#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

[twogoliathbeetles]

for a lot of people i know the experience is very angsty and you don't actually want to die, so it's very difficult, but that's just not my experience at all... the happier i am the more likely i am to be suicidal, and the closer i get to doing it. when i was younger i was definitely suicidal because of depression or whatever but that's not how i feel anymore. anyway i tried to look up if this is a common experience and i can't find ANYTHING written by other people who feel this way at all. they were all articles about how you might fake being happy for other people to not feel bad for you... it's like. i'm not that nice a person, i just genuinely feel joy and suicidality together. i think the joy comes first. idk where this post is going. maybe it's a bit like a mixed state bipolar episode except i'm neither severely depressed nor manic? i don't feel unwell at all, and i don't want to pathologise something that's just a normal emotional experience for me, but that's the closest description i can find of it.

[starbound-tactician]

It's not ok for it to nearly be 2023 and we are still fighting for women's rights and black rights and lgbtq rights and NOW WE ALSO HAVE TO FIGHT OVER THE RIGHT TO HAVE AN ADVERTISEMENT FREE SKY? ON TOP OF ALL THAT *AND* THE FACT THAT MOTHERFUCKERS ARE STILL POLLUTING THE PLANET?

Maybe this is why people can't see themselves living to be old anymore. Maybe it's because the longer we live the more outrageous things get fucked up until we just can't see a future where we can live in anymore. What the fuck. This is so fucked.

[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

[armorpervert]

i love you NPR tiny desk comments

[kavehater]

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

[ziparumpazoo]

You are also allowed to change your mind! You are allowed to believe you might want kids when you are younger and then decide later for whatever reason, “Nope this isn’t for me. That’s not how I see this playing out. Not gonna do it.”

You don’t have to justify the choice to anyone.

stop telling your teenage daughters who say they don't want kids that they'll change their mind

[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.

[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.

[rainbowgod666]

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

would you?