#this applies to old people as well

[aftonsparv-bugzz]

i grew up with the mindset that "if i (an adult) cant do it, youcant" and i realise now how wrong and awful that mindset is. truly an ageist mindset. stop belittling young people because you believe they are lesser than you. young people can achieve many things, you just judge them for their age. instead of judging children , how about you judge your mindset and change it. learn that children can do things too, you just judge by age.

[classicslesbianopinions]

the other thing about being disabled in academia is everyone is like "yeah we can't do much about the buildings they're old :/" as if "old" being a synonym for "inaccessible" isn't just a constant reminder that the people who built the school did not imagine that someday someone like me might study there

[bethanyactually]

sometimes I boggle at things the fandom Youths™ don't seem to know these days, especially in an era where virtually anything you want to look up is a mere internet search away and then I realized: it's because bored tweens don't have to resort to reading old issues of Ladies' Home Journal or Glamour in waiting rooms anymore

[thevoidstaredback]

Person: Omg, your hair is so long!

Me: Thanks! I've been growing it out for a while

Person: How do you keep from sitting on it?

Me: It's actually not quite long enough to actually sit on, but I usually have it up-

Person: Like, how to you wear it when you're in the bathroom or something?"

Me: ..It's normally tied up to sit on my shoulders instead of my lower back.

Person: But what about when it's down?

Me: Then I throw it over my shoulder..? Why is this relavent?

Person: Are you gonna dye it again?

Me: Soon, hopefully

Person: Why don't you dye it every few months?

Me: Because I don't get paid enough for that

Person: Oh. How much does this job pay?

Me: Depending on the venue, anywhere from $10 to $16 an hour, out home venue paying the lowest

Person: Have you thought about getting another job?

Me: I've been looking, yeah

Person: Why not just get a new job?

Me: I'm trying to get a second one

Person: Just get a better paying job

Me: I know, but the job market is shit right now

Person: You young people just don't want to work!

Me: I'm trying to get a second job with 4 years experience and no degree. People aren't exactly lining up to hire me

Person: Then go to school and get a degree! You're good at your job, so not having a degree is the only thing stopping you

Me: I can't go to school; it's too expensive

Person: Then get a better paying job and pay your way through

Me: *screams*

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I always wonder with the whole: "The lazy populous doesn't want to work!" is if it's only being said to keep minimum wage at the very, very lowest end of 'survivability.'

The "lazy worker" isn't truly a problem. The employers are.

[working-dreamer]

It’s wild how shipping culture has changed so drastically over time on the internet.

In the old days people shipped characters who either had only one line of dialogue with each other, never even met, or not even from the same piece of media. It was the wild west and sure some ships were uncomfortable but people had the mindset to just block the tag and stay away from ships they didn’t enjoy.

Nowadays? It’s more like people have to clarify that their ship isn’t canon compliant, character adjacent, and story irrelevant otherwise they get a flood of comments saying “but this character isn’t like this in canon” and some people legitimately get angry if you’re not following the canon.

Like- shipping and fandom culture from what I understand it is about engaging with media in a way that caters to you. And if you don’t like a ship or show just… block the relevant tags and don’t engage in the ships? The internet isn’t supposed to cater to us- we have to cater ourselves to our internet environment. And no matter how many times people may harass others over a fandom or ship they don’t like, those ships are not gonna disappear.

The internet has just been getting worse when people have decided to place morality in their opinions by saying things like “if you enjoy the ship then you support (insert horrible thing here that’s usually completely unrelated to the ship itself)” when it used to be “eh, not my thing” and people just moved on.

And for the record this isn’t about a specific ship or anything- just an observation of how fandom has evolved (and regressed) over the years and I find it fascinating from a sociological perspective cause we still don’t know how having the internet from birth affects the development of kids and how that affects how they interact with others- isn’t that scary?

I know that’s slightly unrelated but the way people engage in media has been changing over they years and that also involves fandom and the maturity level thereof in the internet space and someone smarter than me could probably write a whole thesis paper about fandom culture and how the internet has hindered the social development of people and how that affects community specifically from a fandom lens.

Just- for your sanity younger internet children: it’s not worth harassing others over something as trivial as ‘it’s not canon that this character kisses another character.’ Just find ships you like. Block ships you don’t. And just enjoy your time doing what you like!

You can’t control the internet but you can nurture your little corner of it.

[bellamygate]

the thing that gets me abt religious ppl is they'll demand u respect their religion & that religion hating your existence but they won't respect ur right to be like yea my belief says god isn't real so thats a dumb reason for hating other people or ye ok then ur god is homophobic thats kinda shitty they go APESHIT like. it goes both ways? like they can say i hate gay ppl bc of my religion but when a gay person says well i dont respect that religion bc it doesnt respect me its ww3. I'm not walking on eggshells for people who are too quick to condemn me to hell

[tumatawa]

The shite I have been up to

[sonic-adventure-3]

dude i phrased that sonic v shadow post so wrong. in my head “more skilled” meant shadow relies on more specific skills like gunplay and chaos energy manipulation, and more theoretical knowledge, not that he’s generally more proficient. “raw power” is wholly undescriptive and invokes an image of brute force, which isn’t what i meant. sonic has significantly more actual experience and more honed movement. sonic is a very quick learner, and has dexterity and stamina off the charts. he’s most certainly not unskilled, not in general nor compared to shadow, so i supremely failed if i implied that.

in my head at least, shadow would’ve learned to fight in a controlled environment, if he had physical training at all. i imagine he’d be book smart, had a formal education and shit. either he learned and trained on the ark, or when gerald messed with his memories he implanted fighting knowledge too, baymax style, or something i guess. sonic learned to fight through actual experience, so sonic would be the one with far better battle sense and instincts, it’s like second nature to him rather than a studious pursuit. dude’s graceful as hell, makes everything look easy; no way in hell is he unskilled or less skilled than shadow. shadow’s skill is like, classical, whereas sonic’s is pure schmovement. but idk i’m just thinking aloud.

[arachnerd-8-legs]

im getting real sick of 'intelligence'

who decided reading books and writing counted as intelligence? who decided that getting high scores on a strict, unfeeling system meant you were better than everybody? who decided that people should be turned into numbers, tie their worth in society into numbers, to compare people on a scale that ultimately does not matter, so that the people who didn't dump everything to perform for it are berated and the people who did end up with nothing?

who decided not reading or writing was a lack of intelligence? who decided that living differently to them was a sign of lower 'societal worth' than those who conformed?

[arolesbianism]

Hello miss Marker Bills can I help you…?

[wwillywonka]

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[macroglossus]

have an interview scheduled omg i only started applying for jobs in rl less than a week ago…. i feel like im going to get there and start writhing on the floor in abject terror im SO scared

[lanshappycorner]

Sometimes I look outside my scope of mutuals and I'm like.....I'm glad I'm not them (whole essay in the tags)

[clonerightsagenda]

Sure, getting stabbed in the ass by a middle schooler is embarrassing, but I don't think that's the real root of Lockwood and Kipps' antipathy, especially as Kipps tries to warn Lucy off by telling her that the people around Lockwood always die. That implies he knows about the Jessica thing, and considering her parents moved in Fittes' circles, and they would've been similar ages... maybe they knew each other. Maybe he was one of the agents who reported to the scene. Lockwood likely resents everyone who knows, and Kipps may not be impressed by how he handled and continues to handle it, especially given although this person is only mentioned once, Lucy was hired to replace someone who died. Ofc this would add some irony to Kipps nearly dying in the exact same room. The man should've stuck to his guns.

[teufelme]

fears.

bold any fears which apply to your muse. italicize what makes them uncomfortable.

the dark ⋆ fire ⋆ open water ⋆ deep water ⋆ being alone ⋆ crowded spaces ⋆ confined spaces ⋆ change ⋆ failure ⋆ war ⋆ loss of control ⋆ powerlessness ⋆ prison ⋆ blood ⋆ drowning ⋆ suffocation ⋆ public speaking ⋆ natural animals ⋆ the supernatural ⋆ heights ⋆ death ⋆ dying ⋆ intimacy ⋆ rejection ⋆ abandonment ⋆ loss ⋆ the unknown ⋆ the future ⋆ not being good enough ⋆ scary stories ⋆ speaking to new people ⋆ poverty ⋆ loud noises ⋆ being touched ⋆ forgetting ⋆ being forgotten ⋆ hospitals

bertolt suffers from thanatophobia, the feeling of dread, apprehension or solicitude when one thinks of the process of their own death/dying, as opposed to necrophobia, which is a specific fear of dead or dying people and/or things. despite his calmness and fearlessness in the face of death and destruction, he is absolutely terrified of dying himself. if he feels as though his life is in danger, he won’t hesitate to act and it is one of the only things that will get him to act.

he also fears failure, namely where his mission is concerned. loss of control when it comes to his fellow agents (particularly his control over reiner) or the direction of the mission also applies (also loss in general).

after being abandoned and left to die in canon, he fears a repeat of said events in survival aus.

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