#and it's not like it's gotten significantly better

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

All OF THIS! <3

Prohibition should have taught us that you can‘t keep people from drugging themselves without also making life significantly less shity

And to the person (can't be arsed to scroll up to read the name)that was like:

No I don't think Adderall should should be sold over the counter.

Yeah, good idea

Aderall should not be over the counter because some dude bro asshole might abuse it

And trans women should not be allowed to use womens restrooms BECAUSE SOME DUDE BRO ASSHOLE MIGHT ABUSE IT

And you have to babysit your drink because SOME DUDE BRO ASSHOLE MIGHT ABUSE IT

I AM NOTICING A PATTERN … YOU TOO?

Also newsflash

Adderall isn‘t over the counter, yet their dad got it … because he has a functioning brain.

Meanwhile people who need it can‘t have it because in order to jump through all those hoops … you need a functioning brain.

And their solution to the problem is:

ta-da!

People with a functioning brain should still have easier access to medication they don‘t need then people with neurological issues who do NEED it

How about no one is allowed to get insulin without jumping through endless hoops because some people who didn‘t need it used it and ended up in a hospital?

No?

Not a good solution?

But it protects people who should not take serious medication in the first place, from themselves

And their families from potential tragedy

All at the low low price of the lives of the people who DO need the medication.

No?

You don‘t like that?

Why do you think it‘s a good solution for people with ADHD?

Because they don‘t drop dead without the meds?

Trust me, some of them are dead in every way that matters

They can‘t finish their education, they can‘t hold down a job, they can‘t keep up friendships, they can barely concentrate on their hobbies, they are the black sheep of the family that everyone hates, they self medicate with alcohol …

But I guess it’s better if people with neurological issues damage their bodies with alcohol and drugs in a desperate attempt to self medicate then that their dad gets an easier access to a medication he should not be taking TO BEGIN WITH.

That sounds fair …

We have been here before

Rather burn a hundred innocent women, then letting one witch life.

Well, I can only counter :

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” Sir William Blackstone

It’s the same stupid argument of why AO3 needs to sensor everything because some people have no media literacy, so again everyone has to yield to the assholes …

If I'm stepping out of line y'all can tell me

You are stepping out of line

Badly

Your dads problem wasn’t that access to Adderall was to easy

IT ISN’T

You dads problem is that he can’t take no as an answer

If your father hadn’t gotten his hands on Adderall

Which again, I can not emphasize enough HE DID

WHILE it was heavily regulated, so clearly the regulations aren’t doing shit to keep people from abusing it

If your father hadn’t gotten his hands on Adderall

Then it would have been something else

Some people are garbage

Doesn’t mean the rest of us has to suffer just to protect them

→ bUt mY dAd lAsHeD oUt aT hIs fAmIly

Yeah?

Mine too

Without meds

Without Alcohol

Just in is natural state

Probably because HE SHOULD have been on ADHD medication …

wild how we have a medication that is super effective at treating a debilitating disability but its controlled to hell and back because What If Someone Takes It For Fun like i have an idea who gives a shit

[serpentface]

You meet your other sister-in-law very briefly.

She arrives unannounced in full Odonii garb and a long cloak for the cold, soaked through with rain. She's taller than most men, and carries herself like one too. Her hair spills out of her veil, not only unbraided but a horrendous mess. It's kind of fascinating. You catch a glimpse of a handgun slung across her back, hidden beneath her cloak. This is especially exciting; you’ve never seen one up close. You try to peek around her to get a better look at it, and flush in embarrassment when she catches you, shooting you a cold glare.

It doesn't seem like she speaks much without being spoken to, and you aren’t really the type to initiate conversations either. Livya fills in for the both of you, prompting your sister-in-law to introduce herself. Her name is Couya. You give her a respectful bow and curtsy, she gives a very slight bow back without looking you in the eye. She compliments your necklace. Or at least, she mumbles something while looking in the general direction of your necklace, and it might have been a compliment. You aren’t sure whether there’s something wrong with her or she’s just rude.

She's just her for filial duties at the family shrine, and she doesn't stay long. Livya stops her on her way out. She says she's disappointed that the one time in a year she can be bothered to come by, she shows up looking like a disheveled street-whore in priest's clothing. Look at Hibrides, she didn't even know we were having company and still did up her hair so nicely, and all by herself too. Thank God your father isn't here to see this, he's suffered enough embarrassment as it is-.

Couya stands in the doorway in silence through this whole speech. You thoroughly inspect a loose tile in the floor and try your best to pretend you aren't there. Livya doesn't take her hand off your shoulder the whole time.

---

[I've been writing an overview of Hibrides' first several years of marriage for the hell of it. It's just a summary but it's written with like, the slightest bit of prose, so figured I'd dump a section here]

[bluemew-theturtle]

So like did we all agree we're going to ignore the fact that China is a little old lady now, or is it just me.

[meat-loving-meat]

hinds and hounds

[alarajrogers]

The past was a place like this one. Some aspects of it were great, better than now, and some aspects of it were shitty, worse than now, and some aspects haven't significantly changed. Or they were shitty but it's gotten shittier, or they were good but it's gotten better.

Like, yes, people calling for a return to a golden age that never actually existed is a problem, but pushing back against that by insisting that everything has always been exactly as bad as it is right now in every respect for everyone everywhere and that any suggestion to the contrary is reactionary doesn't make you a hard-nosed realist, it just makes you a dipshit.

[sonflwers]

she vaso on my vagal till i syncope

[youredreamingofroo]

I don't think anybody rlly cares but I'd like to share that one of my parakeets, bolt who has been incredibly hand averse since I got him, has finally started to become comfortable with me, comfy enough to feed from my hand without *bolting* (ba-dum tss) at the slightest hand movement 🥹🥹 I'm sooo proud of him, I was super worried he would never become comfortable with me, he still has a lot to work on, as he still is jumpy, moreso than Scones (his companion), but progress is progress and this is the best kind of progress rn !!!

[ajmakoko]

Because of a beef of 2 possible psyops happening on TikTok that blew up in the last day or so.

Where one creator was anti-Democrat and explaining why they voted 3rd party. Then was told that they hurt trans ppl if they didn't vote for Kamala because Trump will hurt transppl more including with medicaid cuts. The first creator said they didn't care because to them Kamala still supports genocide in Gaza so they couldn't vote for her but they understood why other trans ppl might due to their medical needs.

Then another creator (that truscum overwhelmingly supports) got mad about this and said that they weren't really trans, they look cis so they aren't affected by trans legislation, that ciswomen aren't harmed by anti-trans laws, that transitioning should be equated with medical transition partially for medical treatment reasons and partially for reasons relating to how society sees them. They also emphasized AGAB a lot, even though this info wasn't disclosed or particularly relevant (they assumed AGAB) and then went on a rant about specifically AFAB people who are nonbinary (some TERFy rhetoric tbh). When called out for this, they and their defenders say that the 2nd creator is a black transwoman, the most in danger of all trans ppl from Trump's policies, so no one is allowed to disagree with her. And to go back to the voting topic, ig they don't see the inherent fascism in demanding someone vote how you demand - that that takes away the point of a vote in the first place.

This has caused an explosion of transmedicalism debate. It's still ongoing. Unfortunately, the transmedicalism side has significantly more creators making videos and talking about it. Like really really unfortunately. And the takes are so bad - tbh I didn't expect the regression I'm seeing in education, civil rights, food safety, science, history, etc, to also affect trans education/discourse online but it really has.

For the record, I am genderfluid, do not support transmedicalism, understand gender affirming care can look like many things, hang with homeless trans ppl and trans ppl from many different backgrounds, voted for Kamala. I strongly believe in civil rights and making sure everyone gets the right to vote how they want. I think it was obvious Trump was and is horrifyingly bad. I have had a hard time being chill with people who didn't vote out of apathy (not protest) or who voted for Trump, but truly I tend to blame the Democrats for not earning those voters, and even if they had gotten everything 3rd party vote, they wouldn't have won most likely. Attacking 3rd parties does nothing politically for Dems.

The solution is not then to police votes, but to earn them. Like do your jobs, Dems.

But instead they policed the first creator's trans status and tried to argue with them via appeal to authority for some reason (arguably emotional abuse), and invalidating and gatekeeping them. Like with really transphobic stuff, too. Ig the 2nd creator is an established trans creator (I've never heard of her but I do more in the drag scenes than whatever this creator is involved in), and have been accused of transmedicalism in the past. This creator I guess also has a LONG history of saying TERFy, self hating trans things (according to critics, idk, its just what I read) and has been in controversies for years about hateful things she said about NonBinary folx (I have since learned).

And so maybe at least 1 creator is a psyop meant to make trans ppl want to die. I certainly felt extremely extremely shitty after reading that discourse, when previously I was happy with who I am and my gender as described (and I am doing better now that I've regulated some). Particularly upsetting was the alienating transmedicalism trying to gaslight me that, for instance, homeless trans people who cannot access doctors are somehow advantaged. Brandon Teena was somehow advantaged being AFAB when he was murdered, because he wasn't on hormones so technically he could have passed as a woman if he wanted to or needed to. Really seemed to help him a lot, all that privilege (/s). And if he were still alive, would he be forced to vote how random people tell him who claim they are more disadvantaged than him, even though there's no real way to compare? I mean, that he was murdered kinda shows he was less advantaged than the annoying content creators making money off our suffering demanding we vote in a particular way.

Fuck this timeline.

Why am I seeing a rise in transmedicalism and truscum bullshit? I thought we were past this.

[notmoreflippingelves]

I need to ramble more about Esteban Flores, because everything about this character and his arc seem as though it was tailor-made for me and specifically designed to make me absolutely feral.

This going below the cut, both because I do not want to spoil the entire show for my friend who is think of watching Elena of Avalor and because I go full-on apologist here and I feel like that will annoy some people.

Imagine making the absolute worst mistake than anyone could possibly make, because you are 18 and scared and stupid and tired of being ignored. And it results in you losing your family and your freedom and what little self-respect you had left because you know all of this is very much your own fault.

 And so you proceed to spend the next 41(!) years eking out a miserable existence in an oppressive state. Upon fear for your life, you are forced to be the reluctant right-hand of the evil witch-queen who conquered your country, killed your aunt and uncle and trapped your cousin in magical prison. In spite of this, you nevertheless do everything within your limited power trying to hold the kingdom together and make sure the people don't starve, because the queen certainly doesn't care about anything except greedily bleeding your country dry.

And no exaggeration, this is just what canon explicitly gives us outright in the pilot. Like that's not even getting into head canons/interpretations/common sense of what exactly this sort of life entailed for you. Because this is a children's show so there's only so much they will let us imply about living under that kind of system. Especially as a young, attractive, terrified person who is the last living member of the previous royal family who is likely being kept alive partly as a combination trophy/punching bag for the evil queen (even if the show never actually states this outright).

And then by some miracle, what's left of your family comes back after all this time. The evil queen is overthrown, partly because you yourself finally stood up to her at a critical moment. You and your country are finally free again, and what's more, you and your family are finally together again after over 4 decades. But you still feel like an outsider--partly because you always were an outsider in your family even in the better times and partly because  over the past 41(!) years, time stood still for all of them except you.

And as a result, no one ever cares to ask what those 41 years were like for you or even just if you’re doing okay. Not only because your family can’t even begin to comprehend what it must have been like, but also because they don’t care to even *try* to understand. Because the narrative has decided that everyone else’s respective traumas is worth way more than your own.  (Though tbf the narrative really doesn’t dwell much on anyone’s trauma in general but yours gets especially neglected , except to briefly play it for laughs or to remind you that your trauma is *your own fault and only your own*).

For a little while, life is pretty okay. It’s weird not having to watch your step every instant to make sure you’re not putting a toe out of line. And so you never really fully break out of your “survival mode” conditioning, making sure that you are still considered important and valuable enough to keep around.

But all the while, you know that your past—and especially your terrible little secret—is eventually going to come back to haunt you. And it does. First via blackmail and then via the return  of the evil witch-queen herself. Fortunately, she is defeated for good before she can take avenge your “betrayal of her” but you still have to deal with seeing the ghost from the past who terrorized you for 41(!) years.

And then, your secret finally comes out in the open and you are disowned by your family—the family you *just* got back a few years ago—for an admittedly super bad decision that you made over four decades ago and have regretted ever since.  Rather than face the rest of your life in isolation (as though you didn’t already have enough of that during the previous regime), you escape before you can be sent into exile. This puts you directly in the path of *another* terrifying, evil magical milf who you are forced to ally yourself with. Because you have 40+ years of conditioning that when a woman like that says “jump,” you say “how high?” if you are to have any hope of survival.  Especially given that the only people who could’ve protected you from her are the family and friends who have just definitively washed their hands of you.

Despite this, you are still trying to seek your cousin’s forgiveness and to protect her in the little ways that you can. But you are constantly getting rebuffed over and over again, and if anything, your attempts at reconciliation only seem to make your cousin angrier, and she now hates you just as much as—if not MORE than—the woman who actually murdered her parents.

Your cousin is so angry at you specifically that she actively ignores the greater threat of Witchy Milf 2.0, because she happens to see your face and is enraged. This ends up backfiring spectacularly for you both, though it does indirectly lead to the defeat of said Witchy Milf 2.0.

But guess what?  There’s no time to breathe or celebrate, because her defeat occurred during the successful summoning of a third power-mad, feminine-presenting magical humanoid and her allies. At least, this one treats you with some initial respect and actually gives you outright what you-think-you’ve-thought-you-always wanted. But she also turns your family and friends to stone in front of you as a warning of what’s to come if you dare to defy her.

But this time, you are finally done with this, have finally lost enough that you have paradoxically found your courage. You sacrifice yourself to save your cousin, and she is finally able to accept that you’ve sacrificed and changed enough that she can forgive you. And her forgiveness is so powerful and pure that it not only restores you to life but also undoes all the other evil magic. Together, you defeat this final enemy, paradoxically by banishing her to the same Underworld where your mistakes accidentally sent your aunt and uncle and her parents long ago.  Peace has been restored. You have returned for good and are finally secure in your family’s love.

And after all that, there are *still* people (both presumably in universe and in the fandom outside of it) who say it's too little, too late and that it would've been better for everyone if you'd simply stayed dead.

Like I'm just... are we really victim-blaming the character who has 45 years of unprocessed trauma and guilt (both survivor's guilt and guilt in general) because of a decision he made when his brain was still developing and he was being manipulated by an older, much more powerful person?

[edgarallen-foe]

i don't like one of those asks i got a while ago... i never want to imply that juno was anything but wonderful during our relationship - i couldn't tell you one thing i wish was different when we were dating. he was the perfect boyfriend for me. it was only months after we broke up that it came to my attention how nasty he's gotten.

[sleepy-stitches]

hi. ive taken this trip now. ive come out with new and controversial opinions on bus systems

[samaspic31]

Exactly. has star wars always tried to be radically progressive ? sure, yeah, the ot compared the alliance to vietnamese anti american imperialism resistance, the prequels depicted victims of religious persecution and genocide as sympathetic at the height of demonisation of islam and violence in the middle east. Has it always suceed? does it give characters played by actors of all ethnicities the same care ? does it avoid falling into racist tropes? fuck no. And it’s undebatable it historically has centered white characters. So yeah the dudebros are wrong to say star wars’ thesis is either politically neutral or milquetoast liberal “both sides have flaws”, but that doesn’t make star wars good at being radical and exempt of examination of how itself perpetuated racism in many instances. both can coexist.

"in star wars, the villains are old white men for a reason" and the heroes are almost always young white people. So.

[maximusboltaqon]

look if triton was able to be vox-ified after being literally blown up by a bomb that he was holding inches away from his face. then i think some of the other inhumans were also ok. like i think they could have just broke the mind control on most of them and theyd have been ok. there were like,, 15k inhumans attacked by vox,,, i think more than just the royals got out of that one

[sevicia]

last few times I've come to the hospital the mental health section receptionists have been like "Hi Dante!" like they don't even ask for my RUT anymore which is yknow the standard thing to do. they're just like yeah yeah Dante we've all heard of him we all know him .... and the 1st lady to do that wasn't TOO surprising since she's the one who usually makes my appointments but just now I had to change some appointments I had in March to fit better w/ my school schedule and the lady that greeted me I had seen maybe ONCE during my whole time coming here .... and she called me by my NAME ?????

[minafeu]

Me this afternoon before publishing the new chapter: There is nothing you or I can do to bring him back now

Me after finishing chapter 2: He has risen baby girl *iris by the goo goo dolls plays in the background*

[thousandheadeddolphin]

Guess who just got a new pfp