creative humanist vampire

[Image Description: first image: a two panel MS Paint-like doodle comic, titled "hey fellow white people, if you are white on tumblr". In the first panel, labeled "this is your job", a white doodle person is holding up their hand, supporting a Black doodle person as they stand on the white doodle person's raised hand. The white doodle person's gesturing to the Black doodle person and saying nothing as the Black doodle person says "white people need to stop doing [thing]". In the second panel, labeled "not this", the Black doodle person now stands alone in the background as they say "white people need to stop doing [thing]", only for the white doodle person to interrupt and jump in front of the Black doodle person and their speech bubble. The white doodle person takes up the majority of the frame, blocking the Black doodle person with their arm as they loudly say in all caps "Oh my god yes it pisses me off so much when white people do this".

Okay you know what pulling back on my derision because i can see how this mistake would be made but narc and nark are etymologically unrelated

I wanted to share some more of these, specifically trans women of color. The images I'm posting are from a project called To Survive On This Shore and it's an interview project. I am only posting a handful so it's so worth checking out!

realizing many people don't know about infinity train creator owen dennis' among us show from years ago, which has been trapped in unreleased limbo all this time and was just dumped on streaming this morning with no advertisement. they don't even know about its weirdly stacked cast

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.