talk is cheap

i keep thinking about how before bsdm became more mainstream and accepted by liberals and leftists, there was actual public awareness about how freezing up is a common trauma response to abuse and that abusers often have small periods of being kind and loving to their victims, and thus furthering the cycle. but now the more “progressive” take on this is “well did you use a safe word? it’s your responsibility to communicate with your partner and to remember some dumb ass word with the purpose of breaking down boundaries and making saying no not a viable option because what if your abuser daddy dom gets turned on by you crying and begging him to stop?” and “it can’t be abusive if there’s aftercare involved! 🩷”

all these excellent books come from some random penguins house?

I don't know which of you needs to hear this but "narc" is not short for "narcissist" when someone calls you a "narc" for snitching they are calling you a "narcotics officer"

technically narc isnt even short for narcotics officer its just cant for Cop, I believe Roma in origin

I read years ago in a book that it was derived from nakk, Romani for nose, as in someone who always has their nose in other people's business

ITS DERIVED FROM "NARCO" AS IN "NARCOTICS" WHAT FUCKING BOOK

Etymology is always doing some shit like this

Convergent evolution.

Linguistic crab

Two entire linguistic traditions have merged to remind you not to be a fuckin narc

i bet it feels good as fuck to erupt from the soil as a skeleton warrior

thanks this is part of an even grander incomprehensibleness than I could have expected

I cannot believe that this is a website where you can ask “hey i think i saw a weird image once” and put a bad stick figure drawing of it and someone will be like “oh yeah that’s the first installment of a 12-part post-ironic apocalypse fever dream photoshop series” and just hand you a dozen of the most unhinged images you’ve ever seen in your life, that still have a better three act structure than most modern cinema

it’s so funny to me when the entire sopranos crew is enraged and demanding that vito is killed for being gay and then tony goes to therapy and he’s like I don’t even really gaf

and he’s pissed that he has to let them whack vito because vito is a good earner LOL