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I'm setting up a project where I look at rights for ace and aro people across the US. I will be doing a lot of research, but if there are any other categories I should include, let me know! Here is my spreadsheet where I will be recording everything.
YoutubeDrama thread where this came out.
He truly seems incapable of not passing off others work as his own.
"cringe culture is dead" ok but does that include ppl you find ugly, ppl who are into hobbies or fandoms you find weird, ppl w kinks you find odd, autistic people who dont fit your standards, mentally ill people who dont fit your standards, 12 year olds having fun, 30 year olds having fun, furries, fat ppl who dont fit ur standards, or is it just conventionally attractive alt ppl who fit the beauty standard. answer quick
that is literally the exact OPPOSITE point of this post.
i actively dislike both of those works myself, but you cannot gatekeep "correct fandoms". people can like things for any number of reasons, and just because you find one aspect or another of it "cringe", doesn't mean you can tell someone it's garbage.
i have plenty of works i actively dislike and wonder "how tf do you even like this?", but you don't SAY that stuff to its fans. you don't ruin their joy just because you don't like it. you can say what you dislike, but you cannot insult them for enjoying something. you cannot say the entire work is ireedeemable for ANY reason. one of its characters, one situations, might be someone's perfect mirror—a reflection which makes them feel seen and comforted.
cringe culture is dead.
no matter the fandom.
liking harry potter isnt bad because its ""cringe"" its bad because youre giving money to one of the most famous public transmisogynists out there and we should focus on that instead of "lol harry potter adults are so weird and childish"
saw someone say "an 11-year-old isn't even supposed to know what sex is and if you do something horrible must be happening to you and you need to get out of there" like can we be for real for a moment. have some people honest to god never heard 11-year-olds making sex jokes in their life
and let's be honest. if something bad was happening, good sex ed would help them recognize that. trying to shelter children from even knowing what sex is doesn't help or even work, it actually enables abuse. teach them about consent
Hot take: let's not discuss sexual stuff around CHILDREN.
Let's not sexualize children or even think of children & sexual stuff
Don't discuss sexual stuff with CHILDREN.
They cannot consent.
Children cannot consent and I dont know how many times we have to tell you this.
CHILDREN. CANNOT. CONSENT.
people like you are the reason so many kids can't speak up about being sexually abused. go back to the catholic church or whatever. we need proper sex education and this is dire
sex education ≠ sexualization
sex education ≠ sexual abuse
sex education ≠ child endangerment
HOWEVER
sex education = increased safety through knowledge
sex education = decrease in teen pregnancy
sex education = decrease in spread of sexually transmitted diseases
sex education = productive and necessary
Hello! Literally practicing Catholic here! Raised by Catholic parents since birth! I went through things exactly like this as a child entirely because my parents neglected my sex education due to viewing it as 'scarring' and 'inappropriate'! Please fucking educate your kids about sex and what constitutes sexual abuse! Teach them they have a right to refuse! :)
And let's also say the uncomfortable part out loud here: it's not only about protecting kids against older teens and against adults.
The average age for puberty to start is 11-12, but it is normal for puberty to begin between the ages of 8 and 14. Puberty is only considered 'too early' by doctors and delayed with puberty blockers if a girl is 7 or a boy is 8. And while not everyone experiences sexual arousal in the first years of puberty, quite a lot of kids do.
So, as deeply uncomfortable as it makes adults: some 11 year olds have already been getting horny for 3 or 4 years. And while their first explorations of that feeling often happen alone, some of that hornyness will drive those kids to seek out others to experiment.
So without information, that 11 year old may end up having sex with another kid and may get pregnant. That 11 year old may sexually assault a younger kid, not out of malice but out of simply not knowing that you should not do this to others. The idea that these things will not happen if we don't tell kids about sex is patently false.
I know we don't like to think about literal kids getting horny, but if we ignore the fact that this happens, those will kids suffer because of our cowardly unwillingness to face the facts and to give them the information to stay safe and to be safe to others.
some people just have a very idealized image of 11 year olds in their head.
I work in a middle school and trust me. You talk to them for 5 minutes they're going to make it very clear they know what sex is
They have a childish perspective on it - it's a scary fascinating adult thing that's fun to be transgressive and make jokes about, not a part of their lives, but they know what it is.
can you please keep your pet liberal in check? it just pissed all over my post
How I didn’t shoot my wife!
In a recent video, I included my take on the William/Wilhelm Tell shot. At the time I mentioned that there were safety precautions behind it. Here is some of the process I went through.
Remember, when you see someone performing a stunt on purpose, there is almost always a lot going on behind the scenes, whether that’s physical failsafes, years of training and learning how to bail/fail safely, or (in many cases) both.
These things rarely eliminate the risk entirely, but by mitigating both the chance of something going wrong, and the severity if it does, it lets us do things that would otherwise be unthinkable. This was mine.
Normal silly videos will resume next week!
We need shittable cities (actively maintained public restrooms).
A city without well-maintained restrooms is a city where many of the chronically ill cannot leave their homes, and where the homeless are criminalized for bodily functions. If I had a nickel for every day I haven’t gone somewhere with friends because I didn’t know the bathroom situation, I’d have enough to put in a sock and beat a couple of billionaires to death.
I literally can't visit Seattle anymore for this reason. I am glad I didn't move there.
American Restroom Association does a lot of good advocacy for things like this, and Project for Sanitation Justice maps out public toilets in the San Diego area. This article has a few more suggestions for places to start.
And for the people who seem convinced that leaving bathrooms open 24/7 is dangerous, you know what else is dangerous? Cholera.
Other people who need public restrooms:
“every time i see this celebrity they look younger!” cool, it’s plastic surgery
it’s not pilates, it’s not skincare, it’s not moral virtue manifesting in the form of physical beauty, you’re not gonna grow old like that, they didn’t even grow old like that, and the cosmetic procedures you can afford are not gonna look that good
also the new popular comment to make is "lol [actress] has taken the substance" and it's like...yeah. that's what the substance was about
I'm nearly in tears. All the mental and physical pain and suffering that me and other Koreans have gone through waiting for his ousting has finally been paid off.
It was NEVER easy. I can't believe how many obstacles there actually were to come to this conclusion. Yoon and his cronies, his ruling far-right conservative party, and their blind supporters never gave up till the last minute. They took numerous cards in their sleeves to prevent this glorious day from happening.
Still, such is life. Life is full of chaos. Humans are just chaotic. Some are unbelievably great, while some others are just downright scumbag. That's just how it is. All we need to do is never give up going forward. 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Straight guys who use tumblr are the funniest people ever literally how did you end up here
Dei hire
playing deckbuilder games is scary because you’ll see your friends trying to play with the most dogshit no-synergy deck and you have to hold back from asking how they managed to do that
Soulslike boss fight against a dude with a dynastic title of some sort, like "Lord of the Onyx Throne" or whatever, where instead of the same baddie changing movesets or powering up across multiple phases, the first dude just dies, and a second dude with a fresh life bar reading "Heir to the Onyx Throne" immediately jumps into the arena to continue the fight, except after a second or two "Heir to" gets crossed out and replaced with "Lord of". When you kill the second dude, the same thing happens again. This goes on for like five separate phases.
One of the phases is a duo boss where both baddies are identically titled "Pretender to the Onyx Throne"; when you kill one, the other's title immediately changes to "Lord of the Onyx Throne".
I feel like the absolute turmoil titan shifters go through is severely overlooked because they have no scars to show it.
Of course their wounds heal, but the pain is still very real. The trauma of having your limbs brutally chopped/bitten/blown off is still very real. The agony they suffer, both mentally and physically, every time they have to self harm in order to shift is still very real.
They've suffered horrific wounds that nobody should have to endure. But they heal, and then they go on to endure it some more.
When I remember that Eren gouged out his own eye and cut off his own leg, I just feel so sick to my stomach for him. I can't imagine the mental fortitude it would take to do something like that- to go against every instinct and bone in your body screaming at you not to do it, all for the purpose of achieving a goal.
For your future information, here are medical innovations younger than both the basics of HRT for trans ppl & the first gender-reassignment/gender-confirmation surgery. I put together this incomplete list earlier today bc I was bored:
In case you run into someone talking about how 'experimental' HRT is.
Uhm ☝️ what did celiacs do before. Just suffer?
We died.
The same as diabetics! We died!
There are so many things newer and more experimental than HRT. And mostly the answer to “what happened before” is simply “they fucking died”
We died, and it really fucking hurt the whole time we were dying.
When insulin was first developed, the first kids they gave it to were in the end stages of diabetic failure. People described it as like watching these children rise from the dead. Their blood was literally burning them. They were so weak they could barely raise their heads. Then, one shot of insulin, and they sat up, and their color came back.
Before the medical treatment, we simply died.
The legends were true
Even without words, we communicate through our eyes.
And some highlights from the notes:
it is so wild to me the fashions that are called “emo” today. especially given the fact that probably 80-90% of it is actually scene, not emo. this would have started full on wars 15 years ago
whenever people call this
emo it drives me BANANAS. no! this is not how emos did their hair. this was a scene look!!! some people might have gone from emo to scene depending on their age when new trends happened but they’re DISTINCT
this is getting more popular so i want to clarify, the above are obv scene queens and were what all scene kids aspired to HOWEVER. all of this⤵️? absolutely would have been considered scene in the late 00s (all photos from searching “emo” on pinterest)
whereas these are more emo⤵️
you will note that the scene kids wear brighter pops of color, especially neon pink and green. there’s a lot of pop culture references, patterns and texture. miniskirts very popular, the more layered the better. the emo kids are more simple, the black skinny jeans are a staple obv and usually dark hair and a band shirt, maybe some stripes but not anything crazier than that in terms of patterns. maybe a few accessories, but not so many that you hear them coming from a few miles away.
now THESE three are more in the middle. personally, i would categorize the first as scene, and the #1 giveaway there is the domo necklace- a scene icon- and the multitude/stacking of accessories backs it up. the middle is harder- the front of the hair and band shirt suggest emo, but the pink, layering, and the hair bow are decidedly scene. i think you could probably call it either way but i would lean scene. the last one is also hard- the hair highlights and amount of accessories are more scene, but the color scheme, especially the silver and black for the accessories as opposed to patterns, make me lean emo.
(source: i was in middle school in 2008)
extremely important addition from @death-g-reaper:
[screenshotted tags: #a key trait of emo is a certain kind of androgyny it’s why emos were getting hate crimed for being gnc in the 2000s #it sounds silly now but there was a moral panic about the boys shopping in the girls section for pants #my partner was a 2000s emo/goth kid and he says that before the term skinny jeans came out #they just called them girl pants because they were getting them from the girls section #i feel like scene is way more girly than emo is traditionally like you can have girly emo but it’s more scene’s schtick]
very important and true!! a huge huge part of the hate that “emo” got was because instead of the popular skater style/oversized fashion they were opting for tighter clothes and specifically women’s jeans (which, before jean companies realized they could profit off of it and started selling skinny jeans for men, were just from the women’s section) and it was a WHOLE thing. the long styled hair and occasional makeup AND talking about your feelings?? this is why so much of the emo scene was written off by larger culture and even within hardcore/punk culture as, essentially, faggot music, for girls, stupid, etc.
