#and that is Is Not Normal

[apollos-boyfriend]

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[quietwingsinthesky]

im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

[rouge-the-bat]

"can we normalize-" NO!!!!!! we do not need to expand whats considered normal!!! we need to teach people to stop reacting judgmentally when encountering something new and weird!!!! things dont need to be normal to be respected!!!!!!!!!!

[recovering-dungeon-lord]

Not to be an armchair psychologist, but speaking from personal (and ongoing) experience, yeah, that sounds like depression.

Also, (again speaking not as a trained therapist but just from personal experience) if you are experiencing feelings/thought processes similar to the first reply, please consider looking into assessment for OCD, because that is Textbook moral OCD if I’ve ever seen it. (And I have seen it, because I experience it daily).

People often think of OCD only in terms of the externally visible compulsions/rituals, but very often there is a lot going on internally as well, and for some people their experience of OCD is almost exclusively internal. This can include things like excessive adherence to magical thinking, feeling the need to keep your thoughts ‘pure’, trying to block out certain ‘bad’ thoughts/images, feeling that you need to meet certain criteria before you are ‘allowed’ to think/feel certain things (or that you are never allowed to think/feel them), and more. You probably see where I’m going with this.

Honestly, even if you don’t have OCD, if you’re having those kinds of thoughts processes frequently, there are probably still OCD management techniques that you could adapt to help yourself cope. Remember, if a coping technique helps it helps, there is no rule saying you can only use it if you Officially Have The Thing It Was Created To Treat.

I’m sorry but if there is one thing the Tumblr left needs crucially, it’s the ability to celebrate.

I remember when marriage equality was called and there were waves of rainbows and love wins posts. When we successfully defeated Donald Trump, there was lukewarm relief, a reminder that you were only allowed one or maybe two days to celebrate and then it was back to work. That is if you were even a good person for voting Biden. We never did settle if he was better than Trump. (We did.). We didn’t celebrate student loan debt relief or any of the accomplishments of the Biden administration, or any of the times Trump was blocked, or other countries succeeding in keeping fascists out of office. Who cares if we had successes? It’s not good enough. Back to work!

And this anti-celebratory attitude stretches back to the past. On the 100th anniversary of female suffrage in America, we were reminded that not all women had the vote and so we weren’t allowed to celebrate. The only post I saw about Juneteenth was reminding us that there were enslaved people who were killed instead of freed and therefore celebrating the end of chattel slavery was wrong, and besides, we have prison labor so nothing really changed or got better and there’s nothing to celebrate anyway. Trans Day of Visibility comes with Trans Day of Remembrance so that people don’t fill the tags with hate crimes and death. So on and so forth. Nothing gets better. Nothing changes. Back to work!

So of course when we have a major setback, we fall apart and have to start frantic damage control. Frantic discourse ensues over how much people are allowed to unplug before it becomes bad and selfish. Yes, maybe you can have this one day off Mr. Cratchit but you better be here and miserable early the next morning. Like abusive bosses always insisting you squeeze out more, more, more, and any achievement is just proof you were lazy the other times and impetus for more work.

If we are never allowed to acknowledge any of our victories, how are we supposed to survive our defeats?

[theres-rue-for-you]

my brother works on a boat so when he rants about his job I can’t take it seriously because he keeps angrily referring to his boss as “captain”. like sorry ur having 19th century sailor problems my guy

[scramratz]

[yeagrave]

two birds on a wire

[hattersarts]

kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity

[sabertoothwalrus]

let's get ✨vulnerable✨

[orpheus-has-lyreizz]

Rumour has it, although the King of Ithaca had returned to his shores, his throne remained empty for the better part of a year.

[stealingpotatoes]

i love my cat but he is very fond of trickery

[h0lahey]

I don't think that Viktor swears often but I really like that people sometimes write him swearing in Czech. Also I think that it was a little traumatic for Jayce when he heard Viktor swear for the first time.

I just had to draw it.

The thing is that czech swearing often contains more than one word. The bigger fuked up, the longer you swear. And it's…let's say…very rich xd

I was thinking about translating it but it's imposible

[love-byers]

bisexuality demons were kicking his ass

[drizzledrawings]

Only you