[messengerhermes]

Sooo hey, I know I just made an encouraging Tumblr Blaze post to people, that is intended for an all-ages audience. (And please know, yes I'm reading y'all's tags, and thank you for the sweet things you say, and I'm so happy that my How to Survive the End of the World post hit your dashes when you needed it, I hope it's been a balm against whatever you're weathering) However. My blog (and a lot of my art) is 18+. I'm a sex educator, erotic artist and erotica writer, please be aware if you scroll through my posts, those things will come up. As such, minors, please don't follow me! While being interested in sex-related subjects is nothing to be ashamed of and is common at all ages, interacting with adults who are creating sexual content online is dangerous for you and for us. Also, if you are looking for access to sex ed resources (I'm writing out the websites, but they are not linked here): Scarlateen.com is a comprehensive sex-ed site for teens and early adults, I find it very easy and not scary to read stuff on there, and appreciate that the site is LGBTQ inclusive (though the site can be kinda tricky to navigate) amaze.org offers sex-ed information for tweens and younger teens (aimed at folks 10-14) and breaks things down in the form of animated videos that are really cutely animated loveisrespect.org isn't necessarily focused on sex-ed, but more focused on relationship education and helping teens figure out how to have healthy boundaries and navigate their relationships I became a sex educator in part because I didn't have access to sex ed and so ended up learning from less than reliable sources. Having to struggle and feel scared in those ways made me passionate about making sure more knowledge gets into the hands of more people. If you're someone who hasn't had access to sex-ed yourself, I hope these resources are helpful.

---- Also, I'm pretty far left by US standards, so maybe 20% of this blog is yelling about police defunding, unions, queer liberation, and unmaking white supremacy. The rest is shitposting, cropped images of my smutty art, links to my fic, reblogging pics of Nightcrawler and Toad from Marvel, and some other nonsense spackling the gaps in between. Figured it'd be important for me to give this blog a tin label since I don't know what "x amount of people reached" will translate to in terms of folks wandering all the way here.

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[jurynullification]

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[hagiomoto]

Let’s Make Food, Unity & Peace for Lebanon in War

As a result of the devastating strikes and the harsh war that Lebanon has endured, thousands of people have been left without homes, safety,

He still accepts donations over here if you wish to support him and his project

[convexcave]

ok so instead of going on my usual the earth is doomed spiral I started looking into solar punk solutions and stumbled across the practice of permaculture & found a free 50 video series from the university of oregon on it if anyone else would like to learn abt ways we can actually start restoring earths whole deal

Permaculture Design Course - Oregon State University Ecampus

Permaculture Design Course - Oregon State University Ecampus

[anarchistmemedistro]

The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below : Peter Gelderloos : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : I

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmenta

The Solutions are Already Here, Chapter One, A Wide-Angle View

Podcast Episode · Audible Anarchism · 11/01/2025 · 2h 14m

Agroecology - Wikipedia

[wispthicket]

Another cool resource with information on sustainable waste management and other environmental pursuits! https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

[eonblueinmay]

Watching the process of this absolutely stunning painting makes it even more beautiful.

The artist is Sydney Swisher

[sheishine]

Ancient Sea Creature Diorama - Anomalocaris (Cambrian Period).

古代海洋生物ジオラマ - アノマロカリス (カンブリア紀)。

The print is available on my Etsy shop.

[exmpdg]

“apothecary diaries is a romance” “apothecary diaries is a court drama” wrong. jinshi’s apothecary diaries is a first love romance and maomao’s is a workplace drama. her biggest problem is being fired via execution and his is falling behind on work worrying she’s taking the wrong man home

[kvothes]

a good thread

[northstareclipse]

Springing off of my addiction post once more, I am also skeptical at best of 12-step programs, because their framework has just never remotely aligned with my actual experience.

The substance I was addicted to was heroin. While I was actively addicted, it absolutely came before everything else. My life shrank around it. I kept using despite very real, very obvious negative consequences. If you’re looking for something that fits the “compulsion + harm + loss of control” model, that was it.

But what’s always sat strangely with me is what happened when that context changed.

Once my abusive relationship ended and I was no longer in an environment where it was readily available, it was shockingly easy to stop. I’m not saying it was physically comfortable. My body was pretty pissed off for a while. But psychologically, it just didn’t have the same hold anymore. I wasn’t spending my days white-knuckling cravings or constantly thinking about it. It dropped out of my life in a way that, according to the 12-step model, is not really supposed to happen.

And that’s where my issue with that framework starts.

Because 12-step ideology tends to assume that if you have ever had that kind of relationship with one substance, it reveals something fundamental and permanent about you. That you now have a generalized “addictive nature” that will attach itself to other substances or behaviors if you’re not constantly managing it. That you are, in some essential way, always on the verge of transferring that pattern onto something else.

And that just hasn’t been true for me.

I was a near-daily cannabis user for years. When it started consistently making me feel physically uncomfortable instead of good, I stopped. No drawn-out battle, no existential crisis, just “this isn’t giving me what I liked about it anymore” and I moved on.

I drink occasionally, in social or celebratory contexts, and I genuinely find alcohol kind of boring outside of that. It doesn’t have much pull for me.

I tried gambling once, got annoyed at how tedious and overstimulating it felt, and left the casino in under an hour. I have not felt remotely compelled to revisit that experience.

I use the internet a lot, and I play a handful of video games, but I can also go on a camping trip with no signal and be completely fine, unless you want to try and find something pathological about nature photography, in which case you can blow it out your ass. If anything, I generally enjoy the change of pace. There’s no sense of panic or withdrawal or “I need to get back to my computer/consoles immediately.”

So when I hear the idea that addiction is this broad, transferable trait that will latch onto anything with quick reward or low friction, I just don’t see it reflected in my own life.

What does make sense, looking back, is context.

When I was using heroin, I was in an abusive relationship. My environment was unstable, stressful, and honestly pretty bleak. The substance didn’t just exist in a vacuum. It fit into a specific set of conditions where it functioned as relief, escape, and regulation.

When those conditions changed, the behavior changed with them.

That doesn’t mean there was no dependency. There obviously was. It doesn’t mean there were no consequences. There very much were. My grades suffered. I dropped out of college. I lost my apartment because staying out of withdrawal and numbing out from the abuse felt more important than paying rent.

But it does suggest that what we call “addiction” might not always be this permanent, identity-level trait that needs to be managed forever. Sometimes it looks a lot more like a relationship between a person, a substance, and a specific environment.

When that’s the case, then a framework that assumes universality - “if this happened once, it will always be waiting to happen again, with anything” - is going to miss a lot of variation.

I’m not saying 12-step programs can’t help people. Clearly they can, or they likely wouldn’t exist in the way they do. But I do think they’re often treated as the model of addiction rather than a model that fits some people and not others, and when your experience doesn’t match that model, many people who swear by them will assume that you are misunderstanding yourself, in denial, or “not taking it seriously enough.” This paternalistic attitude only serves to make me even more skeptical of the framework.

For me, what mattered wasn’t declaring myself permanently “addictive” or treating every pleasurable behavior as a potential threat.

What mattered was getting out of the environment where that pattern made sense in the first place.

Rat Park, people. Stop forgetting about Rat Park.

[noah-wyles]

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

[fluoritegalaxy]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[horsefriend]

[putnamspuppeteer]

For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.

[brookietf]

[catgirlforeskin]

Happy pride month to her and her exclusively

[seraphiminn]

she made a comic about the experience on twitter

[catboybiologist]

happy pride

[ikindamaybewanthertositonmyface]

An Update from back in October I'm surprised wasn't added to this post. lol

[virtualgirladvance]

maybe the world is worth it after all

[orcaking]

Wishing you all a get more hairy and naked summer <3

(available as a sticker on patreon through june 2026)

[viralfrog]

[homoidiotic]

Pride Houston (1997)

[unspeakablearchives]

(Source: Sen the donkey)

[dragongirlsweetie]

cis people are always so convinced you're transitioning to try to trick them and it's like. it really cannot be overstated just how much you are not a part of the equation whatsoever

[torturequeen]

[opalescentfeather]

hey just a heads up, oreo is doing this as a distraction so you won't notice the boycott on oreos and their parent company, mondelez. along with Nestle, and proctor & gamble

they're being boycotted because the harvesting of palm oil and sugar cane for their products, like oreos, kit kats, smarties, ritz, herbal essences, pantene (products being boycotted) is all harming the indigenous Melanesian communities of West Papua New Guinea. the way that these products are being harvested is straight up ecocide. the communities' rivers are poisoned. their forests are being cleared with nothing left

we NEED to care, boost the power of the Melanesian communities, speak up about it, and save their communities and this earth.

you can make oreos at home y'all

more info below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

KitKat, Oreo, Pantene and the silent death of a nation - greenMe

KitKat, Oreo and Pantene: I'll explain why the indigenous people of Indonesia are calling for a boycott of these products that you buy every

West Papua Calls for Boycott of Major Brands Over Palm Oil Ecocide and Human Rights Violations - Archynewsy

Unveiling the Crisis: Understanding the West Papua Boycott and the Call for Ecological and Human Rights Justice In the lush rainforests of W