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Changing my belief system from "this is the hill I'll die on" to "this is the hill I'll kill you on" has done absolute wonders for me 10/10 do recommend

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jason's autopsy scars cause some confusion at the red hood annual pool party

#jason #trans #fanart #dc #pool #scars

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There are so many people in the tags and comments saying they can't relate to this post. I'm the same way--I started feeling bad about my artistic abilities in 1st grade when I didn't win my grade's bookmark design contest. By 12 I could compare my drawings with the ones other people posted online and knew my art was terrible and was ashamed/frustrated.

Some of us had unhealthy expectations of ourselves since day one 😌 the rest of yall are playing catchup.

God remember when u were 12 and you would just Make Art on like spare copy paper with crayola markers and an old pencil and even though you didn’t know anything about anatomy or perspective or anything you were jus happy to b Making Art and u didn’t constantly belittle your own efforts or feel like ur drawings weren’t good enough

#art #artist's problems #competition #comparison #If I'm adding something to a post I usually try to reblog from the OP and not someone who RBed it but #the original post as it is on OPs blog is one of those that won't load for me on the app #I don't know that there was ever a time I wasn't comparing my art and feeling bad #I had an older sibling who I'd always draw with and even as a little little kid I'd be frustrates their coloring was better/neater #now I know “duh they were 2 years older they literally had better motor control so they could stay in the lines” #but as a kid I just knew my stuff never looked as good as my sister's :/ #I feel like I had one of those family dynamics that encouraged sibling rivalry

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I can't believe the auction site didn't have video of this, but apparently this walking cane featured a button that would make the cats' tongues stick out when pressed! Source.

#art #cats

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saw this meme earlier this week and couldn't resist

#perfectworldshipping

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DISMAL ENGLAND by Robert Blatchford (London: Walter Scott, 1899).

#books #art #spiders #arachnophobia cw

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in my perfect world this is how it happened

#dc #comic

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almost salted the boiling water im using to sterilize my dildo

#lol

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Getting on my tumblr account while surrounded by coworkers...

#tumblr #tumblr problems #work #op #personal #meme

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Rooms by Design, 1989

#architecture

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the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you

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Joker has to be trans gender because only period cramps can push you that far And break your mind so you do unspeakable acts…

#lol #dc #batman #joker #trans #trans hc

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okay but like this is what deeply bothers me about the whole "tiktok is making people think every negative experience is a trauma!" thing

Trauma is common. Like really common. How do we accept statistics like "1 in 4 women has been sexually assaulted" or "1 in 3 people grew up in a home with domestic violence" or whatever number of people will fight cancer or be in a car crash or an abusive relationship, and at the same time doubt any suggestion that a lot of people may actually be traumatized?

It's in our cultural definition of trauma—that trauma is some extreme event outside "normal" life, and that the people that experience it are a sequestered group that is well outside the "average" person.

but like, even strictly Criterion A PTSD type "traumatic" events are...not rare. at all. You can be a hardass about it and say that you have to be raped or threatened with death or violence to have trauma, and that's still a lot of people that have experienced that. People around you. People that pass by you every day. People that appear and seem "normal" to you.

if you accept the idea that belonging to certain marginalized groups can have some traumatizing elements to it, "most people are traumatized in some way" is just the most blandly obvious statement ever.

but even if you're for some reason squicky about "watering down" the definition of trauma (lol), we can at least agree that most people are hurt, right? Deeply hurt. Most people have been mangled by their experiences in one way or another. People's behavior is guided by the fact that they are hurt.

One of my dad's sayings, which is earnest and not at all shameful or demeaning, is that People Are Broken. And in church settings (because he was a pastor and is still very devout) his measure of the quality of that church setting was always their ability to come to terms with the fact that People Are Broken, not just people Out There or hypothetical people but us, the people around us, the people we live alongside and befriend and love. And if a church thought of Broken People as an external category of people to be "reached," instead of a near-universal experience of being human in a cruel society, well that church was likely to be, ultimately, toxic. And hardly any church passes that test, because our brokenness is hard to talk about.

We can't admit that most people are traumatized because it means that the call is coming from inside the house, that the menace is contained within our society instead of being a freak accident/act of god/attack by a lone wolf outside of the normal confines of our world.

But this is the truth. That our world, the nice, "normal" world, the everyday world, hurts people. We are not gentle enough for other humans, our society is not kind enough for humans to thrive.

We have to try to be less cruel. We have to understand that almost everyone has endured something unspeakable and has not fully healed. This is why I don't care about watering down the definition of trauma. We have not even begun to fully define the wound. There is no virtue in conserving recognition for the most obvious and extreme human pain. Why would we need less compassion?

#trauma #mental illness #long post

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reddit but in the pokemon universe, part 4 [1, 2, 3]

#pokemon

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I think, on some level, that Shen Yuan is like enrichment for Airplane Bro's enclosure. I think Airplane Bro kind of fucking LOVES having this guy around. Like, I do think their relationship is nuanced, weird and full of contradictions and not always good for them, but I also think that some chaotic part of Shang Qinghua honestly likes having his #1 hater weirdo running around completely fucking up his world.

Shen Qingqiu, grabbing Shang Qinghua by the shoulders: "Why didn't anyone TELL ME that Binghe is GAY NOW?! I'm going to die because of MONSTER DICK?!?!?!"

Shang Qinghua: (internally, probably only half-consciously) "Incredible. Amazing. How did I live without you? You torture me with your bullshit. You complete me in every possible way. I think we might be soulmates and we should make out about it. I hate you. I love you. You mean nothing to me and everything to me. This isn't your story and you stole it from me. I wrote this for you without even knowing you existed. You are a fascinating mystery that I will never solve. I will throw you under the bus at the first opportunity and yet I can't stop risking my life to help you. Your stupid game of gay murder chicken with my emotionally and mentally unstable protagonist is going to destroy the world and kill us all and I've never felt more alive. You have changed me as a person. Let's do this forever."

Shang Qinghua: (out loud) "Lol, sucks to be you, bro. At least you can get laid."

#cumplane #svsss

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i know i say this every time i play it but arkham knight is so funny. imagine... you're the riddler or the scarecrow or whoever. FINALLY, joker is dead. you can be batman's number one homoerotic nemesis.

except that batman gets himself high as fuck and EVEN DEAD, the clown wins

are you another would-be nemesis of batman's, desperate to be his homoerotic villainous rival? too bad. even the dead clown outshines you. want to be his wife?dead clown trumps you. you think as one of his own kids, LITERALLY revived from the dead, you can matter?

dead clown.

no one's got a hold on my boy bruce than that dead clown's toxic chemical-ridden pussy

#arkham knight #batjokes #batman #joker #lol

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Alrighty, I am leaving [on a jet plane] for Texas. I'll try to log on and check emails and messages and things but we have a very packed schedule (full 8am to 10pm on one of the days U_U) and when I do have free time I'll probably be exploring the city.

Which is to say if you don't hear from me over the next few days, it's cuz I'm busy on my work trip, not cuz I died or am angrily ignoring any comments.

The queue will continue to dispense posts, enjoy them in my stead.

#op #personal #travel #I should be back on FriYay