#paranoid culture is

[comorbidpersonalitydisorders]

bpd + ppd is aah i love my fp!!:))) i love him i lov. do you think hes faking it??? does he actually care about me??? what if this is all a ploy hes using to secretly throw me down from the inside??? what if awwwww he said he loved meeeee<3333333 what was i thinking about<333333333

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[cluster-a-culture-is]

cluster a culture is having a safe person who you'd like to talk about stuff and things with and then just. *loud incorrect buzzer* wrong! actually you should shut up forever

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

AvPD + BPD + PPD + NPD culture is.

"Gee, how come your brain lets you have four personality disorders?"

"I don't know, but I wish it would stop."

(meme reference)

—👁️⚠️

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[ppd-culture-is]

ppd traits culture is always covering the cameras on your devices and/or flipping them off so the person whos watching knows you know they exist

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[ahappyphjl]

uploaded my recording of the preshow in helsinki! it’s a bit echoey but hopefully u can hear most things dnp are saying

[syscultureis]

(Ppd +)On TikTok plural culture is constantly being scared you reposted a problematic person post and scared one of your moots are now making a document to expose you. -a blurry rat

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[hpdcultureis]

hpd + ppd culture is ooooh i wanna be a streamer so bad but what if i get doxxed and stalked and killed

but maybe the risk isnt so bad if it means people are parasocial for me 🤩

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[cacodaemonia]

As we're all very aware, we live in a time when open hatred of many marginalized groups has been growing. And as many others have said, it's super fucking important that we stop fighting amongst ourselves over relatively minor issues when there are people who quite literally wants us dead, or at the very least, silent and subservient.

Punching down and sideways to attack the people who are 99% on our side might make us feel superior for a little while, but it's important to ask ourselves if attacking other marginalized people helps anyone.

With that in mind, I wanted to remind all of us that language, culture, and iconography all change over time, and not everyone keeps up with those changes at the same speed.

As an obvious example, 'they' is now a much more commonly used singular pronoun than it used to be. It's meaning has expanded and changed subtly.

Another example is the comedy genre in general: movies and TV shows from even a few years ago relied on humor that many of us now see as tasteless at best and dehumanizingly cruel at worst.

Then you have things like reclaimed slurs. For some of them, their meanings have changed multiple times.

We've also got all of the microlabels among queer folks, which are rapidly multiplying and evolving. Many of them didn't exist 2 or 5 or 10 years ago, but now they might be the most central part of someone's personality.

Pepe the frog is an example of an image whose meaning has radically shifted in a short period of time. What was originally a harmless cartoon was appropriated by the US alt-right movement and is now considered a hate symbol (though the ADL acknowledges that 'the majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted').

On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have characters like Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat, who were designed to be minstrels. Now, of course, almost no one associates Mickey Mouse with blackface or racism.

Those are just a handful of examples involving the English language and the internet's largely American-centric culture, but there are obviously many, many more. All of this is difficult enough for native English speakers to keep up with, but we should also bear in mind that, for many folks, English isn't their native language.

I've seen awful harassment by queer people against another queer person just because her English wasn't perfect and she used a term that, at that time, wasn't considered the correct one by the people who attacked her.

We should also keep in mind people who have other language or cognitive difficulties (I'm honestly not sure how to phrase this, so please don't assume I'm being derogatory or cruel—I am one of those people).

Even for those of us with the best of intentions, all of this can make online interactions feel like navigating a minefield because many people exclusively engage in paranoid reading of everything from novels to shitposts.

I think all of us would be better served if we stepped back for a moment to consider questions like, "Does this person have malicious intentions?" and "Is this something that causes real harm to real people or does it just bother me, personally?" and "Will calling this person out or shaming them help anyone?"

A lot of us are on the same side, and we might have slightly different beliefs, but we don't need to be enemies. Wasting our outrage on each other is exactly what our real enemies want.

[artistdove]

Performance crew but it’s them either showing their hair or them in their downtime

[toxycodone]

if i can be so serious i would like to commission people on here but i get nervous bc they do so many like. straight ships.

NOT IN A WEIRD WAY BTW im just like "waaaaah what if I ask if they could draw me and my fave. but im not white. but also its 2 boys. HELP."

[peonycats]

did i just see someone hc South Korea to be the child of North Korea and America post-WWII

[comorbidpersonalitydisorders]

hpd + ppd culture is swinging between "i made 8 new tumblrs and 14 email addresses for supply :3" and "fuck. i'm gonna go disable my mobile data. no one can be trusted."

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[cluster-a-culture-is]

cluster a culture is immediately being paranoid when your electronic device malfunctions. someone must have hacked me and is stealing all my data to sell online and oh my god my pc might explode and break and kill me and oh no, this is all a plan made by the people who have wronged me and are seeking to destroy me forever. nothing is safe anymore

my device is malfunctioning -> oh it must have been hacked now they're selling all my data they know where i live they're looking for me and- oh it went back to normal -> WHICH MEANS they must have been hacked it in a way to not make me suspicious of anything while they are framing me for a crime i didn't do??? how am i going to get away from here oh god

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

npd + bpd + ppd + autism (yeah i know, and i have more) culture is

learning the patterns of human interactions, reading articles on how to be charismatic and how to be a good listener and act compassionate not because you want to actually help people but because you have a deeply rooted conviction that people hate you and want to hurt you and you have to act better, to "be" better, for them to treat you nicely, to like you, even if they annoy you to death. "oh you're such a good person! you are so charismatic!" thanks darling and you are pathetic and annoying and i hate you but i don't want to be alone so let's talk about your damn ex again.

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[ppd-culture-is]

ppd traits culture is just being so fucking mentally exhausted

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[borderline-culture-is]

bpd + ppd culture is just needing to cry, everything is terrifying guys!!! help!!!

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