a curse for two

i dont moralize to people about their use of psychiatric terminology cause arguing with people about their own experiences is condescending and also crucially doesn't work, not to mention that terminology is often a useful shorthand to describe the way you have been treated and the categories you have been shoehorned into. but i do think its worth pushing back against describing any kind of psychiatric pharmacological intervention as "medicating" a diagnosis. i've never met anybody even among antipsych types that described their adderall use as "medicating their adhd" that didn't also have really shitty opinions about at least some kinds of substance use or some kinds of substance users especially if they perceive them as hedonistic lazy recreational types who are in denial and don't want to get better

like in general making care work dependent on sentimentality is a fucking bad idea lol, to some extent you can't really prevent the fact that people interacting with one another will probably feel some type of way about each other but esp when you are taking on a role where people depend on you for basic bodily care tasks, necessary medications, proper performance of potentially dangerous procedures &c it's not actually about YOU or your feelings at all & the more you make it into that type of ego trip looking for self satisfaction because youre soooooo self sacrificing and empathetic and you love your patients sooooooooo much -- the less you actually see & think about & serve those patients. never confuse personal fondness for evidence you are doing right by that person -- completely irrelevant & not at all protective against or mutually exclusive of abuse. people who are disliked or dislikable also need care! you signed up to provide it to them. if you cannot do bear to do that and do it fucking well then find a different job

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

me, myself and I are not on speaking terms rn.

the "empathy fatigue" stuff is also very revealing because when you examine health professionals' self-reporting on the matter there is a specific type of person they describe losing empathy for- unsurprisingly, it's people with particularly chronic health issues and disability, drug users, people who "refuse to take care of themselves" and especially anyone with a health condition perceived to be "their own fault". very often what they describe as "empathy fatigue" is actually just the mask slipping on the seething contempt they already held

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

go back to sleep puppy *holds chlorophyll over your face*

haha yay! *starts making sugars*

i love this post and always reblog it because it reminds me of a game i used to play in the bath tub as a child which was called “plant sugars” and the premise was that i was a plant organism and i had to produce starches to store in my tuber

so howcome we're never accusing "afab only" queer spaces of dividing the community?

we got signs all over the "queer community" that basically say "no trans women." that's not division?

a lot of you are more offended at being told trans women make less money than you than you are at naked discrimination against trans women in your own communities

oh and they do get very mad when we exclude them from our spaces. and by "spaces" I mean "the category we created to discuss being the type of woman who faces transmisogyny, such as--just pulling a random example here--being categorically excluded from 'afab only' spaces"

Person who wants to do stuff trapped in a body that needs to lie down

didnt know until recently that fwiw means for what its worth. fully was reading it as from what i wemember

so do you "love trans women" as in you like to fantasize about being fucked by a Scary Predatory Tranny, or do you love trans women?

transmisogynistic stereotypes are not heavily sexualized by coincidence. they're designed to be psychosexually powerful. the things that make them tantalizing are the things that make them so dangerous for trans women

Idk if this is an insane take but I think "word of writer/word of god" stuff is bullshit and stupid and you should state your information in the official text and not on social media

Supplementary material is fine (extra books or short stories or bonus episodes or whatever) but I refuse to go digging through somebody's Twitter to find out what key character details are

Promotional material isn't valid canon either

information from leaks also doesn't count if it wasn't included in the work

AND CUT CONTENT DOESNT COUNT EITHER!!!!