Not Exactly "Mr. Mental Health"

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

oh my god anon if you didn't know this. you're going to need to sit down because it's a lot to process the first time you hear it.

first a reminder that he spent his 18th birthday alone in his room watching phil's space adventure video (featuring pj and bryony) as a fan and leaving 70+ comments

daniel howell celebrated his 19th birthday in LA after being personally invited by xbox and flown to E3...with his boyfriend amazingphil and friends, pj and bryony

2. Your creativity matters and so does your ability to share it

3. Serial harassers in fandom spaces are beginning to express discomfort that sites like AO3 completely strip their ability to do anything about fic they don't like, sometimes going as far as leaving entire fandoms due to the influx of "problematic fiction without a chance for consequences to the author". Posting your fanworks to AO3 actively contributes to making harassers feel unsafe and powerless in fandom

4. Militant anti-fanfic content creators also cannot do anything about fic posted to AO3

5. You can post anonymously to AO3, with the ability to de-anonymize at any time

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

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