all liquid and sparkling in the light of the moon

the handle of the jug being hollow so that some milk gets in it is genius because its a spot where they can just chill and not have to worry about fake social rituals and small talk

I think fandoms tend to vastly overestimate the relationship between the audience and the creators of the source material. Creators are not obligated to touch their work ever again. All they did was create a work of art. They don't have to do anything beyond that. At any point, they can say "I'm done working on this." You are their audience, not their constituents.

if you build “community” around hating other people, just know that the second you step out of line—regardless of your moral uprightness or the hypocrisy on their part—you’re the next person they’re going to tear to pieces.

a therapist is just some guy who went to gaslighting school to put undesirables in basically jail. rely on me, creepy knife stalker girl, i can also gaslight you and keep you locked up but unlike a therapist i also love you

really seeing the difference in how tme nonbinary people are treated vs tma nonbinary people demonstrated concisely in the promo material/interviews coming out ahead of teenage sex and death at camp miasma & how comments are needing to be limited or turned off only on videos of jane schoenbrun speaking and not on those of jack haven

also i somewhat suspect that the smaller scale harassment & smearing calling schoenbrun a pedophile for making a movie with the words "teenage sex" in the title will go a little more mainstream post-release and when you're talking about how stupid this is i need you to recognize that it is specifically happening because the director is transfem and not simply as the result of a nebulous "cultural puritanism"

The corollary of needing to be willing to frame arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share is needing to be aware of subtext. Yes, it's easy to get a certain stripe of hyper-conservative folks to agree with anything you please by framing it in terms of opposition to Big Government, but a large part of that is because when you say "Big Government", what they hear is "Jews". You didn't hack their brain with magic words, you just didn't realise what you were saying!

I don't remember what post exactly I said this in, but I remember I once saw someone doing this and had to tell them "sometimes you think you're tricking the racist into agreeing with you when you're actually letting the racist trick you into agreeing with him"

i also find it equally frustrating and funny that i so often get feedback on here to the tune of “this is dangerous rhetoric and you’re litcherally going to be responsible for the deaths of a bazillion people!!!!!!!!!” for saying that suicidal people shouldn’t be sent to the torture chamber after opening up about their suicidal thoughts

i get so many kneejerk reactionary responses over talking about experiences that are just another tuesday for me. and i know that’s a product of suicide being a an extremely taboo subject but i really do wish people would have some decorum and not act like the world is going to end because some random person on tumblr.com is a little more than outspoken about the revolving door of trauma they’ve endured after listening to the blanket advice of “get professional help if you’re suicidal”

every time i make a post on here talking about suicide, whether that is a reflection on the concept of suicide itself, demanding humane treatment for suicidal people, or (gasp) talking candidly about my own suicidal thoughts, this is coming from a place of having experienced suicidality for many many MANY years and learning from that experience that i cannot “reach out for help #988” about it. reaching out for support, trusting professionals, etc inevitably ends in me strapped to a stretcher in an emergency room begging an authority figure to show me mercy. the mental health system does NOT like when you’re suicidal, not out of compassion for you and your suffering, but because you’re a liability. and when you’re suicidal nearly every day of your life for 16 years, you learn that your options are either to shut the fuck up about how bad you’re hurting or find workarounds to avoid being incarcerated again. and my workaround is to talk about it here, where i’ll maybe get 5% more compassion than i would in-person or anywhere else on the internet. but that still comes at the cost of the smartest people in the world reading my posts and demanding i shut the fuck up anyways and seek professional help, as if i haven’t tried that hundreds if not thousands of times already

the journal factory has not exploded, i actively choose to post my unfiltered thoughts on here in hopes to get some sort of compassionate feedback because i’m holding two truths at once: that mental healthcare is not a safe option for me, AND i hurt really badly every day and can’t do this alone. i need support. and that comes at the cost of people calling my thoughts dangerous to other people.

bird photography is meaningful to me because they're cutes

street photography got a generation of men thinking that the concept of a stranger walking is a inherently compelling photo subject, rather than understanding street photography as a genre of deliberate compositional experiments and cultural snapshots

an instagram photo influencer should ask themselves "are the contents of this photo more meaningful than the act of publishing stranger's faces online?"

and come to face with the fact that no, a stranger walking under cyberpunk neon city lights on a rainy night is so meaningless that it's indistinguishable from a thousand existing AI generated images