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v-iv-rusty · 10 months
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I feel like growing up with parents that are rabid conspiracy theorists about anything and everything affects you like. way way way deeper than most people do (or maybe want to?) acknowledge. and I just wish it was talked about more honestly
#misc.txt#ventish#(<-not too bad just tagging for blocking purposes)#like. this is embarassing to say but my parents were and still are severely anti vax. so at some point I need to go get#proper rounds of vaccines#bc obv I was not fucking allowed to#preferrably uh. fucking soon if I can work out how to do it without them knowing#(and if I can't I guess. I'll have to figure out some health insurance stuff bc I could literally be in danger if they did know.)#(which is a whole can of worms on its own.)#and EVEN THOUGH I fully 100% know that everything they fed me was bullshit#I still have so much deep fear around it bc it was drilled into my head so fucking hard growing up#x will kill you. y will make you sick. z will probably damn you to hell forever but maybe not who knows better to be scared and 'safe.' etc#and it's so hard to even explain it to ppl because they go 'oh so you still believe that stuff' and no!! no I do not!!#Ive just been trained since birth to be afraid of anything n everything!! I've been fed lies for my entire life!! thats hard to shake off!!#I WANT to do good things for myself but my stomach drops on instinct just thinking about it#and I am so so so tired of having to be brave about things I never should have had to be brave about. that's all ig. I'm tired.#like either ppl think you have also inherited their insanity OR they just look at it like 'oh haha funny quirky kooky'#no it's kind of torn my psyche to shreds in ways I'm still uncovering. but w/e go ahead and laugh <3
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rouge-the-bat · 10 months
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wlw blogs with "men dni" and mlm blogs with "women dni" are the worst btw. like okay way to show u dont give a shit about multigender people
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shopcat · 1 month
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omfg people really need to calm the fuck down about people disliking some characters like it's not always a deep seated prejudice or an inability to empathise it's because we are human beings with our own experiences and normal biases and fictional characters are not real and it doesn't matter if you don't like them for pretty much any reason at all and doesn't make you suddenly x just because the character is y it just means you don't like them. obviously other indications of actual prejudice or a repeated pattern mean something else entirely but you can just dislike a character because get this they're a character and not a real person. you can dislike real people too even it's almost like we've got free will. please oh please can we get out of the torture chamber together.
#🐾#just saw the dumbest post ever i wish you could take away someone's keyboard#saw someone say it was inherently misogynist to not like zuko's damn mom like omfg#she's literally a 2 dimensional nothingburger i'm sorry i don't give a FAUCK 😭 people are so damn annoying#i don't like her cuz of the way she treated azula and OBVIOUSLY!!! because my own mother hates me and abandoned me but loves her other#children. and OBVIOUSLY!!!! this means i seriously don't give a fuck about her and honesrlt wish she (ursa) were dead and You know what..#it doesn't MATTERRRR SHES NOT REAL. GET A FUCKING GRIP 😭 FICTION IS A REFLECTION OF REALITY#obviously i would and do feel differently about complex family dynamics irl but you know what's not real irl either. FIRE MAGIC#YOU BRAINDEAD IDIOTS SERIOUSLYYY#every actually ridiculously insane motherfuckerrrr who claims all ursa ''haters'' are inherently morally Wrong just make me hate her more#like awww yeah it is so sad. it's so sad to abandon your children and favour one over the other and also enable all of your husbands#actions that's so sad#ngl i don't really care that much but people who act like the wife of the colonist is 100% innocent is crazy#and treating her like some sad trapped victim who also has no free will is like... Well it's not NOT racist#like she was not actually trapped considering she you know left and was always fully capable of doing so#okay this was obv a rant i won't delete it but like tldr harmless biases like this seriously don't hurt anything and don't make ppl who#don't like her Woman haters. esp bc most ppl who don't like who do it bc they Do love azula 😭 but for me personally it's just like sorry#she's a bad mother. and i have no mother anymore. So i'm allowed to hate her. ..
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constantvariations · 8 months
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One of Hello Future Me's videos on revolution brought up an event from the Philippines back in the 80s: the dictator sent a battalion to crush a supposed revolt, only for the soldiers to be met with nuns and children offering food and water. The majority of the army defected as a result
I'm going to use rwby to try hammering this abstract concept into a coherent thought, but this incident got me thinking about how nonviolent protest is theater
If a similar event were to occur in rwby, for it to be successful, the protestors would have to be the cutesy faunus types: rabbits, cats, dogs, and the like because they're non-threatening. Attacking a sweet cat faunus would be akin to attacking a child or nun, paragons of innocence and virtue respectively. Only a monster could cut them down, and no one wants to be seen as a monster
A scorpion faunus, though? Their mere existence is a threat. That tail is dangerous, a weapon available at all times. Bull faunus have horns they can use to gouge out eyes and organs. Claim they attacked and most people would agree that killing them in self-defense is justified
Because nonviolent resistance relies on public perception, people who could possibly taint the image of the movement will get left in the dark no matter how important they are. Bayard Rustin was the one who taught Dr King about civil disobedience and was an organizer for many major events, but he opted to ride to events in the trunk of people's cars so his status as an openly gay man wouldn't harm the movement's image
There would be little wonder why the White Fang would be more popular with the "scarier" faunus. Public perception is already against them, so it's not going to change much for them if they join a violent organization, but this in turn will be seen as justification for discrimination against these types of faunus. A hellish self-perpetuating cycle
These faunus would also be far more likely to experience violence at a much younger age, akin to how black children are treated as adults even if they're literally six years old
The strategy behind nonviolent protest like the ones Dr King did is to show the world the mistreatment of the innocent, but when your existence is deemed a threat, there's little hope that you'll ever get enough support to change the system. This is why bigots constantly spew the "queer groomer" and black crime "statistics": by portraying someone's freedom as a danger to the innocent, any level of violence is justifiable defense. The police aren't attacking queers, black, and brown folk discriminately, they're attacking dangerous criminals, so it's okay!!1!
Theater can't save those already condemned and to try is wasted effort
#rwde#antiblackness tw#<- in the link#Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat a whole 9 months before Rosa Parks yet wasnt the face of the movement#good choice considering she was only 15 and shoving a teen into the racist public eye is Not Good but her pregnancy was also a major factor#idk hopefully i got the point across#somewhat related is the trend of the privileged being the biggest advocates for peaceful protest#while the ones who've endured violence - both economically and physically - are the ones who call upon violence#which almost always means violent *self defense*#the few occasions ive read where there were actual attacks its been targeted like the BLA ambushing cops#cant say i blame them considering the mcfucking everything the cops had going on#the bpp was basically destroyed by the police and fbi at this point and that was probs a major factor in their decision#and targeted violence was exactly what the white fang was doing before cinder showed up and ruined everything#literally nothing the wf does in the show is actually for faunus liberation bc its all cinder/salems orders!!#and no one is allowed to have a brain or personality or anything so no one questions why theyre suddenly switching targets#gr8 discussion abt activism here shawluna. love that you reduced the anti racism movement to mercenaries to avoid saying anything at all#ffs they even fucked up weiss's side of the convo! obvs the fumbling of blakes ball is much worse but come the fuck on#'the wf may have assassinated company board members and family friends but were teammates now so who cares!! team rwby go!!'#fucking barf
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hella1975 · 1 year
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I HAVE TO PAY £17 FOR A VISA WAIVER THINGIE TO GET INTO AMERICA YOU'RE NOT EVEN ALL THAT
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zebrafiz · 1 year
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i feel like some ppl in the sims community are so MEAN for no reason
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grokebaby · 3 months
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Been thinking about it and honestly I've been feeling like I don't really wanna post about several ocs anymore
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akkpipitphattana · 3 months
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i think kids should have way more of a say in custody battles btw
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moe-broey · 4 months
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Well!!!!! It's a good thing I decided to stick with the m Meowstic outbreak actually because not only did I get three (THREE) shinies out of it I. Haven't seen a Meowstic outbreak since 🧍
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novathesheltie · 1 year
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This is nothing new but a note on how a dog having energy doesn’t necessarily mean he will be the best partner for all activities that requires high energy:
So Nova isn’t low energy by any means, but he’s very selective on the activity he will expend his energy on. I walk him everyday for 50-60min, 20min to the park, 20min of parkour/diy agility, 20min walk back. He’s in shape, is what I’m trying to say.
Yesterday evening on our evening hike, I set a goal: I wanted to reach a look out point to watch the sunset. I’ve been going to the gym 5 days a week for the last two months to get in shape. I wanted to reach that point fast, so I set the pace pretty intensively and didn’t slow down during climbs.
Nova was falling BEHIND lmao. Not because I don’t think he can do it-he can. He just finds it boring. I usually let him sniff and stuff on hikes, but even when I’m going at a normal pace, he falls behind. He’s not keen on going faster. He’s rather fall behind and sprint up to catch up (which ends up being an endless cycle). (this leads to a lot of my friends and other hikers telling me my dog is far behind, and i have to say, yes i know, he’s coming don’t worry.)
This same dog could do 40min of high intensity runs and jumps and whatnot at the park. Sometimes we do that when I have extra time, with several minute breaks in-between, but this dog will go-go-go until his heart bursts. Hikes though? Meh.
Sometimes we come back from a two hour hike in the calanques and he’s bringing me his entire collection of toys to play (while i’m in my bed recovering).
Which isn’t a big deal! But this is why sometimes I think maybe I should also own Koa. She’s the perfect hiking partner with her endless endurance and energy storage.
But I also lovelovelove doing parkour and training stuff with Nova at the park, and if agility was more accessible to us, we’d be taking classes 100%.
I find it funny that I have a relatively high energy dog on my hands that I’ll have to drag on hikes, but change the context, and I have the most willing, crazy energized dog who seems tireless to the outsider.
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nomaishuttle · 1 year
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perhaps a lot of my b*tw issues are actually due to my own expectations for the game and by extension my dislike for botw fans
#b*tw fans will sct like its the sinoge best zelda hame and like its leagues above and its like#its fine to like it its fine to not like the other zelda games (through gritted teeth)#it is a totally different genre. to me. yk. it feels like a new game which is fine thats what they were going for i surpose#its a huge rebrand for the series n i cn appreciate the aspects of it if i dont try to force it into my personal mold of what A zelda game#is.#also this doesnt include the orientalism with the gerudo. that shits fucked up no matter what#ir is NOT a botw specific issue#but yk. b*tw ws a very. disappointing game 4 me#bc i love older zelda games n botws whole thing is that it. breaks the format entirely andis different from every other game#which is fineee its allowed to do that and im allowed to not like it and other ppl r allowed to like it.. i just have trouble#and also it annoys me that a lot of botw fans r like. Just botw fans. and not loz in general fans.. But still use the loz tags#not that like. idk i dont wanna sound gatekeepy obv th main loz tag is like. botw is a zelda game (even if imo thats in name alone)#but ppl will cross tag botw specific posrs with every other zelda game like. it annoys me#and also i think the fanon portrayl of botw is so fucking annoying i want all of you to jus to bee hornets#and i blame fucking l*nked *niverse that racist fucking cunt. GDDDD#whatever though#its like. its very well done. it can be pretty (personally the art style doesnt appeal to me a ton) the music is very original while also#being a good callback to former games. the sound design is Actually phenomenol#it just isnt for me i think. n yk. it sucks bc like#idk. there will be zelda games after totk#and i hope theyll be. different. and a return to formula#idk...#i do also appreciate like. as much as i say that botw doesnt feel like a zelda game to me#zelda is deeply personal to me.. n i recognize that it Is a zelda game#and i like all of the small references to other games.. i appreciate that#i cn tell the team rly love the world of zelda n im glad for that.. just personally i love the like mechanics and gameplay of former zelda#games. yk.... thats all#n ik. i literally am just going I want more tp. but i do wish we could have more like that...sigh#its ok. i will just rewrite oot in my brain#and botw too i accidentally said oot. i do need tl rewrite oot though bc .. um anyways
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depresseddepot · 1 year
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not to sound dramatic or anything but magic is real and I know its real because I swore a contract w the spiders in my room about a year ago to never purposefully harm them or let them come to harm so long as they ate all the other bugs in my room and now anytime someone purposefully kills a spider near me I am momentarily possessed and have to literally restrain myself from tackling the person who did it
#this post is meant to be silly but to be clear i am AFRAID of spiders#so for me to now have a knee jerk reaction to injure MYSELF to protect a spider as a result of an ''agreement'' is. fascinating#like. did i make an actual contract w these spiders? im cool w it if so but i didnt think bodily possession would be included#the agreement is like a year and a half or so old at this point but honestly 10/10 would reccomend. i have almost no bugs in my room now#and i actually see LESS spiders than i did before#we are now Allies#anyways this post was prompted by finding the biggest fucking spider crawling up my sock#and having the mental fortitude to force my fear down like i literally swallowed it and took her outside#normally if they're small i just let them disappear (out of sight out of mind)#and if they're big (wolf spiders are common here) the rules are: if you aren't bothering me i won't bother you#like i had a spider (not wolf but similarly big) that lived in an unused closet for a while#and every morning he would crawl across my sharp shitty ceiling very slowly and then crawl back#and like. he wasn't bothering me. he was just going for a walk#however: touching me or my stuff is off limits#my bed and my desk and my body are places they are Not allowed#i dont kill them still obv but they will be escorted outside#the big big ones i always take outside bc they would die indoors anyways (not enough birds? or whatever they eat. theyre huge)#sorry i got carried away#swear agreements with the spiders in your house and profit#get possessed occassionally but its fine#i also have an unspoken contract with yellowjackets but nothing formal yet#one day when i have a yard ill have contracts w lots of stuff. yellowjackets and bees and stray cats and snakes and possums#i don't like talking to people but i do like creatures (so long as they aren't touching me (<- prone to the heeby jeebies))
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mothman-dyke · 11 months
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Anyway do think it's really telling (irt perspective of misogyny among seemingly "accepting" or "progressive" types) that we consider calling women sexist slurs to be like, acceptable. Imo extremely few "progressive" people would say "yeah a gay person did something bad so it's OK to call them (insert homophobic slur here ig)" but the moment a woman does anything wrong it's ok to call her a sl*t, wh*re, b*tch, c*nt etc. And if you take issue with this you're obv defending whatever she did. Just another little thing that shows that misogyny isn't taken seriously and is considered a kind of "secondary" form of oppression, or as being not real at all.
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gibbearish · 2 years
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hi i’m not really sure how to do this but i came from your uquiz and you seem knowledgeable and nice and so i’m asking you a question now i’m sorry
uhm, so, i think i maybe might be trans (ftm) because i’m super dysphoric and i sometimes look at guys and i get really jealous because they just get to, like, exist like that (i’m not really sure what the “that” is, but god, do i want it) and i very much don’t and when i refer to myself using he/him pronouns in my head it feels, uhm, at the risk of being a cliche, right, i guess.
but the thing is that i don’t really fit into any of the stereotypical trans guy things. like a lot of my friends when i was little were girls and though i have some stereotypically masculine hobbies (sports and physics) i also sew, and when i was little i was obsessed with being a princess for like a month before i started refusing to wear dresses.
i don’t think i’m non-binary, i tried using they/them pronouns this summer and while they didn’t actively hurt like she does, they didn’t really feel right.
so, like, am i lying to myself? i don’t know, maybe i just want to be special (i don’t want it, though, if i could just be happy as a girl i would).
sorry i just unloaded half an essay on you you obviously don’t have to reply and i know you’re probably not qualified to answer anyway, i just needed to tell someone, you know?
anyways, i hope you’re having a nice night or day or whatever. thank you, for, like, existing on the internet i guess. your quiz was very nice. bye.
howdy anon! dw i am always glad to answer questions abt this stuff even tho it make take me a while lol
my best advice for situations like this is i know its easy but don't let yourself get caught up in the trap of "well this is the label that makes me feel best but i dont technically check off every single box for it so am i just lying?" people arent video game quests, you dont have to hit every single box for it to count, youre allowed to have stuff fall outside the technical definition of a term while still calling yourself it. im very similar to you, i was in tap and ballet growing up, wore dresses and makeup for most of highschool, sewing crocheting knitting the whole shebang. but the important part is that none of those things make a difference to your identity. knowing how to sew doesnt make you a girl, it can just make you a guy who knows how to sew. its a thing you do, not who you are.
all that being said, i think another helpful angle to look at things is "does the distinction between two similar labels actually make a difference to me?" using myself as an example again, i dont call myself a trans man because while i do prefer presenting masculine, for some reason the term 'man' just doesnt feel right for me. but at the same time, to the rest of the world that's functionally what i am, right? so does that change /who/ i am? no. so for me personally, ive deliberately chosen not to file myself into either "trans man" or "nonbinary" and just move on with my day, because to me it doesnt actually make a difference which one i am, im still gonna stay on t, i still want top surgery, i still want to be perceived masculine, and thats not gonna change no matter what name is on the box so who gives a shit. just do what makes you happy
#also this is a side note but going back to the whole 'when i was growing up i was more feminine' angle#one thing ive found is that the more masc i get the more pressing the Need To Be Masculine becomes#so like. accepting that identities can be fluid and change over time can be very helpful imo#maybe i was a girl at one point and now im not‚ or maybe i never was‚ who cares. either way‚ im not one now‚ and thats what matters#gender is a game we were all forced to play from birth‚ youre allowed to say fuck all these rules im just gonna exist how i want#i hope this all makes sense and isnt an incoherent ramble labflsbfksbfkeb ive been having brain fog lately so i tend#to lose track of where i am when im talking sometimes#i dont think youre lying to yourself‚ i think introspection and understanding your identity are very difficult things to do#and i think like a lot of trans(?) people pre-everything youre scared that the answer will be 'yes‚ you are trans‚ and now you have to#figure out how to live in a way that feels right'#not to say nonbinary people dont have to deal w the same stuff as trans ppl obv bc Hello Thats Me ksnfkshfkek#but like. i feel like most ppl see it as 'figure out identity then work on transition goals' but like you absolutely dont have to#you can just say 'idk what i am but i know doing xyz will make me happier' and just go from there#and who knows! maybe doing so will change your understanding of yourself to the point you find picking a label far easier#or maybe it wont! you wont know till you try though#anyways hope this ramble helps have a good day osbfksbflsnls
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titan-god-helios · 10 months
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im so sad dude like why are none of the gay girls in my school who i actually don't completely despise talking to my type :(
#like bro i LOVE women#but why are the only girls who dont make me feel like killing someone after interaction my first ex/first girlfriend; one of my best friend#who i just would never date they're more like a brother or sibling to me#a girl who is SOSOSOSO pretty and smart and cute and would date in a heartbeat if we had just a bit more in common and if she was gay#a tiny irish gremlin who isnt a girl#another of my good friends who is probably straight but either way i wouldnt date her#ANOTHER one of my best friends who's more like a mother to me and straight and isnt allowed to date (she my wifey fr tho she's so pretty)#would never date her tho#as for girls/people i WOULD date if they didnt tire me/werent straight/werent just straight up bitchy at one point and threw me off we have#very pretty lesbian girl who i totally saw myself vibing with until she insulted me on ms teams and THEN had this very obvi crush on me#which i rejected bc no#and also was taken at the time#then we have aforementioned cute smart girl but STRAIGHT AS A LINE and with probably very conservative parents#also prev. lesbian had a crush on her too which is fun#fucking BEAUTIFUL girl in my class she's so fucking pretty and so fucking kind ohmygod but SO straight but like#bro#why are you so pretty then :(#your face is made for girls#/j obvs but anyway#she's also my ex's/best friend's close friend atp so that would be a big nono#another beautifulbeautiful girl in my class too#she so tall and pretty and so sweet everytime i get visibly upset she messages me to check up#we've never talked much at all though and that makes me sad#not my vibe though in terms of talking stuff so could prob never date and also she's straight too#even if they all like met criteria though i still dont think id date any of them#idk none of us click#which is why apart from ms conservative parents i talk to NONE of them frequently#i wish i could though#i would just be extremely drained after every convo with them though and i dont think i can do that#bisexual -> pansexual -> “but i love women so much ???” -> questioning lesbian -> “but men are so pretty sometimes” -> omni ??
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dolldefaced · 1 year
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people shit on heartstopper so much and you know u can just read/watch frisk instead if you want your fucked up fix, right? like there are other things out there.
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