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i don't understand the need for garbage disposals when trash cans exist but the allure of feeding a sink beast my leftovers is tempting
#and yes I know I'm American#but I've never had one or knew anyone else who had one#so I'd never seen or used one irl until I stayed with my girlfriend#she saw me scraping my leftover food into her trash can like a fucking moron#and instead of breaking up with me she just held my free hand like 'babe no come here.. i got you'#then proceeded to flip a switch that made her kitchen sink turn into an undiscovered level of Dante's hell
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I hope leftists who think they’re above voting for president or are voting for Jill Stein or whoever because it’s their stupid way of protesting the system feel good about themselves, especially if Trump wins partly because of your negligence 😍 I know you’re not doing shit to plan the proletarian revolution, especially before January, so you guys better not complain about something harming you that you didn’t even bother to try and change
(edit: changed the last part bc I wrote “…if life gets a lot worse for you” cause that does nottt sound right at all and I apologize for writing that)
#if you have the option to help make change and do nothing then that’s your fault#ah yes! taking absolutely no action! that'll show the corrupt two-party system!#I’m literally a leftist too I don’t like aligning with the democrat party either but like… what other choice do we have right now#why not just vote for the one who sucks less#also you do know Jill Stein and Rudolph Ware don’t give a fuck about you or any leftist issues right#like they’re literally just there to get in the way for people who are too dumb to realize they’re basically just handing a vote to Trump#sorry for my raging here we see that I am very nervous for this election lol#and i know i'm being dramatic i don't actually want life to get worse for anyone but like... if you're anti-trump but don't vote for kamala#you're basically just getting what you asked for#american politics#vote blue#us politics#i know trump supporters are the ones to be angrier with ofc but this type of people are really irritating too#breaking: 20-year-old chronically online tumblr user changes the minds of thousands last-minute by ranting (/s)
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Do I think Luigi Mangione is the shooter? No clue. I do not possess the skills to find the real killer or to evaluate the authenticity of the evidence provided to the public by the police. Everything they've found seems pretty damning, but unfortunately we cannot trust a lot of what we learn right now
Do I think regardless of if he did it or not, he is in danger of being Epstein'ed? Yeah. There's a chance people in power will not want to risk him spreading his rhetoric further and would rather risk him becoming a martyr for the class war than let him be a mouthpiece. Companies are removing their executives from their websites because they're scared of copycats, but maybe if this shooter is silenced, it'll scare off some of them
#yes I said something#you can argue he is/isn't the shooter all you want#I don't know#but I'm scared for him#Boeing was fucking brazen earlier this year with their whistleblowers#anyway now is a great time to learn about jury nullification#and if you are ever asked if you'd be unable to convict#keep your fucking mouth shut#if the court asks if you're willing to consider the death penalty the answer is fucking yes otherwise you won't be on the jury#so if the court asks if you would be unable to convict#your answer is no you are not unable#(for real tho that 'must be pro death penalty to qualify for death penalty juries' rule is whack)#I'm gonna tag this with a bunch of shit so non/tired Americans can filter#sorry to add more American drama onto here#Luigi Mangione#us politics#politics#uhc ceo#uhc shooter#uhc#american politics#usa#usa news#usa politics
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WHAT THE HELL?????? ARTISTS CAN DRAW WHATEVER THEY WANT????? THAT'S CRAZY!!!!!! *insert intense brainrotting over hyperfyxations*
anyways, to the 5 people who are both in the Ace Attorney and Sam and Max fandoms simultaneously: COME GET YOUR CRUMBS!!!!! 🐶🐰👔⚖️
MAYA AND MAX, MY FAVORITE WANTED CRIMINALS!!! 🥹☝️💜🤍
i want them dead /affectionately
#ace attorney#ace attorney art#ace attorney fanart#aa#pwaa#maya fey#sam and max#snm#sam & max#art#br art#br artist#digital art#digital artist#digital artwork#sam and max freelance police#sam & max freelance police#fanart#sam and max fanart#sam & max fanart#sam and max art#crossover#crossover art#anyways now onto the headcanons#they'd be besties if they were in the same universe and if they didn't know eachother maya'd spend her (*nick's) money on a max plush anywa#and yes maya is plus sized and afro latina because YES i'm latina and plus sized and YES i kin her and YES i AM projecting .#she's also aro and pan just like me trust#IT'S MY ART AND I GET TO CHOOSE THE HEADCANONS#i can even make max hcs because he's just knowingly gay and american like that's just it he's just a stupid lil gay rabbit i hate him so#my art
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Finally watched Lap of Legends...and even though Williams fucked over Logan, this is something that they can never take away from him. Ever. This was his time to shine and boy he fucking did
Also...this was a cool ass shot
#f1#logan sargeant#lap of legends#yes i know the whole thing was outshined by alex's resigning i KNOW that#but STILL#this shit was cool as FUCK#also logan looked so GOOD here like shit#but yeah this project was COOL AS HELL oh my god#oh...i'm so glad this was a part of logan's legacy#fuck yeah you funky little american#god i was smiling the whole time watching it#and the words that the wdcs gave logan at the end...especially mansell's words#“you have to realize you're one of twenty drivers in the world driving the most fantastic stallion of race car”#like yes#logan was one of twenty drivers#he was an f1 driver...and no one can take that from him#but also villeneuve's words about driving not being fun anymore and second guessing himself...oof#those hit a little bit harder#but this was fun#and very cool#i'm glad i watched it
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#salamence#THIS one is a good one. someone else mentioned the chin and claimed they look like lord farquaad. and would say “why YES this is Divine” and#i didn't like how accurate that was. anyway dragon/flying 4x weakness to ice my belovèd. if anyone says ice is bad#keep in mind how much of the competitive landscape it totally nullifies. ice is like. probably my second favorite type. behind electric#even though none of this is about salamence. they've got the whole primary colors thing going on but minus yellow#red and blue. red white and blue. american pokémon? big red wings that're just Flat. i really dunno what's happening here i just know it's#supposed to be really good in competitive. and also they got a paradox form which i Guess TPC is trying to market as totally new unrelated#pokémon but i'm always going to call them “paradox hariyama” and such instead of ~iron hands~ or whatever they're supposed to be called#don't want my pokémon names to have two words in them……
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Jon can have some fantasy sequences where his vampire boyfriend feeds on him sometimes, as a treat ❤️
Art from chapter 14 of my long fic Lucid. There are two chapters with vampires and Jon wears a dress. Your welcome.
Heads up, I write Jon as a demisexual and the fic is rated extremely E, so please be aware of that if it isn't the flavor of ace you're comfortable exploring with this character. K bai love you.
#do not archive#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#jonmartin#jmart#vampire martin#Jon probably had a fucky gender identity but honestly I think he likes dresses because of sensory issues#fanfic art#yes I know I wrote movie like a dumb American I'm sorry it's fixed in the fic I'm just too lazy to update the art#the magnus archives#tma#hemidemi art
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Soooooo, if I didn't already make it clear yet, I'm head over heels in love with MK1's Syzoth. And now that his model is available for download, well, t'was only a matter of time before I did my thing.
And since Syzoth canonically cannot stomach human food, well, what better first hurdle for Outworld's newest emissary than having to stomach a whole LOT of it?
After all, our young Zaterran shapeshifter wouldn't wanna make a bad impression on other realms' delegates, right? ;)
#blender#blender sequence#syzoth#reptile#mortal kombat#mk1#belly kink#belly bloat#full belly#overstuffed#belly ache#indigestion#nausea#burping#and yes i know i misspelled delegates in one of those panels#i ain't no emissary#i'm an american#that means i'm proud of my idiocy dammit!#cue the eagles and machine guns
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SO. i was able to figure out the general structure of the script JLH leaked.
[explanation under the cut]
in order for all this to make sense, the first thing you need to know is that in north america all screenplays (scripts) are written in the same format
knowing this, we can deduce the general structure of the scene and even the length of some of the words
first we need to address the big question everyone's been asking:
are they talking about Bobby or Eddie?
screenplays are always typed in courier font, and in courier the capital letters B and E are identical at their left sides.
so while i enjoy people trying to figure out if the blurry letter in line 24 is a B or an E, the answer is it could honestly be either
where we really need to look is line one. the screengrab is blurry so i've outlined the word "going" and circled the area we should pay attention to
at first, the last letter of the prior word looks like an undistinguishable blob, but there is actually one key thing we can discern from it: the letter can't be y, it doesn't hang low enough
there is a chance that the word is not a name and is "he" which would not rule out Bobby or Eddie. however, that would mean the conversation goes on for at least 14 lines without mentioning "him" by name which is (heavily) frowned against in screenwriting. so chances are they're talking about Eddie
also, with what we know about the characters it's most likely Eddie. can you really see Bobby not talking to Buck because of... well, anything? and we already know that Eddie has a difficult time communicating. so i've decided to go with him for this script but haven't 100 per cent ruled Bobby out
moving on to the actual script itself, anything not highlighted in red is something i'm confident is either the exact wording or something similar. the red sections are the parts that i'm less confident in or know are incorrect somehow
Maddie's first dialogue block is the part i had the most trouble with. with context from the following conversation i figured that she probably asked something along the lines of when [Eddie] will be back at work. the main issue with this section is that the top line is actually six letters shorter than what i have written. this also means that the word that follows "going" has to be at least eight letters long. i tried messing around with the dialogue a bit but couldn't come up with something that would fit the appropriate letter count so for now i just wrote a line similar to what i think the actual line probably is
line six has to be either 12 or 13 spaces long and the first word has to be at least four letters long so i used "really soon" as a place holder, but i'm not completely confident in it
for line eight i initially had "Oh, that's good." but the line was one space short so i changed the "Oh" to "Hey" instead. i don't feel too poorly about this one but it still doesn't feel right to me. if the actual script says "Hey" i wouldn't be surprised if JLH changes it to something else or forgoes the exclamation completely
the final line is just a rough guess of what it could be. i'm not sure how formal the 911 writers are with action lines so i just took a random guess. some writers are extremely formal with action lines while others are more comedic with it (Neil Gaiman is a great example of this). i'm guessing the 911 writers are more the former but i honestly have no clue
#should i be working on my own screenplay rn instead of analyzing someone else's?#probably but i'm doing this anyway#if anyone wants any explanation on the other lines let me know#it's honestly just a lot of knowing how screenplays are written and knowing the 'rules' of script writing#911 abc#911 fox#s7#911 speculation#911 spoilers#spec#maddie buckley#evan buckley#eddie diaz#bobby nash#OH and before anyone mentions it yes it is “on THE basketball court” not “a”#it has to be a three letter word#so my guess is they were talking about the bball court/game prior to talking about whoever buck assaulted lmao#since “the” is a more personal/less generalized word#also no americans come after me for spelling it per cent#i realized when checking it over that some of y'all might be little shits (affectionate) about it#long post
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Date Night at Ghost Town
It wasn't often that his mentee, Randy, would invite him to do little activities such as fishing inside the Nomicon, such moments he appreciates as it reminded him of the peaceful memories he once had back at the living world.
When Randy had intivited him to come with him at the Celebration of the Founding of Sanctus Civitas in the Ghost Realm, he couldn't believe at what he was being offered to. "A trip to the Ghost Realm?" He asked.
The teen then replied, "Yeah, Danny invited me and Jake to come with him to the Ghost Zone for the celebration. Since you're some kind of spirit or something, maybe you could also have a chance to go there? I mean, it's gotta be kinda wonk to be lonely inside this book."
The First Ninja denied Randy's invitation at first, skeptical as he finds it nonsensical but also dangerous, given that he is the very foundation of the Nomicon. Should he be absent from his duties, he feared that an unexpected force would invade at a time of weakness, something of which he wouldn't allow.
Yet, even PlopPlop started to bug him about the boy's invitation, finding it weird that his ally had also approved of the boy's attempt. Eventually, he decided to go, finding it hard to resist two of his people and their charm to annoy to him.
As he tries to find an appropriate attire to wear, he discovers an elegant robe from back when he was alive, a kimono that dates back to the Kamakura Period. A gift from his fourth brother, a craftsman at heart.
On the day of the celebration, he, along with Randy his friends set off to the Ghost Realm, finding themselves in a dense forest with a jagged dirt pathway. Following the path, they reach the marble stairs, climbing up as they were greeted by a Torii Gate with two bells hanging on each side.
Ringing the bell four times on each bell while citing a chant that guarantees their entry, they soon were able to enter through the gate and into the celebration. The place was brimming with energy, hundreds of ghosts, spirits and souls running around around having fun.
The setting was beautiful, a dreamy dawn accompanying it. It was like a mix of a fairground and a ceremony, which would happen later that night as the procession of the Hyakki Yagyo would happen later that night. Stalls of food and games were placed left and right, attracting attentions of passerbys.
As he was about to ask the boys about his purpose in this, he was confused to find him, the warlock. Snarling, the First Ninja asked "What are you doing here?". The warlock chuckled, "Oh my, ask your kid, he did set us up for our date". Eyes twitching, he turned around to find Randy and his friends smiling, telling them to have fun as they ran away to enjoy the event.
Sighing, he faced Chase as the lizard hybrid held out his hand, "May I accompany you?". He begrudgingly accepted, knowing damn well that he himself won't be able to disagree.
Randy, while walking with Jake and Danny, smiled as his plan worked. He had planned it since the day he realized both their feelings are mutual, just way too stubborn and prideful to recognize them. He pleaded PlopPlop to go along with his plan, which after many attempts and bribery, he finally agreed.
Jake had been able to contact Chase, it wasn't hard considering that their main topic would be about the First Ninja, but what was hard was to convince the lizard hybrid that none of what they were planning is a trap.
The two heroic teens had known about their guardian's feelings about each other for a long time, even more so when they received the news that they were practically married. Grimacing at their pining, they planned to get the two to spend time with each other to work out their feelings.
When Danny had gotten an invitation to the Celebration of the Founding of Sanctus Civitas, they knew it was their chance to set the two immortal men on a date, letting Danny in on the plan as they tried to make their invitation look natural.
"Hey Randy, I know you set this up and shit for a long time, but come on! Let's enjoy the event, man!" Jake exclaimed.
"Hold on a minute, gotta take a picture of this." Pulling a camera out of his pocket, he placed it at the direction of the two immortals who were walking by the crowd, zooming in and pressing the button as it emitted a flash.
Click!
#rc9gn#rc9gn first ninja#chase young#my immortal soul#ninja showdown#secret trio#xiaolin showdown#rc9gn fanart#american dragon jake long#danny fenton#Btw this happens way after the entirety of Orange Tinted Dawn (of Realization)#Randy and Jake becoming matchmakers for their old man#danny phantom#There's way too many lights in that art#Yes I drew this in the car#How'd you know?#Searching up their outfits#Damn#I'm happy for it#Rc9gn fanart#randy cunningham#Meaning of Vow AU#first ninja x chase young
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Me: sees all the international Mikus
Me: !!! I wanna do that!
Me: ... How... How make white Miku...
#yes i know Miku is Asian and has pale skin#you know who also has pale skin but is not Asian? me.#i am fully aware of American Miku#but i am Midwestern#we literally just look like the default emojis#I'm sorry but it's true#hatsune miku#vocaloid miku#miku#american miku#white miku??
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actually no i'm not leaving it in the tags.
there is a thread on twt (a small one at the time i'm writing this) talking about russian being the language of oppressors. don't support it.
first of all - newsflash but that's xenophobic as hell.
second of all - maybe we shouldn't actually judge people for their government's actions? maybe our fellow russian dream fans shouldn't feel excluded? i know, wild idea!
third of all - discriminating anyone based on the language they speak should not exist in the year 2023 and yet!
#and yes i know op is from the uk.raine#no it doesn't make it less xeno.phobic#yes the guy in the vid was dumb for singing the anthem and there is a discussion to be had maybe#but i am talking about the server and excluding russian here#i understand being scared and that a war is happening - i'm polish believe me i do get thay#but this is not the way.#this is bullying and discriminating people for something they have no control over#discourse#and no clowning in my inbox from americans/western europeans#thx
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girl please, Charlie Swan is Team Werewolf and you know it
#it's like Bella has no conception of the socioeconomic symbolism attached to these monsters!!#girl why on earth would the middleclass police chief of a tiny rural town in Washington#choose the wealthy murderous parasites?????#OK besties as i'm typing that out i see why charlie might side with the wealthy murderous parasites#yes he IS an american cop so siding with the parasites does make sense#but think of all the paperwork he would have to do when the cullens kill someone! i mean. come on.#also it aint like cullen out there paying off the pigs so really what is Charlie getting out of this relationship#it's no bribes all paperwork? i don't care how American this cop is he is Anti Vamp and that's that on that#WEREWOLVES on the other hand......... besties let's review the cold fax ok#they're a blue collar blue jeans blue skies all day baby kinda monster. crack open a cold one with the boys kinda monster.#pull over on the road to lend you some spark plugs kinda monster. bring a dairy-based dip to the charity softball game kinda monster#big plus: they're on the DL. neat & tidy cover story. no killing. protect & serve yeah baby. no parasites here my boys WORK for a living#the boys are 0% paperwork (no killing) and 100% bribes (dairy-based dips)#Charlie's deffo Team Werewolf at best and turning a blind eye at worst#as far as this man's concerned the werewolves are the Olympic Natl Park rangers' problem#bear who???? don't know em#twilight#twilight renaissance#bella swan#the twilight saga#jacob black#charlie swan#eclipse read
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me [takes your face gently between my hands]: hob gadling would not be a history professor at any number of british universities because of how humanities academia works and even if he were, rose walker would not be his student or advisee.
#sandman#hob gadling#sorry but it's true#a) history professor is not a romantic position and y'all are demonstrating you do not know how grad school or the academic job market work#b) that's horrifying. straight up horrifying. that you want this man to be in charge of shaping historical narrative.#(you do realize he'd do it IN HIS FAVOR; yes?? and that's not a good thing??)#c) rose is american. and a writer. do i have a headcanon where she goes into history? yes.#but if she went to the UK it'd most likely be about connecting with her personal family history and uh.#hob gadling is connected with that in such a way she would not just ''forgive'' or ''move past''#(bc holy shit why should she??)#like. if she's researching unity or her earlier ancestors she's not going to be taking classes of or be the personal mentee of a white dude#(who also happened to be a former slaver...who everyone hc's as studying medieval hist anyway)#if y'all hc hob gadling as teaching black history...fucking don't??#whoops the disc horse#but whiteness is always afforded the language of the human#but also re: point a) i'm saying it mostly bc he doesn't fucking age#sorry but like. ppl do be noticing that.#especially in academia.
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wanted to get on here and yap about American Girl for some reason today
I'm far from a brand loyalist, and honestly, I was shocked I didn't grow up with the off-brand dolls you could get at Walmart or Target since I grew up poor until recently when my mom informed me that I would save money up for months and months at a time so that I could buy the dolls, and my parents only even actually purchased one for my birthday once we started to do a bit better financially, and after they saw how much I loved and took care of the dolls
I bought accessories for them myself as well, both from the actual company and from other brands like Target and Walmart ones, and even paid my mom to order me a bunk bed for them off of Etsy or something because I was so distraught that they didn't all have their own beds.
Anyways, I know brands are bad and stuff, and American Girl is not without faults and controversies, but tbh those dolls really shaped me as a kid, like I intentionally bought Rebecca Rubin as my first doll when I was a kid after seeing her in a catalog that we got sent by mistake because she was Jewish and looked like me. I had never seen a doll or character, or pretty much anything at that age who was Jewish like me and looked like me, and she wanted to be an actress, and at the time, I also wanted to act
I took that doll very literally everywhere, half the pictures of me from that age, she's tucked under my arm in a different outfit, her hair as well taken care of as I could manage for being so little. I accidentally messed up one of her curls while trying to fix her hair, and I cried for like a solid half an hour until my mom helped me fix it. even after I got other dolls, all of which I still loved and took care of religiously, Rebecca was the one who came everywhere with me
I'd already been a big reader before that, which is a whole other post, but I devoured those books, and I totally blame them for my current love of learning history and historical fiction. and the different dolls were all depicted as activists and feminists, and do not get me wrong here (I say on the 'taking things out of context' website) they were far from perfect with their diversity and activism, like oh jeez they did some very questionable things sometimes, but for the early 2000s and 2010s? revolutionary
the store closest to me closed a little before my birthday last year. I didn't know that it was even happening, and honestly probably still wouldn't have known if I hadn't been shopping with my friends at that mall like two weeks before my birthday since that was the only day we could all make work. Despite not having touched my dolls in a while, everything was super on sale, and I had been planning on taking Rebecca to college with me, so I figured I might buy her an outfit or something.
while the store was pretty ransacked, I was shocked and, no joke, teary-eyed over how many things they had for different cultures, different religions, and how many little girls I saw in there with big starry eyes looking at a doll that looked like them
I ended up buying a Channukkah outfit, and one of the friends I was with convinced me to, against my nature, let them buy a Lunar New Year outfit for me as well, which almost made me cry again. What really did it was seeing one of the previous Girls of the Year, Corrine Tan. Oh my gosh if they had had her when I was a little girl, she would've gone right beside Rebecca with how obsessed I was with her. I don't think I've mentioned it here before, but as a kid, I LOVED Mulan, and when I went to Disney World and the dress up boutique they had, I was DEVASTATED that they didn't have a Mulan costume. I latched onto her so hard for a very similar reason that I latched onto Rebecca so hard; because even though she wasn't the same ethnicity as me, Mulan was Asian, and so am I. I wore out I think three burned copies of that movie I watched it so often
I'm just weirdly sadder than I expected that American Girl is closing so many stores and not making as many sales I guess. I'm really fighting being a brand loyalist right now, because there are about a million other brands that make super similar dolls that I'm sure little kids all over loved, it's just always stuck with me that they at least seem to care about representation in the stories they make for these dolls
I mean, it clearly impacted me growing up, and I think it was for the better. I remember reading Addy's book being one of the first times I was exposed to the idea of children being slaves because they obviously didn't talk about that in an elementary school in the 2010s. I really just wanted to get all of my thoughts out, I've been thinking about it a lot recently since I took Rebecca to college, and I've now been hearing stories from girls who see her in my room about what doll or what toy shaped them as a child. Very excited to dress her up for Channukkah when it comes around, and tbh I've been looking for more outfits for her online. I just want her to be something I take with me throughout my life I guess. I mean, I took her everywhere when I was little, so it kinda feels wrong not to take her with me on this super big part of my life.
yeah anyways uh, if you had one of these dolls go... idk kiss em on the forehead or something. remind the toys that shaped you that you love them for what they did for you and all that. yap session over
#american girl#american girl doll#toys#childhood#nostalgia#rambles#and yes#I know about the whole controversy surrounding rebecca and her outfits being renamed like a million times#and the whole debacle of some people saying she doesn't look jewish enough#to that one i say if they had made her look more stereotypically jewish people would've gotten on them for that too#dont think there was a way to win that one#because people have said to my face that I don't look jewish and I've got the whole dark curly hair thing going on#thats been said to me by both other jews and non jews btw which is crazy to me#side note#anyone know how to fix curls on an American girl doll#rebeccas unfortunately got a bit messed up and I'm scared to mess them up more trying to fix them#did i literally go to beauty school? yeah#could i probably just look at the wig care part of my textbook? also yeah#but like - what if i fuck it up#Rebecca Rubin#just my ramblings
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idk what exact conclusion to draw about this but of all the families who have ever adopted children that i have known of, only three adoptees (two who are sisters) who really still like and are on good terms with their family. and one of those families had at least one older adopted child who ended up involved in such dangerous things as an adult and was threatening the lives of their then-infant daughters so they had to cut contact with him. literally every other adopted child i have ever known or whose family i have known have gotten into drugs, gotten teenage pregnant, gotten into crime, or all three, in families where that behavior was as discouraged as possible and in environments where none of their peers displayed similar behavior. and these kids were pretty much all adopted as infants, not as older children after experiencing traumatic events. i mean, i assume the subconscious trauma of being separated from one's mother could influence how the brain develops but idk. i'm not anti-adoption by any means obviously but i feel like there has to be a way to develop better outcomes for kids who are adopted.
#other than the three girls i mentioned every other family who adopted that i know of is currently raising the child of their adopted child#because the mother is unable/on drugs/more interested in chasing men#or the son is in jail or was#i guess it does make sense since I see so many adoptees complaining endlessly online about how bad their lives are#because their adoptive parents didn't emphasize their birth culture enough or because their adoptive parents weren't rich#and a birth parent ended up getting rich (real complaint i once saw!) and how they hate the implication there should ever be any gratitude#and honestly im going to be fucking for real.....first of all everyone should have gratitude to everything in their life all the time so yo#don't need to be more grateful to your parents than a bio kid but like im thankful my parents have provided for me and raised me#even though they weren't perfect#and second of all i understand its not good that your birth mother had to give you up for some reason that's very unfortunate#but it is good that when that bad thing happened you were adopted by fairly good parents#(the assumption in all of this obviously being that your adoptive parents aren't like evil but if that's the case that's just growing up#with bad parents which happens to a lot of people)#but if that's not the case then yes you should be glad that when a bad thing happened to you another thing happened to make it less bad#like instead of living in an orphanage forever you got to be adopted by (going by literally all the people who are like this that i know)#upper middle class parents#it's like if you're walking on a tightrope and it breaks but there was a safety net so it catches you and then everyone is like Thank#Goodness For That Safety Net! I'm Glad The Safety Net Was There!#and you're like NO because if you say you're glad the safety net was there it's the same thing as saying you're glad the tightrope broke an#it was bad the tightrope broke so fuck you#and it's like no.......those are two separate things#and also be so fucking for real the life of like a youngest daughter in rural China or Guatemala is not as good as the life of a#middle class American child. in situational terms it is a net positive. but i can understand why that is a bit of a mindfuck#when the children who would be your peers are half a world away and you have luxuries and opportunities they could never imagine#but people who complain that specifically Americans adopted them because they decided (as people who lived in America their whole lives)#that they would have been better off in rural China or whatever..................that is for sure not true#you know why i know#because people from there who get enough money to send their kids out won't stop sending them here!!!!!! do you know how many Chinese#nationals went to my prep school so they could get into American colleges???? the upper class Chinese dream is to get the hell out lmao
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