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“i love how we as a fandom have just agreed that–” don’t include me in this. do NOT lump me in with that.

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

how to do things that everyone else seems to do no problem

3-5 turkey vultures will soon be dispatched to your location.

i do wish people would stop projecting yankee evangelical christianity 1:1 (and by extension, the american right-wing) so heavily onto hometown’s religion because it is wildly different on a conceptual fundamental level and also draws upon more forms of spirituality than just christianity. there are comparisons to be made to christian faith in the u.s. bc toby is american and his upbringing ostensibly informs the way he writes religion, certainly, but toriel is not your republican grandma 😭

every friend group has a corpse in it. if you think yours doesn't, YOU'RE the corpse.

parents are allowed to straight-up torture their kids with zero consequences. they can withhold food and water, lock you out of shelter, confiscate your belongings, bar you from human contact, attack and harm you and exert complete control over your physical appearance. and this is just the norm. if you speak out against it you're seen as a delinquent or a predator. even otherwise progressive people get uncomfortable with the idea of dismantling the nuclear family unit because they still see it as the best way to keep kids safe when that simply couldn't be further from the truth. it's evil.

It's not all homeschoolers... but it's certainly most of the homeschoolers who don't want protections and regulation. The ones who are homeschooling for the right reasons benefit from guidelines and benchmarks being in place.