#be well <3

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

I grew up in the Mormon church, in a very conservative and religious home, in a neighborhood and city that were both ~99% Mormon. At 16, I stopped believing, and I told my mother. She refused to let me stop going to church, and insisted that I try believing it again. So I stopped talking about it and went back to pretending to believe. Pretty much everyone I'd ever met was Mormon, and I was afraid that if any of them found out I was an atheist, they'd rat me out to the church leadership, and word would get back to my parents. I never tried to talk to my family (or any other Mormon) about it again while I was living at home. I was scared, but I don't know what I was scared of.

Two years later, I left home for college. (I made up a lie about a non-deferable scholarship to explain why I was going to college before a Mormon mission.) Once I was out of the house, I told my parents again that I didn't believe. They didn't argue. I even moved back in with them for the summer of my freshman year. We had a few arguments about politics before we all learned to avoid those topics, but religion never came up.

A couple years after that, I started having occasional nightmares and flashbacks involving the first time I told my mother I wanted to leave the church. (I still have those.) I'd always been bad at writing to family, and this just made it harder. I wrote home less often and took longer to answer messages.

It's been eight years since I left home. I've moved to a different continent, and I haven't spoken to any of my relatives in over a year. I never talked to any of them about why. I never told them that I'm bisexual, that I'm trans, or that I've changed my name and gone on HRT. I feel like nothing I have to say about any of that would mean anything to them (except that I'm being led astray by Satan, which they already believe), so it isn't worth the effort. Especially since I don't really care about any of them that much.

I've gotten a couple of messages from relatives since I stopped answering. (None from my parents.) For the most part they seem to be following my cue.

I'm never sure if going no contact like this was unreasonable. Should I have explained what was going on? Sometimes I wonder if the fact that I've been happier since cutting them off is enough justification, or if it just makes me a bad person. Did I just make everything harder than it needed to be by keeping it all a secret for two years, then blame my parents for it when I moved out?

Am I the asshole?

What are these acronyms?

#breaking my no-influencing-the-results rule to say: op you are not even remotely the asshole and i will fight anyone who says you are #i'm proud of you for getting out and putting your mental and physical well-being first #be well <3 #aita #am i the asshole #reddit #196

[jay-catsby]

YO OMG. it's my six-month anniversary of starting prozac!!!! this is such a big deal for me that I'm gonna talk abt it a little. these have been far and away the most amazing six months of my life. I was depressed and struggling with OCD from age ten onwards, and I spent most of that time perfectly aware that things were pretty bad, but I didn't appreciate the extent to which I wasn't living until after I was correctly medicated. I've cried more in the last six months than in the entire TEN YEARS prior to starting medication, because that's what alive people do! I've fallen in love with my life, with my career, with my studies, with a person - and I've felt everything associated with that love, both positive and negative. That's what people deserve to feel - it's not about being happy all the time; it's about being able to experience the full spectrum in balance, from the lows to the highs. The thing about being medicated isn't that I'm always happier. For the first time in my life, I'm content. I go to bed without feeling guilty and I wake up free from dread, regardless of what happened yesterday or what's on my schedule for today. I am finally at peace; I'm no longer striving for something unattainable, because I have it. It isn't easy, it isn't always happy, but it's my life, and I'm in love with it!

#let me add the clarifying detail that i have been incredibly lucky #i had a fantastic therapist and my parents were in my corner all along #it took me one try to find the right medication and dosage #but no matter how it goes. if you feel like you've been looking for something your entire life? #if you fantasize about running away from it all? #i was there. it's worth exploring medication as an option #peace and love on planet earth <3 #be well <3

[sleepygaymerdisease]

#'who was this about' dont worry <3 #EDIT hi i didnt realize this would get notes LOL. um everyone reblog with what character ur thinking of because im NOSEY i WANNA SEE #edit 2 to everyone trying to guess what the character i made this for was. youre all wrong. this was about kamen rider #youd think lupin because of my profile picture but alas i have other interests as well... #anis gaymer moments

[redstonedust]

i appreciate the attempts a lot of game devs are making with gender neutral character creation, and i appreciate that it's actually a very difficult task to implement that depending on the game's base code. but it's so funny to me when you hear an uproar because some game has "entirely removed the gender option from character creation!!!!!" so you go to check it out and its just like

#i swear ive seen this happen in like 3 games now #and every time i am a little baffled at how this is a big deal #but like. well. they DID make an attempt. u right.

[snarkspawn]

based ofc on this

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #astarion ancunin #bg3 astarion #astarion #stuff and things #userpharawee #I'm back! hi :D #just a quick silly thing to try and get back into the groove after two weeks hhh #wHY do I always feel like I forgot how to draw after not drawing for a while uGH. anyway. #how have you guys been? I hope 2024 is treating you well so far ♥︎

[shurinpat]

booped out

#my art <3 #snoopy #snoopy art #peanuts #peanuts fanart #boop #my hand actually is sore #its okay #well be bakc later #snoopy fanart #digital art #doodle #drawing #digital illustration #artists on tumblr

[may12324]

Halsin- Archdruid of the Emerald Grove

#halsin #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #halsin bg3 #bg3 fanart #can you tell i accidentally added too much space for text? #oh well #my art #anyway that ask made me kick my own ass into finishing this #im sorry the bear is boring #it is better than nothing #but that chest hair ^^ #i did a good job #i must say so

[hansoeii]

Astarion 🌠

#I have fallen and I can't get up #If you're wondering why I haven't posted new art in a while it's because I currently have 115 hours in Baldur's Gate 3 #well.. #Astarion my beloved #you can feast on me tonight if you like #Astarion #Astarion fanart #Baldur's Gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #Baldurs gate 3 fanart #Bg3 #Bg3 fanart #digital art #my art #fanart

[hofudlaus]

also posting these two on their own :-) based on This post by @outpastthemoat

#wanted to post it on its own as well #and also added text for fun #atla #avatar #Avatar The Last Airbender #sokka #katara #zuko #aang #suki #toph beifong #alta fanart #my art #fanart #me Everytime i add text to my art #this time ill use the Text feature n not just write it #3 seconds later Ew im to lazy for that it seems like to much work #asgdhjsagd

[bashzzey]

I bet sour lemons are alien to him in the land of sweets 🍋

Also have silly bonus from aggie :]c

Max Jax? Max Jax.

#poor Gummigoo LOL #lineless artstyle is hard oh my god #but I nailed it 😎 #one of friends who was in aggie was sobbing of laughter at Max Jax LMAOOO #so I'm posting Max Jax here as well for sillies <3 #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc jax #jax #tadc gummigoo #gummigoo #tadc fanart #lemon #bashzzey arts

[gibbearish]

just saw on the hbomb subreddit that james somerton briefly reactivated his twitter and changed the name to agayraconteur, then 8 hrs later deleted it again because people were noticing, so. everyone who went all in on "he'll keep popping up again and again in new forms" cash your bets in now LMAO

edit: hey yall this post is very out of date but has been getting spikes of notes since the second apology video so i'm gonna be marking it unrebloggable

#james somerton #google tells me a raconteur in someone who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way #which uh. wrong on literally all 3 counts #or well i guess google doesnt specify that it has to be your own anecdotes so i guess he gets one out of three on a technicality #bigger gibbers

[nomnomroko]

also them (((: ?

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #Gale #Wyll #Astarion #holy shit that other post blew up??? #so have the guys as well #what is happening lmao

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton teaches Vanessa the first rule of FNAF

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #michael afton #fnaf vanessa #vanessa afton #william afton #springtrap #spring bonnie #fnaf #sister location #fnaf 3 #fnaf movie #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #Vanessa gonna learn it’s real hard to get rid of her dad actually #Michael knows #Michael knows all too well how much William can’t die #he’ll help Vanessa though to get rid of him 🙏🏾

[glassiskies]

in which aziraphale reverts to old habits, crowley is outraged, and they still do not talk about it

#good omens #ineffable husbands #I need you guys to know I started this a month ago but couldn’t work on it bc of classes #and as soon as the quarter ended I inked colored and added an additional page in the span of like 5 days LMAO #aziraphale #crowley #also Crowley has only been made aware of real communication tm bc of nina and Maggie #I firmly believe aziraphale will not learn the art of saying what you mean until well into season 3 #yay miscommunication #comic #2023 art

[aliquistis]

I love how bad Astarion is with his cover story. You meet him and he's like "I'm a magistrate" then he stealths, disarms a trap, double dashes and backstabs a goblin all while giggling about spilling blood and you're just like hm yeah that's the legal system for you

#my fish out of water tav like #well I don't know enough about court proceedings to contest this so I guess #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #astarion ancunin

[osokooma]

I finished watching Scott Pilgrim Takes Off yesterday and AGHHHHH

#art #illustration #artists on tumblr #digital art #fan art #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim vs the world #scott pilgrim takes off #Wallace wells #todd ingram #GAY #gay people #:3 #scott pilgrim anime #doodles #AAAAHHHHHHHH