#compassion first

[moonbeam-fox]

People, and by people I primarily mean lawmakers and the middle to upper classes, treat unhoused people like some mysterious class of poor person, with unknowable needs.

It's in the name pal- unhoused

They don't understand that substance use, psychosis, risk of sexual or physical violence, that these things are the results of homelessness, and only rarely the primary cause.

The primary cause, as always, is two types of poverty: economic and social

If I am economically poor but socially privileged, I have no worries. I know a lot of rich kids like this, who get money from their parents and relatives without being expected to earn any on their own.

If I am economically privileged and socially poor, again, I'm usually fine. Not having friends or relatives to rely on for resources is fine if i have my own.

But if I'm at that intersection of both economic and social disenfranchisement, with no resources and no one to rely on, in an economic and social order that essentially forbids upward mobility for all but the chosen few, and then yeah I catch a bad beat for a couple years, I'm gonna end up on the street.

It's not hard to understand, socio economically, the factors at play.

What is difficult to understand, is why lawmakers hate poor people so much that they'd rather watch us die and slide into poverty, which is many times a death sentence.

I know I'm naive, in that I care about people, but it's more than that. I've watched over 40 of my clients personally die in the war on poverty, and many more from my childhood, my adolescence. I'm fucking sick of it.

Free housing. Case management. Medical and behavioral health care. Transitional housing. Peer based counseling. Tiny home villages. Well managed camps. These are the research based approaches that we know work. Its not some mystery.

#me #my posts #work #social work #unhoused #homelessness #compassion first #so many of us are barely hanging on due to disability or other factors #in some provinces in canada they'd rather literally kill you than offer you resources #too real man

[jesse-is-inarguably-purple]

imagine ur garthy o’brien, just trying to fuck this hot ranger you met at your brothel that you own, except her teenage kids/wards/bosses keep knocking on the door to your bedroom and interrupting you guys and THEN you learn that she’s actually in a committed relationship but didn’t tell you, so THAT sucks but THEN one of the teens comes and finds you in the middle of the night yelling about how his friend is gone and they can’t find him and he might be in danger, so you help him teleport to his friend, and then when they all get back, looking extremely upset and dejected, you apologize to the ranger’s daughter for making her feel uncomfortable by fucking her mother and in the process SHE reveals to you that her mom’s boyfriend is actually this really cool werewolf guy that you KNOW and have fucked on multiple occasions

#and THEN first thing in the morning you find the goblin teen paralyzed in the courtyard #anyway im rewatching fhsy in preparation for junior year and WHAT a trip #the way garthy just casually refers to ayda as the librarian of the compass points library #THATS YOUR MOM/DAUGHTER #my HEART #also god i love sandra lynn so much #AND tracker #AND ragh #AND each and every one of the bad kids #missed them <3 <3 <3 #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high: sophmore year #fhsy #d20 fhsy #garthy obrien #original

[mayhemspreadingguy]

Lost boys

#mayhem art #star wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker fanart #obi wan kenobi fanart #star wars art #this one was sitting in my drafts for about a month. idk why I was holding onto it -cries- anyway #this is shortly after Qui-Gon's death. Both of their lives just got flipped upside down. Anakin is traumatized by having to leave #his mother behind‚ then his Master's sudden death‚ and he's left with no certainty in his future. #Obi-Wan just witnessed his Master die‚ helplessly‚ then having to take care of this little human in his Master's stead‚ meanwhile feeling #wholly inadequate to be so suddenly knighted let alone immediately becoming a Master and taking responsibility for another being. #Both of them losing the constants in their lives. left uprooted. the only anchoring point being each other. #I imagine Obi-Wan wouldn't reach out to Anakin first‚ but if Anakin expressed compassion with him‚ grief‚ and his need to feel secure‚ #Obi-Wan wouldn't turn him away #this was just my excuse to give them a proper soothing hug in their time of mourning

[doberbutts]

Recently Youtube's algorithm really wants me to watch Schindler's List and I never had so the other night I sat down and actually watched it.

Having a lot of thoughts about it but a major one I keep coming back to is how even an immensely and deeply flawed human being can go against "just following orders" and instead put in the work to actually help.

It may never be fully enough. It may never save as many as you'd hoped. But when you have a choice to either follow orders or save your fellow humans in front of you, I hope you choose the latter.

Schindler died in poverty. He was not a renown war hero nor was he at all famous or widely beloved. But he saw that he could help, even in some small way, and so he helped.

He was a Nazi who saw what the Nazis were doing to Jews and said no more. Enough. If I can even spare those under my charge, maybe a few extras, then at least I will have tried to do something about this.

I think a lot of people do not fancy this type of activism. It is messy, dangerous, and often completely thankless. Schindler survived as long as he did after the war due to those he saved helping him with donations. He was not popular in his hometown due to his association with Nazis, he was not popular in Germany, he was not popular in Argentina. His businesses all failed. His wife left him. A movie about his deeds was released several years after his death, where he would receive none of the benefits. He went to prison multiple times for simply refusing to hate Jews.

I think a lot of people like to think they're activists, but are sorely unprepared for doing this type of work, and then in truth become activists in name only. This is hard work. But without him, another thousand or so people would be on that death toll.

He took his position of extreme power- a Nazi owning a factory almost entirely operated by Jews, making oodles of money off that cheap slave labor- and said you know what? No. I'm not doing that. I can't save everyone, but as long as they are within my factory, you will not kill my workers. As long as I'm here you aren't harming one hair on the head of any Jew under my care. You're not sending or keeping them in Auschwitz. You're not randomly executing them for entertainment. They're people. You're not murdering them.

"Just following orders" they say. But they didn't have to. They could have helped. They could have did what he did, look around and say "what the fuck am I doing here", and stop. He did. They could have. They didn't.

#I think it's also intereating that he did not do it out of compassion at first #he did it because it was smart capitalism #jewish labor was super cheap and they were desperate to be considered fit to work because otherwise execution was waiting for them #only after the cleansing of the ghetto did he say whoa okay holy shit yeah no I'm not doing this anymore #that's also true of the real man the movie is about #I also think it's interesting that not everyone he saved thinks he was a good person #but even still despite his flaws they respect and admire what he did for them #his motives were not always pure #but the fact of the matter is that when he saw what was happening he chose to act against it #he did not shrug and saw welp orders are orders #nor did he succumb to hopelessness when it became difficult to keep up what he was doing

[ash-and-starlight]

Every Day i think about the official radiant emperor Fuck Tier List

#my very soul is being ripped apart at the seams so i need to deflect with haha silly humor #but genuinely they were so crazy for this #reading the entire book with this in mind was. an Experience #i need every author to do it for their characters it should be at the intro of every book #the radiant emperor #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #send post #also crazy that this list only includes The Guys bc like #one superior tier has to go to madame zhang for obvious reasons #and Another even higher straight up heavenly one for ma yingzi #her pussy so good it makes u feel mercy and compassion and empathy for the first time in your life #it turns irredeemable ruthless bitches into law abiding citizens

[daftmooncretin]

if captain kirk irresponsible? why huge baby cow eyes???

if captain kirk bad captain? why-

you thought i was gonna talk about his voluptuous titties fat ass sparkling personality and unflinching moral character ? no.

if you say kirk is a bad captain i will kill you. I will shoot you into space like they did to bill shatty when he wouldn’t shut tf up about going to space

except unlike bill shatty ill send you up naked and defenceless into the vast chasm of space your lungs will explode and your eyes will fall out or some shit (i saw that in a doctor who episode)

kirk drift is getting out of hand and my response to this is ending all kirk drifters and repopulating the earth with kirklophiles such as myself and my dad paul.

#also kirk is neither irresponsible or a bad captain he leads with and incredible mix of compassion logic and patience #he deeply respects star fleet and the work he does for it but has no problem challenging both their views and his own for the good of other #puts his crew first at all times #deep curiosity and hope for the future #also cunty #kirk drift #i have not slept in 36 hours #i spent 5 hours writing wwdits fanfiction on microsoft notes and eating icing out of a tub #im trying to get into the next gen but i miss kirk so much #picard is so bald and straight #and the sexism is somehow worse #idk #im so tired #and i need to clean my depression room cause my moms coming to visit #boooooo #star trek tos #star trek #spirk #jim kirk #spock

[mueritos]

i hope we continue to see more protests within the US military. i see a lot of leftists and folks who are anti-military who have such an open disdain for the people who are in the military, yet neglect to considering the conditions this country makes to produce ideology, poverty, and the illusion of choice to make all kinds of people choose to enlist in the military. You ever see those videos of ROTC kids recording each other asking why they joined the military and everyone's like, "healthcare", "it helped me go to college", "I was bored" or "free ptsd lol". I hate to remind everyone but folks who are in the military are people, too, and they are the same victims and perpetrators of violence as the rest of you, we have all been shallowly conditioned to view each other as enemies just because one person is wearing army greens and the other is not.

some of the biggest anti-war advocates are those who engaged in war. Veterans who genuinely believed they were protecting the US against "terrorism" come back with blood on their hands, and they choose to realize that it was US imperialism that forced them to carry out violence, instead of doubling down and shielding themselves from the fact that they too are capable of atrocities... This is a class of people who are intentionally conditioned to be as poor and as ideologically aligned to US imperialism so that the military has a never-ending pool to send their youth to destroy other country's youth. The only people I have ever heard say "do not join the military" are those who ARE military.

This is in no way to ever excuse or explain away any of the atrocious war crimes and violence this industry and its people have committed against others. What I am saying is that we absolutely cannot cast aside the individuals who have been victimized within US imperialism, even if they are wearing army greens. I was speaking with my Palestinian classmate last week and another classmate--a member of the US air force-- walked up to me and struck up a conversation. My military classmate showed me her new bird, bid both of us goodbye, and left. My Palestinian classmate asked me if I was close with her, and I said we talked quite often, and she said, "I never met a person who's in the military. I still hate the military, but I never knew that they did, too. I didn't realize that they were also victims."

If my Palestinian classmate--one who is actively watching her own community die--can understand that it is not individuals who are the problem but it is in fact systems, US imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism...why can't we all? And she has EVERY reason to hate any individual military member. A lot of online activism just creates more barriers. if your optics look bad, complicated, or contradictory, you are cast aside. Everyone has got the be the perfect activist, you can never make a mistake or share a half-baked thought, you should always believe every word from a marginalized persons mouth (because being marginalized doesn't mean you're not entrenched in white supremacy too!) and you should never question what you see...Do you know what you sound like? The very imperialists who are convincing poor whites to vote against themselves. Perfectionism is white supremacy. Black & white thinking is white supremacy.

I'd rather have a military member who genuinely believed in the US imperialism machine but was disillusioned after being deployed as my comrade than some leftist who cherishes the performance of "being a good person". I don't want "good people" in our movements. I want humans who care. I want humans who make mistakes and who learn from them. I want humans who accept the messiness of a person. I want humans who hold others accountable and allow themselves to take responsibility for their actions. I want people who change for themselves and others.

fight systems, not individual people. we can change each other, but if we're too preoccupied looking like the World's Perfect Activists, we will only consume each other alive. Connect to your fellow humans, forever and always.

#muertotalks #a mind dump after seeing so much come out after the self immolation of the us air force member #i know hes not the first one to self immolate for palestine #and he might not be the last #i hate the military #i really fucking do #but i choose to see the people within them as victims within the overall system just like the rest of us #i will never go through what they did to make them choose to enlist #i never struggled with poverty homelessness healthcare or social acceptance #i wont shame them #shame is not productive #i want them to know there are civilians who support their protests #i want them to know that we their allies too #a note on my palestinian classmate #if youre arab or also a colonized person impacted by the us military feel free to hate every member of the military #i dont intend to police yall in how you choose to feel your anger #im angry with you #the point i mean to make is about understanding and compassion #someone who has every right to hate these people still chose to see them as the people they are #yes i even want the best for the “bad” people in the military too #i dont want these people to continue the ideology but we cant stop that without dismantling these systems #and we cant do that without creating spaces for healing and reform and growth #so many thoughts so many thoughts #none of this is easy #i fight daily against impulsively hating the world #everyday is a fight to choose compassion and understanding #but being a leftist and doing leftism is not fucking easy #if you genuinely think it is it isnt #and you may be missing the point of what leftism is #anyway

[lilianade-comics]

He's taught her everything he knows! (And that's the problem)!

#i like to think Dani somehow ended up with a better moral compass than Danny and Vlad combined #but she can and will mess you up. #she's capable of so Much Pettiness and So much Crime. #she's mostly a baby though. just don't cross her <3 #danny phantom #danny fenton #dani phantom #danielle phantom #vlad masters #badger cereal #cheese melt #i have no idea where this dialogue is originally from #first saw it in an mha tiktok comp and i can't find the original so #oh well

[mydairpercabeth]

This isn’t the arch, seaweed brain. you’re not pushing me into the stairwell again!

#HAVE SOME COMPASSION #MY GAWD #THEE PERCABETH EPISODE #percabeth #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percy jackson the lightning thief #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv #percy series #pjo tv show #percy and annabeth #walker scobell #leah sava jeffries #WE GOT THE FIRST SEAWEED BRAIN #WISE GIRL NEXT

[james-p-sullivan]

#just saw the worst fucking take #tell me you’ve never struggled with addiction without telling me you’ve never struggled with addiction #god it’s almost as if people struggling with addiction are *checks notes* …people??? #i love on the outskirts of east van #one of the hardest hit areas in North America when it comes to the opioid epidemic #i have seen people die of overdoses right in front of me #ive lost dear friends to addiction #it’s not that hard to have an ounce of fucking humanity #addiction #drugs related #i hate that drugs aesthetics was the first thing that popped up when I typed that #nice people take drugs #drugs take nice people #harm reduction #recovery #mental health #self compassion

[moonbeam-fox]

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[simplykorra]

i'm really here...i'm alive

#ava silva #warrior nun #avatrice #warriornunedit #alba baptista #avatriceedit #avasilvaedit #i did a whole thread on twitter about ava and how she deserved more compassion #because her childhood was so unbelievably fucked up #and somehow through all of it #she still held on to her hope #and this moment right here was her getting that freedom #for the first time #and just reveling in it #i have so much love for ava #and i do wish the show had given her trauma and her pain a little more respect #hopefully in season 3 we get that #because the poor girl suffered greatly #if anyone deserved to be a little selfish #it's her #myedits

[louroth]

Forget the IF, just wanted to check in and see if YOU were okay dear author? I hope everything is well. I know you have a process lol, but I miss seeing you on my TL from time to time.

oh, kjsdhfjskdf . how sweet<3 thank you for this! I am doing well, crafting ouro alongside some personal shifts and growth and setbacks and victories. it has been a godsend to take all this pressure off for this period and do things my way. though, I'll say: while it has taken and will probably take another while, this silence will be broken at some point. I'll avoid saying soon only because I'm staunchly sticking to my pace&process. however !! I finished the draft for the first book yesterday. !! I am currently doing some hefty edits, collecting art and testing coding (&learning something new a hundred times over, over, again, whether it be storycrafting, interactivity, ui design, social media, art, code ... the list goes on) and so for the most part, I'm having a good time, as long as we count the entire spectrum of the human condition as a mostly good time. pfft.

I miss hanging out here too! I genuinely can't wait to get back to online shenanigans once I feel ready for it; if you'll have me, of course. I can imagine that this type of secret development is frustrating and everyone has their limit. It means a lot that you sent this my way. Hope you're doing well too. <3

#OUROBOROS #ouroboros-if #interactive fiction #so much has changed that i see the public demo as an entirely different work at this point. It has been a fun but daunting journey and some #part of me is sad that I couldn't handle sharing that process as much as I'd like. but life takes precedent and that's just how it be #im so pleasantly surprised that the majority of people who advocate for mental health first actually follow through on the compassion #they promise. do you know what I mean? ouro & the community around it is tiny in the grand scheme but #I have never felt so supported in my entire life #every time I feel scared or hopeless the people around me (and you know who you are. I love you!!) have given me nothing but grace #and the joy of their friendship. that's enough for me-- for now >:3

[thundergrace]

Won't be tolerating any Cal slander when it comes to her being down just disgustingly down... down on the ground for Juliette.

Calliope Antigone Burns pined for Juliette Anastasia Atwood Fairmont so long and so hard that she figured out she was a vampire when no one else did because she couldn't stop watching her, closely.

Calliope not once but twice ditched her plan to stake Juliette in the pantry and only did it when she saw Juliette coming down to bite her and as confirmed by Juliette, Calliope wouldn't have staked her otherwise.

Calliope started to question her purpose as a hunter and what they do because she saw the humanity and the good in Juliette.

Calliope decided to take Juliette home to her parents and show them that she was refusing to be apart from Juliette after her mother gave her a final warning to stay away from her.

Calliope could not eat, sleep or think clearly unless she was physically in the same space with Juliette.

Calliope WAS GOING TO FUCKING LEAVE TOWN - LEAVE HER FUCKING FAMILY- to protect Juliette after they found Creepy Dead Guy and knew a vampire killed him.

Calliope stood up to her parents and Juliette's own parents to defend her.

Calliope came to believe that she and Juliette were meant to be and that together they freed each other from the expectations of their families.

Real talk, just because a character has a somewhat cool exterior doesn't mean they're unloving. Calliope is a trained killer, essentially. She's had this instilled in her -this way that she carries herself. But she's full of mushy feelings inside. She's not mean. She has a good heart. Yes she's feeling extremely hurt and betrayed by Juliette turning Theo. But she's only feeling that way because she loves Juliette.

#calliope burns #calliette #first kill #first kill spoilers #i know it's hard for some to have compassion toward Black female characters #especially when they dare have the slightest bit of edge #but you know... calm down lol

[holistichealingg]

#comeback #apology #holistic healing #healing journey #self healing #self love #self care #self empowerment #healing #inner peace #self compassion #liberation #self transformation #best version #best self #do it for yourself #self growth #love yourself first #love yourself #freedom #love #safety #compassion #loving kindness #grow #growth #highest self #higher self #peace #forgiveness

[thepeacefulgarden]

#self care #self care is not selfish #self care is not an indulgence #make yourself a priority #take care of yourself first then help others #you matter #people pleasing #codependency #fawning #for caregivers #boundaries #self compassion #mental health #martyr is not in your job description