weren't we the stars in heaven?

Contemporary art haters will be like "i don't get it" and then not read the title or artist statement or the medium or the year or

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.

the more you twist yourself into a pretzel to avoid regret the harder it will hit when it eventually catches up to you.

I’m distraught

people do realize that jason todd was written to be unlikable while tim drake was written to be likable. LIKE THERE ARE REAL PEOPLE WITH BIASES BEHIND THESE CHARACTERS. it’s not just “well tim drake landed better with the fans”. HE WAS MADE TO BE A HIT WITH THE FANS. Jason Todd never stood a chance, can you imagine if he was written to be liked? If he was written by somebody who understood his character background and from the beginning hadn’t been written by someone who wanted his character dead.

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

i think its crazy how little the subtext of jay being a sexual abuse victim is really discussed and addressed in the fandom. like to me its such a centric theme of his character and his very pronounced hatred towards rapists and pedophiles in particular. like he beat the living shit out of CSAM producers. hes shown to respond to threats from older men by 'hitting' on them sometimes in a way that is not dissimilar to past grooming victims. he has a thing about kids and sex workers and protecting them with everything he got. hes consistently and CONSTANTLY treated akin to a rape victim with the way hes stigmatised as 'evil' and 'angry' and 'inpure' for his anger and counter actions. its just. so horribly clear especially in some of the earlier writing and I hate that its just another thing thats kinda forgotten in the later iterations of his story. in general we should include more about his trauma of being impovrished and everything that comes with that in a way that isnt disgustingly classist and meant to excuse the lack of benefit of a doubt he gets graced with everything he does.

God forbid a girl want genuine effort and actual connection

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

the desire to pretend white women are simply always victims and groomed into fascist movements instead of being willing participants is by design, u have been taught ur entire life that white women are dainty angels that have to be lead and protected and no harm they do is fault of their own, thats why u think literal nazi women are just confused harmless babies, it’s designed that way on purpose

the "empathy fatigue" stuff is also very revealing because when you examine health professionals' self-reporting on the matter there is a specific type of person they describe losing empathy for- unsurprisingly, it's people with particularly chronic health issues and disability, drug users, people who "refuse to take care of themselves" and especially anyone with a health condition perceived to be "their own fault". very often what they describe as "empathy fatigue" is actually just the mask slipping on the seething contempt they already held