the wisened fujoshi knows better that they would never want their ship to become canon. canon can never compete with whatever is going on in the fujoshi’s mindscape
It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp
One of the best ones I saw was a thing noting that every single one of the few survivors of suicide jumps off of the Golden Gate Bridge realized, on the way down, that the problems they were killing themselves over actually were fixable or could be worked through…except for the now - extremely unfixable - problem of gravity.
Went to the Holocaust Museum in DC once. There was a video interview of an Auschwitz survivor who said he and some other prisoners stayed up all night with a man who wanted to kill himself. The man didn’t kill himself and survived to liberation.
In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”
Hearing that from a guy who survived the Holocaust rewired my brain a little bit.
I think something a lot of people don’t understand is that depression is not suicidality, and suicidality is not depression.
People can, and are, depressed without being suicidal, and sometimes suicidality peaks as people are emerging from depression.
Suicidality is a wave, and the trick is to allow that wave to crest and subside WITHOUT acting on it.
Whatever it takes to ride it out. For some people that’s distraction, like watching television. For others it’s calling a friend – not to talk about the suicidality, but just to talk. For others it could be as simple as going to sit in a coffee shop or library, because the presence of other people is a huge diminisher of suicide risk.
That’s what suicide safety planning is about. It’s like having any other type of emergency plan, like a plan for fire or evacuation. It’s making a plan when you are in the frame of mind to do so, so that you can just DO the plan without having to think about it when the occasion arises.
When you’re in the midst of suicidal ideation, or even intent, you’re not in a problem-solving mood. So knowing past!you, with the help of a therapist hopefully, came up with the plan and all you have to do is follow up until the wave crests and subsides, is what allows you to see another day.
The man bursts into tears. “But doctor,” he cries, “I am Pagliacci.” It is then that I stand from my seat. “No, doctor- I am Pagliacci.” Another follows suit. “No, I am Pagliacci!” Another. “I am Pagliacci!” Soon all of the patients stand, tall and defiant. “I am Pagliacci! I am Pagliacci!” The doctor cannot take us all
i have this painting i got at a yard sale for free (if i took a broken dresser with it, which i did) and i have been obsessed with it:
so today i was trying to figure out where it was from and the more i searched the weirder it got because near as i can tell it’s from the fex valley in the swiss alps which is cool but what kinda chokehold did this specific bridge/cabin have on people
these are two different paintings… and then i found this postcard on ebay
all these ppl painting the same exact image from the exact same random postcard… anyway if anyone knows this spot i would be fascinated to know more but i will live in mystery and if you’re wondering “did you buy the postcard” yeah of course i bought the postcard
I found it if you were still wondering
Val Fex is a southern side valley from the Upper Engadine in Switzerland
i know it’s in val fex, but where is that exact picture from? that’s what i’m trying to figure out… the hunt continues (when i get back from a walk)
however i still know nothing about this little barn… i will live and love in mystery
okay thank you @thepinkpeg who did find this and it turns out it’s actually a 17th century cabin now converted into an art exhibit accessed only by foot (or horse). from the outside on the hill above it looks like this:
and inside it contains this:
thank you all so much. i have my answer and it is more fascinating than i could have thought.
“gender is a social construct”: fairly easy for leftists to understand
“race is a social construct”: a bit harder to swallow for some but still reasonable
“mental illness is a social construct”: this one gets you hate mail in your inbox
Gotta add previous tags on here, because this is gonna live rent free in my head from now on. The stars are real, constellations are not. Damn. Tags by @smoreofbabylon (if you don’t want me to put you on blast like this I’ll delete lol!)
If I could time travel I would move history slightly to the left so that England would be named after the “saxon” half of anglo-saxon and this would change nothing except that instead of England it would be called Sexland
about the “trans men did nothing in history” sentiment and the post i reblogged ealier. friends, i get being misinformed, but do i need to fucking remind you about billy tipton, a jazzman, who lived as his true self for 55 years, just to get posthumously outed and have a biography written about him, reffering to him as a “crossdressing woman”? or about Dr. James Barry, a prominent surgeon, said to “entertain the male role” for the sake of his studies even though he lived as a man in both his public and private life for 56 years, also outed posthumously despite him being adamant to not examine his body after death?
these are just two most well-known examples because the entire topic requires months, even years of research, but i want you to recall every single female historical figure you heard about who “dressed as a man to go to university” or “pretended to be male to do whatever” and genuinely think about how many of them could have been trans men or nonbinary people. just a little thought experiment, alright? many of them could’ve been cis, but i want you to just think about the possibility. think back to everything notable that women did in history, and ask yourself why trans men might’ve been grouped with them, okay?
the problem is that we’ll never know, because us trans men have been stripped of our history and agency (a mix of misogyny and transphobia, and before anyone asks how do trans men experience misogyny, we are seen as women by anyone who does not respect our identity, that’s fucking how you genius). the sentiment of “she was buried as a man but had female genitalia, definitely just a girlboss pretending to be a man!!! u go girl!!11!1” frames the entire idea of being a transgender man as “pretending” to “be someone else” to “escape the patriarchy”, which invalidates our struggle and identity and is just as ridiculous as the transphobic belief that trans women are “pretending to be women” to gain access to women’s locker rooms. being men is our truth, not a costume, any trans person knows how that works. so i’ll have to kindly ask anyone who says “trans men were not as important to history as trans women” to shut up for a moment and think for even a second about how the world works, okay?
