#They mean the same thing

[rottingandsobbing]

im gonna be fully honest, I'd rather be called a dyke or lesbo than a sapphic

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Oooooh we entering another academic Avatar post era:

Let’s talk about generational trauma in Avatar, and why I think it’s portrayed so well. Shoutout to the kid who said this about Beloved in my class, but intergeneration trauma is about about how a traumatic event effects a family, but instead how a trauma affects person A, and changes person A. This then affects person B, and then person C. 

Neytiri’s trauma is central to her family, and to her children. The pain and memory of the past haunts the narrative from the get go. She tells us in the Songcord that Neteyam’s birth brought back her will to live; he was her hope, her future. That’s a lot of pressure for one kid haha. Although not directly affected by this trauma, he is by the changes in Neytiri. It is of course, not her fault, and I doubt she ever tells him these things, but he can feel it. It shapes how he acts, how he strives to be perfect. Neytiri also lost an older sibling, something Neteyam tries to be the best at. In contrast, Lo’ak struggles under this pressure, this drive to be perfect and to live up to Neteyam. As person C (in a way), he’s one more step removed, but still affected. 

I could do a whooole nother spiel on Jake’s trauma and how it affects the family. I could do one on Spider, and his relationship with the Sully’s but also Quaritch, and how that has haunted him in the secondary. Our post war babies Neteyam and Spider really got hit with that person B affect. It is not at all crazy to say that Neytiri’s reaction to Spider is all because of the changes to her character due trauma. Spider’s trauma all stems back to that first event; because Neytiri’s does. And that is generational trauma at work thank u. 

[aw-tysm]

i don't understand the "you don't HAVE autism, you ARE autistic" crowd.

bcus they tend to be like "you don't HAVE tall. you ARE tall". but that just sounds whack bcus i HAVE hair. i HAVE eyes. they are a part of me too.

"bcus saying HAVE sounds like you can remove it from yourself". i don't wanna be morbid beckie, but one could say that you could absolutely remove "tall" from yourself, even if by accident.

also, these are definitely not the kind of arguments or problems many autistics want to be having when there's bigger issues to worry about. like one for myself is if something happens to my mom who will look after me? bcus god knows i'ma need the help.

[frozenfrogz]

Iconic scenes = gay ass byler scenes

[perfectlyripeclementine]

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[corvid-kid9]

add flags for pride month!!

[inkskinned]

"don't make it political!" .... what proportion of death and suffering must occur before politics are involved. if this isn't political, what is even the point of any politics, ever. of democracy. the words are "by the people for the people." if i am going to be left alone by my elected representatives to "figure it out" - to undergo damage, hardship, fear. what the fuck did i elect them for. what was their job. the entire point is that they handle this shit. this is why we were supposed to be electing leaders.

poverty is political. misogyny is political. gun control is political. climate change is political. how much aid a community gets is political. what the fuck are you talking about. it's been political this whole fucking time.

[cthulhum]

does anyone realize how crazy it is to have the actor of a mostly headcanoned queer ship say the fans were never crazy and they were right all along after 10+ years of everyone just absolutely going nuts over the said queerbaited ship

[lazylittledragon]

ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????

[camembri]

you wanted zoro to be on whole cake island to fulfil your weird desire to see zoro punish sanji. I wanted zoro on whole cake island because I think he's stupid enough to right place wrong time the plan and accidentally marry Sanji in full view of the whole wedding party in what becomes the most elaborately constructed comedy of errors ever written. we are NOT the same.

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[gremlingirlsmell]

what's really baffling me is when people argue some point against something someone said or against terminology and they go "if i replace this term with this other term this sounds awfully bigoted" like. YOU changed the word. YOU changed the meaning. YOU changed the context ?????

[bookalicent]

yeah so this was insane

[afterthelambs]

Ann's confidant wins the most sapphic confidant award in the game. Obviously there's rank 9 with Shiho saying "I love you" but there's also whatever the hell Ann has going on with Mika? Mika spends the entire confidant being rude and mean and underhanded, and Ann just goes "ugh she's amazing"

and in the end when you find out Mika has been sabotaging other people to get jobs this is Ann's response:

GIRL GET UP??? Beautiful girls make her weak asf. This is why Ann being supportive over Joker dating his assassin is in-character, she knows what it's like to fawn over a mean hottie

[nidbaesenpai]

Context: friend got Memory of Sadness on their first friendquest to the end of the House. Big emotional whiplash but I love it, Siffrin just wants to stay in this happy bubble with allies. :)