#i think i...

[kopivie]

hey, so.. this song with kazuha..

breaking up on good terms with kazuha because you have to move across teyvat. (or whatever country you live in. doesn't have to be in-game.) you agree to remain friends and stay in contact in case either of you happen across each other some time. there's tears, kisses, long hugs and lots of "i'll see you soon"s, but once you've moved, there's... nothing.

you're too afraid to contact him. you haven't blocked him on any social media or anything, but you've muted him because for about a month or two after your move, you just... didn't hear from him. so, thinking that he's completely moved on and cut you out, you did the same.

of course you stalk his socials a little. well, maybe stalking is too harsh a term. let's say that your curiosity gets the better of you from time to time. you check every once in a while and he's posting regularly, posting songs and poems, his cute pictures with friends or alone... kazuha seems so happy.

you remember the nights where you would come home late to see him fast asleep on your couch with a book propped open on his chest. kazuha was a light sleeper then (is he still a light sleeper now? you wonder.) and as soon as you crouched down to brush his hair out of his face, his pretty scarlet eyes would flutter open and he would whisper a small "hi" through his tired haze. moonlight would cover him like a blanket and his eyes would be half open; his beauty on those nights would take your breath away in an instant.

and just as you're about to call it a night, just as you shake away the melancholy, you hear a soft knock at your front door. you tiptoe to the door and open it to see who else but kazuha standing there. it has to be like, two in the morning, and yet here he stands with his hands in his pockets and the most boyish smile on his face. "hi," he says softly.

"i was just thinking about you."

[mityenka]

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

[mikkaeus]

[grunklebongrip]

When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[yekokataa]

do you guys know about the internet roadtrip? right now somewhere between 500 and 900 people are collectively 'driving' a car on google street view trying to make it to canada. it's fun i recommend it

[semperintrepida]

This is the worst timeline. (x)

[inkskinned]

hey... don't cry.... tesla recall for most cybertrucks, okay? >46,000 vehicles affected <3

[beaft]

me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan:

[cryptotheism]

X

[seshrat]

flow winning animated feature is the kind of story that's going to be taught like the boogeyman to every big animation studio's intake class for decades

[thegeekgene]

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

[pocketss]

a sluge 😔

[zeezeepearl]

ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

[petewentzisblack1312]

we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.