plumedpenn

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

a character who's often justifiably angry (even if that isn't the core of who they are) but who is also often punished for that anger and is also regularly treated as if their anger is invalid; unreasonable, childish, silly, as if that anger is the only part of them that matters as if, if they get angry it means that the words they say and the arguments they level don't matter anymore because they're based in emotion, a character whose problems with authority are mocked instead of understood and interrogated, a character who's always in the wrong when they argue with their father or their siblings and who deserves every bad thing that happened to them, a character who's just a little too much like a question no one in his story wants answered

Rip Merlin you would have loved leaving people on read

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast