[lets-play-gwent]

thank you to every single fucking person on this god forsaken site that has ever posted your own art or writing. You really put a vulnerable, important part of yourself out in the open on the hellscape that is the internet and if that isnt an act of bravery and a labor of love I dont know what one is

[adhd-alien]

Shame is one of the hardest things about ADHD for me. I'm back and the book is finished but instead of feeling proud, I feel ashamed for not having managed to stay active, manage my household better or even shower regularly.

I wasn't sure what comic "would be good to come back with", so I just wrote about what I'm actually dealing with right now.

I’m so happy to be back and hope someone still gets some value from my comics!

[thaidrama2000]

[callsignsnix]

[the loyal pin + tumblr posts part 4]

[avasillva]

she's a little too easy to love | insp

[lambsprout]

“and the universe said…”

[i-got-the-feels]

this show's got some insane quotes

[unrealcosima]

Those men are weak because I would have wanted to marry her even more

[writing-prompt-s]

You’re a mind reader, but your whole life everything has sounded like gibberish because of how random people’s misconstrued thoughts are, until one day all the voices shut off and you hear one very clearly say “run”

[grumpyirath]

🐶💗🧬

And, in the time-honoured tradition, The Puppy follows The Explorer…✏️🐶

New Cophine artwork…

[foulbearobservation]

jillian salvius is literally the character of all time to me like instead of going to therapy because she's sad about her son she decides to take on the catholic church and wins? she accidentally stumbles ass backwards into a millenia long war between forces outside of human comprehension. like. who does that. she sticks her own hand into a untested portal at a dinner party because she has a compulsive need to be right. she sits like a dyke. she gets adopted by / adopts a whole gaggle of nuns. she watches her son die twice. she has a weird homoerotic tension with the head nun. she had an immaculate conception. she's wildly rich but what her company actually does is, like, supervillain levels of vague. she has a dick measuring contest with the pope and wins. she gets betrayed by her only friend. she sits like such a dyke I cannot emphasize this point enough. her company gets taken over by a douchebag angel with a man bun. she is 100% sure she could do at least 3 major miracles. her son speaks directly to angels. she's basically a holy figure. she's even a lesbian.

[laeidasark]

Do you remember watching orphan black and thinking ‘wow this kid is gonna be a little fucked up with all that trauma’??

Turns out… yea… just a little fucked up..

[everythingfox]

Rough day of being cute

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

there was a tiktok I made a while ago basically saying "your abusive ex boyfriend is more likely a misogynist than a narcissist" and while most people agreed some said I was victim blaming(?) and that I couldn't know what their ex is like, and while obviously I don't, every fucking person describing their narcissistic ex is describing a typical misogynist. ask yourself, is this behavior you associate with narcissism directed at women or does he treat his male friends the same way? is his general functioning in life impaired?

many people don't seem to know this, but a mental disorder is NOT based on symptoms alone, it's based on how much the symptoms actually impair you in daily life. most people could look at a list of mental disorder symptoms and identify either themselves or someone else with them. as far as a narcissistic personality, we all know people who appear more self absorbed than others, but this is typically subclinical narcissism (presence of narcissistic traits without significant impairment of functioning) which is not a disorder. there is also a misunderstanding of what npd is. a narcissist is not a supervillain invincible to emotion. npd is a defensive reaction to trauma that lead to deep insecurity and fear of being seen as weak or vulnerable. so narcissists aren't actually "in love with themselves" at all and often are diagnosed when seeking help for other issues such as substance abuse resulting from their struggles.

this focus a lot of abused women in online pop psychology have on narcissism is particularly concerning because it completely glosses over misogyny which is literally a huge factor in violence against women. people really only know misogyny as a surface level thing. they don't know it can lead to family annihilation, for example, and is one reason most family annihilations are committed by the husband. it's always "this man is a sociopath" "this man is a narcissist" when the man's behavior is driven by ideology. I am so fucking tired of everything being tied to mental illness and left at that. you know what this leads to? courts "fixing" abusive men by...giving them anger management therapy. guess what? it doesn't fucking do anything because the problem isn't mental instability leading to anger, it's targeted, purposeful abuse. we are getting nowhere

[thespoonisvictory]

people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

[thespoonisvictory]

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.

[jabberwockypie]

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.

[swordplease]

This is the best “gifted kid” post out there. I never took notes until college because I didn’t have to, snd when it got challenging I had to literally teach myself note taking at age 18. It also fucks with your perception of asking for help - you’re advanced, you’re competent, you should be able to understand every topic easily. Asking for help/going to office hours/asking for a tutor feels like failing when you were praised in your early years for not needing to do that.

[queenofloci-deactivated20240228]

If I had known this sooner, I wouldn’t have blamed myself for dropping out of university for 20+ years….

[brenshor]

[r0semultiverse]

Like music to my ears