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Here is your reminder: Chud does not mean loser, it means far right facist and/or nazi please stop calling yourself a chud, just call yourself a loser it's okay

the thing about Tangled is that this is a story geared towards little girls (even if it's "fun for the whole family," it's a disney princess movie, it's geared towards little girls), and it says, "here is a girl who is naive and doesn't know anything about the 'Real World' or how to navigate it safely and correctly. now pay close attention: the good guys are the ones who help her grow and explore new things while still respecting her own perspective and feelings, not making her feel stupid. the bad guys are the ones who tell her that she is too weak/immature/naive to do the things she wants to do, because she is fragile and needs protecting." and I watched this when I was nine years old and it resonated deep in a part of me that I couldn't articulate with words yet.

"passing advice" for trans men that is like "kill your joy and whimsy. you wear baggy neutrals now. you will dress like a 90s grunge band member but you cant accessorize or have hair longer than your ears. plain boxy tshirts only. maybe a flannel but beware you might look like a lesbian if youre not careful. and i have to reiterate: dont you fucking DARE wear a color"

it really pisses me off when adults sit there and drill it into kids’ heads that their youth is fleeting and tell them things like “enjoy your childhood while it lasts because this is the best it’s gonna get”. why are you telling children that adulthood is the worst thing they can experience? seriously what the fuck is wrong with you, why are you trying to make them feel like growing up is a fate worse than death? trying to convince them their life is over before it even begins? i’m tired of that shit. because tell my why my 12 year old cousin told me when she turns 30 she’ll be so depressed she’s just gonna cry all the time. what the fuck. kids don’t need to hear that their already stressful and overwhelming lives are never going to get better, that the abuse and lack of autonomy they face is apparently the highlight of their lives. they need to hear about adults who are happy to be alive and happy to have made it to their age. they need to know that growing up rules, it’s a gift and life does not have to suck for them, that they have a future that’s worth sticking around for. this rhetoric is so damaging mentally and i’m about to start hitting the adults who parrot it. i’m sorry you hate your life but you don’t get to dump your issues on these kids. don’t piss me off and leave these babies alone!

yeah, sure, it was the "power of friendship" that defeated you, and not my super cool "mega bone explosions" spell that I worked really hard on, whatever idiot

And shoutout aplatonics and asensuals and analterous and afamilials !!

actually i think andy weir's boldest writing choice in project hail mary isn't the twist that "grace was a coward & had to be forced onto the mission" which then makes his decision to potentially die to save rocky & erid so beautiful. no, the BOLDEST choice is that what triggers grace's first memory of the petrova line & astrophage at the very beginning of the book (thus kicking off the entire plot) is seeing a line of his dick blood on the floor after yanking out a still-inflated catheter

Honestly, I didn't give a fuck that he was a 'coward', hell yes man join the rest of us, but the biggest twist to me was that his amnesia was induced by Stratt and not a symptom of the coma.

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my friend has a tumblr account but DOESNT know this… life is so empty

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actually tbh pregnancy as a concept would not suck so much in fiction if women were allowed to be mothers and also fully fleshed out characters outside of that role. a lot of men in media get to be fully fleshed out characters even if they have children; the mentor role is infamous - but women don't particularly get to occupy the same three dimensionality men do when it comes to guiding children. which is a shame because i find stories about the interiority of mothers or women authority figures to be some of the most fascinating. but in the eyes of society, mothers are demanded to be perfect in a way fathers aren't, so having a flawed woman mentor figure is much rarer in media.

I never understand the trope of having a dead mother that the main character has never met be assumed perfect by that character and if she was alive she'd be everything they had dreamed and literally perfect like. No I think she's just a person like any other stranger.

i just think 9/10 times "what if these characters settled down into a comfortable domestic situation" is one of the least interesting ways to examine a dynamic. but i understand that, and i mean this in the most neutral way possible, being interesting is not the actual point of most people's fanworks and media interpretation. i will still be complaining about it though.

Being passionate about my ocs became so much easier when I figured out they don't all need happy endings. Ever.

do people seriously not realise that "is X in the room with us?" is a cynical dehumanizing joke about psychosis and people with psychosis ???? its just another roundabout way of calling people crazy. and its based in the dehumanization of people who have psychotic disorders because it is referencing hallucinations. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THINK!!!!! before you speak. its not a cute modern phrase! its a new iteration of old hatred! Please! Think!