If you consider yourself an ally of mentally ill people, here are some words, phrases, and general behaviours that make your mentally ill friends and family distrust the true nature/intentions of your allyship:
• Using the word "triggered" in place of "bothered", "upset", or "offended", without regard for the fact that "triggered" is an actual psychiatric term that refers to actual psychiatric triggers. (Also, 99% of the time when someone says something like "oh did I trigger you?", they're literally weaponizing the term in order to gaslight the person they're talking to, which just makes them a really shitty human being).
• laugh reacting, and/or sharing "funny" videos of human beings acting "fucked up" in public.
• conflating the meanings of "psychotic" and "psychopathic"/"psychosis" and "psychopathy" as if they're not two completely different words that just happen to sound similar.
• using the word "psychotic" or "psycho" to describe someone who just happens to be an aggressively shitty person. Actually, to be honest, you should probably stay away from calling shitty people anything that denotes mental illness, like, "crazy" (unless you're mentally ill and reclaiming the word for yourself)... I don't personally have an issue with people who use the word "crazy" to describe erratic behaviour, but a lot of us psychiatrically unwell folks do take issue with it.
• Something a lot of our society has a hard time wrapping their heads around is the idea that people can behave badly and with "evil" intent while being perfectly mentally healthy. Assuming or suggesting anytime an "evil" person makes headlines, that they must be "sick" to be able to do something so terrible is not only highly ableist but that assumption (that only mentally ill people can be evil, or dangerous, or violent) literally leads to the deaths of innocently suffering mentally ill people every single day.
Anyway. This is just a rant, really. Other mentally ill and/or neurodiverse people are welcome to add to the list. Neurotypicals and mentally healthy people can repost or reblog, but keep your opinions and questions to yourself (Google it if you need to), so as not to speak over others who are actually personally affected by this shit. Thanks.
The Tooth Hurts: The Saber-Toothed Daggarat
The mison of the continent of Ecatoria, unlike their relatives in Westerna and Nodera, evolved a pair of prominent tusks as additional defenses against the unique native predators of the Ecatorian continent: the hamyenas. However, not even this would be enough, as eventually in the Early Therocene one species of hamyena eventually evolves to specifically prey upon mison: the saber-toothed daggarat (Smilocynomys scmitarodon).
Roughly the size of a Great Dane, the daggarat is the largest member of a group of distinctly canid-like hamyenas, the zingos. Specialized for running after prey on the open plains, they usually preyed upon smaller quarry such as boingos and hamtelopes, but the arrival of the mison from the northern continent of Westerna 5 million years ago set their sights on new prey -- and more specialized weaponry for tackling larger game.
The daggarat, like all hamyenas, sports a single long 'fang' made from the fusion of its upper incisors into a single stabbing point. However, in the daggarat, this fang can reach a length of up to six inches, and protrudes out of the mouth when the mouth is closed, to avoid injuring its own gums and lips. Hardened enamel protects the modified incisor from damage despite its exposure, and is strengthened with iron much like those of a beaver's teeth, which also grants it a distinctive orange hue. But unlike beaver teeth, the fang of the daggarat is not used for gnawing wood -- but for piercing through hide and flesh.
The primary hunting tactic of the daggarat is through persistence, singling out a straggler from a herd of mison and ambushing it. Able to open its jaws to a frightening 120 degrees, the daggarat quickly lunges in, stabs a few deep wounds into the mison intended to puncture large arteries, and promptly retreats, as an injured mison can easily trample and kill them in its panic. The daggarat then sits back and waits for the mison to move on, before harassing and wounding it again when it stops to rest or drink, putting up a prolonged cycle of attack, retreat, wait and attack once more, a process which can last as long as two to three days until exhausted and wounded, the mison finally succumbs to its injuries and the daggarat is rewarded for its patience with a huge food source that can last it for days.
Daggarats typically hunt in pairs, usually a mated couple, which cooperatively hunt together and aid one another in bringing down their large prey, and share the same den when they shelter at night. The pair are very closely bonded and rarely leave each other's side, and typically mate for life: only taking a new mate should their previous one die. The pair can produce a litter of three to five pups each breeding season (usually every two to three years), which the couple take turns caring for for at least ten months until they are weaned: by then, the father chases off the male offspring to fend for themselves, but female pups stick around for up to two years-- during which the resulting larger pack when hunting with their parents allows them a greater chance of success in quickly making a kill.
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“I tell the landscape where we’re going.”
The only Good Jews are the Jews who are self-sacrificing, who will go willingly to their deaths for the salvation of others. The Good Jew, who will willingly undergo torments unto death, is the only Good Jew.
The Good Jew will absolve their murderers. The Good Jew will 'turn the other cheek'. The Good Jew will write "I still believe that people are good at heart" when being persecuted. The Good Jew will lay down and die for the comfort and education of others.
But for all other Jews who fail to attain such lofty standards?
They are betrayers, corruptors, colonizers, genociders, child murderers, blood drinkers. Capitalists and communists. Sexually depraved and yet sexless, where even the Jewish men are emasculated. They are White, yet also still Other. They are rootless cosmopolitans, from nowhere, yet told to go back where they came from. Their mere presence is a taint, and yet they hide among the disciples of the Good Jew, waiting for their chance to betray and sell out.
The only Good Jew is a Dead Jew who goes willingly to die, on the cross of the Romans or from the knives and guns of terrorists. All other Jews, who refuse to lay down and die, who dare to say "Am Yisrael Chai", that the Children of Yisrael Live, are therefore innately evil and irredeemable, and must be shunned for daring to cling to life.
l gave words of support and likes to those who are affected by the conflict.
Based on this, Tumblr has decided I'm interested in Hamas apologia.
the long tailed silky-flycatcher is a thrush-sized passerine bird found only in the mountains of costa rica and western panama. females are duller in coloration than males and lack the signature long tail feathers. this species primarily feeds on insects, as their name suggests, but also takes fruit, with a preference for mistletoe. these birds lay only two eggs in a clutch, which are placed in a delicate nest made of lichen.
Regardless of what you think of this tree… this comment was my favourite out of the collection of people who didn’t know deer shed their antlers every spring
Campbell Gardens by trisharooni
Soca Valley, Slovenia [OC] (3456x5184) by: peterino99