I am either a unicorn or galactic being

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support

it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.

This is a result of adultism.

im not a mcyt fan but several beloved mutuals are so i know that apparently theres a new thing going on where the mcyt boys and others are like the chosen champions of the greek gods and to my knowledge it started like 3 days ago so how is there already god tier angst art of this series like what even happened man

doxxing myself. I’m on a boat in the middle of the big blue sea near some islands and dolphins and other random nonsense

Sometimes I'm just sitting there constantly thinking "I just can't wait for all of this to be over." All of this tends to vary in meaning.

i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

survival mechanism they don’t emphasize enough is memorizing a poem. you memorize a poem you have a little lift raft for a variety of situations

Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream For the soul is dead that slumbers And things are not what they seem Life is real, life is earnest And the grave is not it's goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest Was not spoken of the soul In the world's broad field of battle In the [bivuet?] of life Be not like dumb, driven cattle Be a hero in the strife Not enjoyment and not sorrow is our destined end or way But to act that each tomorrow finds us further than today Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury it's dead Act now in the living present Hearts within and god o'er head Art is long and time is fleeting and our hearts though stout and brave Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And in [??] leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time Footprints that perhaps another Sailing o're life's solemn main A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing can take heart again Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still acheiving, still persuing Learn to labor and to wait. (From memory, so there's probably a lot of errors, and its likely out of order, but I memorized this poem for a class once and it was so perfect to reference in so many situations that each individual line just stuck with me)

Being a fan of a morally grey character is frustrating because people will try to reduce them to either being an innocent little angel or a completely heartless monster and both of these interpretations just take away what makes the character interesting

Until death, all defeat is psychological.

huge fan of when characters love each other and are closely bonded in an explicitly nonromantic way. however ☝️ i am very much not a huge fan of what happens when characters like this are introduced to fandom

people hated my other post about this but idc it needs to be said, but in your obsession with making platonic relationships into romance there is very much a loss of the depth that actually makes the original relationship interesting. and i feel like this is in part due to the idea of a relationship hierarchy and romance being "more than just friends" framing it as something added on top of an already existing relationship making it somehow inherently deeper and more meaningful, when in actuality romantic relationships and platonic relationships are just different relationships of equal importance with no difference in depth or meaning. romantic relationships can be shallow and fleeting or deep and lifelong and so can platonic ones. neither one is more important or better than the other and they aren't interchangeable either. if you change the relationship you are inherently altering the character dynamic and this is often not a good thing