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Angela | 33 | They/Them There is no coherent theme to this blog. Be warned. This blog is not for you if you're anti-ace/aro. TERFs aren't welcome here, either. Fuck off neo-nazis.

If I ever don't reblog a birb post you have tagged me in, it is because I have reblogged it before But i do humbly acknowledge your offering with a gentle nod of my head. Thank.

More than 1000 people have been killed in a horrific 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand, and the devastation is enormous. To help survivors:

World Central Kitchen are en route to the affected areas.

MSF/Doctors Without Borders also have teams on the ground to aid the injured.

The death toll has risen to over 1600. The International Rescue Commitee is also now responding, as well as several other humanitarian organisations.

Just a day earlier, Justice Department lawyers admitted in a court filing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had mistakenly arrested and deported Abrego Garcia, despite being aware that he had been granted a form of protected legal status called “withholding of removal” in 2019 after an immigration judge found he would likely be targeted by gangs for persecution and torture if sent back to El Salvador, the place he’d fled when he came to the U.S. in 2011. According to court documents, Abrego Garcia has no criminal record in the United States and is married to an American citizen with whom he has a 5-year-old special needs child. But this lack of criminal history in America didn’t stop the Trump administration from grabbing him up and putting him on a plane to the exact place the government had been forbidden from sending him. Trump administration lawyers claim the deportation of Abrego Garcia and his subsequent incarceration in El Salvador’s CECOT prison was the result of an “administrative error” that can’t be remedied because the government is powerless to get him back from the Salvadoran government despite a close relationship between Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele and President Donald Trump.

the great (horrifying) thing about supernatural horror involving little kids is the underlying thread of helplessness that isn't really present with adult characters/stories

like with Skinamarink, we could debate whether the happenings of the film are physically "happening" or whether they're a metaphor for something more realistic (like child abuse/neglect), but at the end of the day the result is the same: these kids are 100% completely powerless

to a kid, an omnipotent god-entity is at the same level of confusing and powerful as a particularly cruel adult. without any way to call for help (or any way to get adults to listen to them), they're fucked either way. this is especially true if the kid is too young to have really internalized "rules of reality" yet-- they don't know how the world is "supposed" to work yet, so they prolly won't pick up on subtle spacial/metaphysical fuckery. they just know that they're scared and hurt and confused, and no one is around to help them

it rly puts into perspective the kinda world kids are forced to navigate, esp when we don't take the time to meet them at their level or care to listen to them. and, alternately, I think it also serves as an interesting way to view cosmic horror-- entities that often overlook the gaps in our perspectives and don't (or maybe can't) properly explain their motives or actions, and have the power to wreak devastating trauma on us if they have the inclination

what will forever make skinamarink such a deeply disturbing movie (and one of my favorite horror films) is the way it presents its horror: children attempting to keep themselves safe and cope with their fear by pushing a couch in front of a hallway, using flashlights, surrounding themselves with toys and keeping cartoons on 24/7, etc. so painfully naive and utterly futile in stopping any real danger but when you’re that young, you truly believe things like covering yourself with a blanket will keep the monsters away! it’s such a universal thing too and everytime i watch i feel myself plunged back down into that pure and carnal fear as a child when faced with total silence and darkness. and the entity knows this!! it’s like a cat playing with its food: allowing kevin to call 911 when the line was disconnected far earlier in the film, appealing to kevin by asking to play when it just wants to hurt him, slowly taking away his toys. it recognizes what kevin is attempting to do and simply uses these moments to instill more fear in kevin, stripping away every comfort or sliver of hope until there’s nothing left.

evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

"god wants women to have perfect no-makeup makeup looks and stay at home not talking back and upholding capitalism" god??? that guy who made lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes?? that guy who made salmon do whatever the fuck that is?? are you fucking crazy???

"having sex with your friends is basically incest" is a take of all time

this deserves to go in the takes hall of fame

[ID: Screenshot of a text post that reads Oh and btw, just so that everyone hates me for being right because I like to speak my mind; wanting to fuck your friends because you can’t find a date (broad term here) comes from the same place as incestuous desires. I’m not kidding either. /end ID]

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