#interactions needed

[sillystringpony]

SUPPORT MY RUN TO FIGHT EATING DISORDERS, BECAUSE FUCK ANOREXIA! 🥊🥊🥊

I'M DOUBTFUL I'LL REACH MY $1K AUD GOAL BY THE RUN BUT THAT ISN'T ANY REASON TO STOP TRYING RIGHT?! 💪💪

ANY AMOUNT HELPS THE CAUSE, but if you really cannot donate, interactions and reblogs go a long way <3

MORE INFO BELOW CUT.

ON THE 19TH, I AM RUNNING 12KM WITH HBF RUN FOR A REASON, AND I'VE BEEN FUNDRAISING FOR THE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION, A GROUP FOCUSED ON PREVENTING EDS, AS WELL AS SUPPORTING THOSE LIVING WITH EDS.

But... Why?

Since age 12, I've been living with disordered eating, and this past year I've been caught in a severe cycle of restrictive to binge/purging anorexia. When I heard about HBF run for a reason, I wanted to take it on: not only to raise money for an extremely important foundation, but also as a challenge to myself. I have been training... Not only physically, but mentally, to prepare myself for this run. 12km might not seem like a huge deal, but to someone who's lost most of their physical strength to illness, doing this run is going to be my Mount Everest.

What is the Butterfly Foundation?

The Butterfly Foundation is an Australian organisation dedicated to supporting Australians impact by all types of eating disorders from all walks of life. Their primary service is their helplines, and I cannot stress how important these are. EDs are a socially isolating experience, and in more cases than not, people with an ED will completely socially isolate themselves, meaning that in moments of crisis, they might not have anyone to go to. Raising funds will allow the Butterfly Foundation to keep itself up and running, and to keep providing the lifesaving support that it has been providing to people like me.

I can't donate, but I really want to help :(

It's okay, I understand, and I love you. Sharing this blog post and/or my fundraising page is a HUGE help, and it still means the world.

PR0ANA AND PR0MIA, please DNI. I understand what you're going through, I've been where you are and I'm not going to lecture you or act like my opinion will change yours, but this is not the right place for interactions. Thank you <3

[inkskinned]

the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

[evgar]

agathario but it's a cowboy!au where agatha hires rio to work at her ranch and rio's a sexy annoying little shit (they want each other so bad and occasionally have hate sex until they inevitably fall in love)

[the-goddess-of-gays]

STOP SCROLLING

percy would not tease nico about the "not my type" line. my boy had zero self-esteem and was terrified of ruining his and nico's newfound friendship.

you know who would never let nico forget it?

annabeth.

CONTINUE SCROLLING

[star-anise]

I really wonder if trauma theorists who say things like "Humans are the only animal that will be in a fright state when physically safe" or "the rest of the animal kingdom doesn't get PTSD" have ever, like

Do you think they've actually ever met an animal?

[nyanrial]

making little snowmen ⛄⛄

[o3o-lapd-o3o]

after six hundred strike

*odysseus and poseidon are both still on the rocks in the middle of the sea*

odysseus: ok, let's just agree to both say we're sorry

odysseus: on the count of three

odysseus: one..two..three

poseidon:

odysseus:

odysseus: see, now i'm just disappointed in the both of us

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Imagining this Viktor sassing Mel. No screen on earth could have handled their power, I fear.

[itsapmseymour]

2000’s: Don’t believe a single thing you see on the internet, and don’t give out any of your information for safety

2020’s: It’s on the internet it must be true, btw here is a list of everything I hate or am afraid of, where I live and where I work

[lastoneout]

the whole guilt-tripping language in posts about important topics paired with how I'm still getting bitches in my notes talking about why it's actually good to tell "bad" people to kill themselves continues to prove to me that a lot of people have absolutely no concept of social justice or activism outside of assuming the worst of and then viciously attacking strangers on the internet

[kilometresrufflefuck]

hear me out the other day i woke up and was immediately hit in the face with "7 year gap narumitsu in europe where phoenix kisses edgeworth in a low moment and then tries to flee and edgeworth uses mind chess on him to get the truth out of him which is a completely normal and ordinary average way to discuss your relationship"

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

[asooffa]

new pixal suit who cheered!!!

[bunnyboy-juice]

you guys know butch =/= taking T right? you guys know dyke masculinity is not correlated to being transmasc right? you guys know that even your silly jokes where you flatten butchness to taking T/being transmasc is extremely transmisogynistic right?

[oatmealdoodles]

they are literally THE step sisters ever

Also technically after pride but whatever

[goldenjuniper]

they’re gaming (zagreus is losing)