Dracula/Bela Lugosi collector envelope, 1931.

what you need to understand about recommending a show to me is that no matter how much we both know I’ll like it, I can’t watch it until the Neurodivergence Department in my brain approves it. I don’t know when that will be, and I don’t have any more control over it than you do.

what would be the funniest genre of music to get weird and revisionist about instead of punk rock

Psych Survivor Resource Guide

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Check out the resource guide on the Psych Survivor Archive! I am continually updating it, so if you know of cool resources that you want me to add, feel free to let me know.

www.psychsurvivorarchive.com/resources

creemore, ontario david herzog + should have known better, sufjan stevens

being uncomfortable becomes easier when you realize that’s literally the point. it’s like working out. if you work out & it becomes easy for you, you already got all you could out of that workout. your body adjusted & is strong enough to handle it now. you’re not improving anymore. that’s why you up the ante with harder workouts, where you’re uncomfortable & not quite strong enough yet. bc eventually you will be strong enough. but if it’s not a challenge, there’s no gain. & that’s exactly how it is with situations out of your comfort zone. the more you put yourself in them, the easier they get—but that in-between phase where you’re struggling is still completely valid and ok and natural. it’s what’s supposed to happen. it’s what’s going to change you as a person. and you should keep doing it

Some tags I found in notes that I feel are a very, very important caveat

the Transsexual's Gambit is when you use whichever public bathroom has a shorter line and pray you pass well enough as nothing in particular for it to work

sometimes i go into one bathroom & if all the stalls are occupied i leave & go to the other it's my toxic trait

it's actually terrifying how quickly the concept of self care (originally a radical concept rooted in the black panther party's efforts to support other black ppl living through racism) became another tool of self-management which is viewed as both a moral obligation + an individual responsibility. businesses + employers + other institutions now easily wield it as a progressive way to say "if you're upset about xyz, make yourself get over it". "we are going to treat you like shit + you need to learn how to cope with that or else you're doing something wrong"

i have seen job listings where "ability to practice self care" was listed as a requirement for employment. as a case worker, we were repeatedly drilled on "self-care" as a response to unconscionably high case loads, traumatizing experiences, dead end job obligations, + poor living conditions due to subpar pay/high stress. my clients would go to appointments regarding their evictions, food insecurity, active domestic violence situations, etc + receive tips on "self care" without any tangible community, legal, or structural support to follow.

everyone absolutely deserves to care for themselves + it is useful to circulate affirmations + advice on how to do this. this should happen within communities, through a sincere concern/love for one another, as a way of helping everyone live the best life possible while we work towards total liberation. it should not be a replacement for caring for one another!!! it should be one of many ways of caring for one another!!!

jonlandman: Just finished the fantastic @danozzi book Sellout and immediately went into the rabbit hole of @thesyndotcom archives. These pics of @mychemicalromance are from our 2002 CMJ Conflict of Interest Party. MCR opened the show that also featured Silvertide and VHS or Beta. 📷: @chickphila

[Posted January 11, 2022 / Photographed (best guess) October 29, 2002]

Photography by: Casey Kerchner Landman

thank you to @forfoxessake for sending me this post!

-Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963) -Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1972)

Jeanne d'Arc (1900) Dir. Georges Méliès

healing era (it's getting worse)

ultimately the cheesecake factory menu fails to tell a queer narrative