Hello, call me Anon. This is the blog I use to put all my art and creative work on, but it might turn into something else as time goes on. Hope you have fun here! :)
Sun Nov 20th
Hello hello! Here’s the token pinned post.
Here is my sideblog that reblogs just my art (though you can find it here with the #anon art tag).
this is the anti-defamation league’s hate symbol database. it’s massive and includes details about what symbols mean and where you might see them.
i’m a tattoo artist and use this all the time when i see a symbol i don’t recognize—better safe than sorry. it’s saved me from working with white supremacists a few times.
I’m glad to see the arrow cross (last one( there! It originates from Hungary and was used by the nazi party here, but it was banned after WWII. It barely shows up in guides/warnings like this and idk if they still use it but better safe than sorry.
Such gates are used to mark the entrance to sacred grounds or gods’ territories. “The tori gate symbolizes the division between the sacred and the profane, and is considered a spiritual gateway between the physical world and the spiritual realm.”
remember, it’s imperative to turn your aesthetic preferences into moral ones. you can’t just dislike neutral colors, or glass-and-steel skyscrapers, or flat design, they have to be symbols of neoliberal capitalism in decay. it’s incredibly important that you make sure everybody knows that the only reason anyone could like the things you don’t like is that they’re an empty shell of a person.
This is fucking embarrassing ‘journalism’ from the BBC.
Guy goes to an NHS doctor, flat-out states the nature of his investigation and gets behind the scenes information on assessments.
Then he hits up three private clinics actively looking for an ADHD diagnosis, has his friends fill out witness forms, and is shocked when he receives a diagnosis.
An utter disgrace.
Turns out, if you go and lie about your symptoms, they’ll diagnose you.
Consider me fucking shocked.
thank you, random white man, for this insight on the condition known to be underdiagnosed in women and people of color
I’m not sure what the point of this was. Like, the article doesn’t really even touch on what his methodology was—it doesn’t actually state whether he was filling out the forms honestly, and knowing how an evaluation works and going into the evaluation with the goal of “demonstrating” something about an evaluation infuses inherent bias into everything
this is just yet another thing that serves to create paranoia about people getting prescribed stimulant meds. Something that, in the USA, is difficult to the point that it blocks people from obtaining the care that they need all the time, and i know in many other countries it’s even harder
Like, why did he feel the need to do this to begin with. I’m sure that if he went to several different doctors trying to get a diagnosis of chronic constipation, he would get one, because listening to a patient when they bring a concern up to you is Your Job as a doctor
@headspace-hotel uk person checking in! when you go public for an adhd assessment, waiting lists are YEARS long with often no indication of when you’ll finally be seen. thus, many people – who are desperate for care – will pay money (which you don’t have to do for public healthcare) to go private.
so basically it’s stigmatising people who were so desperate that they were willing to find £1,000 to get help.
So this asshole was actively taking precious opportunities and resources away from people who need them?
Is your conclusion “he tried to prove that private clinics are bad, something something, less people will be able to go to private clinics for these resources as a result” or “he took 3 diagnoses in private clinics which could have been 3 other people’s diagnoses and resources”?
He seems to have bypassed the atrociously long waiting list for the NHS appointment - which he biased anyway by disclosing his investigation to the NHS doctor.
He then fabricated symptoms to three private clinics which require two other people to validate his symptoms - all in a bid to frame them as predatory.
This could have been an investigation into underfunding of the NHS and absurd waiting lines forcing people to use private clinics. Instead the story became ‘ADHD is a fun trend and you can just pay to get a diagnosis’.
It’s malicious journalism that casts doubt in the public’s mind. Some people are now not going to believe other people’s ADHD diagnosis on the back of it.
we also want to challenge his assumption that private clinics apparently taking less time to diagnose obvious adhd is a reflection on their lack of diligence - it’s much more a reflection on how much more gatekeepy the nhs is encouraged to be, especially when it’s about “invisible” or mental health or neurodivergent conditions (we had 11 hours of meetings before getting diagnosed autistic by the nhs at 55 - a diagnosis six different other autistic people had spotted right away)
you see this with gender care too, nhs gender care (assuming you ever make it to the top of a six year waiting list) is like “yes come and see us for a year before we’ll consider hrt for you - but not if you’re fat or have mental health conditions because fuck you” while private clinics are like “yes we confirm that you are trans, why on earth would we make you wait?”
Yeah, I wonder if the NHS considers the entire time from the start of assessment. Their ‘thorough assessment’ is someone else’s frequent misdiagnosis and the doctor even not believing them at face value.
today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy
Genuinely just a good man. Wife adopts teenage witch that needs a place to stay in the city? Sure. Even though you got a kid on the way? That’s fine. Cat too? Love cats.
My favorite moment with him is when he goes to get some prepped baking sheets and he does this fancy twirl with them in front of Jiji. Like, there’s no other people in the room, he does this to impress a cat.
I don’t think he ever says more than a whole word the entire movie, and I still love him more than most Disney princes based on this one moment alone.
And the part where he wanted to surprise Kiki by making that beautiful elaborate sign OUT OF BREAD to advertise her business and he was all anxious for her to get home and see it
But then when he sees her coming he gets all bashful and runs away 😭
the most underrated thing about the ghibli movies is how deeply they are love stories to working people, to the small folk, to moments of love and kindness. its not just about magic, many movies are about magic and fairytales. Its not only about the people in the stories, but about stories in the people. And they are just loveable.
Hey all! It’s almost summer, which means that I’ve got the time (and need) for commission work! I’ve got two different character art styles, chibis, illustrations, and YCH (Your Character Here)!
If you’re interested in a commission please fill out this form, shoot me a DM, or send a message my way at commissions.fireflysummers@gmail.com.