#we’re really not asking for a lot

[batwynn]

I hate that I’m here… again. I’m so sorry that I’m here again. But once again I’ve been trapped in a difficult situation that I’ve tried literally every way to avoid, prepare for, and roll-up-my-sleeves and do it myself. But at every turn we’ve been ignored, let down by professionals, etc. until I’ve been forced to go into debt just to heat my home because others can’t seem to take any responsibility for things that they’re responsible for. This is genuinely my last ditch effort to find even a little help. I can not go through this again. I’m exhausted, sick, and trying my best to scrape together some commission work while dealing with a really bad flare up of my autoimmune disease. (Hooray) I’m coming up short no matter what I do, and I’m desperate.

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#donations #gofundme #heating assistance #mutual aid #community aid #the amount may go down if LIHEAP goes through #they were weirdly really nasty this year at the new office #and I don’t know if we’re going to get it #regardless of the fact that we live below the general poverty level #anyway #I can provide screen shots and receipts and bills #I genuinely don’t mind showing these I know there’s a lot of scams going around #I can also show photos of the actual items in my home #and anything else you need #also #I’m so sorry #I’m so sorry I’m asking for fucking help again #I’m sorry #I promise this is the last time #I’m not doing this again #I thought this was over and we were safe the last time #but that came crashing down in the worst worst way #because it came with the loss of an amazing person #who I wish I had had more time with #anyway I’ll stop now

[queerliblib]

Question! If I check out a book, but don't read it or don't finish it, does that still benefit yall and/or the authors? I have a bad memory + demand avoidance, so reading consistently is tricky for me

Hi! So while we have statistics for how many books are checked out, we’re not (nor can we) track whether or not anyone finishes a book. For our purposes, a check-out is a check-out and shows that people are interested in/want to read those books. We’ve already purchased the copy, so the author will have received some cut according to whatever deal they have with their publisher. No harm, no foul, on either front there!

If it’s a really popular book and you end up not finishing or reading it, the mostly that would just mean others would have to wait a little longer for a hold - but that happens all the time with physical books in other kinds of libraries too.

#asks #if you know you’re not going to finish and you know something has a lot of holds you can always return early! #we’re excited so many people are excited about our library but we’re still not at a place where we can afford lots & lots of copies of book #even if they’re really popular #<3

[tianshiisdead]

Japan shaves just about everything. He doesn't think more hair=more manly. He infact has a whole different idea of what is manly compared to western countries or most countries in general. He also likes flowers and floral patterns.

everything?!

#ask #anon #hetalia #hws japan #sorry anon! live your truth but i can’t see it 😅 i know you probably meant like… his face/body but #like i agree he wouldn’t think more hair = more manly but… honestly #I don’t really see him deviating much from japanese masculinity. personally #east asian men don’t really shave their whole bod tbh (thats MENA men - wrong orient) #like i think foreigners get the wrong impression because we’re kind of less hair-ful in general than a lot of ppl. particularily white ppl #but its not really done… if anything japan is the most likely to leave facial hair haha considering how its more acceptable in japan #than in china or korea #of course #my view of japan is biased as a fellow easian #I was a little wary to depict the full extent of your ask (sorry anon) and thats bc #of how easian masculinity in general is problematized and fetishized in the west? #like the idea of ~smooth japan kind of speaks to the whole wawah hairless babyface femme easians~~ trope that is so common #and it brings me pause when it comes to japan because tbh japan is probably the east asian country with masculinity that is #historically speaking #the most ‘coherant’ to the west #<- again Im speaking as another easian so i recognize my bias but #anyways sorry about that! ik this likely isnt what u were expecting 🙇‍♂️

[spacelazarwolf]

i can see what vaspider is saying, losing the queer culture we have would be a huge tragedy and its really upsetting to think about. but also like that one anon said there is no universal queer culture even in the US. and the queer culture is constantly changing. i mean a lot of younger queers end up creating their own culture anyway bc of how fast things change now due to technology. what we have now is different to what we had in the 80s for example. idk like yes its horrible to think abt the queer history and culture and community that could be lost, but new queer people will be born and the community will regrow. but like if jewish people are all gone, there is no return for that. its like... a forest being burnt down vs an animal going extinct? both are huge tragedies but the forest can regrow (even if its different) but the animal will never come back. we arent trying to be dismissive or flippant by pointing out the differences, just trying to remind people that it can be harmful to say its exactly the same.

i think this website has a very bad case of black and white thinking, where we think if two groups are marginalized but not in the exact same way, then one of them must objectively have it better and one must objectively have it worse. so if we say "hey this experience is not 1:1 the same as this other experience" we must be saying that the first experience doesn't matter or isn't as bad. saying "what's happening to trans people right now isn't 1:1 the same as what happened to jewish people” isn’t saying one group has it worse. it’s just acknowledging that it’s not the same.

#ask avishai #though like #i do need people to realize that there are not piles of bodies yet #there are no cattle cars #i keep seeing young trans people insist we’re gonna be put in camps like next week #and aside from the unnecessary holocaust comparison #it’s just a lot of catastrophizing we really don’t need to be doing right now #we need to be focused on cutting this off BEFORE it gets worse #not having trauma fantasies about if it DOES get worse

[obstinaterixatrix]

ex-coworker was like ‘I don’t know what that intern was talking about when she said you came across as cold, I’ve always felt like you have a warm personality’ & I was like. well you’ve never seen me when I was pissed off lol

#my ramblings #saying this with full self-awareness: I can be a pretty cold & vindictive bastard #it just never shows up with her because 1) we’re not close enough where she’d see me at that kind of angry #2) her disposition is very… fuwafuwa… she’s really tall but I always forget because she never feels like she’s looking down on me #whereas I say outright ‘I like wearing heels so I can look down on people’ lol #plus she likes asking for my input on stuff so I feel heard a lot when I’m with her #and I tend to get prickly when I feel like what I say Just Doesn’t Matter #replace me with a mirror so you can talk to yourself. it’s clearly what you’re doing. #But The Intern Is With A Supervisor Who Is Much Better Suited To Her

[kagoutiss]

I know it’s your stylistic choice to give OOT Ganondorf actual… pants *hurls*, but can we pls get him with his canon leotard over tights outfit because it’s THAT fitting

i will if/when i feel like it anon, but ive gotta hand it to u it takes an admirable amount of confidence to walk into an artist’s inbox and then barf in asterisks over how they draw something and then ask them to draw you something lol

#ask #also i. literally have drawn it before agsjfgsjAHAJD #not like a fully rendered version or anything but in doodles #and then i actually based my designs for him off of his in game models for the most part #which have some differences from the concept art #and at one point i. actually was going to try to interpret it as some kind of leather chaps situation…..i kinda wanna revisit that tbh lol #also did you know the canon leotard in the concept art isnt actually technically a full leotard. #there’s no ass on it in the concept art #in the full turnarounds #so really if we’re being completely respectful to the concept art and treating that as canon #then we should all be drawing oot ganondorf with basically a one piece with no ass that is kind of just cupping his genitals #which is exactly the outfit he has in SSBU now incidentally #which is also an iconic design #in a lot of other interpretations they add the ass back on to the leotard #basically i’m trying to say the real conflict here is. leotard with ass or leotard with no ass #who among us can know which of those is truly canonical

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads / storygraph

The Poisons We Drink

YA urban fantasy

a girl who brews powerful potions is coerced into making potions to interfere with D.C.’s most influential politicians in an attempt to stop a dangerous Witcher Registration Act from passing, and will do anything to protect her sister after their mother is killed

bi MC, nonbinary love interest

arc from netgalley

#The Poisons We Drink #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is…….a lot of cool ideas but also so many elements and high stakes that i kinda lost track of them #the pacing is weird. the worldbuilding is random? #why is brewing SO overpowered & risky for her but the other powers seem to have pretty normal low-scale risks? #it’s definitely ambitious and has some cool ideas and also some great characters just. didn’t execute as well as I’d like #as much as we’re told the main threat is the government trying to put through a Registration Act #most of the actual antagonism we see is from other Witchers? #like the systemic discrimination got a bit lost in the witcher family drama and murder politics #important things to say about oppression and police violence but like....idk #she has this ‘deviation’- essentially evil sentient magic inside her head (and you KNOW I love that trope) #but it’s barely explained and very underutilised? other than helping her get out of bad situations you could take it out & would barely #change anything #also it’s explained at the start that she’s an empath but other than the very occasional mention I kept forgetting #will also note that I bumped this up my tbr because I saw the author talking/promoting it as the MCs sister being aroace but no mention #maybe it’ll come up in a sequel (there weren’t really any places where it would have made sense to bring it up here) but idk #(just the way the author was asking for advice on how to write an ace character and stuff you’d assume that they’d….put that in the book?) #not really a critique of the book itself but anyway. I really wanted to like this but the way it was put together just did not vibe with me #edit: I saw the author say on twitter that the version used for ARCs was before ace stuff was added and that there's other signif changes? #so perhaps that will be there! i'm not sure if I want to read it again but might skim just to see what that's about

[prettyboyscollection]

(draft from my main, disclaimer for anyone who sees this: this blog is primarily a porn blog and stupid debating will be ignored or laughed at, you can try it but i dont care)

ive seen a lot of people incorrectly thinking that the trans people wanting to be acknowledged in reproductive rights discussions are all trans women, and as a result a lot of backlash to more gender neutral language in those discussions is like “you’ll never be a woman” “you’ll never be pregnant, so this doesn’t concern you” “‘males’ will never know the weight of this sort of decision, we don’t have to include you in this” and/or claiming that trans women throw tantrums and whine about dysphoria when it comes to about female-exclusive language and discussions about pregnant people

(they do not btw. i have never seen or heard a trans women interrupt a cis women and say that someone talking about periods or reproduction or anything to say they’re making her dysphoric, that discussing periods is transphobic, etc. and even if this hypothetical trans woman exists…… trans people are not a monolith. a few trans people saying stuff like that does not mean all trans people believe it.)

in reality, the people pushing for more neutral language… are trans men and nonbinary people who can get pregnant. “pregnant people” or “people with uteruses” or “people who menstruate” are not terms that exclude cis women, nor are trans people claiming that this language is being used to include trans women who can’t get pregnant (which is all of them, in the current world)

gender-neutral language with respect to reproductive rights (like abortion) is not misogynistic or erasing women or anything like that. frankly, i think it’s really fucking telling that people think that defining womanhood and being female by reproductive capability is cool and woke and feminist. “if you can have children, you’re always going to be female” is an outdated belief that doesn’t serve anyone but cis women and instead harms anyone who’s not a woman but can get pregnant.

“pregnant people” does not erase women, it just includes non-women who can also get pregnant. that’s all. it’s acknowledging a fact. it’s not some long-con game to remove cis women from existence, it’s literally just acknowledging that not all people who can get pregnant are women

#transandrophobia #transphobia // #misogyny // #‘saying pregnant people ignores women’ women are included in the word people. dumbass #i remember just after roe v wade got overturned i saw several posts from radfem types saying that trans men who were asking to be #acknowledged and recognized as victims of that decision #were delusional and ‘not realizing they can’t identify out of oppression’ #and a lot of them even suggested we should detransition as a result of that decision #because we’re ‘always going to be female’ #which is an incredibly callous and cruel way to look at this. #if you really support trans men (which a lot of terfs specifically say they do) even just as dysphoric or confused women #how is telling them they’re trapped as victims forever like. a feminist statement to you?? #‘uwu you’re going to be a victim of misogyny forever so you should detransition and accept being female’ #and just……… accept misogyny thrown at us because of it #if you think that you are an incredibly cruel person with no sympathy for marginalized people. like full stop #women are not the only group affected by reproductive rights being fucked with and i will beat you over the head with this fact #until it sinks in. women. are. not. the. only. ones. who. can. be. pregnant. #cis women are not the only ones who need abortion access. they’re just not. and acting like trans men wanting to be included in these #discussions is erasing women #is transphobic and cruel #accepting that not all people who can get pregnant are women is quick and easy and free. trust me acknowledging trans men will not kill you

[pinkfey]

wip wednesday :D

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have a depressing oddly interpreted take on the taint affecting alistair and rowena 😘

The taint came for his hands first.

A side effect of days spent clutching a sword and shield no doubt. His veins went fast, running black and blue overnight. He didn't like looking at them, but Rowena traced them over every night. Hardened bones were next. Protruding metacarpals and thinned knuckles and a noticeable creak in the mornings. Then the pain began. The ache. Days where his joints stiffened to stone, where a grasp clenched too tight refused to come undone, where splaying fingers to their fullest extent proved too much.

Rowena often caught him staring at his hands in the corner of her eye. Busy hands, curious hands, hands made to fidget and gesture and move above all else, now immobile. His worry token went untouched for months, as did many of the things he loved to hold. Flowers in the garden. The mabari's paws. Rowena.

There was a time when Alistair couldn't keep his hands off of her. Affection of the physical kind was a bright and shiny concept and it took time for him to adjust. Rowena could touch him anywhere, after all. It came easy to her, the affection, the initiation. His cheek, his chin, his collarbone--anywhere would do. Eventually, he came to reciprocate. Tentatively at first, as if asking for permission, but confidence came with the security of her affection. Touch became a comfort. A hand around her waist, on her jaw, in her hair. Anywhere would do.

It couldn't have been more different now. He shied away when she reached for his arm to hold, twitched when she kissed his neck in the mornings. Evening baths became sparser until they no longer existed at all, and this Rowena could hardly bear--facing this truth that the old rituals had died, so she clung to the last of them.

No amount of massage relieved the pain, but Rowena would be damned if she didn't try. Nightly, he let her take his hands in her own.

It was a relief each time to see that despite the Taint, Alistair's hands were still his own, broad and square-fingered and devastatingly gentle. Calloused on the underside and scarred by his earliest days with a blade, too young and eager to know any better. And those nights by the firelight, nights where she took his palm in her hands and massaged the ache away, she could see that Alistair's hands were still freckled, just barely. The sun could still shine on him and leave honeyed kisses against his skin and this was one thing the taint could never take. No darkspawn could take the sun.

The night she realized this, she wept silently. She'd stopped him before he could speak, pressed his freckled hand to her cheek before he could pull away, and whispered, "Bathe with me."

Months later, the taint came for her.

For Rowena, it was her vision and it was swift. [reduntant fix this queen lol]

#in my universe the taint wastes away the physical thing you rely on the most #eventually everything is corrupted but it's always your most used ability first #so chronic pain takes alistair's hands and near blindness comes for rowena #spoiler alert unless in da4 they somehow resolve the cure for the calling rowena dies first <3 teehee #SO anyways alistair becomes a lil distant not because he's like. being cold with her. but because like #the insecurity of touch returned. the hesitation. asking if this is okay because of the unspoken recognition that the end is on its way #and he really doesn't know how to deal with that. never knew how to prepare for that #when he cups her face and sees the darkened veins on his wrists and all he can think of is how they can't have this for much longer #that's just!! a lot to handle!! and he needs the reassurance but doesn't know how to communicate it because he lost the ability to ask #aka touch #the bathing part is especially difficult bc ofc evidence of the taint's corruption had spread beyond his hands atp #and he'd have to bare his whole body in front of her and that's like. so vulnerable. when ur dealing w all that #this is probably rlly obvious but sjhdjhfhdjfhjd #i like having aging being a significantly important thing in alistair and rowena’s relationship #the tragedy of it all #how gaining weight and wrinkles is so bittersweet #because on one hand they’re growing old together and god can u believe they made it here #but on the other it’s the telltale sign the calling is nearing and it’s just like #okay how much time do we have left. how much time do we have left. how much time do we have left. #how can we enjoy what we have when we want so much more. gray hair and children and arthritis. we’re so weary and we’re so young. #tag game #writing* #x: a soft epilogue #ch: rowena cousland

[moonlitswimmingpooltv]

i'm so sorry your teacher left :( how are you doing?

thank you <3

i’m doing okay, i guess? it’s been harder than i expected, i’ve known he was leaving for two months but i’m still really upset. i almost started crying when the new teacher began talking in class today, which has never happened before. it’ll probably take a while but i think i’ll be ok, we’re still gonna see him and we have his number if we need anything.

#thank you for checking in on me it really means a lot #i haven’t really talked about it to anyone? like my friends know but i don’t want to cry in front of them so i’ve just avoided the topic #i’m kind of mad at myself for being this upset because we’re still gonna see him #but i’ll get over it #beloved mutuals #margolovescoffeeandbooks #asks

[the-coffee-fandom]

#roynette #maribat #mlb x dc #dc x mlb #maribat marinette dupain cheng #maribat roy Harper #team lucky shot ttt2023 #is that for me? ttt2023 #i know i asked but this is not what i meant ttt2023 #that’s a lot of chocolate ttt2023 #taking out the trash then? ttt2023 #so who’s your friend? ttt2023 #oh really? prove it ttt2023 #we’re running out of time ttt2023 #ttt2023

[weaselishmcdiesel]

im not that anon but this is the addition from the blog they mentioned breaking it down o7

Oh thank you for that I went looking for it but I was on mobile and about to copy and paste the link I saw in another before I saw your ask paha.

#it uses a lot of language that makes me realize I am literally dumb ehe.. #don’t understand a lot of the language is what I mean #I’m really immature I thought the whole issue was ‘we’re not payed enough to have kids so we won’t have any’ #and not ‘we’ll break down what you think a woman is such that you’ll be forced to reevaluate’ and how that ultimately gets transphobic #man OTL #weasel speaks #asks!

[jeonqkooks]

i’m really not joking when i say i think about these asks all the time

#i just went through the 💌 tag and i- #man i really needed that #if we’re being honest we haven’t really been ok since december but that is beside the point lol #reading those asks again could make me burst into tears on my lunch break rn #you guys are so kind to me for no reason i love you so much my pocket friends #you guys are always there for me when i feel bad about my writing. which is… often lol #i miss my boos i miss our community i miss how tight we were #i’m aware that it’s silly to get so emo about a tumblr blog lol #but yk you’re my pocket friends and you’ve helped me through a lot of hard times :( #i love you if you’re still sticking around and putting up with me. i love you even if you already left #i have no idea what’s wrong with me lol i’ve been so emotional these past few days and i’m not even pms-ing #anyways i’m all over the place k bye i just needed to word vomit #jen rambles #edit: reading this back 2 hrs later is so embarrassing i’m sorry i forced it on your dash lol

[mutalune]

I just wanted to let you know that you are one of the only writers I’ve seen do a time travel fic in an intensely narratively satisfying way. I know you don’t really plan on updating it anymore (which is so valid!! I’m just so glad I got to read *anything* from you, you’re so talented!!!). There are virtually no plotholes, you chose the perfect character to voice the narrative (he wouldn’t give away too much, so it leaves the reader in suspense), and you write the most beautiful character relationships!! Your attention to detail and understanding of the effects of trauma supplement the narrative so well!!! Both the subtle and large-scale effects were interwoven so well. And the suspense!!!! Oh my gosh!! The double dramatic irony of us the readers knowing things Aizawa doesn’t and Aizawa knowing things the rest of the characters don’t constantly kept me on the edge of my seat. It’s one of the only fics I can reread and find new details in every time. Every single character is written with so much love and care, it’s so beautiful and impressive!!!!! It’s such a kind story, overall :,)

There are so many more things I could say, but I think I’ve left enough comments on the fic itself and would probably go waaaaay over the word limit for a tumblr ask.

I hope you continue to find and work on projects you enjoy doing, even if tmgr isn’t one of them <3 <3 <3

You’re just a truly excellent writer and I wish you nothing but the best!! Reading your works is genuinely a privilege ♥️ ♥️ ♥️

;___; maybe I’ll just cry forever because of this ask tbh this was incredibly sweet and kind and I don’t have any clue what to say in response that will express how reading this made me feel

Time travel fics (tbh time travel fixits in general, there’s a bunch of kcomics that have the same trope and I live for them too) are so near and dear to my heart, and they’re my go-to “things are hard, I need something that makes me feel like mistakes don’t have to be forever,” comfort reads, and it really means so much to me that you enjoyed my take on one so much. And also that you picked up on a lot of my deliberate choices! The double dramatic irony, picking Aizawa (who admittedly is my fave bnha character so I was probs always gonna pick him BUT he also made a great unreliable-but-predictable narrator), and the trauma affecting things subtly and obviously… Sometimes I wonder how much of what I write gets across to readers, because I’m v much a “every choice I made, every word I picked, they all had a reason even if I don’t explicitly say what that reason is,” kinda writer, and it’s both amazing and humbling to have those details picked up on by a reader tbh 💕

Thank you very very very much for sending this message and brightening my day, it was so nice to read and means a lot 💕 I hope to get back into writing something (anything!!! I miss writing) soon-ish now that the holidays are over and 2024 is in full swing, and hopefully I’ll get something out there that’ll be in a fandom you enjoy 💕 thank you again!

#starlight personal #starlight fandom #starlight asks #truly it’s when anyone goes ‘your writing is awesome’ rather than ‘this fic is awesome’ that’s gets me gobsmacked ngl #v much view my writing as a ‘even a broken clock is right twice a day’ type thing even now rather than having faith that I write well #(not that I’m not always grateful and touched by ppl who love a specific fic and not to say those comments aren’t also appreciated!!!! just #that specifically commenting about my writing ability is the fastest way to make my brain blue screen; so thank you!!!!) #it’s been a bit of a rough month so far (dear god we’re not even halfway through jfc) so this was a very very nice pickmeup to read #I really do wanna post something again soon but I don’t want to post another WIP that I’ll never finish lmfao ;__; #finishing things is the WORST I was born to get halfway through and then have the ending teleported from my brain into paper w/o effort #if only lmfaoooo #but anyway!!!! thank you so much I appreciate this a lot and I hope you have a lovely day

[nctjpeg]

attempting to find romance and genuine human connection as a woman in her 20’s in this era of dating is really hard and sometimes i feel like giving up and saying that “romantic love is a lie, patriarchy has made it so that half of my dating pool sees me as an object to be used and not a fully realized person so what’s the fucking point” yadda yadda blah blah blah BUT seeing my team of dude coworkers be doting husbands and fathers (and doing so consistently) is like the one thing that keeps me sane while i’m fighting for my life in the situationship trenches

#example: we get a lot of free food from my job and one of my coworkers will text his wife to ask what she wants w/o fail #lizzy's personal posts #anyways i went on a really bland dinner date yesterday lol #he was nice there was just no spark so i don’t think i wanna see him again haha #i think especially with online dating discourse on all sides of the gender spectrum it’s very ‘us vs. them’ #so it’s good to basically go outside and ‘touch grass’ or in this case see that there IS hope #‘wait weren’t you dating someone else?’ still am! but we’re non-exclusive and he pissed me off the other day lol

[mars-ipan]

honestly i don’t really think any mental illnesses have been like “destigmatized”- not fully at least. i think the stigma has just changed from demonization to “that’s not a real problem get over it god”

#obviously demonization is more Actively Harmful #but to say things like depression and anxiety have been destigmatized is. incorrect i feel #yes we are not treated like we’re evil. which is for sure an improvement #nobody deserves to be treated like they’re evil #but our illnesses are now being dismissed. ‘oh everyone has that’ not like me #‘you’re just being lazy’ i wish that were true #like. ok hold on let me use an example bc i’m worried abt reading comprehension on this website #(not my followers i trust u guys but i act as if every post i make will get popular) #my brother is autistic. i have GAD. #my brother was diagnosed when he was 2. he’s faced a lot of bullying from both kids and adults and it sucks and he didn’t deserve it #because of all that bullying (especially as a kid) he’s rejecting his autism and focusing really hard on being as ‘normal’ as possible #i was diagnosed last year at 17. i’ve been having these issues my whole life (my mom and i both saw it) but my issues were dismissed #by all the other adults around me (save for family) because i wasn’t visibly struggling and i was doing well in school #it made me doubt my convictions for a long time. what if i’m wrong? #as such i didn’t seek a diagnosis for a long time until my anxiety had gotten to a point where i knew i couldn’t keep ignoring it #now that i have that diagnosis i’m able to wield it as a weapon. my struggles aren’t made up #they’re real. and they always have been. and i can’t just ‘calm down’ like you can. and that needs to be respected #so while i think one is more actively harmful (bullying and harassment lead to self-rejection and loathing) #the other is also harmful- just passively (constantly being dismissed leads to self-doubt and not asking for help) #also why are people angry about the idea of a mental illness being destigmatized? #one group freeing itself from oppression isn’t gonna immediately forget about the groups who helped them get there #if i’m one day able to get perfect accomodations for my anxiety and nobody looks at me like i’m dramatic when i talk about it #i’m not gonna suddenly stop advocating for mental health issues to be normalized #if anything i’ll argue HARDER. you learned to understand me now learn to understand my siblings #learn to understand those with bpd. with psychosis. the sociopaths. the narcissists. the systems #i’m not gonna act like i have it worse than people who are heavily stigmatized. i’m not gonna get attacked for stuttering at mcdonalds #but that doesn’t mean i have /no/ problems and it doesn’t mean i think i’m better than anyone else #i don’t get why people fight each other about this. it’s a good thing so long as we remember where we came from