space girl,

idk what people put on personals. name’s jess/rose, 29+, lover of space and fantasy and space fantasy and fantasy spaces

[a-marshmelon]

[janmisali]

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

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Remaining time: 2 days 14 hours

[a-marshmelon]

it really is insane watching gamer dudes turn into the very ‘snowflakes’ they were bitching about. like all yall do is cry every time a video game comes out.

[claudiawolf]

TOMB RAIDER: LEGACY OF ATLANTIS (2027) dev. Crystal Dynamics

[willgrahamscock]

are straight people okay, I legit just watched a woman say that texting first is a blue job and waiting and replying is a pink job when it comes to dating. It has 40 thousand likes and several comments agreeing

[roycohn]

the thing about being a homeschool abolition hardliner is that people always want to come to you with some bullshit sob story about how you hate disabled people because they were bullied for being autistic and homeschooling was so amazing for them. and it's just like well unfortunately homeschooling is also a widespread tool of coercive control in child abuse used by christofascists to raise kids without the tools they need to function in the world so that they will always be afraid, dependent, and unable to think critically and discern right from wrong and truth from lies. so unfortunately i do think this is a situation where in order to prevent enormous harm to untold numbers of children those bullied kids who just don't wanna go to school are going to have to suck it up. (and in reality what i always propose is a more robust system of alternative/magnet public schooling set up for kids who are basically on grade level but who DO struggle to thrive in a mainstream setting, but nobody ever wants to hear that, they just want to guilt you for not thinking anyone who ever gets picked on should just get to stay home and play vidya and do all their lessons on zoom. and it's like honestly i don't think you're having this argument in good faith bc you are very much centering hypothetical discomfort you MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY have experienced over, again, widespread child abuse and neglect. so.)

[roycohn]

so i watched the netflix documentary about piper rockelle yesterday and i would like to once again humbly suggest that homeschooling be permanently abolished and perhaps even criminalized

[cardassiangoodreads]

You learn that the homeschool lobby is literally the reason the USA is one of a single-digit number of countries that never ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and you just aren’t the same since

[a-marshmelon]

how to explain that i think there’s obvious things wrong with things going on on and offline regarding kids but also i don’t think ……. putting teens in a moralized quarantine zone is at all helpful?

[a-marshmelon]

threads is so fascinating to me because it’s ostensibly mostly 30 year olds still discoursing in the same ways that i had a chance to do at 14 and grow out of

[a-marshmelon]

honk shoo mimimi

[a-marshmelon]

gregorian reform and investiture conflict time baybee

[a-marshmelon]

about to enter my dad final form and find a third job

[a-marshmelon]

i do wish raleigh kept their pride celebration in september like it was when i first got here. june is simply too hot

[a-marshmelon]

is there some unspoken rule on reddit when it comes to answering questions specifically regarding humanities higher education that everyone has to be as unhelpful as possible

[a-marshmelon]

i do think medieval christianity is fun bc they were just writing fanfic

[a-marshmelon]

the thing about my family is that while many would be happier if i had a kid rather than going on to be a “lifelong student” (as my grandmom likes to say mockingly every time) i can guarantee you one person would be just as disappointed with either me having a baby OR getting an advanced degree, and that would be my father

[a-marshmelon]

most wholesome interaction on my first day working at a historic site on the weekends: a guy who asked if i knew whether the carolina parakeet was extinct, and i didn’t, so i looked it up for him

most unwholesome: having to explain to a woman that in order to open a door she had to turn the knob and push

[a-marshmelon]

oh nooooooo she (me) is being sucked into academia oh nooooo