Gay Witchcraft

ID: A title card featuring a red stick figure and a blue stick figure with devil horns. The text says "Someone experiencing the lack of object constancy versus Someone intentionally making you feel good one moment and bad the next." End of ID.

ID: Two panels. The first panel shows a blue child figure and a red child figure sitting in front of a fluffy dog with a brown spot on it's tail, back, and front paw. The text above says, "Object constancy is described as the ability to understand that just because aspects of something/someone has changed, does not mean that thing/person isn't what they were before". The second panel shows the two kids sitting in front of the same dog, but with shorter hair. Text that says "got a haircut" is beneath the dog. Someone off screen is asks "Is this the same dog as before?". The blue child says "yes" while the red child says "no". End of ID.

ID: Some text that says says, "As a child without object constancy grows up, their struggle begins to seep into their relationships with others. Their partner wanting the dynamic to change could cause them to question if this means the status of the relationship is changed. Their partner accidentally making them feel once off-handedly could cause them to fear that their partner will always make them feel bad." End of paragraph. The images shows a purple figure beneath the text saying, "Hey, what if we changed date night to Fridays?" The red figure is shown panicking and thinking in all caps, "Oh fuck, are they breaking up with me?" End of ID.

ID: Two panels featuring the purple stick figure and red stick figure. The caption above says, "it can be a struggle, as most of the time the partner has no idea what caused the distress". End of caption. In the first panel, the purple figure is posing dramatically next to a photo realistic image of some cheese cake. The purple figure says "I made cheese cake!". The red figure looks concerned.In the second panel, the red figure is running away with tears streaming down their face. "No thank you!" The red figure says. The cheese cake is now on the floor. End of ID.

ID: An image showing the purple figure and red figure eating cheesecake on a couch together. The caption says, "But it's totally possible to be self aware and to even catch yourself before you have negative or thoughts reactions". End of caption. The red stick figure says, "I'm sorry, we only have cheese cake in my birthday. thought maybe you were planning a special last date" before breaking up with me." The purple stick figure responds, "Aw babe I understand. I'm proud of you for talking to me about it rather than isolating." End of ID.

ID: A picture showing two panels. The first panel shows a purple figure scratching their head and saying, "Babe I was wondering if could do the shopping alone today? I feel really easily irritated, promise it's nothing against you!" End of text. There is an exclamation point above the red figure's head.The second panel shows the red figure thinking, "This is a change from the norm and they're excluding me. I have to remember that change is okay, and she won't always exclude me just because she is right now." End of thought. The red stick figure says, "That's perfectly okay!" There is a pink heart floating around the red figure. End of ID.

ID: A picture of a purple figure and red figure hugging eachother with hearts surrounding them. The text above says, "Learning how to stop, review the facts of what happened, and communicate your distress is a game changer! It is possible to have healthy relationships even without object constancy!" End of ID.

ID: A red stick figure is jumping in the air and saying, "This comic had an exhausting amount of information so I'll make a part 2 to explain the rest (lacking object constancy VS purposeful dysfunction)." End of ID.

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Points I forgot to mention:

Lacking object constancy is the reason behind certain feelings and behaviors, it is not an excuse for hurting someone. Even if it was not intentional, if you hurt someone you need to apologize.

The lack of object constancy is commonly found in NPD, BPD, and other traumagenic disorders. Often, someone who experiences the lack of object constancy also experiences paranoia - which explains the sudden leap to the worst conclusion.

It wasn’t boomers who made it impossible to survive on a librarian or gardener’s salary - it was rich people. 

Plenty of boomers work as librarians, teachers, gardeners, and so forth, and are finding that as the cost of living skyrockets and corporations take over more and more of the world, that their salary is no longer able to support them.

And thus you have boomers - who understand how much you want to be a librarian because they also work as librarians - going bankrupt, losing their homes, drowning in debt, and dying because of unaffordable healthcare. And they get why you’re becoming an IT specialist instead of a librarian - because they! Know! That you can’t survive! On a librarian’s salary anymore!

On the flip side, the rich people sucking money out of every service and person they can! Aren’t! Always! Boomers! Tons of them are Gen X! And an increasing number are millennials! I haven’t seen a Gen Z billionaire yet but I’m willing to bet there’s a couple by now!

Oh, and it’s not like they “don’t know” how much people want to do these sorts of jobs - they do! That’s how they justify underpaying people, because it’s your passion, you don’t ~need~ to be paid a living wage for your passion.

Since pride month is literally right around the corner, DO NOT be fooled by companies that change their logos to rainbow when their money speaks for themselves. Image  ID below “keep reading” line. Source of said financial information is “florida campaign finance”

What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.

Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.

1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.

2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.

3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.

I’m tired of this nonsense, y’all.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk ™

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because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

I kind of wonder what you’re picturing when you hear this, because what I’m picturing is stuff like critiquing the fanfic we read way more frankly than we ever would to an author’s face.

“Gossip” has a number of important social functions, and like any other social interaction it is a tool that can be used in good or bad ways.

We discuss positive and negative interactions we’ve had later and in private with our friend groups because this helps us process them. It can be a vibe check (“does it seem like this person was acting out of line towards me?”) or an analysis (“why do you think they did that? what do you think I should have done?”) or data compilation (“is this a pattern? has this happened to anyone else?”) or data sharing (“hey this alarming interaction happened, watch out”) or just venting to channel emotions into a place where they’re safe to have (“friend is processing bad thing and I’m upset on their behalf, so I need do my own processing somewhere else”).

If you can’t complain about your boss to your friends, how do you even figure out what bad boss behavior looks like?

And when some stranger’s being a dick on social media it is usually infinitely healthier and more constructive to go chat that argument out with your friends than to let yourself get sucked into fighting with someone very likely more interested in hurting people than listening.

Text, from twitter user @LakesOfLotus: "Reminder that a lot of the photos of "kink at pride" are actually from folsom street fair which is literally a kink event

Consider that if people are having to lie about the origins of the thing you're denouncing queer people for, you might not be in the right"

- Please be honest with us. We aren't going to report you to the police because your dog got into your stash. We need to know if your cat's wound happened two days ago or two hours ago. Just tell us what happened.

- VACCINATE YOUR PETS. We don't care about your stances on human vaccines. Your pets NEED theirs. Parvo is one of the worst things a puppy can get, it has a high mortality rate, and it's prevented by vaccinating. Distemper and Rabies are INCURABLE, and ONLY prevented by vaccines. Vaccinate your pets, even if they are indoor only.

- Your dog is not a wolf. It does not need a grain-free diet. Dogs have evolved to digest carbs and grains alongside us. Grain-free diets have been linked to causing a heart condition called DCM (dilated cardiomyopathy) and we are seeing more and more cases of it in younger and younger dogs. My clinic personally had 3 cases in the last two weeks, and it is a horrible thing to see.

- Spay and neuter your pets if you aren't going to breed them. If you are, do NOT breed before they're at least 1.5 years old. Two years is better.

- Besides altering your pet, leave the rest of their body parts alone. Your dog prefers having their ears and tail. Your cat needs their claws. Declawing is cruel and banned in many places, and ear cropping/tail docking isn't far behind.

- STOP LISTENING TO YOUR BREEDER INSTEAD OF YOUR VET.

- Retractable leashes are literally garbage and should be banned.

- Keep your pet on a leash or in a carrier when you bring them to the clinic! Do not carry your angry cat inside in your arms!!

- Cats do not do things out of spite. Your cat does not pee outside of the litter because it's angry. It's probably stressed, or is having urinary issues.

- Stop being rude to the vet staff. We have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession, and it's only getting worse. We have enough to deal with without you reaming us out because Fluffy needs their nails trimmed TODAY and we're booked up for 3 weeks.

- Stop scruffing your cats. Its an outdated form of restraint and it is physically painful.

- Train your dogs. Bad behaviours are 90% boredom and bad habits. Spend time with your dogs.

- Again. Please be nice to the vet staff. We're doing our best to help your pets. We're overworked, exhausted, underpaid and underappreciated. We are tired. Be gentle and be kind.

- When the vet gives you instructions: follow the instructions. Your pet isn't going to get better on their own in a lot of cases, and if you think taking the cone/cast off or not doing medication/diet/lifestyle changes is going help, you are wrong. The vet has a doctorate. Listen to the doctorate.

- Google is your worst enemy. Looking things up is going to stress you out any maybe even misinform you. If you think there is an issue, go to the vet.

- Do not stop medication for a chronic condition because the pet "was cured" by the meds. The absence of symptoms means the meds are managing the condition, not eliminating it. Fluoxetine is not a cure. Methimazole is not a cure. Levothyroxine is not a cure. Insulin* is not a cure.