#look at the statistics

[glngrbred]

OK, so gen alpha is doomed, We can all agree on that, in the US specifically kids on average are not doing well (academically and behaviorally), and on top of that there is a growing mental health crisis in kids the age of my younger brother, like kids 10+. kids younger than that are doing better, that's not even weird to say. The issue is probably a combination of really small children post 2010 having consistently unregulated screentime, and also covid breaking up developmental patterns for kids, and sorta giving kids a habit of being on their devices for 18 hours a day. that's causing social issues and behavioral issues since their parents ALSO HAVE UNREGULATED SCREEN USE 24/7 and are NEGLECTFUL. if your kid is spending 10 hours a day on screens YOU ARE ENABLING THAT AND NEGLECTING THEM! Kids are literally not capable of regulating screen use on their own!!!!! and teenagers are BARELY able to, like if your teenage son has a learning disability like i do, they probably don't know how to regulate their screen use. the point is, people in the US are doing a disservice to the kids by completely ignoring issues that break up typical development. Like, being on a phone for 10 hours a day prevents you from making/building meaningful in person relationships, especially if that time is spent binging entertainment (or to a lesser extent playing video games). If 90% of kids in the Us spent 10 hours a day in their bedroom laying on the floor face down, it would be a national health crisis. being on your phone, just rotting, is barely better than that. Like, unless you are spending 10 hours a day doing regimented research on social media, like watching an entire crash course or something, you are not gaining any skills. Period. Like, you are just straight up losing your life to entertainment, friendships breakdown, your health goes the same way, your mental health is statistically probably doing the same thing, you are rotting.

If you are a parent, do a screen detox for real this time, get a therapist to help you, and find a way to spend time with your kid in a way that will benefit them in the future, help them study, take cooking classes, teach them some skills from your trade, Anything. Just please for the love of god help them find something to do that won't be exhausting, and WONT NEGLECT THEIR NEEDS!!!

-Sincerely, a barely adult who is just barely not rotting anymore <3

[jingerpi]

meaningful work: transgender experience in the sex trade

[scrumpster]

Full offense but if as a queer goy your first response to “Jewish people are in danger because of Kanye West’s antisemitic comments” is “they’ll come for queer people after they come for the Jews, we need to act” you should really be asking yourself why you need to make this about queer people and not Jewish people to care enough to act. Like yes this isn’t good for anyone but why does it need to be about you for you to care. Queer Jews are already in danger from this. Are we not human enough for you to give a shit about us?

[our-transmasculine-experience]

my mom: you should wait until you’re 25 to start hrt

me: haha but i’ll be. dead

my mom: suicide is selfish.

me: there is no winning with you

transphobic parents don’t realize that they literally kill kids.

[segernatural]

sure it was a perfect storm of a pressure cooker but i promise destiel was about destiel

[obisamya]

DANI ROJAS & JAN MAAS Ted Lasso (2020-2023)

[vaxxman]

What do you think about 5cp TF2 map Gullywash?

Getting autobalanced on Gullywash feels especially tragic.

More sketches and more impressions under the cut.

In order to draw this, I watched some highlander matches on Gullywash, due to finding no matches in competitive, and the aimbots going rampant in casual. I was only able to play 5 proper matches on casual, (2 of which my teams won purely due to team imbalance,) so some of this is based on what I saw other people were doing in competitive match recordings, as well as how it feels to play on community servers with AI train bots. No one was playing whenever I was queueing up :(

I learnt very fast that Gullywash is one of these maps where you will die a lot, or steamroll the capture points, and there is no in-between, because you either position yourself correctly or you don't. While this goes for every map in tf2, I never really felt frustrated when dying here. I could always find a reason for my mistakes and generally it turned out to be a very rewarding learning experience.

I think Gullywash is extremely fun and fast paced. I especially enjoy giving scouts and pyros overheal buffs, because of how much flanking you can do here. The symmetry of the map is immaculate and the amount of objects that just lie around allows demos to place a lot of traps and players to just hide in corners.

(Using Scouts as your Uber Driver here is also especially fun, so many near death situations!)

For some reason, the soldiers and demos who play on this map are really good at protecting medics? That's the impression I got, everyone knew when to retreat and not push, everyone turned around when they saw my health go down, everyone was shooting the spies for me when we were in the open and I was too focused with healing the people fighting death matches at the front so we could capture.

(My personal heroes who just rocket jump over to you just to shoot the spy 2m away from you, and then just rocket jump away again)

Snipers aren't much of a problem, since there are so many options for hiding properly while still being able to reach your team mates. The same sadly doesn't apply to spies and I think I have died more to spies on this maps than to sticky traps.

While I love the vaccinator, I think Stock and Kritz are the better options on this map. Nothing cries geneva convention war crime more than entering the door to the last capture point and ubering a soldier who starts spamming everyone with rockets in this rather crammed up room where everything can give you splash damage.

Shoutout to a pyro called Joey who carried the last game I played, it was a blast ubering you through the last capture point.

[luna-loveboop]

Wind is not ok

Idk how to pinpoint it. It's something about how since Dawn part four, almost 45 percent of the sentences he's said have ended in questions marks or been directly theorising. How the Link who figured out the most about the timeline with ease hasn't spoken much outside of theorising about the monsters, the postman, the shadow. How he whipped his blade out the fastest and went for the fairy.

It's something to do with how the most expressive Link had tears standing in his eyes when Twilight was ill but never once let them fall. It's something to do with how the most energetic hasn't been the center of attention but has been on the sidelines for quite a few updates. How he told Hyrule it's about being ready for the variety and has seemingly been ready ever since.

It's something with how for the past ten updates (we're at entrance pt 3 now), he has only smiled on ten out of ninety pages. How an extremely reliable Kid appears the most ready outside of Sky to rip the shadows throat out, after being pushed by him in battle like he was nothing. How angry he looks when talking about the shadow.

It's something about how he yelled in Legend's face that they had to help, questioning if Twilight was corrupted or possessed. Something about how this kid sincerely asked his brother if he was feeling evil and hasn't stop asking questions since.

[cry-ptidd]

Comic style Laura⁉️

[sashthesloth]

Sometimes you spend 100 hours replaying a beloved character from a beloved game and end up spending another 25 or so ish hours making a character sheet so self indulgent ft. My beloved Shep who I put through the wringer the first time around in 2017 but hopefully gave an easier time on our second run.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At the start of this project all I wanted was to 'learn how to draw' using comics as a medium and the MDZS audio drama as inspiration.

I've come *very* far from making simple, 3 panel black and white comics, and I truly do intend to go even further. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on throughout 2023, it has been an incredible year in so many ways I never could have imagined. I look forwards to drawing throughout 2024 B*)

[murdrdocs]

[vampirebeverage]

!!!TEA POLL!!!

(Herbal tea doesn't count, we're only counting the Camellia sinensis plant. That means black tea, green tea, pu-ehr, oolong, etc.)

I'm Canadian and my family drinks a lot of tea, but I wanna know how common it is in other countries that were British colonies, and how that compares against places that the British never stole.

Reblog for a larger sample size, we have to do SCIENCE!!!

[tanadrin]

"the lunatic fringe on my opponents' side fundamentally taints their entire movement, which is therefore obviously morally bankrupt and should be ignored. the lunatic fringe on my side is an unrepresentative minority and anybody paying attention to them is a fool/bigot/liar." <- depressingly common pattern. you can't have it both ways!

[aweslasharc]

[summoningspark]

so i may or may not have printed out the entirety of @anonymousalchemist's amazing fic like a bird, like a stone onto three Very Large pieces of paper.

you might be asking, why, fay? why did you print out an entire 53k fic for a video game you've never played? well you see, if you read it, you would understand.