#there are 8 billion people on the planet

[miraculous-lesbeans]

At the end of 2022, there were approximately $2259.3 Billion US Dollars in circulation, according to the federal reserve.

Jeff Bezos is currently worth $142.9 Billion US Dollars.

One guy currently holds 6.32% of the worth of all American money and he is only the third wealthiest person in the world.

Which really puts the concept of billionaires into perspective.

[coockie8]

i once had an anti tell me to stop sexualizing their trauma on a story i wrote that was a word for word retelling of my own actual trauma but with names changed and its been 2 years and i still cant stop thinking about that

Ah, yeah... Unfortunately a non-insignificant number of antishippers seem to genuinely believe they own the concept of trauma, so any story they read that they believe to be portrayed in a romanticized or sexualized light therefore must be romanticizing/sexualizing their trauma specifically.

I couldn't tell you the amount of times I've gotten the "stop sexualizing my trauma!!!!!!" or adjacent comments from antishippers that universally garner a response that basically boils down to

Like, bitch! I'm talking about my trauma! I literally did not even know you existed until you fucking commented!

[ormymarius]

characters so powerful that they have eyes that glow don’t know how lucky they are, I wish my eyes could glow with power when I’m too emotional but nooo

[uhzuku]

me, a bipoc: is plagiarized then called racial slurs, transphobic slurs, is misgendered, and told to tw commit die

some white lady on the internet:

[onlyswan]

I honestly love and adore Jungkook so much and ever since I've found your fics, I've turned into a new level of delusional. Hehe, you're my comfort person, Art. Jungkook is happiness personafied and he'll always be a sort of my first love for me but it makes me scared and terribly lonely that I might never find this love I've created in my head and that a part of my soul is always gonna long for him. Sorry for dumpin it on you but I was reading your old fics and I feel oddly emotional. Hope you're having a great day :D

anonie i apologizehdjshdjshfh 😭🫂 i just love writing about love and i love jungkook so much so T_T

but i totally understand where you’re coming from !! he is just too lovely and attractive. and it’s difficult to find somebody you can fully entrust your heart with :( + entering a relationship is definitey not to be taken lightly. it takes so much patience, effort, and commitment. however i hope you can keep your heart open for new people. even if they only stay temporarily, even if they leave something behind, even if they break parts of it— i hope it never becomes a reason to shut anyone out because that only means that the right person might be the next one to come along 🥺

omg and it’s okay!! thank you for reading my older works <3 it’s a relief to know they’re not just forgotten and collecting dust. hehe love you !!

[princessnijireiki]

anyway our CNS & brains are pretty complex, like we've barely figured out getting people with partial spinal cord damage back driving their own bodies + when we do it's still a roll of the dice & the processes are not all well understood... encephalitis can caused locked-in-ness like with sleeping sicknesses, akinetic mutism, etc where the body itself is not physically incapable of movement & action, but nothing is out there that jumps in and takes over from a driver who's paralyzed or asleep at the wheel... that's not actually a thing, it's fun speculative fiction but not representative of reality— so really, no worries lol

[sillimancer]

Here's the BBC article (via Internet Archive) for anyone who wants to read it. The whole thing is a fun read but I would like to highlight my favorite part:

I’m not saying he would win, but like….I get it

[cinnabeat]

love when media dates itself

[kavehayati]

Relapsing back to that one person like I’m crawling back to a crazy toxic ex 😰

[kimberlyeab]

Reading comments about the Olympics and saw someone dissing on an athlete for coming in 58th place.

Like bro out of 8 billion people on the planet, i'd kill to be the 58th best at something.

[rainbowgod666]

Image one is humanity and image two is everything else... including humanity

would you?

[sundancefemme]

we need to start tar-and-feathering oil barons im 100% serious

[coockie8]

This is gonna sound cold, but as a creator, if there is any type of ship you are so uncomfortable with that you would demand your fans not ship specific characters of yours due to that, then straight up do not release your creations to the public.

Again, I know this is gonna seem cold, but you do not have control over how other people are going to interpret or engage with your creations, and if there exists an interpretation or form of engagement you loathe so much you would demand people never do that with your characters, then keep your creations to yourself.

There are 8 billion people on the planet, which means the potential for approximately 8 billion different interpretations and forms of engagement. It is impossible for you to like, or even just be comfortable with, every single one of those, and it is crucial that you make your peace with the fact people are going to be interacting with your stories in ways you don't approve of if you're going to be publishing. Because again, this is going to happen, you can't control it, and you will drive yourself insane trying.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

10 solid months of the comments section of every single news article of literally anything happening in the world that isn't about Palestine being filled with "What about Gaza?" and "Palestinians are suffering, who cares about such and such?" and it is getting very old.

Unquestionably, unimaginable suffering is occurring in Gaza. War is hell. But there are 8 billion people and almost 200 countries on this planet and expecting every single bit of attention to be paid to one event in one small area of the world is myopic in the extreme.

There are active genocides currently happening in Ukraine, in Sudan, in the Congo, in China, and countless other places are embroiled in conflict, and these do not receive even a quarter of the media or public attention that Gaza does. What this really means to those who write such comments is that they have such extreme moral tunnel vision, none of these people suffering in these conflicts really matter and they don't care because they can't blame it on the country they have an absurd obsession with as their imagined greatest evil of all time ever.

Or as a wise friend on here once so succinctly put it, "No Jews, No News."

[maple-cloak]

h-

how do you turn 'lack of sexual attraction' into pedophilia of all things? like what kind if mental gymnastics do you have to go through to justify that?

So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.

Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”

[luckiestmushroom]

I am still in complete fucking awe that Duel Links just had Kaiba flat out say ‘it wouldn’t matter if all 8 billion people on the planet were here, because the one person I need wouldn’t be here’ like absolute insanity whoever is writing Duel Links knows exactly what’s up