#you are all valid

[that-bisexual]

had to fix this post up

#lgbtq #lgbt #pride #queer #lgbt pride #transgender #trans pride #trans rights #trans #blackout poetry #trans woman #you are all valid #fixed post

[cilil]

One of the coolest things you can do if you have a uterus and menstruate is sync your cycle up with the moon. Raise your arms to the sky and summon the forces of death and darkness as the blood moon rises and you get ready for a sacrifice to the blood gods.

Also don't worry, blood sacrifices are not a gendered thing so the energy you channel is as womanly, manly, non-binary, agender etc as you wish.

Rise with me, brothers, sisters and siblings. Blood for the blood gods.

If uterus gotta do what uterus gotta do, we might as well have fun with it.

#you are all valid #menstrual cycle #blood tw #menstruation tw #thoughts for the void #full moon rising #trans pride #nonbinary pride #agender pride #uterus solidarity (?) i guess

[mellybabbles]

Hey my beautiful trans followers and mutuals! I just want to say you're all fucking valid and I will personally bodyslam anybody that says otherwise. You all are amazing and loved and very fucking awesome I support you all and know that you are valid no matter what the stupid transphobic fucks have to say, they can eat dirt I love you all !!

#melly's silly talks #transgender #YOU ARE ALL VALID #SENDING ALL THE LOVE #save tag #you are all amazing <3

[yandere-kokeshi]

Happy trans awareness week <3

#nov 13th to 19th #awareness #trans awareness #kokeshi!! #kokeshi rambles! #you are all valid

[foxalotlposts]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBODY !!!! 🏳️‍🌈

#happy pride 🌈 #lgbt pride #Lgbtqia+ #you are all valid #loveislove 🏳️‍🌈 #gay month is upon us #gay pride #trans people are people #pride month #Trans pride #Lesbian #Gay #Trans #Bi #pansexual #Ace #aroace #acespec

[jettiebettie]

Haven't talked about it much, but a buddy and I finished Ultraman Orb a few weeks ago and have started Ultraman Z and are also watching Ultraman Blazar as it airs.

Hey, man, hey. This is some damn good television. I am having so much fun over here. Comfort food at its finest. Buddy and I get real excited about the, quite frankly, phenomenal use of miniatures and scale. Such a delight.

#ultraman #ultraman orb #ultraman z #ultraman blazar #I get it now guys #I understand the hold jugglus juggler has on everyone #and it is so real #you are all valid

[local-garlic-bread]

Out of my close-knit friend group, all three of us fall on the ace spectrum, but two of us (me included) are also on the aro spectrum.

Just because you are on the asexual spectrum does not mean you have to be aromatic!

And vice versa!! Just because you’re on the aromantic spectrum does not mean you have to be asexual!!

YOU ARE VALID!

#aromantism #aromantic #asexual #lgbtqia #you are all valid #❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎

[bkdk-all-day-err-day]

IzuOcha: Anime vs Manga

Someone might have already made a better post about this, but it's been on my mind for a while so I felt like writing about it. I was an anime-only until recently so I actually watched all of season 5 before re-reading those sequences in the manga and there was this one moment that struck me as significantly different. Since this analysis includes potential spoilers I'm placing it below the cut.

This is during the scene where Deku activates Blackwhip. I remember thinking it was such an IzuOcha moment when I saw it for the first time in the anime.

(I mean, seriously, all that's missing is the shoujo-ey sparkles and bubbles.)

And not to take away from any IzuOcha shippers because it is a very touching scene even just in terms of their friendship plus the slap is a nice callback to their UA entrance exam moment, but when I looked out for the same moment in the manga, all I got was this:

And I really can't see this in a romantic light, even with context. Sure, the studio can take some liberties with its adaptation. Still, if I'm to consider the manga canon in its own right, then that leads me to believe that almost every so-called IzuOcha moment isn't meant to be viewed romantically. Given that a lot has to be conveyed in a few panels I believe that those shots are usually chosen meaningfully.

Even the adorable fist-bump scene didn't give me the sense of characters in love trying to play it cool around each other, but a natural sense of camaraderie and cheerfulness that they always try to inspire in those around them. I think they're quite alike in that aspect.

(Again, somehow the anime shot looks way more shoujo-ey lol)

I don't even want to necessarily get into the debate on whether Ochako truly has feelings for Izuku or not (though I've read some great metas analyzing the same) because, in the context of viewing their dynamic, it doesn't matter since her actions in those moments weren't driven by feelings of love - she was acting on her ideals as a hero ("who saves the heroes when they need saving?")

I'll admit, I naturally accepted IzuOcha as the "obvious" ship when I first started watching MHA years ago but after catching up to the manga I can no longer find it authentic to either character. I still find their friendship beautifully portrayed and Ochako herself is one of my favorite characters in the series which is why I hate to see her reduced to nothing more than the "love interest".

While I won't deny that I also take whatever "crumbs" I can get as a shipper in general, I think it's important to pay attention and give credit to the story that's being told rather than the one we want to see. Plus, I think it would be great to see the value in non-romantic relationships between the leads as well, instead of assuming the romantic undertone just because they're of the opposite sex.

#izuocha #mha meta #bnha meta #bnha #mha #bnha manga spoilers #mha manga spoilers #mha anime #bnha anime #mha 213 #this has been on my mind for a while #not really used to writing metas #hope this made sense #also no offense to any shippers! #you are all valid

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

#autism #neurodivergent #adhd #fun facts #GOD I’m such an idiot #anyways now a 10 year old is out there looking up swear words online and it’s all my fault :( #I got so excited by the fact that I knew a fun fact #that I didn’t stop to think that maybe not everyone knows that fun fact for a reason :( #it’s like explaining how to successfully bury a body at a book club #or explaining the dangers of Scientology to your sister’s boyfriend the first time you meet him #or debating gay sex positions with your best friend in front of your mom #no matter how much I wish to be a beacon of knowledge in this world #sometimes there are things others just don’t want to know #and consciously that’s valid but the autism ? I does not care

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

#my art #feralnette au #birds of a feather #long tags #sorry I went apeshit in the tags #LETS SAY IT ALL TOGETHER NOW #I - M - A - G - OOOOOOOOO #its fun drawing marinette's back to Alya and having her appear stout and unstoppable and totally logical #and then you see her face and she's like two seconds from completely snapping and is keeping it together by a thread #as a note just because mari feels very certainly abt smth doesnt mean she's right. feelings can be valid and also irrational #in the throes of grief she decided it was better to be alone than to lose someone again so she started pulling away #and lila made pulling away very very very easy to do #shes also vaguely aware she's being unfair in pinning this on alya which is why she started spinning the drain on cockmoth again #legitimately all the shit that's happened to her wouldn't have been so catastrophic if he was never in the picture and she knows it #but the bitterness of her bestie choosing a fantastic liar over her at the worst of times stiiiiiings #alya's personal timing was bad but lila really took advantage of the fact that marinette had been acting off and weird #she basically clocked marinette as being unstable from SOMETHING and made up a lie about her #knowing she wouldn't have the strength to defend herself #between her social life going tachy bc of lila and losing fu in a way that felt like personhood death marinette was really put on the spot #and alya doing her thing of busting in there and assuming her bias is correct was a terrible combo #essentially marinette is highly unstable and alya is just realizing that #busting in and giving her a lecture when she's slightly hysterical and definitely delirious from exhaustion is NOT the way #to show her she's self sabotaging #cuz thats just gonna make her double down on self sabotaging. bc marinette will not accept that she is also a CHIIIIILD

[snowlilly]

Artists on my dash having a normal one tonight

#you are all valid

[giantkillerjack]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

#hlep #original #mental health #my sympathies and empathies to anyone who has to rely on this kind of hlep to get what they need. #the people in my life who most need to see this post are my family but even if they did I sincerely doubt they would internalize it #i've tried to break thru to them so many times it makes my head hurt. so i am focusing on boundaries and on finding other forms of support #and this thing i learned today helps me validate those boundaries. the example with the milk was from my therapist. #the example with the towing company was a real thing that happened with my parents a few months ago while I was age 28. 28! #a full adult age! it is so infantilizing as a disabled adult to seek assistance and support from ableist parents. #they were real mad i was mad tho. and the spoons i spent trying to explain it were only the latest in a long line of #huge family-related spoon expenditures. distance and the ability to enforce boundaries helps. haven't talked to sisters for literally the #longest period of my whole life. people really believe that if they love you and try to help you they can do no wrong. #and those people are NOT great allies to the chronically sick folks in their lives. #you can adore someone and still fuck up and hurt them so bad. will your pride refuse to accept what you've done and lash out instead? #or will you have courage and be kind? will you learn and grow? all of us have prejudices and practices we are not yet aware of. #no one is pure. but will you be kind? will you be a good friend? will you grow? i hope i grow. i hope i always make the choice to grow. #i hope with every year i age i get better and better at making people feel the opposite of how my family's ableism has made me feel #i will see them seen and hear them heard and smile at their smiles. make them feel smart and held and strong. #just like i do now but even better! i am always learning better ways to be kind so i don't see why i would stop

[cassandragemini]

its so crazy that for the last 5 years a small but annoyingly vocal online group has been acting like mob movies of all things are pretentious and inaccessible cinema. yeah the godfather is kinda slow but these are movies about criminals who shoot people

#that family guy bit is right it does insist upon itself but it has a valid point to insist etc etc #crow.txt #side note if you do wanna watch a good mob flick and the godfather was a bit too slow for you please watch goodfellas #its one of my favorite films of all time i love it so much #while i do like the godfather and i recognize how important it was for film history i like goodfellas a bit more

[productofmtwundagore]

🫢

#all media criticism is valid AS ALONG AS it is applied without bias #personally I find both peter and kamala endearing #if you hate either of them you may or may not be living a joyless life #but that’s just me! #the marvels #captain marvel #carol danvers #ms marvel #kamala khan #marvel #madeinwundagore

[slfcare]

2024 is about letting people care about and for you. it’s about answering ‘how are you’ with honesty, asking for space when needed, accepting help and being open to advice, listening to concerns and having difficult conversations. it’s about trying your very best to let go of the feeling that you’re completely alone, and finding ways to prove to yourself that you aren’t.

#‘proving to yourself’ because waiting for others to prove it to you is going to end up in disappointment #nobody will ever meet you in the exact way you want them to #but that doesn’t mean that they won’t meet you at all #learning to be a social being #positivity #positive #positive suggestions #positive thinking #suggestions #suggestion #comfort kindness family #self validation #self love #self care

[disabled-grim-reaper]

Happy Pride Month, everyone!

#pride month #happy pride 🌈 #lgbtgia+ #you are all valid