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[inksymerengues]

Erotika

[seadeepspaceontheside]

fate

[theinternetarchive]

wooden hand of buddha, japan, nara period c. 700s a.d

[aaaaaarchive]

[aflo]

Blocked by mr and mrs freaky deaky doo... becomes old and withers away

[hotdoghotdoghotdoghotdoghotdogho]

fun

[liusia-piu]

[nymphfrill]

Home

[typhlonectes]

[vertyd]

The miitamorphosis

[zmpl]

the psych industry and society as a whole is not normal at all towards people who self-harm. people view it as attention-seeking. mental health professionals view it as justification to send you to a “higher level of care” aka incarcerate you. it is seen as a bad/negative behavior that needs to be fixed.

in reality, the concept of self-harm is heavily socially constructed and an issue of bodily autonomy. as humans, we seek out physical pain all the time. we eat spicy foods. we get tattoos and piercings. we engage in BDSM. so why do we forbid self-regulation through pain?

when people are told to cover up their scars, when people are kicked out of DBT support groups for self-harming, when people are conditioned to lie about their self-harm to avoid getting sent to the psych ward, you are telling them that their body is not their own.

the last time i cut myself was roughly a year ago. ironically, after adopting a bodily autonomy mindset around self-harm, i stopped having urges to cut nearly as often because i’m no longer engaging in a power struggle with my own mind over trying to avoid doing a “bad” behavior. i don’t feel like doing it today, but if i do tomorrow, that is okay. because it is my choice to decide what i do with my own body.

[veitstanz]

painted one of my favorite Disco Elysium Portraits in gouache to practice!

Acrylics would probably have been better for this but I like how this came out.

[victimtoblackroses]