always on my marxist bullshit, but the idea that a parent must be solely devoted to their child to the wholesale detriment and complete exhaustion of themselves is exactly why the bourgeois family is an act of universal violence. no one gets the care they need in that situation, and the ruling class continues to profit off of unpaid reproductive labor through the propaganda that parental exhaustion and monomaniacal devotion is pure, noble, and the only way a child can be raised without harm.
blended families, extended families, and other forms of borderless communal childcare have been the norm for the majority of human existence. the bourgeois family is an unnatural, alienating imposition completely geared towards justifying ruling class generational wealth consolidation, and beatifying a system that compensates 0% of the labor it takes to provide care, comfort, safety, hygiene, etc. for the reproduction of both tomorrow's and the next generation's labor.
anyway real facts this is why mainstream storytelling never can hit just right when it tries to tell the stories of parents and children with both being fulfilled and complete human beings. it literally can't propose a resolution to those contradictions unless it wants to start asking a whoooooole lot of other questions about families and social reproduction under capitalism....
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damn they really put lootboxes in Drift this early lol, I know it was to be expected sooner or later but c'mon
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thinking about how senshi, chilchuck, and mithrun would all be around the same age if they were all the same race is so funny
just 3 middle aged men going through a midlife crisis who play divorced dad rock while senshi teaches mithrun how to make lasagna
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Percy “I am impertinent” Jackson really looked Zeus dead in the eye and said “Your family is a mess”
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Born to be a girl who’s curious about everything forced to be a girl who’s scared of trying anything new
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learning that self deprecation isnt cool and just makes the people around you uncomfortable unironically improved my mental health a lot. like if you just stop saying negative shit about yourself you will genuinely like yourself more and other people wont be repulsed by your attitude and you will have more friends. it's true.
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bless this iteration of Percy Jackson for genuinely believing, for at least three seconds, that he is the second coming of Christ
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"i don't like this thing and i wish i didn't have to see people talking about it all the time"
girl (gender neutral), you are on tungle dot com:
choose your fighter.
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me whenever i see /pos and /hj: why are you calling me a piece of shit and what do handjobs have to do with any of this :/
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how i feel about fanservice when i’m the fan being serviced:
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