You're always able to be better.

A blog about the cool things I reblog. and some of my thoughts.

[qillermeme]

[mysillycomics]

[somewhatgrownup]

Had to do it

[lil-squiggy]

"He's making a comedy about peace in the middle east"

"Thats already funny"

[waitingforthet]

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[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

#gay man asks local lesbian to be his queen

You can't leave this in the tags XD

[between-stars-and-waves]

Also being asked to be people's queen is Storm's job, don't cramp her style!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Its basically the one plot she gets

[thewizardofhoes-speaking]

[knightf1sh]

”Protect the kids!” Unless they’re queer, trans, intersex, non-white, then you suddenly don’t give a shit about the kids.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

they don't give a shit about any kids.

I see this "protect the kids unless they're..." gotcha attempt constantly and it's really fucking grating because no, fascists do not care about straight cis white kids either. fascism is desperate for children to exist as a resource to be exploited, to make up the numbers of their fantasy ethnostate, to ensure the propagation of their preferred bloodlines, etc, but kids as actual real human beings - regardless of their identities or origins - are not loved or respected under fascism. they are targeted for brainwashing. their lives are aggressively controlled to prevent them from developing their own thoughts, views, or understandings. they are severely punished for any failure to progress toward their future roles as cogs in the fascist machine.

straight cis white abled male children are not privileged under fascism, they are cultivated.

[lightbulb-warning]

many such foolish cases of things left unsaid :)

[fruityyamenrunner]

something charmingly twentieth century about this

[cryptotheism]

This counts as a spell

[demilypyro]

Placeable AOE effect

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[creatingblackcharacters]

"I don't relate to movies when they aren't like me" meanwhile the best comparison to the relationship I had/have with my mother during my Black American childhood features a Chinese Canadian family where generations of the women turn into red pandas due to a balance of emotional suppression and necessary strength and survival. Skill issue, I says, SKILL ISSUE!

[jsong0-0]

I don't know what I'm drawing.😇

[creature-wizard]

I recently saw an actual news article censor the words "sexual" and "molest." Fucking shit hell fuck shit fuck.

[angiethewitch]

ooooh, storytime!

for a while, my husband worked as a call handler for the ambulance service. during his training, they had a talk from someone wanting to introduce new policy and he wanted to use my husband's group as a tester group. fun, right?

well, the talk was about how saying suicide was triggering. if a caller says theyre suicidal, the handlers should say "unalive" instead, because saying the word might actually trigger the suicidal person.

if the caller says they were raped and need help, the handler should say "S A" instead, because rape is triggering.

I don't know about you, but if I phoned up the ambulance service to ask for help because I want to die, I wouldn't want them using tiktok speak and trivialising the issue. I think that would make me less likely to ever ask for help. SAY THE WORDS. how are we supposed to address the problem if we can't even name the fucking problem.

luckily, my husbands main instructor literally said "well, that's fucking stupid" to the man wanting to introduce this policy and it hasn't been implemented. but it might. we are watching language be erased. NAME. THE. PROBLEM.

I wish I were making this up, I wish I could say I was exaggerating. I'm not.

[handsaniti]

So fun fact, people who are trained in helping to deescalate suicidal people will always say to put it bluntly.

“Do you want to kill yourself?”

A, it has the benefit of making sure everyone is on the same page. Self-harm and attempting suicide are two different things. You can want to harm yourself without wanting to kill yourself. It can also let you know if the person is passively suicidal or if they’re in the process of killing themselves.

B, stigmatizing suicide leads to more suicides.

C, you will not cause someone to kill themselves by saying the word suicide. It is not a magic word that speaking the name of will cause someone to jump off a roof.

[breelandwalker]

Also, speaking to causation on this trend (separate from issues of censorship), lay people need to learn what "triggering" actually means.

Because way too many people do not understand the difference between "This word is an activating reminder for something traumatic in my brain and it has a rapid and deeply negative impact on my mental health which may result in dissociation, flashbacks, spiraling, panic attacks, or similarly serious reactions" and "ewww that word makes me UNCOMFYYYYY."

[teaboot]

Time to talk about self-harm and abuse again!

When I was working on breaking my self-harm habit, one of the most COMFORTING things was discussing it frankly and openly with a professional. Saying out loud, “I’m doing X to myself” and seeing her just nod like it was no big deal and proceed business as usual with her questions was AMAZING for making myself less shameful im talking about it. The idea that I wasn’t revolting, that my problem was not uncommon, that it was actually a pretty normal response to stress and trauma, made it easier to talk about it and eventually stop doing it.

On the other hand, the WORST therapy session I ever had was with a young man who I presume to have been relatively new and inexperienced in the field because, after confessing I was experiencing symptoms of PTSD related to childhood abuse, instead of asking outright, “were you physically abused?” or “what were typical punishments in your house?”, THIS GUY sort of fumbled over his words to ask, “Were you ever…”, before flicking his hand in a “striking someone with a belt” gesture in my general direction.

And because HE wasn’t comfortable using frank and open language, *I* got to deal with being triggered by that! Because GUESS WHAT: SOMEONE PRETENDING THEY’RE HITTING YOU CAN BE UPSETTING TO PHYSICAL ABUSE SURVIVORS

So yeah. Obviously everyone has different triggers and different things that help or make things worse.

But for the love of god, WE HAVE WORDS FOR A REASON

[lil-squiggy]

Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court

Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million

“Was being saved to train their ai therapy bot”

[depsidase]

[selfship-quotes]

I love soulmates but also this-

[qilingxiong]

[i-point-out-iambic-pentameter]

I knit the threads of fate myself until

is iambic pentameter!

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

things to say after fucking up egregiously

pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

let's run that again

one more time normal style

I'm going to become a statistic

further proof god is out to get me

it's because I tore my acl senior year

I couldn't do it for religious reasons

my ex took my talent in the divorce

good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)

[cuttledreams-bugs]

I deliver a friend feel free to spread it as you please

[escuerzoresucitado]

[findingfeather]

I absolutely fucking hate this. Gold star, no notes.

[sashasienna]