#me: no fear

[legend-had-it]

NO BUT LIKE- THE THING ABOUT THE STRAWHATS IS THAT THEY ALL WANT TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR DREAMS

AND THEIR DREAMS SLOWLY SHIFT TO INCLUDE THE REST OF THE STRAWHATS BECAUSE THEYVE GROWN SO INTRINSICALLY LINKED WITH ONE ANOTHER

LIKE DO YOU UNDDERSTAND WHAT IM SAYING

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

im supposed to be working but I’m busy thinking about the universal translators in Star Trek. Because while it gives an essentially in universe reason for why everyone understands each other, it’s a story telling aid, it also does lowkey horrify me. Do I not have the privacy of my own language? How well do things translate? I wrote a whole essay about how translation irl is such an imperfect and flawed thing because there’s so many contexts and meanings and layers words have. What if I don’t want my words to be translated, huh? What if they need an essays worth of background explanation to translate?

Like I said I know it’s clearly just a story telling aid/justification and isn’t some rigidly defined thing but still.

[the-himawari]

OH GOD

[dgalerab]

jk just had a performance review so nice i got off the call and immediately started crying and it nuked all the self control i still have so here we go

(disclaimer they're not cat ears i just made a tactical error that i have to fix with coloring)

[lenievi]

Why do I have such a bad luck on novels that have characters other than Kirk calling McCoy “Bones”. I hate it 😭

[orlamccools]

every single friday, saturday and sunday night for the past month i have been consumed with anxiety levels on par with someone being hunted for sport and i feel the need to make that everyones problem

[bluismie]

This is my love letter to the most beautiful ship I witnessed this year. Cheers to us Jayvik nation 💫

[houseofmcallister]

Saw a tiktok of a guy saying he doesn’t feel comfortable talking to minors because he’s 19. And it’s just. I’m so fucking tired of this.

And like to be clear, I’m speaking as a victim of pedophilia when I say: We need to get over this collective fear of endangering children. Because holy shit, this stuff is getting out of hand.

The average person is not a threat to a child.

And also!!! It is actually really really good for kids to have friendships with adults that aren’t their family.

Having friendships with adults when you’re younger prepares you for adult life in a better way then only interacting with adults that are family members or teacher as well.

And also if there’s any sort of weird behavior happening with adults or teachers, it’s very helpful to have unrelated adults, you can go to, and also have a model for what normal adults are supposed to look like.

And also! You’re just making it way easier for pedophiles to prey on children when you completely avoid interacting with them as an adult. Because kids are naturally inquisitive and curious. They are going to want to interact with adults and they are going to want to ask questions. And if the only adult adults that are willing to interact and speak with them or adults who have ulterior motivations. Guess what’s gonna happen.

Also on a more general note. Having a model for what a normal healthy adult is supposed to look like makes it way easier for kids to be able to recognize and identify when adults in their personal life are being weird.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[hausmakes]

[caffeinatedopossum]

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

[mutualcombat]

*bites ur scruff*

[full on twitter]

[griffin-ktb]

[funplecs]

I was thinking about dungeon based media and I made this alignment chart

[lesbianfakir]

You’re placed in a room with an animal. The door is closed and you cannot leave. The animal is completely calm and has no intent of harming you. You are in no danger unless you provoke the animal in some way.