#THIS is the hill you're willing to die on???

[harrstles]

as a brit, i don't celebrate thanksgiving so i don't really have an answer. however, after learning about your aunt's casserole, i'm claiming that as my ick. cheese and pineapple should never mix; as pizza toppings included. it's a hill that i'm willing to die on. you're a brave soul for eating it because i could never. even the thought is making my stomach turn a little.

What's one thing about the holidays that gives you the ick? Could be anything -- a dish, a stereotype, your distant cousin Jan that can't help but continue to ask why you haven't landed a significant other yet -- nothing is off limits. I'll tell you mine first, obviously; fair is fair. It's my sweet aunt's pineapple cheese casserole. Yeah, you heard me -- canned pineapple, slightly drained, topped with shredded cheese. I've never had anything like it in my life, and not in a good way -- but she's too good of a person, and I can't let her down, so there's always at least a bite of it on my plate every Thanksgiving. Your turn! @hfrpstarters

[14th-centuary-capitalism]

"don't buy hogwarts legacy because it funds transphobia" and "don't buy hogwarts legacy because it's basically an antisemitism rpg" are both incredibly valid arguments but it also just looks like a bad game

[fromtheseventhhell]

I love how people are only ever interested in defending Arya's right to be weird-looking. It's never defending her intelligence from people who claim she's incapable of thinking for herself, highlighting her importance to the plot and refusing to see her as just a prop, acknowledging how much of her story gets stolen and given to other characters, talking about her trauma or how often it gets erased and overlooked, seeing her as more than just an attack dog/bodyguard, etc. Nope. It's just a "why can't people let Arya be ugly/unconventional looking? :(" post every other week because people are, for whatever reason, obsessed with how Arya is visually perceived. One of the most misinterpreted characters yet the issue is only ever with her being portrayed as "too pretty" or the wrong "type" of pretty. This fandom will entirely rewrite a character's motivations, values, and role in the story to the point that they consider references to canon "hate" but! The true injustice to canon is we acknowledge that she is described as pretty several times. Arya simply existing as her pretty, important, and non-conforming self is too complex and confusing for people to comprehend 😔.

[mcllymauk]

seeing a lot of "they made Peepaw McChildMurderer unfuckable now (as Matthew Lilliard)" and to that I have two separate, but distinct reactions:

1: cowards

2: HE'S UNFUCKABLE N O W????? AS IN, HE WAS, AT ONE POINT, CONSIDERED TO BE FUCKABLE????

[prince-liest]

do you have ships other than staticradio that you also like?

All I can say is thank fucking god that monogamy seems to be an alien concept to these people.

If you're new here thanks to Hazbin, welcome to the land of "I'm a consummate multishipper to a degree that borders on delusion"!

[kostnyan]

Thinking how Kalim was probably a very lonely child growing up. He was constantly surrounded by people sure, but most of them were probably strangers or family he wasn't sure if they wanted him dead. I doubt he had any other friends besides Jamil, and even then we all know Jamil wasn't a willing friend. It was his "job", he wasn't being Kalim's friend because he wanted to, or because he genuinely liked him, but because his parents forced him into the relationship. And Kalim was willing to overlook all of this because he was lonely. Because he had no one else to connect to in his seemingly vast, but extremely small world. Because all he had was a life that could have ended at any moment. Kalim was selfish. He is selfish. But he has to be in order to survive under the crushing weight of knowing that even your own family wants you dead, you best friend for years wanted to kill you, and in reality has has no close allies besides his parents. And even then, they can be lost at the drop of a hat too. Kalim will never not be rich, and he will never have to know the fear of loosing anything but his own life. And I think that actually terrifying. That even though he's rich and the son of one of the most influential men in twisted wonderland, he's still just a boy who has a bounty on his head. He's replaceable. He has a whole host of siblings that could take his place, cousins and other family members too. And that he had no one to turn to but Jamil and he hates Kalim. Because he's forced into a life of servitude because of him. The first time Kalim probably had any real friends was when he was allowed to attend Night Raven College. I can only imagine how invigorating it was for him to be able to meet people and befriend people that weren't part of his family's circle of relatives and friends. How exciting it must have been to be able to make friends with people his own age? To do things like class and club activities with students and teachers that weren't hired by his family? People who weren't payed to be his friend even though they secretly hated him? And that people were free to feel how ever they wanted about him? I can only imagine how much a breath of fresh air NCR was for Kalim. And how eye opening that was too.

[ummyesisthisjasongrace]

Was gonna point out that as much as I love the Thorin and Bilbo raising Frodo together trope, it doesn't make any sense because canonically Bilbo only adopted Frodo when he was already in his tweens, but then I remembered that canonically Thorin is dead and Bagginshield do not live the domestic cottagecore husband life in the Shire at all

[magicalgirlagency]

I just saw someone defend Pink Diamond as a "complex female character bitches couldn't even handle" on an Instagram reel, and I have never blocked an account so fast in my whole life.

[eclipsecrowned]

self care is blocking everyone in a tag who, in a setting with far worse in the water, wants to argue which teenage girl is just the worst if you just... forget this world has active war criminals actually --

[thundercracer]

I just watched ToddyBoya's video about not touching wild animals and I'm like. This guy fucking gets it. He's spot on and I'm glad there are people actually calling out the stupid and dangerous behavior of treating wild animals like little uwu buddies. I love animals so much, and admire wild animals immensely. But people who think they're "built different" and are insistent on interacting with wild ass animals, acting on a mindset of "I can change him!" have main character syndrome. I hope they're humbled, when that wild ass animal puts them in their place. Because that is just stupid, ignorant behavior. It's so dangerous to the equilibrium of the environment. It's dangerous to the animal; not only are you normalizing touching it, possibly encouraging others to seek them out and pester them, but also who fucking knows what nasty oils and substances are coated in your fingers? Or on their fur/scales/feathers/etc? Animals have diseases!! Come on now!!! Bro it's even dangerous to get too comfortable with DOMESTIC animals!! You need to read their body language. Horses have been domesticated for years, but a dumbass will sneak up behind them and get a solid metal kick to the jaw. Sometimes horses hurt you when things aren't even your fault! Dogs and cats bite and claw when feeling cornered, ie people getting into their faces, and ignoring the warning signs. Birds peck you. Cattle kick you. We need to be more afraid of animals, in a respecting way. No, let me reword that; we need to be much more educated on wild animals, their place in nature, how that equates to our place in nature, and why we should absolutely not fuck with them.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Every time the topic of Vegetta and marriage comes up I am forced to see misinformation or even flat out lies about Vegetta's past wedding experience and his relationship with Rubius and I just

[soul-wanderer]

Also, some people arguing that Theo shouldn't be acting captain because of one! mistake/wrong decision he made years! ago is, quite frankly, laughable. He even asked for his own demotion, meaning the department didn't even put the blame on him for what happened. On top of that, Theo felt absolutely terrible about what happened and probably still does, and if Travis, of all people, can forgive him, then everyone else can put what happened behind them, too. And let's not forget that, while he's currently emotionally invested in this arson case, he's also shown to be a capable and compassionate firefighter, who will absolutely not accept mistakes being made in the field and that's exactly what this team needs right now

[larosafatale]

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[waterbearable]

like. i don’t even think it’s better necessarily, but if the only person with actual buy-in on the hunt aside from lottie was van (i don’t really buy tai as having committed here, she’s just going along w van which i think does repeat old patterns), then why not just to subdue lottie from the start? like i GUESS it’s some attempt to suggest groupthink but as soon as lottie starts trying to pursue shauna why would you make it seem like you’re also trying to get her? like i could see at least a couple of them trying to subdue lottie, lottie+van trying to fight them off, chaos/giving into the violence ensues. idk it just does not work for me and the outcome...ehhh

(more in the tags srry but for my non-yj folks cw for mentions of ideation, overdose, addiction)

[sketchesandnonesense]

Have you considered: we simply want to write what we do, it doesn't make us what we write, and at the end of the day its literally just fanfiction that has 0 impact on real life and life outside of a screen?

sugar tits, consider the following:

if what you wanna write is adults fucking minors

and you wanna glamorize it and make it look Fine and Not Super Fucked Up

then stay the fuck away from me.

You aren't what you write, but the fact that's what you wanna write about says something about you. the art you make says something about you. that's just life and the nature of art.

it has impact on real life because a teenager who reads shit like that can get the idea in their head that their teacher flirting with them is totally fine and cool and sexy. bc like. obvi other people don't think it's gross.

"well then they're dumb for taking morals from fanfic"

they're a teenager dipshit their brain isn't done cooking. if nobody's telling them something is seriously wrong, then they aren't gonna get the message.

if they see something romanticized, they're gonna see it as okay. bc they're a teenager who puts themselves in the role of the Oh So Mature and Cool Teenager who's SO cool and mature a whole ass adult wants them

they don't connect the dots their "hot teacher" wants to take advantage of them and will traumatize them.

art impacts reality. art has effects on people and their brains.

if it didn't, advertisements wouldn't work. Vent art wouldn't do anything. If art had 0 effect on reality then there wouldn't be people organizing conventions around their fav media and crying over their fav characters getting killed off in movies. People wouldn't react to art, fiction, or anything else.

if fiction had 0 impact on reality, representation wouldn't matter.

And if words on a screen didn't effect people, your dumb ass wouldn't be in my asks trying to make yourself feel better about being a freak ass who wants to make romanticized fic or art of kids being fucked.

considering, in the post I MADE on the subject:

i literally said "as long as it's not romanticized n is portrayed as it IS. then ok, write your fucky stuff. i'll be over here not engaging." when it comes to that.

and I also don't give a shadow of a fuck about kinkier shit. You do You. as long as it's properly labelled, in adult spaces, and between consenting adults, it ain't my business.

What I also wanna know though is WHY. Why are you so enamoured with characters well above the age of consent fucking around with characters under that age?

What is soooo tantilizing about it you just can't help yourself? That you wanna write this gross ass shit?

Examine that. and then seek therapy.

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

or use spite. spite can work too.

"How do I stop being scared of-" You do it scared. The courage arrives WITH the action, not before it. Don't wait to feel confident before you act because the key to confidence is usually doing the thing while still scared as fuck