jeepers, gang!

having some realllly pretentious thoughts about kink and Hannibal NBC and Deluze & Guattari’s concept of territory + deterritorialization + reterritorialization

also just like. interpersonal relationships in general, and everyday dynamics of domination/control between any two living beings occupying the same space

and the point i’m trying to make is !! that by stepping into the “rivers” of each other’s lives, we impact, interrupt, and can intentionally influence the flow of that water. this is what hannibal and will are doing to each other, and the show gets soooo obvious with the metaphor: hannibal acts as will’s boat paddle. will goes fishing for hannibal.

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support

it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.

We need a big chart where we rank all tumblr users most impactful developmental trauma and illnesses of the mind so we can use it to determine who has senior authority when arguing about anime characters

No one tells you that one day you will get older and look around and notice that 95% of ppl who own a dog should not own a dog

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