#especially the youth

[booasaur]

April 6, 2023 - Representative Justin Pearson speaking before he and another Black Democrat are expelled from the Tennessee State House for joining a protest against gun violence, days after six people were killed at a Tennessee school

#justin pearson #tennessee #us politics #gun control #he was so good #so was jones #the republicans are really just showing who they are and radicalizing more and more people #especially the youth #and helping propel charismatic effective orators like these two to the national stage #where they'll reach even more people #just sucks that literally part of this inspiration is a consequence of the massive racism they face

[ryllen]

#twst #twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #okay but DAMN??? THIS RESONATES so well with how they have been interacted with each other???? I ACTUALLY FEEL TOUCHED *SNIFF* *SOBS* #IT'S VERY UNLIKELY but i can't stop imagining SEBEK SINGING IT NOW especially the I HATE I HATE I HATE PART SO HIM AUGHH THANK YOUU?????? #lilia vanrouge #kalim al asim #cater diamond #light music club #fanart #GOD LOOK HOW GOOD HE LOOKS WITH LIGHT MUSIC CLUB #he might not even need microphone BCS HE IS SO LOUD ALREADY #BUT DANG #i mean it could be that the mic is not even ON HFSHDH bcs the club member just wisely thought so #look at this boy having his clothes and hair set up by the club members #HE LOOKS SO GOOD AND YOUNG #MUCH YOUTH #AUGHHHH............... #THE MUSIC CLUB LOOKS SO CHEERFUL AS WELL IT LOOKS SO FUUUNNN AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! #who knows who knows lilia worked on his influence 'magic' to get sebek to do thiss #augghhh i can dreeammmmmmm

[aronarchy]

Why we don’t like it when children hit us back

To all the children who have ever been told to “respect” someone that hated them.

March 21, 2023

Even those of us that are disturbed by the thought of how widespread corporal punishment still is in all ranks of society are uncomfortable at the idea of a child defending themself using violence against their oppressors and abusers. A child who hits back proves that the adults “were right all along,” that their violence was justified. Even as they would cheer an adult victim for defending themself fiercely.

Even those “child rights advocates” imagine the right child victim as one who takes it without ever stopping to love “its” owners. Tear-stained and afraid, the child is too innocent to be hit in a guilt-free manner. No one likes to imagine the Brat as Victim—the child who does, according to adultist logic, deserve being hit, because they follow their desires, because they walk the world with their head high, because they talk back, because they are loud, because they are unapologetically here, and resistant to being cast in the role of guest of a world that is just not made for them.

If we are against corporal punishment, the brat is our gotcha, the proof that it is actually not that much of an injustice. The brat unsettles us, so much that the “bad seed” is a stock character in horror, a genre that is much permeated by the adult gaze (defined as “the way children are viewed, represented and portrayed by adults; and finally society’s conception of children and the way this is perpetuated within institutions, and inherent in all interactions with children”), where the adult fear for the subversion of the structures that keep children under control is very much represented.

It might be very well true that the Brat has something unnatural and sinister about them in this world, as they are at constant war with everything that has ever been created, since everything that has been created has been built with the purpose of subjugating them. This is why it feels unnatural to watch a child hitting back instead of cowering. We feel like it’s not right. We feel like history is staring back at us, and all the horror we felt at any rebel and wayward child who has ever lived, we are feeling right now for that reject of the construct of “childhood innocence.” The child who hits back is at such clash with our construction of childhood because we defined violence in all of its forms as the province of the adult, especially the adult in authority.

The adult has an explicit sanction by the state to do violence to the child, while the child has both a social and legal prohibition to even think of defending themself with their fists. Legislation such as “parent-child tort immunity” makes this clear. The adult’s designed place is as the one who hits, and has a right and even an encouragement to do so, the one who acts, as the person. The child’s designed place is as the one who gets hit, and has an obligation to accept that, as the one who suffers acts, as the object. When a child forcibly breaks out of their place, they are reversing the supposed “natural order” in a radical way.

This is why, for the youth liberationist, there should be nothing more beautiful to witness that the child who snaps. We have an unique horror for parricide, and a terrible indifference at the 450 children murdered every year by their parents in just the USA, without even mentioning all the indirect suicides caused by parental abuse. As a Psychology Today article about so-called “parricide” puts it:

Unlike adults who kill their parents, teenagers become parricide offenders when conditions in the home are intolerable but their alternatives are limited. Unlike adults, kids cannot simply leave. The law has made it a crime for young people to run away. Juveniles who commit parricide usually do consider running away, but many do not know any place where they can seek refuge. Those who do run are generally picked up and returned home, or go back on their own: Surviving on the streets is hardly a realistic alternative for youths with meager financial resources, limited education, and few skills.

By far, the severely abused child is the most frequently encountered type of offender. According to Paul Mones, a Los Angeles attorney who specializes in defending adolescent parricide offenders, more than 90 percent have been abused by their parents. In-depth portraits of such youths have frequently shown that they killed because they could no longer tolerate conditions at home. These children were psychologically abused by one or both parents and often suffered physical, sexual, and verbal abuse as well—and witnessed it given to others in the household. They did not typically have histories of severe mental illness or of serious and extensive delinquent behavior. They were not criminally sophisticated. For them, the killings represented an act of desperation—the only way out of a family situation they could no longer endure.

- Heide, Why Kids Kill Parents, 1992.

Despite these being the most frequent conditions of “parricide,” it still brings unique disgust to think about it for most people. The sympathy extended to murdering parents is never extended even to the most desperate child, who chose to kill to not be killed. They chose to stop enduring silently, and that was their greatest crime; that is the crime of the child who hits back. Hell, children aren’t even supposed to talk back. They are not supposed to be anything but grateful for the miserable pieces of space that adults carve out in a world hostile to children for them to live following adult rules. It isn’t rare for children to notice the adult monopoly on violence and force when they interact with figures like teachers, and the way they use words like “respect.” In fact, this social dynamic has been noticed quite often:

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person” and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

(https://soycrates.tumblr.com/post/115633137923/stimmyabby-sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean)

But it has received almost no condemnation in the public eye. No voices have raised to contrast the adult monopoly on violence towards child bodies and child minds. No voices have raised to praise the child who hits back. Because they do deserve praise. Because the child who sets their foot down and says this belongs to me, even when it’s something like their own body that they are claiming, is committing one of the most serious crimes against adult society, who wants them dispossessed.

Sources:

“The Adult Gaze: a tool of control and oppression,” https://livingwithoutschool.com/2021/07/29/the-adult-gaze-a-tool-of-control-and-oppression

“Filicide,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filicide

#repost of someone else’s content #medium repost #Alba M. #purity culture #ageism #adultism #youth oppression #childism #child abuse #parental abuse #youth rights #youthlib #youth liberation #parricide #nuclear family abolition #anarchism #note: I would consider reevaluating the demonization of adults who kill their parents too #many victims remain entrapped well into adulthood #there are still a lot of issues of economic dependency and control especially for young adults #and I don’t think such a totalizing power imbalance engendered in childhood is so easily levelled #even if an adult does become financially independent #likewise for adult victims of intimate partner abuse: also structurally made difficult for them to leave #even if not criminalized to the same degree #anti-abuser aktion

[seance]

THE MUSKETEERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY REWATCH / fave episodes [5/?] ↳ SEASON 2, EPISODE 5 / the return

#themusketeersedit #the musketeers #perioddrama #perioddramasource #the musketeers bbc #athos #aramis #d'artagnan #porthos #tmrewatch* #edits #at this point you must have noticed all my faves eps involve #angst + hurt/comfort + the gang being supportive of each other #and that's why they basically all align with every canon divergence fic i've ever read #anyway love athos being an absolute menace #the ugly side of his trauma humanizes him so much more to my eyes honestly #especially next to d'artagnan youthful idealism #and you know i can't resist aramis being worried about his friends hip popping out and everything

[uncanny-tranny]

An important aspect of youth liberation is not tying the idea of later adult care with having children.

The broader attitude that only your children can ensure that you get taken care of when you grow old is not a good precedent to set. Having children should not be what ensures that you can live through old age, and fear mongering people with the idea that nobody will ever take care of them (or, rather, shouldn't) is such an awful motivator to have children.

#politics #youth liberation #yes some children will take care of their parent/s when they grow old. that is bound to happen. that isn't what i am talking about though #i am talking about a broader attitude of 'if you don't have kids you'll die alone and painfully. by the way! 🫰' #sometimes i wonder if that attitude also guilt trips children to stay and take care of their parent/s #like i am very much never taking care of my abusers. and sometimes it seems like people think if you as a child don't devote your soul... #...to your parents you are Worse Than Satan #this especially goes for childless or child-free folks too. they deserve to be taken care of because they are PEOPLE #and not because they have fulfilled the Being (Good™©®) People Quota

[canisalbus]

(im sorry)

Vasco would change after Machete's death, I think. He'd always be a good, kind man, and in time his smile would return, but never with its old radiance. Sorrow would age him prematurely, and white would creep over his muzzle like clouds blocking the sun.

But perhaps he'd look in the mirror some nights, and run his fingers across the white fur with fondness, remembering the white fur that used to press against him once upon a time. A last reminder of his love, forever on his lips.

.

#let out such a pained exhale at that ending jeez #yes I agree #Vasco always came across very youthful and resistant to wear and tear #especially compared to Machete who looked sort of prematurely aged by health issues stressful lifestyle and general gauntness #but I think he started greying soon after Machete's death #from grief and sudden lowered quality of life #eventually he'd mend and go on to live a long life mostly free from further heartbreak I think #but he'd never be the same as before #answered #anonymous #loving the 'I'm sorry' preface #death #cw death #you scroundel you romanticized grey muzzles #Vaschete scenarios

[loomingtwilight]

i love neuvifuri’s dynamic and relationship. like. imo they are the epitome of “we are inseparable, we are in love in every way, we are soulmates not by birth or due to fate binding us inexplicably but because we spent those 500 years being the one constant in each others lives and weve come to know each other the best, but we are simultaneously strangers. we never truly knew each other during all that time.“

and neuvillette knew for so long furina was keeping a secret from him and it pained him to force that secret into the light, but he knew he had to in order to save fontaine, and despite that he still wanted to do it as gently as possible. to make the trial the last resort if the travelers conversation didnt work. after the final events of the archon quest, he let furina go wherever she wished, he (if im remembering correctly) gave her a nice house and enough funds to do as she pleased and live comfortably. he used his new authority over hydro to give her a vision made specifically for her, the very first vision he has given out. he has made it as clear as day that she is welcome to talk to him, to ask to have tea, to ask him for whatever or simply just to talk.

neuvillette using those actions to say “i hope you let me know who you truly are, and allow me to stay in your life for as long as you wish, but i love you so i will not force you.”

#anyway new comfort m/f ship dropped. #genshin impact #furina #neuvillette #neuvifuri #i hope this is comprehensible to anyone other than myself. sometimes i completely lose track of my point when ranting about my blorbos #and in addition to that i also just have trouble verbally or textually translating thoughts into words that exactly describe my feelings #ALSO! this doesnt even have to be romantic. i equally adore platonic and queerplatonic interpretations #i just also love the romantic feelings between the two but feeling scared to act on it #especially from furinas perspective bc shes desperate to relearn who she is #and as much as she truly loves neuvillette shes hesitant to start approaching those feelings #again bc she is just starting to catch up on lost youth + a little bit of that fear of vulnerability near inherent in any relationship #yeah im super normal about them why do you ask? #genshin #genshin neuvillette #genshin furina #also i dont fucking care if you dislike neuvifuri and believe in whatever ship supremacy. idc leave me alone i dont want ship discourse. #let me enjoy my blorbos in peace or ill block you

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

#i still dont really understand how they got away with this kind of thing honestly #female VAs i get that - but first m/m kiss in an anime in episode THREE????? #theres also the maraich/thomas episode where they are *Both* voiced by women....advanced yuri #patalliro #i love how bancorans gender expression is pretty much explicitly to attract only bishounen #you blushed - so you must not be a girl #etc #i also love how joyful it all is #theres never anything sad or tragic about being gay - only that bancoran is forced to kill the bishounen spies/assassins/etc #when bancoran finds out that gay sex feels good after demian; in the manga he is elated. its basically a positive thing #he awakens to his true power...lol #also notable is that while bishounen youth is glorified maraich is still 18. #besides making the show more palatable; this means it portrays being gay as an adult as normal #according to the NYT japan's psychiatric body called homosexuality a mental illness until 1995 #im not going to say patalliro changed that or anything lmao but its just significant to me that banmara get to live their lives happily #especially contrasting that with kaze to ki no uta and other manga of the time (no shade intended) #yaoi #<- for tagging purposes #obviously it also got away with a lot by being a gag manga. but still! #months later edit: want to say im not intending to moralize BL manga from the 2000s either. like gen. no hate on them. #as a gay person i just appreciate when characters who act gay are considered gay textually #and its kind of disheartening how gay-as-identity was treated as something incredulous in those manga a lot of the time #even the mere suggestion of attraction to men as a whole and not just the other male lead...yknow

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Characters who are so done with this shit. (Part1/?)

Kieta Hatsukoi

Semantic Error

Minato Shouji Coin Laundry

Love Mechanics

Behind Cut

History 2: Crossing The Line

About Youth

Kabe-Koji

My favorite bl-tropes collection, in no particular order.

#bl tropes #multi bl #multibl.edit #being a mood #I love my existential crisis boys #especially Kim Ki Jin - he is my spiritual animal in this scene #drinking wine out of the bottle with a straw #kieta hatsukoi #semantic error #minato shouji coin laundry #love mechanics #behind cut #history 2: crossing the line #about youth #kabe koji nekoyashiki kun desires to be recognized #bl drama #bl series #asianlgbtqdrama #myedit #beingthemood

[vyeoh]

Something about ballister (an adult) talking nimona (a trans teen) down from suicide, projected to the kingdom with the text overlay "monster attack"

#vio.txt #tw suicide #nimona #i watched it for the 6th time #because thats how it is isnt it #the adults that are allies to trans youth that are being accused of letting the monster into our society #all they're doing is trying to help trans kids see that theyre able to fucking live a life #its just a visual that. hit me especially hard

[scarycranegame]

you know kosa is a horrible fucking idea when even the kids it's claiming to protect are rallying against it

#not fandom #let's get serious #kosa #kosa bill #kids online safety act #stop kosa #i hope whoever came up with the IDEA of kosa dies and goes to hell #i fucking hate the us government so much. how did we get to this point #''uuu think of the children'' BITCH THE KIDS ARE AGAINST IT TOO!!!! #i guarantee you that kosa has NOTHING to do with protecting kids online. all it has to do with is suppressing resources for minority groups #ESPECIALLY queer resources (specifically resources for queer youth) #if nothing else. please sign as many petitions as you can to stop this shit from happening #for the sake of literally everyone who uses the internet #scary crane rambles

[fan-kingdoms]

god i wish we had gotten more of twelve with river song. he just meshes so well with her and since their time streams are finally (almost) synced up you don’t feel the imbalance of maturity/knowledge that you get in a lot of eleven’s time with her, and less general timeline “where are they right now what the fuck is happening” fuckery to sort through. just a husband and wife who have lived so much together and know it’s coming to an end very soon so they have to relish it (even if river doesn’t have the knowledge of her own death the way the doctor does, she knows it’s almost over because her diary is running out of pages). and i love watching this older, less theatrical, more rough-around-the-edges doctor with her because it develops their dynamic and the passage of time for the doctor so well. he's not eleven, trying to hide the pain and damage anymore. he doesn't spin off lies and deflections. he wears the hurt and is comfortable in it, and river is there to bring the joy and wonder out. they just have a more mature, beautiful relationship to me.

more thoughts and elaboration under the cut bc i care for your dash <3

twelve and river were such a delight to watch because (this is getting into hot take territory here sorry) once capaldi took over from matt smith, the show basically gave up on the whole “the doctor is very attractive and all the women want him” narrative that it pushed for eleven. of course it was there with ten but i think it got Egregious with eleven. moffat really wanted us to believe matt smith was the hottest man in the universe (and he’s not unattractive! i admit i thought he was attractive when i first watched doctor who years and years ago! the writing was just over the top with it!) twelve is not some young whimsical prettyboy anymore— he’s abrasive, blunt, and old. the show doesn’t treat him like he’s supposed to be attractive, which makes him and river’s relationship feel so real.

first off i want to point out that river is still very much attracted to the doctor in his new body which was so exciting for me because how often to we get to see romance and desire and (sexually) intimate relationships in people past the age of 35??? hardly ever! how often do we see a beautiful woman expressing desire for a man that’s not young or conventionally handsome NOT because she has ulterior motives or we’re supposed to believe he’s actually the sexiest man alive but because she simply loves him? how often do we see relationships where no matter how much change they go through, even when one of them has turned into an entirely different person (figuratively or literally), the love stays steady and unchanged? especially when these changes involve aging? there isn’t nearly enough. and seeing it is kind of healing for me, just a reminder that you can have love and intimacy and passion even when you’re not “young and beautiful” anymore

twelve and river’s relationship is just charged with so much shared experience and trust and i wish we had gotten to see more of it. in conclusion i want a special that recaps the 24 years on darillium thank you and goodbye

#they had twenty four years… #all that time to just live and be husband and wife #all that time for her to learn all the ins and outs of the new him #and all the ways for him to work through how he can express love in the new body #as twelve rather than eleven #and getting to see that she loves him just the same in every form #idk i’ve been thinking a lot about aging lately #i know im young but i have a bit of a fear of it because of how society pushes the whole ‘past your prime’ narrative #especially for women who are taught that they lose value once their ‘youth and beauty’ fades #like i said seeing relationships like these is healing #doctor who #twelfth doctor #river song #the husbands of river song

[carmelasoprano]

Bebe Neuwirth as Avis DeVoto in episode 2x07 of Julia, "Shrimp and Grits"

#bebe neuwirth #avis devoto #julia hbo #julia #edit:bebeneuwirth #edit:julia #edit:avisdevoto #* #` #i dearly love looking at this beautiful woman's face #especially as i take breaks from reading about the ubiquity of postfeminist approaches to successful ageing in celebrity culture #as something to be 'managed' so that the body must be constantly surveilled for fear of deviating from #narrow conceptions of normative feminine beauty defined by youthfulness #raise a glass to every woman in the entertainment industry not dyeing her hair‚ going under the knife‚ or being injected with botox #and pour one out for every woman in the entertainment industry who is in an effort to make the most out of an impossible situation that #would limit her financial mobility and career opportunities if she didn't fall into line! #hear‚ hear #i will say though that i think as many women who can afford not to undergo cosmetic surgery as a 'solution' to aging shouldn't #because those who have prestigious enough careers (think meryl streep) can continue to land rolls anyway #and i think more women could leverage their success without resorting to such means #rant over i guess

[bruhstation]

younger henry cringe compilation

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte henry #ttte spencer #ttte edward #ttte gordon #casa tidmouth #senjart #consider this a celebration for henry coming in third place in the topdisease competition! #henrysweep2k23 forever.....! #anyways for some reason I'm obsessed with the youth of the rws trio. their story before casa tidmouth #what if henry worried about everything and constantly sweated like a sad dog when he was younger (parallel to his cgi version) #then when he got older especially after he met lady he became mentally stronger and even sharp (parallel to his rws and model versions) #food for thought in this au.... tsk tsk.......

[princessithaca]

i'm kind of obsessed with the lockwood and co worldbuilding, actually. like, it's such a fascinating one-step-to-the-left universe alteration. what if, right as 70s britain is careening towards an economic crisis, keynesianism is creaking, and the whole country's about to come down with the 'british disease'. what if, out of the shuttered up city high streets in london and liverpool, or the burgeoning ghost towns of the rapidly de-industrialising north, literal ghosts began to emerge? what if?

#like! talk about thematically resonant!! #the soundtracking of the show in this regard is especially !!! bc it's fitting for the retrofuture of it all but also #bc the punk/rock music of the time was often speaking to that exact sort of youth disaffection with the bleak future #they were being presented with #i have a much more to say i feel like i could blather on for hours #lockwood and co #iona.txt

[bumblingbabooshka]

[TUVOKTOBER: Day 12] Casual telepathic conversation. There are some things you can't discuss with non-Vulcans.

No text!

The lady Tuvok's talking to is a canon, unnamed background character:

She's ex-Maquis and appears in like two scenes where she doesn't speak.

#Tuvoktober #non-text version beneath the cut #st voyager #bea art tag #st voyager fanart #Tuvok as a teen: I'm gonna rebel!!! Fuck society!!! Raaagh I'll DIE for love!!! #Tuvok Now: -tsk-....that's gonna bring down the property value. #Tuvok dresses in pretty bright and varied colors so I'm just making it a canon facet of him...like maybe where he grew up that was the #fashion (*he wears bright and varied colors when off-duty) #<- reds and purples and blues...not black and gray #but Spock liked blacks and grays soooo #youthtor-ri fai-tor etek = 'youth does not know us' <- Vulcan phrase I made up #'x doesn't know us' is a rough translation and it means...uh...like shrugging your arms aggressively. #Basically Tuvok is expressing 'but young people don't care' #also 'As ShiKahr says Vulcan does' is another made up phrase often used by Vulcans to complain about what's popular even and especially if #it did not originate from ShiKahr. <3 #Also 'uzh khaf' means 'new blood' and it had some historic meaning a long time ago but almost every modern day Vulcan just uses it to mean #a sort of mild insult like 'hipster'