does this unit have a soul?

Saw a post that said “Not every person you dislike is a narcissist and not every unpleasant experience is trauma” and a lot of you needed to hear that.

Not all conflict is abuse.

watching train to busan like…. su-an and seong-kyeong wouldn’t have made it if the train driver hadn’t kept the train moving forward on blind faith that he wasn’t the only survivor aboard! if sang-hwa, seok-woo, and yong-guk hadn’t fought past the zombies to rescue them when they were trapped! if the doors had been closed a second sooner! if so many characters, over and over, didn’t choose to risk themselves for someone else! and they would STILL have been shot at the end if su-an hadn’t started singing! or if the soldier hadn’t waited to fire even after being given an order! this movie grabs you by the shoulders and says: in horrible, apocalyptic times, you won’t need to reject your own humanity!! humanity is not irrational or stupid, it’s a source of strength!! you will survive by refusing to abandon your humanity and your emotions and your care for other people!

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Screaming

oh shiiiit it’s me

as white person in fandom who has mental illnesses there is very little that makes me as angry as white people in fandom using their mental illnesses to try to escape valid criticisms from fans of color. if your stupid ass said or did or posted something racist and you got called on it you don’t get to then start posting “oh my god all I did was post my opinion and I’m depressed and now my anxiety is acting up oh my god why are people being mean to me”. no one is being mean to you. they’re letting you know you’re fucking up. it sucks, it can be embarrassing, too bad. accept it, think about what you did, fix it, and move the fuck on. no one is asking you to carry the cross for the rest of your life. just fucking learn from it. don’t hide behind your illnesses. your mental illness is not the reason you’re posting ignorant shit. jfc.

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#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

Toddler accidentally cursed himself into an identity crisis today.

He’s been crossing stuff out with chalk. He asked me to write his name for him, crossed it out, and had a panicked meltdown because he thought it meant he didn’t exist any more.

Every hour or so he asks me “am I [his name?]” and wants reassuring hugs.

I’m enjoying the implication that he was perfectly delighted with arbitrarily erasing things from existence until it affected him personally

That’s just how toddlers are.

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