Left off, Write on;

I’m that lady who’s just FEELING it

Oh wow this is horrifying

Holy shit

Why don’t we see this kind of stuff more in history books?! I’d be way more interested in history if I understood that people were afraid of electricity because they were afraid of power lines slicing them to peices like cheese-wire! History books make it sound like “oh those silly people thought electricity carried demons or something!” Rather than “those poor people opposed electricity because they were terrified that eventually there would be so many power lines they wouldn’t be able to see the sun anymore.”

Forbidden Zipline

step one to overcoming social anxiety is to realize that most people kind of suck and their opinion of you is literally worthless

Pegging (female/male) on the rise.

@darthumbreon

This is so true.

Huh

this!! I swear I lost like all my friendships bc of this, like I had a group of friends in hs that one day I realized "huh I haven't talked to this people in a while" and popped in to say hi and they were all awkward?? because they hadn't seen me in a while?? and that's when I realized that friendship works different for them?? I was like yeah I haven't talked to you in like four months but it's not like I've forgotten about y'all why would anything change, and they were all like we haven't talked to you in four months why are you here again acting like nothing happened? and it was really confusing for me

Anyway all my mutuals I haven't messaged in forever - this is why

oh my gods this makes so much sense??? there are people who i haven’t talked to at all for literally over a year and we’ll pick up like nothing happened, but for their people it’s just like...... falling apart but onesided???? i think we’re still on the same level but actually we’re strangers??

Ohhhhhh

OHHHHHHHHH....

Ok but listen, on the other side of this, as a person who moved hundreds of miles away from everyone i knew and then became a hermit for several years, it was SUCH A FUCKING RELIEF to get in contact with an old friend and have him be like, "my friendship levels do not degrade, so in my mind we are still awesome close buddies" and i almost fkn cried. I thought he would be mad or would have moved on because i had slacked on my reaching out to him and staying in touch and doing all the friendship things. But NOPE. 800 miles of distance, depression, and life changing circumstances didnt steal our friendship and i am SO GRATEFUL.

ok!

Huh

this!! I swear I lost like all my friendships bc of this, like I had a group of friends in hs that one day I realized "huh I haven't talked to this people in a while" and popped in to say hi and they were all awkward?? because they hadn't seen me in a while?? and that's when I realized that friendship works different for them?? I was like yeah I haven't talked to you in like four months but it's not like I've forgotten about y'all why would anything change, and they were all like we haven't talked to you in four months why are you here again acting like nothing happened? and it was really confusing for me

Anyway all my mutuals I haven't messaged in forever - this is why

oh my gods this makes so much sense??? there are people who i haven’t talked to at all for literally over a year and we’ll pick up like nothing happened, but for their people it’s just like...... falling apart but onesided???? i think we’re still on the same level but actually we’re strangers??

Ohhhhhh

OHHHHHHHHH....

Ok but listen, on the other side of this, as a person who moved hundreds of miles away from everyone i knew and then became a hermit for several years, it was SUCH A FUCKING RELIEF to get in contact with an old friend and have him be like, "my friendship levels do not degrade, so in my mind we are still awesome close buddies" and i almost fkn cried. I thought he would be mad or would have moved on because i had slacked on my reaching out to him and staying in touch and doing all the friendship things. But NOPE. 800 miles of distance, depression, and life changing circumstances didnt steal our friendship and i am SO GRATEFUL.

ok!

This is me. I am so grateful for the friends I have that also don't have friendship degrade.

can someone explain the WAG and SAG-AFTRA strike to me like I'm a child. who does it affect, what can I as a consumer do to help, what does it mean for both current and future productions, etc. etc.

This campaign came about because the current poverty index tends to look at mid-range luxury items, the price of which is often less affected by inflation, rather than the bottom-of-the-range necessities that the poorest in society actually rely on, and which have been massively hit by inflation.

Any plan for combating CSA is going to have to reckon with the fact that teenagers are often horny and feel a desire to explore and express their sexuality and if they don’t have a safe avenue for that which doesn’t involve interacting with adult predators they will find an unsafe one which does

This is not a hypothetical this is not a piece of rhetoric I was a horny teenager who had safe avenues for expressing my sexuality without the involvement of adult predators closed off to me and so I found the unsafe ones

Like idk it’s really fucked that for some people the rhetoric of “that 15 year old seduced me, I wasn’t the aggressor, I’m not in the wrong” is only wrong because they think 15 year olds are like constitutionally incapable of wanting to seduce someone when that’s just like categorically incorrect, when I was 15 I very much actively desired to seduce people and even made attempts at doing it. The reason “that 15 year old seduced me, I wasn’t the aggressor, I’m not in the wrong” is wrong is because you as an adult have power over that 15 year old regardless of what they are or aren’t trying to do and as such if they are trying to seduce you it is your responsibility to not take actions you know to be wrong. It’s not wrong because it’s describing some kind of impossible desire that a 15 year old would never have, it’s wrong because it’s seeking to invert the power dynamics of the situation and place all the contextual agency on the minor while rhetorically disempowering the adult to project an image of innocence. It’s just garden variety DARVO, not some kind of Metaphysically Incoherent Assertion.

Like idk I feel like it should be pretty easy to point out what’s wrong with the logic of “the child told me to commit rape so I did” without inventing a rationale about how children are constitutionally incapable of formulating the idea of telling someone to commit rape

This absurd notion of childhood innocence serves only to put minors in more danger by denying the basic facts of how they experience and interact with the world while simultaneously functioning as a justification for depriving them of useful and necessary information that they could use to protect themselves from predators if they were allowed to have it. When you deny children information about how the world works with regards to sexuality, and deny yourself information about how children work with regards to sexuality, you are putting both yourself and children in a position of having to build a plan on faulty information and you shouldn’t be surprised when the house you build this way crumbles under a stiff breeze.