#this is about a lot of things

[theexhaustedqueer]

allos will see two people standing next to each other and insist that they must be fucking

[myfairkatiecat]

Characters: are absolutely perfect in every way, always make the right choices, never mess up ever

Fandoms: ughhh not Mary Sues again 🙄 we want complex characters!

Characters: don’t do everything right all the time, have realistic trauma responses, mess up or do something that hurts their friends at least once

Fandoms: ughhhhh they’re so annoying 🙄 literally why are they like this

Characters:

Authors:

[artbyblastweave]

I think the risk of calling something a fringe position (particularly when you hold the moderate version of that position) is that. Alright. Is it "fringe" because it's somehow completely disconnected from the rest of the ideology and worldview, or is it "fringe" due to being the logical extreme you arrive at from being unusually scrupulous about applying the underlying logic driving the moderate version.

At which point the two groups willing to express that fringe position are A.) people so alienated from the mainstream to begin with that they don't really have anything to lose by saying the quiet part out loud or B.) People too scrupulous and/or socially oblivious to realize that many of their fellow travelers are just using extreme positions- or even the moderate positions- as a signaling thing rather than meaning it literally

[foone]

I think I have some wires loose. I don't mean that like the metaphorical "they've got a few loose screw in their head" sort of way, I mean it more literally.

Like, if doctors opened up my head they'd find there's a couple PCBs on there and some of the wires from one to the other are disconnected. They just need to plug them in and then more parts of me would work.

I'd be like "oh that's why I never could feel this way or enjoy that... Something was unplugged!"

That'd be nice.

[elucubrare]

rhetoric hack: framing things as "worth the effort of doing" rather than "easy to do"

[juney-blues]

HALT! Before you make that post about this problematic thing Trans Women Do, is it *actually* something that trans women do more than anyone else? Or is it something that many groups of people do, but you're just choosing to single out trans women For Some Reason.

[yum-grass]

Polyamory could save me….

[madmonksandmaenads]

The World needs to be kinder to interesting people, by interesting people I mean both:

A) People who fall well beyond the standard deviation of personality, appearance, taste, mannerism, etc

And

B) People who follow their interests before anything else.

Both groups are mocked, derided, and marginalized for how they live their lives. The modern world has little patience for those who will not be standardized in the mode or motivation of their life. Only if the stars align in favor of commercial success are they allowed to live, and even then, they will not escape an accursed choir of insufferable conformists.

What a grey joyless world we make by forcing out the variety of human experience in favor of our own comfort.

[thebluespacecow]

Not to be rude, but like, how dare you?(i wish to kiss the marbled flesh of his knuckles and tell him that he is deserving of the world as i look him in the eye, that he has a place here, for he lives between my lungs and my heart, lodged between my organs like a bullet)

[heiwa-the-tistic]

Thinking about how now, that I decided to rewatch the cartoons that made my childhood I notice a lot of stuff that I've never seen before

Like little me didn't care about why the character did certain decisions only that that decision helped the bad guy

But like, now I get the emotional complexities of certain situations better and can understand the weight a situation actually holds

It really feels weird to watch something for the first time while being younger than the main characters, and now revisiting the same work but being older than them

Like I'm so sorry, you were just a child and none of that was actually fair and I was too young and foolish to notice that

[musings-of-a-prodigal]

Father forgive us, for we know exactly what we are doing.

[nullshocked]

Really need people to be normal about celebrities and stop speculating about their private lives like it's a fucking game.

[hyperfocusthusly]

If my team had done that to me I would have simply driven into the ocean

[angelhairpastawithherbs]

accepting the apology and not forgiving is great but I think that people should also just not accept the apology, whether it's because you just don't feel good still, whether the person is truly sorry or not, because it doesn't matter what they say, what's done is done and in the end you have been hurt by them

even if you're being polite or nice to them, you don't have to accept the apology just as you don't have to give them forgiveness, they're two sides of the same coin and you should never feel like you're bad or mean for still not liking them after they hurt you

and not only that, even if what they did was unintentional, it doesn't matter what they actually wanted to do or what the intended outcome was, because it's already been done and this is the outcome whether they wanted it or not, and even if they've done something nice for you, even if they're better to you, there is nothing that you have to give them unless you feel like it

nothing at all

until you're ready, if you ever will be

[skhardwarevers1]

“just like me fr” i say about a grown man who is nothing like me

[titleknown]

You know, it's interesting how many people reject the idea of shared public goods due to the fear of being dehumanized in their pursuit.

And it's depressing how many people pushing back against those rejections don't realize how they come from that fear and try to aim their methods to specifically tackle that...