#please look inwards

[clowningclownn]

saw the one piece of art where they draw nami and Zoro as luffys wings (his right and left hands) and it made me remember when I was watching one piece and my mom was like

why does nami always speak for the captain?!?!?!?!?!? she's always disrespecting his authority!!!!!!!111!!!!!!! I'm so glad zoro isn't like that, nami is so annoying!!!!11!!!!11!!

come on...... nami is literally one of the people keeping the strawhats from bursting into catastrophic flames......... you just hate her bc you are just like her but only in your bad qualities ...........

also, she literally said that bc of the episode where zoro does speak for Luffy after usopp leaves the crew. she said it bc she was shitting on usopp's character because he didn't know how to handle losing the merry........

[vanmarkus]

"you don't have to ship x just enjoy—" how about i ship whatever i want without some rando making it into their calling to hand out permission slips? maybe i'll enjoy the source material my way? maybe i find whimsy in shipping certain characters that others only see as platonic? what then? are you gonna steal my pillows?

[marxm-03]

Image to send when someone says something just a little too similar to your personal experience

[eskildit]

was doing a lil reread and uh. do we know what judith is talking about here. is the ninth house stealing bones. or is this like criminal extradition bones. whose bones do the ninth house have that the second house wants.

[buttercupdemise]

i'm STUNNED at how simple it is to fix a mistake when you're crocheting. i can just, take the hook out, and pull the string up until the point i want to fix something. when i'm knitting and i drop a stitch, the world ends and everything is on fire

[papaiyatree]

the issue with the prime!sonic shenanigans is the fact that. i agree with the twitter users but they r taking it too seriously. like yeah i agree, sonic wouldn't be too open with his affection and emotions, yeah i agree that the folks on the crew saying it's canon to the mainline thing should've showed it through the actual writing, yeah this kind of characterization goes against the point of the show, yeah they kinda maybe nerfed sonic etc etc

but here's the THING tho: it's not that serious? i can point out 300 other mischaracterizations that are 10000x more serious. like, sonic is going to be the type of character that changes thru time to match the demands of whoever they wanna cater to. it's obvious. and for sonic prime? didn't one of the crew of this show straight up say that yeah they are targeting a younger audience but still allow longtime fans to have a piece of the cake. it's obvious from the absurd amount of flashbacks, it's obvious from the dialogue. i think this is just smth thay they think the kids want, most esp with the sonic films.

Yeah, you can be upset that ur fave version of this character might get lost to time. yeah, you can be critical of the show and the way it handles everything. but lord almightyyyy this is a cartoon hedgehog!!!!! this is not thay serious!!! talk about it but don't be a bitch about it oh my godddd

[valyrianfreehold]

people of color drawing characters to look like them is literally the most harmless thing in the world and in fact good idk why that seems to be such a controversial statement for some people like idk why I a white person have to say this aloud but I'm seeing people in our community be active cunts and that's foul and unacceptable

[explode-this]

Re: last reblog:

The thing that finally flipped the switch, that got me from Bulimia All Day Every Day 24/7/365 NEVER STOP, was realizing that if I was ever going to be well I had to accept one very simple thing:

Being fat is not the end of the world.

This is not easy thing to accept, because we live in a world that says exactly that. Where you can read whole Twitter threads full of self-loathing people who would rather die early of a disease that requires the use of steroids to control than be made fat by their medication. Where doctors might not find your cancer until it’s way too fucking late because they assume any sign of ill-health is because you’re DEATHFAT (that’s what people generally mean when they say “obese,” so I’m just not sugarcoating it—plus I feel so much more metal blithely describing myself as not just fat but DEATHFAT). Where the merest hint of fat body representation in conjunction with positivity brings out a mewling crowd of Concerned Citizens™️ to sniffle and say “well I’m all for body positivity, but some people take it TOO FAR.”

I had to go on a calorie-restricted diet before I had my gallbladder out last April. It became my full-time job, just watching everything like a hawk, being on it for twice the amount of time than is usually prescribed (you know, because DEATHFAT). I was weak, I was tired, I was petrified I was going to be full bulimic again in a matter of weeks. I did in fact purge once because I freaked out about eating a few too many crackers. Getting medical help shouldn’t do that to you, but here we are.

But I didn’t fall back into that behavior. I didn’t start hating myself or exercising too much out of shame. I did begin going to the skating rink with regularity again, but it wasn’t just to burn calories or “earn” my food, the way I used to. It was to have FUN. It was to enjoy the muscle memory and skills I built over years of roller derby instead of letting my skates sit and gather dust. (Derby, I might add, was a time in my life where the combination of so much training and being on ADHD meds for the first time and going all the way back to active bulimia meant a massive weight loss—and well-meaning “friends” telling me that i “looked like a person now!” Team Captain, I love you, but girl—fuck off.)

I understand that there will ALWAYS be people who think they know what I’m eating or doing with my life by looking at me. People I can skate circles around, mind you. People who have never tried my cooking and see how jam-packed it is with vegetables. People who don’t know how many years of other people’s opinions I had to shrug off to wear the cute clothes I enjoy instead of oversized, misshapen garbage garments to hide from the world as to not offend someone else’s delicate sensibilities.

But being fat is not the end of the world.

I don’t worry about the size of my ass. I don’t worry about what my arms look like in tshirts. I don’t try to hide my soft tum-tum or disguise my thighs. I move my body because I love to move my body. I eat vegetables because they’re delicious and frankly I don’t know how to cook meat. I eat a bacon cheeseburger every week after Wednesday skating because it’s delicious.

It takes a very long time to get here. But it’s worth it.

I’d rather be kind, and funny, and smart, and well-read, and crafty, and creative, AND fat, than waste my life doing only some of those things and being cranky and self-obsessed because I’m wasting too much time trying not to be fat.

So if this is the opposite of every message you ever see out there, I want you to know this truth, delivered to you from the bottom of my plump little soul:

Being fat is not the end of the world.

[myhouse-pk3]

posting this in the stupid tags because i need people to get better at facial features: If you draw daniel matthews you do not give him a sloped fucking nose bridge because that is not what he looks like. he has a bridge bump. you can easily see it. please look up "erik knudsen" on pinterest. you'll find many more "daniel" references that way. can you people not draw a fucking nose bump ? stop giving him a sloped nose. why would you get rid of that feature of him and erik. its not hard to draw it at all. use your resources to be able to depict his features correctly... stop making his nose so much smaller. please

[midnightcowboy1969]

The Heaven’s Gate cult really showed that a girl and her gay best friend can do anything

[thatheathen]

[rivertigo]

hi. we share few interests but i follow you because ive done it for so long it would feel wrong not to. im having a terrible nighttime rn. its almost 4 am and i wish i could escape myself.

OMG whoever you are I hope you are filtering the stuff I post about that you don’t like, I appreciate your long term allegiance 🫡. I hope your night gets better and you fall into a restful sleep soon 💗. and escaping yourself will always be a dreamy temptation but the less you get comfortable with yourself the more trouble you will face. know yourself and you will feel free, sweet dreams <3

[zanderism]

your mom beefing with you is so weird like can we not pretend you didn't make me like this for ten seconds

[smute]

actually have to reblog this again because i want to preserve my tags for the record

and also because i can't stop thinking about that first addition. it really is a textbook ad hominem and the cognitive dissonance it reveals is so fascinating to me. like i'm sure this is a person who would denounce any other instance of tone policing directed at an activist group. and yet, in the case of circumcision, they felt comfortable to admit that although they have a valid point, they should be less "cuckoo" about their cause if they want people to listen to their concerns. that is some straight up "i understand their frustration but i think looters should be shot on sight" type of thinking

BREAKFAST

[jlemonster]

dios hoy una compañera estaba quejándose de q un hombre trans sea secretario de género, dijo q seguía siendo del género opresor pero GUARDA dijo q si fuera no-heterosexual estaría bien GIRL WTF DO YOU THINK THE T ON LGBT IS FOR????? SOS BOLUDA REINA CÓMO VAS A TRATAR DE DECIR Q 1, UN TRAVA NO ENTIENDE LAS EXPERIENCIAS DE LAS MUJERES Y 2, QUE SI FUERA GAY ESTARÍA RE BIEN

[lovelocus]

i have been having such a goddamn revelation these past few days. I just got off the phone with support at my university and the conversation was so pleasant and professional and helpful. I was stressing out, looking for information to read online, adding reddit to the end of my google search, talked to lms support in live chat. But i still had questions I couldn't find or force my way into understanding an answer to. And then I was referred to the uni helpline and I was able to find exactly the information and reassurance that I needed. Obviously ymmv and some in person/phone support services are understaffed or lack training or don't pay well or lack quality control. Also, I had an exact issue that I could articulate to the person without bumbling and waffling on, and I was confident in asking follow up questions. But in the end you have to push yourself to try the thing even if it might not end up being perfectly helpful, because it could be at least sort of helpful or teach you something you didn't think of. And you just have to trust that other people will be willing and capable of helping you. And if not, to not take it personally and try to be understanding of what circumstances relevant to you or the other party might be stopping you from getting your desired outcome.

For the longest time I stopped myself from reaching out because I told myself that I was a burden on others, they already had their own things to worry about, I was going to ask stupid questions, they wouldn't be able to help me, what good does talking do anyway etc. It was this self-defeating echo chamber that decimated my self-esteem, isolated me, and made it so difficult for me to view myself as capable and full of potential and good. As deserving of help. I would look for any small sign of rejection to give myself an excuse to not seek help and confirm these internal biases against myself. This positive feedback loop of defeatism really stopped me from trying harder to reach my goals because I didn't believe I could do anything but fail, so I didn't try. And when I inevitably encountered failure, the guilt and shame would just compound within me.

Talking to other people forces a reality check on you and takes you out of your own mind. Not all advice is perfect or easy to trust but you have to do the work to try and evaluate whether said advice truly aligns with your goals and values. And you can achieve that by exposing yourself to as many experiences as possible.Think about it a lot, record your thoughts, let it marinate and let the accumulation of past experiences naturally lead you to the revelations and conclusions that you need. And by trusting your gut instinct about the people in your life who truly love and care and have your best interests at heart, even if they aren't 100% perfect all the time, you will find good support. You just need to keep trying to understand and be open and honest with each other.

Once you have that baseline of support you will feel so so much more confident and capable of making changes in your life.