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"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

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in a show where so many methods to kill the supernatural are either brute force applied in a specific way or just, like, magic, the leviathans are SO interesting to me. With the exception of Dick, there isnt a ritual to kill them and keep them dead, they arent killed with angel blades or demon blades or anything like that - its borax. Borax!!!! Sorry kripke but you said that these beings are unable to regenerate when treated with sodium tetraborite decahydrate and thought I wouldn't want to know more?? What IS the mechanistic pathway stopping regeneration? What concentration is required for full effect? Would other boron-containing alkalites work similarly? Why boron? What is the chemical composition of leviathans!!! Are they organics??? COULD WE BE UTILIZING BASIC BIOCHEMISTRY TO STOP OTHER CREATURES MORE EFFECTIVELY?? it makes me insane INSANE I tell you.

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modern life is just a ceaseless barrage of employment housework budgeting netflix phone calls health insurance memes emergency savings fear of aging vacuuming childhood nostalgia grocery lists career goals hopes for the future zombie scrolling existential dread deciding what to cook for dinner followed by more netflix and that’s just Tuesday

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Katharine Hepburn as Amazon warrior princess Antiope & Colin Keith-Johnston as Theseus in stage production of The Warrior’s Husband (1932) (Corbis)

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if I wrote a dystopian novel where the corrupt evil megacorporation that controls society has a fucking smirk for a logo, my editor would tell me to use a less heavy-handed metaphor

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I want vampire grandma's.

the older I get the more Twilight reads like a horror story. imagine being seventeen for all of eternity. that is some nightmare shit

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my favorite thing about the furry fandom and how well they treat artists is that eventually some of the most renowned & respected artists of our time are going to be very talented people who at one point honed their skills & paid rent with furry art

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 Hey btw, another worldbuilding thing: You can, and actually should have weird and impractical cultural things. They’re not inherently unrealistic, for as long as you address the realistic consequences as well.

 Let’s say you’ve got a city where there’s tame white doves everywhere. They’re not pests, they’re regarded as sacred, holy protectors of the city, and the whole city cares for them and feeds them like they’re pets. They’re so tame because it’s a social taboo to hurt or scare one. Nice pretty doves :)

 Then someone points out that even if they’re not seen as pests, doesn’t having a completely unchecked feral pigeon population - that not only isn’t being culled, but actively fed and cared for - mean that there would be bird shit absolutely all over the place?

 A part of you wants to say no, because these are your nice, pretty doves. To explain that there’s a reason why they’re not shitting all over the place, maybe they’re super-intelligent and specifically bred and trained to not shit all over the place. The logistics of how, exactly, could anyone breed and train a flock of feral birds go unaddressed.

 An even worse solution would be to not have those birds, editing them out of the world. No, they spark joy, you can’t just toss them out!

 Now, consider: Yes, yes they would, but the city also has an extensive public sanitation service that’s occupied 90% of the time by cleaning bird shit off of everything. One of the most common last names in the area actually translates to “one who scrapes off dove shit”, and it’s a highly respected occupation. And thanks to the sheer necessity of constantly regularly cleaning everything, the city enjoys a much higher standard of cleanliness, and less public health issues caused by poor public sanitation.

 The doves do protect the city. By shitting fucking everywhere.

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I need to get this off my chest: one of the reasons I don't really care for the marauders fandom as opposed to the snapedom or any other character for that matter is bc some of the stans have MAJOR superiority complexes. Like they think that just bc they relate to or want to be part of a group of rich pureblood privileged white boys who bullied, almost killed and sexually assaulted a dirt poor halfblood kid who had no friends or family that cared for him makes them better people than those that identify with snape's situation/feelings more. And all of what they did was ok bc Snape "was a Nazi supremacist that was obsessed with banging lily". It really makes them look like they not only read the books passively but also don't want to acknowledge the trauma of someone poor, unliked and ugly, the three things that I think they fear being the most. Snape is someone no one in their right mind would want to be and that fear leads to them trying to victim blame and minimize his trauma and pretend that he was always just evil and not some poor lonely kid that was treated with such disrespect and dealt such a nasty hand at life that he felt he could only turn to a hate group to find acceptance and protection and turned into a bitter angry person bc he never got the help he desperately needed as a teenager. He's a realistic reminder of how abuse victims can turn out, the path some have seen themselves go down as a result of abuse and despise the idea that they could be anything like that so all their internalized self hatred is projected onto him as they over simplify or just plain misinterpret his character.

I had the privilege of growing up with a loving family but I could absolutely relate to his loneliness and just wanting to make friends and be accepted. And I had a similar abuse incident happen to me as what James put Snape through in their fifth year. I know what it feels like to have someone touch your body without your permission and then laugh it off later as if what they did had no consequences. Usually when I tell these particular type of marauder stans this it shuts them up but I really don't feel like I should have to reveal some trauma in order to not be shit on for relating to a certain character they don't like.

Sorry to info dump. Love your page though

Thank you! And you're right.

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hiya! I figured id make an informational post about the little things ive noticed about being on testosterone that I found weren’t talked about a lot when I was starting my transition and even before when I was doing my research. I think that trans sexual health is an extremely important part of trans peoples lives (and that doesnt necessarily mean sex) seeing as the physical changes that happen during transition are often foreign to us. Sexual health keeps us healthy and comfortable in our bodies, so do your best to stay attentive to your body’s changes! As always, consult your doctor if you feel the need to. These are only tips ive learned from transitioning myself and from my doctor when I asked about certain things.

PATREON

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This porno didn’t fuck around

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educate people & tell social stigma to fuck off with the help of technical language!

i’m having a depressive mood = “my brain isn’t correctly processing serotonin at the moment”

i can’t concentrate on a fucking thing bc adhd = “my brain is in full dopamine-seeking mode”

anxiety attack = “due to an unspecified perceived threat, my brain has elected to enter lockdown mode” 

everything’s just a mess right now = “my neurotransmitters are a mess right now”

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I've been both of these at different times

one of my favorite things about fanfiction is how many writers don't necessarily consider themselves fans of the original work. lots of writers just saw the movie or read the book and were like "that was unsatisfying but now I have yet another canon to fuck around with"