#your experiences are not universal

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

[furbearingbrick]

"your transmasc OC can't be pre-op, that's erasing REAL trans peo-"

*ties you into a Georgian knot*

[chaotic-queer-disaster]

i really FUCKING wish this whole "autism is never a disability, it's just a difference :)" crowd would go away

[gay-otlc]

People online like to pretend adhd is a funny quirk and not a disability and it's so fucking annoying

[acornered]

Another Hyperspecific Poll because I want to Play

[chrollohearttags]

yk, I’d be waaay more inclined to believe this whole ‘I’m sick of x, y and z trope w black writers/readers’ IF y’all didn’t make it contingent upon what and who was popular. I’m starting to think y’all only care when it’s a fandom or set of characters you don’t like. Or like anymore rather lmao.

[high-fructose-lesbianism]

I love that Lestat uses the metaphoric phrase “you’ve already cut my hands off” like it’s some common idiom instead of a pretty specific thing that happened to a former boyfriend of his

[adelacreations]

Ngl I think this is what we should put in antis posts cause they are stupid as fuck and won't listen

Cause seriously, they haven't said anything fucking new

[strayadvice]

[so-and-sos-blog]

The thing that bugs me about people saying, for example, asexual people don't exist (as an allosexual person myself) is that it seems like they're always trying to smuggle in an implicit claim that "literally all humans feel sexual attraction even if they say they don't" is the default position. Why would it be?

What else do you think is a universal human experience? Having an internal monologue? Nope. Being born with two arms? Nope. Not having a tail? Nope. Having a heart? Probably not. The reason you don't see people walking around without hearts or without brains is because they would have died in the womb or in infancy, not because it's just too weird to ever happen.

It seems like people often get away with making claims like that because there's a desire to disprove them. To show the contradiction that makes their whole argument fall apart. Saying "Citation Needed" just doesn't pack the same punch - and you know that if you say that, they'll pull some "Come on, it's obvious, how can you not see that" bullshit.

And of course it's not just asexuality. You hear the same thing about bisexual people, trans people, non-binary people, subcultures like furries, kinks, neurodivergence, all sorts of things: people trying to come up with weird, usually degrading explanations for why people would say they feel that way without entertaining the most likely and most obvious one. I've even seen someone say that someone dyeing their hair a cool colour must be because they want attention. So "people think that colours other than brown, blond and red look nice on their head" was ruled out because... what?

No. If you want me to take seriously that a whole group of people are either confused or lying about something that could easily be true, show me the evidence up front.

[vsrobotjulie]

im sorry if my healing journey and my positivity makes you upset but thats honestly your own problem and you dont have to make it my issue. who am i hurting by saying "it gets better once you aren't in highschool anymore" answer quickly. sorry that wasn't your case but maybe my post wasnt written for you actually.

[616nightcrawler]

i feel like i see posts like this so much and it's kind of weird bc this applies only to like. a very specific subset of people (ppl who are into phineas and ferb + aware of the "two nickels" thing being repostet a lot) which is like. a subset of people in a fairly specific age range (the right age to have watched phineas and ferb so like. idk 15 - 30 year olds probably being generous) AND are active on specific social media platforms to have seen this joke repeated a lot so it burrows into their memory bc most people who just casually watched phineas and ferb aren't that likely to remember this specific moment (i know i didn't without the meme). and idk this is not a big deal i just find it interesting how often people online will post about something that is extremely specific to them and the social circles they move in as if it's a really universal experience

[leonardalphachurch]

if people are happy about the retcons then like, them enjoying bad writing is their own perogative but the amount of people being like “this is what everyone wanted” like fuck off man. there exist people who are not you actually.

[llycaons]

I can't understand and deeply dislike the common eldest/middle/youngest child personality stereotypes. it seems based on a three child system and I have no idea how to apply it to a six-child family, ppl on here talk like its universal but I have literally never seen it anywhere in my life besides tumblr posts, and the fact that an oldest girl and an oldest boy are treated as the same indicates an oversight in the system anyway bc oldest daughter syndrome is much more universal and real than whatever the fuck they're trying to say about anything else. also I think its stupid

[madnessandentropy]

If you are a disabled, queer, etc person and other people that are also part of that group(s) are pointing out things that they find ableist, homophobic, etc and you go "Well I'M part of this group and I don't see a problem with it" kindly shut the fuck up

[kiwisandpearls]

your experiences are not universal, just because you were taught media literacy well in school does not mean everyone else around you was taught media literacy well or even at all. Just because you were taught media literacy well does not mean everyone around you was just shit at paying attention