~ Phoenix Faia ~

Don't mind me, just redoing my badly done bio from highschool ✨ Just so there's not confusion: Pronouns - They/Them Age: 21

[jin-06-deactivated20190908]

Pain

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smile

[jin-06-deactivated20190908]

If

[jin-06-deactivated20190908]

Twins always like to fight.

[phoenixfaia]

I literally just received my dead blog to find this specific piece of art because someone told me about it on Instagram when I said something about a Wolf Children AU 😂 I am not disappointed in the slightest.

[lupinsuniverse]

Shiro and Keith :Pre kerberos

[jin-06-deactivated20190908]

I’m crying

[just-shower-thoughts]

The domestication of dogs started with a small number of particularly trusting, optimistic humans and a small number of particularly trusting, optimistic wolves looking at an extremely dangerous competing apex predator and thinking ”maybe it’s friendly.”

[danielhowell]

Have the courage to exist.

Hello internet. 

Today, October 10th, is World Mental Health Day and as a cause very close to my heart I am releasing a new range of merch where all proceeds will go to the charity I represent - Young Minds, to help fight for young people’s mental health.

In 2014 I made the video ’Existential Crisis’ where I dropped the surprisingly profound quote ‘Embrace the void and have the courage to exist’. This was a message that in a universe that won’t give you the answers, it’s up to you give your life meaning in whatever way makes you happy. 

In the years since uploading this video, I’ve spoken to many people who have told me how those words resonated with them and inspired actions, art (and even a few tattoos) so I thought this would be the perfect way to put some goodness back into the world and give you courage when you need it.

As of now the quote is available as both a simple black (of course) t-shirt:

And a flag for you to pin up on a wall like a poster, raise on a pole ..or just wear like a cape if you feel like it:

shop.danielhowell.com

When it comes to mental health I know all too well how difficult it can be just to exist, but days like this where people come together to show support for each other and raise awareness show that none of us are alone. A year on since I posted ‘Daniel and Depression’, where I was open about my struggles with mental health, I feel so much support from people around the world and pride that what I did may have helped others. I encourage anyone reading this who sympathises not to struggle in silence and otherwise to reach out to the ones you love and tell them you are there, it could make all the difference.

I hope that you like the sentiment and please get involved to support a wonderful charity, and as I said in a recent live show - if I can make it through life to this point, so can you.

Thanks Dan

[lum1natrix]

i’ve sat here for 3 minutes trying to come up with a caption, but i can’t. so here’s sean screaming “sex” to get your attention

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[make--it--gayer]

come THROUGH grandma

[damianwaynesuggestions]

Friendly reminder that if your furry friends get scared In thunderstorms you should try and comfort them or better yet get them a thunder coat, or just hug them really tight, whatever you do remember that they have feelings too and if you can help them, do.

[fizzydog-deactivated20240325]

i thought this post was about furries and i’m fucking sobbing

[phoenixfaia]

The advice still makes sense tbh

[madeline-kahn]

Music in Film: Shrek (2001) dir. Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

[killin-the-machine]

[catgirlsdoingcatthings]

アーニャ | ジティ [pixiv]

[newhologram]

I never see anyone talking about how kids can abuse adults though. 

Growing up I saw a lot of adult teachers get bullied by students and it sucked. They would purposely push them to their breaking point until they exploded, yelled, cursed, threw desks, and the ones who didn’t have that kind of reaction would just quit or end up fired because the kids would start rumors. One was because our new math teacher was effeminate so the guys thought “obviously this guy is gay and he’s after our dicks” and if he was ever nice to a male student (which… he was nice and friendly with EVERYONE and was the best teacher we’d had that year) they would start whispering behind me, “yo, look at that, did you see that? He’s flirting with his male students, that’s nasty” and so they made trouble for him. 

My mother worked at a Discovery Zone type place when I was little and she would come home and break down crying because groups of little boys would call her names, call her stupid her whole shift.

I had friends in childhood who absolutely abused their parents. They were relentless and mean and hacked them into submission and it made for a lot of awkward moments when I would hang with them, because I couldn’t do anything since… they were my abuser too.

Just because you’re a minor doesn’t mean knives you throw are not sharp and won’t hit someone. The fact that so many kids on this site use their age as a weapon, as a way to say “but nothing I do has any impact because I have no social power” is SCARY and we need to try to make people aware of this kind of stuff from a young age because most people who are like that don’t really realize it and they need guidance and rehabilitation so the cycle can stop. Because those people grow up and have kids and do it to their kids and they don’t learn that it’s not normal or okay, that they cannot deny reality by controlling the people around them. 

But sometimes it isn’t always that way, some of those parents were so nice and kind and I considered like family, and they just had absolute evil villains for kids. 

Check in with yourselves, guys. Especially right now. There’s a lot of upsetting stuff being shoved in our faces all the time and it makes it hard not to get tunnel vision when our emotions get out of control, especially with the pressure to perform by a lot of social circles on tumblr. And if you’re young and a lot of this is new, pace yourself, you’re learning, and you need to be open to the idea of learning more and know that us being adults doesn’t mean we’re just out of touch boring old farts who don’t know anything. We’ve lived things and we have experience and when we say to you that it’s not okay to tell people who like things you do not like to kill themselves, we’re not “apologists”… we’re the survivors too. 

[lookfamiliarr-deactivated201910]

yo this is really important

my piano/choir teacher in 6th grade was only around 20-23 whenever she came to our school, and she only stayed for 2 years because all the kids were so awful. one time she told me that me and a few other of my friends were the only ones who hadn’t said a bad word about her the whole time.

in 4th grade, we got an awesome music teacher. he was in his late 20’s at the time, really chill and easygoing (we were in elementary school). some of the kids would just slowly drive him off the edge until one day he ended up throwing pens across the room out of frustration and anger. everybody was either scared of him or laughed at him, and it kinda made it worse. he left 2 years later and teaches a civilized and nice group of kids now.

kids really can abuse adults. I’ve seen it happen a lot and it’s sad and heartbreaking and overall awful to see because so many people brush it off as “kids being kids.”

[dionysiandoubt]

In 7th grade or so I had the most delightful Maths/Science teacher (the two were taught by the same guy) and he was always super nice. Like he adored teaching, he brought us snacks sometimes and like really wanted us to do well. 

By 8th grade he was a changed man. We had young neo-nazis starting shit. We had kids screaming and throwing shit at him. We had knife fights and I’m 90% certain I remember him straight up being forced into a position where he had to wrestle one of my more violent classmates to the floor. My class had actually driven this calm, cool, great guy (he couldn’t’ve been more than 27 at the time) to actually break down crying in class. As far as I heard he was gone by the time I entered grade 9. 

[lilyrosethedreamer-deactivated2]

Weirdly, I was talking about this with my sister and cousins when we were talking about my old high school the other day. There was this one English teacher (I never had him myself so I forget his name) that EVERY class he had mocked him, yelled and threw things and moved things from his desk and stole and…it was unbelievable. Heard that one or two even attacked him. I never understood what their problem was because he seemed alright to me… Anyway, he left and I don’t blame the poor man. He was just trying to teach and people hurt him so badly, he left. He has ill health as well at the end of it all - so nasty behaviour like that can drive someone to physical problems too. And to those in life and the comments who are saying that kids can’t be abusive because they have no real power or have less emotional understanding, I ask this: If a teenager or child is performing the same abusive action as an adult, why is it not abuse? Why should we brush that off? If we don’t break that cycle, they WILL become abusive adults. The only difference then will be that they have the power they lack in childhood and nobody wants that cruelty. The way they gain emotional understanding is through learning and us teaching them. How will they understand otherwise? They might not know it’s abuse, but it is. I hope people in general can try and be kinder at some point in the future. We have to help each other.

[phoenixfaia]

In grade 11 (in grade 12 now) we had my ancient history teacher last for the day and she is one of may favourite teachers of all time. So it was quite upsetting for me and a few others when we started the class with her crying because of her year 8's that she had before. We gave her encouraging words. My friend also gave her a box of chocolates the next day. Kids can be shit heads. She is an amazing teacher and she made classes fun for us but they got to her.

[goodreadss]

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

J.K. Rowling (via goodreadss)

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[pansexualfacts]

I don't know if you've heard of the bisexual haircut, but I was wondering if there's a pan haircut?