Your periodic reminder that in people who have been subject to threats and punishment for having emotional responses or ‘inappropriate’ facial expressions, panic attacks look different.
They may look like the person has become calmer and less involved, dismissive, even. Some people become intensely subservient and silent. Some become catatonic.
Panic doesn’t always involve screaming, crying, and obvious signs of distress. It involves an extreme form of the person’s fear response – which can be altered by circumstance, ability, and what they’ve learnt to fear.
Which is to say, it’s not your place to decide someone isn’t having a panic attack, when they’ve told you that’s what’s happening.
like if you’re reblogging shit like this you’re obviously a transmisogynist. this is such an obvious gamergate level strawman. even if the person holding this value actually exists (& i don’t doubt this is a misrepresentation) it would be pretty easy to ignore them instead of saying something on the level of, “look how far the trans community has fallen, trans women used to be ACTIVISTS and now all they are is annoying bitches”. It’s the exact same joke as when antifeminists argue that the feminists of old had REAL things to argue about — like employment! and voting! — but now they all just complain about people sitting funny on the bus. It’s a blatantly sexist & antifeminist strawman.
and to top this all off, it's tagged as "transandrophobia". like we're apparently supposed to laugh at the (probably fictional) trans girl being shit-talked in the original post, but simultaneously meant to consider "being told you can't have a blahaj because that's trans girl culture" as a serious example of bigotry against trans men? that's a pretty obvious double standard!
it fucking sucks being a disabled person who can't work and having to see these fuckass posts where someone's like "ahaha jobless people have no life and that's why everyone shitty online has No Job" and everyone and their mother reblogs it joyfully onto my dash for me to see. yes unemployed and unemployable people are truly without exception dogshit people with no hobbies and no redeeming qualities. you're so right. anyway if you'll excuse me i have to start my shift at the I'll Never Be Employed Because Of Permanent Disability And I Love Knowing How You Really See Me store
"arts and crafts" is so lame English should borrow the German word basteln. to bastel. you can borrow it. make your life easier.
I’m hoping that this is as “angry” as I’ll get with a comic, but given how the world is shaping up politically at the moment, I fear that might not be the case.
It’s been incredibly eye opening to witness the degree to which some people I know are willing to bury their heads in the sand in order to avoid the reality of the awful things that are happening around them. Awful things that they were told were going to happen.
In America, people are being black bagged and shipped off to El Salvador without due process to be held indefinitely in prisons, with the current administration now making social media posts cruelly boasting that they’ll never return.
Make no mistake, if people are being kidnapped by the government, given no due process, and are shipped to a foreign nation to be held in prison with no intention to give them any legal recourse, we need to call these prisons what they are:
They are death camps.
The United States of America is rounding up “undesirables” and sending them to death camps.
There are people in this country that voted for this. No matter how nice they otherwise seem or claim to be, these people are evil to the core.
There are also people who didn’t vote for this, but do provide social validation and acceptance to those who did.
If you are someone who thinks you’re against fascism, but you also accept fascists in your life, you are a fascist.
There can be no acceptance of intolerance. In the comic, the person I’m lampooning is the “Fake Trans Ally”, but you can swap out “trans” for any other group of marginalized people. Frankly, just call this person “The Fake Ally.”
If you’re someone reading this and feel attacked because I’m calling you a fake ally, it’s time to do some soul searching. When the history books are written about this period of American history, are you going to be someone who was unambiguously against hatred, or were you someone that treated hate as acceptable?
Were you someone that invited hatred into your home?
Were you someone that shared a meal with hatred?
Were you someone that allowed hatred a safe haven?
If you’re someone that does that, you yourself are hateful.
When you accept hate, you do so at the expense of those who are the target of that hatred.
Be better, our lives depend on it.
Sometimes, I want to be a robot girl. Outside of the context of kink, I mean, which is what I largely see on this site. I mean the kinky stuff, too, but just what the ramifications of being a machine could be intrigue me a lot.
Robot girl who can temporarily disable emotions that aren't useful or socially appropriate.
Robot girl who can power off when she's overwhelmed.
Robot girl who can patch her missing knowledge about social situations and rules.
Robot girl who can change her body at will.
Robot girl who shows you her operating system because she wants you to know her. Really, really, know her.
Robot girl connected to a whole network of other robot girls so that she never feels alone.
I just want to be robot girl.
That falls under dissociation, could also maybe be dysphoria.
You're valid hun and I hope you feel better soon!
Me thinks i disassociating or something
I no feel good
posts cats would make
Sigh. I crave intimate touch. And also sushi.
Potatoes I guess? Wild
First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die
How you dying 👀
imagine how cool it would be if plurality had the visual effects it's dramatized to have in fiction. like if your body's eye colors would change as you came on and off of front. that would be wicked