Dreamsailor - Autism

As someone who writes positive news for a living, here are my thoughts and tips for anyone who wants to get more good news in their life to balance out the bad:

Charities are your #1 source of good news. Read their impact reports, follow them on social media, sign up for their newsletters. I don't mean campaign groups - I mean charities that directly support people and communities.

Look for news on topics you care about the most. Generic "positive news" feeds cover too broad a scope to actually interest us, and positive news generally doesn't engage us as much as negative. So pick the topics nearest and dearest to your heart. maybe something you've been through, a health condition you or a loved one has, something that touches you deeply. And look for positive news about that specifically. Find an organisation that focuses on it and follows them for updates.

Think local. What are charities and community groups doing in your suburb, town, neighbourhood? If it's closer to home, it'll have a more significant impact on your wellbeing to read the positive news. It's easy to feel like the whole world is rotten, but you might find that there are little bubbles of goodness closer to you than you realise.

happy pride to everyone who can't come out or be out this pride. happy pride to you if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual or experience other types of queer attraction and cannot date, marry, live with, or sleep with the gender/s you are truly attracted to. happy pride to you if you can't tell anyone around you that you're trans. happy pride to you if you can't transition due to health, safety, familial or personal reasons. happy pride to you if you've tried to come out in the past but have been harassed out of identifying as queer. happy pride to you if you've been talked into detransitioning when you didn't want to. happy pride to you if you are aromantic or asexual and don't want to partner but are expected to or even forced to by your family. happy pride to you if you are a lesbian but feel estranged from the community because you are masculine. happy pride to you if you're gay and have to keep it a secret. happy pride to you if you are intersex but cannot be open about it. happy pride to you if you are genderqueer and/or genderfluid and cannot express the entirety of your gender/s. happy pride to you if it is illegal or otherwise impossible for you to transition.

happy pride to every queer person who is struggling to be out and loud about who they are right now. not everyone has the privilege to speak freely during pride month and as such, we must do the best that we can to make sure that these folks feel included, seen, heard, and represented. no matter who you are, transfem, transmasc, transneutral, non binary, gay, lesbian, bisexual, multispectrum, genderqueer, gnc, sapphic, achillean, aromantic, asexual, intersex, or whatever other queer identities you have, you are still a valued part of our community, and we are here for you when the rest of society can't be. you deserve to celebrate yourself too. you are just as important as queer people who have the relative freedom to express their queerness. take care of yourselves this pride month, you are loved and valued

i like clicking buttons too but i am asking you to actually pay attention to things that matter even if you don't have a fun poll to engage with. it's ridiculous how inventive people have to get to entertain tumblr userbase enough for you to reblog fundraisers nowadays.

donate to mahmoud ( @ma7moudgaza2 ). his fundraiser slowed down significantly again, once the polls in the promo posts expired. he's currently at $19,794 USD raised of the temporary $20,000 goal. it is a verified, trusted campaign.

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Donate to Support Muhammad in Gaza with a New Start, organised by Annie Hall

The Hamam family has decided to focus their attention away from rebuilding their … Annie Hall needs your support for Support Muhammad in Gaz

@buttercuparry @feluka @appsa tagging you for reach! thank you

i hate ace exclusionists. Grow Up

pro hero tododeku where they're just friends at the moment but izuku gets super drunk and ends up commenting something super flirty on shouto's post and now the people are going crazy and shouto might just combust.

Feeling crazy I'm seeing Gazan journalists posting farewells on twitter again

this pride month can we please at least listen to intersex people. for example

people who claimed intersex people didn't want to be included were largely perisex bigots

stop using amab/afab to refer to or infer sex characteristics and life experiences

stop using transfeminine/transmasculine to infer someone's agab (and subsequently their sex characteristics and life experiences)

stop using tma/tme to mean "trans women"/"everyone else"

man and woman aren't opposites, gender isn't binary

male and female aren't opposites, sex isn't binary

"contradictory" labels aren't the death knell of queer people

intersex people aren't "sexually disordered" they are fucking intersex

"intersex" is not a thing you can transition to be

intersex people don't owe conformity

intersex people don't have to tell you shit about their bodies

the "cis kids being given hormones" a lot of people mention in their trans activism include a lot of intersex kids being medically abused

can we all understand this like really really quickly. is any of this very hard to wrap your head around ?

im going through art block. people send mha character requests to my ask box

Help me and my family please 🙏

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Donate to Help a family from Gaza, organized by Yaser Matar

Hello, I am Ibtisam Al-Habil. My suffering began in 2014 when my husband was martyred, and I was … Yaser Matar needs your support for Help

@el-shab-hussein @ibtisams-blog @northgazaupdates @northgazaupdates2 @90-ghost

I thought it'd be fun to give todoroki some melanin and play around with natural hairstyles.