#and i see it

[hahskeleton]

how two draw

[doublel27]

Sometimes your wildly angry and hateful response to a piece of media has nothing to do with the actual piece of media and has everything to do with your own triggers.

Let me explain: sometimes a piece of media uses a common human failing. Something that happens all the time. To explore humanity within the confines of the story, as stories often do.

Sometimes, for you, that small human failing is the crux of the pain and anger you carry inside. Sometimes even the smallest and least harmful version of it, to quote RWRB, tears all the way down through the floor and into the sub-basements. Beyond where anyone would think that small human failing might go.

Because for you, it’s not what’s happening on screen but the painful things that have happened to you and you haven’t dealt with. You’ve locked them in a box or you’ve festered in them. Made it part of your personality to be against anyone or anything that carries this common human failing. Because the person that hurt you is, in your mind, a monster. You’ve divorced this action from humanity and you’ve made it that it’s only a thing that bad people or monsters do.

And the way the characters are treating this common human failing that happens every day is not how you want to handle it. Or is perhaps how you handled it and you wished you didn’t. And it makes you so incandescently angry.

When that happens, my loves, I want you to sit with it and ask yourself why you’re so incandescently angry or sad. Feel your feelings. Examine what it means when a character you love does something you equate with being monstrous. Or even more dangerous, when a character you love forgives something that you deem monstrous. Or if the failings of the characters remind you of yourself in some way. What is hiding underneath the anger and sadness? Is it shame? Is is loneliness? Is it worthlessness? Is it invalidation?

Because this is why the character who is genocidal mass murderer/serial killer is your poor little meow meow and the character with the every day failings is the worst character ever to exist. Because we look for the humanity in monsters, especially when we feel monstrous. But when a character is framed as human and shows a failing, we demonize them, because they remind us of our monsters who were also human. And I want you to think about it. Sometimes.

You have the choice at any time to stop engaging with a piece of media because it’s too painful or too raw or you’re not ready. But that doesn’t make that piece of media bad or evil (mostly there are some exceptions for the writings by the worst of humanity).

Take care of yourself. Please. 💜💜

[brinnanza]

I've been working in childcare for two weeks now and my favorite Child Moment so far occurred yesterday, when my coworker asked one of our regular three year olds, "if you could be any animal, what would you be?" a fairly standard pretend question but this child absolutely REFUSED to engage on the grounds that it was not within the realm of possibility Natalie said, "I know, but if you could-" and the kid was like "I'M A HUMAN BEING" with like full toddler lisp this kid said you want me to PRETEND? absolutely not and I'm offended you have the gall to ask the most world weary and down to earth child on the planet he said I am a HUMAN the END and honestly respect it's good to know you're a normie from the cradle but also points that child has autism Or Something

[boycritter]

how did that post become my most popular post in 3 days im gonna blow something up

[lilyflxwers]

it’s okay to feel like a burden. it’s okay to feel like you’re not going to make it out of this alive. it’s okay to hate everything around you. you’re okay. if hate and anger is the only thing getting you through the day, it’s okay. i am still proud of you.

[orphyd]

My dad saw my bangs on Easter and said I look like Dave Chappelle playing Rick James-

[thisapplepielife]

Wildflowers...and All the Rest headcanon:

Gareth Jones grows up to look a little like Kris Kristofferson from this era.

Photograph by Scott Newton at Farm Aid 1992 (I think, the clothes, guitar, strap, glasses all match) which means he'd be about 56 years old. About the same age as Gareth in 2025. Which is when Cabin Down Below is set.

Exhibit B, your honor. Gareth Jones knows a thing or two about winding up in jail.

If you love old pictures, go look at Scott Newton's pictures from early Austin. Young Willie & Waylon, Dolly, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Nicks, Bob Dylan, etc, etc, etc. Amazing.

[tododeku-or-bust]

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

[cartoonsinthemorning]

Since you guys liked Marcille as Kermit that much, it seems fitting to thank you for my 12k milestone with MORE Kercille. And this time, Miss Falin is also here.

Thank you so much again everybody! MWAH 💗

[nikrei]

I keep seeing people use this image as a reaction to people's original posts:

Which I think is really incorrect, because with an original post they haven't come up to ur window, u've come up to their window.

So I made this, as a more accurate reaction for original posts:

[girldraki]

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

[hellishqueer]

we ask that the defense not say "me when i lie" while the witness testifies

[canonkiller]

I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question "what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?" and then follow it up with a critical "and who taught you that?"

specific examples include but are not limited to

why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)

why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)

why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)

why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)

why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)

who taught you that this is how things are?

how long do you plan on repeating it?

[buttercuparry]

Palestinian men should not have to repeatedly hold up pictures of their family struggling through a genocide, for us to care about them. Fundraisers conducted by/for Palestinian men, should not have to repeatedly refer to their mothers, sisters, wives and children, to make us realize their humanity, their vulnerability. Enough. Isn't it enough after so many months? Hadn't it always been enough?

[theboxfort]

Peace and love