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lovely space

@star-reflection-blog / star-reflection-blog.tumblr.com

dragon ♥ f ♥ istp i love gay space rocks, the night sky, and video games please read my about! cursor by wateringkissmint on deviantart, sidebar by queer-terror on tumblr!
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general complaints about tumblr

maybe offensive, read at your own risk 

please please please do NOT argue with me over this post.

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Pokemon Art Meme! Send me a number and I'll draw...

1. My first-ever starter
2. My most recent starter
3. My favorite water-type
4. My favorite grass-type
5. My favorite fire-type
6. My favorite flying-type
7. My favorite ground-type
8. My favorite electric-type
9. My favorite fighting-type
10. My favorite dark-type
11. My favorite steel-type
12. My favorite fairy-type
13. My favorite dragon-type
14. My favorite poison-type
15. My favorite psychic-type
16. My favorite ice-type
17. My favorite rock-type
18. My favorite bug-type
19. My favorite ghost-type
20. My favorite normal-type
21. My favorite legendary
22. My favorite Eveelution
23. A shiny Pokemon that I have/want
24. My strongest/most powerful Pokemon
25. My weakest Pokemon
26. My cutest Pokemon
27. My weirdest Pokemon
28. My Pokemon team (from any game)
29. The Pokemon I'd have IRL if Pokemon were real
30. My favorite Mega-Evolved Pokemon
31. My in-game character's appearance (from any game)
32. My all-time favorite Pokemon
33. My least favorite Pokemon
34. A Pokemon that's really underrated, but I love
35. A Pokemon that's really popular, but I hate
36. A Pokemon I've always wanted to have, but haven't caught
37. A Pokemon of your choice in a realistic style
38. A humanized Pokemon of your choice
39. Any Pokemon of your choice (in my normal style)
40. Free space! Draw any Pokemon!
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No one here seems interested in the grimy parts of mental health. Everyone wants to talk about mental illness as quiet introverts drinking tea and nervously stuttering over words. No one ever talks about symptoms like paranoia or hallucinations or hypersexuality or compulsions or homelessness or drug addiction or delusions or psychosis or violent urges. Every time a clearly mentally ill person commits a crime, and someone says, “Hey, maybe this is a sign that we need to improve mental health awareness in this country,” everyone goes to screaming: “This isn’t about mental illness! Mentally ill people aren’t violent!”

But yes, sometimes mentally ill people are violent. Sometimes we are bad people. And even those mentally ill people are in need of advocacy, maybe even more so.

When you post “Protect people with mental illnesses at all costs,” do you mean all of us, or just the cute ones?

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I get sick of tumblr’s version of self care, which 90% of the time threads into this beautifully: go pet a fuzzy cute animal! pile up your favorite blankets from childhood and watch disney movies! take a nap! play a game from this list of cute soothings games! 

More realistically: go take a shower because it’s been three days. Wash the dishes that have been in the sink since last Friday that you can smell as soon as you open your door because rotting food stinks. Pick all your clothes off the floor because that’s where your entire wardrobe is and you’ve already cried today because you tripped over a sweater and realized the cat puked on it. Call someone who can give you enough courage to pay that bill you’ve been ignoring. Put away the crackers because that’s all you’ve eaten for two days straight. Apologize to the friends who are worried sick about you, and if you can’t at least let them know you are ok and need space. 

One of the most empowering types of self-care is responsibility, but tumblr just wants to sit in a closet strung with fairy lights and read their favorite fic.  

“Cute” self-care for “cute” mental issues. That’s not reality. 

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