#we could do so much better

[corpsicbeauty]

My therapist cooked when he said, "It sounds like you're in mourning" in regards to everything happening in the US

[thesocialgremlin]

If I were in charge, first order of business is to taxe the super rich for a universal basic income.

Next, we're tying politicians wages to the average income of their riding. You can't represent people if you think yourself above people.

With that, we tie minimum wage to inflation and use it as a baseline to cap rent, utilities, insurances. Create a public record so nobody can rip you off.

End price gouging entirely. Enforce the retail/wholesale markup and investigate companies with suspicious profits. Tax businesses higher based on the CEO/Baseline staff pay gap - less than 30% are eligible for government grants, everything above gets taxed heavier with the highest gap.

No more super rich. Nobody needs that much money. Those people need to start investing in their companies and their people instead of making millions a day on the back of their workers.

Housing programs. Land allotments. You turn 25 years old, congratulations, here's a house and a plot of land. Do with it as you may, but you may not be allotted another plot for another 25 years if you squander it. Why's that?

You turn 50? Welcome to your retirement package? You want travel? You want crafts? You want a cottage in the woods? Ask and you get; you served your time, we've got you. Rest, enjoy the rest of your life. Spend your years doing what brings you peace. As long as you're not hurting anyone who doesn't want to be hurt, you good, boo.

[justbackgroundnoise]

One of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to consuming media is when I’m watching a movie by a Canadian director that has Canadian actors, is filmed in Ontario and features Ontario landmarks, is made by a Canadian production company, is distributed by a Canadian film distributor, is backed by Ontario provincial arts funding, and then there’s a scene where someone’s ID gets checked and a bouncer says, “are you sure you’re 21? You don’t look 21” or someone handles cash but it’s US bills.

Why do we always have to pretend that the content we make here in Canada is set in America? Why can’t the money be Canadian dollars? The legal drinking age in Ontario is 19 so why say it’s 21? Our film & tv industry here is already so oversaturated by multi million dollar American tv studios using all of our film studios and our crews for literally everything that’s on tv and streaming, so can’t content that’s actually Canadian just get to be…Canadian? Even in the smallest of ways? Please 🙏

[pceexistsinthevoid]

truly something evil about a 30 minute break for an 8 hour shift at a slightly physically demanding job tbh. every single time i come back from my "break" more tired than when i went in bc my body thinks like "oh, i'll get to rest now" and all of the adrenaline or whatever the fuck drains from my body and then immediately after i have to go back out bc 30 minutes is fucking nothing

[yousaythatsooften]

Are your "online personas" supposed to reflect your goals or what?

I don't think I have an online persona, just working here to figure things out and get coping tips.

Who the heck cares enough about deceiving others or themselves to come up with something like an online persona?

Do I really want to know you if you do?

I never mastered faking it til making it

The only bit I can commit to is the one I was born into

Got no script...

Why accept a label?

Screw all y'all 'cels..

Yeah the assholes cockblocked themselves arranging for the orange idiot

Don't make that your pride though

Why can't we all just get along?

And help each other round up the ones that can't keep it in their pants and get rid of them

Their reproductive drive has been overcharged to the point of mental retardation and rapiness

So we have plenty to do

Plenty of meat for the furnace

Plenty of good, intelligent men out there too

Maybe we could help each other

Nobody wants to wipe out thousands of people

Except this one: really, help this planet, this species

Kill every rapist immediately

Especially date rapists

Kill every pedorast immediately

A pedophile has unnatural love for children

A pedorast acts on those desires

I won't use your labels

There are definite, distinct words for who we are and what we are about

He's not an incel because he can't get laid

He can't get laid because his pheromones tell all

She's not a femcel for not indulging his appetites

She's not responsible for his pleasure or release

We don't have time for these foolish games

Get it together

Or let's don't

[glitter-stained]

That's extremely cool please share if you want!

No I'm actually so serious, that's extremely important, love it so much when people do that.

I've seen people ponder about whether therapy would even help Jason at this point after everything he went through and like, I 100% understand, it's hard to comprehend such a tragic story, even telling it to other people it's like "and then his mom pulled a gun on him and then he died and then he woke up in his grave and then he got hit by the car and then" etc. etc. like the world is beating down on him with relentless obstinacy.

But I'll tell you what: people who seem like they're being beaten down on with relentless obstinacy, there's plenty of them. The theory makes it clear that having one disorder makes you more vulnerable to several other disorders, which make you more vulnerable to trauma, and the interaction between these make you more vulnerable to that one, etc etc. Aside from psychiatric disorders, having been victim of abuse leads to heightened risk of being abused again (check out Young's patterns theory), but also having low self-esteem make you at risk of high risk behaviours that make you at risk of neurological decline, somatic diseases, poverty, anxiety leads to chronic stress leads to etc., etc. etc. Patients with just one pathology they need to work on are rare, they come in with a laundry list of pathologies, issues, super complex history with many traumatic events... And then they turn to their support system, they develop coping mechanisms, they get therapy, they receive help from this or that structure, taking into account the many many failures of psychiatric and mental health institutions in my country, and they pull out resources from where you wouldn't believe it, and they take the tools they're given and make use of them in ways you couldn't possibly imagine, and they keep on impressing you with so much strength, creativity, ingeniosity and so many resources that no matter how many expectations you toss away, no matter how hopeful you become, you still get surprised by how genuinely resilient people are.

I don't believe for one second Jason is "beyond help". I think sometimes circumstances make it so that people, through no fault of their own (and mostly because the system sucks) don't get access to the help and resources they need, and circumstances lead them to be in a state of hopelessness at a moment where their resources aren't accessible, times where hopelessness feels like the only logical conclusion, there are a million ways the world will fail people with mental illnesses, but that does not mean for one second that they are beyond help. I don't think you could show me a single realistically written character, no matter the amount of tragic backstory you could think of, for which I would agree this character is beyond help.

So go on that rant. Write that fanfic, that "everybody goes to therapy" AU, that "that character survives" alternate ending, that "after the war" epilogue. Draw your favourite traumatized character smothered in therapy pets. Post that comic strip you doodled on post-it notes about that character developing a lovely new coping mechanism. Make that list of headcanons about that character's support system supporting them. Make that OC, reader-insert etc. you wanted to create to give your favourite traumatized character a support system. Write that original story you've been thinking about that begins with extreme angst and whump and ends with the found family and their many pets living happily in a big house by the beach. People will try and shove victim-blaming and hopelessness down your throat, will try to force morality in the equation like it has to do with anything, narratives of good victims that get to get better vs bad victims that are too evil to be offered or accept help, people who are so evil because they are hurt and so hurt because they are so evil that death is the only possible resolution for them, but they are wrong. Do not let them win. A person is only beyond help the moment they are dead, you are so much more resourceful than you think, and don't underestimate the human spirit.

The Jason Todd brainrot is real cause when I woke up today I spent an extra hour just lying in my bed and vividly daydreaming about Jason going to therapy

[mokadevs]

be mine

[magicpiano]

Dark AU, Arkham patient! Jazz Fenton.

Sadly, Jazz Fenton is convinced that her brother Danny is still alive, that Phantom didn't kill him, that ghosts are actually sentient and not necessarily evil. Clearly she was brainwashed by Phantom who was pretending to be her brother.

The GIW graciously don't charge her with the crime of violating the anti-ecto act by protecting ghosts as a kindness to her parents who have done so much good work. She is sent to a mental hospital outside of Amity Park because they think she will recover better away from ghosts.

Well Arkham doesn't know what is about to hit it and Jazz is going to do whatever it takes to escape and save her brother.

[inamindfarfaraway]

I would find Blondie Lockes very annoying in real life, but I love her in fiction. She's a genuinely good journalist in terms of both skill and ethical integrity, who only occasionally forgets to check the facts because she's fifteen and holds herself accountable when she does. She has incredibly high standards for everything and believes herself to be the ultimate authority on quality. She has magical lockpicking powers because her fairytale is about Goldilocks breaking into a house. She somehow completely ignores the story's moral that Goldilocks was wrong to break into the house, feels entitled to go wherever and help herself to whatever she's able to and cannot comprehend why people dislike this. She's been terrorizing an anthropomorphic bear family with her cheerful disrespect for privacy and is convinced that they love her. She has a non-anthropomorphic pet baby bear. Her motivation is dependence on external approval rooted in deeply internalized classism. She's desperate to be useful and important to those with higher social status and feels the need to lie that her family is technically royalty to fit in with her royal friends, even though they treat commoners like equals all the time. She positions herself as a conduit of true greatness; closer to it than the masses, but never the hero, always reporting on other people and evaluating what they've done. Because what she's done isn't enough to be worthwhile. What she is isn't enough. But this performative lifestyle makes her anxious about being judged as a fraud and an interloper, and ashamed of selfishly transgressing against social norms. Her microphone head looks like an adorable little bear head. That's one hex of a character alright.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Not a Francis hater, not a Francis apologist, but a secret third thing (watching him be a fucked up little freak and enjoying the show 🍿)

[true-bluesargent]

can we ride on the success of nosferatu and actually have a good dracula adaptation now. like, one that actually follows the actual plot of dracula. is the world ready

[t4t4t]

Idk new post bc the last lost traction, no donations in a week. We need 450 for the rest of February, 450 for a deposit, and 950 for March, 50 for the rest of the utilities. We were homeless since Aug 2020 excepting 4 different months whose places fell through for various reasons, have to get rid of the van we were living in because it's falling apart, Collie got FFS December 28th, she's recovering well and maybe could do something with a car if we had a better car, given her ability to drive. I still haven't found much work but I'm still looking. Anything helps.

paypal.me/NoraEstherRose

venmo: nora-esther-rose

venmo: Leah-Esther-Rose

[yeonjune]

Yeonjun about the strain he felt while preparing for his debut solo project ✙ "GGUM" MAKING FILM

[dollopole]

The thing that bothers me the most isn’t really Arthur’s death per se, but the how? Merlin was able to make some incantations and save Arthur from poison more than once while he was already dead, but suddenly he can’t get a fucking piece of metal out of Arthur’s fucking abdomen????? I’M GOING FERAL, I SWEAR, MERLIN’S MAGIC IS SO INCONSISTENT AND IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE THAT HE CAN CALL THUNDERS FROM THE SKY AND KILL AN ARMY AND GO BACK TO HIS YOUNG FORM BUT CAN’T HEAL ARTHUR FROM A BLADE FORGED IN A DRAGON’S BREATH AFTER HE REALISES HE’S MAGIC ITSELF AND HAS HEALED BY HIMSELF FROM SOME DEEP FUCKING WOUNDS CAUSED BY AN HIGH PRIESTESS’ MAGIC???? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE???

I’m chill.

NO, I’M NOT—

[qjaidenhere]

My piece for @qsmpzine!! Im so honored to be a part of this zine :3

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

It's thinkin about the line "You know, the only thing that keeps Darry from bein' a soc is us, y'know?" from Two n Pony sayin' "Yeah, I know." hours again