#they don’t know me

[edenfenixblogs]

I also resent that person’s implication that I am either genocidal or self centered or overly sentimental.

I have repeatedly advocated for peace.

I have repeatedly tried to meet people where they are and to share resources to help Palestinians and to demonstrate interfaith solidarity.

I have contextualized fear of antisemitic violence in statistics and cultural context and avoided laying blame on any one group of people.

But I guess I’m fundamentally invalid because I’ve used the jumblr tag to find a shred of fucking community.

[mthevlamister]

my younger sisters are currently getting ready/leaving for school and they keep trying to talk to me LMAO

Awww

Gotta respond to the sisters!!

[hoppipolla]

About A Shoulder To Cry On

I do not support bullying nor SA. That should go without saying but this drama being problematic because of the way it began, i just wanted to make everything crystal-clear. I don’t wish to support a series that doesn’t dwell on the seriousness of these topics. But, as I’ve said in the tags of a gif set I reblogged, I am still watching it for its representation of depression. I don’t want people feeling uncomfortable with me reblogging content from A Shoulder To Cry On so do filter the related tags so it doesn’t show up on your dashboard. I completely understand people who want to boycott or skip the drama. This is a completely valid thing to do. But please understand that me watching it does not mean I agree with everything that’s being done. I know that giving it views encourages that type of production but so many people worked on that drama. Jaehan and Yechan to begin with and I want them to find comfort in the fact that their drama is being watched and enjoyed. This is a complicated situation and there is no right answer. I just wish people would qualify their judgements because some people might need this type of representation (of mental illness I mean).

[jeffament]

me when someone asks me literally anything:

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Edit: if you are able, use $5 you would otherwise use for a streaming subscription to donate to a GazaFunds campaign.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.

But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.

Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.

For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.

But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.

Happy.

It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.

Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.

It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.

A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.

5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.

It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.

Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.

I’m a Rescue.

She gave me a Home.

And, so, I gave her a Family.

It seemed fair

This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.

don’t give up yet, ok?

It could get good, even.

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[raskies456]

(vent post)

okay but how are you supposed to get good rec letters when you graduated several years ago + were mostly incapable of building memorable relationships with your professors bc your untreated mental health issues left you barely capable of even showing up to class and doing the bare minimum to get a grade

am I just fucked forever

[ato-dato]

Road help.

[seren-dipitous-art]

I’ve been obsessed with the Olympics for the past week, and obsessed with Dick Grayson for longer, so here’s the crossover we all deserve.

Plus, gorgeous sweaty acrobat in gymnastics poses? Only positives.

[lestatslestits]

Visual representation of listening to a popular song when you heard the Weird Al version first

[wafflesrisa]

Reblogs appreciated to increase sample size!

[swordy-da-goat]

i connected two dots

[kazodus]

came to me in a dream

[sunnibits]

just out of curiosity bc some people I know with glasses can just go a few hours or a day without them and be chill but I need them on all the time or I’ll go crazy

[chloesimaginationthings]

"They call it the MANGLE" - FNAF 2 phone guy