abbie mills deserved better

💞  sonic autistic 💞 grown up weird girl (she/her) 💞 mostly reblogs occasionally weird personal junk 💞 i like posts to queue them later. icon art by: tumblr.com/kiwilittle about me

[hawlucha]

With a heavy heart, I come to you all with the news announced by close friends of Cat Frazier that she had passed away on Monday, June 29.

She had been running @animatedtext since 2012, with her impact on the internet SHAPING tumblr. If you have a years long history on this site, you’ve seen her art.

She ran a venue in Oakland called Oakland Secret, a punk venue where I’d vend at regularly as an artist. She made a safe space for queer artists, artists of color, and local furs too. I am forever grateful for her work both in the Bay Area creative scene and online, and am forever changed by the totality of her impact.

I’ll be linking some articles from the 2010’s about her impact online: The Fader | Action | Jezebel | ObviouslySocial

I invite you to take a visit through her archive, and if you have a long history with this site like I do, it’s like walking down memory lane.

[magiclueless]

sonic just asked if metal is capable of raising a chao

[leonardcohenofficial]

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of h

yearly required reading

[tboytummmy]

Ocean date

[caspercryptid]

I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.

I don't say any of this to excuse it. I think everyone needs to be more aware of this because if you think abuse has to be intentional you will never realize you are capable of abusive behavior. You will never realize you are being shitty to the people you love, because YOU know what you mean, YOU know you don't mean any harm. But you're doing harm. You need to pay attention to the impact you have on other people, and you need to do it all the time, Especially when you feel least capable of doing so. Sorry! You live in a society. Get your head out of your ass.

[wolfsteax]

I humbly offer this contribution.

[atyourperil]

is anyone here ready for fat transgender summer can we give it up for fat transgender summer

[pixeljade]

[creatingblackcharacters]

I must admit, I do get extremely irritated at how strong people will defend white racists of their actions on here (usually shielding behind other marginalization) and throw out words like "harassment" and "digital lynching" and will try to gaslight users of color into thinking that we just... Didn't see what happened. That we don't understand racism when we experience it.

Especially when I see myself and other more vocal users of color get harassed daily, and have to always be on guard with their social media, and no one cares because everyone prioritizes white voices here and spend no time with the rest of us via an actual, unspoken segregation of this app. But somehow we don't know what racism and harassment looks like.

So when you say "hey, this person's opinion was not an okay thing to say/their actions were not okay due to racism and I am not coddling that", you get hit with a bunch of people who believe that having "More White Voices must mean True and that Your People Did Not Experience what y'all did... Because the white people around me said it went this way! You're just Mean!!!"

Like ofc that's the perspective you heard, those are the only people you're ever around on here, and it doesn't benefit you to understand what racism actually looks like in action. So. Just irritating af.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Bc ain't no way I've experienced the range of directed racism on here, damn near every two days this year on this app, and I gotta sit here and listen to how someone being racist is actually the True Victim. That people who spend all their time la di da happy and unbothered and surrounded by fellow racists and/or complicit yet ignorant bystanders... Experienced having thet racism called out and suddenly THEY are "harassed".

How thin is your skin, that we gotta do this every day and swallow the pain, but you scream in agony the moment someone points out the truth. Okay. To quote my parents, I can give you something to cry about.

[creatingblackcharacters]

This post is not about the damn circus people, btw. This post is about every situation the shoe fits, because it's really that common.

[mauhawkman]

Empathy

[stephensharpe]

Day 5 of 35 Days of Sonic, Harmony!

[stephensharpe]

Day 22 of 35 Days of Sonic, Counter!

[stephensharpe]

Day 23 of 35 Days of Sonic, Guardian!

A bit late, but I'm actually chuffed I stuck with it.

[stephensharpe]

In contrast to yesterday's, here's day 26 of 35 Days of Sonic, Galactic!

[stephensharpe]

Day 28 of 35 Days of Sonic, Ranger. Finally found a great spot for that flower. I've wanted to draw Scrapnik Mecha Sonic for a long time now.

[stephensharpe]

Day 27 of 35 Days of Sonic, Chronos. You made a Good Future!

[arohog]

i think that since sonic isnt really a ? secret hero identity no one knows about (but more of a "they dont know exactly what hes like so they dont think its him") , i think there would be situations of people walking up to sonic while hes at a food joint to be like "mr sonic theyre overcharging me for this burger. kill them all"

[arohog]

sonic: wow ok buddy that seems a bit extreme for (looks at the menu prices) 30 rings for a burger?!?

[charmsterz]

another vector with his kid this time

[charmsterz]

Who’s detective is this