#Hashtag coping skills

[paeinovis]

I do be stress indulging

[1eeminho]

mental illness recovery is fun in the way that some days u just wake up and u Know its gonna be a shit day. u had some rly good nice days ure doing fine overall u put in the work etc but then u sometimes wake up and stare at the wall like

[lonelyplanetfag]

imjust like ryan roxxi fr. hate thst guy

[girlspecimen]

well idk if it’s one month or two months or even how long my brain become stupid. because no medication

[simplespacedust]

hey so i'm gonna talk about pro-shippers because i feel like none of you have critical thinking skills.

please, if you are going to read this, read to the end because there are multiple parts to my argument.

SOMETHING IMPORTANT: i don't think it is okay to doxx, harass, or send death threats to people on the internet! if you send death threats to people, you are awful! if you go out of your way to harass people when they tell you to leave them alone, you are awful! if someone says something you don't like, talk with them like a normal fucking person jesus christ! if you repeatedly harass a pro-shipper, you are not helping them get any better!

firstly, in terms of "problematic" stuff in mainstream media, most component people can recognize when a piece of media is commenting on something with the use of a relationship/something problematic as a metaphor. just because something exists on-screen doesn't necessarily mean the message of the media endorses it. this is why you never (hopefully) see anyone getting upset about murder in movies. the piece of media is not saying murder is good. it is using it to make a commentary/characterize someone/etc.

now that we have set that precedent, we can move on to pro-shipping in fandom spaces. pro-shipping in fandom spaces if often fundamentally different between than the more general category of just "relationships in media." in fandom spaces, the tendency when creating art, writing fics, posting headcannons, etc. is for the purpose of personal/audience enjoyment. this is why pro-shipping is more often problematic within fandoms. if a person did want to create/add to problematic ships for a purpose other than getting off to it, that would be a different story! thats fine!

unfortunately, however, many pro-shippers do not proship for the literary merit/symbolism/characterization etc. many of them do it because they find the idea of parent-child or sibling-sibling relationships attractive. this is where the problem is. they symbol itself is not the problem, its the message/purpose of the work/art/headcannon itself.

i hear a lot of people talking about how pro-shipping is often a coping mechanism for dealing with trauma a person has experienced. my response to that? KEEP IT TO YOURSELF AND GO TO THERAPY!!!! if you are having to resort to jacking off to fictional incest to cope, then clearly you need the help of a professional to work through your issues! if you cannot for whatever reason, still keep it to yourself!

it is well understood that people are influenced by the opinions of people around them/what they see and interact with. putting out bullshit on the internet that portrays problematic relationships as desirable can one, create a pedophile safe space, and two, unintentionally (or maybe even intentionally!) expose children to these types of relationships and make it seem normal in their brains, which could cause them to not speak up about it if something bad does actually happen to them! even if a person shouldn't be in a space, they are! it doesn't harm you to not post the porn you wrote of that one kid and his dad from south park. and that only talks about adult only spaces, i have seen a shit ton of pro-shippers on tiktok, a platform marketed towards minors.

ANOTHER SIDE NOTE (i have a lot to say and am terrible at organizing my thoughts srry) is that a lot of times pro-shippers infiltrate general fandom hashtags. a child who is scrolling though a bluey hashtag on tiktok should not have any risk of running into someone on the internet describing how bluey's dad would r4p3 her!

you may think that because you are only talking about fictional characters and "its a coping mechanism" its okay, but it is most certainly not! not all coping mechanisms are healthy and what you post on the internet most CERTAINLY has a real effect on people. this is basic media literacy and critical thinking, guys. stop posting child/sibling smut headcannons on the internet! it is absolutely vile!

with all of that being said, (i said this at the beginning but i am going to say it again) i still dont think it is okay to doxx, harass, or send death threats to people on the internet! if you send death threats to people, you are awful! if you go out of your way to harass people when they tell you to leave them alone, you are awful! if someone says something you dont like, talk with them like a normal fucking person jesus christ! if you repeatedly harass a pro-shipper, you are not helping them get any better!

(im gonna put a bunch of proshipper hashtags at the bottom of this to reach the targeted demographic, i am NOT a proshipper, i am NOT an "anti anti" and i do NOT believe proshippers are valid, again, this is just for reach just to be clear)

[damensource]

We are thrilled to announce we are hosting DAMEN LOVE FEST 2023, a week-long celebration dedicated to Damianos of Akielos, set to take place during the first week of DECEMBER 2023.

If you'd like to participate, please use the hashtag #damenlovefest2023 so we can find and share your work. From art to edits, gifs, moodboards, fic, web weavings, meta, and more, all forms of content are warmly welcomed and appreciated. Additionally, we kindly ask that you reblog this post to help signal boost the event!

Each day of the event will feature a unique prompt along with suggestions to inspire and motivate creators. Here's a preview of the daily themes:

Day 1: Family

Familial relationships

Favorite dynamics

Men and women in Damen’s life

Damen craving family

Damen and “his” son

Day 2: Akielos

Ancestral family tree / previous monarchs

His household: Lykaios, his childhood trainer Haemon, his unnamed guards, squires and slaves

What Akielos means to Damen

Boyhood and adolescence

Friends and allies

Longing for home

Clothes, outfits and costumes

Cultural customs and norms

Day 3: Politics

Damen as a leader

His idea of realm and rulership

Damen and his people

Justice and law

Decisions and actions

Intelligence and skills

Abolitionism

Social and political changes

Validation of marginalized people

Cultural and linguistic amalgamation

Wants and needs vs duty and sacrifices

Day 4: Personality

Damen as a lover

Sexuality

Underrated qualities and skills

Importance to the narrative

Intelligence

Humor

Compassion, kindness and tenderness

Bravest moments

Liberator, protector, hero, abolitionist, and savior

Versatility as a prince, military commander, captain, merchant's assistant, slave/servant/squire, commoner, and king

Humanity, unity and peace

Embodiment of hope

Legacy

Day 5: Relationships

Lovers

Love interests

Friendships

Rarepairs

Underrated relationships and dynamics

(To keep the focus centered on Damen during his week of celebration, we kindly ask that you prioritize 1:1 Damen pairings)

Day 6: Slavery, Trauma and Abuse

Damen as a slave

Damen as a survivor

Childhood trauma

Trauma in Ios

Trauma in Arles

How Laurent’s abuse affected him

Coping mechanisms

From prince to slave to king

Trials and challenges

Resilience and inner strength

Dealing with xenophobia

Adaptability

Overcoming cultural differences

Narrative of displacement

Day 7: Foils and Parallels

Antagonists

Parallels

Foils

Mythological or historical parallels

We can't wait to see your contributions and celebrate Damen's incredible character together! ♡

[queerly-autistic]

My dad just messaged me going "seeing all this 'Save OFMD' stuff made me realise some things never change" and attached a load of pictures he'd dug up from fifteen years ago of me in my 'Save Ianto Jones' fan campaign era.

As much as it made me laugh, it also made me think about something that I've not talked about before: the fact that this is what introduced me to campaigning.

I was a very lost queer (undiagnosed autistic) kid, bullied and lonely and keenly aware that there were a lot of bad things happening in the world, but I had no idea how to begin to even try to change things, or even any awareness that there was anything I could do to change anything.

And then my favourite show killed off my favourite character, and I suddenly accidentally found myself swept up in the mobilisation (without even realising that that was what was happening) of the fan community around me. It's where I learned about the idea of campaigning as, y'know, a thing that I could do. It introduced me to the concept that I could actively try and do things to make a change I wanted to see in the world.

And now that's my actual literal real world adult job. This is what I do in my 9-to-5. Some of the skills I learned and developed at seventeen (and the lessons from the fuck-ups - oh boy there were many of those because I was seventeen) trying to get the BBC to un-dead my favourite bisexual welshman are skills that I now use every day to actually create change (such as writing persuasive emails to influence a specific target).

And I've also used them outside of the 9-5 in the smaller grassroots campaigns I've been involved with. For example, the skills I learned from a fan campaign when I was a teenager helped me play a small part in stopping the deportation of young autistic man, and potentially saved his life.

There's a HUGE amount of crossover/symbiosis between fan campaigns and 'real world' campaigning. A huge number of people involved in these fan campaigns are already involved in organising (or at the very least supporting/donating) for 'real world' issues. And, if they're not, then a fan campaign may well be their introduction to campaigning - a 'wow ok so I can actually do this' moment that inspires them to start pushing for change on other issues too.

It's fantastic if someone goes 'hey, I managed to call Netflix about picking up Our Flag Means Death, which has made me realise maybe I can also cope with picking up the phone to call my political representatives about [insert other issue here]' - and if the strategies they put in place to help them do the Netflix phone call also help them do the political phone calls as well, then that's absolutely brilliant.

The same with getting experience/confidence writing emails, or learning how to create and push a hashtag on social media, or realising the power of taking mass actions (like signing a petition). It even goes so far as inspiring people to follow up a fan campaign donation with an additional donation to a good cause, and helping direct them to some good charities/initiatives to donate to (because sometimes knowing which are the right ones to send your money too is very hard). These are all skills and experiences that can help build both confidence and understanding of how to get involved with campaigning for change, and these are absolutely transferrable to an infinite number of causes.

It's about people feeling empowered to take action: feeling like they can do it, that it's tangible to them as something they can do, and giving them the tools to do it. The endgame in real world advocacy and campaigning is getting stuff done: petitions signed, phone calls made, emails sent, donations collected, rallies attended.

And no one (outside of the internet moral purity police) cares if your journey getting there started with a fan campaign.

[echizen-division]

“Love is a game, one that we play with ourselves and each other.” – Unknown

[CW: brief mention of drugs and SA]

Timeline

Age 0

Is born to Nanase and Jyuni Tokushou† in Echizen, Japan

Age 3

Moves in with his mother at his grandfather, Jinnai Hajime’s house

Age 7

Becomes interested in fashion from watching his mother work

Age 14

Finds his grandfather’s book collection

Becomes enamoured with literature

Age 18

Graduates from high school

Enrols into college

Pursues an apprenticeship for horology

Age 22

Finishes college

Age 23

Finishes his apprenticeship

Begins to run The Rusty Rose, his late father’s shop

Makes an account for his shop on social media as an attempt to gain customers

Meets ‘that person’

They seem to get along quite well

The shop suddenly closes less than a year later

[???]

He is declared missing

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Age 26

Jinnai finds him unconscious at a park, with only the clothes he wears and a broken phone

Begins to heavily smoke as a means to cope from what previously happened

Age 27

Recovers, mostly at least…

Meets and befriends Raiden Otoha

Met and befriended Kohaku Meguno, who later on introduced him to Nayomi

His grandfather gifts him a pocketknife

Age 28

The Rusty Rose reopens

Realizes that he developed a sadistic side this whole time

Age 29

Present

Receives a couple threatening messages from an anonymous sender

Joins the D.R.B. as Echizen Division’s Clockwork Lament with Kohaku Meguno and Nayomi Ise

Schedule

12:30 AM -7:00 AM: Asleep

7:00 AM - 7:40 AM: Wakes up and eats breakfast

7:40 AM - 9:00 AM: Freshens up

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM - Walks to and opens his shop

9:40 AM - 1:30 PM - Shop’s open ✨

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM - Late lunch; temporarily closes shop

2:20 PM - 9:30 PM - Shop’s open ✨ (will probably do other stuff in the middle of this)

9:30 PM - 10:30 PM - Closes shop and walks back home

10:30 PM - 10:50 PM - Late dinner

10:50 PM - 11:30 PM - Reviewing shop’s transactions

11:30 PM - 12:30 AM - Reading/chatting with Kohaku and Nayomi in his phone and passing out in the process

Character Hashtags

#Black-hearted gentleman

#The Rusty Rose

#Will someday travel through time

#A decorated cage is still a cage

#Disheveled sheets and scattered pills

#I’ll never love again

Other Info

Hobby: Reading sci-fi books; visiting parks

Weakness: Drugged XXX

Trauma: “I was repeatedly violated by the very person I loved.”

Social Media: @TK247120 (main, it’s private)

@therustyrose_ofcl (his shop’s account)

Drinks: Yes (not as much as he used to)

Smokes: Yes (not as much as he used to)

Special Skill: “I’m surprisingly good at escaping from tight spaces, hmm…”

Intro Quote: “Hmm, did something caught your eye? …or were you looking at me?”

Trauma Quote: “I’m not… taking…THAT! PLEASE!!”

Ending Quote: “Compared to those days? It doesn’t hurt at all.”

[katsushika-division]

“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”

Timeline

Age 0:

Is born to Shuichi Himura and Miyuki Onodera

Age 5:

Unable to handle the pressure Miyuki abandons her son and husband 

Shuichi starts drinking and sleeping around to cope 

Shuichi begins to abuse Rintaro 

Age 10: 

His younger half-sister, Akari is born 

Rintaro begins to raise her primarily by himself 

Begins arguing with Shuichi, their fights often physical

Age 14:

Shuichi in a drunken stupor sets the house on fire in the middle of the night

Shuichi quickly burns to death  

Rintaro awakens to the house on fire and tries to escape with Akari but is not able to 

Rintaro and Akari are barely saved from burning to death with Rintaro taking the brunt of the flames

Due to the amount of damage, he suffered Rintaro goes into a coma

Akari is put in the foster care system separating the siblings

Age 15: 

Awakens from his coma

Tries looking for Akari and is unable to find her 

Starts High School 

His obsession with fire awakens 

Begins to set abandoned buildings on fire 

Age 16: 

Graduates High School early

Starts attending university majoring in chemistry 

Age 20:

Graduates from university with a master's degree in chemistry 

Starts to find setting abandoned buildings on fire boring 

Starts making bombs

Begins his reign of terror by setting off powerful bombs in multiple buildings often completely destroying them 

Becomes known as the "High-Rise Bomber"

Age 23:

Explodes a Chuohku government building 

Is caught while escaping  

Is arrested  

Is found guilty of his crimes and sentenced to death 

Is sent to the Katsushika Maximum Correctional Facility 

Meets Akihisa Mashiro 

Age 24:

Meets Touya Kisaragi 

Age 25:

Present.

Is given a deal by Chuohku to form a team and enter the Division Rap Battles and he can get off death row 

Accepts the deal 

Chuohku implants a micro-bomb in his neck in order to insure obedience

Is given temporary freedom by Chuohku

Reunites with Akari 

Joins the Katsushika Division rap battle team, Death Row Block, alongside Akihisa Mashiro and Touya Kisaragi 

Schedule

12:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.: Asleep

7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.: Awakens and gets ready for the day

7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.: Eats breakfast with everyone 

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.: Drops off Akari at school

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: Returns Home 

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Appointment with psychiatrist alongside Akihisa and Touya

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Visits parole officer alongside Akihisa and Touya 

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch 

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Works in garage 

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Picks up Akari from school

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Returns home

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Rides his motorcycle around 

5:00 p.m.  - 5:30 p.m.: Returns home

5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Makes a fire in the backyard 

6:00 p.m.  - 7:00 p.m.: Dinner with everyone 

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Spends time with everyone 

9:00 p.m - 10:00 p.m: Smokes 

10:00 p.m - 11:00 p.m: Showers and gets ready for bed

11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.: Asleep

Character Hashtags

Regular Hashtags

#Proud Older Brother 

#Motorhead  

#Firestarter 

Trauma Hashtags

#The Scent of Burning Flesh 

#Abusive Drunk For A Dad

#Where's My Sister?

Other Info

Hobby: Working on vehicles 

Weakness: Pyromania 

Trauma: “My father nearly burned my sister and me to death.”

Twitter: @BombAssRintaro

Drinks: No

Smokes: Yes

Special Skill: “I'm a pretty good mechanic.”

Intro Quote: “Wanna learn how to make a bomb?”

Trauma Quote: “It's okay Akari I've got you. At least we'll burn together.”

[larchraven]

oh i could tear down a chimbly.....hashtag adult coping skills

[marcuswong99]

Week 12: Crowd Sourcing in Times of Crisis

During a crisis, crowdsourcing is using a large number of people's knowledge, skills, and resources to solve urgent problems, typically through online platforms. In the event of a catastrophe, whether it be a natural disaster, a public health emergency, or a humanitarian crisis, this approach uses the brainpower of many individuals to collect and share current information, organise available resources, and aid affected communities.

Accurate and timely information is crucial for effective reaction and decision-making in times of crisis. With crowdsourcing, everyone can use social media, smartphone apps, or specialised platforms to report events, transmit updates, or offer first-hand opinions. Ushahidi and other social media hashtags allow anyone affected by natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes to report the damage, ask for help, and share location-specific information. In the event of an emergency, the real-time data can be invaluable in helping rescuers assess the situation and direct resources to the hardest hit areas. “One can easily identify the location, damages, severity of any disaster. Also there is a mechanism though which one can post the news on any social media.” (Mondal et al. 2017)

Quick distribution of necessities like food, medicine, and cash can be facilitated through crowdsourcing. Facebook Fundraisers, GoFundMe, and Kickstarter are just a few of the platforms that organisations and individuals can use to quickly collect money for relief efforts. Also, by matching skills and availability with needs, crowdsourcing makes it easier to organise volunteers. Masks for All and similar initiatives saw individuals all around the globe making and distributing masks to vulnerable populations and healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to everyone working together online, this was a reality.

Creative and adaptable problem-solving skills are essential in times of crisis. In order to solve complex problems, crowdsourcing encourages a diverse group of people to share their knowledge, expertise, and ideas. In the event of a public health emergency, academics and medical experts can collaborate on therapy development and improvement utilising platforms like Foldit and OpenAI. In addition, online competitions and hackathons can be organised to bring people together to solve technical problems; for example, making contact tracking apps or resource management platforms.

In times of disaster, crowdsourcing can provide much-needed psychological and emotional support in addition to practical information and resources. Support groups and online communities provide a safe space for people to talk to one another, share advice, and lift each other up emotionally. “Social media are capable of revealing some aspects of the mental and emotional state of a nation”(Alexander 2013). Support networks on platforms like Reddit, Facebook Groups, and niche forums can be invaluable in helping people cope with the emotional and mental challenges that crisis situations inevitably bring. 

In a nutshell, crowdsourcing is a way for people to pool their resources, share current knowledge, find solutions to problems, and help their communities during times of need. This strategy enhances the effectiveness and efficiency of disaster response efforts by utilising the diverse knowledge and perspectives of a broad group of individuals. As a result, more lives are saved and communities are rebuilt.

References

Mondal, T, Bhattacharya, I, Roy, J & Maity, M 2017, “Use of Infrastructure-Less Network Architecture for Crowd Sourcing and Periodic Report Generation in Post Disaster Scenario,” Communications in computer and information science, pp. 230–239, viewed <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6427-2_19>.

Alexander, DE 2013, “Social Media in Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Management,” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 717–733, viewed <https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-013-9502-z>.

[george-ryan-ross-iii]

The thing is, I never accepted the fact that Dean and Cas died the way they did.. For me, season 15 went on till episode 18 and that was the basically season finale. Supernatural never really ended, it's like I just stopped watching it like I did a few years ago. And I'm hoping probably at some point they'll put something out again and I'll watch it and it'll be the happy ending we're looking for.

[littlegreyduck]

Yor Forger (née Briar) is such a fascinating character, especially in the ways she's accepted and heralded in (what I see of) fandom. To be absolutely clear: She's a murderer. Killer for hire. Absolutely relentless and ruthless. A badass femme fatale of the highest caliber. Objectively, we have to admit, not necessarily a Good Person let alone Role Model.

Also, she's a stone-cold stylish thirst trap. She is, and I'm sure there are parts of the Internet which will validate this assumption on my part, visually tailor-made to be objectified. Hashtag Step On My Neck.

But that's not why we love her. Oh no.

It's because one day a very young (telepathic) child looked at her and said, "Mama!" (albeit more out of self-preservation than anything else, but Yor doesn't know that) and from that moment on, Yor Forger became wholeheartedly devoted to being the best Mama she could, even though she knows full well there are parts of the job she's terrible at. She tries and she tries and she does her best and sometimes her best involves roundhouse-kicking a dude off the walls of an alleyway like he's a ping-pong ball, but usually her best involves learning new skills and learning to cope and learning how to just Be There for her weird, not-biological daughter.

Anya Forger must be protected at all costs, I think we've all agreed on that. Luckily, we know the right woman for the job.

Yor is so pretty god bless 😩🙏

[sk1fanfiction]

Chapter Thirteen: Marvolo

His eyes were burning; smarting and itching so much that he wanted to tear them out of his head.

Tom was about to cry.

He was not going to cry, and especially not in the middle of the hallway, empty or not. The last time he allowed tears to sting his eyes like this, he was nearly dead.

So, he tilted his head up, screwed up his face, and focused on his anger instead.

Abraxas's voice. Mudblood.

Mudblood scum. That's what you are; you can't deny it anymore.

Tom let out a shriek, flinging his bag down against the floor. The thin, cheap fabric ripped easily, sending all his books tumbling out.

He snatched up one of them — it was a library book — Tom didn't care — and grabbed the first few pages in a quivering fist, crumpling them under his rage. He screamed, ripped them clean from the binding, felt a bit better, and did it again.

Rip, tear, scream. Repeat. Rip, tear, scream. Repeat.

He heard a soft plip, and stopped, surprised that a tear had fallen.

Now, the page was wet. A single droplet of water was spreading, bleeding out across the paper.

Germany invades Czechslovakia. Tom Riddle discovers the secret of his birth.

Read from the beginning at FFN | AO3!

[softcherubhips]

The World- It's day " " of the virus quarantine and everything is boring.

Harry Edward Styles - Hold my beer. *beauty papers photoshoot drops *

[oflgtfol]

man i get that i set myself up for disappointment by like crafting my idea of eddie's backstory in my head prior to actually reading it in the comics but like. god. i hate that the comics set him up to be a weirdo from day 1

i find it so much more compelling to have him be a completely straightlaced normal guy with a promising career in journalism ahead of him, who makes one mistake and finds himself unable to cope with it and so he just Snaps overnight

as opposed to the. like. chronic liar and opportunist weirdo that dark origin 2008 made him out to be.