#idk idk idk idk I'm just. is media literacy dead or

[homestuckredo]

Lots and LOTS have happened in the few days I haven't updated. But Hussie FINALLY took a day off so I have the chance to review in peace!!

First off we have new rules for the captchalogue system, including a size limit to digify items AND the potential to increase the upper limit (hasn't happened yet, but the office card speaks volumes). John has also opened the massive tomb "Colonel Sassacre's Daunting Text of Magical Frivolity and Practical Japery"

and NOTHING useful for actually pranking someone of course (honestly disappointed there are no practical tips in this page). The picture in the middle looks a dead ringer for Mark Twain tho... idk if it is supposed to be Sassacre or just a collage of 1900's looking clownery and Twain's pic is public domain. I guess we'll see.... We also have a brandy new room to explore, complete with last years Dark Knight Joker on the piano. AND WE HAVE SOUND. OMG WE HAVE SOUND!! I think i've played the piano refrain a dozen times its so beautiful!! I'm starting to get the hang of Hussie's emotional whiplash between 4chan humor, niche commercials, and haunting, beautiful and poetic moments. Moments filled with niche media literacy, that he then lies about the source of. I have to look up so many quotes just to be sure who said it guys. So much homework!!! (>.<)

But is does lead into the best part of the updates. WE MADE IT OUTSIDE.

Not only that BUT we have a beautiful animated title page, complete with neverending wind-chimes and a haunting monologue of emptiness and the feeling of missing something unknown.

"The streets are empty. Wind skims the voids keeping neighbors apart, as if grazing the hollow of a cut reed, or say, a plundered mailbox. A familiar note is produced. It's the one Desolation plays to keep its instrument in tune. It is your thirteenth birthday, and as with all twelve preceding it, something feels missing from your life. The game presently eluding you is only the latest sleight of hand in the repertoire of an unseen riddler, one to engender a sense not of mirth, but of lack. His coarse schemes are those less of a prankster than a common pickpocket. His riddle is Absence itself. It is a mystery dispersing altogether, like the moon's faint reflection, with even one pebble of inquiry dropped in its black well. It is the most diabolical riddle of all. "Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire." -Walt Whitman Yes, you are certain Walt Whitman said that. One hundred percent positive. You have a feeling it's going to be a long day."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld said that... not Walt Whitman. I am starting to think John reads a LOT of classic literature and is not a great narrator. I am not an English Major OR Literature Major tho, so this means little to me in the grand scheme of plots and subtext. Moving on.

we have two packages found at last and a visible SBURB disc.... trapped with father who may or may not be baking yet ANOTHER cake. more small mysteries and conflict to hold onto XD Finally, as we go back inside... the cake did not hold as adhesive and our harlequin doll is now missing an arm. Tragedy. Throw it in the fire. PLEASE. Since this has been a lot of updates together I am afraid I have missed things and underplayed just how much were in the last 20 pages... so if you notice anything else let me know!! I wanna see it all!.

#homestuck #homestuck replay #66-87 #homestuck redo #sorry this took so long #hospitals are exhausting #but there was no update today so i could catch up #also i just noticed the car also has a jester head #i wonder if dad goes to cons too #Clown Con #i would go #.... I should see if i can find one near me lol

[evilwickedme]

some fan attitudes about jason todd's morality are insane. no I don't condone murder in real life. but he's not??? a real person???? most importantly he's operating in a fictional reality where rehabilitation is proven impossible, imprisonment has proven impossible, and single individuals are responsible for more deaths than anybody since the fucking nazis. obviously he's in the right. if anything, bruce, who I should agree with since I think murder is wrong, gives the weakest fucking argument in utrh against murder. like utrh told this truly incredible story about a boy's irreparably damaged relationship with his father and positioned us to make a truly gorgeous point where the villain is both right and wrong and the hero both is right and wrong and then it fucked up bc batman isn't right!!! it isn't about his own personal inability to control himself, or at least it shouldn't be!!! but that's how it was positioned so it came across as jason todd is obviously right and honestly yeah the joker should die. there is no other in-universe option bc the joker cannot get better and he cannot be kept away from harming people. jason's been through a lot of writers since then and at first he's an outright ultra-violent villain who hates the batfam and later he's a tortured anti-hero with complicated familial relationships and idk whatever like. I'm not examining him through the lens of my actual real life opinions on whether or not you should kill people or whether or not I support the death penalty, and neither should you. he's a character in one of the most convoluted stories ever told and he needs to be treated as such, both in a doylist fashion (he's been written by real people who have differing opinions on what's morally correct and what makes someone a villain and who might not necessarily have the best grip on what makes murder wrong in a philosophical argument) and in a watsonian fashion (his worldview is shaped by extreme violence that is a cycle with no end in sight and that cycle has more to do with bruce and jason's relationship than it does the joker) and a combined fashion (the cycle will never end bc comic books need to keep using the same tensions over and over again and if bruce and jason resolve their differences jason's character will no longer serve its current narrative purpose and besides even if he did change another writer will just bring him back to whatever's most familiar and convenient for them and their story so meanwhile jason has to make the same exact choice to leave the joker alive and hate bruce for it and bruce can't truly communicate with jason bc the writers need to keep the story going in perpetual limbo). anyway none of this is readable but basically what I'm saying is that when I say I think jason's right for killing people yeah I mean it in that I think it's hot but also I mean it in that narratively it makes sense for him to see the world this way and it makes sense in universe for him to believe there is no better option for villains other than death. like. irl obviously a vigilante running around killing people would be bad (nevermind that jason isn't using guns rn specifically to avoid killing people accidentally or impulsively) but this isn't irl, it's a story, and I'm judging it on the merits of what kind of story it's trying to tell. and also I think jason killing people is hot.

#jason todd #batfam #dc #dc meta #idk idk idk idk I'm just. is media literacy dead or #utrh #gail speaks #jason todd my beloved #jt

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[sunnysunsins]

Since recently everything here has been taken over by dipshits who lack media literacy, i will come back here to say - RWBY is a good show. It is good. It has good story and good writing and good characters. Does it have stumbles and limitations? Of course, like everything else ever created. Is it the real reason yall are dedicating your lives to religiously following and picking apart every detail to find something, anything, to hate on and make it your whole personality? Nah.

Yall are just pissy your hc wasn't canon. And i'm only half-joking.

Yall are just stuck in the expectation of "cute girls in school fighting monsters and baddies", which it hasn't been for almost a decade. Let Beacon fucking die already, it was the most boring part of the story anyway. If you like it so much, watch.. idk, high guardian spice. Or maybe my hero academia, it has godawful writing too with your favorite Adam-like and Ironwood-like archetypes you adore so much.

And if you didn't click off already in hissy rage, and want to challenge me on the writing point:

Yall are complaining about pacing, characterization lacking, skipped development, insert some other reason, how "show went to shit after volume 3". Well, newsflash, look back at volume 1. REALLY look at it, without your nostalgia boner.

How, in what actually can fit into 3.5 full-length episodes, it skips a whole semester with only a few moments shown in like 3-8 minutes. Notice how Ruby and Pyrrha interacted like 2 times in 3 volumes total. Ruby and Penny? Yeah, they barely interacted too. Ren hasn't talked to rwby girls at all aside from ensemble scenes.

Too many characters in later volumes? Honey, 1-3 had SO many pointless grunts and you ate them up. The whole Vytal festival was filled with them.

Can you tell me the plot of volume 2 from the top of your head? Yeah, me neither. If i think maybe i can remember there was a mecha fight, a dance and a train, but beyond that what was the point of that entire volume again?

Your favorite, pedestalled, volume 3, most of which is fighty-fighty filler and the only stuff you actually remember when jizzing your pants about it is last 3 episodes.

Most character interactions and development happened after Beacon arc. Most actual plot and bigger story happened after it too. Yall are stuck circlejerking to *filler*, setup, which only purpose was to show the status quo to later destroy it and start to show the real picture.

Do you know why v4 and 5 feel so empty and missing something? Sure, juggling multiple plots gave it's pacing issues too, but it felt empty because there were no side characters to fill out the world and make it feel alive. V5 cast was so tiny it felt like nobody interacted at all. Because there were none of those "extras" yall hate on so much. The extras make the world feel real. Which is why Atlas feels alive when Mistral wasn't.

The most complaints about later volumes are chucked down to lack of media literacy and nuanced reading of situations and characters. Translated for your easier understanding: the writing was too nuanced for your "cute girls go fighty fighty brrr" brain to comprehend. Sometimes things require you to put the situation into character perspectives. Sometimes their decisions are made under stress + personality + influence of events and interactions. But i guess yall don't want to think, yall just want to watch "girl go brrr killy killy monster"

I can continue writing down all these other points, but i'm hungry and should get up so i won't. Bottom text: RWBY is a good show with good story and good writing and good characters. It has struggles and fumbles like every other piece of media. But for some reason, because it's indie, it's held to a much higher standard and everyone feels entitled to pick apart every detail of it to make themselves feel justified for feeling sad over their dead headcanons, even though they'd never do the same picking for big production popular series with much *much* worse writing than even the worst of RWBY's fumbles.

If you made it this far and are a member of rwde, congratulations, you still have a reasonable bone or few. Most others i guess clicked off at first point and blocked me after sending me some kinda death threat, idk, i haven't posted this yet after all.

So yeah, feel free to leave your takes and death threats below, i'll happily discuss further later

#rwby #rwby analysis #rwby is good #rwde #anti rwde #greenlight volume 10 #crwby #save crwby

[dootznbootz]

Helen of Sparta is cool af and some of y'all have media literacy that's piss on the poor >:(

There is so much victim-blaming bullshit surrounding her and it makes me so mad. I'm probably not even coherent in this and it's very late but whatever. Helen is an extremely complex figure and we will never truly understand what goes on inside her head all the time but some things do not change no matter what interpretation you like. Understand that by the time of the Iliad, Helen is NOT HAPPY IN TROY. She is literally forced to stay there by Aphrodite.

There's something strange with how people often see her as JUST "helpless" or JUST "manipulative". As if she cannot be both the puppet and the puppeteer. With the puppet part, I don't think people truly get that you basically can't do shit when gods/immortals are involved.

Even stranger how the idea of her choosing to go is used to either "girlboss" her or condemn her based on who you're talking to. And still victim blaming happening from both sides!!!

"Since she didn't just leave, she was actually happy there! It was her choice 😌 Feminist Icon!" for the "girlbossers" VS. "Since she didn't just leave, she was actually happy there! It was her choice😡 Why is crying now when she ran away with Paris in the first place?"

Okay, first off...You are literally CHOOSING the interpretation that has her go by choice as the abduction of Helen is unclear. Some say the whole "Aphrodite made her go" does not make it clear whether "love made her go" or if the actual goddess made her go.

But by the time of the Iliad that doesn't matter! By then she clearly doesn't love Paris anymore if that is the interpretation that you hold so dear. If it was her choice, do you think it's "deserved" that she is suffering the way she is? She cries, she argues with a goddess, she hates herself. This should NOT be seen as "consequences of your actions". This is not something small like "forgetting to put the chicken in the sink to dethaw so later in the day you can't have it for dinner" and you learn your lesson. Fuck off for thinking it's her "just desserts".

"Well, when Paris died, why didn't she just leave then? Aphrodite only made a promise to Paris, not to Deiphobus."

These epics are lost and vague. We'll never get big details. Troy was destined to fall and well, the fighting technically could've stopped as soon as Helen went home. But even then, put yourself in Helen's shoes for a moment.

The man you've been trapped with is finally dead. You're finally "free"...but you've been here for nearly a decade. You've seen babies become children, children become teens. While many blame you, there are people you care about here...Your husband is just over the wall...but does he still care for you? Does he hate you? You don't know what your fate would be either way...You'd probably become numb. You want to go home but what would that mean if you actually DID return? It is easier to stay with the familiar. You see the wooden horse, you know trickery when you see it. You see the familiar faces for the past decade and know that this means their death. You tap on the sides. The wood creaks. You know how their wives sound like. Some were your family after all. You hear nothing and so you go inside knowing everything is about to change.

I almost feel like people forget that she's a PERSON. I don't think many people would be doing so well with the stress she's been under!!! Idk. I thought I was going somewhere with this and maybe this is something but I'm done :D

#Ima write a minific with Helen. It's going to be shit as I won't try to go all out with it and it's more for 'practice' but it's in my brain #Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #this came out shitty af but oh well. this was more for me anyways :P

[mobolanz]

Idk about you I just personally think that if your reason to kill off that character because they're one of the following: 20+ adult (the main cast are teens hence you treat said character as 'old' )/suicidal or traumatized hence treating death like a 'reward to put them to rest' /a 'not badass' female character who's biggest crime is going for a more peaceful approach in a show with edgelord vengeful male lead hence to show what a naive shelter-minded fool she is (I'm awfully specific here for a reason) /to shit on their fans (I frankly dgaf how ~toxic~ they are)

It's kinda shitty and of course people would be upset

Some know-it-all: media literacy is dead grow up you can't handle your fav even getting a scratch 😡😡😡

#mai thoughts #writing

[hazel2468]

Ok so I understand griping about your faves dying I do (I fucking CRIED over Tamiyo and she isn't even all the way dead) but like...

Jace and Vraska being assumed dead by so many is starting to kinda peev me, just a little?

Jace... We have no IDEA where he went. He just dipped without a word from Norn. Went off somewhere. And we didn't see him AT ALL through the ENTIRE fight. I'm assuming that's because he was off-Plane.

To be frank, and maybe a bit rude, but if you read the Ravnica side-story and come away from that thinking Vraska is just straight up dead... I think you need to learn about like. Basic media literacy again. Because at the very LEAST something fishy happened there with her body. IMO, one of the NUMBER ONE RULES of interpreting ANYTHING is "If you don't see a body, it's all fair game". Combine that with the whole "Oh, Vraska is in her mind and we literally see the corrupted part of her vanish in the disappearance of the red text and Jace is there and then he does a THING"...

Like. We KNOW that Compleated Walkers can be saved now. We know it's possible for that to happen. Compleation is NOT death 100% of the time. If WotC was better with doing story good, I would be willing to bet that all the Compleated people will either wake up on their own, or be saved (although let's be real, we know WotC is kinda terrible with respecting the threads their authors leave for them to follow). We KNOW something happened to Vraska.

IDK, it just... As a writer. Seeing people being pissed off about Jace and Vraska being dead, when their fates were not only left SO ambiguous and SO obviously left like that ON PURPOSE, when the text was SCREAMING at us "look something happened to Vraska's body! After that big white flash and that vision of Jace doing something!"...

All I can say is that if I wrote something and people misunderstood it so badly... Like yes sometimes the curtains are just blue but also sometimes the text flat out tells you that the body can't fucking be found because something HAPPENED TO IT.

#mtg #magic the gathering #march of the machine #like I'm sorry to be salty so early #but i write a LOT and I love to read #and it really just seems to me that people don't know how to like #look at what the text is SUGGESTING anymore #they just take it all at face value and take it all literally #except in this case #the text is ALSO LITERALLY SAYING #that Vraska's body is gone and something weird happened there

[biracy]

(NOT SAYING THIS IS WHAT OP OF THE LAST POST I RB'D WAS IMPLYING. anyway) I do really dislike the consistent cultural portrayal of love, hope, joy, etc. as "vapid", "childish", or "intellectually unchallenging themes", especially when hate, violence, despair, etc. are being posited as the "more intellectual" or "deep" themes. It's the same thing that bothers me about people pretending like someone watching a sad movie and wishing the characters could be happy instead "has no media literacy" and "doesn't understand themes and motifs" (I'd actually argue that watching a sad movie and connecting with the characters and their situation so much that you want to write fanfiction where they could be happy is a perfectly valid way of "intellectually engaging" with a text. It means a sad movie did its job). I notice a lot of critique of "hopepunk" begins with its pretty silly name, but devolves into presenting anything that dares to be hopeful as frivolous and, well, "intellectually unchallenging", even though hopepunk is a response to grimdark, which isn't a genre that's particularly "deep" or "thoughtful" or "reading comprehension" itself. Idk there's a kind of edginess that has really stuck around on this website that has just turned itself into "media literacy"posting, in a way that I'm not fond of. "Love" (including and especially lgbt romance, I see the way you people post) is not in and of itself an "unchallenging" theme that stupid idiots are focusing on instead of "real themes" or whatever. Obviously not all media/entertainment/art/etc. has to be "deep", but things CAN be "deep" and also be about love and hope and happiness at the same time. Some of u need an understanding of "maturity" and "depth" in art that's more evolved than a MatPat film theory video about how all the Rugrats are actually dead

#open mick night #sighs this website's recent fetishization of the mere concept of 'themes and motifs' will be the death of me

[mermaidsirennikita]

https://twitter.com/Zulo_Ren/status/1770256561388101881?t=66YKLffNnA-VEcUhjybfLQ&s=19

My bad I probably should have just sent it to you in the first place!

Thank you, no worries! And...

Dude, I'm sorry, how the fuck does this individual think some professor is gonna walk up to HR and go "don't fire me, I thought it was okay because of this romance novel". Lmao be fr. I hate the phrase "touch grass" but touch fuckin' grass because what kind of separation from reality do you have to have to think that adults are going to abuse their power.... because of a book.

I actually think the relationship between Adam and Olive is really debatably dicey because they don't have professional interactions from what I recall? But it's been a while since I read the book, and again, the professors out there who are fucking grad students are already doing it regardless of how unethical it is, and regardless of whether or not that book is out. Like, I'm picturing a prof, probably in their 30s at least, going "you know, I though fucking my advisee would be a bad move... but I've been led on a different path by The Love Hypothesis".

And I do wanna make another thing clear here: I do not care if fictional advisors fuck their fictional adult students. I don't care! I don't care. Because fiction is not prescriptive, and I would also add that it is RECKLESS to compare two adults in a situation wherein there is a potential abuse of power but for all intents and purposes, both are consenting... to a teacher/student relationship, in which a minor is involved and CANNOT CONSENT.

I think that from a fictional perspective, an adult student fucking their prof is more akin to boss/employee romances, which I also think are fine. Advisable in real life? Probably not, though also not SET IN STONE disasters/crimes, the way an adult assaulting a minor is. Ethical? Probably not. But on a similar level in fiction, ESPECIALLY in Ali's settings imo because these students are really very much grown academics on their own research paths. There is a big difference between an undergrad and someone doing postgrad research. Jesus. Olive is learning, as an example, but she is also literally doing her work. She is working to cure a disease. She's not sitting there taking class after class, she is DOING WORK. Learning from people, but it's HER JOB, also. As is often the case in academia.

Which is why I compare her situation more to boss/employee, except ADAM IS NOT HER BOSS.

So yeah, idk, media literacy is dead goodbye lmao

#romance novel blogging #it's been a good while since i read that book so forgive me if i've confused some details but ffs #and pls i'm not telling anyone that fucking their boss or their prof is a good idea #don't do those things is my perspective #but let's not act like the fallout from those situations (which can occur! but is not guaranteed to occur) #is the same as a teacher preying on a child

[lipglossanon]

Coming here is so comforting I swear. Sometimes I go through the pro ship tag to see what people are doing and saying cause idk if I should consider myself pro shipper or not, cause some of the stuffs I read are definitely too dark and taboo for a lot others but at the same time I know that I do not need to label everything about myself so I'm like well I like this thing and that other thing and that's it. But it makes me kinda angry seeing people só easily and simply judge others based on what they like as if it immediately makes them a bad person, as if thoughts are harmful and dangerous like they're actions.

And I hate specifically when I myself feel uncomfortable with what I like cause I know that rationally it makes no sense but???

Have you ever felt like that? Writing and reading things that have made people mad™? And if so how do you deal with it? Most of the time I'm pretty good at just being like 🙄 but sometimes it just bothers yk

Howdy anon!! 👋

And I’m so happy my blog’s a comfort to you!😌 🥰

It’s so funny to me how different the term pro ship is now; back in my day 👵🏻 it just meant that you were pro someone else’s right to ship who and what they want. Nutjobs took that to mean you accept any and all things instead of using their brain to think just cause you accept certain things doesn’t mean you condone others 🙄 fucking idiots

Anywho, I will get fired up about that so best move on 🤣

It’s sort of this new wave online where media literacy has been tossed out the window. Honestly just any critical thinking. And people are so scared of being criticized or hated on that they’re quick to jump on what’s considered ‘the correct’ bandwagon

Like some 1984 shit where they’re off tattling to Big Brother cause you like something they find an issue with 🙄

But to answer for real, I think it bothers all of us who enjoy/write/read darker content (hell even in the dead dove community some people get crap for liking things that other find distasteful—like bitch we’re all in the same boat lmao)

I feel like I’m just all over the place anon and for that I apologize lol

Not sure if it’s much of an answer but I’m the same as you; I do tend to overlook it, let it slide off my back so to speak. I’ve also taken to blocking a lot more than I ever have before. If I see a blog sharing or spouting off about censorship of any form or fucking asinine comments like “people who like x y z should just kill themselves” then they’re blocked and off my feed for good.

It pisses me off though; I really don’t understand where this purity policing and being jerk asses to strangers online started to pick up speed. They can go back to their sad little chat rooms and bitch to each other in that echo chamber and leave the rest of us to enjoy our online experience without being hated on (but no they gotta feel like they’re in the right 😒)

Sorry to the long ramble/rant of an answer, anon. Just know you’re not the only one! And that the block button is your friend!! 💜

#ask box #anon #lipglossanon #lipglossanswers

[fulgursmediaanalysisdrama]

No hate to the creator of this summary

But I love watching videos like this sometimes even though I disagree with most everything

Because it's obviously made by some maybe misogynistic dudebro with clear biases that get into the way of whatever media literacy he has, and dillutes or distorts whatever interesting observations and analysis he makes

Like I'm sorry, you can't just say nothing happens in the books that mostly cover Ciris perspective because they don't cover Geralts perspective much, and then even worse talk at length about all the stuff that happens. Like??? Hahaha

It also reeks of not understanding themes and core messages, something that's pretty apparent from the way he talked about the short stories (though there definitely are issues with them, no way to denie) and for example when he says that the books make a big deal out of Angouleme looking like Ciri but it not mattering. (Because he views Yennefer as Ciris mother more than Geralt as Ciris father)

There's also some factually wrong stuff, mostly inconsequential details like Reiges giving Milva a pill when he made her a potion, but also claiming that Reiges isn't dead because only higher Vampires can kill higher Vampires (nothing like that is ever said, and there's no reason to doubt that the single most powerful individual in Vilgefortz can't kill Reiges when it's textual not even literal that his molten down remains fused together with stone/marble)

Speaking of Vilgefort, he says Geralt gets wounded by him when in other instances he had no issues calling Geralt severely wounded or such. Which obviously is a massive fucking understatement, Geralt gets owned and almost dies. And, again purely textual, Geralt becomes permanently disabled as a result of the magical treatment that saved his life, but also because his hand can't recover full functionality anymore.

Then there's weird stuff like calling him one and also comparing Dandelion to faggots. But near the end of the video making fun of people who listen to right wing talking points too much. And that last one was what truly broke me, I needed to share all of this.

There's so much in here, I can't remember everything, you'll guaranteed find stuff I missed or overheard. This is art to me.

And yeah, dude said stuff like "wow no wonder a story is much more interesting when you follow the main character" when he switches to book 3 I believe. Because he can't stop complaining about Ciri being important in books 2 and 4, or rather getting more page time than Geralt does. Because he just likes Geralt more and it's awesome because something always happens and there's epic action and stuff. (Anyone else things he's horny for Geralt?)

Idk it's a beautiful mess of incompetence and predetermined judgements and I can't even be mad. But saying that CD Project Red wrote better stories with the games than Sapkowski did with the books, something he actually said in the video completely unironically, is pretty fucking wild. Immmagine. Dude doesn't even understand why Sapkowski wrote the book the way he did, any messaging is lost, hates 70% of the story because it doesn't show off how cool his big bad crush Geralt is. It's hilarious

I'll stop, no more

#Youtube

[flyingcookierambles]

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last night at dinner my sister's new conspiracy theorist boyfriend started talking about his mental health history and about his anxiety and stuff and how Cognitive Behavior Therapy helped him and how he stopped taking his anxiety and depression meds because he figured that it was all in his head so he just had to think his way through it. Plus he doesn't think that there's enough research on depression pills. And I'm just like. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAA

Like yeah depression ans anxiety sick and wow good for you for finding a good therapist that works for you and congrats on not needing medication to overcome your issues but the way he worded it + knowing about his family's background of being super religious and anti-vax makes me worry s lot bc I know that this guy is going to convince my sister that all mental issues can be solved by CBT and people should stop taking medication and stuff. Like. He is really convinced that he will be helping people with this advice. And he seems to mean well and all but like just because something worked for you doesn't mean that it will work for everyone. Yeah maybe some people don't need to take medication but others do. Maybe some people can use CBT techniques to overcome their mental illnesses and sometimes it doesn't work on others. Like. YOU NEED TO WORD THINGS CAREFULLY. I TOOK ACTUAL CLASSES IN COLLEGE ON MEDIA LITERACY AND WRITING SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC. YOU HAVE TO WORD THINGS CAREFULLY.

my idiot immature impressionable 21 year old younger sister hates reading and when she does read she reads basic romantic YA published Wattpad stories like After and stuff. she only watches shitty Netflix teen romcoms and CW shows. She literally didn't know the difference between County, country, and continent. This new guy who probably gets his information from some blog or forum that also features theories on why sandy hook was fake and why Bigfoot is real is like. 28 or 29 years old.

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Like yeah maybe CBT will help with some of my sister's issues but there are other issues that she faces that her white cis het boyfriend doesn't that CBT can't just fix. In high school her class was awful and racist and called her things like dog eater and zipper head and chink even tho we are the whitest Chinese American in town thanks to our white parents and transracial adoption and ive read that CBT doesn't help with external factors much like racism. You can't just rationalize that stuff away or think that it's all in your head for external issues like that. UUUGFJHSHAAHWHAHWJEHSJSKSZK ripping my hair out jsjssjdjsjsjsndbajakskdkdk

The weird thing too is that the new boyfriend said that during his younger years he was surrounded by a lot of child death?? He got scared by watching House the TV show or something too? HOw you can go from wanting to stay health and not die to being distrustful of doctors and scientists who are trying to keep you alive is frankly insane to me.

ONCE AGAIN I HATE IT GET ME OUT OF HERE I DON'T WANT THIS CRAZY ANTI-SCIENCE THOUGHTS IN MY HOUSE WHEN I'M LITERALLY A STEM MAJOR (not that it worked out but you know) AND HAVE MADE MULTIPLE BIOLOGY AND PRE-MED FRIENDS IN COLLEGE AJDJDJWJWJSJSHWHAHSHEHEHSHDHDJEEJSJDBDBEBCIFORPWWMDBRBWUDIFBRBEWJXIFKRNWBSJFKRNEBSDJ CRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGEEEEEEE HELP

ugh it they have kids and those kids get like. Idk. Polio or small pox or something bc he convinced my sister to not have them vaccinated and they end up in an iron lung or dead or whatever I'm just going to be like. Your brought this on yourself for believing some random internet stranger named Gary or something instead of a professionally trained person.