3 A.M. Vibes

always remember that chell is canonically* a transgender woman

*person whos never been loved voice* yeah its so cool when people tolerate my presence without making fun of me

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.

If door ID checks, and other safety guide rails are functioning, then yes I think the kids could be at the club. My uncle took me to a club that allowed kids a few times when I was young and it was a lark. I drank soda, danced, marveled at the fog and lasers. Literally it was fine.

oh well of course, if the technologies and social spaces are destroying children's brains and encouraging bad behaviour, we should definitely worry about that because it's clearly true since the same things were never said about malls and skate parks and arcades and video games and TV and movies and raves and dance clubs and bicycles and novels and

this isn't the gif i thought it would be .

PLEASE PLEASE does anybody have that fanart of grace choking on rocky's claw THANK YOU

theres a phenomenon that happens on here i have been calling "normalize loving parents posting" which is when you spend a lot of time on tumblr and are exposed to a lot of one specific counter-cultural narrative day in and day out until you start to forget what the dominant ideas are for most of the human population and thus feel the need to "defend" things that are widely accepted and popular. it's called this because of the time a bunch of text posts about shitty dads were circulating and then people with good relationships with their dad didn't feel included enough and started making "uhmmm can we normalize loving parents? not everyone has a deadbeat dad, MY dad is great" type posts, seemingly forgetting that good relationship with dad is a cultural norm that is expected and encouraged. i think its good practice, especially when im annoyed, to stop before i hit the post button and ask myself if this is a real issue or if im normalize loving parents posting. because often im about to try to normalize loving parents

Overheard in a manga store yesterday: "we need more yuri in here. I've had at least 5 girls coming up to me last time asking for yuri. Everyone wants yuri now". The world is healing