#with teachers calling me not normal

[mondaymelon]

guys is there a possibility that any of you hold interest in adoption papers 🥺🥺

[black-and-yellow]

The walk home from UA

[waitineedaname]

the most hilarious thing about the ages of the transmigrators in svsss is that bingqiu is the one with the teacher/student age difference kink but shen yuan is MAX ten years older than binghe, and moshang is the one that seems like they'd be peers but shang qinghua is at least twenty (probably closer to thirty) years older than mobei-jun

[genshinarchives]

I can't stop thinking about Kaveh calling his darling ya 'amar (my moon) or ya habibi (my beloved) as he wraps his arms around their waist from behind, chin resting on their shoulder so he could nuzzle the crook of their neck www

He calls his darling batata (potato) or batikh (watermelon) when he's annoyed with them LOLLL

[brookslostarm]

HELP I got distracted while studying and told myself "ok BROOKLYNN put the phone down and study" ??? MY NAME IS NOT BROOKLYNN???? IM FROM INDIA???

[noctilu-uca]

Nobody does hypmic fanart like i do

[uchiha-gaeshi]

I would never wish growing up in a hyper religious African house on my worst enemy. The cognitive dissonance is insane especially if you grow up in the West yet your family (and other African families around you) insist on clinging on to asinine “traditions” that are really just covers for abuse.

[marinsawakening]

literally just thinking about the way Skyward Sword writes bullying for a millisecond made my eye twitch again and ruined my mood. There's a few flavors of bullies in media ranging from 'actively homicidal' to 'basically just teasing' and none of them accurately portray bullying. Bullying occurs because of a power imbalance. This is why the people being bullied are pretty much always outcasts; they typically have few to no friends and are disliked enough that few to no people (whether it be their peers or adults) are willing to help them. With the bullies pretty much always acting in groups, and the bullied person being almost completely alone by contrast, this means that the bullied person has no real way to fight back. Isolation is a key factor in maintaining the power imbalance that allows bullying to exist.

This is what the media gets wrong: the isolation, and the power imbalance. Media often portrays bullying as essentially a few kids fighting, as one kid being mean to another, but that misses the thing that makes bullying so fundamentally traumatizing: the power imbalance, the isolation. This misunderstanding allows media to portray bullying as something that's just kind of annoying, rather than traumatizing.

Skyward Sword fits very neatly into that pattern. Looking at Groose's actions in isolation, this seems to be a case of severe bullying: at the start of the story, he steals Link's loftwing. Loftwings are basically soulmates to people on Skyloft, and on top of that, are an important survival tool. Zelda assumes Link can call on his loftwing and pushes him off the edge, which could've easily killed him if she hadn't done some quick thinking. Groose also steals this loftwing with the specific intent of making Link fail his graduation. And even if loftwings were nothing more than pets, if a kid broke into another's house to steal their cat and hide it from them, would you consider that teasing or even mild bullying? That shit's pretty severe, actually. As is deliberately going out of your way to sabotage someone's chances at graduation. This is without even considering that Groose forced one of Link's friends to stay quiet by threatening to beat him up. This is not 'mild' bullying, this is not teasing. This is severe.

Except it isn't, because there is no power imbalance. Link is not isolated; he is at least casual friends with pretty much everyone except Groose and his friends at the Academy, the teachers love him and are willing to bend the rules and postpone the Wing Ceremony for him, etc. Link has far more allies and friends than Groose, in fact. Nobody seems to like Groose; even his two friends don't really seem to like him, and don't care at all when he disappears from Skyloft. But everyone likes Link. This skews the power imbalance between the two of them in Link's favor, not Groose's. And yet, Groose has been allowed to get away with targeting Link for years, somehow. This bullying dynamic does not make sense on a fundamental level, because if everyone likes Link better than Groose, including the teachers, there is simply no way Groose would've gotten away with bullying Link. He would've gotten ganged up on ages ago.

All of this is because it isn't that deep. Groose isn't a real bully; like most bullies in media, he isn't an abuser leveraging a power dynamic with the intent of isolating and hurting his victim, he's just kinda mean. His actions are over the top because it's funny. Link clearly is not even remotely traumatized by him; he's annoyed at worst. Honestly, Zelda seems to dislike Groose far more than Link does. This is not a good portrayal of bullying because it wasn't intended to be; the 'bullying' framework literally only matters insofar as it makes Groose look like an asshole.

Skyward Sword is a textbook case of bullying in media, in which the word 'bullying' is applied without understanding what it actually entails, reduced to just 'mean rivalry between kids'. I'm not saying there has never been a dynamic like Groose and Link's ever, I'm saying that calling it 'bullying' is nonsensical, for the same reasons that calling it 'abuse' would be nonsensical. And yet the game very much does call it bullying. Which makes my eye twitch.

[neurospicyyy]

Yes, I threw fits when I was a kid.

No, I wasn’t in control.

No, you shouldn’t judge me for it.

Yes, I am aware you think I had the choice.

But surely you understand I didn’t really have one?

Surly you understand I was struggling?

That I’m still struggling?

That I always will be?

[guinevereslancelot]

how do i stop feeling like i'm in trouble all the time fr. sitting here on my lunch break like everyone's gonna be soooo mad when u get back...from lunch...which you are allowed to have.....(?)

[mylove-thresher]

holis mis chuchis

[ratatatastic]

no im still on maffhew calling the forsymaffhew lovechild a missile

[wabbit-bunny95]

This photo of what I found has me screaming, crying, throwing up and biting at the cage bars. Someone on a uranium glass page said it's from Czechoslovakia but that the exact maker is unknown. I've got two more pieces from the same set but the pics don't look anywhere near as cool but I'll still post them 😅

[hiveswap]

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[amelikos]

Actually a bit surprised that Cap's allergy to the word "cute" has been brought up a few times after it was first revealed.. And that it was brought up once when Spinel was in the vicinity in HZ054..

I wonder if it'll be brought up again in the future.

[steaksex]

Today sucked ass and penis. Clearly the healthy thing ti do is repeat my self hypnosis trigger until i dont need to worry about having a brain or being a person