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My categories for favorite Characters

You know, I think it’s very clear that there are different types of favorite characters that you can have and so far I have split them in four categories:

• the “I relate to you” category which is basically just people that go through the same or similar struggles in their story that you had to go through / are going through

Example from my list: Luna Lovegood (she’s also an INFP, so she’s very similar to me)

• the “you’re literally my baby” category, which mostly consists of cute characters that you want to take care of

Example from my list: Qiqi from Genshin Impact (she’s hated by a lot of people in the fandom but I just find her endearing)

• the “please be my parent” category, which is kinda the exact opposite of the last one, just characters that you may see as a mentor or parental figure

Example from my list: Miranda Bailey from Grey’s Anatomy (she’s stern but means well and also a very good teacher)

• and last but not least the “I am attracted to you” category, which is kinda self explanatory, a lot of people have characters in that category, that might not really be the nicest of all, but they still like them because “they’re hot okay?!” Example from my list: Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7 (what can I say? He’s hot and I have a thing for men with long hair)

This is so true oml

I can't find the source, but I feel like there were many more panels to this....

meh, why you leaving?

I think she’s slightly mad at me for leaving town again (it’s holiday time right now and I’m going somewhere else, but my cat unfortunately has to stay at home with a neighbor taking care of her)

Imposter syndrome and ADHD

so, I am currently waiting to finally get tested for ADHD (a therapist that I talked to suggested that it may be inattentive type ADHD), but I just keep having imposter syndrome about it, because sometimes I notice “typical ADHD behavior” while I’m doing it, so I keep thinking, that maybe I’m subconsciously behaving like that on purpose or something. Is that a normal thing to happen with people that have ADHD or does this say something about me? I know that I’m not tested for anything yet, so maybe I just don’t have ADHD, but it would really explain a lot of things and also help me feel better about not being so good at certain things. So, is it normal to have imposter syndrome about something like that?

crazy how sometimes u dance alone to your favorite song in your bedroom and you are like oh yeah thats why im alive

ok but the “lgbtq groomers are indoctrinating children” narrative is so strange to me cuz like. i had it hammered into my head so hard that i was a girl that i thought i was, as a uterus haver, obligated to have my ear impaled at eight years old. I was so conditioned into heteronormativity that i thought my only choice in life was to grow up, marry a cisgender christian man, and have his babies. Like the adults in my life practically shipped me with this guy friend i had when i was like 6 to the point where i thought we had to date when we got older. you know who’s never made me feel anything like that? queer people. when conservatives say “indoctrinating” they mean “inspiring dissent that could disrupt the status quo we’ve forced upon everyone”

WE MADE IT FOLKS!!!

can you believe that the most human trait there is is art? we didn't start making art because it was needed for our survival or it helped us mate or hunt…. we make art for the sake of making it and for you and other people to enjoy it. this is why I love literature and art museums or just looking through my old sketches and stories…. making art is what it means to be human I think.

Do you ever notice how it’s only ever “mental health awareness” until said mental health starts making other people uncomfortable? People preach about suicide awareness until they have to actually face what would make somebody want to kill themselves.

Society has this thing where it’ll go on and on “reaching out” or for example “talking to a school counsellor” but the only image people have in their heads is some teenager from a troubled home, divorced parents probably, suffering from some mild depression, a bit of anxiety, and then they’ll comfort them and oh won’t they be the absolute hero, being such a good support to a poor suffering soul.

And of course, that hypothetical scenario I just gave is perfectly serious in its own right – of course no matter the severity of the mental health condition, no matter what the individual has gone through, of course they’re still deserving of help and comfort and love, and of course “mild depression and a bit of anxiety/divorced parents” is absurdly shitty to have to deal with and nobody should have to go through that alone, and yes, of course they should be comforted (although wholly without the aforementioned saviour complex.)

But society preaches about supporting those pushed outside the norm by their psychological health, but even then it fully has its own idea of what is inside the norm of outside the norm. Anything that falls outside that is pushed away and not spoken about, or, frankly, even viewed as depraved in some form or another. The moment somebody’s psychological condition starts to make people uncomfortable, all their self-righteous rhetoric about supporting those who need support flies outside the window, and society starts to panic. ‘“It’s ok not to be ok”, unless you start to make me feel uncomfortable.”

For example, yes, support the mentally ill until the mentally ill start to have intrusive or violent impulsive thoughts. Support the mentally ill until they find it difficult to communicate and function in society. Support the mentally ill until they can’t take care of themselves, don’t clean themselves. Support the mentally ill until they’re paranoid, until their thoughts aren’t based in logic. Support the mentally ill until they start to have hallucinations. Support the mentally ill until their psychological trauma disturbs you.

Support the mentally ill until they make you uncomfortable. If people start to be tormented by their own thoughts and the “vents” you expected of simply the four words, “I think I’m depressed” start turning into ranting that disturbs you, then they’re “weird” and that person is ostracised and left to rot in those thoughts. If someone self-harms, then they’re immediately labelled as “emo” or “doing it for the trend”, which is completely disgusting, but also interesting that most of the time this happens because society can’t comprehend the idea of wanting to harm yourself. Society can’t comprehend mental illness generally, so it’s shunned or seen as pathetic or laziness.

Of course, not everyone is equipped to deal with mental illness, and that’s perfectly fine. Some people may genuinely feel out of their depth and unable to help, and that’s ok. However it’s that ostracization, that dismissal out of discomfort or fear towards people that makes it all the worse and makes the people who preach about mental health awareness hypocrites.

It’s ok not to be ok until you fall outside the norm. Then you’re no longer human. You’re a disease.

Society can’t handle what it doesn’t fully comprehend, and instead fears it. It’s the same way with queer folk/specific different cultures, depending on your own/anything that society doesn’t understand, it fears. And the same is the way with mental illness. And when society fears something, it either becomes unspeakable, or it’s mocked.

Don't we all..

Just a nice view

This is a picture that a person who’s close to me took from our holiday house in Germany 🩵

hoodie.

you know, being gender-fluid is so full of possibilities until you realize that most of the time you just feel like a gremlin and end up wearing the same old hoodie that you’ve worn at least five times in the last week, like ok, gender is too tired today, so we’ll just wear the hoodie :)

My thoughts on the whole JK Rowling thing

So, personally I have always been a fan of the Harry Potter Books and Movies because they were very hyped when I was a child. I spent a lot of time reading the books and daydreaming myself into the HP world. Sadly enough, JK Rowling has made it harder for me to enjoy her media, because of her internalized misogyny and transphobia, that keeps popping up in her works. For example: Ginny, Molly Weasley and Hermione being mean to Fleur for no reason (Misogyny) and the description of Rita Skeeter hinting at her being trans (Transphobia obviously). I am still kind of a fan of the Harry Potter Universe but I do not agree with any of the disgusting and transphobic tweets she keeps writing. In my opinion, it’s very sad that she had to ruin her story with her stupid opinions and it’s also sad, that in order to make her shut up, we would need to make her (and in turn also her franchise) irrelevant. I might or might not watch the new Harry Potter series, but if I do I will do so illegally. One thing everybody can do is to not buy any Harry Potter merch and to not stream the movies on streaming services that earn money through that. Because these things end up earning money for JK Rowling. I just hope that people stop listening / paying attention to her bullshit and that trans people know they’re great the way they are.

A floofus doofus

I‘m not at home right now and I really miss my cat, so here are some pictures of her being adorable (￣^￣)

fanfiction woes

Do you guys ever just go on ao3 and completely forget which ship you wanted to read fanfiction about? Because I do that.. it’s pretty similar to walking into a room and then not knowing why you went there to begin with.