#im just. so tired.

[back-in-my-wc-hyper-fixation-ig]

I fucking can't with the ableism in this fandom. I made a post in a FB group about cats who died/became Elders before they got to mentor an apprentice and one of the cats I mentioned was Brightheart, and this is the response I got (I'm the turquoise one, that's why I didn't censor out my first name). I see shit like this all the time on Facebook and Reddit and it makes my blood boil. Like, I'm not vision-impaired so I could be out of line in this, but acting like Brightheart's skills are somehow "lesser" and only good for training other "lesser" blind cats is just. Insane. Barring the fact that disabled people are ABSOLUTELY capable people, even if Brightheart's disability would prevent her from being a mentor in real life, it's a fictional series. It's the same thing when I see people saying they don't like Briarlight because her surviving as long as she did was "unrealistic" for cats living in the wild. First of all, Briar was doing just fine, but the existence of Medicine Cats essentially gives the Clans vet care. Not to mention the Clans are a community, and communities are supposed to take care of each other, which they do. But also even if all of this was untrue in real life, did you forget that this book series has cats with superpowers? Organized religion and social structures? An entire arc where they literally battle with HELL?? If your line for accuracy is drawn at a disabled cat mentoring a nondisabled cat or a paralyzed cat living for years after her accident because she's getting the care she needed, then you need to re evaluate why you have problems with this.

I don't know if this is coherent, and if I've said anything out of line or rude please let me know, but the treatment of cats with disabilities just bothers me so much and I needed to say it.

[buckys-arm-and-rios-dagger]

I saw someone call the A³ finale "the woman in the fridge" trope and she "only died to affect Billy" and I am losing my mind

Did we watch the same show??

[softness-and-shattering]

Yknow, Id really like if we all could recognise that Ozempic is medication. Its life-saving medication. Its misuse by people who do not need it does not make it a fad like weight loss diarrhea teas and starvation diets.

Like most medicines, it helps people with specific medical conditions, and shouldnt be taken by anyone who doesnt fit that description or that need. And no, wanting to lose weight because of societal fatphobia isnt equal to diabetes.

Diabetes also isnt a joke, or a punishment for eating too many sweets, and Id like if we stopped that whole cliche too.

This whole ozempic thing is similar - not identical, similar - to how hard it is for people with adhd to get prescribed and then regularly be able to fulfill their prescriptions for stimulants, because its misused by people wanting to get high off our medication.

Leave medication for people who need it. And when its used recreationally can we not make that shorthand, make it seem normal. Can we stop saying things like "ozempic diet bloggers". Its medication, and the shortage caused by widespread misuse is serious.

If you have counterarguments, tbh I dont actually want to hear them.

[pastlight]

i'd truly love to read if there's some sort of like. sociology study on not just de decline of the middle class, but what people are willing to consider middle class. and i don't mean just in the USA.

i just watched a clip of a newscaster/commentator from my country talking about all the "small" sacrifices people will have to make in the upcoming crisis, and she told the anecdote of a middle class family considering doing "one big meal a day" for the kids. and like, even if that anecdote is real, even leaving aside the pure evil of that segment equating cancelling your netflix subscription to eating once a day, trying to normalize this... in what universe is that middle class. how do you say that and not immediately implode.

and worse of all, im sure there were people watching and nodding along.

idk Marx probably predicted it or smth but there's something fascinating about how people will cling to the label of "middle class" in the modern economic climate when upwards mobility feels progressively less attainable. how do we redefine a luxury year after year. how much are you willing to give up for your pride, to the point when your only hope month after month is "not starve and pay rent" but you have a big tv bought with your hard earned cash! so you still believe you're a step away from living comfortably like your parents did.

[star-ocean-peahen]

i dont *feel* worse than i used to, but im barely functioning as a human

[springtrapsspringlockedbussy]

currently getting twitchy from nolan brainrot so i decided to discuss the fic series with a few friends and uh. i realized they don't take me seriously. please just read the entire fic series. it makes a lot of sense. just take me and my symbolic allegories seriously im begging you. i just want people to talk to that understand who nolan is and what troubles him without you boiling him down into a weepy-voiced killer.

[mambodork]

New season dropped,, ive only watched scar and joel's pov so far and i couldnt rest until i drew somethinf ,,, dont have everybody's design down quite yet but we r going somewhere *smiles*

[timethehobo]

His cute expression when Rook first started flirting tho…

[ohposhers]

GIVE THESE BOYS A WEEKEND YAOI FISHING TRIP !! GAT DAMN!! i actually have so many thoughts about Big getting Shadow into fishing istg im gonna make a whole comic on it im in too deep

[pigswithwings]

above all else a trans woman is a person. above all else a trans women is a woman who goes to the same grocery store as you and buys fruits in the same grocery cart as you and goes home and eats her dinner the same as you. above all else a trans woman is a woman who dresses like you do and talks the same way you do. above all else a trans woman is a woman who wants to be cared about the same way you want to be cared about and a trans woman is a woman who makes friends the same way you make friends. above all else you should care about trans women because they are people. treat her as such.

[fawn291]

[weevmo]

Tsk - Should have read the manual.

[sweeneydino]

New au just dropped.

Jk just a random thought.

Also happy newt years

[suntails]

growing up!

[hinamie]

make it vicious, take a stab

[endykelopaedia]

"black people are seen as hyper-masculine and face a lot of violence for it, so yes you can be oppressed for seeming or being masculine"

AHT!! lets talk! black people are not actually hyper-masculine. hyper-masculinity is a projection by people trying to justify anti-black fear and violence. it is not a true and then demonised observation about black existence. the hyperfocus on the masculinity of black people is itself racism!

when you call this issue of racism anti-masculinity or misandry or whatever, you are obfuscating the bigotry at play. ESPECIALLY given that it is overwhelmingly just white women's fear about black people's supposed hyper-masculinity that actually gets listened to & acted upon.

in addition, there are other addendums people tack onto their anti-blackness that completely cause this logic to fall apart when applied. Namely, adultification! black people, black children get adultified by white society.

We are assumed to be older & more independent, and thus less in need of the safety, care, sensitivity, accommodation one would give to a child, and this results in violence and neglect. it is directly observable in the way black children are more likely to get detention, suspended or expelled for the same behaviour as their white peers, s/a rates for black youth, and the arguments that 40 y/o cops give for brutalising & murdering black 20, 16, 12, 8 year olds who so much as breathe in their line of sight.

Given this then, following the misandry logic, we can say being recognised as older or as an adult is a form of oppression.

"black people are seen as older/more mature and face a lot of violence for it, so yes, you can be oppressed for seeming like or being an adult"

we can for the sake of this post name this oppression adultery.

i kid. but do you see the problem. being recognised as an adult is obviously, not itself a form of oppression, in fact quite the opposite, being recognised as adult can grant you a lot of privileges that children do not have.

and black kids are evidently, not adults or people who act like adults. they dont mature faster. black 18 y/os will also face the problem of adultification to justify violence against them. black maturity is not a true and then demonised observation about black existence. the form of oppression is racism, and adultification is the deployed means of enacting racism.

the means of combatting the adultification of black people would not come in creating adult positivity or "advocating" for adults or telling children not to fear adults. it comes in the form of learning about anti-blackness, unlearning anti-blackness, and actually directly combatting anti-blackness.

similarly the means of combatting the hyper-masculinisation of black people comes in the form of learning about anti-blackness, unlearning anti-blackness, and actually directly combatting anti-blackness.

Racism explains both of this phenomena far better than "misandry" ever could.