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me and my friend Olive/Bagel in my house we built together 🪴

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my great-grandfather Michalis & great-grandmother Krissoula

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this is a message to any of y'all who are addicts, alcoholics, etc

hi. i just wanted to say, you are loved. and seen. i agree with the sentiment, generally, that you are responsible for your own healing - but healing is not so cut-and-dry, and it doesn't happen in a vacuum - you can't heal while you're being actively abused, and if healing means becoming more whole, allowing yourself humanity, you can't heal by making yourself so thick-skinned & perfectly, numbly calm you excuse harm to yourself or others; it is okay to call out your abusers, those who have neglected you, it is okay to call out that people have hurt you. we all have - we all should have - choice in our lives, and so we all do have responsibility, but people impact each other. this truth is something i believe is missing from a lot of messaging aimed at addicts & alcoholics. and there is so much ambient pain in the world, and genuine oppressions as well. there are many worlds within this one where it is dangerous to be yourself, as a queer person, as a disabled person, as a poor person. there are indigenous people who are either cannot return home or living in a version of home that is currently colonized. i actually consider it more honorable to cope however you can without becoming who your oppressors want you to be; i consider it more honorable to be an alcoholic rather than a sellout or someone who is proud of their contributions to capitalism & happy with their apparent rewards. as someone who is abused, who dissociates consistently and finds little value in hypothetically lengthening this version of my life against my own will, i feel solidarity with people who know pain. people who refuse to ignore it. i extend my hand to you. breathe slightly easier knowing someone supports every version of you

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400+ people were killed in gaza last night.

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i dunno if i've ever shared my Big Painting with you guys, so here

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““The mannerisms that help define gender - the way in which people walk,swing their hips, gesture with their hands, move their mouths and eyes when they talk, take up space - are all based upon how non disabled people move…The construct of gender depends not only upon the male body and female body, but also on the non disabled body.””

— Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

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hi, my name is benny! γεια, με λένε benny! i'm an αγρίμι learning to practice φιλότιμο. my pronouns are he/him/his and it/its. i grew up in occupied Tovaangar ("Los Angeles"), on Turtle Island, but my family's Greek; i'm Greek, and i'm planning on moving back to those islands whenever i can. i'm an artist & a writer. i do stuff, and make things. making things fucks

Benny's Links:

mine:

on Strawpage

on Newgrounds

the only actually cool places in LA, according to Benny

Benny's Migration🇬🇷🌀 & Survival🥕🎨 fund

on Bandcamp & Chipscombo

vids:

on YouTube & WeVidi (long-form)

on Twitch (live-streamed)

on Rednote (short-form)

else:

the postbox garden cooking? it's based radio: tags surveil the surveillers, watch the watchers theoi, daimones, theres mutual aid

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Peeb

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