incredibly normal individual

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

What’s the solution then? Or if there’s no solution, should we make things even queerer and more diverse?

That's literally the solution. Stop giving fuckheads concerned with what the white cis het median control of anything, and you'd be able to make some very broad changes.

fuckheads can get over it or they can die. that's the solution

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.

I am so glad that I live in a world with trans women and trans men and nonbinary people and intersex people. Things are hard for all of us right now, but I love you all and I am wishing that things get better and easier for all of us! ❤️

damn it really sucks how much the world wants disabled people dead. everyone gets soooo excited about medical advancements until it works and disabled people actually get to live and keep wanting to be alive despite not making money. i wish peoppe like, gave a shit about this.

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

its been 12 years

13 years

14 years

15 years

16 years

Loss is a dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17

Apart from the broad stigmatization and hostility toward people w NPD, can I voice something that really bothers me about r/raisedbynarcissists and other "narc abuse" spaces? The way that if someone brings up concerns about symptoms of NPD in themselves, everyone goes "nooo you're not a narc, you're a GOOD person who picked up some of their evil behavior because of your trauma you have fleas" and it's like I hate to break it to you, but cluster b disorders run in families for a reason. Also where do you think the disprder comes from...? Trauma.

So many people who hate people w NPD have NPD.

Also this isn't unique to NPD. It's not even unique to cluster b disorders or any/all personality disorders. Get traumatized by abuse and I promise you have adopted some toxic and dysfunctional behaviors, whether or not it meets the criteria of a disorder. If you brush it off as "fleas," you're not really being honest with yourself or other trauma victims.

To me it's an obvious continuation of the same lack of self-awareness and accountability that they say they hate people w NPD for displaying. And I'm gonna be blunt here but the need to feel like YOUR trauma was unique, special, different from the abuse other people have suffered is like. In fact. Narcissism (not necessarily as a disorder but as a trait at least).

it's ironic that ableds love using disabled people for inspiration porn but hate actually giving the vast majority of disabled people the tools and accommodation to facilitate disabled people doing more with their time. it's almost like the point of it isn't to inspire but to create a false narrative that disability can be overcome with strength of will because look at these people who did it! now stop asking for help

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

When the average heterosexual family man complains about his family not respecting him, it is almost always because there is absolutely nothing about him to respect and he has made no effort to connect with any of them and he considers the slightest pushback or lack of affection a sign of ‘disrespect’. When the average heterosexual family woman complains about her family not respecting her, it’s usually because her 14 year old son keeps calling her a bitch and throwing things at her while her husband laughs. The difference is so fucking stark.

making this term has done numbers for me being able to concisely express how i feel abt something. like. its not charizard’s fault i feel this way, im sure i’d feel normal abt it if it was stripped of all this over commodification, but i cannot. hence the name