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some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.

i like imagining that it feels good as fuck to be multiple raindrops sliding down a windowpane and then combining when you touch. that's gotta be so nice.

you know, the previous post made me think about fix-it fics a bit because so many of them are focused not necessarily on characters being good or evil, but like, this idea that a story only succeeds if specific characters get a chance to heal and if they don't it's a failure. and in both those cases it kind of comes down to like. I think that stories are vitally important and incredibly meaningful and even life-changing, but ultimately they are only a means of inspiration or encouragement (or discouragement or warning). they cannot fix the problems of your life or address your insecurities. they can show you how you might take your own action to do so. They can provide catharsis and they can change your mindset but like, people's thoughts about your favorite character ultimately aren't about you, and a happy ending for your favorite character will not give you the same, and in the end virtually all fandom drama comes down to someone who doesn't comprehend this attacking people and then being shocked when people don't immediately say "Oh my god, I'm sorry, you're right about everything." And if you want to write a fix-it fic, that's fine, and that can even be an important part of your own process, but a more crucial part of your process is realizing that you are outside the bounds of the story and have no control over other people's responses.

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The author must have been eating woodland salad, candied acorns, turnip pie, plum-cakes, bilberry tarts, arrowroot shortbread, and glazed maple shoots, and drinking flagons of October ale and raspberry cordial when they wrote this

Whatttt is with the tendency of Tumblr users to seek absolution from every single person who offhandedly posts about disagreeing with something they do

I say this not unkindly, but firmly: to function as a member of a social species, you have to get comfortable with the idea that not everyone will like you

You personally enjoying a side character more than the main character doesn’t automatically turn the main character into the real villain of the story.

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IF YOU DONT DO ANYTHING YOU ARENT ANYONE. SORRY

"if you take testosterone youll look like your DAD!! DO YOU WANT TO LOOK LIKE YOUR DAD?!! YOULL LOOK LIKE A GROSS UGLY MAN YOULL LOOK LIKE YOUR DAD!" nope! adopted💖

shoutout to the guys saying "my dad is awesome itll be cool if i look like him" but especially shoutout to the guys saying "i will/do look like my dad on t and i am making him suffer for it. he is evil and he HATES that i look like him. im like him but better" yall have a powerful aura

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with relating to characters, “they’re literally me” etc but if that’s the only way you engage with stories you’re kinda missing the whole point of Characters being vehicles through which we can see perspectives outside of our own. and also you’re going to get upset when the Character acts in a way that is not Personally Relatable to You