Live with intent.

Literally thought this was almost exclusively a US thing in recent history. Kind of dumb of me

in case you’re interested in learning more about it, there’s actually a term coined to describe france’s neocolonial agenda in african countries so if you look up “françafrique” you’ll get a clearer picture of the french geopolitical agenda and the tight grip they are keeping in africa. imperialism is still thriving and there are other players outside of the usa that are using the global south as a chessboard and shredding it to pieces through military and economic interventions backed by national industries (although i will say that the english wikipedia page is one massive propaganda ploy undermining french influence on african soil and the motivations behind it)

how victorian <- is referring to the tv show victorious

how edwardian <- is referring to the tv show ed edd n eddy

i’m in love with u

I'm going to start a conspiracy theory that JK Rowling's transphobia is an elaborate psyop to get Christians to allow their children to read Harry Potter and thereby expose them to witchcraft, Satanism, and demonic possession.

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

the thing about "people have talked about it you're just 21" is that it's not really "young people are stupid" it's more "if you come into an academic discussion you should know what people have said on the matter lest you talk out your ass"

#I think in general we culturally put too much value into the idea of coming into a situation and making a big splash by making a bunch of#improvements right away. And that encourages a lot of talking out of your ass waaay too soon to try and Make A Mark#I think it's actually a fairly uncommon confluence of prior skills and how the new situation is shaped to be able to do that#but I love sitting my ass down and listening and learning and making Zero Moves until I understand the totality of things#which is also incorrect and employers do hate

Wait so. Elliot Page’s role in The Odyssey is to be unwillingly sacrificed within the first five minutes of his appearance and THAT’S the “complex and interesting” role that people have claimed was personally gifted to him by Nolan for transitioning into a man?? Five minutes of screen time where he’s immediately killed?? Are we actually fucking serious right now. I’ve had to deal with post after post on every social media platform telling me that The Odyssey is proof that Elliot Page transitioned into privilege and the role in question is the most insulting, transphobic, nothingburger I’ve ever seen in my life. Am I missing something here because I feel like I’m losing my mind.

These people think a trans man existing in public is proof of privilege. These people think a trans man being allowed to live and breathe is proof of privilege. These people don’t want trans men to exist btw call it out for what it is at this point.

Sinon is a very important character in The Aeneid. He pretty much singlehandedly brought the downfall of Troy.

This is about Christopher Nolan’s movie adaptation of the Odyssey, not The Aeneid book.

trans men aren't treated as people, they're treated like a rhetorical tool

no because imagine if we talked about people with anxious attachment like they do about any avoidants because y’all really will be like INHERENT EVIL! EVIL! BROKE MY HEART! SHUT DOWN ON ME! imagine if we all were like “i really liked her but she wouldn’t stop texting me every thought she had no matter how much it sucked or how much distress it caused and needed constant reassurance that i still like her even though i proposed to her with my grandma’s heirloom ring from the civil war that she smuggled out in case she needed to sell it. i can’t even go to dunkin to get a coffee alone because she’ll just think i’m leaving her. she’s a needy demon and she shouldn’t ever date again”

hey so everyone when i said “imagine if we did that” i meant like imagine how mean that would be because doesn’t it suck when it’s done to us. i did not mean “we should do that and further ourselves from any genuine understanding of each other”

That weirdo billionaire obsessed with stopping his aging/taking his son's blood to stay young has, as far as I can tell, taken a hero dose of shrooms that led him to fall in love with one of his employees(?) and is now attempting to use his wealth to find a cure for her endometriosis? Which like, sure

it is overwhelmingly my experience that kids and teens who met and then “dated” adult partners struggle to think of themselves as victims of CSA because for whatever reason it just didn’t count—not when it was them. they were too precocious, they had too much agency, their abuser didn’t mean any harm, and what would have been a terrible criminal travesty if it had happened to anyone else was just a weird but understandable fluke situation that they brought upon themselves.

sort of related—lots of kids do not actually see themselves as children. a child who sees themself as mature, different, and sensitive to condescension is not going to Identify As A Child™️ and will hold themself to (what they think is) an adult standard. any effort to protect them that relies upon their seeing themself as A Child™️ and accepting their status as a being of lesser agency is doomed to fail. and I think that’s true whether they’re punished or rewarded for their apparent maturity because any kid who perceives being a child as a bad thing is… well. they’re right. to be a child is to be a second-class citizen with very limited rights who is, functionally, private property. any child who becomes consciously aware of this will be traumatized by it and I don’t think that Good Parenting will ever fully prevent that. so of course they’re not going to conceptualize themselves as victims of CSA because CSA can, by definition, only happen to real children.

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