Dehumanizing bigots is bad, not because I want to be nice to them, but because they are human beings and they serve as a reminder that anyone is capable of evil ideation and action. Violent bigots are not fundamentally different beings from you. They are human beings, who have developed a reactionary and destructive belief system due to their circumstances combined with their biases. In a different timeline, that could've been you. Anyone can be radicalized. Nobody is immune to propaganda, not even the person reading this.

adults being totally useless in kids media is also a reflection of how adults interact with kids irl, adults are often deeply uncaring toward the needs and problems that children face so this is just a reflection of reality for children.

when a kid is being abused by a peer and an adult says to “just ignore it” or “he just has a crush on you”, when an adult is abusing a child and another adult says “you need to respect your elders” or “you are making this up for attention”, when a child experiences injustice adults will say “life was never meant to be easy” or “you’ll understand when you’re older”, when a child experiences something dangerous or traumatizing an authority figure says “kids say the darndest things”, when children are merely curious about the world they get told “i’ll tell you when you’re older” or “stop asking weird questions”. no wonder children resonate with stories that tell them adults are useless - they are useless a lot of the time!

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having pet stick bugs is fun because every so often i will hear the distinct sound of several stick bug falling and ill go to check on them and find them all in a pile on the ground of their enclosure and i have to figure out if theyve just decided that its floor time now or if they kept mistaking each other for actual sticks again and bundled together the ceiling until gravity got the best of them.

yeah they love forming a faggot together its like their favourite thing to do

please show us bugfaggot op please

they have plenty of plants and sticks to climb and play with they just keep doing this

blood is basically the most normal thing for a sword to hunger for. if a sword gained sentience and started asking me for blood i'd be like yeah i thought you might say that

you ask tigger what his gender is and he's like "i'm a tigger" and you're like "ok but what are your pronouns" and he's like "t/i/double-guh/er"

you ask pooh what his gender is and he's like "i am a bear of very little brain <3"

you ask piglet what his gender is and he has a panic attack

you ask eeyore what his gender is and he's like "guess they forgot to give me one :("

you ask rabbit and he's like "we need to Prepare for Winter"

you ask kanga and she has like a full discussion with you on gender norms and the gender binary that leaves with you feeling strangely fulfilled. you ask roo and he's like "lumpy what is that" and lumpy's like "idk" and then they go stare at the clouds

dont ask owl

for like a decade I kept getting the advice of "don't ruminate" but also "sit with your emotions" and I was like What The Fuck Does That Even Mean. until someone finally explained it in a way that makes sense:

so there's the emotional part of your brain ("I'm embarrased") and then there's the storytelling part ("all my friends hate me and I'm a piece of shit"). when people say "don't ruminate" what they mean is don't feed the storytelling part

you tend to the emotion ("I'm feeling x. why am I feeling that? how do I move forward given that information? what's something nice I can do for myself right now to cope with this?") but you treat the storytelling part like a little goblin that's trying to be as unhelpful to this whole process as possible. this doesn't shut the storytelling goblin up completely, but it keeps it from causing so much chaos and over time it stops talking so damn much

it's basically like if you were trying to comfort a friend. you'd validate their emotions, but you wouldn't sit there and let them call themself a piece of shit. do that for yourself

sharing this in case someone else is also like Why Didn't Someone Just Say That

they should invent a grief that doesn’t define you in new and strange ways for the rest of your life

reading a fic and they have a canonically repressed character say something directly and proudly

im sorry but when you grow up and interact with people irl youre gonna have friends where you dont fw their tastes. sometimes youre gonna meet someone chill whos also a hazbin hotel fan or have a really nice coworker that likes taylor swift and youre gonna need to mind your business and shut the fuck up or youre gonna be real lonely

I want all animals to become sapient enough to produce art specifically because I want to see what sort of sex homunculus caricature each species would create if given the ability to draw

Like we've already got the anime waifu with the needle-waist and watermelon-bazonkas and borzoi-legs and bug-eyes. Now show me a fucked-up stupid beetle as drawn by a horny beetle. I want to see what a cartoonishly sexy lion looks like according to lions. I want to see the most ridiculous drawing of a peahen that would have the peacocks squaring up by the fountain.

We give this power to ostriches and they just start drawing people

aaugh i hate citing sources *excruciatingly loud sounds of tearing metal combined with tortured human screams and fleshy hitting noises* ok that wasn't so bad actually..

hey guys. whats happening on my post

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