something that should be taken with a grain of salt are the statistics talking about the high rates of mental illness + neurodivergence among trans people (ocd, bpd, adhd, autism, etc)
I see both sides of the political spectrum taking these studies at face value - conservatives say we’re broken, and trans people try to come up with reasons why for example autism + gender dysphoria makes sense and why one of them feeds into another
at the end of the day you have to remember that we’re the one category of people on this planet who are legally required to go see a psychiatrist in order to receive non-psychiatric medication and surgeries.
more trans people are in therapy by law than any other demographic of people, and as a result, this captures more comorbidities.
if I had to look at my own family & rates of mental illness?
mom, dad, 2 maternal aunts, maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, sister, sibling, and me all have OCD.
7/9 of them are cishet, never been to therapy, never diagnosed. 2/9 are trans, required therapy for hormone treatment, and were diagnosed.
you don’t have to do any math to just see that the resulting statistics end up intensely skewed.
and we can think back to how autism was virtually never diagnosed more than 50 years ago - ruling out any grandparents being included in statistics - and even my parents’ generation (they’re in their 60s now) wouldn’t have been included either.
I don’t think it’s to anyone’s benefit to accept these studies uncritically. a lot of these things are hereditary and far more prevalent in the overall population than people realize
popular YouTube channels are great and informative until they make a video about a topic you’re informed on and then the house of cards comes crashing down as you realize how utterly wrong they are about most things
is it hard to find artists who draw yaoi and twinks or is it just me? its okay I will provide for us
I want to see more weak men who look like they’re on the verge of death at all times
I think I just miss when people woudl draw men like this
Be the change you want to see in the world. Spread the good word of crumpled up twinks who need a partner who will slowly ease them out of their crippling eating disorder that has made them so small and bony.
pokemon mystery dungeon explorers games ARE the funniest flex in the franchise like. WHY did they have to make the story not only good but better than anything other pokemon game before or since. By all accounts the pmd games should be a silly little spinoff and instead they’re like ‘well. Doomed timeline apocalypse self-sacrifice true love narrative to traumatize the youth 🫡’. I think every spinoff made by a rando side studio for a major franchise should do this. they should all get a little silly with it
pmd explorers part 1: this here is my lucky rock! :) I think we should form an explorers team to go on fun adventures
pmd explorers part 75: well if our existence is causing an ongoing paradox and hurting people then maybe we should consider the options. Like committing suicide
It can actually only be called “misleading” if it was the author’s deliberate intention to mislead the audience. If the author had no intention to lead you to the wrong conclusion, and you simply arrived at one all by yourself, it’s just sparkling Your Lack Of Reading Comprehension.
or the author’s lack of writing comprehensibility surely?
If one text is incomprehensible, the author may be lacking writing skills. If all text is incomprehensible, you just can’t fucking read.
Urgent, please don’t just scroll by. Share if you can’t donate, but make sure you share.
Kalil (who originally reached out to me on tumblr thrpugh @mervatahmed1 ) is on the verge of losing one of the most important people in his life. The treatment, which is €600, could change everything. I beg of you, let his voice be heard, and help if you can.
When writing always remember… a character flaw is only a flaw until becomes useful.
Is your protagonist manipulative? Well that’s awful… until they manipulate the antagonist into making a decision that saves the lives of their friends.
Is your protagonist a skeptic? Well that’s not good… until someone tries to lie to them.
Is your protagonist overprotective? That sucks… until someone they love is in danger.
Is your protagonist remorseless? Well that makes them pretty unlikeable… until a hard decision has to be made.
The flipside is also true!
Your protagonist is honest? That’s good… until their survival depends on them being able to lie convincingly.
Your protagonist is brave? That’s good… until they foolishly run headlong into danger without a thought for the consequences.
Your protagonist is forgiving and able to see good in everyone? That’s good… until they continually forgive someone who doesn’t deserve it, and get taken advantage of because they can’t fathom that some people just suck.
Your protagonist is funny? That’s good… until they piss off everyone around them because they don’t seem to be taking the situation seriously, and they keep avoiding dealing with their problems by hiding behind humor.
Most personality traits aren’t inherently good or bad. It’s all about context, and how far they go.
gulls are proof that a) there is a god and b) that god enjoys the pain and suffering of birders
those are all different species. there are many places where you could potentially see any (or at least most) of them at a given time!
and that’s just the adults
short-billed gull, Larus brachyrhynchus
Iceland gull, Larus glaucoides
California gull, Larus californicus
glaucous gull, Larus hyperboreus
ring-billed gull, Larus delawarensis
glaucous-winged gull, Larus glaucescens
American herring gull, Larus smithsonianus
western gull, Larus occidentalis
lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus
great black-backed gull, Larus marinus
(to be clear, i am terrible at gull ID in the field, but OP used the first picture on ebird for each species, which made it easy to reverse image search them and find which ebird page they’re on.)
giant who could kill me but they treat me so niceies?giant who could kill me but they have a crush on me?giant who could kill me but they likeeee meeee? pls?
if yall see a black woman succeeding as a “spit in the face to women” because you cant comprehend that she might just be a good player, you’re a fucking racist. jesus christ in heaven. you are a racist.