odetomymind

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The average tumblr user’s attempt at smug condescension doesn’t even work because they’re so profoundly stupid and unaware of literally anything in the world

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I think it's important to remember that every single religion can be twisted for violence and oppression and abuse and control. Yes, including the one that you think can't be. But quickly, before anti-theists start saying that religion is an inherently evil violence accelerant, remember that this is true for any ideology, including anti-theism. Violence and oppression and abuse and control happens wherever there are people who think that those things will help them get what they want.

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Or like, to put it in terms that the "read what you like, who cares if you exclusively read kids' stuff" crowd are at a reading level to understand:

In the book "Green Eggs and Ham," the main character insists that he will only eat things he likes, and refuses under all circumstances when presented with an opportunity to try something new. At the end of the novel [spoiler alert] he agrees to Sam-I-Am's request and tries them, and he realizes that he was depriving himself of a favorite food for years, just out of fear of disliking something he ate. He learns a lesson, moving forward, that if he tries new things outside his comfort zone, that he may dislike some of them, but will enjoy many of them, and if he doesn't try new things outside his comfort zone, he will not like anything but the one thing he already eats.

Can you think of any situations in your own life where Sam-I-Am's teachings might be applicable?

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Self diagnosed autistic people running into diagnosed autistic people and calling them weird and not liking them is so crazy to me.

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once you start saying shit like "yayy" "yippee" and "hehe" theres no going back

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writers will spend 3 hours naming a character that shows up for 2 seconds

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You can be on here and say like "This character got their house burned down as a consequence of leaving the stove on" and the fandom masses will descend on you like "We really shouldn't glorify house-burning-down as a consequence against characters. It's really problematic. It's really problematic to say house-burning-down is something people deserve. The narrative shouldn't have done that."

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Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

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tfw "popular" fanon becomes so embedded in a fandom & discussions within fandom spaces that people just start treating it as the default and all interactions with others are coloured by this interpretation. have you considered that I actually don't subscribe to this take, which is nowhere in the source material? wait nvm, clearly not.

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forcing every character into romance or found family ruins character discussion imo

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hey let's start spreading the reminder now that you cannot safely self-manage an abortion with herbal medicine or essential oils. natural abortifacients function by poisoning you; you wait for your body to realize you're dying and reject the pregnancy in order to conserve resources, and hope that happens before the rest of your organs shut down.

i think there will be an upsurge soon of unscrupulous and/or malicious actors preying on desperate pregnant people; do not help them kill people. don't spread recipes for herbal medicines or ingestible essential oil mixtures that purport to cause a pregnancy termination.

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“Bat swinging at wasp nest” post but I cannot be nice about astrology people. No you did not find the one good or cute or quirky way to believe the quality of someone’s character is biologically pre-determined. Just because you found a way to not base it on race or ethnicity or gender does not make judging someone’s character on an innate and uncontrolled attribute suddenly teehee fine.

I’m even more baffled by the people going “it’s just fun!” “It’s just a hobby!!” Sure if it was something harmless. It’s not. We are quite literally talking about how you intend to judge, treat, view, respect, and interact with someone entirely differently based on an inherent trait. How are you not aghast? How are you not embarrassed? Why are you so insistent on needing to operate on a hierarchy of pre-determined character judgement?

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have you done it? have you finally collected all the identity labels to describe the entirety of your self? im sure that you must understand your place in this world perfectly to have figured that out, you must have mastered relating to and interacting with others, you must have worldly wisdom and experience beyond your years now.

oh wait you just navel-gazed while feeding yourself an endless stream of shortform videos? and you've crippled your ability to relate to others outside the identity obsessed framework you've built up in your head? yeah actually that makes more sense.

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seeing people genuinely try and explain why sex isnt necessarily sexual is making me insane

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i feel bad for the ppl who run horny fantasizing text post pornblogs i feel like theyre setting themselves up for so much disappointment if they ever actually have sex

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Gonna be fr grown adult queers should know better than to engage in crazy fear mongering telling other people it’s over and we’re all gonna be sent to camps and lose our rights and be criminalized and whatever like hey how about don’t tell a group of people with unbelievably high suicide rates that there’s no hope and life is over