#m*control

[genderkoolaid]

once again i am BEGGING y'all to stop saying "women and people who can/have [x]" just to soothe cis women who think that gender neutral language is a personal attack. menstruation is gender neutral pregnancy is gender neutral AND GUESS WHAT! you can talk about misogyny and the effects womanhood has socially on these issues WHILE using gender neutral language! ik ive been saying this a lot lately but seriously identifying as a woman is not as crucial to feminism as y'all clearly think it is. it's a spit in the face to trans women and plays into this need for cis women to make sure they are never ever grouped in with the trannies in the horrid dehumanizing label of "people" because they find it defemminating

[princess-triton]

A man and his beloved Lamp Also me being very normal about Hisui!Ingo. I want to see him actually more menacing and dangerous when on a mission to P r o t e c c

Visit my 🪷✨Patreon✨🪷 sometimes , I do accidental exclusive content because I forget to post it here ( those are from July and I was 🤏this close to forget them too hgfh )

[softiedingo]

Mobius and his chaotic puppy God.

But don't worry, he doesn't bite.

[waterdeep]

DOCTOR CASPER DARLING IN CONTROL (2019)

[aronarchy]

Why we don’t like it when children hit us back

To all the children who have ever been told to “respect” someone that hated them.

March 21, 2023

Even those of us that are disturbed by the thought of how widespread corporal punishment still is in all ranks of society are uncomfortable at the idea of a child defending themself using violence against their oppressors and abusers. A child who hits back proves that the adults “were right all along,” that their violence was justified. Even as they would cheer an adult victim for defending themself fiercely.

Even those “child rights advocates” imagine the right child victim as one who takes it without ever stopping to love “its” owners. Tear-stained and afraid, the child is too innocent to be hit in a guilt-free manner. No one likes to imagine the Brat as Victim—the child who does, according to adultist logic, deserve being hit, because they follow their desires, because they walk the world with their head high, because they talk back, because they are loud, because they are unapologetically here, and resistant to being cast in the role of guest of a world that is just not made for them.

If we are against corporal punishment, the brat is our gotcha, the proof that it is actually not that much of an injustice. The brat unsettles us, so much that the “bad seed” is a stock character in horror, a genre that is much permeated by the adult gaze (defined as “the way children are viewed, represented and portrayed by adults; and finally society’s conception of children and the way this is perpetuated within institutions, and inherent in all interactions with children”), where the adult fear for the subversion of the structures that keep children under control is very much represented.

It might be very well true that the Brat has something unnatural and sinister about them in this world, as they are at constant war with everything that has ever been created, since everything that has been created has been built with the purpose of subjugating them. This is why it feels unnatural to watch a child hitting back instead of cowering. We feel like it’s not right. We feel like history is staring back at us, and all the horror we felt at any rebel and wayward child who has ever lived, we are feeling right now for that reject of the construct of “childhood innocence.” The child who hits back is at such clash with our construction of childhood because we defined violence in all of its forms as the province of the adult, especially the adult in authority.

The adult has an explicit sanction by the state to do violence to the child, while the child has both a social and legal prohibition to even think of defending themself with their fists. Legislation such as “parent-child tort immunity” makes this clear. The adult’s designed place is as the one who hits, and has a right and even an encouragement to do so, the one who acts, as the person. The child’s designed place is as the one who gets hit, and has an obligation to accept that, as the one who suffers acts, as the object. When a child forcibly breaks out of their place, they are reversing the supposed “natural order” in a radical way.

This is why, for the youth liberationist, there should be nothing more beautiful to witness that the child who snaps. We have an unique horror for parricide, and a terrible indifference at the 450 children murdered every year by their parents in just the USA, without even mentioning all the indirect suicides caused by parental abuse. As a Psychology Today article about so-called “parricide” puts it:

Unlike adults who kill their parents, teenagers become parricide offenders when conditions in the home are intolerable but their alternatives are limited. Unlike adults, kids cannot simply leave. The law has made it a crime for young people to run away. Juveniles who commit parricide usually do consider running away, but many do not know any place where they can seek refuge. Those who do run are generally picked up and returned home, or go back on their own: Surviving on the streets is hardly a realistic alternative for youths with meager financial resources, limited education, and few skills.

By far, the severely abused child is the most frequently encountered type of offender. According to Paul Mones, a Los Angeles attorney who specializes in defending adolescent parricide offenders, more than 90 percent have been abused by their parents. In-depth portraits of such youths have frequently shown that they killed because they could no longer tolerate conditions at home. These children were psychologically abused by one or both parents and often suffered physical, sexual, and verbal abuse as well—and witnessed it given to others in the household. They did not typically have histories of severe mental illness or of serious and extensive delinquent behavior. They were not criminally sophisticated. For them, the killings represented an act of desperation—the only way out of a family situation they could no longer endure.

- Heide, Why Kids Kill Parents, 1992.

Despite these being the most frequent conditions of “parricide,” it still brings unique disgust to think about it for most people. The sympathy extended to murdering parents is never extended even to the most desperate child, who chose to kill to not be killed. They chose to stop enduring silently, and that was their greatest crime; that is the crime of the child who hits back. Hell, children aren’t even supposed to talk back. They are not supposed to be anything but grateful for the miserable pieces of space that adults carve out in a world hostile to children for them to live following adult rules. It isn’t rare for children to notice the adult monopoly on violence and force when they interact with figures like teachers, and the way they use words like “respect.” In fact, this social dynamic has been noticed quite often:

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person” and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

(https://soycrates.tumblr.com/post/115633137923/stimmyabby-sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean)

But it has received almost no condemnation in the public eye. No voices have raised to contrast the adult monopoly on violence towards child bodies and child minds. No voices have raised to praise the child who hits back. Because they do deserve praise. Because the child who sets their foot down and says this belongs to me, even when it’s something like their own body that they are claiming, is committing one of the most serious crimes against adult society, who wants them dispossessed.

Sources:

“The Adult Gaze: a tool of control and oppression,” https://livingwithoutschool.com/2021/07/29/the-adult-gaze-a-tool-of-control-and-oppression

“Filicide,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filicide

[meep-meep-richie]

nothing will ever beat the Pompeii scene

BONUS; MOBIUS IMITATING THE VULCANO

[lgbtiwtv]

god. god. the significance of the diary pages about claudia’s assault being torn out raggedly by Louis, clearly in a fit of guilt and anguish and trauma, vs the diary pages about louis mourning lestat and regretting killing him being removed with surgical control and precision. by armand. this wasn’t a heat of the moment action it was deliberate and calculated and I can’t stop thinking about it

[c6jpg]

Next time, I'll lock the windows too.

[wackus-bonkus-maximus]

Sorry for the ask spam, i just keep getting ideas from ur reply. I love this silly au sm

HAHAHAHHA THEY'RE BOTH SO STUPID!! i love them so much omg. the way felix is just trying to read his books in london and adrien's thirst over marinette is so strong it crosses the english channel and embeds itself straight into felix's mind 😂😂😂😂 also i love how adrien has a couple of cute little hearts for marinette while felix's entire panel is filled with hearts and bubbles jkl;safjdkl;af what a simp 🪱🪱🪱🪱

and pls moonie don't apologize not spamming me! in fact you're not spamming me enough lol. if i told you i have been living and breathing these little comics for the past few days you'd probably laugh and be like "oh silly wackus" but i'm dead serious. i love them with every ounce of my soul.

[genderkoolaid]

really like viewing anti transmasculinity through the lens of consumability. because ive seen so often things be framed as "transmasculinity isn't as interrogated because masculinity isn't as scrutinized" but I think it's much better to view it as transmasculinity being unpalatable to transphobic misogyny. like part of how the patriarchy constructs womanhood is that it is inherently desirable in the sense that women Must be something to be consumed. any part of woman(-ified people) that isn't palatable (body hair, bodily functions) is erased.

[officialrailscales]

Tano Tuesday with the SOLGW 10.5” M4-89

RSB/M | Terra Bronze

2-Slot G10 RailScales | TerraCore | Dragon Texture

1.5-Slot G10 Solo’s | TerraCore | Dragon Texture

HTP MLOK Scales | OD Green | Dragon Texture

QDX Sling Mount | Terra Bronze

LEAF DBAL-I2 Sight | Carbon Black

CSMR Button | MilSpec Style | Carbon Black

- RS

[alwaysbewoke]

[lokiusly]

you don’t hire certified bisexual king™, Owen Wilson, and expect him to not make things gay between the genderfluid lead and hot male bestie, it’s simply not possible

[transmascutena]

in all the scenes where akio assaults anthy it is either shown or implied that he is wearing clothes while she isn't. he also usually has his back turned (face hidden) particularly the two times somebody else sees them. she is vulnerable (to him and to the audience) and he is not

[lgbtiwtv]

this whole rashidmand/louis dynamic is really shedding so much new light on so many interactions but the one I keep coming back to is when he says to daniel “well, the interior designer hired was a sentimentalist. some notion of hers, he was missing the natural world.” it’s the fact that he says it like it’s some frivolous/almost silly idea that louis could be missing the outside/plant life. he doesn’t say “daylight” or anything like that, he specifically mentions louis missing the natural world like….why would he miss it so much….unless you’re keeping his schedule and whereabouts under lock and key and bringing all the food to him so he never has to leave his penthouse-shaped coffin……I’m sick

[andy-clutterbuck]

6x07 | Heads Up