We didn't start the bullshit...
... It's always been there, jsut in different piles.
In the 80s, schools told kids that wearing a Walkman was bad because hey, we heard about this one kid who was so busy listening to his walkman that he walked in front of a car. Bam splat. Ded. Because that's what Walkmans did to you.
True story.
Brought to you by the same people who assured us that the world was just wall to wall with drug dealers who'd give you that first hit for free to get you addicted and within 3 days of snorting a reefer, you'd be injecting heroin directly into your eyeballs with a turkey baster that had been used to scratch a cow's arse or something deranged.
This was delivered by a guy wearing mostly shades of brown, who was chain-smoking something that was pretty much road tar with some asbestos and formaldehyde for flavour, and drinking something called Babycham which had a label that turned about 36% of kids into furries.
Not that you could do much about it since the invention of the Interconnected Furry Network, a subset of which is called "The Inter- Net" had to wait for Tim "Bearness" Berners-Lee to stop messing with his Fursuit and finish coming up with an acronym to call his new network tech.
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I know the Oak Swallows Garcia house didn’t have pets but if they did I just KNOW if Normal had a fish that died in the night it would be replaced with an identical fish before he woke up and he wouldn’t learn the truth for years
Hero on the other hand is an older child. If her fish died it was dead
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This event really recontextualizes Li Ling's distaste for authority and desire for justice, doesn't it? It's not just rebellion for rebellion's sake, it's also because Yun Chuan, one of the few people he truly respected who engaged with him on his level was imprisoned and (he was told) dead despite him knowing that Yun Chuan would probably never do anything worthy of imprisonment, and never being told the crime and essentially being told to just forget about it. Like, that's someone who's main interactions with authority were clearly ineffective, and when he finally receives respectful guidance it's taken away in what appears to be an unjust example of authority. No wonder he was a trouble student.
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sorry I pushed aside the more dominant and expansive elements of the narrative in order to focus on the single character I’m fixated on and expand them endlessly in my mind until they are everything to me regardless of their proportional importance to the larger story. it will happen again
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yes, because telling minors to lie about being an adult online is totally going to protect them from being abused and exploited. totally not going to make them even more susceptible as a target because if people think they're an adult they're going to treat them as such and thus will expose them to sexual content. lmao. shut the fuck up
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