#life is tough but so am i

[therapythoughtstogether]

info@migrantwomennetwork.org

https://www.migrantwomennetwork.org/

Maybe email them and ask if they can signpost you to some agency to help? I don't know if you have already but if you can look out on Google of there's anything at all to help you in your region or country for a woman in your situation. In the UK it's Women's Aid , don't know where you are or what help is available but you've probably done this already or your therapist signposted you which he should be doing, offering info or reference to services that may assist

🙏

It means so much that literal strangers are not giving up on me!! I won't give up on myself.

[indiesneer]

[johnslittlespoon]

Tough And Sweet (Like You And Me) ♡

'Gale looks unfairly handsome in the soft golden light of the late evening, but even more unfair is the fact that John can’t just bridge the gap between them and kiss his feelings away. The more time he spends around Gale, the more it feels like he’s being consumed by his overwhelming infatuation, and there’s not a single thing he can do about it that doesn’t involve the risk of scaring the man out of his life.

So he shuts the truck door behind him after promising Gale he’ll text when he’s safe inside, and he tries not to stare too forlornly as the truck putters off down the street and rounds the corner.'

[ AO3 ]

[shakingparadigm]

okay but seriously all jokes aside I really do understand ivan. like having a schedule so packed and busy is so insanely draining no matter how long you've conditioned yourself to endure it. sacrificing certain things like lunch or sleep just to gain the slightest bit more time for yourself is something that feels almost essential to keeping yourself together and not feeling like you're losing yourself in the cycle completely. it's like its own little act of rebellion in a way, something along the lines of you can drown me in work and monotony but I'll keep carving these little spaces of time for what little I have for myself, even if I have to carve them out of my own chest. I will sacrifice parts of myself to ensure that I don't fully succumb to whatever you're trying to make me into. I am human, this is the proof, I will make time even if it ruins me. you know?? yeah. you get it

[sleep-nurse]

another comm for EmeliaK!! thank you for saving my life 🥹💖

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Looking back, I desperately wish the concept of non-binary gender was something I knew about when growing up. Like maybe I wouldn't have gone through such an intense "not like other girls" phase as a kid if I knew that "not like other girls" was a wider option.

[larphis]

Sometimes I think “God, I am just like Ed” and then I start putting him on a pedestal and make big paragraphs to say that he never did anything wrong in his life and how he’s actually just a very soft person that is hurting deep inside and needs a forehead kiss and then I look in the mirror and realize that I am in fact Stede Bonnet.

[undercoverangell]

rough mockup of general designs and colors for the sillies

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hm. im not very big on new years resolutions, they're too much pressure. but... perhaps i can handle new years Desires

this year i want to complete a lil comic, fan-based or otherwise. i'd like to also complete some sort of storyboard/animatic thing. i want to develop a coloring style that i can be proud of. i want to get to a point with my dragons where they can have a coherent story & world to live in. i want to think of so many fun, trivial facts about my characters. i want to post more about them. i want to write and post an original thing, be it 1k words or 10k. i want to finish the rough draft of a book i outlined. i want to be kinder to myself. i want to create more gift art for others. i want to put more effort & care & love into my art. i want to force myself into the world and figure out how to live. i want to make an irl friend. try a new craft - scrapbooking, maybe, or making an enamel pin. i want to finish that last commission and make a new sheet for more. i want to be freer with myself. i want to finish at least three fics. i want to go whale watching again. i want to improve my art, especially in the matter of drawing people. i want to bake something tasty and share it with the neighbors. i want to be content with existing. i want to have more good things in life to list on bad days. i want to build a birdhouse.

[therapythoughtstogether]

Back to therapy and I'm so grateful for it

This was the first time I talked to my therapist after all that happened. I cried, cried, cried some more...and he said he was proud of me for keep on fighting and for showing signs of growth even in the toughest circumstances (like no SH, no attempting to end my life and being committed to healing).

We were working a lot on the concept that all the violence I've experienced and experience now was/is not my fault...I know...revolutionary idea. But I still have it very engrained in my brain all the things that my ex said and the things I hear currently, and I blame myself a lot.

Hopefully soon I can go and see my therapist in person at the office. For now, I'm more than grateful for the online sessions.

[feathercreates]

Here, have a comfy Viktor who’s absolutely delighted to see you. ❤️

[cannibaleather]

For the boys who cry. (Me).

I'M A REAL BOY BOY AND I CRY

I LOVE MYSELF AND I WANT TO TRY

(Lyrics from Samaritans by Idles)

Background with no text cuz i'm way proud of it

[autism-disco]

beieng kind to myself :)

[the-busy-ghost]

Minor throwaway sentence in a book on corruption I've just finished was talking about 1930s gangsters and about certain organisations in Chicago which the author stated were more ethnically diverse than the Italian mafia, and whose members were said to have included 'Irish, Welsh, Italian, and Jewish' gangsters.

Now call me sheltered but I've seen MANY Italian American gangsters immortalised in film, I've heard of the Jewish mob, and the police Irish American gangs but I have yet to see a movie about the Welsh mob. As a rule I don't go in for gangster movies but I feel there's an unfilled niche here and also I need more info.

[thesupernaturalhouse]

I am- I hate hiw periods are portrayed

They are portrayed so badly on a TV show, periods do not make somebody super mad or turn then into a bitch

They cause pain that's is equal to a heart attack and girls age 10-60 have to deal with that pain regularly and go to work and feed their families and do chores like it's no big deal!

I hate of dramatized the irritability is turned up to- liek yeah, I do get annoyed don my period but not to that level and it's really only because eof the PAIN and blood GUSHING OUT and the feeling of my womb tearing itself about form the inside

Cause that's what's happening!! The uturues lining is literally being torn apart and shedded my ovaries feel like their being fucking pulled out of my body by God- IT IS NOT FUN

And like, this is in TV shows, multiple, and hundreds of people see them. Which makes periods continue to be seen as a bad thing to be ashamed of which they aren't

They are a natural part of our body and they fucking SUCK but you shouldn't be shames for it!! And you should be able to tell your parents you're on your period without being yelled at or shamed (thank God my dad isnt like that)

Not to mention the misinformation spread due to it being seen as a thing to be ashamed of, not we cannot hold it in, yes we only lose about a cup of blood, no it's not in our heads, no we don't turn into assholes on it, yes it IS equivalent to a heart attack

It should be less "tween girl turns into annoying bitch on period" and more "tween girl nearly pukes and passes out due to period" BECAUSE THATS WHAT HAPPENS

I have never, ever, seen anybody in real life act like these writers make their characters act like

And yeah, sure, it's just fiction and whatnot, but it's fiction on a TV show that's being shown to hundreds of people every day. Unlike things like fanfic or art TV has an actual effect on how people view things, especially if that thing is being shown constantly as a bad thing that makes someone do 180 in personality

It also let's people get away with asking if your on tour period whenever you show disinterest or annoyance at something. Which is disgusting.

If I ever portray periods in one of my art forms, you better believe I am portraying it CORRECTLY and if I don't, shoot me.

[shrews-things]

Yesterday my little brother called because a stranger, a worker at a bakery told him that he really reminded her of a friend and that he's nearly identical to this friend she has, and said my name. Turns out she's the lady from the secondhand book cart I used to live next to and befriended her while walking by nearly every day, but then I moved and she switched jobs and I haven't seen her in months and I've been wondering how she's doing every time I shopped at a book cart and apparently she remembers my name too and thinks of me as a dear friend. Idk it just made me happy and I feel like there's a poem to write here but I'm not very good with words