plz spare a crumb of dopamine

doomscrolling tiktok together and I turn to you and ask, "why doesn't your algorithm recommend any videos with Black people?"

coming out of the tags to say that some of us have been saying this for years and have been called all manner of degenerates, perverts, and pedophiles over it, and we really deserve an apology we will never receive

We DO deserve a fucking apology we'll never get, and not to soapbox, but lemme just throw out another fucking explanation of exactly why this shit keeps happening in the slim chance that it helps at least one person not fall for it: Fascism in ANY form will ALWAYS present itself as reasonable to YOUR sensibilities. It preys on a lot of things, your disgust reaction, your fear reaction, your own shame, your need for a tribe, your need to feel like you're part of something bigger than yourself, your need to protect your resources, your need to boost your own ego, your need to feel better than others, and in my opinion, the worst thing of all that it can prey on is your WANT TO DO GOOD. It turns that Want To Do Good against you, gives you "acceptable targets" and sets you loose, thinking that you're being a fucking super hero. Fascism will ALWAYS feel okay when you're doing it because you understand why you're doing it because you've been told why you should be doing it by someone who's fucked the narrative to make you feel good about hurting other people because they've convinced you that you are protecting people by doing it!! Fascism tells you: "The sort of people who value a sex scene in a movie are perverts, and perverts are dangerous, right? Oh god... What if they're a rapist and that's why they like that sort of stuff? Yeah, that trans girl that made that post about movies needing sex scenes... She pisses in a diaper, that's fucking disgusting right? And she likes weird fiction... And diapers are meant for kids... So... Yeah... Exactly, you got it! See you figured out what she was too! So you should trust your gut with these people, you're really good at spotting them! You know when someone is evil! And you DEFINITELY should not listen to a pervert explain themselves, because... Right, exactly, what's the point? They're just going to lie about it and probably say gross shit to you." Did you catch how that worked? It let YOU make the conclusion. It let YOU answer the questions and start setting shit in stone in your own mind. And the next thing you know, you're using fiction as proof, anything outside of your own comfort levels as evidence, you've become an emotionally reactionary fascist who genuinely believes you are making the world better, and safer, for the people you love, and who love you in return. Fascism doesn't begin with violence, it begins with a kind hand held out in your direction from someone else who believes they're helping. You might not even realize you've fucked up. Ever. That's how it works. That's how it thrives.

THIS!!!

i do think the headcanons/posts about damian acting like a kid only around certain people are kind of missing the point. like. yeah, sure. i see what you're trying to say about how he's more comfortable around specific people. but consider he acts like a kid around everyone, because he is a kid, but not in the "pick me up" "tie my shoes" way half the posts seem to imply. he's 10-15, depending on where in canon we are, and either way, he's self-sufficient. he's a shithead. he's saying whatever to get a reaction. he's verbose, but he'll use a big word incorrectly. he's info dumping about whatever interests him, and he doesn't care if you want to hear about it or not. he plays video games. he listens to music and stomps around. he likes to be challenged. he asks inappropriate/ill-timed questions and gets upset when things don't go his way. he's always a kid around everyone. just because he doesn't need to or want to be babied, doesn't make him any less of that.

i swear if the wizard doesnt let me out of his abandoned salt mine soon im gonna fucking LOSE IT

what did you do to be put into the salt mine

i MAY have eaten his special wizard meal. but i think he should let me out tbh

was it good? was it worth it? are you able to bear the weight of your sin?

im not gonna lie it was fucking delicious i would fucking do it again. wait shit youre the fucking wizard in disguise seeing if ive learned my lesson arent you. fuck.

10 YEARS IN THE ABANDONED SALT MINE.

the music made this one of the most hilarious things i have ever seen, thank you so much.

GJJGJRKGNH THE MUSIC GOES UNDERWATER WITH THE TURTLE

sound on sound on sound on

love how barts the only one who knew linda was missing and could see her, but was ignored and told she was imaginary and then no one ever apologized for that when she did come back for real

also no one was concerned that a what, 14 year old had an imaginary friend he actually believed in?? if it was true that would be evidence of a serious mental health issue, he's only chronologically a toddler and that's really not normal for older kids

I know right? It was firmly established over and over again he was a teenager. If a teenager randomly started, to them, talking about someone that didn't exist that's a huge red flag for something deeper going on. Head trauma or like you said, a mental health issue.

Something nobody prepares you for is that the better you get at writing the harder it becomes. beginners write freely because they don't know enough to know what's wrong. then you learn. and suddenly you can see every single flaw in real time as you're making it and you have to write anyway while your own brain is in the corner going "that's a weak verb. that transition is lazy. you've used that word three times." getting good at this is mostly just getting better at ignoring yourself.

Something else they don't tell you is, if you don't let this part get you down and keep pushing through it, you'll eventually come out the other side and it'll be easy again, because now you really know what you're doing and what you're doing is cooking. And then it's even more fun than when you started. 😄

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

since there is such an "english speakers who don't even try to pronounce a foreign mame correctly" epidemic, native english speakers often try to overcorrect and end up thinking they have a moral imperative to pronounce every foreign name correctly at all times. so i'm gonna hold your hand and look into your eyss as i say this: you can't. you can't pronounce every sound in a language you don't speak. and that's fine. it happens to the rest of us too. we won't be mad so long as you try your best.