day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine" in white and black text; the post includes a rainbow flag, four lesbian flags, and a sapphic flag.)
The quote above comes from a famous pride banner, you can view a photo of the banner here.
how is piracy bad? it’s sharing. and sharing is caring.
L with the T 💖
edit: OP is a trans inclusive intersectional feminist. this post is not for “the overlap between trans men and lesbians” (quote from a terf who reblogged this). this post is for trans lesbians, and solidarity between lesbians and trans people. TERFs and other radfems dont reblog or interact.
happy pride
Biggest mistake in my thinking process as a teen was "I'm not a lesbian because if I were I would Just Know." Sometimes, you gotta question your own sexuality (and gender) (several times.) Questioning my "attraction" to men instead of just accepting it as fact was..... so freeing. And made me reflect on my entire life, realizing I was just doing what I was told because it was expected. I realized none of it was natural to my true self.
But no, in a cispatriarchal heteronormative society, sometimes you do not Just Know. You have to figure out your own truth.