#or hell even a sick person

[floofysmallbob]

why is it that everyone always frames mental health medication as either this evil thing or as something to “fix” you?

no. absolutely not. mental health medication is a tool, just like wearing glasses, but it can save lives. you can say what you want, say it’s because of other factors, but without medication and therapy, I don’t think I would be alive, and even if I was, I think I would be brain dead from the depression. I’ve gone through periods where I couldn’t even get out of bed because of how bad it was. I at one point had to take a month off of school because my grades were declining because my mental health was going to shit.

a huge part of that was because I was taken off of prozac.

and no, I’m not ‘sick’. I hate the term ‘mentally ill’ so much, because it’s so much different than a sickness. especially when people refer to anyone who takes meds as ‘sick’. it’s one thing if it’s for depression, but for OCD, ADHD, anxiety, that’s not a sickness. that’s not ‘curable’.

medication helps, so so much. it may not work for some people, and you might not find the right prescription first try, and it might not even make you happy, it didn’t for me.

but it takes away some of that hopelessness, of what I call ‘feeling grey’. and if you try to frame medication as this evil, terrible thing, or some way to ‘cure’ people, you’ll only end up hurting more people in the process.

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[heartless-aro]

Does anyone else find it sort of upsetting how widely popular House M.D. has seemingly become in online queer spaces with how violently acephobic and intersexist it is? Like, I don’t want to pretend that it’s only queerphobic towards aces and intersex people, because the show definitely engages in its fair share of early-2000s-typical casual transphobic and homophobic language, and I do think it’s pretty biphobic that, from what I remember of the show, they made 13 (the one canonically bisexual character) a promiscuous party girl tm.

But the show is extremely vitriolic towards intersex and asexual people, and I wish that the people who treat it like a haha funny toxic yaoi show would at least fucking acknowledge that. The show actively reinforces the ideas about intersex bodies which are used to justify the nonconsensual mutilation of intersex children. And the way the show treats asexuality is abysmal. I saw someone on here once say that it’s “funny” that House is canonically aphobic, as if it’s just a joke that the House episode about asexuality actively supports the idea that asexuals are all either liars or medically unwell and in need of “fixing”. Why is pro-conversion therapy rhetoric suddenly funny when it’s directed towards us?

I’m not saying that no one is allowed to enjoy the show at all. Hell, I used to really enjoy it too, at least before I got to the asexuality episode (shortly after finding out I’m ace and before I had ever seen even a single other representation of asexuality in mainstream media). But like. Can people at least stop outright ignoring the absolutely detrimental effects this show had on the ace community and the intersex community?

[phoebespenglers]

can we please stop telling people to kill themselves and to rot in hell and that they deserve to be bullied and that they are inherently horrible people who deserve to die and get doxxed. please. can we please stop doing that.

[menlove]

went from being "the cool dyke with the magneto icon and opinions about feminism and many hundred thousand note posts" to "the fucking beatles mutual again" and I will say this is 100% an upgrade I hate being broadly popular on here I need to be controversial with several dedicated haters but in a niche circle where we all know each other's names

[liddolwitch]

I had... a lot of medical trauma that I could tell was building up but I wasn't feeling. Compartmentalizing and all. New song about Viktor released and uhhhh I found where I had stashed those feelings.

(Might spend an hour or two sobbing). Holy fuck the subject matter has ended up coinciding with my medical stuff so often.

Really feeling Viktor's storyline a lot more after the whole almost dying (multiple times) thing.

So much I need to explore in journaling about :

Fear of being a 'bad' person at the worst of my symptoms

Fear over letting other people decide to stay or leave

The realization that it's not actually all fine and okay for me to go through all my medical stuff alone (especially when I have a long-term partner)

What my body means to me (positive, negative, expression, pain, others' perceptions, etc.)

The grief over things other than death in disability. New fears, experiences others might not share, new perspectives on taboo topics

What it means that I've become a different person as my disability has shaped my experiences, my identity, my social circle... everything.

[thedreadvampy]

sometimes I forget that my experience has been. um. not 'your experiences are not universal' vibes but more like 'your experiences are EXTREMELY atypical'

[fallen-gravity]

Something about Maui being a demigod for thousands of years and his body already being covered in tattoos, so when he’s severely injured from dangerous encounters he either no longer scars at all (perks of immortality and all that), or they’re covered by his tattoos, so nobody would be able to tell any difference at all just by looking at him.

Something about Moana only being a demigod for a number of days, with only the one tattoo on her arm, her body not quite adjusted to the power and life-sustainability that comes with new immortality, still scarring as easily as any other human. Something about Moana having a huge, lightning bolt shaped scar running down her entire back. She can’t see it, and she doesn’t feel the pain of it anymore, so she doesn’t even know it’s there.

Something about her trying to avoid talking about what happened with her family and her people, because she doesn’t want to worry them. Something about Chief Tui and Sina watching her walk away, some innocent comment about how she’s going to go lay down and rest because she’s tired from the journey, and noticing the scars on her back before they notice the tattoo on her arm.

Something about her not saying a word at all, but them piecing it together themselves. Something about them knowing something tragic and awful happened out there, and that the daughter who returned to them is not the same daughter who left at all.

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

hate hate hate seeing things where being 'adopted' is the fucking punchline. like. hello, what's the fucking 'joke' here, huh? making someone feel unwanted? reminding them they'll never be 'real' family to you just because they don't share your fucking blood? telling them they don't fit in and that they're at the bottom of the barrel and that you'll never ever let them forget that and live in peace? that they're forever an outsider to you? that your love for them is conditional? just to make them feel bad? fuck off

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

It’s so funny to me that the first Touhou game was just something ZUN made in his free time as a study project in college when he was like 18. Like imagine a Breakout clone you make just as a way to learn what you’re doing turns out to domino effect into inspiring some of the best creative minds of the 21st century. Like the influence Touhou has had on media both Eastern and Western is incomprehensible and it started out as a teenager figuring out how the fuck you make video games.

[charmingradiobelle]

Hey if you’ve ever harassed anyone or sent death threats to someone for something they ship I hope you go to jail and fucking rot for the rest of your miserable life

[chirpsythismorning]

bylers when over 350k people don’t have the exact same thoughts and opinions as them

[darcyolsson]

first back to school season since 2006 where i'm not actually going back to school 🥳🥳🥳 good luck to the rest of y'all losers! could not be me!

[lesbiansanemi]

Currently trying not to vomit over the fact that I essentially just lost almost a thousand dollars brb

[forcedhesitation]

why should it just be steve who has all the torturous purgatory realm fun?

[hermitcraftx]

just got a dm abt one of my posts and y'all please don't try and show the hermits (or any minecraft youtuber or content creator for that matter) my posts, i'm uncomfortable with it and don't want any of my posts shown to a cc. if they stumble upon it naturally that's unfortunate but i can live with it since i do maintag a lot (something i REALLY need to stop doing tbh i already know i need to make a tagging system just for my blog that wont clog results) but going out of ur way to show a cc is entirely different and something i am not comfortable with.

no hate to the person at all but even if i wasn't a little silly and weird with it sometimes i wouldn't be comfortable with it, i want my blog to be a purely fandom only space with none of the creators involved <3 please respect this