#Compulsory

[pratchettquotes]

Detritus stamped to attention beside Vimes and his salute clanged smartly off his helmet.

"What we doin' now, sir?"

"We can pack up now, I think. All the lads have joined up?"

"Yessir!"

"You told them it wasn't compulsory?"

"Yessir! I said, 'It ain't compuls'ry, you just gotta,' sir."

"Detritus, I wanted volunteers."

"'sright, sir. They volunteered all right, I saw to that."

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[sofiaswaves]

Close to you | dir. LAUZZA (2025)

[j-august]

If he made another miscalculation, he could lose everything. But of course, that was the attraction. And the responsibility was entirely his. He had chosen the game, and others had elected to join him, or to oppose him. Playing was not compulsory.

Dorothy Dunnett, Race of Scorpions

[integradamente]

Plano Terapêutico padrão para Tratamento em Dependência Química

No que consiste:

Um plano terapêutico especializado em dependência química é uma abordagem personalizada e estruturada para ajudar indivíduos a superar o uso problemático de substâncias. Ele é desenhado para abordar as necessidades específicas de cada pessoa, considerando fatores como a história de uso, saúde mental e física, e apoio social. Aqui estão os componentes principais que podem fazer parte de um plano terapêutico:

1. Avaliação Inicial: Um processo abrangente para avaliar a extensão da dependência e qualquer condição coocorrente, como transtornos mentais ou físicos. Isso ajuda a personalizar o tratamento de acordo com as necessidades individuais.

2. Desintoxicação Médica: Quando necessário, um processo supervisionado por profissionais de saúde para gerir a retirada segura das substâncias, minimizando os sintomas de abstinência.

3. Terapia Individual: Sessões de aconselhamento individual para explorar as causas subjacentes da dependência, desenvolver estratégias de enfrentamento e promover mudanças de comportamento. Abordagens como a terapia cognitivo-comportamental (TCC) são frequentemente utilizadas.

4. Terapia em Grupo: Participação em grupos de apoio, como Narcóticos Anônimos, onde os indivíduos podem compartilhar experiências e apoiar uns aos outros em um ambiente seguro e compreensivo.

5. Intervenções Familiares: Envolver a família no processo de recuperação para melhorar a dinâmica familiar e oferecer suporte adicional ao indivíduo em tratamento.

6. Educação sobre Dependência: Fornecer informações sobre os efeitos das drogas, o processo de recuperação e estratégias para manter a sobriedade a longo prazo.

7. Plano de Prevenção de Recaídas: Desenvolvimento de estratégias personalizadas para identificar gatilhos e sinais de alerta de recaída, e maneiras de lidar com eles de maneira eficaz.

8. Tratamento de Comorbidades: Abordagem de quaisquer condições mentais ou físicas coexistentes, como depressão ou ansiedade, que possam influenciar a dependência.

9. Atividades de Bem-Estar: Inclusão de práticas que promovem o bem-estar físico e mental, como exercícios físicos, meditação e mindfulness, para apoiar a recuperação integral.

10. Acompanhamento Pós-Tratamento: Planejamento de cuidados contínuos e seguimento após a conclusão do tratamento inicial para garantir suporte contínuo e ajudar a manter a sobriedade.

Um plano terapêutico eficaz combina esses elementos de forma integrada, adaptando-se conforme necessário ao longo do tempo, para apoiar a recuperação e promover uma vida saudável e equilibrada.

[kamalkafir-blog]

First UK residents to face compulsory purchase of homes for solar farm

Residents in three ‘Domesday villages’ fear their homes will be the first in Britain to be compulsorily purchased to make way for the country’s biggest-ever solar farm. Dozens of villagers living in Hempnall, Saxlingham and Tasburgh in Norfolk have received letters from a developer saying their homes ‘may be required’ to create space for East Pye Solar Project. The development will cover a…

[thelovebudllc]

Like Love Is Blind's Brittany, I'm A Bisexual Woman Who's Fallen For 'Compulsory Heterosexuality'

I broke her heart — and mine — to save face and dismissed my interest in women as a fleeting teenage fantasy, even though my lust for them had been burgeoning since I developed my first childhood crushes on the girls in Totally Spies. I buried my interest in women by adhering to society’s compulsory heterosexuality, convincing myself that any relationship with a women was purely sexual and not…

[leikeliscomet]

When it comes to asexual allyship a lot of people wanna have their cake and eat it too (pun unintended). People like a lil 'aces are valid' moment but don't actually unpack compulsory sexuality. People see sexless queer representation and always clock puritanism before they ever clock asexuality. No one's actually reading the ace theory and texts coming out. Everyone keeps doing surprised Pikachu faces whenever a conservative or TERF says they're against asexuality despite the fact ace activists have been saying since day conservatives are not anti sex but anti sexual autonomy. 'Aces are queer' until we actually are. Even ace support posts keep ending with some expectation or condition that asexuality is #valid as long as asexuals still perform a small quota of sex/sexual activity. I'm so over 'Aces still have sex!' 'Aces are hot' Aces are sexy' 'Aces aren't virgin vanilla prude sexless puritans!' disguised as support.

Like no. Sorry. Until you accept that some asexual people's no is permanent, that some asexual's singleness is permanent, that some asexual's childless-ness is permanent, that some asexuals are the 'no' in little to no sexual attraction and i'd say most importantly, that queer sexlessness isn't a biological, social or moral failing, I don't believe you'll ever genuinely support asexuality. (In reverse, I also feel similar about aromanticism and romance).

Like a lot of u haven't gone beyond 'the a isn't for ally' and it shows. I don't want people to support asexuals just because we're soooo hot or because we write the best smut apparently or because we could have hypothetical sex or because we could do hypothetical kink or because our minds are soooo dirty actually or because we'd do romance reallllyyyy well or because we can still have kids or because asexuals hand out water bottles at the orgy or some shit. I want people to support asexuality because no sexuality is deviant and it's basic human decency.

EDIT: U lot really like this post huh. Well it's blown up again and the point's been lost so let's wrap that up:

'But op, some asexuals DO have sex/I'm an acespec that has sex/I'm a non asexual person what about meeee :(' pt 2, pt 3

'There's asexual studies OP??/Where's the asexual studies OP?'

EDIT 2: Yeah I'm locking this one up until u lot get better reading comprehension. If you genuinely, unironically, deadass believe this post is anti-sex favourable, anti-demi, anti-grey, pro-gold star/black stripe ace or even TERF rhetoric for saying asexuals don't need to have sex to be supported as human beings then compulsory sexuality has a done an absolute number one you. Read asexual theory. Look at the follow up posts I'm so tired of repeating myself.

[gurutrends]

Compulsory military service: 2 countries actively prepare to defend themselves

Serbia and Croatia prepare for possible conflict: military service to be reinstated in these 2 European countries. In Croatia, conscription will last two months from January 1, while in Serbia it will last 75 days. Serbia and Croatia are the two countries that will be reintroducing conscription after having abolished it in 2011 and 2008 respectively. In the case of Croatia, the announcement was…

[kazifatagar]

Bill to Make Secondary Education Compulsory to Be Tabled in February

A bill to amend the Education Act 1996, making education compulsory up to secondary school, will be tabled in the Dewan Rakyat in February, says Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek. The proposed bill, now under review by the Attorney General’s Chambers, aims to ensure no dropouts in secondary schools. Bill to Make Secondary Education Compulsory to Be Tabled in February This policy intends to…

[justgivemeabookplease]

Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold, the Fairy Godmother says, you have to fix this, your kingdom can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule, to be loved, when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.

[notnotravenpond]

going through divorce with the entity in my head

[inkskinned]

no, actually, where is the whimsy?

my ex had a best friend named larry who asked me once: what do you think comes after irony?

we were at the bar where larry worked. it was a quiet night, and he'd hopped over to sit with us on the patron side. i swirled the lemon around my limoncello martini.

earnest positivity, i said, while my ex said, art self-destructs.

i stared at my ex. he stared at me.

his argument was the cinemasins argument: look how bad media is becoming! look at the loopholes and the dumb shit!

it was roughly 2011. galaxy print was still in. at the time, i had a favorite shirt that was a wolf howling at the moon. it got ripped in half in the wash and i honestly still mourn it. i dressed like effie stonem, because everyone did. and irony was the name of the thing. men liked MLP "ironically." the internet liked the kind of crass, "anti-mainstream" vibes of things like fuck romance, touch my butt and buy me pizza. we put cats in sunglasses everywhere, which was because we only liked things in irony.

and media had the same vibe in it: anti-hero white men would be "hard to love" and then storm off the scene. nobody was just earnestly trying to save the world: they were jaded, angry, unoriginal. mad you even asked them to try to help.

my ex ends up not being wrong. cinemasins becomes super popular. a lot of people start viewing media with this lens that is the cruelest, most jaded depiction. it's wrong for your character to have unexplained powers, even if the entire movie is about how strange it is she has unexplained powers - that is still considered a "loophole." characters make thoughtless, panicked choices? loophole. characters are actually kind people, despite hardship? loophole. features a woman doing literally anything without assistance? loophole. movies become hyper-aware of scrutiny, and now irony rules the media.

which means you go to a movie, and the character has to turn to the screen and say "beats me!!" or one of the side characters has to have some kind of quip like "are you seriously telling me that you think this is normal?" because nothing can happen in earnest. like a sitcom laugh track, we now anticipate the fourth-wall break: the moment that the media acknowledges it is telling a story. the media has to apologize for itself, or else someone like my ex rolls their eyes.

but here's the thing: i wasn't wrong either.

the difference might be that i am (and always have been) so soft-hearted that any crack in the light of this world will spear me into the ground. and i was the poet in the relationship. (he thought that was the same thing as being naïve and stupid). i was making things daily. i knew how all of us artists are driven by some strange desire to evolve. he notably liked to critique art, not to create it.

so yes, i've made things that are bitter and angry and even ironic. i've made long, sharp poems with all capital letters, and i've made poems about how the silence stretches out like a song. someone wrote once that we will spend our whole lives just circling the place we grew up. i think it's more that we spend our whole lives trying to remake a home. i think it's that as we age, it becomes less exciting to build the castle on the beach - we become aware of erosion, of windforce. we realize what we really want is to come home to our dog, castle or not.

and while art in the foreground is mired in white male violence and irony, and aggression, and not taking anything seriously - i don't think that's true of all art. i think more and more artists are leaning in to the things we love. the world has changed so much. they have taken so many things from us. the only thing we have left is love. at the bottom of the moving box - all we get is the faint sense that we have to appreciate what little we've got. i can't enjoy this stuff ironically anymore: what room do i have for irony? if it makes me happy, that is an amazing thing. there are so few happy places left for me. i want to be happy because of how leaves shiver beside each other like nestling birds. i want to be happy because of the color pink, and how magenta doesn't exist. i have spent so much of this life suffering, i have earned my right to a gentle ending. if nothing matters, i get to assign meaning to the nothing. i get to create meaning. i am an artist first and foremost, which means creation is my thing.

where is the whimsy? wherever i fucking put it. because if this is my last fucking chance to do any good in this world - i want to do it earnestly. i want to write things that make you happy. that make people feel heard and seen. what comes after irony has to be positivity.

it was close to my 21st birthday. in 7 years, i would end up writing a book about this relationship, which is hopefully coming out somewhere around May 2024. i come back to this bar scene in my memories a lot. i keep thinking of how pale my ex was. the look that crossed his face. how i looked back at him. how for a moment, both of us couldn't recognize the other person. like the gulf between us was a suddenly wide and cavernous thing. like we were alien to each other. he never took my opinion seriously, and he always seemed surprised whenever his manic-pixie-dream-girl ever broke free of the plot. like in the whole time we were together, i wasn't human enough.

this knowledge: where he said nothing comes after, my only instinct was what comes after is love.

[soolegal]

Bar Council of Delhi withdraws decision to make Aadhaar, Voter ID with NCR address compulsory for enrolment

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[leikeliscomet]

'But asexuals are so harmless why would she come after them/us?' I mean apart from the fact trans people, intersex people and people of colour aren't harmful either and oppression isn't because a group deserved it and marginalised people don't need to be morally pure to not be discriminated against, no asexuality isn't harmless in conservatives' eyes. In an ideology where cis heterosexual marriage and sex for reproduction is seen as mandatory you having little to no sexual attraction ruins the whole set up. You can't 'be fruitful and multiply' in the way god intended. You have a nonsexuality that isn't being forced onto you by them. You're not repressing your desire in the name of god because you barely have any. You have control over your own body and you aren't supposed to do that. You're spitting in the face of conservative sexual and gender roles just by existing. Spit harder!

Unofficial part 2

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

also the english are weird about folk culture. we are. we've relegated our folk dances and music to the zone of esoteric nerd shit that only weirdos do, and then we go looking for esoterica in the non-english parts of our heritage because we don't think we've got any of it of our own

[creature-wizard]

aren't asexuals just folks who don't like to have sex? how not liking sex makes you opressed or gay? jk rowling is right and the vast majority of human population agress with her, only tumblr don't. :)

Well you see, this little thing called compulsory heterosexuality, which impacts all same-sex attracted people, also impacts asexual people! Hope this helps! Here's a free link to Wikipedia page so you can go learn more. :)