#and we use media as a way to act

[pack-coven-thing]

Okay but I feel like most often being compared to the duo of Aaron and Nana/KC in middle school was a sign of some sort of mental issue /j

[pitske]

ROTZBACKE! HAKENZAHN! OI! OI! OI!

[redysetdare]

every time i see a post that is like "ughh why cant we have aspec characters who aren't aroace for once" I have to do a double take like "is the aroace rep in the room with us right now?" because genuinely....where is all this aroace rep y'all are complaining about? Why cant i find it yet it's apparently the only aspec rep we get?? You admit that TV never says the word aromantic so where is the aroace rep. So far I've pretty much only seen canonically asexual characters and not much else buddy.

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[thirdtimed]

unfortunately if i ever developed the lifeseries orv au in my head in earnest i would in no capacity whatsoever manage to be normal about it at all and like. i mean it

[2383-lines-of-code]

Here’s your daily reminder that sh*tkoku stans don’t see dazai on his own, don’t look at his trauma, his story, his personality, only a good self projection to get with ch**y* and if you call yourself a dazai stan and ship sh*tkoku, then I have some news for you ❤️

things are heating up on the dazai anon front

[wild-at-mind]

I think the worst kind of intra-left arguing is 'look how the people who aren't quite like me don't care about x!' and the evidence given is all about posting on social media. (Lack of it/amount of it, subject matter of it etc.)

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

oh ladies and gentlemen the ideas bombarding me that make Harrison’s out of character trait of being an artist all worth it…

[altschmerzes]

that was the first thing i saw this morning too lmao. imagine waking up and checking your email and the first thing you see your entire day is some long message about how you’re not having enough understanding and compassion for how much your abuser just really wants to hear from you and you can’t understand because you’re not a mother but she LOVES you! stop being so flippant and annoyed, can’t you see that your ~bid for independence~ (as if im a rebelling teenager not a 25 year old grownass adult) (not that any of that message would be okay if i WAS a kid still but the infantilization and condescension that abuse victims face when we have the audacity to not Grow Up And Maturely Accept That Our Parents Simply Were Complicated And Trying Their Best 😔 is astounding) is gonna be SOOOO hurtful to your abuser! gosh how insensitive.

if i wasn’t already having a bad weekend that might’ve been way more destabilizing to read than it was lmao, but too late, already triggered, weekend already pretty bad, that just pissed me off.

[eebie]

will be a hater for a second but i will be real. idgaf aboutkabru And 90% of the reason why is bc me n my friends watched the dub and couldnt stand how much he talked with the super breathy generic anime protag voice

[laypis]

ngl sometimes I do wonder if I have a form of plurality (I'm diagnosed PTSD so the trauma IS there)

[swordatsunset]

My general (not hardline) opinion on the ‘family’ within media and art and stories is that it can be deeply stifling and exhausting to see stories that uphold the family as the place where you return to comfort and safety— but that I think much of the friction in more general stories is with terms. “Found family” as a concept I think can be very affirming for this idea of companion or kinship, when not simply twisted into “found family is when random people end up reenacting all the roles and dynamics of the nuclear family, except this time the gruff dad is not ACTUALLY her biological dad!” The family is shorthand for comfort, and kinship, and companionship, and it is very difficult to articulate those particular relationships without needing to reference the family, or familial dynamics, but I don’t think that inherently condemns lots of media in this grey space as regurgitating the structure of the family even if you call it by the name of “found family,” because I think oftentimes they are engaging with an approach beyond the family

[fossys]

I think its so funny when i see stuff about my source because a lot of the time im written as this tired old parental figure (which is probably closer to my canon source maybe) but in system im just like. yea ive been around for centuries but i still just feel like a silly lil guy

[vamptastic]

i genuinely don't understand what capitalist countries stand to gain by fighting each other instead of collaborating economically. like why does the us warmonger against china when we would benefit more from trade? ostensibly it's for moral reasons, but regardless of the veracity of any given claim i think the united states has shown itself to prioritize economic success over human rights on a number of occasions especially during the cold war. i suppose i assume most wars are waged on the grounds of economic gain (natural resources, global political power, straight up money in the form of the military-industrial complex) but you could make an equally solid argument that just as many are waged over purely social and political issues- ethnic and religious conflict, blind nationalism, the whims of a dictator. it just confuses me at times, i guess. i have a hard time believing that the united states is bound and determined to wage war against china over human rights abuses, infringing on other countries sovereignty, and neo-colonialism in africa when we've propped up fascist dictators in many a country who've done far worse. is it literally just the association with communism? because surely whatever evil fuckers actually want war know that china is very far from communist right now. is it just nationalism? the idea that we must be on the top of the totem pole, even if our economy would stand to gain from trade? because i suppose i could believe that, but i think if that was true we wouldn't have gotten to where we are today in the first place. blegh. at the end of the day i am also ignoring the fact that many many different groups of people want war against china for reasons ranging from sinophobic jingoist nationalism to a genuine belief that the united states is a global moral watchdog determined to establish ~democracy~ worldwide. but there is a definite slant to media coverage on china right now, genuine attempts at disinformation, and given that the media in the us is so deeply tied to corporate interests it leads me to believe that there has to be some economic motive here, and it frustrates me that i can't figure out what it is.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I miss when Hulu used to have a comments section under every video, there was always something interesting (in a human behavior curiosity kind of way) about scrolling down to see usually an absolutely ridiculous collection of people having a rowdy open forum discussion about something you just watched that you had a completely neutral non-reaction to 

[lungfuls]

idt every instance of a woman referring to herself as a girl, especially in a silly little way, is always horrible... i mean, taken with the whole bimbo movement, rejection of the term "woman" is definitely alarming, but i don't think that's always the point of a woman referring to herself or her activities that way