Mental Mirror

I am a Tumblr elder. I love tea, books, cats and this hellsite. I’m Ace, Aro, and Agender. If I like it, I reblog it. If you don’t like it, tough.

[catchymemes]

everyone: happy pride month 🌈

my brain at 12:00 am on june 1st:

[bleeding-seraphic]

my thems for pride month. Yay. Garish colors abound

[frcz78]

Ok, it's finally done. Home is a place, home is a person.

This story is my first major piece after several years of art block, and I'm so glad I could finally get back to drawing.

Huge thanks to my dear friend @chancekey for the support.

[lucifersdelusionaldaughter]

Happy Pride from Hazbin Hotel ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Artwork from the official merch

[comfortingcatharsis]

A character attempting to hug another without being able to use their arms- their hands bound behind them and to or around an obstacle, they curl their torso forward and hunch their shoulders around the other character as much as possible, tilting their head and hooking their chin over the other's shoulder or head, providing what contact and comfort they can in their situation.

[validblogname]

one fight at a time

[lizardlicks]

Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou

[andyet-i-fish]

amazing win🔥 & reading about it I discovered they're trying to do another one (uranium mining near Craven Canyon) just so people are informed:

Hearing on proposed Black Hills uranium drilling opens with hours of opposition testimony

People who spoke Monday during the hourslong public comment period were all in opposition to the project

[dailycatsblog]

[valtsv]

something i really enjoy in horror movies is when the victim(s) start to hunt the killer in return in order to kill them first, both because it's an interesting parallel that (if done well) asks the audience to consider the question of when violence and killing are a justifiable means to an end in order to survive and at what point it crosses the line from acceptable to abhorrent and condemns the perpetrator, and also because it's a little bit funny. like i can do that too bitch you're not special.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

lie to me

[dipdamnderoo]

I made a thing.  Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

[secondlina]

No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

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[mandate-transgenderism]

We'll always go back for the others

Always

[xiaokuer-schmetterling]

op i'm tearing up and it's not seasonal allergies

✨💝🤍🩵🩷🤍🖤🖤🤍🩵🩷🤍💝✨

[iconuk01]

"The Source"

by Luo Li Rong

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[iconuk01]

Yes, this is Luo Yi Rong, who absolutely is the same sculptor from that astonishingly inept self-own by an idiot.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[noshamehustle]

[formerglory25]

reblog if you too are bi and confused or support others’ right to be bi and confused

[mrv3000]

Murderbot (used to dealing with Mensah and the Preservation gang): There are bad guys out there. So I need to go out there. With them. For a while. And um... interact with them. For a while. I'm being very vague so as to not offend sensibilities. Do you get what--

Farai: Go fuck them up already.

Murderbot:

[atleast15lemons]

Reading new Murderbot and it's both hard to not read the entire thing as fast as possible AND ALSO stop because I'm stressing for my favorite lil guy