#being a human

[yellingfellow]

I want to SCREAAAAAMMMM

The world is fucking burning

Palestinians are being starved in their fucking tents that they have to live in because their whole neighborhoods have been bombed

Congolese women are being raped for not meeting their quotas

People are pulling each other out of mines that have collapsed

Babies are laying next to their dead mothers

Trump is on the ballot in Colorado

Indigenous women and teens being kidnapped and murdered and no one wants to help

They won’t search the landfills for the remains of dead natives

We’re being fed stories by the same 6 media coroporations and AI generated fucking prompts are taking over all forms of video and picture we can’t even know what is real

The world is fucking burning and the ice is melting and earthquakes and tsunamis are shaking the fucking earth and people’s homes are being flooded and completely destroyed

But no lets just keep pretending like it matters if I pay my fucking taxes

[foxsoulcourt]

what are these things I’m feeling?!

Explanation of Dr Plutchik’s Wheel

Farhaaz Dhuka’s explanation of how he found this wheel helpful, as a child sorting through what he was feeling, and as a writer.

[tears-that-heal]

artist on Instagram @ap.crtv

[tryslora]

I hate advertising/marketing myself (as a creator).

I feel like I'm intruding.

But I also feel weirdly like using Blaze on Tumblr might be okay? In some weird way?

If I start using Tumblr properly as me. A fan. Too. That's important.

I miss social media and communities.

This post did not end where it started, did it?

Does anyone care what I'm reading/watching these days?

[intoxicatingimmediacy]

[id: a tweet by @AdamMGrant that reads: “The hallmark of an open mind: not letting your ideas become your identity. If you define yourself by your opinions, questioning them is a threat to your integrity. If you see yourself as a curious person or a lifelong learner, changing your mind is a moment of growth.” /end id]

[whentherewerebicycles]

just finished going through all the shared album photos from our japan trip which meant having to look at many photos of myself from many angles and it’s like sigh. I think there’s no choice but to accept myself as I am you know? obviously I felt the usual old stirrings of revulsion—for my body, my unprettiness, my ‘descended from italian peasant stock’ look. but what can you do? I’m smart. I’m funny. I make the people I work with feel better about themselves and more confident in their ability to do hard things. I am kind and I do the right thing far more often than not. I love and am secure in the knowledge that I am loved in return. and who knows—maybe it would have be harder for me to become any one of those things if I was a little thinner, a little prettier, a little closer to that impossible norm I spent so much of my life measuring myself against. liz and I always say to each other ‘you can’t change the timeline!!’ whenever we start bemoaning the fact that we only met in our last year of college—because if you change even one thing, even a fraction, you might not end up becoming the person you are now. I like that person. I like the person I have become. learning how to move through the pain of shame (shame about who and what I am; shame about how I look and how others perceive me) made me gentler, more reflective, more compassionate. and besides: I think I’m too deep into this life now to waste my time wishing I were living some other life, in some other body, looking some other way. I look like me and I like me. I like this human person.

[iwanttodiernpls]

If I’m diagnosed with ONE (1) more thing I will go live with the wolves that is a promise.

[inthereellife]

YALL! Our favorite Tumblr runner DID IT! He won gold!

If yall need a reminder Noah Lyles is this wonderful nerd

Noah Lyles won GOLD!

Noah Lyles is the Fastest Man!!!

[foldingfittedsheets]

Back in 2017 I signed up for one of the Cards Against Humanity sillies and did their Cards Against Humanity Saves America. Basically they were like fuck Tr*mp and his border wall and used the funds from the campaign to buy land and to make all 150,000 contributors part owners of said land across the US/Mexico border.

It was fun and silly and I got a little certificate.

Today I got an email that Elon Musk illegally annexed that land for SpaceX and that CAH are suing him over it. So possibly I’ll get like $100 if they manage to win a lawsuit and stick it to Musk. It’s like even more bang for my original buck.

[gayvampyr]

asking people to be mindful of others when sharing a communal space (especially one you cannot just up and leave from) is not selfish or misanthropic. come on now

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[problemnyatic]

the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.

It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.

But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.

[prokopetz]

I fully understand why "character A is astounded at the sight of character B's penis" is a specific kink that gets tagged for, but the fact that some platforms choose to tag this kink as "penis awe" is unintentionally very funny. Now I'm picturing penis experience kink tags for all those other allegedly transcendent emotions in the glossary of your Philosophy 101 textbook. Penis faith. Penis Weltschmerz. Penis apprehension of the absurd.

[catmask]

when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people

the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to

[duodipersponsh]

i just love how much art there is all around us guys yeah adhd sucks but at the very least xie lian is just as forgetful and yeah dysphoria is horrible but not today bc there was this one fic where crowley looked like me and he said it looked cool and i believe him and yeah my friend is aroace and lonely but they wrote a 1500000 words story with aroace loki and it's so beautiful (and that's how we met!) and yeah chronic pain every four days is horrible but that just means i'll be telling myself this wolfstar story every fourth evening until i grow bored and find sth else that might be even more beautiful and there are always characters like us and we're never alone and we're never alone and we're never alone