#out of drugs and alcohol

[nefarious-616-necromancer]

[laniidae-passerine]

I made my post about Dean Highbottom and then as I was writing my tags realised that his Hunger Games counterpart is Haymitch. and now my head is in my hands and I don’t think I’ll ever recover

[foxyfrolic]

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Ive been listening to too much Kesha (impossible)

[mariejordans]

very random thought i just had but i was thinking about the club scene from episode 1 and how jordan was doing like every drug under the sun but still seemed very much okay for the most part and it led me down to the line of thinking that maybe their invulnerability in male form goes deeper than we think

bc like, we know that their skin is invulnerable but what if it goes beyond that, to like their blood and bones and organs and stuff? (clearly i am not a doctor but you get my point right)

theres also a lot of conversation about how we could possibly see how the characters’ powers grow overtime, and i was thinking about jordan’s power and how much further you could take it, and like i definitely think their male form’s invulnerability going from just skin to skin, bones, internal organs, maybe even blood, would just be so cool...and then for female form, i’d like to see their energy blasts grow into a forcefield type of situation, a lot like violet’s power from the incredibles.

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

some of yall should consider unlearning your superiority complex regarding drugs for real. you can talk about the issues with drugs from production to trade, addiction and social consequences without demonising individual drug users. if you want to be supportive of homeless, mentally ill, prostituted, traumatised and otherwise marginalised women - who obviously are not all on drugs but might be at a higher risk - you cant go around and scream about how evil they are for struggling with addiction and substance abuse.

a lot of people with substance abuse issues have started young and often have a family history of drug and alcohol abuse. and if this is the case for you and you didnt develop addiction - congratulations, good for you. if you could just turn addiction on and off, a lot of people would be a lot happier, but fact is that most people with addiction will relapse even if they try going sober, and guilt just makes it more difficult to stop.

if i have to see one more feminist comparing drug use to watching porn i will go feral. porn is harmful to the people in it and women as a group, drugs are primarily self harm. which is an issue but not a moral failure. a lot of porn consumption is literally getting off on violence, the product is the harm done to others, meanwhile buying drugs - like many other products under capitalism - is supporting a system that sadly exploits the most vulnerable without enacting or even engaging with violence yourself. and additionally, a lot of women exploited by the sex industry are on drugs. now what? they are the same as porn consumers? fuck off.

of course it is unethical to buy drugs when it directly supports gang violence, and i understand that someone whose home and people they know have been destroyed by drug use or the drug trade doesnt have the patience for drug users, but its also extremely oversimplified to think these issues will be solved if people just stopped buying drugs. 

blaming drug users for gang members raping and murdering women as a feminist is fucking wild. a woman smoking a joint is responsible for a gang member sexually assaulting another woman? like okay. people also dont need chocolate or coffee which is produced under infamously exploitative conditions with no regard for human rights, should people stop buying that also, or is it more useful to the workers to establish fair trade and urge governments to force corporations to adhere to human and workers rights? what good is it to coca farmers to demonise drug users when gang violence is a result of systemic destabilisation of governments and poverty in production countries as well as the war on drugs, which is directly supported by the demonisation and stigmatisation of addicts?

and dont get me started on gendered aspects of gang violence and how masculinity and machismo play into it. if gangs dont sell drugs, they go more into human and sex trafficking, weapons, and other shit, as long as corruption and poverty are not alleviated. the local drug dealer is also just trying to get by and make cash in a rigged system.

in my humble opinion, legalisation of production, trade and consumption would help both the regions where its produced and the people affected and exploited in the drug trade as well as addicts because a fair trade, workers rights and unions and so on could be established, and money saved on persecuting drug dealers and users could go into rehabilitation programs, and taxes could be used to support everyone involved. resources wasted on the war on drugs could be used to fight remaining gang activity. and so on!

drug use in dedicated places and moderation just like alcohol is not the issue, the issues are one: the production and trade, which is illegalised and criminalised and because of this in the hands of brutal gangs (while other products under capitalism are in the hands of unregulated corporations who care as much about human rights and dignity as gangs do); and two: addiction and other consequences of substance abuse like lowered inhibitions and the link to domestic abuse and other violence, which is also not helped when drug users are stigmatised and buying drugs is criminalised.

i completely understand if you personally take issue and voice criticism of buying drugs especially towards privileged westerners as someone from a country of production, all im asking is some more nuance and as a feminist, compassion with women who have substance abuse issues. no need to coddle anyones feelings, but most addicts - especially women - already feel bad about struggling with addiction and frankly dont need women telling them what a terrible person they are for it, or be told they are just like people who get off on sexual violence.

[wind-up-thancred]

a little island r&r for the lads

[tangledinink]

ao3 isn't blocked on my districts tech so now I'm going to read tmnwn instead of doing classwork

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[justsomeectoplasm]

I started playing Disco Elysium, and I'm losing over the whiplash it's giving me. The themes and scenes are so jarring but blend in so well that I can't help but be absorbed in the world. Where is your political stance, btw. You flipped off the cafeteria manager mid-air when he asked for your tab and crashed into a person in a wheelchair. There's a dead body hanging from a tree. There's a haunted bookstore. What's your opinion on worker's rights. You can punch a racist or agree with his critical race theory to bypass him. You can talk with a corpse. You can 'I want to have fuck with you' to a hot lady. You can punch a kid that calls you the f slur. You don't have any memories, but it's mostly OK because you can bullshit your way through your identity.

[holocene-sims]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to simblrs whose sims you adore ✨️

thank you so much for sending this to me!! ✨️💜 i really appreciate it!! and i'm so sorry for letting this sit in my inbox a long time 😭

i may talk about him a lot, but it's never enough, so here are five new facts about the king of my blog aka grant 👑

when grant wants to feel something, he'll watch videos of the curiosity rover on mars singing happy birthday to itself 🎂 it's so incredibly sad but cute to him, so it immediately turns on the waterworks lolol 🥲

objectively, grant is NOT a car guy; he's 110% an airplane guy. however, he owns a car that makes him look like a car guy and gets him approached ALL THE TIME by people who want to talk cars. it's a 1960 ford galaxie and it looks like this, except i think it would be a nice shade of light, almost minty green or maybe blue (no, i haven't decided, and probably won't because there's no cc version of this car for the sims 4, so we'll never see it lol) 💚💙

why is that his car? 🚗 well, it was his grandparents' car, which he bought off them when they wanted to replace it; they have never had a garage or a carport in their entire life, so the car was exposed to the elements for fifty years, and it was, thus, fucked up. they were also tired of fixing it. however, it's a sentimental car because aoife and joseph met working on the same production line at a ford auto factory, and this car was the first one they bought as a couple in their marriage (even though aoife ironically does not know how to drive lmao). they wanted it gone but also didn't, you know, so grant bought it because he also didn't want to see it gone; he'd spent his whole life sandwiching into that backseat with 8 billion of his cousins. oh, aaandddd he bought it even though the necessary repairs were extensive, which he did all by himself with help from his grandparents and uncle (aka people who know shit about cars)

a shorter fun fact: he smokes luckies 🫢

grant has been on TV before! it was very brief, for like five seconds, but he was interviewed by his hometown news station after his high school hockey team won the state championship game one year and he was granted the MVP title. he was very nervous, and his friends ended up nicknaming him "mr. team effort" because his entire interview was him just saying things like, "oh, um, well, it was a team effort, and we worked really hard...together...as a team..."

[momotonescreaming]

Thinking about a Steve who goes sober after the Russians

Once he's mostly recovered from his concussion, when the world still feels like it's closing in on him but his head doesn't feel like it's going to crack in two - Steve cracks open a beer.

He's tense, and paranoid, and it's all too much, and he swears he keeps seeing the silhouette of one of the Russian soldiers in the woods. So he turns the TV up loud, sits on the couch, and has beer with dinner. Take the edge off. Distract himself.

Except the beer just makes everything worse. What once would have been a nice buzz - just makes his stomach churn and his head spin.

The walls of his house are too pale and the lights are too bright and his vision is tunnelling and he's alone and he starting to feel that buzzed floaty feeling he felt when the Russians stuck that needle in his neck and oh god he can't handle this he doesn't want to lose control of himself he needs to be prepared he needs to be ready the floor is rushing up to meet him it's too cold everything echos he can't do this again he just works at scoops ahoy please

Steve throws up in the hall bathroom. He drinks water as he pours the rest of his beer down the sink

[ch1ckenrat]

its crazy how much content in disco elysium I missed because I was so adamant on making harry a better person and having him become bffs with kim

[peribytes]

THE BITCH IS BACK, BABES !!

[cryptid--bunny]

hi sorry this came to me in a cold sweat and I physically couldnt stop thinking about it until I drew it. Is the fandom for this show even still alive bro. help me im insane maybe.

[ofbakerst]

when i was in my twenties, pretty much everyone i knew was strung out, including my partner, so i saw this sort of thing multiple times a day. it was like people were constantly playing russian roulette in my living room; you never knew when someone was going to nod out and never wake up. (and the health problems- collapsed veins, abcesses, staph, mrsa, pancreatitis, hep c, hiv, etc etc, not to mention the threat of jail time.) & this went on for years, it was very traumatic.

so anyway i have complicated feelings about the drug use of my emotional-support fictional character. & devil's foot is my favorite episode bc it is so upsetting.

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

Whump Prompt #1123

Submitted by Anon - thanks!

Your whumpee is drugged by the whumper, only to be rescued while still out of it.

The whumpee’s team have never seen whumpee look so frail and lax.

The whumpee eventually starts waking up and thinks they’re still in danger and tries pathetically to shove the well meaning caretaker away from them.