A Collection Of Ghosts

Lesbian in a t4t way. Autistic. Artist. Dissociative system He/they/xe 25

[livingnotonlysurviving]

I feel like I should make an about us so here it is

- we are a diagnosed polyfragmented did system. At this point in our recovery we don’t sign posts with alter names.

- we are diagnosed with autism. Our long term special interest is the ocean. We have medium support needs.

- we are chronically ill and while we sometimes have a lot of mobility it’s not guaranteed and we have a walker and wheelchair for low mobility days. We are always in some sort of pain.

- multiracial (Black, Indigenous to the Turtle Island, and Irish).

- We’re a trans adult who primarily works with trans kids.

- we strongly believe in the healing powers of nature and art making.

- the above all inform our politics as a leftist. We do minimal internet activism and prefer to focus our energy on local stuff but we’ll sometimes reblog current events and mutual aid.

- this blog does not have a theme. It’s just anything mostly SFW that we find interesting / important. If you want to follow our NSFW blog message us.

If you have questions ask away

[laskulls-deactivated20250318]

so many snow animals are just white puff with dot eyes. amazing design

[laskulls-deactivated20250318]

I just love this genre

[ladydei]

oh this was delightful

[ladyantiheroine]

Don’t forget owls!

[moniquill]

Sphere = the ideal shape for maximizing internal volume with minimum surface area, thus best shape for not lose heat. Sphere stay warm! Sticky outy bits get cold!!

[fluffysheeps]

Bumble sharks 🐝🦈

[backtornado]

insane headline to pair with the actual photo of the beastie itself

this is just a gormless little creature. what are we doing here.

[engenever-beaver]

I think they meant the look when the shark extends its jaws.

[toskarinfr]

must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason

[whyenn-reader]

you are not immune to inventing an arbitrary set of rules that only you have to adhere to

[depsidase]

[pastperfectcontinuous]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

[ritavonbees]

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.

[burgerdotcom]

reblogs were off

[aviself]

*gently headbutts u in the shoulder to show affection*

[lesbiugh]

*absentmindedly pats your entire face to acknowledge affection received*

[our-queer-experience]

[dreaming-demonic]

Yeah neopronouns arent a new fangled concept gen z came up with btw

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

how it feels to message a friend who's having Problems that you can't do anything to help with.

[hylianane]

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

[arachnixe]

Also while we're all talking about anti-racism, here's a helpful tip:

Performative self-flagellation over being white is not a substitute for doing serious introspection about the ways you have been complicit in or rewarded by a white-supremacist society, nor doing the work to dismantle white supremacy.

A white person chiming in to a conversation about racism to say "I'm sorry for being white" or "white people suck, I say this as a white person" is just a masturbatory way to try to assuage your own feelings of shame without actually doing anything. It doesn't make you look like "one of the good ones." It makes you look like someone who centers your own feelings about it.

[tpwrtrmnky]

I do think "literally zero evidence indicates that gatekeeping medical transition does anything to prevent regret, but the harm done by gatekeeping is extensively documented" is a much stronger argument than "regret isn't real" cause there's always going to be some anecdote that puts you in a weak-looking rhetorical position for the latter, but the former is pretty unassailable.

[qqchurch]