{Rabbit-Hearted Girl}

🌹Strip down to nothing at all -- become like a rose petal blowing free! 🌹

[parkersimmonsyall]

Here they are: The Heroes of Final Fantasy IX

[kipplekipple]

It’s interesting to me that we frame a lot of issues as costing money.

Unhoused folk cost money to house.

Disabled folk cost money, too.

Immigrants cost money.

Trans folk cost money.

Nobody ever says, “Hey, how much does Jeff Bezos cost?” “How much does it cost us to have Elon Musk around, hoarding his money?” “What’s it costing us to have all these fabulously wealthy people?”

It’s costing us a lot more than we ever talk about. Not just because their hoarding of wealth takes that money out of circulation and contributes directly to poverty and the spiralling cost to human beings everywhere.

Also because things are being framed in this way, because we are being forced to think of ourselves and others in terms of cartoon dollar symbols.

That is not a natural state of affairs for humans, it is not something that is morally defensible, and it is something that eats away at each of us in different ways depending on our position vis à vis wealth.

You are never too expensive to deserve to live.

[luna-lepus]

So.

Besides liking and reblogging, I’ve been inactive here for so long, I have no idea who even still follows me anymore-- so maybe it’s a little silly to announce a hiatus, but I wanted to make it official for not just anyone who sees it but for my own benefit. I’m in the process of working through some personal stuff, and using tumblr wastes more time than I can afford right now. 

In the meantime, though, I want to reach out to and be available to old friends and even potential new ones. If you’d like, hit me up with your contact info (skype or otherwise) if I don’t already have it. If I do already have it, I kindly request that you please immediately go yell at me for falling off the face of the earth for years.

It’s honestly taken me days to work up the nerve and get over the awkwardness of posting something out of the blue like this, but I feel like it’s important for me personally, even if literally no one else even sees this post.

Not to be dramatic, but I’m working very hard to become a person again.

 - Candi

[xxchaddxx]

“mimosa”

[skellydun]

please be gentle with yourself. you’re trying. if it’s taking you longer than you thought to achieve something or get somewhere that’s okay. try not to compare yourself to others too much because not everyone gets to where they need to be right away. you’re alive that’s what matters. keep trying. you’ll get there.

[atern-deactivated20180505]

I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism

[mikkeneko]

It is.

i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults

ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis

or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation

but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep

i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love  sleep, i just love overwatch more

[curlicuecal]

this this this this this

our society places almost zero value on sleep

on enough sleep

on uninterrupted sleep

on regular, predictable, cycling sleep

all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?

[paddysnuffles]

Reminder that 

- Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep. 

By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for. 

Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.

- Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.

If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.

- According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)

- Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.

After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.

- According to research “starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture and is making staff sick and stressed”

- Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.

Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch. 

Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.

[subjugatedmind]

the key to art is not giving a shit. not giving a goddamn shit. you gotta go to your sketchbook or computer or whatever and just draw free. no rules. do what you want and what feels right. if it looks like shit? no it doesn’t. keep going. keep drawing. you have a skill that is so rare and to keep it is the greatest gift of all.

[vintica]

[shipsicle]

Happy Holidays Everyone!!

And a wonderful start into the next year 

[revivalish]

✨⏳⛓🔒❓🕳🔪❌🔚🕯🔜✔️🍀💐🌤🔑💞💋✨

Emoji spell for that thing you’ve been worried sick about to turn out infinitely better than you ever expected.

Like to charge, reblog to cast!!

[nonbinarypastels]

Last time I made a post saying you don’t need to hate your body or want to change it to hate the fact that you were assigned a gender at birth without your consent and to disagree with that assignment I had people in the comments who were like “lol how can you ask a baby for consent? you can’t!!” which was apparently supposed to make me realize that my statement was ridiculous except that…they were literally…reiterating my point.

Children cannot consent to being assigned a gender at birth because they are unable to consent due to the fact that they’re at a stage of life where they aren’t capable of consenting to much of anything and where they don’t (and won’t for awhile) have any concept of gender at all. And whether you believe that gender is an innate part of a person that they are born with or something that is shaped within them due to their environment (or you believe that it is some combination of the two), the fact remains that a person’s gender is something that ultimately they know more intimately than anyone else—certainly more so than a doctor who took one look between their legs and assigned a gender to them based on nothing more than that, an assignment that will shape the entirety of their life for better or (more likely) for worse and that if they one day find that they disagree with it will cause them no small amount of struggle and distress.

So like…not to sound like the grandfather clock that won’t shut the hell up but no, you don’t need body dysphoria in order to be trans or nonbinary because at the root of being trans or nonbinary is the fact that we were assigned a gender at birth without our consent—consent that we could not give, yes, haha, how can you possibly ask a baby for consent? that’s my point, karen, jfc—based on nothing more significant than what our genitals look like and that we disagree with that assignment. Body dysphoria can (and often is) a part of that but it’s not required because again and again and again, you don’t have to hate the body you were born with in order to hate the gender assignment that you weren’t.

[wizarmon]

@astahrios asked: If you’re still taking requests, some pumpkinmon please?

Happy Halloween! gave them a lil Pumpkaboo pail, just for u :’>

[catsbeaversandducks]

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[bewilderedbuckley]

@softfallshadow

[justsomeantifas]

them: we’re over populated, that’s why people don’t have enough food to eat

reality: capitalism over-produces food, we have enough food to feed the world we just throw away what isn’t profitable.

[queerlittlecreature-deactivated]

and corporations COULD give excess food to the poor and the homeless but most of them go out of their way to trash it

[justsomeantifas]

corporation throwing away millions of pounds of food: And if you buy one of our microwave meals we’ll donate 1 cent to help end child hunger. (:

[long-ago-1234567890]

anyway attack on titan is nazi propaganda and i dont trust ppl who like it, and as a Jew™ and general decent person i have the fucking right to say i hate snk and fans of it on my own blog

[long-ago-1234567890]

also hetalia (i dont feel the need to link a source for that one since it is literally called axis powers hetalia and one of the main characters is a personification of nazi germany)

[princecupcake]

hi there, i hope its okay that i add onto this! i am a korean jew and i think its important to state that attack on titan also glorifies japans history of oppressing korea. the source emma provided also goes further into detail about this if anyone wants to know more

tysm for this post because snk makes me so uncomfortable, and not a lot of people realize what it is

[naradreamscape]

Attack on Titan’s author believes in eugenics and thinks Korean people aren’t even human; I can’t ever understand why someone would want to support the work of a guy like this

[deebrisbyfish]

This weeks strip is a sensitive one, because I know it will cause a few people to probably get a little upset. Heidi and I HAVE been invited to a few of these Gender Reveal Parties. We’ve always declined, but never offered up any reasons why, per say. But today’s strip has been a punched up version of a very real conversation we have each time it happens. As a transgender woman, I have a real issue with the idea of Gender Reveal Parties. My own existence kinda negates the real impact of saying “It’s a GIRL/BOY!” when me just being there would be like holding a sign that says “Well, you think that NOW…” And I have to question to morality of taking that “reveal” as the guide by which you will try and essentially indoctrinate a child in a gender that you won’t REALLY know for a few years at least is correct. I KNOW that it fucked ME up. Just my two cents, for what they are worth. I AM sorry to anyone that finds this strip or my comments here uncomfortable. But being asked to gender reveal parties makes ME really uncomfortable, and I guess it’s better if that’s out there.

[bob-belcher]