#but that’s something else

[deathbutwithfuzzyanimals]

I think we all need a reminder that everyone involved in everything going on right now is human, and is doing what they think is the right thing to do, either for themselves or for their friends and family or for the world. Yes Israel the state is supporting a genocide but Israeli people are humans with friends and families and jobs and yes many are in the military because it’s required by the government. And yes other countries in the Middle East are attacking Israel but also those countries are made up of people who are horrified at what is happening to people they see as kin and feel a desperate need to protect. And yes the US elected someone who is agreed upon in intellectual and liberal circles to be a terrible choice for the country and the world at large, but the people of the country are desperate and feel as though Biden has failed them and want and need to blame someone, anyone, because then the problem is fixable. And also our president elect is a human being who is doing what he thinks is what the country wants, and is trying to realize unrealistic dreams and is trying to protect his friends from what he sees as an attack and has been shot at multiple times and has survived each time but not unscathed. And Biden is a man who is suffering from health issues and who wanted so badly to help the country and did what he could and in the end it wasn’t enough, and he tried so hard but couldn’t continue forward. And Kamala Harris was desperate and felt the pressure to not let Trump get elected and mistakenly assumed that liberals would vote for her no matter what, and so she attempted to bring people she hoped would understand to her side. And many leaders and countries and people have failed the people they have power over. And many people voted or supported or continue to vote for and support people who they are desperate for the victory of and on all sides, we are forgetting that we are all human beings. We all breath the same steadily declining air, and we all have people we care about and people we want to help and people we hate and people we want to hurt and people we blame for all of our problems and people who caused at least some of them. And we, as a society, are forgetting that all of these people we blame could easily have been us, if we had a different skin color, if we had a different childhood, if we had a different socioeconomic class, because at our core we are made of the same material components. And just because the people fighting against us have forgotten this, or are ignoring this, or never knew this in the first place, doesn’t give us the right to do the same to them. Hating people is human. Feeling anger and rage and wanting revenge is human. But once we decide that we are human and they are monsters, we have all lost. And I am NOT saying you have to be kind to the people who spit in your face. I am NOT saying you need to reach out a hand to people who want you dead. I am saying that we need to remember that we all care, and we all cry, and we all bleed, and if you can find it in yourself to understand, not forgive, certainly not forget, but understand, then maybe there’s hope that we won’t all fall apart in the end.

[ibenology]

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

[monatoxin]

kaiju

[miniaturecatmentality]

guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

[starridge]

from the same six hour drawing session where i devolved into hyperfixation-based madness

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x05 - “Blisters and Bedrock”

[iwatcheditbegin]

The fact that there’s actual checkout lines to buy a digital copy of a 5 year old album. Yeah she’s getting that #1

[happyheidi]

𝗑, 𝗑, 𝗑, 𝗑

[mumblingsage]

I'm wondering if, as a society who cares about vulnerable people, we could stop saying "traumatize" when we truly mean "upset"?

I am sick of hearing sad books or movies "traumatize" their readers. I simply do not believe that happens. A traumatic experience might be adjacent to books (I have vivid memories of books I was reading around certain experiences and even how the contents of those books affected my processing of the experiences). But it's not caused by the book. And, y'know. The weather is Christofascist Censorship Attempts outside.

Meanwhile from the other side I continue to be surprised at just how badly people fail to understand trauma and traumatic experiences in general. Watering down the term isn't helping. Find other hyperbole to express that The Bridge to Terebithia gutted you, chewed on your heartstrings, and made you cry your first pair of contact lenses right out of your preteen eyes.

(ETA here although it's impossible to edit reblogs: over the months since this post really took off, there has been valuable discussion in the comments. I stand by the passion with which I wrote this post and with the general message, but not all the exact wording. I talk more about the way I'd re-write this post in a response here, replying to an addition that added a ton of useful context [other additions touched on similar themes, but that person had it all together in one reblog]. With that said, I am muting this post.)

[wasabi-gumdrop]

local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

[eydilily]

small victories ^^

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[kuuwo]

Good Boy

[hanjoj]

their ship name might as well be theseus the way there's not a single original characteristic left there