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fragmentedtale-official-blog

Fragment, buddy, try to take some deep breaths, slow ones, it’ll be alright!

Asked by @doodlenovaa

ButterflyVerse belongs to @sleepyderpydogs

ultimateplaylistmaker

The forever curse of v3 chapter 4 is people will make great points about fandom misogyny and meta then slam face first into their own ableism about gonta and completely ruin a lot of their own point

voidzphere

been thinking a lot about obsession recently

rahafwabas

Oh he is having a nice time

its-funnytwittertweets

nonnymousehouse

The funniest thing about DNIs is that people will list things like 'DNI Racists, DNI Homophobes' as if bigots are known are respecting boundaries and then add their nOTPs like 'DNI Glup Shitto/Blorbo' as if that is in any way comparable.

snototter

A Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) in Palestine

by Thomas Galewski

shofarsogood

FYI, these guys are endangered due to overhunting. They are still around due to a strong effort by Israeli and Jordanian ecologists to preserve them. Ibexes are protected in Israel (which is the only country taking population surveys), Oman, and Egypt. There's a group in KSA, but the Saudis aren't counting their numbers. There's not a lot in Yemen, but the ibex is still considered a national symbol. They're susceptible to poaching in most of the countries where they live.

This photo is likely in Israel, not Palestine, because ibexes live in the Negev desert, the southernmost part of Israel. They don't go west enough toward Gaza and they're not north enough to touch the West Bank. Of course, animals don't give a damn about borders and there's nothing that prevents them from going into the West Bank, but it's a markedly different climate from the Negev. (My understanding is that the West Bank was created to exclude the Negev specifically, but those borders were made by colonizers.) It's weird to attribute a photo in Israel to Palestine.

legbootlegit

Been hearing a lot about this company lately so I decided to try one of their playsets

I can't believe it comes with that much accessory inventory in the back, for free??

Needless to say acquired it, what do you think the resale value is on all of those Star Wars sets?

clownsequences

daily nightmare no. 19, blepmare

sketchtoons

paperandpencilsandskips

im-still-alex

Confrontation

"...I've never felt so tense seeing an old friend." These two have a past that I'll get into eventually. For now, here's a look into present.

prismatic-bell

Holy shit I need to say something to teenage and young adult Ariana Grande fans on this site because what I just saw is absolutely horrifying.

So for reasons unknown (why does the YouTube algorithm do anything?), my YouTube shorts have given me a pair of videos of fans concerned about her health. And I am begging you:

If she is giving health or diet advice to fans, please do not follow it.

I don't know the whole story here. According to these two fans, she started appearing unwell during the Wicked press tour. The photos and videos I just saw of her current tour demonstrate a serious deterioration since then.

When my mom was in her teens, there was a singer named Karen Carpenter. She developed anorexia, and at her lowest weight reached 83 pounds. She was actually in recovery and had gotten back up to 108 pounds when her heart simply couldn't stand the strain anymore, and she suffered a fatal heart attack. She was 32 years old.

Karen and Ariana have very similar builds. I've seen photos of Karen at her lowest weight.

Ariana looks worse.

Let's be clear: I am saying she looks sicker and in an even more advanced state of anorexia than a woman who weighed the same as a ten-year-old child. This is not normal weight loss. This isn't even "slightly too much" weight loss. This is the point where I very gently tell you all that you may need to prepare yourselves for her to die if nobody steps in to help her. When I saw these images I first wondered if she was trying to perform through late-stage cancer.

She is extremely ill, and it's not her fault. Nobody wakes up one day and says "I think I want to hate my body so much that I'll let it eat me from the inside out for lack of calories." If anyone is to blame here, it's the people around her who may have pressured her to this point and certainly aren't stepping in to help her. She deserves compassion and care.

But something both of these fans mentioned is that when they expressed concern, other fans accused them of body-shaming and asking how dare they speak about other women's bodies. And that is dangerous. Because there's an ocean of difference between "ugh, eat a cheeseburger" and "someone please help her, she's a human being, not a freakshow, and this isn't right," and that difference matters because she is a role model to so many young women. You need to be able to say "she doesn't deserve judgement, but she is unwell."

Ariana Grande is extremely sick, and that sickness is in her brain but is affecting her in a viscerally physical way, and if you look to her as an inspiration I am asking you to please, please understand you can love her music and the version of herself that she puts forward to you without emulating it. Do not assume she's giving good nutritional or exercise advice right now. She is not in a good headspace to be doing so.

I hope for her sake that she has a moment of clarity and enters recovery. I hope it's not too late for her, the way it was for Karen Carpenter. I don't say any of this to wish ill on her or her fans. But I do say it because I know how many of her fans are teenagers. And I don't want to see anyone take her illness as a good thing.

Talk about it. Don't shame. But do be aware. If you see troubling signs in yourself or your friends--obsessive calorie-counting, talking about "deserving" food or "punishing" yourself for eating--please seek help. I've never had full-on anorexia, but I did have an eating disorder as a teen, and it can sneak up on you and have lifelong effects.

Please be careful.

lurker-mclurkerson-blog

Since tumblr (at least according to the part I inhabit) is the mental health website, I thought this would be relevant to a decent number of you. (I know i have a default icon, but I promise I'm a real person, posting about a very real concern.)

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) announced last week that they're changing their billing policy next year so limited license mental health therapists in the state (21% of the mental health work force in Michigan) won't be able to bill them for therapy sessions if they work in a private practice or school setting.

Since BCBSM holds almost 70% of Michigan's commercial market, limited license therapists almost certainly will be forced out of private practice - interrupting care for (possibly hundreds? of) thousands of clients and severely restricting training opportunities for practitioners trying to get fully licensed.

Here are a few news articles about this:

Michigan Blue Cross to limit mental health benefit. Will thousands lose care?

‘Devastating’: Michigan mental health care workers concerned BCBSM billing change could cut access to counselors

Mental health providers warn BCBSM billing changes could disrupt care for hundreds

Ways Michiganders can help:

- Post about this on other social media platforms.

- Call your state legislator and say you're against this policy.

- If you have BCBSM insurance, call the number on the back of your insurance card and complain.

- Attend the rally that the Michigan Mental Health Counselors Association and the Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers are holding in front the BCBSM building in Lansing on Tuesday, June 23rd, at 4:30pm. (Facebook post about the rally).

lurker-mclurkerson-blog

I tried blazing my original post too quickly. The National Association of Social Workers created a page here that has a great summary of the issue and more concrete ways to protest, including easily modified letters that can be sent to BCBSM leadership and state legislators.

prismatic-bell

We'll just have to Blaze it the old-fashioned way, then.

FOLLOWERS, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.