#regardless of how much money they have

[genderkoolaid]

chewing on drywall thinking about how many people never pursue phalloplasty because of transphobic misinformation about functionality & appearance & the belief that anything less than the Platonic Ideal of Human Penis is completely worthless

[revenantghost]

Alright. I really didn't want to make this post, but it's one week before the next Trigun "deluxe edition" drops (Oct. 8th), and Dark Horse hasn't addressed the plethora of printing and text issues despite the very loud response on social media and the reviews on storefronts. If you don't want them to keep making cheap cash grabs and want a quality release, consider canceling your order.

I know all of us who missed the first print run are desperate for this manga--me too! Of course you don't have to listen to me, I'm some just guy on the internet. It's just, to me, the corporate greed of this is upsetting. The basic ask is that they do a quality check and proofread. That's it. They already knew the peeling gold on most copies was an issue, and they had the rights to change the text to add ellipses and sfx/translation notes.

Regardless of any discount, it's $50 MSRP for this, and I just feel like Nightow and his work deserve better. I don't know if we'll ever get that with Dark Horse, but I would hate myself if I didn't try.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I’ve always loved medicine bc it’s the perfect intersection of science and humanity—the two things I value above all else in this world. Truly adored it since I was in the cradle. But now I’m thinking about how so much of my journey to neurosurgery will have to involve KILLING my feelings essentially bc how do you survive otherwise

[faunandfloraas]

Full offense but fans who get to go to fanmeets or performances and get close enough to take pictures and then proceed to whitewash the boys or maybe even face app their features so a nose looks smaller or sharper, skin texture is non existant, etc etc. Are literally bastards to me. You don't deserve to be there.

[blujayonthewing]

opening the group chat for the first time today and there's like 200 new messages because everyone's Going Through It today it seems but one of my friends dropped 'I'm separating from [terrible boyfriend she's been living with for like eight years] for real this time, I just moved a bunch of stuff to my parents' and I'm losing my mind because y'all the subject changed almost immediately HEY HI EVERYBODY ELSE SHUT THE FUCK UP I WANNA HEAR ABOUT THAT???

[twinknote]

i have a feeling my mom (who has acted extremely upset + sympathetic about me sweating profusely in my shitty 80+ degree room) is going to tell me that they can’t help me replace my 20+ year old ac unit for $250, even tho they are about to pay Thousands of dollars to replace their central ac bc clearly her needs are more important than mine (when one of my worst and most impactful symptoms is heat intolerance, which makes me dehydrated and even more dizzy and fatigued and i’ve been getting dehydration headaches even tho i’m drinking almost a gallon a day)

[panicbones]

i think one of the biggest most egregiously contradicting shit religion wise ive seen is big ass (christrian esque) churches actively putting up wards against homeless people. bro i thought your whole thing was helping the needy what the hell is this

[todayisafridaynight]

What do you think Mine’s reaction to Masato / Aoki be like?

tbh they'd probably be. amicable. at the very least.

[e77y]

Glad I’m starting therapy so soon after moving out ☝️ I am already feeling the helplessness and loneliness

[steevejr]

idk man call me cynical but even if trump ‘cheated’ or committed voter fraud or whatever it’s never gonna be investigated seriously. I doubt it’ll even be half heartedly investigated for show. everyone in power likes each other. they’re all friends. it doesn’t matter who won or lost. they’re all going out to dinner to celebrate anyway. they don’t give a fuck. if anyone cared then he’d be in prison.

[dissociativediscourse]

Post your diagnosis papers

These were both asked at the same time and have the same thoughtless vibe going on, so I figured I’d put them together.

Thoughts on “endogenetic systems” — Well, most of our genes are inside of us, usually. That is what you mean, right? If you mean endogenic systems, it’s in a big, fat userbox right at the top of my profile.

Diagnosis papers? Okay, bet!!

DISCLAIMER: This is a joke. Yes, this is an actual therapy bill of mine. But I don’t expect this to prove anything — anyone can screenshot a bunch of words on a paper and blur out information. It doesn’t mean anything. Even if I were to fully doxx myself, it could be 100% fabricated. There’s no way to “prove” a diagnosis over the internet like that, and if you think you have the right to ask random people with trauma disorders or really any disorder that, in real life or in person: Why? I know I’m not spreading misinformation or doing anything harmful to the DID community or the perception the average layman has of it. I’m actually devoting my life and career to the treatment of it. What about you? What right do you have? What have you done for any disabled person recently? Have you ever even held a door for a person with an injury?

Also, here’s something really important that people just… Don’t seem to get.

They don’t just give you a piece of paper when they diagnose you with a disorder. You don’t just magically become Mentally Ill Certified.

That’s the stupidest misconception I see around. When you go to the psychiatrist for your depression or anxiety or whatever it is you’ve got, do they just send you out with a big old certificate of diagnosis? No, that’s fucking stupid and pointless. They treat you for the disorder you’ve got, and they put diagnostic codes in your bill so that your insurance will cover your treatment. Otherwise, they can disclose your diagnosis for other reasons needed, but rarely are they actually going to need to. The only time I’ve ever needed it to be disclosed to anyone outside of therapy was very recently, and it was so that the state department of mental health could make sure I was actually diagnosed with the disorder I was saying I had — you know, to be a peer support specialist for related disorders. (I’m currently working on my certification.) Diagnosis is there to help you pursue proper treatment and have that treatment covered by insurance. It means very little.

[milfygerard]

Hanif Abdurraqib's instagram stories on Rafah and the limits of bearing witness as activism

[ink-asunder]

I'm dying over the fact that the royal family is so adamantly denying that King C has prostate cancer and is instead refusing to state what kind of cancer he has. Like. We weren't born yesterday, he Obviously has prostate cancer. And my problem isn't that they're denying it. My problem is that they should not have been sharing such personal medical information (several days ago when they said he'd been admitted to hospital over prostate issues) to begin with. Like, period, actually.

[yuseirra]

I'm sorry for being so chatty(I'm like that when there's an update!)

I think I understand Kamiki's analogy much better now(ofc I can be wrong but, I'm pretty positive I get things right)

The question for me was always how much he's broken, not about whether he's broken or not.

So, my earlier comics about him's actually not totally off(I don't think so?) although I did draw him very soft in general!

It just comes down to the fact that losing Ai shattered him down to the entire core. Way more than I thought...I'm not sure if it's safe to say he's loved her that much, because.. It could be taken as something really selfish of him to have done what he's said to have done...can you call that love!! But geez.. It shifted him into an entirely different person; so Ai basically is someone that took over his life to that extreme extent. She wouldn't have wanted for him to be this way, she really cares for him...good god kamiki you shouldn't let her down but I guess the authors made you do it already. That's really sad...I'm a little speechless, he used to be so sweet. I hope there's some meaning to destroy a character like that.

That aside... I do think 154 is a glimpse of how he is originally? He lies even then but... I guess he gets tender whenever Ai is brought up. It's sad... If nothing happened to him, if only Ai was just alive, then he would have been happy. I think so. So he was an empty husk ever since she didn't exist in the world and he never felt alive after that, so he tried to fill in that hole somehow in a very, very horrible way if what is being said is true(give me evidence that it really happened though omg;;). Should have known from what Fatal indicates, he was that hollow. It's like he didn't know what to do after her death.

He was still able to make friends and smile even after Ai left him, it's not the fact he was dumped he became like this isn't it? What gets me is that his original personality leans on the timid side. He never fought back when people hurt HIM.

And then Ai dies and he loses it...What should we do with this guy, gosh. And it's not like I thought it'd be so different, it's exactly how I thought things'd be in theory but it's awful to see it actually being displayed really blatantly. Is this right? It doesn't feel right to have things left it at this.

Fatal is so perfect!! It embodies his mentality so... amazingly in an identical sense!! I knew it would, but I'm still really impressed. How can a soft person grow this desperate and insane?? Well it's what's drew me in, I knew it was going to be there but he's too insane. Help him!! Save him. I don't think he was originally like this. The person in that song needs help..; give Ai back to him o<-< wow.. He really went that far.

Onk is suffering ugh, I really don't know if I will be able to still pity this guy if he's gone too far beyond redemption but, what's happened to him shouldn't have happened. He should not be the one to carry the entire blame or be the antagonist of the series. Shouldn't end here, it's terrible... Don't just push him over and claim things are over because it ain't ever going to be. At least, I don't see it being so! My hope is Ai's message; that's like the only thread of string of hope I believe in.

[britneyshakespeare]

I feel like certain people on Tumblr have really been fighting for backwards progress when it comes to how we talk about mental illness and abuse. I see posts at least several times a week on my dash that seem to have the purpose of implying people with insert-mental-illness and/or insert-symptom are not abusive when they do insert-action-that-makes-people-uncomfortable, often times meaning to promote a more positive image of people with particularly stigmatized conditions, like personality disorders, mood disorders, psychosis, addiction, or neurodivergence. And I really really hate it because these posts almost always have the ultimate purpose of telling people not just "This thing is not inherently abusive," but often it comes across as "You were not abused."

I just find that to be really unhelpful and unintentionally hurtful, and for what? I believe that destigmatizing various mental conditions is a worthy cause, but at the same time this type of rhetoric seems to be so protective of people in whichever stigmatized group they're trying to advocate for, that it comes back around to a sort of respectability politics. Anybody can be an abuser. And someone's means and methods of abusing can very much be influenced by a condition they have. Why wouldn't it be? Their conditions will affect every aspect of their life and their interpersonal relationships. Especially if these issues are going untreated or being insufficiently managed. I don't understand why anyone would want to make it appear as if abusers are mostly neurotypical and mentally well people, or that if they aren't, then their conditions have nothing to do with it and the overlap is merely incidental. What? It makes it so hard for anyone who is a victim to come to terms and identify the dynamics of what they've gone through.

Addicts and mentally ill people don't have to be unproblematic in order to be humanized and accepted. And nobody profits from writing hard and fast rules about how abuse apparently works, drawing clear lines between which behaviors can, and cannot, ever be abuse.

[area51-escapee]

One of the many hills I’ll die on is my defense of the Girl Scouts if you hear the “girl” in Girl Scouts and immediately assume “well, clearly all they’re teaching them is how to bake cookies and manage a household and become a good wife and mother who stays home and cooks and cleans” then that shits on you yeah some troops aren’t going to be as good as others it all depends on the leadership and resources available but that doesn’t negate the fact that at it’s core it is there to teach young girls valuable skills and it can provide unique opportunities and a nice community for people who may need it