does anybody have any pepto?

frank, mid 20s, trans (he/it) this blog is a waiting room pls enjoy the fish tank

[protofraggle]

new chest!

ooh so cute in my lil frog bandaid hehehe

[queer-assthetic]

im

[woundliqour]

[protofraggle]

this is the worst thing to ever happen to me

[sapphling]

it's possible to die from not getting a little kiss

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[caspercryptid]

If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals

[protofraggle]

the way this body reacts so stress is frankly humiliating

[protofraggle]

my cat just died very suddenly tonight. just got home from the vet ER. the house is so empty. she was my whole family. i know i have a chosen one but home was always where she was.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Michele Poirier-Mozzone (American, based MA, USA) - Sidekicks II, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[protofraggle]

home from overnight cath shift so exhausted i barely feel human 😵‍💫👍

[fairycosmos]

for about a month in the early 2010s people used to say things like climate change is real and gay people deserve rights. does anyone remember this

[pardalote]

Finished stitching my Oversight series.

12 small stitched poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.

[protofraggle]

the perception of migraines as bad headaches just falls so short. this neurological hellstorm feels mystical and fantastical in its intensity

[7dmom]

Can I have ideas that don't hurt

[thejonymyster]

[strawhatsufi]

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

[strawhatsufi]

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

[strawhatsufi]

You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying "racialised" or "racially marked" without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.

[weepingwidar]

William Wegman (American, 1943) - Warehouse Wally (1988)

[shrugging]

how it feels