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if you donate at least $5 to sierra’s campaign for car repairs I can draw your fave character….pets…whatever….!

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clark shouting "people were going to DIE" in the face of the "think of the consequences of your actions" argument is so fucking important to me bc it really IS that simple you can't look at a genocide and just twiddler your thumbs bc you're a afraid of the consequences ESPECIALLY when you can do something about it and THATS WHAT CLARK DID. WITHOUT HESITATION. WITHOUT CONSIDERING HOW IT COULD HURT HIM. bc hes a good person and in his brain its really just people were going to die so i had to step in bc what else would it be. superman i love you i love you i love you

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On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

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Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

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The kindergarten-ification of society

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guy who is stuck in a timeloop but is too socially anxious to bring it up to anybody or change their routine just in case it turns out they're mistaken. like yeah you're pretty sure that it's been november 3rd for two weeks now but idk maybe that's the depression talking. it's fine.

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Ice suggesting a white woman remove the Mexican flag sticker from her car. Can they all kill themselves already

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complimented a cashier on her turtle pin this morning and she said "oh thanks, I am a little bit of a Turtle Person" with the carefully contained energy of Cookie Monster telling you he's mildly fond of chocolate chips

I hope she and the multiple tons of turtle merch she definitely has at home are having a wonderful day

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if you wiped every ICE agent off the face of the earth, a hundred million people would become safer overnight. if you wiped every furry off the face of the earth, the entire internet would collapse for good in a matter of hours. i know where my allegiances lie.

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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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Do you have any visual reference to the girl’s antlers in your latest fic? Absolutely entranced by them having antlers it works so perfectly!

I do!!! and I went ahead and drew them out because of this haha

There's not really a particular reason for which antler-shape is paired with who; I mostly wanted very distinct ones. But if I had to ascribe some authorial intend...

Taissa's are Roe which are short but good on an offensive and a hard block for head-on stuff. I think Tai prefers to dive into conflicts like this if she can't work her way out through other more passive ways (the allie thing, her campaign strategy in adult life). She cuts through decisionmaking hard and fast with the best and worst outcomes coming from that. Hard, fast, close-quarters, but with the back undefended.

Lottie's are based on Javan Rusa and a little bit on Chital deer antlers. These are tall, upright, and very minimal in branches. Could say they are mostly for show, but would help putting distance between herself and the other. Something something Lottie is a highly passive person in most cases and would rather keep people away than disclosing a lot about herself. She can be brought off-balance by a very direct attack (hello Natalie), but is able to defend from stuff on the side and if they're still small enough to keep at bay.

Jackie is a basic White tail who's antlers are the most crown-like but come with being guarded on all sides. Very little can get through, and Jackie does more to keep all her bases covered from harm than make sure the center field is kept in order (baseball metaphor? really?). These antlers are very aesthetically pleasing and can be used effectively when used right in a conflict, but have a higher risk of getting stuck and tangled up in other antlers or outdoor stuff. They're also relatively short and still require some closeness to make a good defense/offense.

Natalie is within the fic not of the designation to grow antlers, but she does! Because it's fun! And apparently Caribou are one of the few deer species where the female also grow antlers, so the more you know! Anyway, within the fic universe I got a whole load of lore of Nat being stuck with antler growth and not having access to proper medical aid because of her designation despite them clearly being There. Caribou antlers in this case are more vibes-based than the others; I considered Moose but those are too bulky for my liking, and Caribou antlers already are a bit prone to asymmetry, and then throw in some hormonal/funky body misgrowth and you got what is here. Safe to say, Nat REALLY has to overcompensate to make sure she's well-guarded with her set, or use them in other ways than may be expected. Given Nat's track-record of making it out of situations not by force or discussion alone, she's relying on her wits in canon enough with a good dose of luck to make the best of this.

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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we were in a race to grow up

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"Lord knows i can't change"

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tell me my prof didn’t upload the reading by photocopying his kindle reader page by page