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What happened to “this would be great in live action” people that made them hate fun?

finally how to train your dragon can shed its childish character design and lighting and evolve to instead have the bold and engaging art direction of a car insurance ad

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something that should be taken with a grain of salt are the statistics talking about the high rates of mental illness + neurodivergence among trans people (ocd, bpd, adhd, autism, etc)

I see both sides of the political spectrum taking these studies at face value - conservatives say we're broken, and trans people try to come up with reasons why for example autism + gender dysphoria makes sense and why one of them feeds into another

at the end of the day you have to remember that we're the one category of people on this planet who are legally required to go see a psychiatrist in order to receive non-psychiatric medication and surgeries.

more trans people are in therapy by law than any other demographic of people, and as a result, this captures more comorbidities.

if I had to look at my own family & rates of mental illness?

mom, dad, 2 maternal aunts, maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, sister, sibling, and me all have OCD.

7/9 of them are cishet, never been to therapy, never diagnosed. 2/9 are trans, required therapy for hormone treatment, and were diagnosed.

you don't have to do any math to just see that the resulting statistics end up intensely skewed.

and we can think back to how autism was virtually never diagnosed more than 50 years ago - ruling out any grandparents being included in statistics - and even my parents' generation (they're in their 60s now) wouldn't have been included either.

I don't think it's to anyone's benefit to accept these studies uncritically. a lot of these things are hereditary and far more prevalent in the overall population than people realize

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*violently shaking you*

WRITING ABOUT SHITTY PEOPLE, SHITTY RELATIONSHIPS, AND MORALLY BAD THINGS IS NOT THE SAME AS CONDONING THE BEHAVIOR. THE PERSPECTIVE A STORY IS TOLD FROM CAN VASTLY CHANGE THE MEANING AND HAVING AN UNRELIABLE NARRATOR DOESN’T MEAN SOMETHING IS BEING CONDONED. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP ACCUSING PEOPLE OF CONDONING SHITTING THINGS BECAUSE THEY WRITE A STORY WHERE THE RELATIONSHIPS ARE MESSY, ABUSIVE, UGLY, AND THE CHARACTERS ACT LIKE ASSHOLES. IT IS A STORY, IT ISN’T REAL, IT IS MEANT TO ENTERTAIN AND SHOW DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. SOME OF THOSE PERSPECTIVES ARE GOING TO BE BAD, BUT WE UNDERSTAND AS AN AUDIENCE THAT THOSE THINGS ARE BAD AND SHOULD’T BE REPLICATED. CONDONING IT WOULD BE EXPLICITLY IN THE TEXT SHOWING IT AS GOOD WITH NO PUSH BACK AND NO CONTEXT IN THE STORY THAT WOULD MAKE IT KNOWN THAT WE CAN’T TRUST WHO IS TELLING THE PERSPECTIVE.

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3 transphobic arguments to be aware of (so you don't go down the alt right pipeline)

source

Easily one of the most important videos I've seen since the election.

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really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

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I sat with a crying second grader today. (The age range is outside my wheelhouse but I was the most convenient adult.) He was crying, the other adults said, because his brother took a phone he was playing on. “Phone addicted,” everybody said. “If he would get up and play games with the other kids he wouldn’t be crying.”

He told me everyone lets his brother take things from him because his brother is younger, and doesn’t know better. He told me he doesn’t want to play because he’s tired, he has too many extracurriculars this summer and can’t get good sleep because “everyone in my camper is so loud when I’m trying to sleep.” He’s exhausted and only eight. His mom’s an acquaintance and told me she and the kid’s father are going through a separation — mom and four kids left the house to stay in a camper.

But people will seriously not listen to kids crying over seemingly minor things because on the surface it looks like a tantrum. If kids are given the space to articulate themselves they often will.

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Men with brown hair and brown eyes are the sexiest and deserve the world. I am not biased in any way, shape, or form. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go admire my very sexy brown hair and brown eyes.

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One of my favorite genres of post

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Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), family Hyaenidae, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

photograph by Ann Aveyard

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Powerpuff Girls was actually a show about a group of small children crushing the patriarchy and no one will convince me otherwise

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I had 3 stitches in my ear today and now my ear is swollen like a balloon

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@obsxdiannn

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hey guys we can all agree its like, incredibly sad and fucked up when a trans man feels like he has to apologize for being a man, right. like even jokingly. it’s very concerning that people have created an environment where a trans person is expected to be apologetic about their identity, right.

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the notes are broken 😂