#and as a childless adult that should never have children and doesn't want them. fuck you

[lokiinmediasideblog]

something that makes me roll my eyes in comparisons between myth and mcu!loki is when myth!loki is said to be better because he has a wife (+ mistress) with children. And because that apparently makes his feelings of hurt more legitimate or whatever.

[itmeblog]

POLITICS INTO THE VOID TIME

In the event that you've not been pretty obsessed with how American politics have been going since Kamala became the Democratic nominee (there's been good and bad, that I'm aware of) the tone of the campaign has completely changed.

Because Kamala's team has decided that Trump isn't threatening, all powerful, and scary, (though the ads I've seen have sort of been using old language) they have decided that he's weird and he's a creep.

These were made 11 days apart:

As a kid who grew up being called weird (and occasionally a creep) this is hilarious. It's just playground bullying.

Dems really said, we tried being the bigger person, it wasn't working out.

And Trump's policies and desires are actually weird. A proposed porn ban is weird. Trying to put librarians in jail is weird, policing people's bodies is creep behavior.

As a former weird kid, the way to overcome this sort of bullying is not to assert that you aren't weird or god forbid shout "I'm cool" (the more you say it, the less true it is), it's to embrace that you're weird and accept that not everyone is going to like you, and that you'll probably never have a seat at the cool table.

But and I cannot express this enough Trump wants to be cool. His whole thing is, being edgy, and dangerous, and "being brave enough to say what people are afraid to say". And when you get someone who is "being brave enough to say what normal people are afraid to say" and shoot back with "they don't say that because it's fucking weird"... where does he go from there?

It's a depowering move. They are depowering Trump.

When you were a kid talking passionately about something that interested you and someone said "that's weird (derogatory)" it probably made you feel really small. That kid stole the power you were wielding in said conversation.

So the question is, can Trump proudly and convincingly assert "I'm weird. I’m a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird." (GOD HIS CHATGPT AND PLAGIARIZED SPEECHES HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THE FUNNIEST THING IN THE WORLD)

Is he ready to go full edgelord in the public eye?? I'm sure he'll still have followers, edgelords have a weird sort of power in this era of internet, but they are also indisputably cringe.

Like I'm not sure this will achieve anything other than being ridiculously entertaining (and thus catching the eye in headlines and reports). But,my family read one of the new releases and went oh right this whole thing is weird as fuck and it felt nice to get some kind of public acknowledgment that this is not normal.

So far the right has been struggling against couch fucking allegations, them saying that adults without kids should have less of a voice in voting (weird thing to say, but if you're polling badly with youngsters and need to maintain power~~), that Kamala is a crazy childless cat lady (Whoops accidentally alienated some of their base there, some people simply cannot have children, really shouldn't insinuate they are less than because of it. Not to mention that their own policies are making more everyday in mostly red states as complications with getting abortions for non-viable fetuses are leaving many people sterile. I'm not even going to go on with the fact that many people, like myself, simply don't want kids and that's reason enough. Also she does have step children), and the rumor that Trump wasn't really shot (as they finally removed the bandage to reveal... nothing, head wounds heal really fast but going from that giant plaster to nothing is doing a bit of a number in the rumor mill).

Basically they had Joe! THEY SPENT THE WHOLE RNC INSULTING HIM. THAT WAS THEIR WHOLE PLAN!! He was old, he was white. The inherit ableism/ageism of sleepy Joe and old Joe, and infirm Joe, were within "acceptable parameters". It was easy and safe to rib him.

They are struggling to find something on Kamala that doesn't come across as racist or sexist. Because they're polling poorly with Black Americans and they are down in the polls for women. Can't call her sleepy or lazy. Can't call her old (she's younger) can't call her stupid, can't call her infirm. Can't insinuate she's too emotional (have you met Trump??)

They probably could get her on a few policies but the 2025 project is looming large behind them.

I am foaming at the mouth trying to get to the next debate. But Trump is doing his best to weasel out of it. I am heartbroken! I miss the anytime, anywhere promise of yore.

[witchofimber]

I see you reblogged an Ask Game not long ago, and only if I am not too late and only if you wish….

🤔 ____ for Every Mother Is A Grave, just, like, ANYTHING you’d like to share about your thoughts about the character(s) and the writing process of that.

It is such a masterwork. I’m a lil bit obsessed. 🤩

Shshdjdbus thank you I'm so thrilled to get a message like this ahhhh;!! I can no longer find the ask game so I can't remember what this emoji is. Please enjoy my scattered and incoherent thoughts.

There is an inherent horror to motherhood. Someone is a part of you, they are in your body, and then they are ripped away. When your kids are small, they tell you everything. Slowly, they start lying to you. This child you used to know inside out becomes an adult who's opaque to you. Watching them grow up is a long, slow process of losing access to the person you love the most. Charlie leaves the country. Percy doesn't believe her when she warns him of danger. Bill gets a girlfriend she doesn't trust, the twins drop out of school, Ron signs up at eleven to put himself in danger again (and Harry, another son to her, will never be safe whatever he does). Ginny gets possessed and doesn't, can't, ask for help. The subplot of HP is Molly losing all her kids; some in small, ordinary ways, some in the worst way possible. This is not me saying that anything those kids did was wrong, but it's brutal.

Mothers aren't people to children. Mothers are mothers, a separate category. That's how it should be, but it's also depersonalising - you have to be as unshakeable as bedrock, you can't share your old wounds. Your children want to fight in a war, and you can't rip your chest open and show them how you're still bleeding over two dead brothers, because you're their mother.

She raised five children during a war, pregnant with a sixth. She also fought in that war. Can you imagine the absolute fear of that?

Bill is twenty-one in the first book, which means that if we go by Movie!Molly's appearance, she started having kids when she was an absolute baby. Arthur in his twenties has little money, few prospects and odd ideas. She was probably younger than I, childless, am now, with at least two kids before she reached my age. If I had had a baby in my early twenties, that baby would not be doing well. She would have gone from child to mother with almost no gap in between, and then there was a war.

We all know the Larkin line about how "they fuck you up, your mum and dad." This is true of every family, even the loving ones like mine - raising children is hard, there's no right answer to every child, you're going to mold all of them and that includes some mistakes. I think the answer to the Larkin line for a lot of people (obviously not everyone) is "and we love them anyway." We grow up, we become adults, we realise we're still flying blind and then we imagine how absolutely shit-scared we'd be if we tried to do this with a baby. That's what I wanted to capture with that Ginny and Molly conversation - that destabilising point of adulthood where you suddenly see your mother as a person again.

Also sorry I included so little Bill in this story but I have no clear idea of him as a person. Also sorry for six paragraphs of Molly brainrot! In the words of Marge Simpson, I just think she's neat.