As an autistic kid in preschool I really did not understand why me biting someone who was bullying me was treated like I Murdered Them and seen as a million times worse than anything they did to physically hurt me.
Actually, as an adult I don’t really get it either? It’s not like I broke the skin or gave them one of those hideous bite infections. I had worse bruises from the shit they did to me, but the teacher paraded me in front of the class, yanking my arm up above my head and shouted about what I did. They held a whole preschool seminar on how evil kids are who bite other kids are, and sent a Very Serious Letters home to my mom like I’d killed the pope himself. To which my mom as also like?? ‘Don’t bite people’ but also ‘Where was all this when that kid tried to bash my kid’s skull in with a heavy, metal toy truck?’
Like. What was all that? Did I miss a secret memo sent out at 4 years old that had a list of the worst things you can do to another person and biting was #1?
The obnoxious thing is that because Star Wars has a very open canon, because there are undisclosed animated projects probably in works and will probably be more in the future, and because things can be picked up at any time there are ways to salvage that finale and pay things off that are very satisfying and very Star Wars, so I’m sitting here like…pspspspspsps Lucasfilm…you can still save this….
i’m usually pretty easygoing about crochet patterns but oh my god i’m so annoyed. i paid like $15 for this sweater pattern because i’d never seen anything like it before and i like supporting creators but i should’ve actually just looked at the pictures and started from scratch. i could tell from some sample pictures that the front panel wasn’t laying totally flat to varying degrees, but i assumed it was from inconsistent tension or bad yarn choices. but no!! the actual pattern doesn’t work out to a flat panel. so i’ve had to completely diverge from the actual pattern now and am just making up my own thing anyway and it looks so much better already
the pattern is listed as intermediate to expert experience level but it’s actually not. it would be an easy intermediate pattern if the creator knew what they were doing.
(I am. So fucking mad. About cis womens complicity in the defanging of feminism as a political movement. In the buy in to misogyny, racism, and homophobia that is anti trans hysteria that is fascism. In the co-opting of womens liberation in the name of persecution and oppression. In the complete disintegration of a tangible position on bodily autonomy, and the failure to recognise that the ultimate aim of all of this is, has always been, will inevitably always end, in the subjugation of all women’s bodies, cis and trans alike. How could they be so fucking stupid?)
Jonathan Wheatley outslayed himself in front of the FIA last race weekend only for Perez to get a pit lane start and a potential penalty in this race 😭
making that post earlier gave me so much anxiety at the time but now i’m just glad i said what needed to be said. if people don’t believe me that’s fine. but my internet experience will not be dictated (and certainly won’t be ruined!) by people lying about me.