#finding courage

[eiswolfzero]

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lil boi standing on his back feet. So cuteeee

#finding courage #gryphon #griffon #comic #wyvern #gelynn #Zatch #Lorcan #personal art #this background I tell you #too many vines

[finding-hope-strength-courage]

I realise that healing and recovery is a conscious choice, it’s not an easy one but it will always be worth it. ❤️‍🩹

#Mental Health #Mental Illness #Awareness #Understanding #Fighting #Healing #Recovery #Progress #Growth #Strength #Hope #Finding Strength #Finding Hope #Finding Courage #Finding Hope Strength Courage #Self Awareness #Self Care #Self Reflection #Personal #Writing

[reniihere]

Wars and Children

Little was the child, when never ending wars broke out,

Little was the brittle heart, the child had never thought about

Battle cries and hatred, sang like

Hypnotising song of sirens

Swords drawn and armour up

Was all the kid was taught about.

Suddenly changed, the kid now an adult,

Peeked through a creek in the window

A shining light burst

Blinding to the human eye, the kid was thrilled

“ So bright and so light”

The broken piece of glass shrilled.

The kid, now an adult, drank in the sunlight

As if the air was never enough to be of delight.

The kid now an adult didn't hesitate to break apart

As if nothing in his time had given him love of the heart.

He screamed and cried and drowned in his own giref.

Frustrated from this “war” he was, he broke through all the creeks,

All the wood that surrounded him from the beginning, crumbled to pieces as the child now an adult, his mothers rage, now he embodies.

“No more hiding, no more peeking through creeks, No more searching and no more grief”

He screams and cries with all his body and soul

And God grinned and showered him with kind mercy, finally after all.

~renii

#writing #poetry #aesthetic #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #thoughts #warsandchildren #william james moriarty #maturity #freedom #finding courage

[wisedreamerreview]

Dare To Be

Some who have been around me for a while know of my struggles to fit in and be a part of things. I’ve not hidden the facts of my dislike and even fears of going places alone. My son blames it on my need to know everything and plan for anything. Usually the anything that doesn’t happen and probably wouldn’t to begin with. I’m working on it and have even managed to go a few places alone where I…

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#acceptance #emotional growth #faith #fear #finding courage #finding strength #growth #leaving your comfort zone #life #mental health #outside the box #writing #you are you and no one can be a better you

[andthebeanstalk]

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

[acepalindrome]

Much like Welcome to Nightvale, I feel like a lot of people have forgotten just how big and influential Yuri on Ice was. It fully broke into the mainstream. It was everywhere. Evgenia Medvedeva, the top female figure skater in 2016 and 2017, had YOI plushies thrown to her on the ice and wore a Victuuri tshirt to an interview. Japanese pair skaters Miu Suzaki and Ryuichi Kihara skated to the YOI theme at the fucking Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics. The Olympics. Canadian ice dancer Joseph Johnson did the ‘J.J. Style’ hand symbol in the kiss and cry. Johnny Weir made me cry by talking about how he wished the homophobic world of figure skating he experienced could have been more like the kinder world of Yuri on Ice.

There were cameos and references to it everywhere. Everyone was talking about it. People who had never watched anime were watching it. It was so big it crashed Crunchyroll and Tumblr. Twice. And all that for what was at its core, a queer love story that helped pave the way for more queer stories to come.

#yuri on ice #yoi #i got a little fired up at the implication that voltron was somehow #more iconic than yoi #objectively untrue statement #anyway yoi healed my queer heart and helped me find the courage to come out to my family

[systarkitty]

hapy 2014 tumblr!!!!!! ^_^_^_^_^

#holy shit there are so many fandoms #can i fit in all their tags? only one way to find out #deltarune #undertale #gravity falls #chalkzone #endacopia #ok ko let's be heroes #wander over yonder #the brave little toaster #awful hospital #looney tunes #hello from halo head #cats don't dance #superjail #electric dreams 1984 #courage the cowardly dog #sparklecare hospital #dick figures #regular show #burner osc #adventure time #bfb #bugbo #portal #portal 2 #tadc #systarkitty art tag

[theabigailthorn]

finally watched all of Hazbin, definitely cried a bit at Episode 7 and sent Morgana a tearful message

#damn what if you were in a community of people who got shit on a lot by authorities for arbitrary but moralised reasons #and people in that community looked up to you and expected you to inspire and lead them #but you didn't feel ready or entitled to do that #cause a lot of the reason they look up to you is privilege and you just want to lend a hand not flex on people #and you're a queer woman and people look down on you for that #but you're all under threat and the need is dire #so you have to find your courage and stop being so self-critical and just try to do good for the people you love #that's crazy how they put me in the show #they shouldn't be allowed to put me in the show #charlie morningstar #Transgender Princess of Hell #Hazbin Hotel #Youtube

[evilbeing]

The Angel of death🪶

#I HAD THIS IN MY GALLERY FOR SO LONG CUZ I WAS TO EMBARASSED TO POST IT #SNIFFF I FINALLY MANAGE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO POST IT HAHSHAHS😭 #its Always like this when I draw something without using my silly artstyle 😭😭😭 #Eeehwjshah Altair 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭BRO I CANT #had so much drawing this tho rhskhdskdhwjdhsjejwidhaj😭😭😭 #altaïr ibn la'ahad #assassin's creed #assassin's creed fanart #evilbeing

[seance]

STEDE BONNET / THE GENTLEMAN PIRATE / CAPTAIN OF THE REVENGE

#ofmdedit #ourflagmeansdeathedit #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #userbecca #useravia #ughmerlin #usernobie #userelio #edits #forever inspired by @taiturner wonderful use of gradients #cj you're an artist #i couldn't go on anymore without making a proper tribute to my favest character of this show #i love them all from the bottom of my heart #but he'll forever be my pookie #with all his flaws AND HIS STRENGTHS #cause he has both people i won't let you sleep on mr bonnet duality #and his care for the crew! for ed! his fears and his path to finding the courage to face them all #for the others and for himself #i'm just channelling my inner lucius and frenchie being very protective of him okay bye

[eiswolfzero]

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I love these babies with all my heart

#finding courage #gryphon #griffon #comic #wyvern #gelynn #Zatch #Lorcan #personal art #are the backgrounds nice to look at ?? #can't tell at this point but also #probably won't change how I do them haha

[ask-lu-wild]

#pic #story #checking courage #the royal pibling’s plight #handsome knights #hiiiiii #omg i've been working on my greek mythology comic! #it's so nice getting to come back to aluw yall have no clue #my birthday is coming soon it's the 13th #idk if I'll have time to work on more aluw #honestly these 21 comic pages + 2 covers I had to draw this quarter has blasted me into dust #i get one week of spring break #and hopefully with this last quarter I'll have more time to draw my own things #but this is my final quarter which means I need to find a job... #but if you wanna support me please consider buying me a flower on ko-fi #or becoming a patron! I have patreon now

[sanamustdie]

alan wake holding courage like jesus holding a lamb (inspired by this tweet)

#might print this one with gilding like those little christian praying cards u can find in churches #i love courage so much when i saw this tweet my brain just stopped working #rendered this for 3 days and i'm gettin my first ai art allegations lmao #alan wake 2 #courage the cowardly dog #alan wake #ilkka villi #my art ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ) #(ゝ。∂)☆ #remedyverse #remedy

[witchspeka]

I love my girl Miwa but as soon as I read that this image immediately popped up in my head:

#HAVE SOME STANDARDS GIRL DAMN #i want this relationship to work out too but this aint it #how do we relationship #cine te a intrebat #uhmmm theres SPOILERS past this tag in case u care to read this yourself just a quick warning #i kid i joke but this scene fucks me up i like how this manga handles queerness. it shows how messy and painful it can be #like we already got a bit of that with sae and her relationship with sex but this mmmmmm this one i didnt see coming #imagine u work up the courage to confess to ur high school crush and she says she cant date you #not cause she doesnt like you. quite literally /because/ she likes you and wants to take ur relationship seriously and respect you #but she cant do that. because shes afraid of people finding out. of having to hide all the time. of being ostracised. she's tired. #she cant find the strength to do that. #the frustration of being loved but society denying you the possibility of being together... ill clown on Miwa (its very easy) but i feel bad #for her #gaud i need to sleep hai pa

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Of Finally after days I got Enough courage to say this...

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR ART!!

You are the First Welcome Home artist I followed And I Don't Regret it.

And now Laughingstock Lives in My Head 24/7

Annd the Way You draw Wally is just so...

I don't even know how to describe it!

Your Art brings me so Much Joy!!!

- Blue Anon 🫐

!!!! thank you so much!!! i'm happy to Provide! have a Wally scribble i have to almost completely redo <3

#barnaby's paw is. its broken #it doesnt look like it here but trust me it is his right hand where his left should be #i scribbled out barnaby and went Ah. Broke His Wrist #but anyway!!! #pardon all the spirals and hatches i needed to fill empty space #rambles from the bog #scribble salad #this ask made my night a whole lot better!!! #thank you for finding the courage! i know sending asks is scary as fuck #but im Yippee Yahoo Yippee Yahooing!!! #& im more than elated to Infect you with laughingstock disease <3 no one will escape <3

[phantoids]

Okay fuck it I'm making this post.

So, we all know the dsmp fandom, especially on twitter, has a bit of a problem with leaktwt and often lots of controversy springing from stuff obtained by kiwifarms. I'd like to talk about this, because it's been pissing me off for months and it's getting ridiculous.

Please stop trusting information like this, or at the very least be cautious with how you interact with it, take it with a large grain of salt or maybe even a handful, don't take it at fucking face value and consider to yourself: why did they obtain this information and how did they obtain it.

Especially the how, because I've noticed the amount of illegally obtained data, from information unobtainable without some form of hacking to a lot of cases of spear phishing. Spear phishing, for those who don't know, is a targeted form of phishing against a specific person; phishing is often described as trying to obtain personal or sensitive information, and here the definition is applicable as digging through years worth of information otherwise inaccessible to the average user without purposefully searching everywhere for it, specifically information from or about a specific person.

This happens a lot, we see many cases, from the people who keep doxxing ccs, to the more recent things with certain information from Steam about Wilbur being made public despite the fact it's inaccessible without some sort of digging or manipulation, and now with (I believe, idk i've not really been looking at it for obvious reasons) the whole Tubbo thing and I believe that was leaked private messages of a friend, I could be wrong there. Either way, there's been so many cases of doxxing, leaked private messages, information inaccessible on the front end of things and it's getting to a genuinely worrying point.

And this isn't because I care about content creators, but I do care about upholding data privacy. Yes, even if they've said shit in the past, please don't go digging and digging because that does fall into spear phishing, and at the end of the day it is very dubiously legal at best. This is something we're taught about in fucking cyber security courses, for even further perspective on how bad it is. Not to mention, often this information is dug up by infamous leaktwt or kiwifarms, which are pretty known for bad faith digging up of shit.

These people dig it up for clout, they dig it up for attention, they do not care who gets fucking hurt and often bringing up old shit is going to harm more people than it fucking helps. It's even worse when you try to hold someone accountable for something someone else did, especially years in the past like it's their fault.

Just, please, stop supporting this, stop circulating this shit like morning gossip, because you're not only hurting people for no good reason, it's also often spreading illegally obtained information from people who commit cybercrimes on the regular. It breaks data protection laws, it breaks someone's fucking privacy.

Content creators are people. Respect their privacy, for fuck's sake, and stop egging on leaktwt/kiwifarms, because at the end of the day you're just telling them it's perfectly fine.

And their campaign of digging things up and harming people in bad faith doesn't end at your favourite cis white boy. They will harm minorities, and they already do, just for clout and fun. Stop it while you can before it gets out of hand, and make it clear they aren't welcome, because the fandom doesn't make it clear enough.

This isn't, of course, to say you cannot be critical of information found about ccs, but please don't allow a side effect to be encouraging or inadvertently making leaktwt/kiwifarms believe it's safe for them here, and that they are supported. Be critical when your fav is found to have said awful shit in the past, give them time to clarify, but also just... be a little critical about how accurate that info is, and who is supplying it. If you find yourself thinking 'now is this really legitimately obtained?' then maybe don't spread it, because it could be fake but a lot of the time it's already been addressed and is simply spread in bad faith.

And sure, they're exposing shitty stuff right now, but what happens when they doxx someone's address for fun?

Data privacy is important, it affects everyone, and even the worst people deserve to keep it. Sure, law enforcement and courts might be able to obtain this stuff, but you're not law enforcement nor a court and you're not entitled to personal data whenever.

#void echos #discourse #this just. has to be said I think. i'm sick of seeing this shit #not to mention how dehumanised ccs are often but that's a whole other thing #respect data privacy or die by my fucking hands for fuck's sake. #yes it's not normal or fucking good to dig up old discord messages and dear god is it not normally obtained to 'find' private messages #those are illegally obtained dear god have some critical thinking about this shit. #this took a lot of courage to post tbh hopefully i don't get clowned on for respecting the fucking law and being a cybersecurity shill.