Hey do y'all fucks remember two years ago when just before the election all these “don’t vote both parties are bad” or “vote independent!” Posts were going around and then Trump won and now two weeks before midterms there’s all these “don’t bother voting, revolution is the only way!” And “your vote isn’t gonna matter and is an ineffective way to protest” posts are going around? Yeah knock that shit right the fuck off, don’t fall for it and get your ass to the polls, we are not doing this again.
“I know voting can be a pain in the ass, so just pretend like, if you don’t vote, children will be ripped from the arms of a parent who crawled across a desert to give them a better life and put in cages.” (Laurie Kilmartin)
depressed kids in the media: I don’t wanna go to therapy! I don’t need help! I’m not some specimen for you to dissect!
me, rollin up to my therapist’s office and collapsing in relief: what is UP my homeboy I fuckin missed you,, hope ur ready to hear some Bull Shit that fuckin happened to me this week
families of depressed kids in media: okay sweetie we’ve researched depression for ten hours straight and signed you up for therapy and re-arranged your school schedule to be less stressful
actual parents of depressed kids: look i get you’re sad but someones gotta do the goddamn dishes stop being lazy get up. why didn’t you go to school today, what’s wrong with you, you’re such a burden on this family.
Therapists in the media: *understanding head tilt*
My real live therapist whom I adore: Natalie, that is the DUMBEST thing I’ve ever heard.
Therapists in the Media: I know exactly what is going on in this family and will clarify it in flawless detail.
Myself, a therapist: I know exactly what is going on with this family but I can’t say anything because this family’s coping mechanism is blame shifting and they would just villainize me, cease services, and lodge a complaint with my supervisor.
if you’ve been trained to to dislike yourself for enjoying anything due to years of being told you’re annoying clap your hands 👏👏👏
if I listed out every particular instance that was met with negativity enough for me to stop feeling comfortable talking about it, this comic would be like 50 panels.
Okay so this is so important. Please don’t ignore this post if you think it doesn’t apply to you, because even if it doesn’t, it could be happening to someone you care about. And it may seem like nothing, it feels like it’s nothing for a while but after hearing people say just how boring or dumb something you love is… well, you start to believe it. Before you realise it you find yourself not finishing stories or sentences because there’s a voice in your head saying “shut up, no one cares” and just like that those things you used to love so much lose their spark. They no longer make you as happy as before, everything is tainted and you hate yourself for not fitting in, for not being as interesting as everyone else. Because if everyone says you aren’t then they must be right? But no! It’s not true and you tell yourself that everytime, but it’s not enough. You have to learn to love the things you used to love again.
In my case, I’ve missed out on so many experiences because of this. I had given up trying to make people see the things I like aren’t a waste of time. But I’m slowly trying to claim them back.
So please, if someone you know ever tells you something about them or about what they like please listen to them. Even if you don’t really enjoy the thing they are telling you about, if they matter to you please listen. That simple action could mean the whole world to them.
this is kinda painful tbh
Also, speaking as an autistic dude rebloggin from another autistic dude, this treatment/feeling is so much a part of the autistic experience it ain’t even funny.
Which does say something about inbaked societal ableism that I can’t quite articulate…
Something I drew for this year! I’m going to reblog this every two weeks until November because I really do think that this is important.
Here’s a reminder again! Also, because of the supreme court ruling along party lines to uphold voter registration purges in Ohio, take this also as a reminder to check your registration status!
After this week, I don’t think I can overstate how incredibly important it is to vote this November. There are primaries in several states all the way up through September, so look out for those, too!
Depression is a difficult burden to bear but you aren’t alone, you do matter a lot. Stay strong and know that you are amazing and beautiful.
Back in the day (60s-70s) what pieces of media were at the bottom of the fandom hierarchy? What books, comics or tv shows were looked down upon or seen as lesser/rip-offs/not very good, and have any of those opinions shifted over the decades?
What today we call “furry fandom” was surprisingly very, very normal for the first decade of its’ existence, from the mid-1970s on.
It looked like any other fandom until the mid-1980s., when it took an interesting turn into being “the fandom everyone looks down on,” rightly or wrongly (and I think, for the most part, wrongly - furries, don’t get mad at me for this, I’m on your side here, nobody should be looked down on for enjoying something, or for the guilt-by-association due to scofflaws and rascals in your group).
The beginning of “funny animal fandom” (furry’s original name) was the fanzine Vootie in 1976 which was dedicated to fans of Pogo, Uncle Scrooge, Warner Bros cartoons, Disney/Dell comics, etc., and the key thing is, it didn’t look all that different at all from any of the other comic book fandom fanzines like Roy Thomas’s Alter Ego, or Batmania….except from the beginning, there was a strange kind of angry defensiveness about it all that reminds me of video gamers today, since by that point, funny animal comics had gone out of style and replaced by superheroes and scifi. That pissed off defensiveness would intensify and become a dominant trait of furry fandom that has only recently started to let up.
So, for a while, “funny animal fandom” was very similar to other comic fandoms…but there were signs even from the beginning that it was going to go in a very different direction. An early issue of Vootie had an article entitled “Why is there no sex in funny animal fandom?” One of the early famous artifacts of furry fandom was “Omaha, the Cat Dancer” about a sexy cat girl, which set the tone for a lot of the projects that followed. Imagine if the first superhero comic book ever made had tons and tons of sex scenes, and see how different that genre would become.
Also, I’ve spoken to a lot of people active in fandom in the mid-eighties, and they told me that they remember hearing a story that the earliest furry conventions in the early 1980s scared away the normies and animation/comic geeks who liked Pogo and Uncle Scrooge comics, because the man who ran the conventions had close contacts to the correctional system, and so a lot of the people who worked at these early events were considered, in their words, “scary jailhouse gay.” I’ve heard that from two different people. Whether it was true or not, by the mid-1980s, furry was established in the minds of people as being sexually deviant.
Also, the reputation of furry fandom got a big hit in the early internet age as being one of the earliest groups that we’d call today a “toxic fandom,” with a lot of high visibility bad behavior. In 1994, the producers of Tiny Toon Adventures, a cartoon made for children, got a lot of unwelcome stalker fans who sent the creators and voice actors perpetually creepy messages. To this day, a lot of the people involved in that series are wary of attending conventions.
The high point (or rather, low point) of this was in 1994, when two men named Dennis Falk and Alan Fishbeck, who had a fixation on the actress Tress MacNeil, sent her various explicit and threatening messages, which forced her to cancel a lot of public appearances. The animators were so incensed that they even included an animated slam to their more aggressively harassing furry fans in the series itself, and eventually, the animators got so sick of it all that they figured it wasn’t worth the trouble. Harassing fans were a major factor in the decision to end the series.
Let me repeat that so this isn’t lost in the tldr of this response:
Tiny Toon Adventures was canceled because of furry stalkers harassing the animators and cast.
Because of this reputation for bad behavior in the early internet, and their tone of angry defensiveness, furries were a favorite target of “Web 1.0” web forum groups like SomethingAwful goons and the gone and forgotten Portal of Evil, who were the ancestors of a lot of modern internet communities like 4chan, which was founded by SA goons (personally I was never a goon myself, but I was a lurker on Portal of Evil). Which brings us to today.
i didn’t mean to make this so long but i wanted to both analyze my own style and give other people a look into it! I hope someone can find some use for it!
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