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[danshive]

I was looking up information on “pickup artist” (ALL OF THE AIR QUOTES) tactics for character writing purposes (with the intent of accurately writing behaviors for certain character types).

I had expected to start with some (relatively) tame bad advice about dating and seduction when I searched the YouTubes (basically, Sam from Cheers nonsense).

I accidentally started in the deep end with a critical takedown video of a book with really, REALLY creepy, pathetic, abusive advice. Blargh.

Seriously, if I wrote a character based on the book being criticized, I’d get chastised by some people for making a hyperbolic mockery of men, and portraying them as unrealistic cartoon villains.

Which I know, because that already happened when I had some fictional characters do and say things that were way tamer >_<

[barb-l]

Somebody I've been following for years just put Beetle///lyds on my dash and when I searched up "Beetlejuice" on their blog there was a lot of posts of that ship rb'd

[mjshortformcjesus]

ew guys dont eat soap i just took a bite out of a large bar of soap and i almost threw up and now im dying because i drank water and the inside of my mouth feels bubbly and it burns

[bloodyraremedium]

Pinterest. Pinterest please. Why. What in the actual fuck makes you think I would like this. I'm going to fucking self-defenestrate rn. Wwwhattttt the fffuckkkk????

[technorot]

an actual entry on the forum........ what loving family???? i want to scream

[takeariskao3]

What if Dobnny is your husband and he wants to role play

🥵

[little-bullheaded-shit]

Oh my dear fucking god it’s officially cannon

The full image

There’s no lines away from the nightlights, this literally implies that the first generation immediately went to incest oh my god. They couldn’t even do a SINGLE generation past the nightlights to show that there were more Furies how do you fuck up this bad

[parme-san]

i'm no longer lonely i need to live in a cave alone for the next 5 months at least

[georgedontdothat]

he has too much power

[drakenathan]

[bat-luun]

oh my goddd i just found an actual real fucking terf out in the wild jesus fucking christ on my god imma throw upp get me OFF this planet!!!!!

[inkskinned]

the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

[starry-eyed-slime]

Why does the idea of sex seem so fun but then the moment I think of any actual person it suddenly seems really gross and ew and no

[hofudlaus]

also posting these two on their own :-) based on This post by @outpastthemoat

[valtsv]

this is entirely petty and personal but i cannot stand the word "whump" it's like unalive to me. just say you enjoy torturing your favourite character so that you can nurse them back to health again like a sickly baby bird they're not real it's okay.