☭ Eternal Suffering, Also Gay. ☭

The result of the art giveaway! Here's @cpt-bagel 's character, she has such a cool design and this was so fun to make!

so in the uk you will be ably to apply to join the army at 17 but not use your phone after 8:30pm. that makes sense

Your culture assumes that you wake up around 7am, get to work or school between 8-9, finish work between 3-6, then start to "wind down" for bed between 8-10, before going to bed between 10-midnight. It's visible in old social norms like "Don't ring someone at home after 9pm unless it's an emergency", in ideas like the Watershed, and the whole social norm that texting someone "late at night" automatically means romantic or sexual intent, or specifically poor impulse control (all the jokes that hinge on "scrolling at 2am" being specifically dysfunctional, moreso than scrolling in the afternoon etc)... And now the government wants to further enforce that cultural norm on individuals.

the Dave Strider: character the fandom fixates on to the detriment of everything else, until the weight of that attention warps fanon and sometimes even canon around them. almost always male. it's happening to Gurathin from Murderbot right now

It's always disappointing when a series makes a big deal about societal and structural problems in it's setting, making readers think it has interesting things to say about the subject, only to then resolve the problems by fighting The CEO of Racism, John Racist, so that all of society's problems would then get better because they promoted a new CEO.

reblogs were turned off for this one but i want it on my blog too

Being unpartnered after your mid twenties is just like "oh what's wrong with you" and "don't worry you'll find your guy" "aren't you afraid of being alone" "who will take care of you" "you're running out of time to have kids" and no matter what you are or aren't people straight up don't understand that you don't want them.

Let's put rejection somewhere on a dusty shelf for a while and see how it feels. I'm sure it's freeing.

No I just, you know, reexamined every interaction for hours after the fact and was convinced that I was evil or deeply broken for being unable to emotionally connect with people around me and had headphones hidden under my hair all the time to listen to songs on repeat so that I could pay attention to things and not get distracted by the way the classroom lights were flickering at exactly the wrong frequency.

[oc] Beartrice portrait

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