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[princefado]

val and i gave each other old ocs to draw so i put all of mine into one pic!

[dreamdrone]

“every shiny thing of good luck could be made true every single thing you dream up could happen to you“

[urulokid]

honestly whenever people treat smoking like some edgy and cool thing and have this “fuck y’all i do what i want im not huuuurrting anyooonnnee” attitude it’s like......cool!!! enjoy having the mental capacity of a kindergartner!!! where is this magical land you live where the choices you make about your health don’t affect the people who care about you bc i wanna check that out!! 

guess who else thought smoking was cool and edgy? my grandma. guess what happened to my grandma? died last year in her 70s living in her oldest son, my father’s home running her oxygen machine at all hours of the night and day, unable to walk around or even stand for long, unable to eat anything, tied to a cannula, having her daughter in law, my mother, wipe her ass and bathe her, and having her granddaughter, me, dress her and undress her and put her shoes and socks on and make sure her portable O2 tanks were full. she died in bed at 6 am after months of suffocating slowly on her own lung fluids and upwards of 10 years of being a financial and physical burden on her daughter and her sons.

guess who never smoked her entire life? her sister in law, my great aunt. guess who lived an amazing life traveling the world and is still alive and living a happy and fulfilled life at the age of 93 with no pain? guess who still exercises and takes walks everywhere? my great aunt. guess who outlived her brother, my grandfather, who also smoked heavily for decades and died of a heart attack when i was 7? my great aunt.

if you’re upset you’re being “shamed” for destroying your own body you have zero concept of consequences or you just don’t give a shit about them. my grandmother told us till the day she died to never, ever start smoking or she’d kill us. her biggest regret in her entire life was smoking. she went to her grave wishing she’d listened to her doctors and everyone who was concerned for her health. 

the most selfish thing you can possibly do in this world is to destroy yourself from the inside out with substance abuse and refuse to get help when today’s society has a massive support network for all kinds of addictions. it’s not cute, it’s not edgy or cool or ~aesthetic~ or what the fucking hell ever. you’re taking years of your life today and acting like it’s Fine because “everyone dies anyway!!” yeah but there’s things thing called quality of life and idk about you but I would rather live 70 years completely independent and free of self imposed medical issues than 70 years of what my grandmother went through. ciao

[enolie]

some of my work for one of David's projects, illustrating his "food people" characters. one of my favorite projects!

[urulokid]

callingvalhal replied to your post: anonymous asked:As someone who's ...

I didn’t see this until now. I still disagree with the over simplification because your post does seem to imply that it’s a super simple solution but I recognize now that you didn’t mean that.

Absolutely not. The mechanics of mental problems and such are very complicated. I definitely grasp this. 

My own anxiety/abuse trauma resulted in a self-harming/destructive personal habit where I picked at my skin and hair until it bled and engaged in maladaptive daydreaming and weird mental tics that bordered on OCD. HOWEVER, I was also able to go “well, shit, this isn’t good” with absolutely nobody telling me otherwise, and redirect my own obsessive impulses into less destructive repetitive calming behaviors/coping mechanisms without any access to anything. Smokers have industries aimed at them to stop smoking. I linked to four sites that give free help. You can buy nicotine patches instead of cigarettes. There are ways to stop. It’s not always simple, but people have done it because sometimes you have to do things that are hard to fix your bad choices.

I will grant that smoking is not quite trich. Smoking requires you to go and buy the product you’re self-medicating/habiting with. I didn’t have to go buy my fingers. Smoking causes secondhand smoke and makes other people sick. Nobody ever secondhand picked. Smoking destroys your lungs, teeth, throat, and heart. Trich just destroys your skin and makes you bald and patchy.

The argument that “it’s just a coping mechanism and therefore it’s, like, ableist to like tell people?? they’re gonna get cancer??” is absolutely fucking ridiculous. Something being a coping mechanism isn’t going to stop the consequences of your actions especially if the activity is harmful. Is my trich a coping mechanism? Yep. Did my body magically go “hey this is bad for us we shouldn’t do that Carrie’s going to magically stop bleeding now every time she digs into her face!!!” nO. Because that’s NOT HOW THIS WORKS