quoth the raven, "fuck."

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point

(no beers in) So how do you perceive me in the privacy of your thoughts

I know for a fact other dimensions and realities exist because that’s where some of you people are watching tv

goosebumps as a concept are so funny ur brain is like "oh no we're threatened! quick! make us look bigger!" and your skin, that absolutely does not have the ability to do that, is like "absolutely. right away boss"

Reading some more of the preview for this book, and I realise this is by far not the biggest problem, but I'm begging this guy to just use 'shadow' instead of 'umbra'. I promise I will not accuse you of being a philistine.

*throws this in the face of everyone who has ever accused me of writing purple prose*

I thought the Amelia Peabody series was purple. I owe the author an apology. Uffda

I lost it at the pulsating nose, then again at the contracting cheekbones

the internet is a place for reading wikipedia articles and watching every movie for free. social media is an invasive species. never forget this

They watch movies and read history books all their lives where the climax involves angry rioting civilians as villains and mobs marching to murder a person or group they find suspicious but who is not guilty of causing an upsetting situation/bad economic conditions and say to themselves "that could never be me i would never believe lies and propaganda i would never go after innocent people just to feel like i'm doing something productive with my anger over a situation i have no control over and resort to violence just to have someone to blame so i don't need to think too hard about my biases because I'm a Good Person™️" and then they, in their hubris, promptly join the mob

Bad poetry is a lot like bad acting, actually, in that a lot of people get it into their heads that the aim is to get visibly emotional, where the actual aim is to have some kind of tactically calibrated effect on the audience

I would take a job pushing the Sisyphus rock if it paid 20 an hour and I could wear my headphones