[sincerelythegardener]

dear saplings, flora and fauna

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dividers by: @/steddiecameraroll-graphics - post link

The Gardener / Cereus | adult

neopronouns | anattractional spectrum

tone tags needed | please do not refer to me as your 'friend' or with familial terms (sis, bro, twin, sibling, etc.) thank you

artist and writer | ask box open - anon on

fandoms

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black butler, bungou stray dogs, dangan ronpa, detroit: become human, ever after high, five nights a freddy's, GIGGS DnD, hermitcraft, kingdergarten games, life series, littlest pet shop, minecraft, mother 3, my little pony: friendship is magic, pokemon anime, twisted wonderland, wind breaker, & yandere simulator (< i do not support the dev)

original stories

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heliotains deafening symphony - fantasy world that focuses on 5 characters. a witch, a fallen God, a demon, an angel, and mortal.

torched gardens grow new flowers - a crime ring is taken down and follows a group of run aways who just want a new life. (LPS inspired characters)

pediophobia - a new doctor comes into town, hoping to help solve the fears of his patients through exposure (stuffed animal inspired characters)

tag guide

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(links to the hashtags)

#whispering houstonias = rambles

#artistic acanthus = art

#sending china asters = writings

#sincerely the gardener = tumblr asks

#woah that's me! = posts i relate to

extra posts / websites linked

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self ship carrd > self ship post

AUs and crossovers post

pronouns post

sincerely, The Gardener

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[this-is-neuropsych-ableism]

What kinds of posts trigger moral & checking OCD (and psychosis)?

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So many people write and reblog posts that have very direct triggers towards folks with moral & checking OCD. Here are posts NOT to make/reblog.

To get the terminology out of the way - moral OCD is a condition in which a person becomes obsessed about doing something "morally wrong", and develops compulsive behaviors over it. Checking OCD is a condition in which a person becomes obsessed over checking over their own (or others) actions, as to avoid a perceived disaster, and develops compulsions around it.

Do NOT make/reblog posts with phrases such as:

"Reblog/donate/share or else you are letting me/someone I know die/suffer." "Reblog or else you're [insert bad thing]"/"Reblog if you're not [insert bad thing]"

^If it is an urgent donation post that you feel deserves to be shared, at the very least, add "tw reblog bait" and "tw OCD trigger."

"Reblog/like/comment/share or else [insert creature] will find you/stalk you/come into your house/etc" "[Insert thing] is coming to your location. You cannot stop it. It will be outside your window soon"/"[Insert thing] is in your walls."

^These ones can also trigger hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia in people with schizospec disorders/psychosis! It may seem like a "haha funny meme" to you, but to people with OCD or psychosis, they could fret heavily over this, and wonder if they are going to be in danger if they don't reblog/like/comment/share.

"It is illegal to be/have [insert thing here]." (Example: "It is illegal to be nonqueer during pride month", "it is illegal to have internalized ableism during disability pride month", etc.)

^Once again, this may seem like a funny meme to you, but instead, it just tells people with moral OCD that their existence is wrong, or that their intrusive thoughts are a crime (thought crimes are not real!)

[ndnbutch]

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

[ndnbutch]

on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human

[spaceymindsz]

Your f/o cupping your face and just MWAH‼️ Kiss. Right on the lips, on the forhead, nose. Just mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah- All of em places!

[alternishicons]

afamilial spectrum flags

uhhh idk i couldnt find any of these so i jst made them

in order:

afamilial | demifamilial | grayfamilial

aegofamilial | reciprofamilial | familialspike

fictofamilial | cupiofamilial | caedfamilial

familialflux | myrfamilial

[edyn-incubytch]

Here, take these

[creatingblackcharacters]

There's a company, "Nappy.co" is a Black owned company who takes stereotype free stock images of Black and Brown people for public use!

https://nappy.co/

I got this image from a post by @/sonofnjubo

You are the second person to bring this up to me today; thanks for the reminder, actually. I gotta do better about my DMs.

[blackcharacterpolls]

Black Character Designs

Im taking a gamble with this, i did this on my toyhouse but im curious what the results would be on tumblr.

Do You Feel Black Characters Are "Harder" To Draw?

No

Yes

Remaining time: 3 days 23 hours

If you picked yes, please explain why you feel this way.

If you comment please remember to use BLACK if you specifically are talking about Black people, dont substitute it for Poc when you mean Black. This post is also NOT a confessional, please be respectful.

[virgomoon]

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.

[the-harvest-system]

I don’t like the way you people talk about systems and plurals. I don’t like the way you people talk about trans men. I don’t like the way you people talk about trans women. I don’t like the way you people talk about nonbinary people. I don’t like you people talk about intersex people. I don’t like the way you people talk about people of colour. I don’t like the way you people talk about men of colour. I don’t like the way you people talk about women of colour. I don’t like the way you people talk about people with delusions. I don’t like the way you people talk about cluster A and cluster C personality disorders. I don’t like the way you people talk about children and teenagers. I don’t like the way you people talk about people with ADHD. I don’t like the way you people talk about neopronouns. I don’t like the way you people talk about spiritual folks. I don’t like the way you people about invisibly disabled people. I don’t like the way you people talk about visibly disabled people. I don’t like the way you people talk about mentally and cognitively disabled people. I don’t like the way you people talk about bullying. I don’t like the way you people talk about aroace, ace, aro, and alloaro people.

[decompose1]

INTERSEX IS NOT:

- species that all have the same or both genitalia

- species/characters that can change their genitals to be whatever they want at will

- species/characters that change their genitals situationally

- aliens that can reproduce asexually or with anyone from the same species

INTERSEX IS:

- a person/animal/organism/character that is part of a species with two or more distinct sexes (at least within the social constructs of the species), who exists between these binaries (mixed, ambiguous, lacking, or incomplete genitalia, hormone differences, chromosome differences, or differences in/mixed sexual characteristics)

PLEASE for the love of g-d stop calling your alien species that has both genitals or a uniform set of genitals across the species ""intersex"". intersex people are tired of seeing this. it does not accurately describe intersexness at all. you can use the terms "monogenital" (for all members of the species having the same uniform genitalia) or "bigenital" (for all members of the species having both genitals)

[shehellonmyspawntilisister]

i think the actual scientific term for this is "hermaphrodite," which regarding human beings has some unsavory connotations but to all my fellow specevo nerds this is the word we use

[decompose1]

Please don't use this word for sentient species, or really any species. It is considered offensive by Intersex people no matter the use case because it is a slur. There has recently been a large push in biology to use other terms. Biologists are already adapting and finding new terms to use. You do not and should not ever need to use "hermaphrodite." Don't say that.

Instead, here are some terms currently being used/proposed:

- Cosexual (both sets of reproductive organs- in current use in biology and botany)

- Bigenital (both sets of genitalia)

- Unigenital (one singular set of genitalia, same across all of the species)

please use these instead for your fantasy creatures! "hermaphrodite" is a slur no matter what context. please help intersex people in the fight to remove a word that has a long, hateful, violent history- one tied to a lot of horrific medical abuse and death- from our vocabularies. thank you

[shitpostships]

sleepy confession with your f/o. the two of you are cuddling, wrapped in a blanket of each other’s heat and scent, with the weight of their embrace lulling you to sleep. then one of you says those fated three words in a raspy voice, the slurred words tumbling out as naturally as breathing. without even a thought, guided by the faint thump of your pulses on each other’s fingers, the response comes swift and easy: “love you too.”

bonus points if this is the first time you two have confessed to each other. you two go to sleep, not even realizing what happened until you two wake up.

[sincerelythegardener]

sometimes i get super self-concious about using canon characters as placeholders for myself in self ships :')

[sp00ky9]

This is them

[trappolia]

he just wanted to be a mage and have friends and yuu made both dreams come true :( look at the way he lights up when yuu reaches out to him

[kokii-omii]

grimmy grimmy

[anhniedraw]

Filesnotfound.exe

[cosmos-dot-semicolon]

I swear to god, the number of cool conceptual songs that always go back to this...