Kabe's Attic

Listen, I came out here to have a good time and honestly I’m feeling so attacked right now.

Does anyone else feel, like, a weird inhibition against starting new TV shows?  Like, there are shows I want to watch but when I think about sitting down to start it something in me goes “no you can’t just do that.”  What am i waiting for?  I feel like I need to prepare?  Brain:  You have to wait.  Me:  Wait for what???  Brain:  WAIT

I found out recently that it’s due to not having enough emotional or mental space to process something new. Got too much going on in your own head/real life already.

THIS IS A REAL THING??? ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!!?

Wow. that explains… so much

What a year March has been

it’s still march???

Yup, we got another whole week of this nonsense.

jesus christ

The fact that Snape is one of the youngest if not THE youngest professor is fucking hilarious.

Like how does he get away with half the shit he does like almost everyone there has taught him since he was 11 and they just see this 21 year old just walk back in like "Sup fuckers I'm a professor now by force better so you better start treating me like one."

7th years in the school are like probably "Didn't this fucker graduate 3 years ago?"

Imagine being a fourth year who has done /said something to your classmate Snape and then in your 7th year he's your TEACHER

The more people reblog this the more shock I am that they didnt know Snape started teaching at like 21 and he's like 30 first book

You forgot Burbage. In the books, she's in her twenties.

Me @ my co-worker; you know how you were saying how fucked they’d be here if we all just. Left. Anyway lemme tell you about a thing called unions.

I would honestly be astonished if I worked any 5 day weeks for the next several months

People I know keep asking me if I can work from home, and all I have for them is bitter laughter.

Not unless we suddenly get way better at robotics, no

Right? I can afford food and such, and have been using that to help out my friends who are artists and teachers who are now out of a job for A While. But get together a donation for a homeless outreach program or something-I’m really scared for that population

Good point. Reblogging this for folks who don’t know how to do this.

A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was “he’s got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he’d be more comfortable” and it made me realise the world isn’t all that bad

#this is team skull

The pet store I worked at had a pen with rabbits near the front door. On every side of the pen were huge signs saying “You can pet me, but don’t pick me up!” One day two absolutely huge guys came in and one immediately reaches into the pen to grab a rabbit. Before i could say anything his friend grabbed his arm and asked him “did you see the sign?” He said “yeah! it says that you can pick them up but don’t pet them!” Then he went quiet for a moment and softly said “I didn’t read it right did I?” And his friend just puts his arm on his shoulder and said “its ok, i know you’ve got that thing where words get mixed up. Let just pet these cute lil shits” And I still haven’t gotten over that interaction.

I was walking my dog through Boston bc he likes the likes car rides. He’s a little thing tbh we call him short and long. So this huge scary man with a full beard approaches me like “hey can my buddy and I pet your dog? He gets nervous around dogs but your’s is so small I think it’s a good place to start.” Ofc I was like “yes he’s very friendly!” So this guy brings his equally big friend over and they sit on the floor while this man looks terrified of my tiny dog so big man number one asks “can I pick him up?” And i say yes so he picks him up and puts him on man number two’s lap and man number two is abt to freak out and his friend straight up just goes “hey man, it’s okay just relax I’d never let anything hurt you. He’s a good boy.” I’ll never forget it ever bc I know that man looked at me (5'3 , glasses, probably wearing a sweater vest) and my dog (kinda goofy looking little thing) and was like ‘ah yes the two least intimidating living things I’ve seen in Boston all day he’ll feel relaxed around them’ and went out of his way to help his friend. It makes me so happy

I love this

My life to have witnessed the firefighters meeting the snakes. Bless their hearts 🤣🤣🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

London Underground, a few years ago. Punk guy - ripped jeans, leathers, multi-coloured mohawk, facial tattoos, safety pins where they really don’t belong, bottle in hand - talking to these two googly-eyed German tourist girls. Tells them how to get to wherever they wanted to go, cool free places in the neighbourhood, what to look out for.  Gets up to leave with the final warning: “Just promise me you’ll be careful who you talk to, okay? Some pretty weird people in this town.”

These are so sweet😄

This has gotten better since I last saw it.

Every time this crosses my path, it has beautiful new stories on it.

tattooMoana and tattooMaui on his heart! 

and tattoo necklace te fiti on her heart, her grandma as a stingray on one arm, and maui on her other arm. the best.

this gave me FEELINGS

i feel like this thing where people are going stir-crazy and want something to do less than a week after being explicitly ordered to stay home under threat of disease and death kind of blows a hole in that “if we give people universal basic income everybody will just be lazy and won’t want to work” talking point

The number of artists, writers and musicians dumping output for free to cheer us up is right there in the “people will do productive things because the things need to be done” department.

no one’s saying you can’t write about dark subjects, just don’t publicly post content that paints abusive shit as romantic/desirable. that’s it. you wanna write a story that includes abuse? cool. you wanna write a story that romanticizes abuse, make no sort of disclaimer making it clear that it’s NOT desirable, and then post it where anyone could find it? not cool. I know way too many people who’ve fallen into abusive situations because media has convinced them that shit is healthy. write whatever you want but please just be fucking responsible with it.

Nope. No one can or should expect you to spell out that abuse is wrong. It’s assumed, if you’re tagging “abuse cw”, that you understand that abuse is wrong. That’s why you’re tagging it–because you know it’s a trigger and that people should be able to avoid. Tagging, and tagging properly, is the full extent of responsibility required by authors. It’s completely absurd to assume that an author writing something dark and messed up doesn’t know it’s dark and messed up, and I’m baffled as to why so many people do assume that kind of thing. Please go to a public library. There are no disclaimers explaining the author’s intentions. Sometimes, hundreds of years after an author’s death, people are STILL arguing about whether an author was romanticizing or calling out various tropes. That’s what makes literature what it is–you have to think critically about it. (And on that note! It is NOT obvious whether someone is romanticizing something or not! That’s an incredibly subjective thing. Also, some authors may just not be good at writing, and you might assume they were romanticizing something when in fact they weren’t trying to do that at all, and guess what, those authors still don’t deserve harassment! They’re allowed to be bad writers or to have a style that not everyone interprets correctly!) I truly do not understand why it’s suddenly considered reasonable to assume every single person thinks abuse is good unless they specifically say it isn’t. That’s a weird thing to assume! And yes, lots and lots and lots and LOTS of people are EXPLICITLY saying you can’t write about dark stuff. Like, so many people. I’m glad you haven’t run into them yet, but I have, and they get nasty when you say “actually I expected you to enforce your own boundaries and offered you plenty of opportunity to do so, why did you get mad at me for creating content you don’t like,” which is why I originally made the post.

No, you’re deliberately twisting my statement in order to make it harder to disagree with you. You are narrowly defining “responsibility” as “explicitly say that abuse is bad all the time because otherwise everyone should assume you believe something is good just because you’ve written it”. This is controversial not because I or other people generally think abuse is good, but because it ignores the responsibility that authors are already taking by tagging and age restricting their work. “Abuse” as a word refers to a bad thing. A fic tagged “abuse cw” implies that the abuse is bad. A fic tagged “no warnings used” means “I chose not to use warnings, so you may or may not find bad stuff in here”. In both of these cases, the explicit “abuse is bad” line is redundant, and thus should not be expected of authors. (and because this has come up before–this does not refer to MISTAGGED work. An author who tags “no warnings needed” when they did need warnings does not fall into the category of people who can be assumed to know abuse is bad. Likewise, someone who uses incorrect terms (like for example, tagging “blood” instead of “graphic violence”) for what happens in their fic–I’m only talking about correct tags. Tagged writing does not require further explanation, because the tags ARE explicit condemnation of certain types of content.) It’s not any author’s job to explain to you that abuse is wrong. If you do not already understand this and expect other people to understand this, then you are either too young to be unsupervised on the internet, or the people who should have taught you about abuse failed you. Those are serious issues that can put you in danger, and I’m not trying to downplay them. However, it’s not my responsibility to educate my readers about abuse being bad. I’m an adult who does not have children, and does not expect readers of my dark works to be children, and explicitly tells children to avoid content I think could harm them. I take responsibility for my work by tagging it and instructing children to avoid it (either explicitly or through “check this box if you’re eighteen or over” messages). You are asking me to further soapbox about how abuse is wrong every time I write something, which is unnecessary and I’m not going to do it. I expect my readers to take responsibility for themselves and either avoid dark content that I’ve tagged, to ask an adult they trust to talk to them about concepts they may have questions about….or even to ask me directly if they’re unsure about something. There are some problems that are real, and that can hurt people, and that are also not my problem to solve. What you’re describing, the idea that some people may never have been taught that abuse is wrong, is one of those problems that is real, and can hurt people, and is also not mine to solve. I am also concerned that your response to the concept “people have discussions about whether content is problematic or not” is “it would be nice to be able to prevent problematic content from existing”. The existence of discussion around a work does not mean the work is problematic. This type of black and white thinking is not healthy.

This is the first addition that’s included the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom’s Freedom to Read Statement, but I really have to break it to you, so many people on tumblr.hell are in fact advocating for the banning of books. And most of them do what the previous commenter did, by assuming that the existence of conversation around a book’s themes (ie. thoughts happening instead of mindless gobbling of whatever propaganda is in style this month), that inherently means that whoever thinks the worst thing about the book is right. This displays a worrying trend, where people in progressive circles have decided that in any conversation, whoever’s angriest is right, and whoever has the most extreme or fearmongering view should be in charge of regulating things for the rest of us. Or, they advocate age restricting period books so only adults can read them. Literally. Because I guess knowing why you’re suddenly gushing blood from your nether regions is dangerous??? Antis, radfems, and exclusionists. The only groups where “progressive” means “Teaming up with fundamentalist christian and alt-right groups to restrict freedoms and increase support for authoritarianism”