#Genpop

[rowanthestrange]

If I see one more complaint about sci-fi using sci-fi allegories for real world situations i’m gonna lose it. If you want to see the actual real world situation reflected you want drama. Sci-fi is about exploring feelings, issues and answers through a fantastical lens. If you do not want it through a fantastical lens that’s fine, go watch a drama, that is literally what they’re there for.

[ohpsshaw]

Every month I've been drawing one little Fritz as an inking exercise. Obviously this means LEGS, but it's also about getting to see what kinda spindly digits I'm in the mood for.

[angelsaxis]

I've realized we need a flow chart or something drawing direct lines to how all these things are connected bc one thing I've realized is the average leftist on twitter never actually explains why Palestine and the fires are connected, or how anti intellectualism and individualism are connected, etc. I'm lucky enough I've done the reading and also forced myself to make the connections but also the average person I don't think is on twitter.

[frillyfacefins]

“Helluva Boss would be a great show if they didn‘t ruin the deep character moments with sex jokes and swearing-“

No. Shut up. Helluva Boss is a great show BECAUSE it is irreverent and immature and has dirty jokes and tons of sexual overtones and also has great writing, multi-dimensional characters and beautiful production quality.

If you don‘t like the sex jokes, either don‘t watch the show, or keep your mouth shut bc this show is for people who do enjoy the dark comedy, the dirty humor and the unashamed depiction of sexuality.

If you can’t watch a show with unapologetically dark and queer humor without being a baby about it, go watch any other hyperviolent adult cartoon… It‘s not like you don‘t have options

[serethereal]

if every text post on your blog is some soapbox ass post or fandom drama i’m just gonna assume you’re the problem. and also that you’re the most miserable type of person on earth. and that ur a virgin

[swiftfootedachilles]

im gonna be sick i need more trans!mickey gallavich prison content sooooo bad or i might pass away

[teleomancer]

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[castielsprostate]

sick of seeing that ai art tattoo ad. like. wow you want a tattoo. a permanent Art Piece. but then you fundamentally Do Not Respect Art enough to just. ask the tattoo artist to design your tattoo???

oh my god literally this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! machine learnt art in general is absolutely abysmal but???? to have it????? placed????? on????? your?????? fucking??????? body????????? for?????? DECADES?????????????????????????? are people okay???????????????????? i mean i know they aren't but like????????????? this is just next level taking a pinterest tattoo and getting it tattooed by the shitty art shop down the street where they also sell soap and knives

[theunemployedrogue]

I know ideally you never backslide on progress, but the reality of it is, a lot of us do. I do. And I just try to remind myself it's not all gone to shit, that those years or months or days of progress weren't wasted the minute I fucked up again. I had time to heal and be healthy for a while and that counted for something. It was better than nothing changing at all even for a short time.

[buckpaws]

snipper

[easybeezy]

I wish therapists did like observational diagnosis

Like watch me in my natural habitat and then tell me what the fucks wrong with me

[mimiatmidnight]

Why were there randomly so many viral Sussex tweets from this past weekend

[ofdinosanddais1]

If my abuser ever got arrested and sentenced to prison for what he did, I will be BLASTING dirty dudes must die outside of the courthouse.

[lightgaswaterelectricityrent]

I really need to make a spreadsheet of which taupe eyebrow products are actually orange because I keep repurchasing the same ones

[luulapants]

Adding into the discussion of the incarcerated young people fighting fires in California:

I can think of no place worse than prison for emotionally stunting or regressing a person or for dismantling their ability to make good decisions.

You take an adult or child who maybe has exhibited some antisocial behaviors, right? So you remove them from whatever community and support network they have, put enormous financial and logistical barriers between them and any communication with that community. Incarcerate them hours from home in a place not accessible by train or plane with narrow visiting hours that conflict with people's work schedules, and maybe you're fighting to prevent in person visits at all, maybe you got a kickback from a company selling expensive video call visits so people can't even hug their kids when they drive 6 hours on a Wednesday to see them. Get a kickback from a phone service provider that's going to charge extortionate prices for every minute a person spends talking to their loved ones, and if the state passes a law saying you can't do that anymore, pivot and go after the mail. Subvert USPS. Get a kickback from a company that'll give prisoners shitty scans of letters or refuse to deliver it because it was flagged for drug contamination by a machine with a 70% false positive rate, force them instead to send texts at extortionate rates through their proprietary app.

Put them in an environment with a bunch of other people with social issues and force them to compete for resources. Give them no mental healthcare. If they are victimized by other prisoners, punish the victims with solitary confinement. Transfer people around so they can't form meaningful long-term friendships. Tell them that once they get out, it will be illegal for them to talk to any of the people they meet here.

Hire guards who have no qualifications other than a willingness to be a modern day slave overseer or the ignorance to not realize that's what it is, give them complete control over every aspect of other people's lives and tell them those people want to kill them and that any object can be covered in drugs so dangerous that touching them can kill. Allow the guards to traffic drugs into the prison with impunity. Have the guards discourage racial mixing because racial conflict in the prison means the prisoners won't join up against the staff.

You do all of this and you ask if a 20-year-old, who's been in the system since 14, is emotionally mature or psychologically healthy enough to choose to risk their life in exchange for slightly better living arrangements.

You take someone who has probably made some bad decisions, right? And you put them in a place where every detail of every day is decided for them: what they eat, when they eat, when they sleep, where they sleep, what clothes they wear, who they talk to, where they work. Or maybe you give them big decisions that have no right answer. Maybe at the start of the day, you open the cells and they have 10 minutes to decide if they want to be stuck in their cell all day - no shower, no recreation, no library - or go outside and be stuck in genpop all day - no napping, no alone time, no escape if someone is hassling you. You let them decide if they're going to eat breakfast at 3am (because there's too many meal shifts) or sleep in and spend their precious commissary funds on toaster strudel (they have no toaster) or sleep in and not eat even though you're barely giving them 1000 calories a day. You let them start to make decisions about how to spend their day, then you put them on lockdown, take all those decisions away.

You do all this and then you ask if anyone who's spent time in this environment has the decision-making skills to choose to risk their life in exchange for slightly better living arrangements.

All of the incarcerated firefighters in California are 18 or older, and all of them volunteered, but there is no world in which they were adequately prepared to make that decision.

[twistedpink]

ASKS OPEN THIS IS AUCH A BIG DAY FOR GAY PEOPLE.. ive had this on my mind for DAYS . can we pretty please.. pretty pretty please get sneaky link floyd..

ugh I hate him,, he won’t leave my head

Sneaky link!Floyd that has exactly zero expectations for human relationships, and basically thinks you’re married until you start hiding him in your bedroom like an aggressive cat when your friends stop by,, His hands and mouth bruise deep into the human fat n’ muscle of wherever they can reach, sometimes for the sake of leaving his mark where it’ll definitely tick you off, but mostly just to get you squirming :)

Sneaky link!Floyd that can’t stop helping himself to you in class.. When Floyd sits somewhere, nobody else does, so he takes it as just enough privacy for a little hand stuff. Only resting a hand against your thigh is enough to placate him for now- But even that feels a bit scandalous, what if somebody sees?? What you don’t know is how many people Floyd’s chased off of asking you out, there’s no way you guys are still a secret. Lucky him that you’re the last to find out!

Sneaky link!Floyd just thinks you’re so warm- so sweet, so his <3 Nothing back home’s as pretty as his shrimpy, and he’s seen pretty. Lots of folks down under show their love with lights and gifts, on account of sound or smell not travelling so well. Out of all the ways to show you care, you’re a touchy little thing! Always grabbing him into closets when ya’ think nobody’s watching.. He knows that you like it casual, but what about him? Maybe he wants to show you lightbulbs, or pretty shells, and a little less of his molars >:(

Sneaky link!Floyd that slinks up to you so often it’s a warning to everyone else- No matter how much crowd control and rumor management you pull off, it’ll never be enough to combat Floyd’s inherent social curse. It’s only when you’re all sad n’ bored that he pops in with new ways to spend your time,, You wouldn’t be as lonely with a boyfriend, would you? He’ll work on it after you come to his game <3 (He lies in a totally normal way that says there’s nothing wrong with him. Keyword: LIES)

Sneaky link!Floyd’s just horrible with the concept of being your sneaky link, there’s nothing sneaky about him! The only saving grace for your reputation (and his subsequent rise to fuckboy fame) is that there’s very scarcely anyone with the confidence to ask Floyd a genuine question; Too scared for a foot to the face, genpop totally ignores your hickeys and squeaky-clean shoes. Point for you, I guess?

Sneaky link!Floyd loves to hate on your pull-apart relationship, but he wouldn’t trade it for the world! It’s so spontaneous that it makes him shake a little with just when he’ll get to see you again, and you make him overheat like nothing else :D He’ll be enjoying the time you have before you buckle up and give him one of your pretty, human labels. But until then, he’s more than happy to keep kicking Jade out for bedroom privileges! <3

@bju3c0re