#it was the actual engagement today

[thursdayg1rl]

well today was . a day I guess

[arthurtaylorlester]

controversial i know but yes, malevolent is a queer story.

no, jarthur are not /r gay.

yes, malevolent is unintentionally queer.

no, this does not take away from the queerness actual queer people have found in it.

[orionsangel86]

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[the-valiant-valkyrie]

not over the fact this quote implies that: 1) robutler is at least vaguely aware of the events of the death engine 2) he believes that these events were not only cool, but pivotal to the role of a 'cool agent' 3) he considers phoenix a cool agent not for neutralizing a deadly supervirus, stopping nuclear armageddon, or surviving death twice over, but destroying the same space laser that they nearly died in. or, at the very least, those other achievements pale in comparison to the whole space laser thing 4) he presumably wants to do this himself

[the-merry-otter]

Being on holidays is soooo wild like wdym I can literally do anything I want today?? Sounds fake

[buckttommy]

I don't think people think enough about their actions in terms of harm and how much they are adding to the world, either by harming themselves (still harm) or harming others, but I really think they should

[mihrsuri]

I keep trying to write an update and then being embarrassed about it and feeling like I’m trauma dumping on people by updating and I just..I know it’s on me to manage my crap, I know. I am trying (not very well but I’m trying) and it’s just…I don’t know. I don’t even know.

[knowlesian]

ngl i lowkey blame the rise of snark as the baseline mode of interaction in geek culture for cinemasins type commentary becoming a big deal and thus for the smug nitpicking that tends to dominate so much of fandom now

[ireallyamabear]

i have seen it time and again but the "here we have a popular ship with two men, one of which is a bit of a reserved character and the other one more outgoing and social to: these two characters are depicted as the most crude caricature of a heteronormative relationship, complete with rigid imposed gender roles of big bad aggressive "masculine" and meek nurturing helpless "feminine" guy, sprinkled in with a radioactive dose of top/bottom dynamics and gender essentialism, garnished with wildly transphobic depictions of bodies" - pipeline is real and a fandom history that is so self replicating it is predictable

[thresholdbb]

You know what I like? Star Trek

[rowenabean]

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[piplupod]

honestly i wish i didnt know as much as i do about occultism and spirituality because it is so fucking frustrating to see ppl talk about it and they very obviously do not have the knowledge that i have. like i am so open to being wrong, but i see things that ppl are saying and i'm fairly certain that they just ... do not have the depth of knowledge i do, so they say very ignorant things, or draw lines between things in an incredibly (potentially dangerously) overgeneralized way. and i am just sitting here like "oh you have no clue what you are saying right now, do you? you do not realize what you are saying is unfortunately pretty damn wrong." and i have to back away from the screen bc i do not discuss these things anymore due to the brain being constantly ready to dropkick me straight into a mental health crisis

but christ alive i think anyone who engages with spirituality needs to read up on like. essentially Everything they can get their hands on, even if they do not necessarily agree with the ideas being presented, because that way !! you learn !! and you grow to realize what things are borne out of racism and grossly mystifying other cultures and straight up white supremacy and nazi ideology and encouraging psychotic symptoms that lead to mental health crises !!!

[i-may-be-an-emu]

TW: Abelism, Abelist language and Quotes, both Person-First language and Identity-First.

Autism isn't a joke. And I dont mean that in a "autism stole my life from me 😔" way because no it did not. It gives me life. Sure, I have limitations, lots of them. It's called a disablity for a reason, but it's not a curse.

I'm just so sick of hearing these sentences. Said right next to me. To me. So often.

"those two are so autistic!!"

"haha they look like they have autism"

"That guy is so autistic!"

"Look how autistic i looked back then!"

"He sounds so autistic!"

I hate it. Autism isn't an insult, it's a disorder, a disability. And it's not the only one turned into a joke but I hear it every day. I hear it from my family and friends who know very well I'm autistic, or at least that I'm nuerodivergent. I hear it at work, from the mouth of my boss, right when I started to really like her as a boss. making fun of her employees. Granted two guys were spraying cleaning water into eachothers mouths, but calling them autistic for that is so abelist and just... ugh. It's like you're saying "an autistic person would do that."

And it's always "SO autistic" like no. You can't be more autistic than someone else, or less. So how is someone "SO autistic" they aren't. Because you're being a human pile of dung. (Not you, dear reader, unless you are the types of people im talking about, and if you are you can always change for the better <3)

And yeah. Maybe. But you saying that... no. Just stop.

I'm sorry if this doesnt make any sense or much sense, I'm just wanting to get people to know that hey, autism isn't an insult. It's not a joke. It's my life. Stop.

[novelconcepts]

i don't make resolutions, but if i did

it would be to finish this fic

(and to be kind to myself for however long it takes to actually do so)

[wateryrealm]

i’m halfway through reading dostoevsky’s demons because the children i watch want me to recount it to them like a bedtime story after i did the same with crime and punishment & the brothers karamazov and they heard someone say this one is even darker and sadder. apparently now they can’t feel the same thrill and tragedy with their other books. sorry to the youth i’m ruining out here 🐟

[sieglinde-freud]

i wasnt that attached to alear/pandreo anyways