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the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.

This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.

I was once listening to one of the ten billion animorphs podcasts out there, with two hosts, one who'd read Animorphs as a kid and one who was reading it for the first time as an adult. For those who don't know, Animorphs is a war story in which a handful of children have to secretly hold off an alien invasion until the "good" aliens arrive to save Earth. It starts off with fairly clear-cut Bad Species of aliens and Good Species of aliens but as the series goes on it becomes clear that there is no such thing as a good, clean or glorious war, that a clean Good Side and a clean Bad Side is usually propoganda, that heroism is a matter of circumstance and that war will chew up and spit out even the victorious; there are no winners in war, just the side that lost less.

This poast is gonna cause a ruckus in the "just recognizes a few words and gets mad instead of actually reading" community so let's define some terms here. From context clues you might notice I'm referring to dysphoria as in "incongruity between assigned and identified sexgender" and none of this has anything to do with the transmed refrain that you have to be miserable + hate yourself + medically transition to be #valid . Except ☝️ I said words in the bad order that pisses you off. And that's what we're gonna focus on, apparently

“SSC is better because if it’s not safe it’s not bdsm it’s sexual abuse” “RACK is better because there’s no way for kink to ever be 100% safe” well while you were fighting over that i ate your girlfriend. and she came hard asf when i bit into her neck

amazing hidden details in castlevania symphony of the night you probably missed!

I can't do much but maybe this will interest someone. This cookbook is by a classically trained autistic chef, made for people with sensory issues. It's sold 1/6th of its initial run because apparently no one wants to have an autistic person interviewed on TV.

A little known fact about our dog Poppy is that she was named after the singer Poppy circa her That Poppy era.