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a a more tf2 grunt posting

i fucking hate the my little ponys!

Shut the fuck up.

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@saucetail

I could be the person writing one time verification codes. 873726. 290971. 041452. 667656. It comes naturally to me.

They look so good

god this tickles me

(OP's tiktok here)

God damn I’ve been Owned…

where’s jack going

to undo the future that is aku

Please do not tag as sign@l b00st, d0nation or f*ndraiser.

💫A beloved community member in my medic group is trying to cover the cost of his top surgery; we have a deadline by the end of July to get this money together. Would appreciate b00sts and contributions if you can!💫

Till the end of July, all sticker/poster purchases that support Kaon City Medics (the harm redux/street medic outreach group we're in) will go to help Tats out too--let art provide aid! 💖🤍💖🤍💖🤍💚💛💚💛🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿

We are currently at $474.07 total of the needed $7900 -- Tats has til July 14 to pay down at least half of the surgery.

Here's his cash link. Don't forget that buying stickers/zines til the end of July supports Tats as well!

As of today, we have approximately $4000 left to raise with a deadline of July 14 -- Please continue sharing, and donate if you are able. I will be opening sketch/detail commissions in a bit for this too!

Sorry, we sideblogged your boyfriend. Yeah, he's now 500 people in a trenchcoat.

I talk to many people who say things like "oh I have trauma but I don't have PTSD", but then when I talk to them a little more I realize that they most likely do, they just can't recognize it as such due to how lacking PTSD awareness is, even beyond the whole "it's not just a veteran's disorder" thing.

The main reason they think they don't have PTSD usually has to do with flashbacks and nightmares, either they have one but not the other or have neither. But here's the thing, those are only two symptoms out of the 23-odd recognized symptoms. Flashbacks and nightmares are two of the five symptoms under Criterion B (Intrusion), which you only need one of for a diagnosis. The other three symptoms are unwanted upsetting memories, emotional distress after being reminded of trauma and physical reactivity after being reminded of trauma (i.e. shaking, sweating, heart racing, feeling sick, nauseous or faint, etc). Therefore you can have both flashbacks and nightmares, one but not the other, or neither and still have PTSD.

In fact, a lot of the reasons people give me for why they don't think they have PTSD are literally a part of the diagnostic criteria.

"Oh, I can barely remember most parts of my trauma anyway." Criterion D (Negative Alterations in Cognition and Mood) includes inability to recall key features of the trauma.

"Oh but I don't get upset about my trauma that often because I avoid thinking of it or being around things that remind me of it most of the time." Criterion C (Avoidance) includes avoiding trauma-related thoughts or feelings and avoiding trauma-related external reminders, and you literally cannot get diagnosed if you don't have at least one of those two symptoms.

"Oh I just have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep, but I don't have nightmares." Criterion E (Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity) includes difficulting sleeping outside of nightmares.

"But I didn't have many/any trauma symptoms until a long time after the trauma happened." There's literally an entire specification for that.

Really it just shows how despite being one of the most well-known mental illnesses, people really don't know much about PTSD. If you have trauma, I ask you to at least look at the criteria before you decide you don't have PTSD. Hell, even if you don't have trauma, look at the criteria anyway because there are so many symptoms in there that just are not talked about.

PTSD awareness is not just about flashbacks and nightmares.

I think we need to get serious about nuclear family abolition instead of the childfree meme culture of "we don't want your snot-nosed gremlins." I love kids. I love their joy, the insight of not yet being acclimated to capitalism and social norms. I had a certain naive wisdom as a kid, making crowns out of dandelions without knowing they were weeds. When my mom tried to explain gender reassignment surgery to me, expecting me to be repulsed, I instead blurted out "cool!".

But despite my love for children and sentimentality for my own childhood, I don't want to "have kids," as it's conventionally understood to mean, nor do most of my age peers. The expectation of children to be the property and sole responsibility of two parents (or as patriarchy would insist, one mother) is a cruel and unrealistic in any historical moment but especially the present. It is cruel, not just to people who don't want to be parents or shoehorned into heterosexual norms, but traumatic to the child. Surely we should know this better than anyone, and come up with a more mature response than just hating kids. There is a stark difference between this response and the queer legacy of mutual aid to support kids neglected by the nuclear family (the House Mothers of the ballroom community come to mind).

My issue with the childfree movement, as it exists online, is that it centers individual choice rather than a structural reevaluation of the family as we know it. We are told that queer life is purposeless and lonely, and that's without a genetic lineage we have no future. These arguments are in fact indictments of a system that has failed to produce collective visions of purpose, social fulfillment and futurity. None of us should be obligated to "have kids," nor tone down our culture or activism in their entirety to be "family friendly." But we should be driven by a desire to support those most disenfranchised by family norms instead of just hating them.

OH MY GOSH I LOVE YOUR HAIR/ THANKS! I LOVE YOUR EARRINGS!

happy flagging, girls <3 if you want to support your local dyke, please consider subscribing to my patreon here! i currently have 5 patrons, i'd love to see that double by the end of the month

Masc and/or butch people in crop tops appreciation because um um

do u guys know about butch lesbians. incredible stuff going on there

Shout out to lesbians that are absolute losers. Complete girlfailures. Extremely cringefail. I love you, never change

Also while we’re here I want everyone to appreciate that This

This wild, wonderful, beautifully animated and heartfelt queer story started here

Here, on tumblr, by an art student who’s wrestling with his identity, mental health, and religious trauma

Tell your stories, kids, you never know how many people will thank you for it

heyyyy, art fight!

unlike most people I don't give into mindless consumerism [sees cute stuffed animal advertised online] Ooooh i'd like to have it with me every second of the day.