i can’t be near you, the light just radiates

if you know me irl no you fucking don’t about me/byf

[justs0mekillj0y]

okayyyyy here’s my yt channel where i uploaded a bunch of videos from last night

【 harmony 】

local dumbass

i hit the yt post limit for today so the rest will be uploaded tomorrow 😭

[iipastelhxrmony]

it’s been months since i last opened vscode let’s see if i still remember how html css works

[iipastelhxrmony]

i need to work on my website so bad but it’s gonna take so much work and i don’t remember what i was doing the last time i worked on it

[iipastelhxrmony]

i need to be more emo

[key-pair]

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

[key-pair]

a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

[murraysiskind-deactivated202511]

It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

[allhailklisz]

[yokelfelonking]

One of the best ones I saw was a thing noting that every single one of the few survivors of suicide jumps off of the Golden Gate Bridge realized, on the way down, that the problems they were killing themselves over actually were fixable or could be worked through...except for the now - extremely unfixable - problem of gravity.

[authortobenamedlater]

Went to the Holocaust Museum in DC once. There was a video interview of an Auschwitz survivor who said he and some other prisoners stayed up all night with a man who wanted to kill himself. The man didn’t kill himself and survived to liberation.

In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

Hearing that from a guy who survived the Holocaust rewired my brain a little bit.

[drgrlfriend]

I think something a lot of people don't understand is that depression is not suicidality, and suicidality is not depression. People can, and are, depressed without being suicidal, and sometimes suicidality peaks as people are emerging from depression. Suicidality is a wave, and the trick is to allow that wave to crest and subside WITHOUT acting on it. Whatever it takes to ride it out. For some people that's distraction, like watching television. For others it's calling a friend -- not to talk about the suicidality, but just to talk. For others it could be as simple as going to sit in a coffee shop or library, because the presence of other people is a huge diminisher of suicide risk. That's what suicide safety planning is about. It's like having any other type of emergency plan, like a plan for fire or evacuation. It's making a plan when you are in the frame of mind to do so, so that you can just DO the plan without having to think about it when the occasion arises. When you're in the midst of suicidal ideation, or even intent, you're not in a problem-solving mood. So knowing past!you, with the help of a therapist hopefully, came up with the plan and all you have to do is follow up until the wave crests and subsides, is what allows you to see another day.

ETA: Here's a link to a safety plan. https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/988-safety-plan.pdf

[goldkirk]

There’s a really compassionate and well-written paper/book/thing called Suicide: The Forever Decision that’s written specifically for people who are currently suicidal. The letter to the reader at the beginning is wonderful and deeply understands how to talk to someone who’s suicidal without preaching or talking down to them.

It’s very honest. It’s very clear. It’s very kind. It presents you with a lot of information and a lot of understanding and lets you take it all in like the autonomous human you are, and make decisions from an informed place. It goes over the reality of suicide attempts, pain involved, likelihoods of survival, after effects of attempts, and how to get help if you want it after reading all of that and learning about the reality of suicide attempts.

You can read it for free here: https://qprinstitute.com/pdfs/Forever_Decision.pdf

No one can ever stop you if you’re really determined. Only you can stop yourself. If you’re suicidal and there’s ANY tiny part of you that wants a chance to not go down that route, but can’t convince the rest of you yet, give this short book a try. Or share it with anyone you know who might need it.

[khoesib]

'Why doesn't transracialism exist if both race and gender are socially constructed" is such a funny copout because yeah one can change race depending on location. I'm Coloured in South Africa (non-black) and Black in the West. I change race depending on where I am and arguably depending on who I am with and how I'm being perceived.

It's also why even though there are white Latines, they are very often racialised as being simply "Latine" as a kind of racial identity in the western world.

[khoesib]

Obviously, this is different to being trans but it's an example of the fluidity of racial identity. Even ethnicity is something malleable, bendable and can change depending on where, when and who you are. Gender being a kind of 'social skin' just means unlike race and ethnicity, it's reflective of the internal and psychological rubbing up against the external social world.

[photosynthekid]

hi, if you've posted atla art recently (specifically zukka for some reason) there is a chance that one of these bot accounts has stolen your work and reposted it with a link to some sketchy website

account usernames- @femiliyaaaa @tsunade6 and @purpleanimegirls

edit- pls report the accounts for spam and block them!

[anglaised]

yall think of the word greek and imagine blonde blue eyed people bc greek was literally colonized and retroactively made to be associated with european descent….oh who am i kidding yall dgaf u just don’t like the idea of black people “staining” your Favorite Romanticized white fantasies

[catsdelightful-deactivated20240]

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

[misslunarose]

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

[obi-mom-kenobi]

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit

[obi-mom-kenobi]

[jamiegeode]

@creatingblackcharacters !!!

[strwberrymist]

i'm bored *opens tumblr* i'm bored *closes tumblr* i'm bored *opens tumblr* *sees smth that fills me with hatred because envy consumes me* i am going to kill everyone *closes tumblr* *cries* i'm bored *opens tumblr* *sees smth cool* YAY I LOVE LIFE

[datcravat]

Mia summer photocard☀️

[justs0mekillj0y]

lltbp nashville photo dump pt2

pt1

[justs0mekillj0y]

Lltbp nashville photo dump pt2 on the way i got a lot

[this-is-orientalism]

White acquaintance is a huge fan of Chinese mobile and gacha games and says their type is East Asian men but refuses to interact with Chinese fans, often jokes that all of them are homophobic, and calls them “a bunch of miserable fucks”.

this is orientalism.

[iipastelhxrmony]

I 100%ed fran bow🥹

[iipastelhxrmony]

why does using a computer again feel kinda unnatural now