second hand smoke

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

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

That being said, anywhere they may have touched you, your skin, your hair, your nails and so on, was changing the moment they departed your life, even before that. Your skin became skin they’ve never touched within 27 days. Your hair grows (on average) six inches per year, so depending on how long yours is, you were rid of their touch there within a few years tops. Your nails will completely regrow within six months tops. You were a body they never touched within three or four years. You will be a body they never touched within three or four years.

marx:

Having worked at a center where almost all my clients lived in poverty and were barely able to pay for rent and food, a LOT of the help I gave was in brainstorming with people how to attempt to do any of those things WITHOUT money, or how to just plain cope without being able to do any of those things. In most cases, money would have greatly helped their problems, or at least their stress levels. Even the emotional issues, trauma, and isolation would have been helped by money, because they would have had more time and energy to devote to healing rather than worrying about their bills.

A person with money can also, for example, afford to take time off work to process when they’ve experienced a trauma. A person without money cannot afford to do that, and so they often have to compound their trauma by repressing it in order to keep working, or picking up unhealthy coping mechanisms, or whatever else. One problem often turns into many simply because of the absence of money.