Upon the Distinction Between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos

You are capable of harm

You have some level of power and agency

Ergo it is your responsibility to communicate your needs and boundaries

If you lie to someone about something being okay when it isn't, that is on you

Something being a trauma response doesn't exempt it from harming your relationships and the other people in them

Enabling your trauma responses will not make them go away, and it is your responsibility to work on yourself for your own wellbeing as well as the people around you

Being A Victim cannot be a pillar of your identity forever, and being victimized does not make you incapable of harming other people (see above)

You are not a mouse in a jean jacket you are an eel with a gun / adult human being who can use your words even if it's Scary

Grace is at the point, once he arrives on Erid, where he is able to understand the language quite fluently and grammatically correct, but he still adores that Rocky uses the repeated word emphasis, and the “statement” “question” structure because it’s what ultimately gave them both the ability to save their homes.

The whole metaverse can no longer be properly viewed without an account and I am definitely not making one just to see your contact info or opening hours.

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

WORD OF HONOR 山河令, Episode 16 or trying to understand

This is a Jiang Yanli appreciation post and in the spirit of that, because she loves her a-xian very much, this is also a Wei Wuxian appreciation post

NPR Report: Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

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