i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job
funniest possible approach to a mental health crisis is being like 😏 well if you were actually crazy you wouldnt even care that youre locked in an austere room under observation and if youre not fucked up cannnnn you sign this form saying you wont immediately kill yourself in the parking lot we need your cot for a new guy today so you do kind of have to sign the form before youre allowed to disengage from this conversation
Since my drawing practice sheet featuring birds got a lot of positive attention, I thought I'd do a second part. This time I practiced drawing marine mammals, and by marine mammals, I mean mostly Baikal seals. 🦭
sick and tired of all the discourse about who deserves human rights. every single human. that's the whole point. yes even them. and them too. cruelty and torture and murder and rape are not things you "earn"
You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.
Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…
…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.
My uncle is autistic so he has sensory sensitivities, and he's largely nonverbal so he can't tell you what those sensitivities Are, so what he does is, if you give him a shirt that is a bad texture, he goes and gets his scissors and he cuts it into tiny little pieces so no one can ever ask him to wear it ever again, and the thing is is that he is so totally right