a gay snail 🏳️‍🌈

they/them ♡ snails are cute :) ♡ i blog and draw sometimes ♡ post roughly once a week

[genderqueerdykes]

there really are no consequences for being wrong about your gender, orientation, etc. for a while, btw. if you try something and it just doesn't fit, it's better to have tried and found out than to be left wondering.

[dogencool]

If I’m gonna have to see and then report over a dozen porn bots every day can they at least give me like a daily grinding quest for it like it’s an MMO. Can I get some gold and a mediocre loot drop

[valmoxium]

[graymoon2-deactivated20241009]

i will never not reblog this

i cannot stress how much it does for us

a while ago, one of my mutuals was considering quitting writing. her fics weren’t doing as well, and the algorithm wasn’t favoring her writing like it used to.

so as a collective 10-15 writers, we all reblogged her fic once each. that alone put her writing at the top of the tag.

it makes a difference. way more than you think. it doesn’t matter if people see it because of you, it still gets promoted by the algorithm.

please, reblog fics

[druidx]

Reminder I have a second blog, @\dru-reads-writeblr, specifically for other people’s writing that I’ve reblogged.

[autism-adhd-information-blog-de]

Hi everyone,

I found a helpful and informative article about some myths about ADHD, it goes over the following:

Myth No. 1: Kids Will Outgrow ADHD

Myth No. 2: ADHD Isn’t a Real Medical Condition

Myth No. 3: All Kids With ADHD Are Hyperactive

Myth No. 4: Kids With ADHD Could Behave if They Tried Harder

Myth No. 5: ADHD Affects Boys More Than Girls

Myth No. 6: Medication Is the Only Treatment for ADHD

Myth No. 7: Kids With ADHD Aren’t Smart or Motivated

Myth No. 8: Poor Parenting Causes ADHD

Myth No. 9: ADHD Is Diagnosed Too Much

I’ll leave the article down below in case you would like to check it out. I hope you find it informative and helpful.

Challenging Common Myths About ADHD

ADHD, or attention hyperactivity disorder, is a condition which many people don’t fully understand. Here, we break down some of the biggest

ADHD Myths

[theadhdgoblin]

[thefernhands]

If you're fifteen or older an still sleep with a stuffed animal please reblog this.

[genderqueerdykes]

it really is okay to be a girl and to want to be a girl. society likes to tell us that being a woman is undesirable. that women can't be funny, smart, nuanced, or have a personality. that women can't have interests. women can't be this and women can't be that- none of that's true in the slightest- talk to any number of women and you'll see that's just not the case. women are as varied and nuanced as people can get.

it's okay to want to do the "shallow" things that people hate women for. it's also it's okay to want to be a woman who doesn't shave or care about their appearance. it's okay to be a butch woman. it's also okay to want to be hyper feminine and wear very well crafted makeup and well planned out outfits. it's okay to be a smart woman, it's okay to be a funny girl. it's okay to be the weird girl. it's okay to WANT to be a woman and ENJOY womanhood, no matter how you express it, no matter what body you're in or how your womanhood presents itself.

trans women, genderqueer women, intersex women, butch women, gnc women, cis women- it's okay to enjoy being a woman. it's okay to find joy in womanhood. it's okay to be a woman in your own way, too, stereotype or not- even if other people say you don't act like a woman or aren't one- it's okay to love being a woman. it's okay to love womanhood.

[turing-tested]

*sends an email* *makes sure that it's normal* oh ok *it's normal* *dies and explodes anyway*

[dragonladdie]

Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for... what, a week?

They've counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care

[dragonladdie]

It should NOT fall on Indigenous people's shoulders to keep this known still. We’ve been doing that for generations at this point and NO ONE wants to listen to us.

We’re tired, mourning and constantly reopening our trauma and pain to keep people caring about us. It’s terrible.

[foxgirltail]

I should start by noting that I am white, and not Canadian, and that if op wants me to remove this comment for any reason, please let me know.

This is a map of all the residential schools in Canada:

[link to the article it’s attached to, it’s interactable there, so you can get a better look around]

Each dot on this map represents a residential school. Blue dots mean the school is considered completely searched. Yellow dots mean they are either in the process of being searched or there are plans to be searched. Red dots indicate that no search has happened and that no search is currently planned

There were more than 130 residential schools in Canada. This map suggests that only six have been fully searched, and a little more than a dozen partially searched (I counted 15 yellow dots). That leaves at least 109 schools completely untouched.

Let that sink in; if 6,000-7,000 unmarked, indigenous children’s graves were found by searching less than a fifth of all the schools, how many are still undiscovered.

Wikipedia estimates that the body count could be over 50,000, and honestly, that could be a low estimate

[pronouncingitwang]

[ID: A map of Canada with dozens of dots on it, 6 of which are blue and 7 of which are yellow; the rest are red. Later there is a screenshot from wikipedia reading, “Estimates range from 3,200 to over 50,000 children that were killed. Most of the recorded student deaths at residential schools took place before the 1950s. /end ID]

[femonologue]

The residential school system was a calculated, open, and forthrightly declared attempt at the total genocide of all indigenous peoples in this country. It was literally meant to wipe them out entirely, through a combination of attrition and assimilation.

Never forget that this is what Canada is really built upon.

[jocarthage]

These are the residential schools in the U.S. I've mapped out the ones in California and there are articles about burials on these sites, some marked and some not.

I hope Secretary Haaland's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative investigates every single one; their report is Due on April 1, 2022,

[ejacutastic]

Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Released by Interior Department - O'odham Action News: Home

By Chris Picciuolo O’odham Action News [email protected] On May 11, the Department of the Interior (DOI) released Volume 1 of t

On May 11, the Department of the Interior (DOI) released Volume 1 of the comprehensive report and investigation into the Federal Indian boarding school (FIBS) system called the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative.

The report is a result of the June 22, 2021, memorandum by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland directing the DOI to investigate and report on, by April 1 of this year, the scope of the boarding school system with a focus on the location of schools and burial sites and identification of children who attended the schools.

For the first time ever, an extensive inventory of federally operated schools was assembled that includes the general location and informational profiles of the schools.

The investigation so far has found that, from 1819 to 1969, the Federal Indian Boarding School system consisted of 408 schools across 37 states. As the investigation continues, the DOI said that it expects the number of identified burial sites to increase from the identified marked or unmarked burial sites at approximately 53 different schools across the system.

[cannibalchicken]

[sobbing-space-trash]

How I feel everytime I have to be a customer

[bff0f7]

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

[adamtheredbeard]

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”

[afronerdism]

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

[doobiebenson]

[butch-bakugo]

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

[churchoftheconfusedchicken]

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

[ifiknewiwouldtellyou]

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

[gayvampyr]

here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was

[cripplepunk-sylveon]

And to anyone saying "but this was ages ago!": the last school closed when I was four. I've met survivors PERSONALLY.

[kaijubluu]

So.

Another 751 unmarked graves were found at a Saskatchewan residential school.

Seven hundred fifty one.

[kaijubluu]

This school, The Marieval Indian Residential School, operated from 1899 to 1997.

It was one of the last residential schools to close in Canada. One of more than 130. 

In case you didn’t know, residential schools were created to “cleanse” the people of Canada. These schools operated from 1831, when the Mohawk Institute Residential School opened, to 1996, when residential schools were finally outlawed.

That is 166 years of cultural genocide.

An estimated 150 000 children attended these schools, and an estimated 6 000 children died at these schools (current records of death are incomplete) 

These children were beaten, sexually abused, even experimented on. They were treated like prisoners, like they were sub-human. 

A child’s likelihood of dying in a residential school was one in twenty-five. In comparison, a Canadian World War 2 soldier’s odds of dying were one in twenty-six. 

I am not Indigenous. I cannot pretend to know how painful this may be. But what I can do is speak out. This inhumane treatment of citizens of Canada must be condemned. 

The government of Canada, and The Catholic Church, must. make. reparations. 

[snaxle-archive-deactivated20251]

look me in the eyes. you are aware some asexual people have sex, right. you are aware some asexuals aren’t sex repulsed. you do not need to baby asexuals and act like the slightest mention of anything sexual will cause them to die of a heart attack 

[myfinalform-kaz]

Addition: you also don’t need to baby asexuals who don’t have sex. I dont have sex. Sex jokes do not bother me. Sex education does not bother me. Reproductive body parts do not bother me. Sex repulsed aces will also not have a heart attack at the slightest mention of sex.

[finleycannotdraw]

I think it’s just that people need to realize that sex as an action and sex as a concept are different things. I don’t want to engage in sexual behavior in any context, but discussing it is perfectly fine. Discussing it in any detail, in any context, is most likely going to be fine, as long as it’s not related to my body.

Honestly I think it has a lot to do with the cultural significance of sex. Allo people treat it as a huge important topic that is ingrained in everybody, but to me we might as well be discussing football.

[canofhappy]

the whole thing about asexuality is that it is a sexual orientation - typically meaning attraction, but in this case, a lack of attraction. so sex as a concept, as a thought, as an action in some cases, does not make us aces freak out. leave behind the notion that anything to do with sex is like the act of having sex or being sexual.

[ash-and-art]

"amab or afab" im alab experiment that went wrong

[genderqueerdykes]

btw, trans people who dont care about passing aren't "making other trans people look bad". there are as many ways to be trans as there are people on this earth. while one trans person may have dysphoria so bad they can't function from not passing and that's valid and important, another may get euphoria from not passing. some of us enjoy being androgynous or "other" looking. some of us enjoy "looking trans". that doesn't make anyone else "look bad". it doesnt "take away" from the hard work someone else put into their transition to pass. everyone transitions according to their own unique goals. we are not all the same, and one person's transition says absolutely nothing about another's.

[theadhdgoblin]

[genderqueerdykes]

unfortunately, most intersex people are not told outright that they are intersex, in that verbiage, even by doctors or other medical professionals. most of us have strung together that conclusion through being told our specific conditions if we're lucky, or a piece or part of it such as being told a symptom, or even being told nothing at all. many intersex people undergo surgery at very very young ages and are never informed about it ever in life, and only find out by seeing scars, or never at all.

the only reason i discovered i was intersex was because of how apparent my condition made itself to me. i started growing a full beard during puberty and had some disruptions with my menstrual cycles that were so intense and severe i was having to stay home from school. i was told by the obgyn that i "produced too many androgens, and needed to be placed on estrogen to correct it." that's all they told me. by the way, the estrogen made things far worse for me, and the only thing that actually helped was starting testosterone HRT.

being intersex is for the most part a process of piecing things together. people are very hush hush about it for the most part and don't want to draw attention to it, so you have to be your own detective. you have to be your own advocate.