For the record I do not like the line that ”trans surgeries for minors basically never happen” because you’re describing a rare but often vital medical procedure like its getting attacked by a bear.

i want what i want

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 18,1964

And that would be messed up as hell.

Quite frankly, there’s more great art in the world than any of us could see in a dozen lifetimes. But we’re not exactly swimming in joy out here. If I thought art truly required misery, like some messed-up gallery Omelas, then going a museum would mean I was walking through a sea of human anguish.

I’m pretty sure that, if he was anything like me, he’d have produced ten times the art because he wasn’t spending so much time lying in fetal position, but even if that wasn’t true, SO FUCKING WHAT? If he spent his life happy and never painted another stroke, good for him.

This reminds me of a coupla decades ago when the argument du jour was “What if Van Gogh had been medicated for his depression?!” with the implication that he wouldn’t have created art if he wasn’t miserable. A) fuck that noise B) Van Gogh didn’t own anybody his art OR his misery

'''you wouldnt kick a puppy''' what the fuck are you talking about there are tears in its eyes its begging me it needs me to hurt so badly

From the trailer of "SCP:Gallionic", an indie animated short film by SOEM Studios. Based on SCP Foundation, a wiki-based collaborative writing project, launched in 2008. Kickstarter >> www.kickstarter.com/projects/gln...

THEORIES: A second big bang occured, but silent + invisible. Planets had a staring contest, causing an existence tear. Everyone on the planet had the same thought at the same time and WAM! A demon had a dream. Someone tried to dig to the center of the Earth and succeeded.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” -incredible progress in wind, solar, and more efficient batteries that will radically reduce our reliance on fossil fuels -Engineered living therapeutics to treat chronic disease -mRNA advances and the potential to prevent all kinds of disease

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

I knew, whatever my place in this garden, it was not to be what I had always been: the gardener. Everywhere the reptiles thrashed while birds exploded into heavenly hymns of rough song and the vultures drifted like black angels and clearly nothing needed to be saved.

when god gives you lemons (you accidentally explode your guaranteed wand of wishing because you forgot you already charged it once) simply make lemonade (immediately find a second wand of wishing just in a regular box)

Due to her sensitivity to other's emotions thanks to the Echo, Krile grew up withdrawn from those around her. She found life on the Isle of Val, where people were few and familiar, far more bearable than the busying towns and cities

slowly expanding seafood platter..... tucks my napkin under my chin

TIME! FOR! CRAB! (EMOTIONS)

there was a huge thing on twitter/tumblr "receipts" culture with that, people keeping huge dossiers of "problematic" shit to repost uncensored on main if the original was ever taken down and it was like... why do you have that shit why would you think I want to see that shit

also i am immediately suspicious of anyone who WANTS to see that shit, like "no i simply must see the CSAM, just for research haha"

genuinely i cannot believe that i have to say this but you do not need to - and absolutely should not - expose yourself to CSAM material in order to “witness” the crimes of the elite. this does nothing except make vicarious trauma, moral injury, and potentially places you in legal jeopardy. STOP

you're looking at her like she's doing something weird. she's not. this is a normal way to sit for a cat.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

(and you shouldn't be it brings me joy every day)

it is very funny to me to have, like, a slowly expanding palette of terminology to encompass what i can only describe as Seafood Emotions

Well at least they didn't bring a walrus.

Increasingly believing our 7yo is a brilliant artist! I could never hope to express this much character. We may make a ttrpg with her next year.

guy who played dawntrail and got all of the wrong ideas from it

bsky's default filters can be set to warn for drawn nsfw but not filter real nsfw, but not vice versa, and that feels backwards. maybe its bc im in an otaku bubble but i think "im ok with seeing real dicks but not cartoon dicks" is less common than "im okay with nsfw art but not Your Real Dick"

SEE THIS IS (PART OF) WHAT I MEAN ABOUT THE ECHO BEING A DISABILITY GOD I WISH THE GAME WOULD DO MORE WITH THAT, ESPECIALLY WITH THE WOL

Growing up with the Echo, Krile Baldesion was exceedingly sensitive to the intentions of others. She could instinctively discern the innermost thoughts and feelings of others. Apathy, intolerance or even hatred could overwhelm her and reduce her to tears

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

僕もいちご食べたいです。がんぼるぞい。 translation: I also want to eat strawberries.

sometimes I wonder how many antis who complain about "gross disgusting pedo incest rape PORN" only read the tags of fics and assume it's 20K of PWP, when it's actually 19.5K of drama, analysing The Trauma the character goes trough with 500 words of an overtagges sex scene

He's such a good parent

I don’t think ppl understand the whole “who cares if nobody likes it! make content for yourself” is extremely dismissive Bc we ARE making the content for ourselves but it feels /bad/ when people don’t engage or show interest. You can care about both at the same time

help someone save their game

this article is fascinating and puts a lot of my feelings into words, and i am turning it over in my mind. it also pairs nicely with this tumblr post that just crossed my dash in a timely manner

making this a quote post for the clout

my sister asked me if I had a hoop skirt on under this

going to the doctor as a chronically ill person like:

an aggressive ant colony reduces the Keebler elves to a pile of bones and little outfits, but what sends a wave of deep unease around the world, the true source of fear, is how fast these ants are able to get cookie production ramped back up

i wanna tie this back to one of my other rants. the point is not "maybe it was All Justified because it was a trauma reaction," it's: "trauma reaction gone wrong sounds sympathetic, like something i could do if i were in a bad way. how do i not do that in my life, or make it right if i have."

I think this is much, much more powerful and insidious than simply wishing other people ill. It’s like a chain. But we can’t fight the things that happened to us from harming anyone else unless we face what they are

I can’t alter my perception of myself to someone who was helpless, or whose problems are part of some mundane social bias, or that I wasn’t somehow deserving of punishment, or that anything bad occurred to me at all.

Idea I keep coming back to with the shit parenting in this game is the concept of “it happened to me so I have to let it happen to my kid. Not because I think they should suffer as I suffered but because I can’t allow myself to think. That what happened to me was bad.”

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