you changed me, dean

Like - age group. There's nothing wrong with adults watching or reading stories meant for children and teens, but it IS weird when then they turn around and throw a fit that they weren't mature enough. Like how bronies complained that the lore and world-building of a show about neon-coloured ponies isn't deep and complicated enough. Or the adult audience of SU flipping that the villains weren't dispatched of with enough righteous fury.

Or tone. If you expect Clean, Wholesome Entertainment with Edifying Morals, then why do you keep watching GoT, the Murder Show About War Criminals, and its spinoffs? Find. Something. Else.

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(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make

"wow that must be so terrible" "deserts are so ugly" "I would never want to live in a wasteland like that" "it's just empty nothingness"

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)

here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)