What The Fuck

It’s Mental Health Month, Tumblr!

Your mental health is important. Because of the coronavirus, people all around the world are experiencing high levels of mental and emotional stress. That’s why this year’s Mental Health Month initiative will focus on common aspects of isolation and loneliness: how to protect, maintain, and improve your mental health, how to manage your relationships inside and outside of your household, how to combat boredom, and how to deal with the grief you might be feeling.

All month long our friends at Ditch the Label (@ditchthelabel), a UK anti-bullying non-profit, will post resources to guide you through some of the emotional hardships you may be feeling right now. Here on @postitforward, we’ll be reblogging the best stuff we see from them, the top-notch stuff we see from the rest of the Tumblr community, and posting exclusive original art from some of our very own Tumblr @creatrs. 

Some of you may be concerned with your mental health for the first time in your life. For others, existing mental health issues may be exacerbated by current events—especially for those of you who may be quarantined with people whose values are at odds with your own. We see you, and we want to help.

If you don’t want to see these posts, that’s okay! Taking good care of your mind comes in many forms. We’ll tag all of our posts with “cw mental health month” as well as more specific tags when appropriate so you can use the tag filtering tool to keep them from your dashboard. And, hey, if you’re looking for a totally stress-free zone, go out and check out Cozy (@cozy)—it’s a blog we created to embrace a little escapism. Otherwise, be sure to give Ditch the Label (@ditchthelabel) a follow if you’re interested in the tools and guidance they will be providing starting May 4.

One last thing: If you or someone you know are struggling and don’t know where to turn to, here’s a list of free counseling services located all over the world

Do your best to take care of yourself, Tumblr. <3

kind of belated, but Happy Pride y’all :)

Marks and Rec: Misc #2265

(Radical.) (Dialogue from the meme.)

Does anyone else think that dark side Logan would be like the Squip from be more chill?

Thomas: make it stop make it stop

Logan: I do not understand the request

Thomas: Logan help me out here

Logan: konnichiwa

Let’s talk about xenogenders

Definition: A nonbinary gender identity that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender; more concerned with crafting other methods of gender categorization and hierarchy such as those relating to animals, plants, or other creatures/things. It’s mainly an umbrella term for genders with themes such as nouns, archetypes, synesthetic experiences, neurodivergences.

Are xenogenders serious? Usually, yes. (But at the same time… What if they aren’t? To be fair, being trans/nonbinary doesn’t always have to be this imagined experience of constant suffering. We’re allowed to describe our lived experience of gender in flowery ways, too!)

Do xenogenders hurt real trans people? No, but if you’re asking this question, I want to ask one in return - What are you defining as a “real” trans person?Is someone only really trans/nonbinary if they can pass? Or have dysphoria? Or get surgery? Or are accepted by cis people? It’s important to understand that what one might think of when they think “real trans person” might be rooted in excluding a majority of the trans population.

But MOGAI genders/xenogenders/neolabels are why people don’t take us seriously! Trying to blame other people who’re trying to find terms to describe their gender/orientation/etc is a slippery slope, and trying to guilt people back into the closet to appease cishet people is never going to work. We do not exist to be palatable to them. This line of thinking is extremely dangerous, and it’s been applied to every other identity. As a community, we need to stand together against transphobia and it’s actual cause: Transphobes.

While xenogenders can be hard to understand at first, these terms are coined because someone out there was genuinely struggling to find a label that felt fitting, and found that their actual life experience couldn’t be described accurately by more common descriptors like “male,” “female,” “neutral,” and that describing their experience by relating it to something else truly helped them! Sometimes this will be things that seem “silly,” like media, aesthetics, and other unique things.

You may not understand how something can be a gender, and that’s okay! Sometimes we won’t be able to completely understand an experience because it’s one we will never have, and that doesn’t mean that the experience is invalid. It’s just how being a human works!

Sure

A new gore meme, for the gore artists out there! Remember to specify if you’re uncomfortable with any of the above prompts, and tag your art appropriately when finished!

EDIT: Updated, with more prompts!

‪Put a corg in it.‬

‪Suggested by AmaviSmith on Twitch.‬

Pale Gay Meme