Valentine

Be compassionate not complacent

[valmathog]

My name is Valentine, I like to draw and sew. I go by all pronouns and don't particullary identify with any one gender.I might mention non-identifying irl details about myself, be warned because I'm not putting my medical history in my bio for just about anyone to find.

My art -> #Val Draws

Bookmarking things for myself (barely used) ->#4 later

Pigeon related reblogs -> #pigeon blogging

[valmathog]

I made a tumblr community for people with bipolar a while ago but haven't had anyone join yet.

I'm looking to create a space where bipolar disorder can be openly discussed by those who live with it along with a place where you can just discuss life. I hope it'll become a supportive environment for anyone suffering either because of the disorder or life reasons.

If people could share this to get the word out that would be very helpful :3

Bipolar friends • Community on Tumblr

A place for Tumblr users with Bipolar Disorder to discuss your experience or day to day life!

[thebellekeys]

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

[thebellekeys]

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

[dailymanners]

A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

[barishal]

Additional readings:

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa by Laura Gozzi (BBC).

Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers by Helena Smith (The Guardian).

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (BBC).

Bill on Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers Published by Jelena Ćirić (Iceland Review).

Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania by Karl Sexton (DW).

Record number of migrants, refugees reached Canary Islands by sea in 2024 (Al Jazeera).

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

[dailymanners]

This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

[dailymanners]

This post made racists angry enough to harass me over it, which all that's going to do is make me bring this post back and reblog it more.

[lotus-kittycats-yay]

I drew some Tuggoffelees.

[rolkstone]

proship means you don't judge/harass others for their choices in fiction and artistic expression.

you can be icked by something and still have the maturity to understand that others are allowed to like something you don't

you have the maturity to know that if you encounter something you consider actually out of line on the Internet, you can report said content to the appropriate authorities (many antis knowingly abuse this system, clogging actual police forces with complaints about people who draw pictures they don't like, but still, if you come across something you know to be a crime, there are ways to report that)

so please, to those of you with "proship DNI" or whatever variation of that, stay the ever loving fuck away from my blog and my inbox. As I just demonstrated, it takes a certain level of maturity to engage with the Internet, and anti-shippers simply do not possess that most basic level

[baple-macon-bunny]

Proship, at it's very core, is a combination of four general principles--

Ship And Let Ship

Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's Okay

Don't Like, Don't Read/Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

The Golden Rule - Treat others the way you wish to be treated.

That's it. That's all there is to it. That is what proship means. These things used to be common sense. I guess it's not so common anymore.

[beemovieerotica]

tumblr user 1: you guys should drink more plain water, it's good for you

tumblr user 2: actually you can drink whatever you want all the time

tumblr user 3: yee and water is icky :(

tumblr user 4: I literally can't drink plain water as I'll instantly start throwing up, some people's bodies simply can't process it, you can't make blanket statements about what's good or not good for someone else's digestive system

tumblr user 5: ooouugh.. tony the tiger hairy armpits 😩

[lilietsblog]

Stardew Valley Fashion Sense basics mod list

Let's go:

Vanilla accessories;

Vanilla pants and skirts;

Vanilla shirts;

Backpacks and Baubles;

Cozy Mittens;

Cozy Scarves;

Hoods and hoodies;

Player height variety;

Oversized sleeves;

Coats and jackets;

Gloves and sleeves;

Traveler's attire;

Kisekae's skirts;

Crocs;

Cute shoes;

Animated hairstyles;

More accessories and stuff (hats!!!)

Vanilla hats extended

When you first install Fashion Sense and open the mirror menu, it's likely to strike you as both confusing and completely empty. It offers sleeves? Where are the sleeves? What does it mean by sleeves?

This is the list of mods after which your Fashion Sense will be all geared up with basics and ready to roar - hats, shirts, pants, skirts, accessories, everything you had in vanilla and then also a bit of everything Fashion Sense can offer that vanilla cannot.

After installing this, you can and absolutely should go look for more stuff you specifically want - elf ears, witch hats, fox tails, angel wings, luxurious dresses, digimon survive outfits, whatever floats your boat. And you will add it to these and be happy that you can choose from a variety of shoes to go with that one cute dress you found.

P.S. More tentative recommendations for people who want A LOT of shirt options and don't mind their menu being swamped by an absolutely surreal amount of variations:

Ani's Color Collection

Missy's Shirts

[deadletterpoems]

The worst thing about loving you was knowing  that no one would love you the same as I did.  No one would see you the way I did  No one would touch you the way I did  If I could  I would’ve brought you the moon and the stars on a silver platter  -me

[yesornopolls]

Does it hurt when you yawn?

Does it hurt when you yawn?

Yes

No

Voting ended onSep 1, 2025

[noodle-the-queen]

Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

[teddygrahamxx]

Femme lesbians have more in common with drag queens than they do cis women. In this essay I—

[genderqueerdykes]

I think a lot of people on this website would benefit from hearing that back in 2011 when I was a part of my college's pride group, I was friends with a gay cis male drag queen whose roommate was a lesbian. They had sex with each other often, but it didn't stop my friend from identifying as a gay guy, nor did it stop their roommate from being a lesbian. Neither of them identified as bisexual. This kind of stuff happens between queer people of "conflicting" identities all the time, it's nothing new. There aren't any rules

[aqueousstar]

first thing to know about sewing machines is that they can smell fear

[valmathog]

Have work tomorrow, don't wanna I'm so fucking tired

[wheelie-sick]

having bipolar disorder is a lot like being run over with a steamroller over and over again. you get run over the first time and you survive, somehow, and stand back up again only for another steamroller to hit you.

you keep surviving, you keep getting back up but you start to accumulate broken bones and crushed teeth. you're bleeding everywhere because your organs have been smushed for the 50th time. it continues to be survivable, somehow, but the fatigue continues to grow.

how many more times will you be run over by a steamroller? you know it will happen again. you know that the steamroller will chase you down and crush you no matter where you run. so why? why would you bother? why would you stand back up knowing that you are just going to be run over again? when you try to express this to your friends, that you are tired, no, exhausted from being crushed by steamrollers, they give you empty statements like "I hear it gets easier with time." that's easy to say when you're not being crushed by steamrollers.

so you stop standing up. it is the 500th steamroller and you are so tired. every movement is agonizing as your body can't keep up with recovery from all the steamrollers. you continue to try kneeling, anything to get yourself even a little off the ground, then after a while you're just sitting, and soon you're not getting up at all. you're just laying there, arms outstretched, letting every steamroller hit you. the steamrollers crush you into the ground, one by one, until you join the worms in the soil. the whole time the people around you telling you "it gets easier, just give it time"

[theconcealedweapon]

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.