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People are so myopic it’s crazy. You suggest that the label terrorist is not only unstable and racialized, but it is unevenly applied according to the whims of the empire and you are lacking common sense because obviously the empire is unquestionably right and to challenge that is to be out of your mind. We also see how mental illness and competency are subjective like you must be crazy and stupid for not listening to what the US says to believe 100%.

audrey-hepbae

The “BLM and antifa are terrorists” years are not far behind us at all

fashionmajor

screenshot taken not that long ago

ororomunroedontpullout

You can’t forgot the black identity extremist label that said acknowledging white supremacist as the prevailing system made you suspect and used it as pretext to surveil and infiltrate BLM groups.

daily-spooky

self-loving-vampire

A lot of trans rights, disability rights, reproductive rights, and so much more relies on people having the right to do as they wish with their own body even if other people don't like it or think they know better.

rotzaprachim

“hallelujah” by leonard cohen being played as an easter and christmas song, “zombie” by the cranberries” being played as a halloween song, and “born in the U.S.A.” by bruce springsteen being played as a Fourth of July/generic us patriotism song have got to be a special trifecta of the most no-listening-comprehension musical moments that happen on seasonal playlists every single year

charlesoberonn

spyderqueen

#this is how vampire siring works

dankmemeuniversity

c-ptsdrecovery

Informational Masterpost

Here are the links for my informational posts on abuse, Complex PTSD, and associated subjects:

Recognizing and understanding abuse:

Childhood/emotional trauma:

Signs of Childhood Emotional Neglect

Things people with CEN often say

How immature parents emotionally neglect their kids

How childhood trauma can manifest

Healthy parenting practices

Parental criticism and self-worth

What is emotional abuse?

(For more, please see @furiousgoldfish‘s Recognizing Abuse Masterlist )

Gaslighting:

What is gaslighting?

A sign of gaslighting

More signs you are being gaslit

Gaslighting children

Signs your parents are gaslighting you

Were you born under the gaslight?

People with disabilities: what gaslighting can sound like

Unhealthy relationships:

A list of your rights as a person

Signs of unhealthy boundaries

Signs of codependent behavior

Telling good friends from bad

Quiz: Is your family dysfunctional? (Take this with salt)

How dysfunctional families resemble a cult

Resources for male victims of abuse

Narcissistic abuse:

What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)?

All about covert narcissists

The narcissistic abuse cycle

Do narcissists believe their own lies?

Do narcissists experience shame?

What if narcissists can’t help it?

Complex PTSD

Recognizing and understanding C-PTSD

Recognizing Complex PTSD

Symptoms and diagnostic criteria of C-PTSD in children and adults

Symptoms of Complex PTSD

What are emotional flashbacks?

Developmental Trauma

Trauma and the brain

Things I didn’t realize were complex trauma symptoms

Emotional neglect in C-PTSD

Book recommendations for C-PTSD

A comic on how C-PTSD/emotional flashbacks form

Amygdala hijackings

Fight, flight, freeze, fawn: common trauma responses

More symptoms of C-PTSD and related conditions

“Fawning” and People-pleasing

Article on “fawning” and people-pleasing

People-pleasing and chronic illness

Link between abuse and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Perfectionism attacks

Why we self-isolate

Skin hunger

Creative slump?

Creative hibernation

Can’t seem to read books anymore?

Feeling hungry when you don’t actually need to eat

Forms of self-harm besides cutting

Building healthy relationships

Recognizing an unhealthy environment

How to ignore someone you live with

Grey Rock technique for dealing with narcissists and other abusers

Coping during the holidays

Scripts for setting boundaries with your family

Boundaries

Tips for setting boundaries

Setting boundaries by moving yourself

Empath with boundaries

How to respond to a gaslighter

Unconditional love: how to give it, and know if it’s healthy

Being “Sad enough” doesn’t help: how to get other people to care that you’re upset

Upsetting yourself as a cry for help

Symptom management

Getting help

Questions to ask before giving up

Mental health pain scale

App for avoiding self-harm

Emotional Flashback Management

Finding a trauma therapist

What to look for in a trauma therapist

How to tell if you have a good trauma therapist

Finding a therapist for DID/OSDD

How to know a therapist isn’t right for you

What is EMDR?

Cognitive approaches

Depressive logical mistakes

When should you listen to your instincts?

Counting your blessings

Overcoming learned helplessness and boosting optimism

Cultivating positivity and a sense of safety

Laziness does not exist

Day-tight compartments (for anxiety)

Emotional/Somatic approaches

The healthy mood spectrum

Grieving instead of rationalizing

Listening to the body

Recognizing and validating your emotions

How to feel your feelings

Mindfulness 101

Accepting your feelings

Grounding techniques

More grounding techniques

Deep-breathing resources

EFT tapping

Self-care approaches

Self-soothing thoughts

Website to help you figure out why you feel bad and what to do about it

Book recommendation: Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

Self-care suggestions

A beginner’s guide to intuitive eating

Nine types of rest

Relaxing music recommendations

Little things to improve your mood

Suggestions for insomnia

House-cleaning groups

Recovery

Basic stages of trauma recovery

Uncomfortable feelings that indicate you’re on the right path

Post-traumatic growth

Defining forgiveness (Reminder: forgiveness is always optional)

Imagining forgiveness

nibeul

Some of y’all think that holding hands and sharing a bed is immediately romantic, and this is why people cannot differentiate between romantic, platonic, and familial forms of love.

peachdoxie

Nothing is EVER inherently romantic. The meaning of a gesture is determined by the people involved in it, not some random outsider.

slowlyshytheorist

The meaning of a gesture is determined by the people involved in it

everythingfox

sixpenceee

A cow all shampooed and blow-dried up

sammiisunshiinee

It’s a cowfluff

goofballproximitysurveyor-deact

when people put "trigger warning" on their content without specifying what the trigger warning is for

ohtehnoeszombies

this post contains notes

zeesqueere

does it?

does it though?

send-me-a-puffalope

huh thats new

jazminesullivan

best of daria — part I

jamiemclellan

Our solar system moving through space..

ginalinettiofficial

yo i’m sorry did this just say our whole solar system is MOVING?????????? THROUGH SPACE????????

the sun is stationary right???? someone please for the love of god tell me the sun is stationary??????? it’s tuesday afternoon i don’t have the mental capacity to learn that our entire fucking solar system is MOVING right now ????!?

hockeylvr42

I mean I hate to be the one to break this to you, but everything in space, including the sun, is moving through space. Very quickly, actually. The earth orbits the sun at 64,000 miles per hour, sun orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at 500,000 miles per hour, and the Milky Way galaxy itself is moving through space at roughly 1.3 million miles per hour.

ginalinettiofficial

okay

thank u for

for the information

i uh

i’m just gonna. take a minute

i think that

i think that tomorrow i’m uh

gonna have to ask

where the milky way. is going???

but uh

yea i don’t think i can handle getting an answer to that particular query quite yet

hockeylvr42

Well since it’s now tomorrow I might as well answer your question about where the Milky Way is going. Really, there’s two different answers, a short and a long answer. The first, and shorter explanation, is that the Milky Way is heading towards our nearest galactic neighbor, the andromeda galaxy, and the two galaxies will collide within the next couple billion years. The second and much longer answer is that the Milky Way is apart of what’s called a “cluster” of galaxies. Basically, all the galaxies that are near ours. And this cluster is part of an even bigger cluster, called a “supercluster”. Superclusters are some of the largest structures in the universe, they stretch for hundreds of millions of light years and encompass hundreds of thousands of different galaxies. Our galaxy is slowly orbiting the general center of what’s called the Virgo supercluster, guided along by the gravitational pull of the galaxies around us and the structure of the universe itself.

revretch

Knew galaxies moved, didn’t know about the superclusters

rosslynpaladin

The turtle moves

neil-gaiman

Yesterday was a bad writing day. I spent a lot of time staring at a screen. Lots of Tumblr replies. Lots of Twitter (the Netflix Sandman trailer going out didn’t help). Lots of being grumpy at myself and convinced I couldn’t do it any more. The script was a mess. I was doomed. This morning I printed out what I had to fix, picked up a pen, made a few notes and started typing. It was fun and easy and straightforward. I finished it and sent it to the people who needed to see it, and just got an amazed call from our script editor saying she was laughing while crying and couldn’t work out how I’d done everything in a day.

And I hadn’t done it all in a day. All of the being miserable yesterday was necessary for it to fly today. All of the knowing it was insoluble and awful made the work today relatively easy. I had to get out of my own way, and had to read it freshly, without being attached to anything. And then I just did the notes. And to make the thing that worked today, a lot of stuff that didn’t quite work or sort of worked had to be written too. It’s always easier to fix stuff that exists.

Anyway. Yesterday = bad writing day. Today = good writing day. I thought it was worth telling people, in case there was anyone else out there who was having a bad writing day too.