#open conversation

[elkitot]

Hello I’ve been thinking about posting this for a couple days and please feel free to call me out if needed Yesterday I saw the long list of celebrities who signed the pro Israel open letter to Biden and although most of the names weren’t that surprising there were a few that had me shocked. As more celebrities reveal themselves as pro Israel/zionst a question has been bouncing around in my head that I want peoples opinion on so if anyone actually sees this please answer honestly. I know that I should be worrying about more important things and worst things are happening in the world then this. The question is it acceptable to still like/support a character while disliking the actor? Or does separating the actor from the character work in this situation?

[watcher-servant]

Yeah I know. I just thought about that. Jaune was forced to be in a hospital to heal other people. Surrounded by more death than usual. His friends try to help him but they don't give him what he needs. Jaune trains in secret but the issues he's facing were his age and regrets.

Jaune then finds a teacher and after begging and persuasion she decides to help him out along with her husband of course. They actually talked to Jaune, gave him good advice, and even supported some of his decisions. Basically, they take his issues seriously.

After five months he becomes stronger than before. Though it was through his teachers, his strength is mainly due to being in ever after for so long. However, through those five months, even before, Jaune wanted nothing to do with Salem or Ozpin. And was secretly gathering material and money to go home.

But no action is without consquence. Jaune did make a few enemies along the way. And as much as he wanted out of Salem and Ozpin's war, their forces won't let him leave so easily

Yeah, that's the thing. There's a chance for Jaune to be out of the spotlight again. Find a teacher that will help train him, maybe even give advice on certain things. Course it isn't a vacation, he would be going with said teacher on missions. The main thought i had is that Jaune is gonna feel like a stranger back, even if they want. I don't think the others would be able to fully help.

Plus, during his time away, he could meet with Saph or, at the very least, call about his situation. Plus, he would probably tell Pietro what happened with Penny if Winter only gave a side of what she knew, and finally, there's the whole Cinder situation or hell, even Tyrain. However, with being in Vacuo, a part of me is curious if he's gonna change his armor. If he is, why not a Goblin Slayer like armor set up, no helmet course....unless it's collapseable

[llovely]

here's a fake interview about my me & my girlfriend that i transcribed from my head. enjoy!

[up-among-stars-099]

¿Por que creen que en Tumblr somos tan intensos?

[lainyyyy11]

I’m going to talk about how you personally can help out with the problem. A very effective method is to have a conversation with the child you suspect is in distress. Make sure they feel comfortable speaking to you about it and also make sure the conversation stays open and friendly. (Cleveland Clinic- Child Abuse) Let them know that it is okay to tell you, even if it may be scary.

[dracopox]

rant 25/01

i read recently a phrase that made me think. “You take pride in the fact that you can endure suffering”

in the context of the text, this was told to a person with very low self esteem and for a moment i saw it as just a surface statement, but thinking about it later i realised that it’s probably true for me as well.

TW / mentions of self harm and self harming thoughts

i stopped self harming (actively) years ago. almost five now i think. but i slowly forgot all the little ways someone can harm oneself. that no matter how much i starved myself, or kept working with my hands under boiling water, or even attempted smoking when i was down, i always seemed to bounce back.

the lack of motivation to take care of ones self is very strange i think. i value my teeth a lot but i dont always brush my teeth. i want my skin to be clear but i always pick on it and go days without washing my face. sometimes i wonder if those are all acts of someone so spoiled that just wants things done with no effort. or if it’s because i want those things to seem appealing to other people but cant seem to put the proper effort cause i dont think im worth it.

my therapist asked me last time why i hate myself. its been two weeks and i still have no answer. why does one hate themselves?

i could say because of my mistakes, losing people or lying but honestly none of those things seem important enough to be the answer to “why do you hate yourself”. its the contradictory nature of my temperament that really clicks (not) everything into place. being vain but not, thinking im better but not. does and donts, be and not be. im always caught in an endless loop.

so, when i read that sentence, i thought about my life. i have no reason to live. havent found one for a while now. i guess i do take a bit of pride in my endurance because even after all of this i am still alive. with no purpose and very little motivation somehow im still here.

and yet i dont know if thats strength or cowardice.

i wont lie, i am scared of death. generally not a fan of things ending. the idea of dying is sweet but i just about come short of the execution. like there is an invisible line there, a limit to how much damage i can cause myself.

but i didn’t put that there.

i dont know what it is, or why it is, but it doesnt feel like my own. something is keeping me alive and i am curious to know what that is, because really if it were up to me i would be dead. or would i?

im starting to think that i dont know myself at all.

and it makes me wonder, is it possible for someone else to know me then?

(feel free to add your own thoughts and opinions under this post)

[elenorasweet]

My sister was a sex ed instructor for a while and went around middle-and-high schools in our city speaking to kids, and coming back around to the same schools every one in a while and answering new questions and shit. It was a good program, she felt like she was helping a ton of kids with very specific experiences and questions.

I don't know where she got this from, I imagine it's an existing thing, but she would talk about "safer sex", not "safe sex", because some teens are going to want to experiment with unsafe behaviours, and your job is not to tell them "absolutely never do that" or "don't even think about that until you turn 18", it was to educate them and give them the information to choose for themselves how safe they do or don't want to be.

Because if you try to force them to be safe, then there are some who won't be safe at all, and it'll be even riskier because they won't know shit.

I think about that a lot in relation to online safety and shit. My kids and I talk about it a lot too. Like, my 15 y-o daughter is allowed to go online, and I'm not monitoring who she talks to. But she talks to me about her online friends, and the one question I got as a teenager that made me clam up was "but how do you know who these people REALLY are??" so I don't ask that.

I've talked to her about predators, and how some people will lie like fucking creeps, and she seems to get it well enough. Her friends know she's french canadian and a teenager, because any amount of voice chat will indicate both of those real quick, and that seems to be about it. She has a "public" instagram that has her name and face and is related to school stuff, and a private one that has no identifying information. That's not something we suggested, that's her own idea.

If I was monitoring her search history or whatever, I know my kid would be smart enough to find another way to get information or talk to the people she wanted to talk to, and that's getting into riskier territory.

Cutting her off from people and restricting what she can access seems like a real bad way to protect her, man.

ngl feel really really weird about the direction we've gone wrt internet safety for teens. when i was a kid it was hammered into us that we should never reveal our real names, our faces, or our ages on the internet. in fact it was extremely important not to reveal your age bc if you did, predators could target you.

now we've decided that the locus of potential sexual harm from adults is not predators who set out to target teens, but rather well-meaning adults who might accidentally let a minor see smut on their blog. so we make everyone broadcast their ages to everyone. which puts a target on the backs of teens who are now advertising to everyone that they're underage.

we also situate sexual harm of minors in "a minor saw sexual content!!" which, listen, im sorry to tell you this but teenagers have sex drives and want to see sexual content. a 16yo is not being harmed by reading a smut fic.

now i do understand why nsfw blogs don't allow minors to interact, bc the interaction constitutes an issue since that's on some level a teen and adult interacting sexually. but the issue is not that a teen saw something sexual, it's that you should not be having that interaction with them. still i am not convinced that that is riskier than giving predators knowledge of who to target.

i also worry what happens when all the well meaning people with best practices turn teens out of their spaces -- who does that end up leaving them with? i'm not saying the solution is to invite them in but there has to be some other, third option. i also think we need to understand the difference between a 17yo liking a sex-related shitpost on tumblr vs an actual intentionally predatory sexual interaction from an adult.

i don't think it's necessarily bad to set a boundary and not allow them to like the shitpost, but i don't like the idea that it was harmful for them to have even seen it. i think it's actually positive for teens to have exposure to adults who are talking about sexuality in consent-based, sex-positive, queer-informed ways to balance out all the shitty, sexist bioessentialist perspectives they're getting elsewhere.

also again, we should remember that the issue is sex-based interactions between teens and adults, NOT that teens are bad or wrong for being interested in sex and sexuality. if a really young teen is too interested in that it could be concerning but age-appropriate levels of sexuality are fine and good and i don't want kids to think they're wrong, dirty, or bad for experiencing sexuality.

i think there's a balance here where we need to make sure interactions are safe without diving headfirst into a spring-awakening-style world where we assume teens are too innocent and pure to know anything about sex which results in risky behavior, not practicing safe sex, and not understanding consent. and i get worried sometimes that the current culture around this leads us there.

i especially worry about this in regards to kink and bdsm because i don't know if there are any educational resources out there geared to teens. i do think it's a good idea to wait until you're 18 before doing anything hardcore or too intense, or even kink at all, but if they're going to anyway (and some will) i'd rather teens have a solid safety backing and knowledge as opposed to just acting on instinct because that can really be dangerous. and something i really worry about is people who turn 18 and immediately show up to play parties and start hooking up with people without having that background knowledge because they were prevented from accessing it before then, since it's so easy for abusers to exploit them. young adult women are already extremely vulnerable in those spaces.

i don't know what my exact solution to these issues is but i feel really concerned about where we're heading. i've been wanting to say something for a while but have been afraid that people would interpret this the wrong way. i'm sure some still will, but i hope this can at least start a conversation about these issues.

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[theflourishingmind]

Post Ideas...

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[watcher-servant]

Jaune in volume 10

Jaune is back in a weird situation again, as I've seen hate on him on the rise and thought what would be a logical next step for him.

I think Jaune should go on his own journey away from Team RWBY and course from the others. Why would I say this? It's not out of malice but because of his situation. Due to his time in the Ever After being at a maximum of 20 years, he may have gotten his youth back, but the memory remains. Jaune being back (if they don't do a Marco/ status quo is god thing) should feel like a stranger back in Remnant. With this in mind, where should he go, I say to visit his family, meet Saph, Terra, and Adrian....then to see the rest of his family.

In a sense, he needs to find himself again and possibly get another mentor to train him and work on his semblance. When he returns, I do expect a shift in him more skilled, sure, but have a worldly outlook while keeping his dutybound mindset. I'm trying to think of a good comparison...Vash....Cecil Harvey... If anyone else thinks of a good choice, please say...closest I can think is Ky Kiske

I want to start a conversation. Where do you think Jaune journey should go next? Now, do I think they'll let himself be removed from the group....no, but i do think it's something he needs. Plus, it would be a chance to get him out of the spotlight, so to speak (and rwde ire, but they'll find something to say).

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Lotus Esprit St Tropez, 1990. A convertible conversion of the S2 and S3 generation Giugiaro-designed Esprit was initially carried out (3 cars) by PBB Design based in Bristol. Subsequently further conversions were carried out by Esprit Developments who took over the moulds, drawings and rights for the St Tropez conversion from PBB.

[chamberkat]

get ready for Oscat and Landog 😺🐶

[catmask]

i know everyone said 'replies from sideblogs could go bad' though personally i was excited for them (for topic specific sideblog running purposes) but i do think we should be able to send asks from sideblogs too tbh. it could also get exceptionally ugly very fast but i think that for all the topic-specific blogs like ask blogs, for systems who have headmates with diff sideblogs, and for people who want to make friends in smaller communities focused on niche topics unrelated to their main i feel like it would be worth it

[cwispihae]

You're so easy to dream with 💫✨