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Rietz by Bill Jewitt

Winter morning walks (by Milamai)

Daily Paint 2233. Chillypad

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i cant keep up with tumblr drama because new “popular text post bloggers” appear out of the ether fully fledged with 200k followers and everyone already apparently knows who they are and then 2 days later i see a callout post with information dating back 5 years as if this person didnt just pop into existence earlier in the week

SPIDER CAT (I seriously have no idea how he managed this) via https://ift.tt/2zJEKr6

“This is our hermit crab, Ferris Mewler. He frequently changes shells.”

Photos/caption by CardiacSchmardiac

My lovely cat… (by sarah.pc83)

From @ortner_stefanie: “Ist er nicht süss 🤣🦁” #catsofinstagram [source: http://bit.ly/2RtW7Gy ]

Cat Bell Ringers 

19th century illustration..

Going through an art block, so have a Sandshrew on its head.

Gameboy Pokemon Terrariums made by Winnie Sumida

Top Shot: Camels in Cable Beach

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“Broome has one of the most amazing sunsets in Australia. They offer a camel ride here along the shores of Cable Beach,” writes Your Shot photographer Jasper Ivan Iturriaga. “I timed this shot with my drone looking down to get this effect of the camels and their shadow. What an amazing sight!!” Photograph by Jasper Ivan Iturriaga

Spoopy.

First thing I want to say is that it is not necessary for fiction to be good for people’s mental health.  Art for art’s sake has value, so does individual autonomy, and people can create and consume fiction based on what they want and what they value without having to make it medicinal so they can justify it as a social good.

Second thing I want to say is that it is not possible to create fiction that is universally good for people’s mental health.  Tumblr fandom tends to treat certain mental health needs as implicitly the most legitimate, and inherent universal needs, but it’s way more complicated than that.  Many people will absolutely thrive on stories of loving, supportive families, while some people will need to avoid them due to their specific family history.  Some people are helped by reading about characters they enjoy practicing healthy communication and getting positive results, while other people might come away hearing, “Everyone can do healthy communication and get helpful responses if they try hard enough, so therefore the problem must be you screwing it up!”   Some people might find “Destroy the evil abuser” revenge fantasies a helpful way to process anger, while other people might find they do more harm than good.    A lot of people find stories of a character being gently nurtured by someone else, while some people have negative associations with other people trying to take care of them and have bad psychological reactions to these stories.  (And let me tell you, if you have a bad associations with soft pastel nurturing that mean it can put you in a bad headspace, Tumblr can be pure hell.)

Mental health needs differ.  They’re not always soft.  They’re not always predictable based on a diagnosis, or a few details of someone’s history.  They’re diverse, individual, and sometimes mesh poorly with stuff that most people would consider healthy and wholesome.   Your story might be helpful for a specific person, or for a number of people, but there’s no such thing as the universally healthy story or the universally unhealthy story.  It is literally not possible to write something for the general public and ensure it’s healthy for everyone who reads it.

No

This is so fucking cursed.