as a recovered drug addict and activist, i always find a lot of leftists will support all kinds of bodily autonomy until you say “i think people have a right to do even heroin safely, legally, and cleanly, no not just decriminalization or the needles but like, it’s OK to literally supply people with heroin. and give education on how to properly inject, smoke, and snort it” that’s the ultimate test

Oh yeah that's a good test! I am very much pro drug use and pro decriminalization - and no, I am not just talking about weed and some harm reduction measures. I'm talking about not punishing ANYONE for doing ANY drug, people in active addiction to scary illegal drugs very much included. I'm talking about making ALL drugs regulated, safe and available through legal means. I don't care how "unhealthy" and "bad" drugs can be, turning a debilitating illness into a law enforcement issue literally ruins lives and kills people and it's not actually helping anyone recover from addiction.

JULIA FOX, PTSD

Question for whoever might be reading this. It isn’t witchcraft-related, but I think I would love to hear other people’s opinions on this.

Suppose you have two (male) friends. One of them started doing OxyContin in college and decompensated quickly, ended up an opiate addict, and ultimately got clean after a few years, visiting clinics, etc.

The other started out as a normal college athlete, but ended up deciding Trump was the best thing since sliced bread, spent years browsing /pol/, had a Parler account, etc. Vanished for a while, then comes back saying he’s seen the light and suddenly realizes fascism is bad.

In my opinion, the latter person needs to earn back everyone’s trust, and has no business being critical of the first person. True, addiction can lead to ugly situations and there’s stuff to apologize for there. But I’d trust a recovered heroin addict (or even someone still actively using) much more than I’d trust the guy who used to spew slurs at people.

Hey it’s pretty fucked up that like none of you guys ever want to discuss Harry's heroin addiction 😐 it’s also fucked up whenever his schizophrenia is ignored or downplayed but at least sometimes I see it acknowledged. But I have NEVER seen anyone ever even bring up the fact he’s ever had an addiction and IDK that’s starting to come across as though you guys just don’t give a shit about that especially if it’s not “relatable” to you 😐😐

For a brief moment I misread my header image as "heroin addict" lmaooooo

shooting whiskey into your veins ~

i love the house md episode where he's injecting himself with the experimental muscle-growth drug because you think he's doing heroin and then you find out he's doing something much worse. like i know that by season 7 you've accepted that this show and everyone in it is batshit insane and you're used to it, but "it would be better if he really was doing heroin" is a level of unhinged that's genuinely impressive to reach

maybe i was crazy , or maybe i was just a girl interrupted

#sunmirevival wk1: favorite m/v ↪ HEART BURN (2022)

“she’s had plenty of drug problems, and dated some questionable men, she’s been blamed for promoting anorexia and heroin use and her nicknames include cocaine kate, and kate mess”

Like even if a person is addicted to heroin or another "scary" drug, what we as a society could and SHOULD do is make sure that the heroin is as safe as it can be, and that he has the resources and knowledge required to prevent infections, injuries, overdoses and other serious health risks, and that relevant rehab, treatment, support and detox programs are available to him if/when he decides he wants to pursue them. Punishing him as a dangerous criminal for being an addict isn't going to shame him out of addiction, and that approach is genuinely far more likely to literally kill him than to actually solve the issue

Sorry for different lighting, I changed phones between those pictures.

Silly silly Levi...

absolutely fascinated by young dee who is criminally under-discussed so here is my dissertation on what happened in her college years (ft. dr. gainer, setting her roommate on fire, being institutionalized)/my idea for a fic that I will almost certainly never write/my way too serious take on a few throwaway dee lore lines

timeline background: we know that dee majored in psychology ('charlie got molested') and got "three fourths" of the way in (meanwhile dennis finished his psych minor.) assuming this was a four year program, I'm gonna guess that in her third year she got institutionalized and most likely had to drop out ('gun fever too: still hot'.) we also know that she had her back brace until she was twenty ('underage drinking'), so I'm guessing that means she got her back brace off in her third year.

we know that dennis fancied himself a psychologist since he was young, but I think dee did too. in particular I think she was wary and interested in her brother's psychology; she seems very aware of his psychopathy and bpd in 'making dennis reynolds a murderer' and 'psycho pete returns.' in my head she's been interested in dennis' psychology since they were kids and she saw him snapping crows necks. so instead of forcing her way into acting school, she studied psychology to better understand her brother (and also deep down, herself, who is very much the other side of the same fucked up coin.) it also meant she could tell herself she could study her characters even better when she became an actress.

i think she put in (her version of) genuine academic effort to get in, fuelled kind of by spite (remember the way she studied that thick medical book in 'hero or hate crime' or her very quick math in 'boggs: ladies reboot'). she studies books and gets cricket to quiz her and she still fails to get into penn. but frank always pitied her (i think she was his favorite of the twins-remember "let your sister into the gang", "that's my girl!", "i'm sorry the grift didn't work out, sweetie") so he shells out cash to get her in, but also to get her away from home so he has to deal with her even less.

dennis wants to do anything dee does but better and he wants to keep her close by (to watch her crash and burn, and also because he's weirdly possessive-see 'the gang broke dee' "i'm your select!"). and obviously he's barbara's favorite. so barbara gives him money to get in too. she also gets him into a frat and pays for his classes and his rent and everything he needs. dee has to live in a dumpy dorm with a female roommate.

but college presents dee a chance to moult her previous place in life where she was known as a monster (remember how insistent she was that "people can change!" in 'franks pretty woman'. I think dees always wanted to believe she can shed that feeling she's inferior, but she never has). in my head her female roommate is basically normal-has real friends of her own, mentally stable, attractive-which is exactly what dee craves. dee wants to be popular and well liked and she wants to infiltrate her roommates life, imitate her, be in the Cool group. and she places all her hopes on a friendship with the roommate but dee has never navigated real female friendships before, not with someone like her. deep down she also wishes she found what dennis found in mac, whatever it was, because ever since dennis met mac he's never been as close to her. and i do think dee is some flavor of queer. and the roommate is well liked in the way that dee admires and envies. so there is that blurriness between wanting to be her and wanting to be with her. in my head her roommate looks like the woman from dee's fantasy in 'the gang saves the day' (and they both represent that promise of escape from dee's shitty life).

dee is so desperate for the roommates approval and her love and her life that she goes insane, copying and flattering and competing with her. ever the shitty actress, she tries to emulate her, but comes off as manic and creepy. and maybe her roommate is nice enough to not completely shun her, recognizing that she's struggling. maybe in dees mind they actually are becoming friends when her roommate asks things like "are you okay?"

and dee has to talk about her plan with dennis because he's the only person who would Get It. and she makes it sound like it's almost working. dennis feels jealous and worried and threatened that maybe dee might actually be seen as normal, especially when she gets her back brace off in the third year. so dennis fucks her roommate, more of a show that he owns and controls each and every pathetic part of dee’s life than anything else. and so that dee knows she'll never be as good as him, she'll never as easily charm people as dennis does. (or at least he tells her he does).

to prove that To Someone dee is Good Enough, and so desperate for attention, dee (who's been groomed all this time) enters a sexual relationship with her professor dr. gainer. she tells herself she has the power in it, that she seduced him ("he didn't molest me. i had sex with him 'cause i wanted to.") and she has a mental break, because the thing she told herself held her back from being loved (her back brace) is finally gone by now and yet she still feels like a monster, and the only scrap of "love" she can get is from her professor.

and then she can't take the fact that she can steal her roommates clothes, can emulate her sexual prowess (in dee's own fucked up, delusional way), and still neither be well liked like her nor be loved by her. so maybe dee will always be a monster. so dee tried to burn her roommate in her bed, because she represented the promise of change and popularity, and that promise was a lie and dee's effort was for nothing. and she's institutionalized.

and i think there was kind of a falling out between the twins and their parents, because barbara wants to abandon dee but dennis can't help but visit her. and frank doesn't even step foot in a place that reminds him of his traumatic childhood, and avoids dee even more than he used to because she is his childhood mirror image. so the family becomes even more fractured and estranged.

and maybe dee becomes medicated and slowly crawls her way halfway to normal by the first season (her acting classes are so well-adjusted, taking part in healthy hobbies of her!). until her father comes back into her life and everything falls apart <3

side note, even though dee is crushingly lonely-"I just got a cat 'cause I wanted something to hang out with. I don't have, you know, a roommate or anything, and I don't really have anyone to talk to..."-AND she struggles to pay rent whenever frank cuts her off, i hc that she refused to ever get a roommate in particular female roommate again after this because both her internalized misogyny got worse and she was afraid of what would happen (what she would do) again.

Black Widow by Phil Noto