#and like....

[cosmermaid]

I really hate the criticism of the "hurt people hurt people" trope.

I feel like it's denying that cycles of abuse exist. It's denying that prolonged abuse can warp your perception of reality and morality. It denies that after enduring the idea that your pain doesn't matter for so long, it's so easy to internalize that pain itself doesn't matter, whether or not it is yours or someone else's. It denies entire generations of people claiming "My parents hit me as a kid and I turned out just fine!" when in fact they are not just fine. It denies that mental health services are insufficient throughout most of the world still, and a lot of people carrying trauma or mental illnesses caused by trauma are still undiagnosed.

If you went through abuse for literal decades and didn't come out the other end with an enraged monster in your heart that genuinely believed that if your pain didn't matter, then nobody's pain mattered, then count yourself fucking lucky.

Because a lot of people who hurt others are hurt themselves. It doesn't excuse their actions, but it's foolish to try to erase it.

And you know, maybe let's not try to erase the voices of people who worked very hard to overcome their own internal monsters grown from abuse, who decided they wanted to be better than how they were taught to exist.

[the-ghost-king]

can companies produce high quality furniture pieces in designs that don't all look the same or am i supposed to spend my life surrounded by pieces of the plywood veneered sterile ikea aesthetic variety

[malachitezmeyka]

They cast a blonde girl as Maude Ivory in the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie...

[lunawings]

WOW! The foreigner hotel plan is back for Love Live concerts! 

When people ask me when/if I’m going to visit Japan again I have been saying not yet. 

Basically because I have been waiting for this hahaha. 

They are doing the lottery now for Liella in AUGUST tho? That’s so soon. And I have other stuff planned for August so it’s just not gonna work. 

But thinking I could, theoretically, see Liella in August is WOW! 

[ugartecoco]

the transition im crying

[chicagoeggwhisperer]

If King Charles dies on or before March 25th, 2024, he will technically be the shortest-reigning king in English history.

Anyway, like to charge, reblog to cast.

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

[officialspec]

walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet

[ilona-mushroom]

Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space* at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

*yes sorry i mean usage i posted this before bed :( i do not mean the hard drive is full aaaaghhhh

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[emeraldwhale]

while you were studying girls i was kissing the blade

[x0401x]

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

[katabasiss]

do you guys think jesus, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross & temporarily thought of home