how strange it is to be anything at all

amateur artist and aspiring world traveler. 💕🧠🌸

[marinetti-dinner-party]

[stimman4000]

depop sellers need to be chipped and receive an electric shock if they get within 50 feet of a thrift store

[sosoukoku]

In light of JK’s new book, here’s a link to donate to the UK Charity Mermaids who help provide support to trans and gender diverse children and young people!

And here’s a link to the trans rights carrd and the black trans lives matter carrd!! Even if you can’t donate signing petitions can do a lot of good!

Love you all, especially my beautiful trans and non binary followers out there! Keep being the most incredible souls! 💕💖💕💖

[pixelatedfrog-deactivated202009]

would anyone. like to come and live in a vast cave system with me. it doesnt have to be weird. I'm going to build makeshift doors out of woods

[primordial-fungus-monolith]

👉👈

c-could i die in a cave in?

[pixelatedfrog-deactivated202009]

ill be more surprised if u don't....

[whitepeopletwitter]

[glitchlight]

being a kid before wikipedia and smartphones meant these books were the coolest things you’d ever seen

[afrocentric-divination]

There’s a witches one?!?!

[seongpinkhwa]

you guys i’m so fucking scared

[seongpinkhwa]

the pandemic is absolutely thriving in south asia. i’m not kidding. you might think the US is bad, but the situation in countries like india (which literally surpassed the US for the world’d highest single-day increase in cases) and nepal (which has seen a huge spike in cases recently) is genuinely reached horrible new highs. i have most of my extended family living in nepal, and they can’t go to the hospital for non-covid related issues. there’s barely any social distancing, around 250,000 people are homeless and have no access to proper sanitary resources, and everyone is terrified due to multiple conspiracies about the disease that are spreading like wildfire. the government is incompetent and has barely done anything to help people, and desperation is spreading. india is a bigger country with more resources, and is also suffering, but people in nepal, particularly the ones who live in slums or villages, are prime targets for the virus and will receive absolutely nothing from the government. if you are able, please donate to this fund to support children, particularly orphans, who have been left vulnerable by the effects of the pandemic in nepal. they need your help.

[tsscat]

Here is a list of more fundraisers supporting India’s most vulnerable during the pandemic

(I am currently looking for fundraisers in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and other places in South Asia and will update when I find them)

[theocseason4]

i love this girl on tiktok who was like ‘no matter how times someone explains it to me i will never understand why we cant just print more money’

[iseeme]

[bong-joonho]

You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned. (…) So, there’s no need for a plan. You can’t go wrong with no plans. We don’t need to make a plan for anything. It doesn’t matter what will happen next. Even if the country gets destroyed or sold out, nobody cares. Got it?

Parasite (2019) dir. Bong Joon Ho

[vonnegutchild]

This is actually one of the things I loved most about Parasite: the motif of plans. There’s this eternal question: “What’s the plan?” And the reassurance: “I have a plan.”

Because there’s always that line to people in poverty: “Maybe if you planned better, you wouldn’t be in this situation.” “Maybe if you save and manage stuff better, you’d magically get out of this situation.” But this movie is so good at showing that pressure, and showing how futile plans are in the face of poverty and social inequity. No matter what plans the family comes up with, they’re still haunted by the specter of their poverty: the “smell” of the sub-basement, the fact they’ll never “fit” at the fancy house, the scholar’s stone-as-desire-to-be-“made”, the massive flood because of where they love, (and the other specter in the movie).

[bitch-san]

my fetish is …. going to expensive grocery stores

[englishgradinrepair]

i mean yeah

[sufjon]

we won

[polonias]

On all levels except physical, I am this.

[polonias]

The titles of Jacob’s chapers. Oh my god.

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

The abolition of psychiatry does not mean that no one is allowed to identify with psychiatric diagnoses that they feel serve them, or that no one is allowed to continue taking psychiatric medications they find effective². It does mean, however, that the notion of ‘mental illness’ was invented to pathologize logical responses to the stress and trauma that are omnipresent in a world brutalized by colonialism and capitalism. Psychiatry has been described as a “medicalized colonizing of lands, peoples, bodies, and minds.” A notable example of psychiatry’s colonial intentions was the diagnosis of ‘drapetomania’: the mental ‘disease’ that explained why enslaved Black people in the Antebellum south ran away from their death camps (the ‘treatment’ for which was to treat them more ‘like children’). As China Mills states in Globalizing Mental Health, “distress caused by socio-economic conditions (and often neoliberal economic reforms) comes to be rearticulated as ‘mental illness’, treatable using techniques that draw upon similar rationales to those that led to distress initially.”

Psych abolition means that the intended and realized outcome of the advent of ‘mental illness’ as a signifier is to make folks feel like they will never get better and that their distress is inherent to their brain chemistry rather than a reaction to external stimuli. This logic is essentially victim-blaming and shifts responsibility away from cycles of violence that create the conditions for psychological suffering — not to mention that the “chemical imbalance” theory has been numerously debunked. It means, too, that psychiatry was built with a core desire to dehumanize, drug, and discard those whose behavior and ways of being diverged from the status quo. This status quo was and is white, patriarchal, and absolutely enamored with respectability and compliance with the state’s self-serving notions of “normalcy.”

Many Psychiatric Survivors have made incredible strides in pursuit of justice, reform, and sometimes abolition. But the current nature of psych wards, which, for the most part, have remained violent, degrading prisons at which a majority of ex-inmates assert that they were not helped and were further traumatized, arguably indicates that the asylum never died. Why? Because it was never supposed to. Psychiatry IS the ethic of the asylum, and it will not fall until Psychiatry falls.

Stella Akua Mensah and Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu, Abolition Must Include Psychiatry

[storybookprincess]

suddenly remembered this poem as i was making breakfast this morning & frantically googled “poem remembered to buy eggs?????????” & somehow managed to find it & it utterly knocked the wind out of me just as much as when i first read it

[velvety-secret]

Like most people don’t like to admit this, but one of the reasons a lot of us have so many mental health issues is because we live in a world that has basically become untenable. People can’t afford basic necessities, let alone to cultivate their interests or take breaks and rest or do any of the things necessary for good mental health. People my age are wracked with debt, working at jobs they hate or studying topics they hate, living in a shitty apartment with five roommates. We live in a world that’s very hard to be healthy in. So while yeah, a lot of people obviously do have mental illnesses that would need medication no matter what, they are greatly exacerbated by these issues, and a lot of people have basically just been thrust into an eternal situational depression. So if that doesn’t change, medication is just a band-aid.