Hazel

I love you DVDs, I love you VHS Tapes, I love you Cassettes, I love you Records, I love you CDs, I love you Books, I love you Journals

i hate when a book describes a pause as pregnant. get your dick out of the pause

LOL but seriously release the hounds

rage

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

did you know that if you listen to a song too much in middle school you can actually never listen to it again

career choice: interesting little critter

no, sharks are not evil monsters and we shouldn’t be killing so many of them, but for the love of god please stop using naturally docile and basically harmless sharks as “proof” they won’t hurt anyone. of course it won’t hurt anyone, you picked the nicest damn shark species in the ocean to make this point. i know the average viewer probably doesn’t know the difference considering all the videos of people scared of hammerheads i see, but please. you know better. offer real education and proof that sharks aren’t going to randomly try to kill you if you’re in the water with them.

And while we're here, even the herbivores can be scary if you try to pet them. Every year, it never fails, at least a couple white people pet the fluffy cows in Yellowstone.

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

The creator of the BITE Model considers abusive relationships to be two-person cults.

It’s important to note that almost every sect of evangelical christianity in the US today fails the BITE Model.

This was the post that lead to breaking my JW mindset. Been a while since I seen it.

I’m glad I could help in your deconstruction, if only a little bit. I wish you all the luck in your journey moving forward.

high control groups can also form in friend groups and online! any social group can theoretically be a high control enviroment that’s abusive. any group can be a cult if someone uses that group to control and abuse others.

i am a dog locked in a car in the summer. the a/c is not on. i do not have water. no music is playing

i feel like it's absolutely crucial in the social justice world to take "he a little confused but he got the spirit" and similar sentiments/situations as a Win. intent is so much more important than saying it right the first time! if someone is approaching with scuffed language and incorrect terms but they're visibly being as polite as they know how, that person is a friend and should be treated better than what their words might invite in someone else's mouth.

someone who's confused but who's got the spirit has the best thing, which is respect. the other stuff is secondary. I'd take someone who's messing up but doing their best to treat me respectfully any day over someone who's using the right words to do me wrong.