#Definition of Reduction

[khytal]

liar, liar

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Spider And Her Demons

YA Australian urban fantasy/horror

about a Malaysian-Chinese girl who’s half spider-demon, just trying to keep her head down and survive high school

when she accidentally kills and eats a man in front of the most popular girl at school, they strike up a strange friendship and she starts to learn more about herself and the supernatural world

aroacespec/sapphic ish

[liminalweirdo]

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[shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey]

nothing worse than when you see a post that is 100% a joke and not at all serious but that also kinda highkey rubs you the wrong way for slightly stupid reasons

[coachbeards]

beard is very pro prison reform and drug legalizations too btw

[catgirlcrisis]

gonna just screenshot this post since i dont want to bother anyone by tacking my useless opinion onto it but eugh, Bad Post. Very Bad Post. this reeks of internalized homo- and transphobia to me because jesus christ. sorry but if i wasnt queer then id be an incredibly different person. i dont understand how you can have such a disconnect from your own identity that you wouldnt see that our identities as people shape our experiences and therefore the art (and/or work) we make on such a deeply personal level as to be irreversible. its like if you were to try and take the salt out of an ocean.

and yeah, id WANT to be on a list of queer creatives because i WANT queer people to have a space to go to, an artist to look up to, someone that they can resonate with, even if my medium has absolutely nothing to do with me being queer.

[inniave]

pharmacies should automatically give you (or at the very least offer) naloxone any time you get an opioid prescription

[echoesofadream]

Let's do discourse that is just for fun and not serious even a little honestly because I'm in an argumentative mood and I think this fandom needs more not serious discourse instead of whatever the fuck the discourse actually is like we should be arguing if taehyung is more bear or tiger not which member is fucking who or if they hate each other and are trying to kill each other on camera.

OK let me go first and say: double biasing is cheating! Like I think there are a few people that this actually applies to but I think it is very rare, much more rare than the people who claim to be "double biased". I'm sorry but you are not. I can understand the temptation of claiming it but I know that within you there is one person which your heart chose and if you are not sure who that is then you're just not big enough of fan yet. Like at the beginning stage of my armydom I looked at all members and I was like omg honestly any of these could be my bias how do i chose like I like them all in different ways they are good in different ways which is true! But the answer is you do not chose. It's like in Harry Potter the bias chooses you. And then you are like well I love this/these other member(s) SO soooooooo much BUT this does mean they are your second bias! Like so many times I've been like "how can I love Taehyung this indescribably much and he's still not my bias?", so I understand but it does not mean he is my bias. We have the term bias wrecker for a reason, and yes, the bias wrecker can then either stay your bias wrecker or actually wreck your bias and become your new bias but this is a very big deal like it does not happen easily. They then REPLACE your original bias, you do NOT get to keep your original bias. So you have to to think very long and hard if you are ready to unbias your bias for this new member. Ofc you may have a bias line and bias wrecker etc but there is something called your "ult", aka ULTIMATE BIAS, this is very serious. I think people should take these things seriously!

Well anyway this is just my opinion of course I'm just very opinionated I am just joking around here like it's ridiculous to imagine I had any say in who people bias or if they double bias lmaooo but this is my view lol like how BTS debate mint chocolate and other things on RUN BTS. I want to die when I brush my teeth etc etc. Love and light

[crush3dmary]

Seeing a post with 10k notes with blatant misinformation about the shelter system that will ABSOLUTELY turn people off of seeking it out if they ever need to might just be my supervillain origin story. If you haven't worked in the shelter system or have never stayed in a shelter yourself I don't want to hear your incorrect sweeping statements about how they're run. Kindly shove it up your ass.

[rachelzeglertruther]

Something I've noticed in the backlash against the live action Snow White is that defenders of the animated film are reacting as though they're being personally victimized by Greta's reimagining. I'm seeing far too many left-leaning people repeating conservative talking points about womanhood and feminism and it's getting concerning. The complete misuse of the term "girlboss" is being used to dismiss anything that involves a woman with agency. You're doing their dirty work for them, and I promise they don't need your help. Let's set aside the harmful stereotypes about little people and the very obvious white supremacist origins of the animated film and talk about the feminism. Snow White dreamed of true love because she was a 14 year old girl who lived in an abusive household and she wanted a prince to save her from it all. It takes places in the 1800's, so of course a prince saving her was her only way out. She couldn't dream of running away and becoming a leader herself. All she had was what she was told: she could be saved by a man and become a housewife. That wasn't a choice at all. That was an escape. Is that a worthy story to tell? Sure. But little girls aren't going to react to that narrative in 2024 in the same way that little girls in 1937 did. Girls are allowed some agency now and they CAN be the hero of their own stories and fall in love along the way.

"But there's nothing wrong with dreaming of romance and being a soft, traditional woman!!!"

Girl, we know. That is literally the norm. Some of you are acting like it's becoming illegal to be a "feminine" woman and it's getting weird. We live in a society where trans people are under attack, reproductive rights are being stripped back, and gender roles are being reinforced in schools. You're repeating the same conservative rhetoric that we're being forced back into and you're and acting like YOU'RE the one being persecuted. You're not. It's not illegal to be a housewife or be in love with a man with no other hopes or dreams. If that makes you content, that's great. But when the rest of us question if that should be the narrative we push onto little girls today so they can grow up thinking they have to be a tradwife or they'll be worthless, you should consider that maybe we're not the enemy here.

[oh-okay-kay]

i feel like im starting to experience emotions more, might be due to a couple months ago stopping taking my anxiety/depression/ocd meds because i couldnt get more refills? but whatever reason why, its wild

ive always been 'low empathy', and never ever could feel actual excitement or sadness when i was supposed to. i remember opening the letter to find out i was accepted to an art school when i was 10, my mom was filming, all i could say was 'yay' and try to act like i felt anything about it. i knew i was happy, but nothing in me could show it or even really *feel* it. i never cried when sad things happen, only out of frustration or if something was particularly triggered. its honestly awful sometimes to live like this and just.. be incapable of attachment or emotions, or attempting to comfort someone having it be forced and practised because it feels so foreign

but now im starting to cry more, which is a start i suppose. particularly at words, its like i can finally feel the *meaning* and emotions of a speech or song, rather than there being the feeling of a squeeze in my chest or usually nothing at all. i cant tell if i like it or not lol! its so weird, youre telling me folks are supposed to be feeling this way? nuts

[natjennie]

my mom just changed my life btw. I was really hot and I was like "ugh my tit sweat. can you chop your boobs off for no reason?" and she went "you could definitely get breast reduction surgery" so I was like. oh shit for real? I didn't think that worked like that. like I understood theoretically that people with big boobs are prone to back/neck/shoulder pain and breast reduction helps that. and also I have big-ish boobs and my back hurts all the time. but I didn't connect them for some reason. and I get all kinds of skin irritation on my boobs all the time. should I. can I. should I talk to a doctor.

[diamondsandtoads]

got this weird fuzzy feeling spot on my leg. Almost like TV static or a fizzy drink. 99% sure it's anxiety, but hey, that just means my anxiety is going to self diagnose the heck out of it!!!!!

[full-metal-furies]

imho true queer rite of passage is realizing you dont have to actually dissect your identity into something digestible for anyone else, even other queer folks. sometimes you are just chilling outside of the gender/sexuality norms and thats not anyones business but your own to navigate.

[orcelito]

Worst thing about having taken business classes is that I see people complain about bullshit companies are pulling and a part of my brain goes "Oh, that's an effective tactic for cost reduction" or something around those lines. And then the part of my brain that is Not a wannabe businessman is just like "Bro."

[aefensteorrra]

incredibly aware of just how strong a northern accent I have when talking to my family but crying at my dad doing an impression of me like "riiight am goin' int shower"