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People are not defined by their addictions.

Someone who is an alcoholic isn’t just an alcoholic. Someone who’s hooked on opioids isn’t necessarily a bad person. Someone who can’t help but shoot up on heroin isn’t necessarily crazy. SOMEONE WHO IS ADDICTED TO DRUGS ISN’T A BAD PERSON JUST BECAUSE THEY DO DRUGS. And even if they are a bad person? They should still be entitled to get help. If the cops arrest someone for possession of drugs, that person shouldn’t just be charged for the crime. They should be given legitimate help to stop the addiction. And because this isn’t done, at least where I live in the US, my Papa (mom’s stepdad) is now dead. Today’s his birthday, and two days ago, he committed suicide. He was an alcoholic, who was arrested multiple times, and one of those times was for possession of drugs. I don’t know what kind. All I know is, very little was done to help him, if anything at all was done. Just because someone has an addiction does not make them a bad person. I can say this with confidence because, when I was little, my Papa was one of the funniest people in my life. He made me and my cousins giggle a lot, by telling jokes and making funny faces and tickling us silly. I don’t have many memories of him beyond that, because once he and my Nana (mom’s mom) got divorced a few years back, we only saw him twice. We tried to schedule time to spend with him, but a lot of the times, he would cancel last minute. He would stop reaching out to people as much. He had to give away his cat and move out from the house he and my Nana had lived in. He moved into an apartment. Multiple times, my aunts who lived nearby called for police welfare checks on him.

Two days ago, on March 20th, my Papa was found dead. I don’t feel comfortable sharing how he did it, but he did leave a suicide note- a note that none of my family had access to for about 24 hours or so after we found out what had happened. Chances were that he was intoxicated, due to the location he was found, though we haven’t gotten back the toxicology report yet to confirm this. The day before, one of my aunts had called the police to do a welfare check on him, as he wasn’t answering his phone. Five minutes later, the officer she’d gotten in contact with responded- a time short enough for us to believe that the officer(s) involved in the welfare check were negligent. My personal opinion, though biased, is that since he had been arrested before (not for any sort of major charges to my knowledge), the police were starting to be tired of him, and think of him almost as a nuisance. Like I said, however, this is just my opinion.

People with addictions need to be treated as what they are- people. Good or bad or anything in between, everyone deserves to get treatment for an addiction, and to have their health taken care of. Otherwise, the consequences can hurt not just the person themselves, and not just the people who love them, but our entire society as a whole.

Rest in peace, Papa, and happy birthday. I love you, and I hope you knew that. 🤍

Waiting for something to happen?

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Sorry for another much smaller and simpler drawing; my brain feels like mush today from burnout TvT

A Basil-inspired poem I made a few months ago :D

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Sand bags Piled onto my shoulders One On The Other On The Other On The Other On Me Needing it to end I drop one of the sandbags But it falls Into my garden Of dreams Suffocating my plants Crushing my flowers But at least The weight is gone For now Until the next sandbag Is placed On my shoulders

Tending to my garden Watering the flowers Pruning the leaves Waiting for the blooms Of the flowers that are long dead Crushed by the weight But Continue To try to save what's left Of the dead flowers The withered white tulips The sunflowers that have gone Too long without the sun's Golden rays Until the sun returns And warms the garden again But the dead flowers Are gone So maybe it's time To plant new seeds In the soft soil And begin again

I wait patiently Tending to the seeds Waiting for the first sign Of soft green leaves Emerging from the earth And eventually As the sun shines And I continue To water The small seeds Of hope Eventually The seeds Turn To Sprouts And my garden Begins to bloom And to thrive And the flowerbuds bloom And the white tulips unfurl Green leaves And the sunflowers Face the sun And all is right And the garden grows Once again

Angy kitty doodle

Late night thoughts post and I'm eepy so if I sound deluded that's why but like, I just discovered fictionhearted and I am currently questioning if I'm fictionhearted with Basil as the character and that could be part of the reason why I'm so freaking defensive of him and get so upset when people misinterpret his character 💀

Aight so Poppy Playtime moment of some random rant stuff

Kevin is autistic. Like there’s no freaking way he’s not. He’s clearly a morally good kid, and he seems sweet, and he has friends- as shown in the chapter three tape where a kid named Joseph is asking if Kevin will be okay. I hate when people just depict him as a chronically angry kid T^T during the Doey battle, we hear him say “Too loud”, seemingly referring to nothing in particular. He *could* be referring to the fact that there are three different people making up Doey, but I don’t think so. Personally, that just sounds very much like overstimulation to me. Kevin is considered a ‘problem child’, and also seems to have difficulty regulating and understanding his emotions. As an autistic person, I relate to that a lot, though I don’t have the same response to triggers as Kevin TvT

I like to think that Kevin is autistic, Jack is ADHD, and Matthew is neurotypical just so that it’s like Doey has collected the whole trilogy like Pokémon

Also Kissy Missy is the literal definition of comfort character material. She’s soft and fluffy, helps us even when she doesn’t have to, risks her life and LOSES HER ARM trying to save us at the end of chapter four. Even when Poppy betrays us she tries to protect us. Like my freaking god if that isn’t comfort character material, idk what is

do yall ever get the urge to lay in the darkness and listen to Poems In The Fog from the Omori OST and just cry

OH MY GOD THAT’S SO TRUE- 💀💀💀

an online friend group may include:

guy who is nocturnal.

guy who goes to bed at nine pm.

guy who is inexplicably literally always online.

guy who lives on the other side of the planet.

whatever singular person voted on my most recent poll and voted yes, ty :3

Just an extremely Normal thing to say

Reminder they want to increase the budget for ICE from 3.5 to 45 billion dollars.

Reminder the majority of that will be for building new detention centers.

Reminder ICE are *currently* detaining tourists who can pay for a plane ticket home and people with visa issues that were already resolved, because they have to make quota so Trump can brag about the numbers going up.

Reminder most of these people were already in the immigration system - that's why they were easy to detain.

Reminder this is all at taxpayer expense.

Reminder these are people.