Queer joy detected!

T-shirt that says "I'M SORRY FOR THE PERSON I BECOME WHEN I'M OVERHEATED"

unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going

once you start noticing how fatphobic everyone and everything is, there will never be a moment you're not filled with rage

I’ve faced a lot of nasty art blocks over my years as an artist but none so detrimental as Going To Work

and the PROBLEM IS. the PROBLEM is that with other art blocks I can tell myself. oh it’s hard now but time will pass and I will heal from whatever mental or emotional block that’s causing this eventually. but WORK? A Forever Problem. There is no waiting-out Job. Having Job is eternal. Time does not heal Being At Work. Sand is always in our eyes forever

We really went from "free the nipple" to "um the public didn't consent to you wearing a choker"

Why does fandom so often expect female characters to be perfectly written in order to be liked or popular? Male characters—and really, most popular characters—also have messy, inconsistent, or flawed in their writing, yet people still embrace them, reinterpret them, and build on what’s there to make them more compelling. But when it comes to women, fandom tends to hold them to an impossible standard, where any writing flaw becomes a reason to dismiss the character entirely. The truth is, there’s nothing wrong with loving a character whose writing has mistakes; fandom does this with male characters all the time. So why can’t we treat female characters the same way, and allow ourselves to love them even when the text doesn’t do them justice?

audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore

watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort