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Wanna try getting into art fight this year, making small gif character thumbnails...
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The buxom, fighting, free-living, and generally scandalous ladies of Illustrated Police News (1896-1898)
(Courtesy of @yesterdaysprint)
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I think maybe when punishment is a significant part of your upbringing, you begin to associate guilt and shame with being hurt, and maybe a side effect of that is that when you see something that creates guilt/shame in you feels like an attack.
however like two seconds ago I realized guilt doesn't have to hurt? that it's okay to feel and sit with if you gauge it to be appropriate to your actions (I am thinking about this post when I say this), and it can pass through you without hurting you, doing its job without any punishment, self-inflicted or otherwise. it's still not exactly a pleasant feeling, it can still require discomfort tolerance, but accepting it doesn't (shouldn't!!) have to feel like holding your hands out for the ruler. like, not only does it not have to hurt but it does its job more effectively without the hurting. the hurting was never required. it was never required.
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anyway now more than ever is the time to remember that bisexuals are often alienated from the queer community for our ability to “opt out”, and there will be less outcry when we are written out of “gay and lesbian” history. we have had to fight within and outside our own communities for recognition and that is so goddamn exhausting. dont let that happen again
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There is a standard media depiction of a "healed" person. Someone who has Gone To Therapy. I've noticed this in a few works recently. We often see them at the end of a story, maybe in a "ten years later" epilogue. They speak in a soft, serene voice. They have Accepted what they cannot change. They have let go of a lot, including most of what we see them actually care about in the story itself. They are Happy, At Peace, in some non-descript way. They bare little resemble to the person we were actually shown. They bare little resemblance to any person. We were shown, as we usually are in stories, an agent, a desirer, someone becoming. Now they have Become. And they look back on all that silly becoming as something childish that they have moved past. Fire, you know, fire is for children who don't know any better. To be Healed is to have your fire rightly extinguished; to not even miss it.
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there are two competing sects on this website - one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "neurodivergent" and one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "sexual content." i do not like either of them
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