Cowabummer, Dude

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idk i think you should make this character's heterosexuality relevant to the narrative. i mean why are they cis if it's not servicing the plot. you can't just throw story elements in for no reason if you're gonna make an able bodied character it should really serve a purpose. like why are they white are you just trying to fill a checklist? :/

#yeah I’ve always seen it as like…a step on the journey of recovery#you go from putting everyone else first to the point of detrement to starting to admit that doing some things for yourself are ok#but like…it’s a small step you have to keep going if you want to be a healthy human#but some people are so against their own recovery and decide they’re going to stay in that zone which sucks because it’s not even a fun zone#it seems good but it’s really lonely and awful and you’re still full of insecurity and shit#you gotta keep going and find out how good interconnectedness and community is#gotta get back to doing things for other people is good you just don’t do every single thing for not you out of some fucked up mindset <- tags pass peer review, this is exactly what I meant! Blindly prioritizing others and blindly prioritizing yourself are BOTH messed-up mindsets that will make you unhappy in the end.

Emos & scene kids got this close to abolishing gender for real. I try not to think about it too much.

The idea of a popular teenage subculture where girl & boys pretty much all dress the same feels impossible now but for a while it was reality and it was beautiful.

I'll be an avid shipper of something until someone walks in and says "there is NO platonic explanation for this" and suddenly I've never shipped it before in my life and they're just friends and I can't lie i can't really see them being in a romantic relationship with each other yeah sorry I just don't see it

everyone has to become aromantic now

being aro is so cool like yeah no totally I understand that most people experience more romance than me. I understand this makes most people think it’s reasonable and unavoidable that whole societies are structured around this particular relationship dynamic and if you don’t want to place it at the center of your life, much less have it factor into your life at all, you’re kind of fucked. no of course it isn’t tiring to have the whole world around you constantly erase and ignore your experiences all the time and then get mad at you when you complain. if I said it was tiring that would piss some people off so it’s not tiring. I barely notice.

"Boycotts never achieve anything" factoid is actually a statistical error. Historically, boycotts have been an enormously successful pressure mechanism for collective action. Boycotts georg, a social media user who launches a million poorly strategized boycotts every day with no thought given to target selection or actionable demands, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

i forgot i have to make my bed…. clean sheets are never worth it

bed made. clean sheets are always worth it. love everything.

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

Elliot Page also starred in Inception before transitioning, and from what I’ve heard is in The Odyssey for less than five minutes, so that’s a really weird example to use. Like, I don’t disagree with the overall point, but why is that the first example? Kind of feels more like criticizing Nolan for hiring a trans actor than actually being about men not able to write women.

Elliot Page is such a good example of how when trans men transition people automatically read privilege into their experiences—them specfically, in a way that singles them out among the sea of cis men they are surrounded with living their lives uncontroversially—when all evidence suggests they are actually experiencing the exact opposite of that. Elliot Page has gotten nothing but hate and scrutinity from the general public and the media and his career has taken some serious damage since coming out.