#they're continually traumatizing this poor kid too to torture his mother
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the guardian covering this here, 4/7/2023
Ron DeSantis just kidnapped a 13-year old boy.
Earlier this evening, at around 7 PM CT U.S., Rebekah Jones (notably one of DeSantis’ biggest political enemies right now) underwent a raid on her home by state police.
Guns were pointed in the face of her 13-year old son, Jack. They arrested him under the charges of digital terrorism and “on state orders.”
They are refusing to let him go home and they are refusing to let Jones see him.
These are her screenshots recounting the incident from earlier tonight. They were taken at 10:23 PM CT U.S.
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colethewolf · 5 years ago
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you do realize you're talking about a character who is a child (a teenager is still a child. a sixteen, seventeen years old is. still. a. child. and steven isn't even that old) who has suffered trauma after trauma after trauma and never received counselling. it wasn't as easy for steven as just talking it through with his family and even if he had they're not qualified to help hence him getting therapy at the end.
oh and since you're clearly not a fan of steven let me enlighten you: the kid is self sacrificing to a fault if he kept running off and basically suffered in silence (or you know whining and crying because apparently a CHILD wasn't handling their ptsd well enough for your taste) it's because he felt like if he did talk to anyone he would just make things worse. oh and jasper's shattering was an accident. he didn't murder her in cold blood (pt. 2)
oh and lastly i'm just gonna assume you either have never gone through a traumatic event (i'm talking traumatic enough to cause ptsd, you can go through something traumatic and not be diagnosed with ptsd) or you're the most unsympathetic survivor in the fucking universe. newsflash asshole there is no right or wrong way to deal with trauma, there is no such thing as a "perfect victim" sometimes you'll fuck up and hurt people you love while you're healing what's important is asking for help (pt. 3)
First, I just want to let you know that Steven is not a real person. He doesn’t make his own decisions. Everything that he does it written by the writers of the show....because he’s a cartoon. So the fact that you’re trying to pretend like I’m attacking some poor helpless PTSD sufferer/survivor of trauma is fucking hysterical, because Steven is a fucking CARTOON. He doesn’t feel. He’s not alive. Everything that he does/says is written by ACTUAL humans. And those ACTUAL humans, wrote his trauma story-line like shit. 
Second, if you want to play pretend and pretend like Steven is a real person, fine. I’m game. I’ll play along. So, Steven Universe finds out that his mother and his mother’s side of the family are actual nazis, who contributed to the actual death, enslavement, and torture of millions upon millions of people, partaking in genocide, slavery (the human zoo), and corruption. 
And instead of saying, “hey, nazis are bad”. Steven decides to befriend them, even though all of the trauma that he experienced was almost always directly connected to them OR to his mother’s actions. Instead of saying, “hey, I want nothing to do with these nazis, because they are having a serious negative impact on my mental and physical health, as well as the mental/physical health of those around me”, he continues to chase after them and fix all of their problems. 
So then we get to the final season where Steven is all kinds of fucked up. Why? Because he wouldn’t let go of his ridiculous attempt to repair the lives of his space nazi aunts. So now he’s traumatized and what does he do? Lash out at the people who actually care about him, refuse to talk to anybody, hold everything inside, KILL SOMEBODY (even if it was an accident, he still did it). 
And again, we’re treating Steven like he’s a real person, so if this were real life and some PTSD sufferer accidentally murdered somebody, they would still be put in prison. It doesn’t matter how sad/depressed/angry they feel inside. Their actions are their actions. They make their own decisions and live with the consequences. 
But what happens with Steven? Well, everybody just ends up rallying around him after 20 episodes of him behaving like a fucking asshole. And they immediately forgive him for his actions. I don’t care that he’s 17. 17 year olds are more than capable of understanding that mental health isn’t an excuse to behave like a bitch/actively hurt people and lash out in anger. Again, he’s a fucking cartoon, but we’re pretending like he’s real for your benefit. 
For me personally, no. I don’t have PTSD. But your “newsflash, asshole-- there’s no right or wrong way to deal with trauma” shows me that you’re seriously mentally unstable in some fashion, because there IS a right and wrong way to deal with trauma. Lashing out at people, forcing everybody around you to deal with your bad attitude, forcing everybody around you to forgive you if you accidentally go too far and MURDER SOMEBODY, is the WRONG way to deal with trauma. 
And now we’re back to talking about real life. Let me educate you, bitch. If you have a rough life, that doesn’t give you the excuse to behave like a fucking psychopath. It doesn’t give you a free ticket to do whatever you want with no chance of dealing with consequences. Mental health isn’t an excuse. Ever. You are in charge of yourself, your body, your mind.
If you’re mentally unwell and hurt the people you love, you still hurt the people you love. That fact doesn’t change just because you were suffering with PTSD. And you don’t get to just break down into tears and have everybody give you a group hug without addressing what a piece of shit you’ve been to everyone on account of you having mental problems. 
SU is a children’s show. Kids watch it and learn from it. And the only thing they learned for that bum-ass finale was that “it doesn’t matter if somebody continuously lashes out at you and hurts you and physically/mentally harms you...they were having a bad day. Forgive them. Hug them. It’s all good!”
also, if you hurt somebody you love while you’re suffering with mental health and your excuse is “that’s how i was healing”, you really deserve to get punted out to the cold. because fuck that. take responsibility for you own shitty behavior. 
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