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stop trying to be palatable, stop trying to be palatable, stop

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It's always "we need more funding for psych wards" never "do these psych wards actually help mentally ill people improve?" Like more funding for mental health services isn't inherently a progressive move if those services don't actually help the people they claim to help. More elaborate social control of mentally ill individuals isn't inherently progressive or helpful simply because we have named it mental health care...

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first snowflake sighting ❄️\(￣︶￣*\))

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People with alterhuman identities that aren't strictly nonhuman have just as much place in the community as anyone else. If you're entirely human, or human as well as nonhuman, or even aspecies or something more nuanced--you're important, you're valued, and you're still alterhuman.

Share your experiences more often, if you'd like. The tags might be mainly filled with posts about nonhumanity, but that doesn't mean that your identity should be kept quiet! Be proud of who you are, humanity and all included.

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its very clear to me that the therian community (mostly on other social media platforms) has a HUGE issue with sanism.

if you are going to use "insane" as a word to devalue and discount someones experience, just fucking admit you don't see non-sane individuals as equals. cause apparently, being "insane" is the worst thing you can possibly be and it makes all your experiences invalid and you are just a huge freak, huh?

you'd rather have all the "insane" individuals rounded up and locked away so YOU don't have to possibly confront why you would treat someone lesser than just cause they believe certain things or have hallucinations or anything like that.

its sad. it makes me very sad. i don't wanna have to hide these parts of me. psychosis isn't all bad. delusions aren't always evil or harmful.

but instead of listen to actual non-sane individuals, these therians would rather just discount everyone who steps outside their view of "normal".

pathetic.

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Begging anyone in fandom spaces (especially people who already have anxiety) who find themselves obsessing over ages of characters and the morality of ships to an intense degree to please look into purity/morality OCD and the thought policing involved in OCD because if you aren't careful it will get worse.

Engaging in fandom in that kind of way and critiquing every passing thought or feeling you or others may have if you have anxiety or OCD is incredibly harmful and I cannot emphasize this enough

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Bea Camacho: ‘Efface’ (2008)

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Mary, mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now

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mother mary with roses

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He stole Husker's hat

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I love this ship. It is not healthy. I do not give a fuck. They will make out and fuck.

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You know what pisses me off so fucking much? How 8eing a fictive is an explan8ion for 8asically everything 8ut 8eing fictionkin isn't. Fictives are allowed to use typing quirks, 8ut fictionkind aren't. Fictives are allowed to have exotrauma, 8ut fictionkind aren't. Fictives are allowed to 8e treated as themselves, 8ut fictionkind aren't. People who think like this would shit themselves if they met me: I'm 8oth.

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if you're fictionkin, there is a very, very high chance you have a little metaphorical devil on your shoulder that constantly yells at you to downplay and minimize your identity for everyone else. and I am here to tell you that you must grab that little devil and dropkick it into an industrial shredder.

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As frustrating as it is, I do find it weirdly funny that therian is now the label getting co-opted by kids screaming "OF COURSE I DON'T ACTUALLY THINK I'M AN ANIMAL, THAT'S INSANE, IT'S JUST A COSPLAY" over on TikTok. Like, obviously it's bad and frustrating and I'd rather it wasn't happening, but at least it's proof that the problem was never the word otherkin/'kin being "too catchy," and that abandoning the word otherkin like some people tried to advocate for would in fact not have fixed the problem for exactly the reasons I said it wouldn't (ie, the word wasn't the problem, it just happened to be the most visible word, and the problem would've followed us to whatever new word we made for it).

Annoying as fuck way to be proven right, but at least I am proven right. Unfortunately I still don't know how to actually fix it, because all the informational posts in the world ain't gonna help TikTok considering how TikTok is formatted.

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The Haunting

Digital painting, August 2024