by Jessica Warrick

It's easy to say you believe in something when saying the words is seen as cool and progressive. It's a lot harder to actually believe it. Believing in rehabilitation means being able to turn off the part of your brain that prosecutes consequences out of hate, it's fucking difficult and almost none of the people on this site are capable of it. Quite the opposite, this site actively encourages reflexive condemnation and alienation of those it deems unpeople.

We are 5% of the world's population but hold 25% of its prison population, and we are not any safer for it. At what point do you admit that we are not accomplishing what the prison industrial complex promises? At what point do you actually try and look at what would make us safer, what would actually help people become better? At what point do you give up revenge for growth?

[ID: a Peanuts-style drawing of Ed and Stede snuggled up in the bed nook with a teal and gold quilt over them. Stede has his reading glasses on as he reads from a red book, while Ed looks at him with a soft smile on his face. Stede’s wearing a frilly nightshirt, and Ed’s wearing a purple tshirt and has his hair in a braid. there’s a beam of warm sunset light shining across them.]

Cat: "Perhaps I explored the tub after your shower. Perhaps I sat too close to the sink. Perhaps it is pee. I love our little mysteries."

I MEANT AS SELF DEFENSE STOP THE HATRED im sorry red pandas

does this answer your question

Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

I can write tentacle noncon of my favorite character all day long and be a fierce anti-sexual assault advocate in real life because what I do in my head is not the same thing as what I do in real life.

Rhys Darby:  I think the fact that he was there seeing his crew, which is his family, being abused the way they were, he finally smashed through the gates of this thing that he couldn't get through and became the guy he dreamt he would become. He killed the bad guy, got the princess, it was a fairytale. So, he was on an absolute high.

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH