#but the convo started so good!

[caitofcaithall]

when you have that conversation with your mum like ‘so actually i think i’m autistic’ and she’s like ‘yeah, i kind of knew’ and on one hand you’re like yay! the convo is going well... and then she’s like ‘but you still need to work on your social skills because you need to get a job with a big company’ and you’re like 🙃🙃

[thottybrucewayne]

People get so pissy when they're told to be mindful not to overstep when discussing the oppression of a community they aren't a part of and it's sooooo obvious too like, how are you being supportive if you can't take criticism from the group of people you're "supporting"

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Based on a real group chat convo (I was Jingyi)

[pocketgalaxies]

and what if i'm looking for scenes of imodna holding hands and almost every single one is laudna holding imogen's hand to ground her? what if there's almost no examples of imogen holding laudna's hand to ground her? what then??? WHAT THEN???????

[d4ydream-girl]

i'm in love with all of the changes they made in ep 3 so the convo in medusa's basement could happen... but i wanted that picture of percy with a baseball bat so bad 😭😭

[sparring-spirals]

From like. a character analysis perspective. i LOVE Ashton's tendency to have some very good instincts when it comes to like human nature and fuckery that are also very clearly swayed by their own experiences and biases, because the combination of correct gut instincts with strong confidence makes it. Easy to buy in. Or easy to bristle.

Ashton tells F.C.G "This is what happens when you start externalizing every fucking problem that you have-" and, with affection towards F.C.G- well. Yeah. And then he starts breaking down the issue- how its about people with power fucking with others, how the end goal and the aim doesn't matter, their methods are clearly AWFUL and going to harm tons of people, and besides, if they had such a clear and proper image about what they're going to achieve they could just tell people. They're going to hurt people, they're killing, people, fuck that, fuck them.

"It's easy to make a nice world by killing everyone who disagrees with you. If you get down to five it'll be amazing. Fucking utopia."

Its- beautiful. And correct, in more ways than one, and probably what everyone needed to hear, and also has so much of their own experiences and resentment threaded into it, reductive to an almost dangerous point. Dangerous because he's right, in so many ways, and confident and righteous with it. Dangerous because of how the life lessons and the rage and the loss have left them with base tenets about human nature and motivations that are clear cut and resigned and simple. Because simplicity is powerful, and reassuring, and keeps them going, and is also not infallible.

I just feel like. Ashton is so, so fucking right, often and especially here, is confident in his stances and judgement in a way that has been tested by flame and resigned itself to pessimism. Ashton is so right, and the reasoning is often so sound and tempting, and there's also so much of them, their own losses and shortcomings that bleeds into their confident readings of the world and its overall nature, in ways they maybe don't even realize.

ashton is- full of solid instincts, and also flawed by having lived their life firsthand, and also confident in a way that is reassuring until you find yourself in a blindspot, up against an immovable rockface.

[fairyroses]

When did you get to be so wise?

— SMALLVILLE, “Obscura” (1.20)

[wigglybug]

this week: love my boss but when he has more than two beers he's the most insufferable man ive ever had to drink a cocktail with. "im from melbourne im sooo progressive" SHUT THE FUCK UPP!!! YOURE NOT!!!!!!!

[lesbean-sideblog]

A terf asked me for evidence of Lisa Morgan quoting Hitler and being a fucking nazi. I delivered. I want to share our dms because, as my polycule pointed out, the benefit of fighting with terfs and fascists in online spaces comes from visibility and showing people, especially younger people, how fucked up they and their ideologies really are.

They left a comment (now deleted) demanding evidence. I didn't at the time want to have a public discussion with them, and so reached out privately with resources. This is how our conversation went.

There are a few things I'd like to point out.

Terfs will do anything to avoid having to confront their shitty beliefs head on. Note the distraction techniques (such as going after @lostelvenqueen, who does great work, with baseless accusations), and what could be considered poor reading comprehension, gaslighting, intentional ignorance, or all three combined.

They love ignoring basic reality in more ways than one.

They will never, ever disagree with something one of their own is said, no matter how extreme.

They'll try to throw people off with general nastiness and immaturity ("prick" news). If you ignore these tactics you'll probably have some luck with cutting through the bullshit because they're ideology is contradictory, hollow, and fuel by hate.

They are at best nazi sympathizers. Refusing to speak out or even acknowledge people in your group going full nazi in the public eye makes you a fucking nazi sympathizer.

Notice how they stopped responding when put into a position of either having to disagree with other terfs or confirm their use of Hitler's rhetoric against a minority group.

[moodyseal]

Iris intrigues me so much as a goddess. Like yeah sure, she's prone to anger too, but that's standard godly behaviour. The different thing about her is that she seems to try pretty hard to be a good goddess, ig? She wants to have a good relationship with her daughter. She's being fairly civil and benevolent (per her daughter's request, but still). She doesn't care to seem all-knowing. There's no actual jealousy in her, and not many petty feelings. Her chapter sounds suspiciously like a "Here's a possible demigod ally, presented to you for absolutely no reason (wink wink)" sort of thing yk

[simplydnp]

Stop im rewatching why dan is leaving me bc of ur post theyre so disgustingly domestic i adore them

sometimes i watch that video just to feel something

[milkbreadtoast]

me having entire conversations in the tags of posts w ppl by going "#prev ..." has the same vibe as me passing notes back and forth to someone in class that the entire class reads before the notes get there

edit: ...alternatively having convos w someone by like. writing a message on the blackboard or sidewalk and then checking later and someone else has added to it while i was away...

[carrionsflower]

[bananasareupsidedown]

[horsemage]

I think we should bring back basic etiquette lessons such as shutting the fuck up when you’re watching a movie in a group that is not exclusively your friend group 🙂

[undyinglantern]

the amount of surprised pika “wait people actually shave their arms?” comments on posts about body hair are so funny like I unironically am so happy for you that you weren’t laughed at by a classmate for having hairy arms “like a man” in like 4th grade this is why I wish body hair conversations would stop centering around armpit hair