#Essentially...

[skunkes]

just realized the skunker talon dynamic is just squidbob

[meanao3thoughts]

a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

[todayintokyo]

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[dyleeart]

Obligatory redraw of Live Telemachus Reaction

[warm-mangoes-with-chai]

[fraldareius]

man i was rereading my carrd rules for a bit and i STILL stand by what i said about felix and Dimitri. On fact i think over the years, and with the help of therapy, its become even more cemented in stone about how felix acts towards Dimitri is not abl*sm but actually genuine fear and pain.

I think people really like to put blame on a single individual here, and when it comes to felix, its so easy to use and see him as 'the problem' when the reality is that he is also goong through his own ptsd and hus own trauma.

And to be abel*st in the first place, he would have to be aware of dimitri's mental health, which he doesnt actually know. He's terrified of him and sad becaause he thinks the person he knew is dead.

What he does isn't out of malice, and therefore cannot be identified as that.

The same actually goes with people calling him misogynistic. Because, quite frankly, if anybody were to actually look at Felix' supports properly, theyd see that he has actually some of the more endearing interactions WITH females as opposed to males.

But also, his attitude and personality is more 'assholey' in nature because, again, the guy went through some intense trauma as a kid ( both woth losing his brother but also witnessing a side of dimitri that he never saw before and didnt know how to properly process what he saw ) and never got to properly address that because their CULTURE just doesnt properly address mental health in a healthy way.

Anyway sorry for the rambling. Im just GUH about felix... like im not saying hes not an asshole. Because he is. But i think what im trying to say is that he does it to everybody equally and its not out of hatred for a specific group of people or anything. He is loterally just taking out a lot of his frustrations towards the entire world. Its not as targeted as people think it is and i really wish others saw that instead of just mislabeling him.

[1000rh]

…psychiatry assumes that society does not cause distress in biologically normal people, who are considered biologically normal at least in part because they are economically productive. This assumption permits the conclusion that if a person is distressed to the point of unproductivity, it is because that person—not society—is abnormal. Thus, psychiatry’s commitment to biological essentialism not only masks the role of the constructed sociopolitical environment in creating distress but depoliticizes it by characterizing that allegedly irrational distress as induced by biological abnormality.

– Kiera Lyons, “The Neurodiversity Paradigm and Abolition of Psychiatric Incarceration” (2023)

[infiniteorangethethird]

"aros can still date!!": boring. tired. overused. frequently used to make aros look more palatable and acceptable to amatonormative society.

"alloros can still stay single!!": fresh. new. exciting. hearing it could change many people's lives for the better regardless of romantic orientation

[junglejim4322]

Pdf of The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

[sungo45]

terf is a fetish

[uglygirlstatus]

Bedtime Routine. my comic piece for @querermezines Kira Kira zine wheeeeee

[noodles-and-tea]

Last part whoo!!!

PART 1 / PART 2 / PART 3 / PART 4

[lackadaisycal-art]

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

[gayboygaming]

Gender essentialism is still cringe if it is directed against cis people btw. Ive basically had someone say to me that cis people are biologically incapable of understanding less normalized gender identities because "their brains work differently". If anyone has this opinion please come forward now so i can block you thank you. The reason cis people dont understand gender in the same way trans people do is because trans people are naturally more exposed to the discussion about gender because we have to think about it a lot. Cis people, who have never doubted their identity, obviously dont think about it as much, if at all.

Cis people arent inherently more stupid than us, or less capable of talking about gender on a biological level. What would that even look like???

[such-a-daydreamer]

Based on a real thing that happened to me and my sister (me as Stan and my sis as Ford)

She had held my foot up for a while trying really hard to pull me up thinking it was my arm, we laughed about it almost instantly after but it was still scary.

Be beach careful people! Waves can easily pin you against the sand if you don't dive at the right time.