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If I was a knight would you let me swear oaths to you be honest

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Alright kids say it with me

My thoughts don’t make me a bad person

My feelings don’t make me a bad person

My thoughts, feelings, and impulses only exist inside my head, and none of it matters unless I act on it

Nobody can see my thoughts or emotions

The only things anyone can see and judge me on are my actions

There’s no such thing as a thought crime

thank u

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not to be disabled on main but have you ever fucking noticed how every god damn thing requires both time and energy

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the name "theresa" is so funny like. theres a what

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at this point my emoji reactions are more of a sign of my reading comprehension than anything else.

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people online will just say "I don't trust the Chinese" as if that's normal and not the sort of thing a cartoon racist would say out loud

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i think the angriest ive ever made someone on reddit was when they used an emoji while arguing and i said "What is this tiny yellow picture"

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“He would not fucking say that” except its the badly written source material so he did, in fact, say that

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One of those insidious little things I notice sometimes is how much the window of 'appropriate for children' content has shrunk within the past 20 years. The range of things it is socially acceptable to show a 10-year-old has never been more limited, and it's happened incredibly quickly.

Take, for instance, Star Trek: TNG. I grew up watching TNG. I was a little young for it as it was airing, but it got syndicated almost immediately and they would show an episode most weekday evenings on the Space Channel, and I'd watch it with my lifelong Trekkie mom. This was a very common thing. I was by no means unusual for watching Star Trek as a child.

Star Trek: TNG has lots of sex in it! It's never explicit (unless you have a particularly niche interpretation of some of the borg stuff) but on many an occasion you'll have a few characters doing a bit of making out followed by a closing door or fade to black, and then they wake up in bed together. If you know what sex is, you know that is what is being implied here. Even my 8-year-old self, whose understanding of the subject mostly came from books of ancient mythology that used words like 'ravish' and 'the pleasures of the couch' a whole bunch, could tell that what was happening was sex.

And I am not bringing this up as a 'see, I watched all this inappropriate stuff and I turned out just fine!'. I'm bringing it up to argue that TNG's level of sexual content is not inappropriate for children (I'm not using the legalese 'minors', because I think that lumping children and teenagers together in this conversation would make it nonsense. Star Trek is obviously appropriate for teenagers. Don't use 'minors' when you mean either children or teens, it just muddies the waters).

The point is that Star Trek: TNG was very obviously designed to be watched by children and teenagers. There's a whole character in the main cast whose role in the show is to be an audience insert for children and teenagers. The moral tone of TNG, its occasional dips into 'don't do drugs, kids' type messaging, and its general avoidance of graphic violence all scream 'we are designing this with an audience of children - but not just children - in mind'. It's a family show. It's supposed to be watched by the whole family.

Which means that, until at least the end of the 90s, this amount of sexual content was generally considered appropriate for kids to see. It's not pornographic - it's not even graphic. Maybe the very most conservative parents wouldn't let their kids watch TNG, but that might have had more to do with all the socialism and atheism.

So, why did that change? Why do we now have such a strong bullwark between 'things kids are allowed to know about' and 'things for GROWN UPS ONLY 18+ Minors DNI', and why have we relegated even the most discreet references to sex to the second category only?

And the next time you find yourself experiencing that knee-jerk 'think of the children' reaction, consider: would what you're looking at have been ok on Star Trek: TNG in the 90s?

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Nothing hits like "romantic couple and a third guy who's not dating either of them but is definitely a part of this dynamic"

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children are so fucking funny man. i just overheard a kid go “i just learned a new way to pinch, wanna see it? it hurts a lot more!” followed by a loud, notably pained scream

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Instead of rage baiting we shod do a thing called happy baiting where we bait someone into feeling happy and confident and positive about themselves

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fighting over custody and it's just them actually going into hand-to-hand combat after realizing speaking is getting them nowhere to an agreement

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He still has some adjusting to do :)

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Couples shirt idea

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STOP USING ANTI WIZARD VOCABULARY ❌️❌️❌️

i have to reschedule -> the stars are not yet alligned

i dont know -> whos to say

i dont know why you would even ask that -> much to consider

i know tarot isnt real -> its really more of a thought exercise

astrology isnt real -> astrolgy isnt fucking real lol

you wouldnt fucking get it -> the magicians path is not for everyone

im going to convince you to break up with yout stupid boyfriend -> sure i can give you a tarot reading!