Ananta

it's good that people only call things thought terminating cliches that actually are thought terminating cliches because if people started using it to shut down legitimate arguments then we'd have to start saying that "thought terminating cliche" is a thought terminating cliche

tge only winning move in rain world is to not play

one notable shift in depth of setting you can feel from the hobbit to lord of the rings is how, while reading the hobbit (especially the older editions), you can pretty viably interpret gandalf as being odin in disguise. which doesn't work at all for lord of the rings, because he's fully some other thing by that point

to be clear, I really like the specific characterisations of odin that tolkien draws influence from so I do appreciate that gandalf never stops being Odinic in that way (here meaning "curiously interested in small people for what a large person he is, and clearly taken to the pleasures of the lower world")

Son, your mother and I are unfollowing each other

never kill yourself. you have to fill your mutuals dash with shit they don't care about forever, okay?

True but I don’t agree

"I'm only criticizing the people who are lazy on purpose" is just not the reassurance people think it is when nearly every disabled person has been accused of not really being disabled and just being lazy on purpose

can we please please please learn to differentiate between things that are good but devalued because of their association with women (caring for children, being compassionate), things that are neutral but seen negatively because of their association with women (the colour pink, having long hair), and things that are bad but associated with women because of misogyny (being materialistic, being stupid) because otherwise we’re gonna keep getting takes like “being gender nonconforming is anti feminist” and “not studying for your classes is feminist”

I think it's a bit silly when people talk about 'kids dni' hurting kids. Do you remember being 12? You politely ignored all the 'adults only' signs. I barely even registered them, personally. The kids now can manage that too.

i'll go one step further and say that i think it's fine for adults to have something like that if they post about NSFW stuff. kids can and will ignore it, but it's a form of saying "you can't blame me if that happens", because if you don't specifically say it, then people may in fact start blaming you for being responsible for a child seeing a breast

the sign in button?