#Followers appreciation

[sotwk]

Reblog if you've Followed the blog of someone you're a fan of and you're still waiting and hoping they notice your subtle hints and become interested enough to Follow back.

(Might help the community to understand this is a common thing.)

[grazi-your-rockette-queen]

ahh thank you guys for 100+ followers <3

[cinnamon-girl-writes]

yall have left so many kind notes on my fics and I've never been so popular on tumblr before, especially since I moved to a brand new account-- so THANK YOU 🤍🤍

[cakbanedraws]

250 Followers!

Ayoo! Thank you everyone for following me by looking my works especially some fanart I did about Star Wars content, reaching for 250 followers is a first step for me being a Tumblr user for one year.

Really appreciate y'all :D

Also, thanks to all underated artist that I've met and been support each other

Edit: Btw, I've just post another WIP of Cad wears Luka's outfits from Bayonetta hehe

[cal-leandros-fan001]

I’m sorry for such a long absence! I’ll be posting more art here soon.

I had over 300 followers at one point, but I still appreciate each and every one of you for sticking around! You are all so kind!

[siffrin-enthusiast]

which mutual am i? ask game

[0fps]

JIYAN ❖ THROUGH THE DARKEST OF NIGHTS

Jiyan, leader of the Midnight Rangers, acts with swift and resolute righteousness. He possesses the formidable ability to conjure a powerful Qingloong from the winds, making him invincible on the battlefield.

[sotwk]

How many Followers?? That can't possibly be right...

So I just noticed that my number of new followers per day increased significantly over the past month; I hadn't realized they'd been piling up. I seriously thought it was a bot-related glitch, but the users seem to be all legit.

I should be happy and I should be grateful and humbled, and I really am...

But honestly I'm also having a small panic attack because, "Oh my god, I really have to work my butt off to deserve these Followers now."

This is the kind of anxiety and self-esteem issues I sometimes think I really should have continued seeing a therapist for. But...I figure writing fanfic should continue to help.

If only I can just scrape up the time and spoons needed to do that.

Welcome New Followers, I am sincerely glad to have you with me, and I truly hope you find joy in what little things I can offer you. I will do my best for your Dashboard. <3 Lots of love and cheer to you!

[celstialmusings]

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[gayfranzkafka]

The Nisenan tribe in my local area has the opportunity to purchase 232 acres located on a historic Nisenan Village site called Yulića, but they have a limited time (until April 4, 2024) to raise the needed funds. You can learn more about the fundraiser and donate here.

Especially if you have ever enjoyed any of my writing, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Aren't Dead, it would mean the world to me if you'd consider donating what you're able.

I'm also happy to take commissions and donate the funds in full to the fundraiser or to write anyone who sends me proof of their donation oneshots upon request; dm me or send me an ask if you're interested!

Reblogs are appreciated to spread the word. Thank you <3

[thebibliosphere]

Whenever I talk about the medical neglect and ableism I've encountered as a victim of the healthcare system, there's always some cockwaffle who feels entitled to come into my inbox and make the argument of "not all doctors" while talking about how "people like them" (because it's always someone in a field of medicine who does this) are doing their best and it's really hard because so many people fake being ill to get on welfare (Yikes), but like, yeah, obviously #not all doctors, because if all doctors were negligent, bullying scum bags, I'd be dead.

But here's the thing: while I truly believe that the majority of doctors are doing their best in a system stacked against them and their patients, their presence does not negate the mass harm caused by the bad ones. And there are far more bad ones than you realize.

Fuck, John Oliver literally did a segment on this last week:

Yes, the truly bad, malicious doctors are in the minority. Most are just horrifically burned out and fighting a losing battle against a system, killing both them and their patients through a lack of funding and resources and profound overwork.

But the malicious ones do exist, and they will go out of their way to harm patients who don't kowtow to them.

I almost lost my life because when I was in my early twenties, I told a doctor I didn't think she was listening to me, and I disagreed with her assessment of my mental health (she was not a mental health doctor, and I was there for heart palpitations and chronic pain). She retaliated by putting "non-compliant" in my file.

There was also a fun little "doesn't show respect" note too that lives rent-free in my head because I know I wasn't rude. I was polite. I just didn't agree with her, and my refusal to accept her off-handed comment that "you probably have bipolar or BPD" (again, I was there for heart palpitations and chronic pain) meant I was "refusing care."

I wasn't. I just refused to be slapped with a mood/personality disorder when I was there because I kept fucking fainting when I stood up.

(Spoiler alert: it was dysautonomia)

That "non-compliant" marker followed me around for years. It followed me across an ocean and effectively ensured that any doctor I saw was going to treat me like absolute dogshit because no one wants to help Difficult Patients. It wasn't until I was so undeniably ill, literally on the brink of death, that anyone helped me.

I'm alive because of a good doctor. And all the good ones that came after him because of him.

So, I know they exist. You don't have to tell me that.

But I really fucking need you to acknowledge the bad ones and that you're part of a system with a long, long history of abusing minorities and vulnerable people. I need you to acknowledge that because it's the only way we're going to survive this godforsaken nightmare and make things better.

So yeah, #notalldoctors, but if you feel the need to say that because someone talking about being literally left to die by the medical system hurts your feelings, I'm going to have to ask you to take a step back and ask yourself if you're going into medicine for the right reasons.

Namely: do you want to help people, even the "difficult" ones?

Even the ones who might disagree with you?

Even if they're on welfare?

Even if they'll never get "better" in a way that means "cured"?

Just a thought. But hey, what do I know. I'm just someone who experienced hemolytic anemia because doctors kept telling me I was anxious and needed to exercise more 🤷‍♀️.

[frodo-a-gogo]

Let us be brutally honest with ourselves and with eachother for a moment. If he weren't obese you motherfuckers would be capable of percieving evrart claires sexy sexy moral ambiguity and complex charms

[tanadrin]

I have nothing to add to the Maintenance Phase episode on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, which is very good, except that (so far, I’m only about halfway through) they have not stressed what I think is the most obvious objection to parents’ transphobic bullshit, which is that 1) parents are often (obviously, in the case of many ROGD anecdotes) deeply emotionally invested in their child’s gender and gender presentation, and 2) most parents don’t know shit about their adolescent children’s inner lives. Indeed, many parents rarely seem to imagine that they *have* inner lives, and will struggle even when their children are adults to treat them like fully autonomous human beings. It is easy to be surprised by someone’s behavior when you invest very little energy in understanding them as a person in the first place.

[lnmei]

Palestinian Fundraiser Donation Match! 🕊️🇵🇸

I decided to use a recent payment I received for an illustration to donate to every Palestinian who reached out to me this past week. Please share this list, and if you are able, pick at least one donation to match me! Many small donations can go a long way which is why I took the time to put together this post. (date: August 11)

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[justanartistiguess]

Remember the whole BuzzFeed era?

Remember when everyone was leaving and made videos on it?