I postings consist of : a lot of stuff but not actually much going on. things are in flux. I have been on here many a year since the dawn of superwholock age: 30 vvv. all just old stuff vvv -updates, -replies, -craft things that I find relevant, -ponies in the form of painting sketches and plushies, -and plushies in general (mostly ponies tho, getting orders done or at least trying to... I am horrible about procrasting.) I'm friendly, I won't bite I promise. ^u^ (the bottom half is old but feel free to read if you like. mostly my pony OC's have moved over to the-craftbox.tumblr so feel free to check that out.) (( I'm Linz of "LinZ Creations", but here my name is Derpy Stitch, Derpy for short if you'd like. ^-^)) Hi! My name is Pincushion Pony! But you can call me Pinpin for short. I'm one of LinZ's creations so I'm being her little helper and posting pics of all that she makes. I hope you like and follow! and feel free to ask me questions! [I'm Red Pants! but you can just call me Red. ^w^ I'm based off of a sherlockian made fan day. Red Pants Monday is my day to rule this tumblr!] (( I second that, feel free to address questions to either or all of us.))
This year, on the 31 March, we lost Gilbert Baker, gay artist and creator of the gay pride flag. Today we would celebrate his 66th birthday. Let’s remember him as the wonderful person he was.
i just want to add to this post that the last update made to the official pride flag by Glibert Baker before he passed away was THIS:
the new lavender stripe at the very top was added to represent DIVERSITY and as far as i am aware, was added in retaliation against trump’s presidency. i’ve not seen many people use this version, and it deserves to be known.
Some state Republicans are already dismissing the findings.
Two years after being tasked with commissioning a review of medical evidence surrounding gender-affirming care for trans youth, Utah’s own state health department has concluded that trans healthcare bans “cannot be justified.” The Republicans who commissioned the study aren’t too happy about it.
Back in 2023, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill that placed an indefinite “moratorium” on doctors prescribing gender-affirming care like hormone therapy and puberty blockers to trans youth. That bill ordered the Utah Department of Health and Human Services to compile their report in order to produce recommendations for the state government on whether or not to lift the moratorium.
This week, the department delivered their long-awaited, over 1,000-page report — which is dated August 6, 2024 — to Utah lawmakers. The report’s authors found that “the consensus of the evidence supports that the treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body changes consistent with the affirmed gender in pediatric GD [gender dysphoria] patients.”
The authors added that “the evidence also supports that the treatments are safe in terms of changes to bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer.” Trans youth who had received gender-affirming care were within the bounds of normal, non-pathological ranges for these conditions.
y’all this is huge. please don’t “water is wet” all over it! I understand that we all already know this… The point is that the world doesn’t know or care or believe and so these studies really fucking matter!
I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)
do not download and burn your music to cds. do not contribute to plastic and e-waste. get a 2TB external hard drive or even a 64GB pen drive and put your music collection of mp3s and FLACs (!!!) on there. if you have a raspberry pi or an old, mostly broken laptop lying around put jellyfin on there and you can stream your music collection to every device in your house. if you're willing to do a little more research you can setup a vpn to your home network and stream your music collection anywhere.
What's that? I wrote a step-by-step guide on how to do this including hardware recommendations if you want to get a little more hardcore about it? Yes.
I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.
never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.
find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.
talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore
picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else
if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.
Personally i went from “guess I’ll die” jokes to “IF I HAVE TO BE HERE FOR 5 MORE MINUTES I PROMISE YOU I WILL BUY JUST, AN ARRAY OF CLOTHES.” and other wild hyperbolic stuff. Just replace the death part with something ridiculous and off topic. Its very entertaining
This also works with calling myself things like stupid, worthless, trash, etc. Even if you do this jokingly to yourself, your brain still believes it, and keeps up the cycle. Seriously, I found that when I stopped saying these things about myself, even jokingly, it made a massive difference.
Here’s a tip I picked up from a friend that’s helped me a lot — replace self deprecating jokes with ironically self aggrandizing jokes
Like every time I trip and fall, instead of saying “l’m just a disaster human” I say “I’m the epitome of grace and beauty”
Or like, when I draw a picture I’m not 100% happy with, instead of saying “my art is trash” I say something like “you know I think it’s time we replaced the Mona Lisa”
When you do that you get to make a joke, but you’re ALSO getting practice building yourself up, y’know?
And eventually it becomes a reflex and you get so used to it that you can say nice stuff about yourself even when you AREN’T joking
I found my brain was stuck on “I want to die” when the truth was “I want to go home” or “I want to take a nap”. Switching over to the true statements took practice but I’m sure it was easier because I knew it was true. I didn’t have to persuade myself to make jokes about it because I could just… be honest instead of hyperbolic. like yes, okay, me, you’re fed up and grouchy, but you don’t actually want to die. you want a snack and to read your book. let’s not get carried away.
I’ve always been close to my mom, but the rest of my family has always treated me like a burden because my dad fully expected to have a third son and I “ruined” his “last chance”. My mom tried to counteract that by calling me her favorite daughter, but then she’d immediately undermine it by explaining to people that I was the only one.
One day, more or less as a joke, I heard her describe me to someone else as her favorite daughter, and before she could spoil the bit, I whirled around and announced, “That’s because I’m the BEST ONE!” Mom, embarrassed, tried to explain the joke as usual, but when she clarified that I was her only daughter, I added, “That doesn’t stop me from being the best.”
It got a laugh, so I kept doing it. Only daughter? BEST daughter! Superior to all others. Accept no substitutes. All shall love me and despair. Etc.
The thing is, I actually do a lot for my mom. She’s nearly 80, and I’m the only one in the family who keeps an ear on her breathing to make sure her asthma isn’t acting up, or encourages her to keep up with her therapy homework. I go out of my way to do nice things for her just because I think it’s so unfair that no one else gives a shit. Her sons treat her like a burden; I treat her like a gift. I actually AM the best daughter! I’m also the best of her kids! Her sons do shit like join racist cults and torture animals. I fight fascism (as much as I can) and help rescue cats.
But SAYING I’m the best one made us both believe it. At this point, when I say I’m the best of her kids, I don’t sound sarcastic, and she fondly agrees with me. It’s made a significant improvement in both our mental health. Best dumb joke I ever made.
If you’re looking for a good way to spend the rest of your week, Archive.org have unearthed a gigantic collection of cassettes from the mid-eighties into the mid-nineties. According to their notes, the collection was saved from the archives of noise-arch.net and donated by former CKLN-FM radio host Myke Dyer in August of 2009. Due to the size and obscurity, the collection hasn’t been properly notated but is said to include cassettes ranging from “tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indie, rock, DIY, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials”. Head to Archive now to download the free collection.
My spouse and I are both disabled, queer, and native. We have been struggling and are in desperate need of help. We need to pay for May rent, our phone, electric, and internet bills, and our car payment. We need $3000.
