a large cat, or possibly the shroud of turin

i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

honestly sometimes there's no better feeling than rereading a fic you've written and coming out of it going, "yeah that actually this DOES slap. exactly what i wanted to read. fucking nailed it."

YES! BOOSTINGGGG FOR MY FOLKS WHO WANNA/NEED TO KNOW HOW

something ive been thinking about lately wrt to the "people learn what their IRL relationships should look like based on what they see in fiction, therefore creators are morally obligated to only write healthy relationships" argument is like. ok. let's set aside for a moment any arguments over whether that actually happens the way people claim it does. let's play in a space where there are, indeed, a massive number of people who are forming their ideas of what healthy relationships look like based purely off of fiction. i think then that the solution would still not be "fictional relationships must be wholly uncomplicated and unproblematic and healthy". i think it would be "we as a society need to do a better job of teaching young people what healthy relationships look like". like if you tell me that grand theft auto is causing car crashes because people are learning how to drive from it i am not going to say oh well then the guys who made that game are morally evil. i'm gonna say oh wow we need to make driver's ed way more accessible then. you know what i mean? i think the next time you get mad over an unhealthy fictional relationship you should step back and ask yourself if you're expecting grand theft auto to be a driver's ed simulator

@unspeakablearchives

"the average income in <X> is <Y> of <currency>" cool, what's the median

Average isn't useful here. however, after a little bit of research, apparently the median income in the US is $24,327, which means the reality is actually much worse than this meme makes it seem. yay!

According to time magazine, median annual rent is $13,896, which means rent alone is 57% Of the median annual income, awesome!

i have a suggestion

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???