#leftie shit

[magnetothemagnificent]

The world is so hostile to tweens.....

Like we joke about how our schools growing up would ban the latest toy trends, but that reality genuinely horrific when you think about it. Like maybe 1% of the bans were based on safety, but the rest cited reasoning like

-"kids were bartering for collectibles" (kids learning about economics and product value)

-"kids were wearing them and the colors were too flashy" (kids experimenting with self expression and fashion)

-"kids were playing with them during lunch and recess instead of using our rusted safety hazard playground" (kids utilizing their free time to do what helps *them* unwind).

Play areas specifically geared towards children and especially towards teens are constantly being shut down. "Oh kids today are always on their phones!" Maybe because

-there are barely any arcades left and even less arcades that aren't adult-oriented,

-public pools and gyms are underfunded and shut down,

-"no loitering" laws prevent kids and teens from just hanging out,

-movie theatres only play the latest films and ticket prices are only rising,

-parks and playgrounds are either neglected or replaced with gear only directed at toddlers and unsuitable for anyone older

-genuine children's and young teen media is being phased out in favour of media directed only at very small children or older teens and adults.

-suburbs and even cities are becoming more and more hostile to pedestrians, it's just not safe for kids to walk to or ride their bikes to their friends' houses or other play destinations

Children's agency is hardly ever respected. Kids between the ages of 9-13 are either treated as babies or as full-grown adults, with no in-between. When they ask to be given more independence, they are either scoffed at or given more responsibilities than are reasonable for a child their age.

This is even evident in the fashion scene.

Clothing stores and brands like Justice and Gap are either closing or rebranding to either exclusively adult clothing or young children's clothes, with no middle ground for tweens. Tweens have to choose between clothes designed for adults that are too large and/or too mature for their age and bodies, or more clothes they feel are far too childish. For tween girls especially it's either a frilly pinafore dress with pigtails or a woman's size dress with cleavage. No wonder tween girls these days dress like they're older, it's because their other option is little girl clothes and they don't want to feel childish.

And then when tweens go to school, the books they want to read aren't available because they cover "mature" topics (read: oh no two people kissed and they weren't straight or oh no menstruation was mentioned or oh no a religion other than Christianity is depicted), so kids are left with books for way below their reading level. No wonder kids today are struggling with literacy, it's because they can't exercise and expand their reading skills with age-appropriate books. Readers need to be challenged with new words and concepts in order to grow in their skills, only letting tween read Dr. Seuss and nursery rhymes doesn't let them learn.

Discussions about substance use, reproduction, and sexuality aren't taught at an age-appropriate level in school or even by children's parents, so they either grow up ignorant and more vulnerable to abuse, or they seek out information elsewhere that is delivered in a less-than-age-appropriate manner. It shouldn't be a coin-toss between "I didn't know what sex was until I was 18 and in college" or "my first exposure to sex as a tween was through porn" or "I didn't know what sex was so I didn't know I was being sexually abused as a kid."

Tweenhood is already such a volatile and confusing time for kids, their bodies are changing and they're transitioning from elementary to middle to high school. It's hard enough for them in this stage, but it's made worse by how society devalues and fails them.

We talk about the disappearance of teenagehood, and maybe that's gonna happen in the future, but the erasure of tweenhood is happing in real time, and it's having and going to have major consequences for next generation's adults.

#leftie shit #i guess #ageism #social issues #tweenhood #the disappearance of tweenhood #current events #relevant issues

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

#anyway this is just more of that lefty shit where 'well i can't be racist because i'm gay!' #'well i can't be media illiterate because i love villains!' #not how that works babes #'well I KNOW bad from good so i can't be affected by media!' #'everyone else also knows bad from good and defines it the exact way i do!' #'so if i think this is bad then the author must also think this is bad!' #i have bad news .... #also how do you know bad from good? who taught you that? hmm? #did you fall out of the womb knowing? or did you pick up some things on the way here? #'i just know' no you don't! that's what i'm saying! #assuming one thing is always true is the opposite of being a conscious consumer of media soz #assuming someone thinks and knows the exact same shit you think and know is not media literacy!!

[askinsufferableprickmod]

that one john vriska convo

#as this been done before? i saw a davekat one a while back but #homestuck #vriska serket #john egbert #june egbert #johnvris #hom3stuck #hs #my art #lefty art #like all things considered he took all that shit pretty well #hs reread adventures

[glitterfish1272]

stuck with him

#hiiii fnaf tumblr sorry I abandoned you for a while <3 #I promise I didn't forget about youu u (heart emoji) #anyway this is my own au content technically!! #this is my redesigned scraptrap to fit my au also #in this au the mci souls (and evan) hitch a ride with william #rather than dumbass moltenmci which is probably true #because they tried to prevent him from escaping the fnaf 3 fire (they failed) #colored ends on the souls indicate what animatronic they came from #soul color is their eye color because im kinda obsessed with that for some reason #left to right: jeremy evan fritz cassidy susie gabriel #charlie is NOT with them because she stuck around to ensure they did their job #since they didnt shes like OH SHIT and tries to find them and gets captured by lefty and then ffps happens #okay enough rambling. time for tags #fnaf #fnaf art #springtrap #scraptrap #fnaf au #fnaf mci #fnaf missing children #william afton #fnaf susie #fnaf gabriel #fnaf cassidy #fnaf evan #fnaf crying child #fnaf fritz #fnaf jeremy #also the reason they are able to do this is because their original vessels are destroyed in the fnaf 3 fire #cw blood

[nachosforfree]

6 fnaf freaks

#em draws shit #art #digital art #digital #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #foxy fnaf #music man #cc afton #toy freddy #mangle fnaf #lefty fnaf

[somniorumfactus]

it is absolutely. killing me. that the top adjacent artists for ben schneider are the fictional lord huron lore (lored huron) artists and not yknow. lord huron

#lord huron has almost 17 million monthly listeners. hefty lefty has 91 total #but the people who are insane about lh are so insane about them that this shit happens #showstopping unbeatable etc #lord huron #lh

[nightmareepuppet]

ik nobody gaf about these dumbass edits (/lh) I just needed to make something to cheer myself up

#fnaf #puppet fnaf #lefty fnaf #glitchcore #Is that still a thing that exists #idek what this aesthetic its called I just remember seeing it everywhere at one point #this shit took way longer than it should've #ill probably make a tiktok acc just for these edits theyre quite fun to make actually

[peachtozier]

Richie totally does baby Eddie's homework so they can get to playing games faster but the teachers can always tell he's written it bc Richie's handwriting is terrible and smudged meanwhile Eddie has lovely readable handwriting

#more leftie richie propaganda #eddies trying really hard at his lil english grammar questions and richies just speeding thru their math worksheets #he really wants to play with eddie but eddie refuses until all their homework is done. so richie helps out <3 #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #reddie #it 2017 #it 2019 #adult eddies handwriting is not as good i think. he mostly types nowadays #richie writes all his jokes into a notebook so his handwriting had to improve so he could read his own shit #connors hcs

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

doodled some goofy fellas for a fanganronpa that will probably never exist. meet the ultimate general surgeon and the ultimate mortician, in case you can't tell they're foils

twins separated at birth. i dont have names for them so for now they're leftie and rightie

leftie went to a relatively well-off family that placed heavy emphasis on using your life for the Greater Good

rightie grew up in an environment where death was prevalent but people were always trying to live life to the fullest

leftie goes into the medical field, saves countless people, but also bears witness to the worst any human can survive and endure and the worst people can be at the lowest point of their lives

rightie, witnessing a lot of death and the rituals that follow, gets interested in the different ways a body is prepared for burial and goes into mortuary sciences. they always do their best to make sure each body goes out looking peaceful, and become skilled in most rituals for seeing a dead person off

ironic opposites of 'life-saving doctor jaded by the ugliness of life' vs 'mortician who celebrates the lives of each person they take care of'

leftie sees rightie as being too flippant and sheltered from the horrors of life and rightie sees leftie as being too serious to enjoy what life has to offer

#fangan oc #they'd kill each other probably. and one of them would try to take the other's place #leftie doesn't wear the white coat bc they hate being seen as nothing BUT a doctor #rightie wears the lab coat bc its swag #maybe the symbolism here is too heavy-handed. but u know what i had fun coming up with this so who give a shit #danganronpa #my arts

[magnetothemagnificent]

Leftists being obsessed with the French Revolution and the Soviet Union is the same kind of red flag as straight white boys being obsessed with the Roman Empire and WW2

#i said what i said #same kind of red flag #all war and violence obsessed #leftie shit

[gurorori]

haha oh no im definitely not at all disturbed by the prevalence of leftists on all platforms who are loudly 'anti-genocide' when it comes to the palestinian cause (and a couple others at best :3c) yet the only time ukraine [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] leaves their mouths is in critique, in stark comparison to the former or in complaint about their (american) government sending aid.

at first what i saw often was pointing out the differences in western media framing [ukraine vs palestine], and that's fair (until the words and the agenda of western journalists are used to paint, as a whole, ukrainians who have been actively going through genocide as some kind of white supremacists hogging the blanket of global attention when they kinda just want to live and have the rights to their own land, culture, names and families)

but no one is even caring to do that anymore, today bitches just invent metaphorical scenarios and people to get mad at and to throw an entire ethnos away because wahhhh i decided that you care for X but not for Y!!!.... all while doing the exact thing they are condemning. the exact absolute same and they don't even hide it but do lack the self-awareness to realise

#'ohh i saw white people still go out to rally for ukraine' yeah have you considered they are ukrainian or have ukrainian loved ones or uh #simply have humanity in their heart to care about several humanitarian tragedies in the world? #this is both aimed at a post i saw on here and at SEVERAL. MANY. twitterians with a thousand palestine flags all over their accounts spewing #misinformation hate and sometimes straight up russian propaganda tactics because they're this fucking insane #i don't care about sounding nice anymore by the way. i know my heart lies in the right place and i have the capacity to care about more than #one ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples #removed incidents of bad actors having a ukrainian flag on their backpack doing hateful shit does not somehow okay dismissing a genocide you #so vehemently claim to oppose. they are not ukrainians who are getting bombed on the daily for years #i saw a very lovely 🍉🕊️ lady denying holodomor and using literal russian talking points while patting herself on the back for being such #a good person. i saw one of the most popular leftie accs on twitter be actively anti-ukraine and using slurs. luckily we mass reported them #and they're gone #i'm no longer being careful with my words because i don't want to be misconstrued. i know my values go beyond twitter and tumblr #if i catch you in any way undermining the genocide of ukrainians or only bringing it up to point fingers and bitch i am blocking you forever #don't care how far this post might go cuz of ppls questionable use of the search function. and i didn't care to censor anything #like. masks off. just block me if this is your rhetoric

[poolboyservice]

I find it insane how left handed people were legitimately discriminated (horribly discriminated in fact) all over the world at one point, and actually still are in some local areas, primarily because of biases formed from religious beliefs

Like what the fuck do you mean if this were 1918, you'd literally tie my hand to the chair, whip me with a ruler, and call me a disgusting sin among other things, all the while I'm being forced to write my name "the holy way"

#superstitions were fucking wild #like autistic people were considered changelings so people fucking beat the shit out of them #people with DID were (and likewise w lefties: still are in some places) considered to be possessed by demons and were horrifically treated #ygs don't realize how fucked up we were back then until you look up the history behind folktales and legends #or even just look back on history in general #idk what to tag this it's just. woah #left handedness #left hand #superstitions #old superstitions #franky posts

[f-furryalert]

i was feeling a molten mood this weekend lmao , sooo have a reference doodle thingie of my molten freddy design !!! lets hope the quality isnt complete garbage SOB anyway he'll drop kick a child with zero hesitation if you promise him beef jerky

#fnaf #fnaf pizzeria simulator #fnaf pizza sim #fnaf 6 pizza simulator #five nights at freddy's #molten freddy #fanart #fnaf fanart #my art #hes a sweetheart i swear #he isnt the bringer of chaos i swear #hes my special skrunkle #also yes hes married to foxy #and yes hes homo for lefty #lefty gives zero shit #poly shit here boys !!! #mmm spaghet

[rafikecoyote]

#i salute my fellow lefty for managing this sexy shit #bcsedit #lalo salamanca #bettercallsauledit #better call saul #s008

[mari-bon]

previously on my silly little posts i mentioned that molten freddy is ennards fursona cause i didn't wanna make a separate character for them

well this gave me the idea to make the rest of the pizzeria simulator characters (excluding scraptrap) xer siblings cause who can stop me the fun police?

so

scarp baby who i am stuck on either sally or sadie as names for her

she's a horror movie girlie she has a creepy face mask that i might draw someday idk

i was thinking of giving her a baseball bat but i wanna give her something that resembles the weird scissor hand she has in game but i can't think of something like that that'd be normal for a high schooler to have

also she rollerskates cause you know why

i imagine she's the middle sibling unless i decide to make them triplets idk

so aside from the design i have literary nothing else for lefty i mean he's there ig but idk what she'd be into

I've thought about making her an aspiring magician but idk

what is there to the og lefty for me to repurpose in terms of personality or interests?

i mean i could involve him with the twins but what'd she even do? maybe he's their rival or something idk

idk if anyone has anything tell me

#no one gives a shit or will even notice but the blacks and greys ib leftys colours have a mor purple undertone #well technically pinkish purple but shhhhh #this is my way to reference the puppet connections #his blacks and greys are the same blacks and greys i use for thw twins #yes i have different blacks and greys and even whites for different characters i am a very normal person #what if i named Sbaby sally and made her horror mask look exactly like the sally face mask hehehe #fnafhs #blue's doodles