Not an actual attack helicopter

he/they/it, i wish all terfs stub their toes and half their toenail falls off, pro-endo system

[dgrp-fe-updates]

A New Danganronpa Fan Project!

Hello!

My name is Mak, and I am a young aspiring artist and voice actor, Danganronpa fan, and the main writer and possible director for a Danganronpa passion project currently under the name Danganronpa: Fruitless Endeavors.

Growing up, I was always super into creativity and games. When I joined the Danganronpa fandom and saw how many fan games there were out there, I wondered if people would see my creativity and be interested in my characters, designs, and writing. During school, I was always the kind of kid you'd see in the back of the classroom drawing overly-detailed eyes on the blank backsides of a math worksheet. However, instead of eyes, I spent my time drawing random people from my imagination, some of which became Danganronpa OCs. So here we are!

I love the original games, however there are some problems that I want to fix. A few things to expect from the game and team are...

Better representation (queer characters, POC other than East Asian characters, well written women who aren't used for fan service)

Lots of effort and love put into the designs and writing of the story

A team who will happily take suggestions and critique from its audience

...And so much more!

If you would like to be a part of the creation of this game, please DM us with what you'd like to do and your experience in that field.

If you want to keep up with the creation of DGRP:FE, feel free to give us a follow and share.

Thank you so much!

[puppetedmindset]

- Pro-Plural -

A flag for Pro-Plurals. When you support all forms of plurality, this includes plural adjacent, disordered plurals, non disordereded plurals, trauma plurals, non trauma plurals, and whatever might be considered "Plural".

You can still be plural critical, endo critical, willo critical and more but the bottom line for this you recognize when someone says they are plural, they are plural. You might just have some issues with the community, history of the community, or own personal experience. Doesnt mean you dont see others as any less plural. Just means you have critical opinions.

[awkwardexxodus]

oh man the painting on this drawing is insa- fuck do you mean #minecraft build

[awkwardexxodus]

the specific build in question btw

[parchmentengineer]

I looked up some of the artist's other builds and they're all just absolutely incredible

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

short but sweet

[gigglepuffpixie]

[tbdagent]

people of colour deserve to be able to enjoy fluff and escapism and transformative media and silly fandom stuff the same way that everyone else is allowed to, i think. there’s a lot of unexamined hostility toward anyone who isn’t white; sometimes it’s subtle, and sometimes it’s not. there needs to be far more love and support for poc, and far less defensiveness and tolerance regarding racism in spaces like these.

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[rosethyme]

"Who stabbed you in the eye, Polyphemus?" "Moi! Moi stabbed me!" "He stabbed himself. Sad."

[cassettetapecryptid]

prev tags from @heydocverdant

[cricketcat9]

100% would watch

[kadimakara]

Melanated Female Inventors. Ten inventions that happened because of Black Women.

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

Scooped this molecule of a snake off of the bike path

[not-an-actual-attack-helicopter]

@an-actual-attack-helicopter

[semiplural]

A lot of people in our inbox ask whether their experiences are normal.

First: Normal does not equal good or bad, healthy or disordered. Normal means that something is accepted or statistically common for a given population. It doesn't make an experience more or less real. It just means you might see it more or less often.

Second: Normal is relative. Different groups of people will have different experiences and opinions, and what's normal for one person can be abnormal for someone else.

Because the normality of something depends on who you're comparing yourself to, and because people have a lot of different norms and opinions...

At some point, your experiences are absolutely going to be abnormal to others. They'll be weird, unusual, hard to explain. They might be normal in one place and extremely abnormal somewhere else.

It doesn't have to be normal to exist.

[slightly-sigilant]

Seconding this, and I'll also add: when you find yourself asking "is this normal?" it might be helpful to take a step back, and figure out which question you're really asking, and figure out which questions are more useful to ask.

For example: a lot of people asking "is my experience normal?" are actually asking "is it valid for me to experience this?" They want reassurance that what they're experiencing is Real and that they're not a Badwrong Faker. Frankly speaking, not only is "is this normal?" not a very useful question for this situation (as said by OP, whether something is normal doesn't mean it's good or bad), neither is "is this valid?" Your experiences are your experiences. They are not going to go away just because they're more or less common in a given population, nor are they going to go away just because someone else told you they aren't real.

Some questions to consider asking instead:

How is this affecting your life and others' lives? How many of those effects are from the experience itself? (as opposed to cultural stigma, other people's reactions, your personal reactions, etc)

How do you feel about the experience, and why? What is driving you to seek validation?

What can you do about what you're experiencing? (Other than kick it into a box and pretend it doesn't exist. That tends to not work.) What kind of support do you need?

[gaudebo]

Afrophage Reading List

Hello and welcome to my PHM but I'm making it Black AU. I'm gonna get all the characters with my melanin beam eventually.

Lore Posts: Original Post Original Post w/ My Favorite Tags Grace's Backstory Eva Stratt Grace, Carl, and DuBois DuBois Again Academia AroAce Ryland Grace Irina Petrova

Bonus Content: The Fanfic I Started Art Cast/Faceclaims Grace + Carl Swap AU The Swap AU Fanfic I Started

and you can check the tag for any other content not listed here! sometimes i'm just yappin

[this-is-adultism]

Adultism (and ableism) is when children are told that they don't do enough or are "too young" to be experiencing what they're experiencing. Like being told you're too young or haven't done through enough/don't do enough to be depressed or upset or tired suspect a physical disability or to experience anything they don't like, really.

My mother kept telling me I wasn't doing enough of anything to be constantly tired (which, for context, I had spent days just at home and could rest whenever I want), that she's the tired one because she has to go to work and deal with her phyiscal disabilities... but guess what? That didn't suddenly energize me. I was and am still tired all the time.

Got bloodworks done, turns out I'm anemic. Not bad enough for constant lightheadedness or fainting, but enough that I get real tired real easily, despite my lack of activity. It also explains why sleeping doesn't help, because it's not a lack of sleep, it's a lack of iron to absorb.

Point is that it always makes more sense to actually discover the reason why you feel some way instead of just saying you shouldn't feel like that. If you shouldn't feel like that then you wouldn't be. And anyone who says your feelings are wrong are lacking in common sense and their useless opinion should be discarded 👍

[duckofmisfortuneoffical]

sharing my experience

I don’t feel like I really should count as disabled

I mean I have a liver transplant and scoliosis and I’m hard of hearing but I don’t wear my hearing aids and can get by without them and I wear glasses and am autistic and have adhd but

I can still function the only reason I can’t was my fault

I didn’t wear the back brace for the scoliosis because of sensory issues and acid reflux making me need surgery in december

but I’m just a kid my parents handle most of my meds for me

why am I complaining?

[this-is-adultism]

All of these things still make you count as disabled, btw.

A disability is any condition that impacts your ability to participate in average life activities and/or have have equitable access to things in our society. It is not determined by how much you struggle or suffer compared to other disabled people. There are certainly people who experience more limitations, technically making them more disabled, but that doesn't make those with less impactful disabilities less valid in their experiences, less deserving of accommodation, unable to call themselves disabled or anything along those lines. Disability can and will look different for everyone.

You say that you can still function, but that you need accommodation for it which does still make you disabled. Functioning ability has nothing to do with it if you still have a condition that regularly impacts your life, and especiallt if you have multiple of them. The idea of your disability being your fault also is just a negative mindset to have, but even if your own actions have worsened your disability, it doesn't make it any less of a valid disability. If I took out my own eye, I would still be inable to see through it the same way someone born with total blindness in one eye can't.

Also being "just a kid" doesn't mean anything. Just because we are more likely to gain disability as we age does not mean that we are incapable of being disabled younger. Many are born disabled, many become disabled young, many experience both. Parents handling things for you also definitely doesn't make it less of a disability? Caregivers, regarding children for obvious reasons, but also for disabled adults are very common regardless of if they're parents or another person/other people.

In general, there is no need to invalidate yourself. Even if you don't think you're "that disabled," that thinking in itself is just a result of ableist programming that teaches us that disability has to look a certain way. It doesn't. You're disabled.

[schizopositivity]

How to check up on your loved ones who have schizospec disorders/psychosis:

• Keep a steady flow of contact. Don't expect them to initiate conversations or hangouts. Social withdrawal is a common symptom, and it is probably a lot more difficult for them to keep in contact. Just reach out as often as you feel comfortable. It can be as simple as sending them a meme, or asking what they've been up to lately.

• Take notice of how they are acting. If it's normal for them to talk during a hangout, but this time they are mostly silent, take that as an indicator that something is off. If they normally love drawing, ask them what they've been drawing lately to make sure they are still taking part in activities they enjoy. They might not tell you outright that they are declining mentally, so try and gage their behavior and compare it to their normal.

• Make sure that they have other people to support them. Ask if they've talked to their family, friends, or therapist lately. Isolation exacerbates psychotic symptoms, so check in to see if they are being social or connecting with people. It's also important for them to have a safe person to turn to in case their mental state gets worse.

• If you are aware of what treatment methods are effective for them, make sure they are still utilizing them. If you feel comfortable, ask them if they are still taking their medications, going to therapy, journaling or whatever else they are using for treatment.

• If they share that they are struggling with getting basic tasks for living done, offer to help. You can text them reminders and encourage them to do things like brush their teeth. You can offer to go grocery shopping with them. You can come over to help clean or even just stay on the phone with them while they clean.

• If they share that they are struggling mentally, take the time to listen without judgment. Don't give reality checks unless you are explicitly asked to. Just be a safe space for them to open up about their experiences and how it affects them. Try not to look shocked or treat them like they are "acting crazy". Just be as neutral as possible and sympathetic to their struggles so they can feel safe to tell you these things now and in the future. You don't need to find solutions right away, you can just be there to listen, that is a huge help on its own.

• If it seems like your loved one is declining mentally, lean into that relationship. Check in more, listen to them more, help them more if you can. You don't need to treat it like an emergency unless you believe it truly is one (if they are at risk for hurting themselves or others, then look into mental health and medical assistance). Just be there for them in whatever way you can. If you truly care about them, don't turn your back on them when they need you most. You can help more than you know just by being there, especially during the hard times.

[crabussy]

the idea that people in a system are just as much real living people as the host should not be controversial yet somehow here we are.....

I think that being alive and having a sense of individual identity is more than enough criteria to constitute Being A Person. someone's personhood and sense of self originating from something other than Physically Being Born doesn't make them any less of a real person. if people in a system would prefer to be treated like PEOPLE then I'm very sorry but that's really not a big ask and all that is required of you in return is basic kindness and respect. and I hope that is a managable task for most of you!

[crabussy]

also hey. hi everyone. I love you. if you are already trying to be better about this I am proud of you and I'm glad you're trying, okay? if you have yet to start doing this, now is a perfect time to start, and I'm proud of you for deciding to rethink how you interact with others!! don't worry too much. any effort is appreciated more than you could possibly know, trust me.

[crabussy]

you know me, robin? guy whose blog this is? I am not ANY MORE of a person than sunny or francis or jasper or anyone else in my system. and they are not ANY LESS of a person than I am. the host of a system is not the "real one" and the rest of my crew aren't "extras". I'm the same as them. I'm a member of a system too!!!!! sunny is in my system, sure!!! BUT I AM ALSO A MEMBER IN HER SYSTEM!!!!! I don't own anyone!!!! when I'm away from front, I am in EXACTLY THE SAME POSITION AS EVERYONE ELSE IN HERE. this might be different for other systems but this is how it is for my bunch. and the friends I cherish the most are the ones who make an effort to understand this. [:

[ivy-vinezz]

₊˚.༄ Ivy Vine Graphics // Entry

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꒰ edit something inspired by nature ꒱

ivy vines by ivy-vinezz hehehehe get it? Okay I’ve been meaning to make these for a while so I’m glad I finally did :D

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@fish-without-legs IM FUCKING CACKLING LMAOOOOOOOOO

[inchwormcircus]

okay so one of my many hot takes is that its more ableist to depict a disabled character with a different disability than it is to depict them with no disability at all.

I mainly have this greviance with the Hermitcraft fandom and how many fanartists depict Scar, a guy who in real life is disabled and in a wheelchair. lots of fanart depict him with no disability aids at all, which to be fair the man himself has said he doesn't really mind or care about that, plus you at least have the excuse that in the game of Minecraft wheelchairs dont exist, everyone is capable of the exact same movements of walking, sprinting, jumping, etc.

but then theres lots of fanartists who draw him either with a cane or arm crutches. and it just pisses me off a bit. a lot, actually. why are we taking a disabled man and giving him what is, in my opinion as a disabled person, a less complicated, more aesthetically pleasing, and overall a considered more "normal" disability aid? why can you not take the take to draw a wheelchair? it feels like they're going "I recognise this is a disabled person! Im not one of those artists that erase his disability, see, I'm drawing him disabled! but wheelchairs are just sooooo hard, so I'm just gonna give him a cane cause its easier! but hes still disabled, see, Im sooooo much better than all those other artists".

it makes sense if theyre drawing one of his specific characters that does in fact use a cane in-lore, like one of his current charcters, but people just draw any and every version of him with a cane or arm crutches.

I also absolutely never see fanart that gives him his oxygen tubes either, unless its specifically fanart of the Actual Real Life Guy.

it just feels like such blatant disability erasure and yet no one else seems to agree with me on this...

oh dudeee i so get it I was in a fandom for a short while where one of the protagonists was a wheelchair user and so many people would just draw him standing anyway (or even worse just sitting on the floor)

here is a dumb jank tutorial for anyone who is scared to draw a wheelchair user bc they cant draw wheelchairs. theyre not as hard as they look

(obv if you wanna go super into it you can look into specific models and use refs but this is like. You just need something thats passably correct enough)

[nonlynear]

time is a flat iron and brother i’m getting smooth as fuck

[cephalopodie]

time is a curling iron and brother i'm all twisted up

[teaboot]

Time is a flat iron, smooth as fuck Time is a curler, twisted up Time is an updo, pinned and tucked Time is a weave-in, stitched and stuck Time is organic, shaped by luck Time is a construct Monster truck

[direhydroid]