#[ // kid was horribly bullied. ]

[snekdood]

"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

[duskydrawings]

Needed to let this demon out of my brain

[headfullof-ideas]

So I have made yet another pair of oc’s for the story, a pair of siblings named Scarl and Clueless. I don’t know much about them yet, just that Clueless is a year and a half older than Ant, Scarl is a graduate from the last class of recruits, and the one who participated in the final test, and she’s one of the only people Dogsbreath is afraid of because she’s a foot taller than him and twice as big.

If they weren’t in a different part of the world, she’d have a Russian accent. as it is, she does have the same heavy accent that Stoick and Gobber do, because one of the kids has to.

[ozonecologne]

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[capricorn-0mnikorn]

The poem that birthed Pity as "Hate wrapped in the flayed skin of Mercy"

War of Words

It’s a tragic story that we love to tell: How children, in their native cruelty, Wield words like pitchforks, broken glass, and stones, How playgrounds turn to battlegrounds And some Will never make it out of there alive.

We only have ourselves to blame, of course. As adults, it’s our job to keep control, And never let the violence break through. We try again, and trade those misused terms For words made safe for younger minds to hold. We pad them thick with extra syllables, And add a bright veneer of innocence, Like: ‛special’, ‛touched’, and ‛just a little slow’. We sit the young ones down at Circle Time, Between the alphabet and morning snack. With voices sweet as medicine, we try To introduce them to a brand new friend, Whose name is ‛pity’, then we humbly ask This friend to drive the hatred from our schools.

I am the Angel Pity. Please let me be your guide. And let’s pretend I am not Hate, Just wearing Mercy’s hide. I’ll teach you how to have restraint, And not use all your powers, How not to squash the lowly worms That crawl among the flowers. They cannot help it, being worms. And though they are disgusting, We all must treat them gently, dears, And keep them sweet and trusting. For if they roared, as lions do, The world would fall apart. And so I ask you to restrain The hatred in your heart.

But children, in their play, are Unrestrained. We hear the new-coined phrases That we’d so carefully taught Enunciated, emphasized, and clear.

But somehow, now, they Have a cutting edge, Like pitchforks, broken glass, and stones. The playground armistice never lasts. Whatever happened to childhood innocence? Have these kids no pity?

We might as well be Sisyphus, Rolling that rock uphill, Or try to reverse the pull of gravity. They’re only kids – It’s just the way they are; We’ll coin new phrases, though, and try again. As adults, it’s our job to keep control.

Except you can’t deny that it’s absurd To be so damned PC about some words.

From The Monsters' Rhapsody: Disability, Culture, & Identity by Ann Magill (me)

[freebooter4ever]

dear mom, one day ill be living in a big old city and all youll ever be is mean :)

[anotherpapercut]

one of the kids at work never listens or does what he's told and we have like the same problems with him every day so the other staff all kind of hate him at this point so they'll yell at him for doing extremely minor shit and today he said "how come you're the only staff member who cares about me" and it made me really fucking sad but it's not like I can tell the grown adults I work with what to do so I just have no idea how to help the situation

[buildoblivion]

okay batshit theory time please feel free to make fun of me as someone who has not followed the arg at all but what if sam is the alt version of the kid who got taken by mr spider instead of jon

[aahsoka]

hwa ran really saw her dad having fun with her brother and was like ugh he doesnt love me i have to rip up this certificate i got without even trying to get his attention at all . youre gonna have to do a lot more to make me feel sorry for her !!

[1roentgen]

hmmmmmmm

[fuckyeahstufficareabout]

I hate that I still remember specific times that I was bullied in my youth but I know for a fact that the kids who bullied me wouldn't even remember the stuff they said to me now, let alone that it's affected me for life 💀

[exitpursuedbyasloth]

Did anyone else notice the tonal change this season in how the writers, and by extension the characters, treat Jaskier now that he’s written as explicitly bisexual/pansexual?

Does anyone else think that the main reason that Jaskier got a more active role in the narrative beyond comic relief this season, that Geralt and Ciri are now written as being kind and friendly with him, appreciating Jaskier and showing love/affection for their friend, that the narrative isn’t constantly mocking him or showing everyone not give a shit about him for laughs, is that the writers didn’t want themselves or the characters to come off like they’re treating the one major gay character as a joke or nuisance, being shitty and cold to him for no reason, just relentlessly beating up the queer guy (who just wants to be their friend and shows concern for them)? I mean, previously the showrunner specifically mentioned that they chose to turn the their friendship into a joke, that Jaskier was kind of deluded idiot thinking they’re friends. Think of how badly the writers and characters treated Jaskier especially towards the end of S2 (being ignored, brushed aside, regarded as useless, and the absolute stupid shit with Yenn’s magic rock that went nowhere), especially in light of him being tortured and losing his lute because of his connection with Geralt in that very same season? There was really no reason to add all the animosity and derision that the characters/writers seemed to view Jaskier with in previous seasons, so I’m not sad it’s gone, I just have to wonder...why now?

Were they worried about what the status quo of how the narrative treats Jaskier would look in light of his sexuality?

[fruityumbrella]

anyway whatever idc that its arrogant to say again, its still kind of iconic that i wrote piece by quiet piece having only watched half of zou and wci arc. honestly got more material from the wiki and fanworks anyhow

[bornforastorm]

perry mason bad dad, absolutely terrible dad

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[percentstardust]

kid aemond whenever he sees rhaenyra with a lemon cake: may I have some kind older sister my favorite older sister PLEASE MAY I HAVE SOME FUTURE QUEEN OF THE REALM