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ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs
after the hyperprocessed foods, do you take tranquilizers to simulate getting captured by animal control and returned to the wild?
i would settle for melatonin gummies but well. knock yourself out
When I get blood samples at work sometimes they’re still warm from being imminently inside the patient’s veins and my hands are always cold because all the labs Ive work in are in the basement and they keep it kinda cold for whatever reason (and I’m also just a chilly kid).
And I clutch the little warm tubes of blood and feel this sick person warming my hands and I think about how kind you might be and how I wish I could hold your hand and how badly, how really really badly, I want you to get better and stay warm and hold someone’s hand again.
And anyway sometimes it’s better to not think so vividly about the people I’m doing tests for. I’m a good little cog in a vast machine of people all trying to heal and cure, and my cog feels so fucking small sometimes. But I hope the blood I prepare for you helps you breathe better and laugh and wake up feeling well rested.
We’ve never met but you warmed my hands and I want you to know I love you and I’m rooting for you.
the wisdom ive learnt is that becoming part of a friend group 1) takes a long time and 2) involves a lot of feeling awkward and left out at first. there’s nothing terrible about this but if you grew up chronically lonely or have any kind of trauma relating to social isolation this likely feels Really Wrong and activates danger signals. but both fortunately and unfortunately it’s just how becoming close to new people works most of the time
another thing that was not intuitive to me as someone who grew up an autistic loner: basically everyone on the planet is starved for connection all the time and almost everything people do is an attempt to reach out to another. most seemingly illogical interactions and behaviours can be explained by this. you have to take as many of these invitations as you can. even if you're wrong you still attempted to bring more warmth into the world
just saw someone call trans unity an "unobtainable fantasy," getting real sick of the doomerisms yall are hooked on these days
What pisses me off the most is that y'all don't keep this doomerism to yourself, it would be one thing if you just wrote this shit in a diary, but y'all are putting that out there trying to scare young trans people into being divided. spreading the idea that trans unity is an "unobtainable fantasy" only serves to make trans people feel even more alone and desperate than before, during a time where being united will give us strength.
Trans people should be encouraged to find safety and community in one another, and not just with trans people that are "like them."
this is what healthcare is like as a disabled person
what are y’all’s tarot birth cards?
mine are the tower and the chariot
this is what i mean when i say "sniles so sneetly" btw
i appear to have infected 14k people with the phrase "sniling so sneetly". it makes me grin. snile, even. perhaps sneetly
you love fat people outside of sexual contexts too, right?
it's so weird growing up while spending the vast majority of your life dissociated. people will ask if you remember something from a few years back, and you'll answer something akin to, "of course, how could i forget?" but the whole time you'll be reflecting back on that time, thinking: those memories don't feel like my own. that version of myself doesn't feel like me. it's as if the universe has been shifted ever so slightly to the left.
you'll look at both old and current photographs of yourself, and feel no connection to them. some days you'll wake up and wonder why your feelings for your family suddenly feel so grey, so stifled, and you'll question if maybe things were always this way and you're kidding yourself trying to pretend otherwise.
it's difficult for me to wrap my head around the fact that most people experience their entire lives with startling clarity, both towards who they are and what people mean to them, from birth to death. i can't imagine going a whole month without questioning if i truly know myself as well as i think i do, wondering whether or not i'm actually the same kid i once was. because how are you supposed to feel a connection to a version of yourself that was almost a blank slate?
even before my dissociation grew into a chronic disorder, feelings of detachment always clung to me: time confused and startled me, some days would feel bleaker and appear less colourful than others, familiar environments would feel uncanny, my relationships with my friends would feel empty... i could go on.
it's just strange, is all, when i hear people recount their childhood as being so bright and colourful and magical and alive, when i only recall feeling near-constantly anxious towards the nature of, not only my life, but the act of living as a whole. i'd be so easily pulled into fictional worlds, because they felt more real to me than real life. i think maybe a lot of the only times i felt safe as a kid was when i was engaging with media i enjoyed.
dissociation is a tricky thing to live with. i pray one day the things of the past will stop feeling so fickle, so fragile, so easily pulled apart and scribbled over.
hopefully that time will come soon.
im asking you to stay here. i cannot tell you why, i dont have any other reason except i want to see you here. i want to see you as happy as you can be. please, do what you can to stay. to find happiness wherever you can. i know that it is selfish of my to ask this. but i’m asking you anyway. take care of yourself. if not for yourself, then for me
i don't like the way you people talk about addiction. i don't like the way you people talk about bpd. i don't like the way you people talk about eating disorders. i don't like the way you people talk about paranoia. i don't like the way you people talk about ocd and intrusive thoughts. i don't like the way you people talk about cluster b personality disorders. i don't like the way you people talk about autism. i don't like the way you people talk about disabilities. i don't like the way you people talk about lesbians.
You've almost made it through January
You've made it through January. Even if it's just barely, by the thinest thread, you made it through January.
You've made it through February.
You've made it through March.
You've made it through April.
You've made it through May.
Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.
Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!
This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!
{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}
I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!
More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit
btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here
talking to people you want to get to know as if they're already your friends is a terrible terrible piece of advice that people online love giving out. but i think what people are trying to say when they suggest this is that you should talk to people you want to get to know as if they're your peers. which is a subtle but important distinction. the former is extremely overfamiliar and often because of this ends up making you seem rude, but the latter is more about conducting your conversations with someone as if it is unremarkable and low stakes for the two of you to be speaking together. which is only* rude if the person you're talking to thinks they're above having normal conversations with randos, in which case, probably not worth your time to befriend anyway.
