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i will defend that fictional teenage girl with my life. i literally don’t even care what she did. you would’ve done it too if you were her she’s probably handling things better than you would in her shoes

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love when stories inflict unspeakable horrors onto a person for no real reason. its not karma. its not payback. its not a lesson. its not your fault. no ones even out to get you in particular. youre not the chosen one or special or anything. it just sorta happened and you were there. sorry man

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can we please please please learn to differentiate between things that are good but devalued because of their association with women (caring for children, being compassionate), things that are neutral but seen negatively because of their association with women (the colour pink, having long hair), and things that are bad but associated with women because of misogyny (being materialistic, being stupid) because otherwise we’re gonna keep getting takes like “being gender nonconforming is anti feminist” and “not studying for your classes is feminist”

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that post that's like. "americans sincerely trying to argue that they're UNIQUELY incapable of learning things about other countries and cultures is still a form of american exceptionalism." I think about that a lot.

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love when a mother asks if they have ever done anything to hurt you. ma'am, you will literally never be ready to have this conversation

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Isn't it fucking insane that so many people think that IQs are real. Like people genuinely believe you are born with one set level of intelligence that can be measured on a scale from 1 to ~200. As if intelligence wasn't extremely nuanced and completely subjective. And the fact that the majority of scientists that have advocated for IQ tests in the past have been eugenicists doesn't seem to concern anyone either

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with love. you have to fact check shit. yes you. you still have to fact check shit. a lot of people are great at fact checking stuff they don’t want to be true, but somehow are still absolute ass at fact checking stuff that’s rhetorically convenient to them. even people my age, who I KNOW grew up doing internet/bibliography literacy workshops, and being warned not to believe anything that isn’t reliably sourced, people who DO harp on fact checking conservative output or whatever, are still kneejerk sharing unsourced shit that is partially or wholly untrue or misleading, because it suits whatever narrative they’re pursuing in that moment, without even a “take this with a grain of salt”. fact check!!!!!! look at the sources!!!!! yes it’s a drag!!! do it!!!!!

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money is such an underrated accessibility option.

like people want to think any disabled person who is after money is morally suspect some way, because they're not asking for "treatments" or "accommodations" like a lot of our issues can be fixed way more easily with money. can't drive? paying for a taxi is often one of the more accessible alternatives. can't cook? you can pay more to have prepared food delivered to you. food restrictions? that food straight up costs more money. can't clean? you can pay for someone to do that. house inaccessible? having (lots) of money can help with that, you get the gist.

having money won't make us abled. it also won't stop our symptoms from being distressing, painful, or debilitating. but there's a huge gap in experience between the average poor disabled person and someone who's actually wealthy. you can buy your way out of some of the difficult situations most disabled people are left to rot in. wanting money, needing money, asking for money is pretty natural when it's such a useful tool. why get so weird about disabled people wanting money like i'm pretty sure everyone wants money anyway

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as soon as the internet decided depression and anxiety were the everyman mental illnesses and therefore not to be taken seriously we were all fucked tbh bc the fact that i have to feel embarrassed to admit i have debilitating anxiety because people will think im just an uwu dont call me out coward is ridiculous. its insane that i have to clarify that my depressive episodes are like life threatening and not whatever dipshit dumbed down idea of depression people seem to have like oh yeah i just wanna watch netflix and eat ice cream and not text people back. like bro i think im the devil

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Lets go All Over The Fucking Place with mama

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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By the way I remain firm in my belief that the only reason Alisaie comes across as less of a Rich Kid is that she lets Alphinaud say the Stupid Rich Kid Shit first (this is not hard because he talks VERY much) and then just. Acts like she knew that was Rich Kid Shit all along. I think it took Alisaie a Long While to not be mourning the loss of her huge gorgeous perfect bed but someone made fun of Alphinaud for mentioning the "insufficent conditions for rest" early on so now she can never say a thing about it.

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amyways some images i made a bit ago to be used in your melic appreciation posts . at your leisure

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*slaps remnant* this baby can hold so much autism

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i love you

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I just think there should be more fans of Pacific Drive. I just think that "abandoned government facility in an exclusion zone in the woods full of mad scientists and eldritch horrors" is like, the ideal fanfic playground.

Like sure, there's the SCP foundation, you can go into that humanitarian mess all day long. But ARDA? That's a fucking bureaucratic nightmare. Like this organization is recklessly causing all the anomalies and they will not admit it even to their own researchers. They're looking at a pile of car parts shambling down the street like "Wow, wonder what could be causing that. Anyway we need five bajillion more tons of gasoline with which to power our hot new technology to impress the soviets." and "Yeah we know the entire staff had concurrent violent hallucinations of the Hat Man last night but you shouldn't talk about it." and "We know 18 people died last time but we've got to dump more irradiated garbage in that hell portal, stat." and "What's that, Dr. Lombard? You haven't slept in 8 months and neither has anyone else? Don't be silly. Unrelated, we're holding our staff meetings at 4 AM now."

And did they stick it out to the bitter end? Did they go the way of so many other unethical research facilities, utterly destroyed by their own hubris? Fuck no. They just walked away. Gave up and closed down. No cleanup. Nothing but some big concrete walls separating Seattle from 8-foot spheres of acid. And sure they technically evacuated the place, but hundreds of the staff were like "you can't make us leave." so now they're just. Living in there?

Plus I mean, shit, we've got the old man yaoi built in. I just want someone to draw Tobias and Francis carrying each other around like Shaggy & Scoob while some Unregulated Fucking Thing barrels through the swamp after them.