#not tagging this sorry

[xoxoemynn]

That one tag on your reblog of the Taika post is what really gets me, we *know* how pervasive Israel's propaganda is/has been, for a LOT of people this might be their first time some of the reality of the situation is breaking through (and tbh, especially if you're Jewish, we've been fed tons of propaganda playing off of incredibly legitimate fears of antisemitism and past trauma), I don't understand how people can talk about that and at the same time not extend any grace to those still trying to work their way out of the propaganda bubble. And on top of that, if you're not chronically online *and* in particular social media circles, most of what you're seeing is still the regular news biased towards Israel. In those first few days after Oct. 7th (aka, when The Letter was signed), all I saw about the situation on the mainstream news was how this was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, and concern for the hostages. I'm not gonna judge someone for signing something based on that saying we need to rescue those people.

Yeah exactly! I see comments/posts all the time like "wow, I never knew this. We weren't taught this in school. Thank you for sharing. I've never seen this before" and they're all framed as positive things. (Which they are! Learning and growing is good!!) But for whatever reason celebrities are expected to know everything immediately and people will flood their comments demanding a statement and if they don't say anything, or if they don't say it perfectly, suddenly they're an awful, irredeemable person. And believe me, I'm not "won't someone think of the poor, exceedingly wealthy celebrities," but that's just not a reasonable expectation to have of someone whose career is entertainment.

And you're absolutely right. It's only been recently that the news coverage has started to become slightly less biased in their reporting. My own brother, who's around Taika's age, has decided I'm antisemitic because I had simply shared a post supporting a ceasefire and listing some stats of the number of Palestinians who had been killed at that point, truly the most benign of posts you could make, but he refuses to listen to anything because "I watch the news, I know what's happening." And that's a much bigger, systemic problem than any one individual.

It would be wonderful if we had truly unbiased mainstream news coverage. It would be wonderful if our education system wasn't so heavily biased with a western slant. It would be wonderful if every citizen had the time and energy to read up on current events that they don't know much about. But that's not the reality we currently live in. And so unless someone is actively perpetuating harm (and there ARE celebrities who are doing that, but for whatever reason we don't hear NEARLY as much about them as we do about Taika, hmmmmm, wonder why that could be) it feels like a non-issue to me.

[diverbots]

three minute warm-up hope you enjoy

[cringefailroboguy]

Okay time for an empathy talk

This isn't specifically targeted at people with cluster b disorders, but also other neurodivergent people who don't experience empathy

↓ LOOOOOONG rant

I hate how people use "I don't experience empathy" only when it personally benefits them. I'm not talking about people who don't experience empathy *at all*, hell, if I interacted with those people I'd quickly learn not to talk about some things to them and it'll be fine! No, I'm talking about people who listen to me vent, rant, generally just be sad around them and provide me with the most empathetic responses one could possibly give, just to then do something genuinely hurtful and then use the no empathy thing as an excuse. Hell, the people who DESCRIBE themselves as "empathetic" and all that jazz

But as soon as they're racist, ableist, homophobic, misogynistic and all the other -ist's, and I call them out for that, SUDDENLY they "don't experience empathy so they constantly make that kind of jokes 💔"

As soon as I vent to them and make a point that I desperately need reassurance, and know that they have given me reassurance in the previous vents with absolutely no problem, they yell at me/scold me and when I call them out for reacting inappropriately despite being given directions - it's the whole "oh, but I don't experience empathy 💔" thing, AGAIN

As soon as I bring up something horrible that happened to a group, looking for help, they cut me off mid sentence to talk about something that they want to talk about, not caring about what I had to say, and I call them out for that, it's AGAIN the "oh but I don't experience empathy so I don't need to let you look for help 💔" AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN

What I'm saying - it's not about having empathy. It's about the social etiquette. OF COURSE you aren't going to yell at someone who's crying! That is rude! You don't need to be empathetic to understand that! OF COURSE you shouldn't be bigoted! That's basic human decency, the bare minimum! You don't need to blame your mental condition (on which you have already proven that you found a workaround for) for the mistakes you make, just fucking own them holy shit

An interesting observation I have regarding this is how I only know a handful of cluster b people and autistic people and people with adhd etc, but I've noticed that autistic people did this the MOST out of all the groups that I've met for some reason? (Again not EVERY autistic person I've met did this, not EVERY cluster B or ADHD person didn't do this etc, but I'm talking generally)

^ Because of this observation I actually try my very best not to use this defense lol. Yeah, sure, my npd is going to make me self centered and uncaring, I will gloss over people and hurt them, but I will eventually have to apologize. My ADHD will make me forget to respond to someone's message for weeks at a time, but I will eventually have to apologize. My autism will make me say something blunt and inappropriate, but I will have to acknowledge it and apologize EVENTUALLY

There's just something so slimy and disgusting in my eyes for people to use their mental conditions as excuses to treat others badly and not even apologize for it or acknowledge it at all. Like, yes it is only natural for my mental condition to make me act in ways that are hurtful, and no, I shouldn't *feel bad* for having a mental condition that causes me to act this way - no one should, but should I REALLY expect to have a long lasting healthy friendship with someone who I consistently hurt and never once apologize for? You don't even NEED to actually feel regretful over it, just acknowledge that you said something hurtful, apologize and don't do it again

Okay this post went WAY off course

[faggotskommando]

xb1 lanzaion au except you remember that machina in that game are like 7 feet tall

[dilact]

@staff @wip @support @zingring @ whoever else has any authority at all. These are the ads I get on your app.

How does this fit into your community guidelines? Is this the kind of advertisers you were trying to attract when you banned porn?

[perfectdolls]

never forget about how mischa and penny are litchrally siblings. i wrote rtc i know this

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[yumenikkii]

just another average day in gravity falls

[jotasuis]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[youthofpandas]

What’s up with how the dunmeshi fandom just lies about this kind of stuff all the time. It is easily confirmable information that it was a monthly series, something incredibly common in the industry.

A not weekly magazine schedule is literally common !! Especially in the seinen shoujo and josei demographics, sometimes monthly, sometimes biweekly, sometimes every two months, sometimes seasonal! Please stop lying about how Dunmeshi was some special unique creation that defies all standards of manga just to hype it up because it is so clear that every single one of these comparisons is centered around Weekly Shonen Jump (and understand that SJ has many magazines under its brand that are monthly or semimonthly). Not everything is WSJ and it needs to stop being the only point of reference in conversations like this 🤧

[staruie]

where my fellow monster fuckers at 👅👅👅👅👅👅

[beebfreeb]

An Interview with Dot.

[robyn-i-guess]

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

[a-drama-addict]

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again

[onefey]

you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny

take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)

apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender

have fun and be yourself!

[minjimunji]

bi 4 bi percabeth,,,,, 👉👈