The Navajo Have A Unique Tradition. When A Baby Is Born, It Is Regarded As The Ultimate, Precious Gift

stop fucking using the word psychotic to describe bad behaviour and violence already god fucking damn it

Hey, if you have no choice but to infodump, always use characters, never the narrator to tell things to the reader.

This way, if you got something wrong and someone points it out later, you can argue that this character in particular was lying/misremembering/was ignorant of the exact details. You, the author, obviously knew what the real facts were all along.

instrument or sport if applicable in tags. if you wish

Halsey coming out on their Insta story with their diagnoses of EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome), MCAS (mast cell activation syndrome) and POTS (post orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) is a huge banner moment for zebra & spoonie visibility and awareness and I stan a zebra queen. Thank you for your honest, raw presence here with us.

which of your features would people romanticize if u were famous… for me i think it would be my bunny teeth or the little scar i have on my forehead from hitting it as a toddler

just because its true doesnt mean you should say it

Therapist: So, tell me about yourself. Why have you decided to go to therapy?

Tim: oh well it was all Bruce's idea. He's really good at picking up on when I'm feeling off. He absolutely insisted I talk to someone and after arguing with him for a bit, I relented.

Therapist: sounds like he really cares about you

Tim: yeah. You think as the good middle, unproblematic child I'd get overlooked, but he doesn't let anything slip by him

Flashback:

Tim [sighing]: sometimes i feel numb inside and nothing brings me joy. Everything i do just makes things worse

Batman, sitting at batcomputer: mhm

Tim [leaning dramatically over the back of a chair]: the days all blur together and i wonder if there's even a point to living. Why bother?

Batman: mhm

Tim [standing directly behind Bruce]: if i disappeared would you even miss me?

Batman: mhm yeah sound great Tim

Tim [resting his head on Bruce's shoulder]: this is a cry for help. I'm very depressed.

Batman: mhm

Jason: oh hey guys! Just dropping by before I go to kill the Penguin

Batman [whirling around]: wHAT?? YOU BETTER NOT-

Tim: oh for fucks sake

Sometimes I think about my life through the lens of the past.

How many things do I suffer though because of the greed of European “explorers” and American imperialism.

I leave the ‘āina. I leave my ‘ohana. I leave my heart. And I suffer at a job I hate. And I spent years wearing a fakey costume and smiling for tourists and pretending I felt anything other than empty.

I colonized myself. Made myself palatable for tourists. Made myself palatable for tips and a paycheck. And I ate popcorn for dinner bc that’s what we could afford and I spent my extra money making sure my siblings didn’t feel the crushing weight of poverty. And every extra cent was spent trying to save them from how I felt.

Humiliated. Colonized. A joke.

And now I live on the mainland because we cannot afford to live on sacred land. Because haoles move there for paradise, and they kill us as they buy up beautiful houses and pave the road for resorts. Our land. Our ‘āina. And I’m now a walking attraction. And I can do the hula style smile and I can make my eyes shine like diamonds. And people ask me if I picked coconuts from trees and I think about my elders who live in concrete apartments and I miss my grandfather and his warm smile. And I never know if I will see them again.

I used to stare at the statue of Kamehameha. His arm stretched out in a loving greeting. His other hand holding a spear to defend his people. But he leads with the hand. He leads with aloha.

Because that’s what we do. It is what we are born to do. We are born to aloha. To love. To compassion. Even now, even after everything, all I want to do is be kind.

And it’s terrible. But sometimes I just wish he had lead with the spear.

AND a race one since the most affected regions will be Africa, Asia and Oceania

Team “I can hear the near silent hum of electrical appliances and the bubbles fizzing in the can of soda on the coffee table, but can’t watch tv without subtitles and processes conversation at ¼ speed”

REBLOG if you think any Pan identity is completely valid and isn't biphobic or transphobic

I keep seeing panphobic shit and I'm sad and I need to prove a point to myself