Egalitarian Annihilation

there is nothing morally purifying about suffering or victimhood, it is not something that inculcates “goodness.”

Lasy rosebot art (peak quality)

#id do this if it didnt doxx my location

this is an edge case and not representative of binary trans people as a whole, but some binary trans people react directly to someone being nonbinary by openly denying their identity, and presenting it as though it's their *responsibility* to force someone into the binary. I have had more than one encounter with people persistently harassing me out of a belief they need to "crack my egg the rest of the way," believing that being nonbinary was an incomplete binary transition they needed to finish for me. I had to leave a real-life queer community because someone would not stop insisting that I was a binary trans person and just didn't know it yet, and no one else had enough of a problem with it to take it seriously when I said I needed it to stop. having someone respond to me asking that I not be misgendered with "oh, sweetie, I *am* using your pronouns" is gonna stick with me for a long time. and I am not remotely the only person this has happened to. people acting this way are individual bad actors, but it is very much a systemic problem that so many people in the trans community do not see it as a real issue, as a source of distress, as something that is not funny. we are made to feel unsafe in communities that exist to offer safety. it needs to stop, and I don't know how to even begin trying to fix it.

This is true of the manga, but I love how the anime accentuates the absolute physical trust the apprentices have with Qifrey. Specifically with Agott, the way she is so ready when Qifrey says “hang on tight, I need my hands free” to cling to him a mile into the sky, and then in the latest episode, how, as soon as she impacts Qifrey while flying to him, she makes no move to save herself, she just curls into him and trusts that he will keep them from falling.

stealing your tags

I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.

“This 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad use”

“Children don’t have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.”

People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say it’s the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.

I think it's also important to recognize that the reasons for this round of "the newest technology is ruining the kids" seems so much worse than others (and I don't think appealing to "adults have said this about new technologies for forever" means we can automatically discount the concerns people have; that's a logical fallacy), is because we're living in a time where several things have occurred: