I've Been Cold, I've Been Merciless

When the moon hits your guy And he lets out a cry That's a werewolf

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

creature in fiction: *is portrayed as bad and mean*

me at 8: but what if you gave it a hug?

dmv: can i have you birth certificate

there was a good ten year period from 2000 onward where the new years novelty glasses makers had their jobs literally made for them, just a hotstreak of double 0s as eyeholes all the way down. business was booming. and then 2011 hit and the entire industry collapsed on itself overnight

Yeah yeah it’s patriarchy, except the system owns the media and the media is outspokenly pro-feminist, and has been since at least the 60s if not earlier. They are openly anti-White and openly anti-Christian, so your explanation makes zero sense

I probably shouldn't be surprised about this, but a lot of people missing the point here. the joke isn't "terfs calling Sigourney weaver, a hot woman, unattractive" and tbh I think seeing this post and going "terfs are so stupid because Sigourney weaver is obviously gorgeous" is even potentially harmful or at least hurtful

Reminds me of when me and a friend were tabling for Mermaids and some TERF came over and told us, in great detail, why we, two cis women, would never "pass". Because its incomprehensible to them that any actual cis people would just support trans rights. I'm obviously taller than any real woman and my tits are obviously fake, and her man hands and "beer belly" gave her away.

Last month I caught Covid, and right at the start of my symptoms I saw this post. For the next 8ish days, I was HAUNTED by this song. It played on a loop in my head for hours. I would wake up in the middle of the night covered in sweat singing “…mixed with Zach Galifianakis” as it bounced around in my virus-addled brain. It was literally inescapable.