litterae-ignotae:

Trauma impels people both to withdraw from close relationships and to seek them desperately. The profound disruption in basic trust, the common feelings of shame, guilt, and inferiority, and the need to avoid reminders of the trauma that might be found in social life, all foster withdrawal from close relationships. But the terror of the traumatic event intensifies the need for protective attachments. The traumatized person therefore frequently alternates between isolation and anxious clinging to others. […]

Traumatized people suffer damage to the basic structures of the self. They lose their trust in themselves, in other people, and in God. Their self-esteem is assaulted by experiences of humiliation, guilt, and helplessness. Their capacity for intimacy is compromised by intense and contradictory feelings of need and fear. The identity they have formed prior to the trauma is irrevocably destroyed.

— Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman

cryptotheism:

If there’s anything I’ve learned studying cults/esoterica its that it does not matter what you are building a community around, eventually, one way or another, people will find a way to be harmful fucking freaks about it.

jakeperaltas:

“It ends or it doesn’t. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn’t. If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. If they don’t come back, you sleep in the middle of the bed, learn how to make enough coffee for yourself alone. Adapt. Adjust. It ends or it doesn’t. It ends or it doesn’t. We do not perish.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, It Ends or it Doesn’t

official-drpeaches:

writing-prompt-s:

It’s been 6 years since the zombie apocalypse started, thousands die weekly, but society hasn’t changed much. Your local news tracks zombie migration. An armored school bus picks kids up every morning. Your local walmart just installed a fancy new bio-scanner. And you still need to go to work.

stonedfemmeblues:

unknought:

unknought:

It really is pretty dramatic how almost every article about how trans people are placing unreasonable demands on society focuses primarily on transfeminine people and almost every article about how trans people are poor delusional victims of the medical-industrial complex focuses primarily on transmasculine people.

This point felt less obvious back when there wasn’t a book called The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.

it’s literally just sexism rebranded as “feminist critique”, they view trans men as confused and helpless women and they view trans women as aggressive and demanding men. it’s condescending and reinforces harmful gender stereotypes while liberating absolutely no one.

julykings:

are you ever like. i’m not the right Me right now to hang out with people. wait until the better guy shows up lol this one kind of sucks 

lurkerwithcomputer:

vintage-soleil:

For being a shadow and two dandelions, that is a surprisingly unnerving image.

pickle-belly: