despite everything, it's still you

PFP by lordofdorknessgundham - Call me Patton or Pat! This started out as my recovery blog, but has more or less just become my main/personal blog🌟🌟🌟 Nonbinary || they/them || young adult || chronically ill || neurodivergent || fiction&otherkin || copinglinker ||

[hummus-tea]

The Tetris PTSD story is going around again so now I have to update y'all, it's been debunked, pop sci has lied to us again

www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/tetr...

“Tetris for Trauma” Viral Twitter Thread: A Master Class in Misleading Psych Research

A TV writer claims that research shows that Tetris is “literally a trauma first aid kit.” Her tweets sound scientific, but the research behi

[oracle-fae]

embroidered bridal veil

[clutterthings]

Rainbow Titanium Aura Lemurian Wand

[lionfloss]

Kanenori

[strawberrydykke]

yes all my favorite characters are desperate to be loved. no i don’t think that says anything about me

[metronn]

thank u @dreamdripdistance for making possible the funniest iteration of post-top surgery pics (it's a temporary tattoo)

[meloyume]

໒꒱ my melody

[chibinotan]

Cosmic Lagoon

[doomedvoyages]

In terms of like, Please For The Love Of God Get Hobbies That Aren’t Scrolling Through An App For Six Hours A Day, I understand and experience completely the argument of like. with the stressors of modern work, you don’t have the energy at the end of the day to do anything but mindlessly watch Netflix and scroll through your phone. but like I would like to gently encourage you to simply force yourself for a time to do something instead of pick up your phone, bc the phone is literally designed to light up your brain with no effort from you whatsoever and it does in fact rot your brain. It makes literally anything but scrolling on your phone seem difficult and joyless. But if you stop scrolling on your phone all the time, and start like, reading or embroidering or gardening or going for walks, you will eventually find the joy in them once more

I understand and it is true that it is hard to have a life outside work and scrolling but there is not a near future where that won’t be the case and you should still live a life. And you won’t create a future where that isn’t the case if you don’t have the confidence and experience and drive to fight for it

[invertprivileges]

https://forge.medium.com/get-the-most-from-your-limited-free-time-84de1bc3096

the trick is to recognize that there’s nothing intrinsically exhausting about reading a book or painting a picture or doing any of the activities that are meaningful to you. What makes these things seem exhausting is the fact that they’re now competing with cheaper stimulation. In a paper published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a group of psychologists suggested that the feeling of effort is a sensation of opportunity costs. When you’re doing something and an alternative activity promises to be easier and more immediately rewarding, the original activity feels effortful.

Therefore, if you want to do the things that matter, you need to make the alternatives less salient. Reading will be hard when Netflix is always an option. Family time will seem boring if your phone is always within arm’s reach. Easier will beat better if it’s always available.

[drunkwhenimadethis]

It’s literally dark by 4pm. Do you think that’s good for me? Do you think I am loving that

[probablyasocialecologist]

Darling of the “detransition” movement comes out again as transgender

She tried to "do everything to make these feelings go away," but the only thing that worked "was accepting them."

“Trans people deserve access to support, and it makes no sense to shut down people’s access to medical transition just because some people end up detransitioning,” she told Slate.

The number of people reporting detransition is small. According to a study this year from UCLA’s Williams Institute, 1.3 million adults in the U.S. identify as transgender, or 0.05 % of the population. Another 300,000 youth, ages 13-17, do so, as well.

Of those who transition, about eight percent report detransitioning, according to a 2015 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality, and most – 62 percent – of that eight percent said detransition was temporary. A 50-year survey in Sweden revealed about two percent of the trans population regretted undergoing gender-affirming surgery.

Schevers said the detransition movement she helped spark became overtly transphobic and repressive and left no room for doubt or questioning individuals.

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Astronomical Explosion in Taurus © Hubble

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[sailorbrazil]

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stargender flag picked from chiaki nanami!

requested by: anonymous

[urfaveisobjectum]

Beatrix Lebeau from Slime Rancher is Objectum and in a QPR with her Vacpack!

Requested by Anon!

[rjalker]

[ID: Three transneutral pride flags, each with horizontal stripes.

The first has five stripes of blue, grey, white, grey, and pink.

The second has nine stripes of: blue, pink, white, light grey, darker grey, grey, white, pink, and blue.

The third has seven stripes of: dark brown, teal green, faded yellow, dark purple, faded yellow, teal green, and dark brown.

End ID.]

Reposting the transneutral flags I made since I think I accidentally deleted the original post. Whoops.

The first one can also be flipped upside down so the pink stripe is at the top. I would include both versions next to each other but tumblr's new and useless post editor means that would take 20 minutes. so that's not happening.

feel free to use them for whatever you'd use a pride flag for.

Here's a link to the post with the transvoid / transqueer / transfuckyou flags.