Do You Permit It?

Juliana. 28. She/her. Bi.

[milfsisyphus]

easier for the owner of LED headlights to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of heaven.

[bodhrancomedy]

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

[grace-in-the-wilderness]

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

-- G. K. Chesterton

[throwupgirl]

finn starwars we will never forgive those movies for what they did to you. i saw your lightsaber. i saw your force sensitive. i saw your secondhand chanel boots that unbeknownst to all of us were put in the thrift store bin by luke skywalker but you rock them twice as hard.

[thoodleoo]

LOVE reading pliny the elder and coming across a passage where he says shit like "so some people say that if a horse steps in a wolf's tracks it will fucking EXPLODE"

[underthehedge]

To be fair, that one sounds almost plausible. Horses are just kinda Like That and if there's an animal that will have its internal organs explode from stepping on a weird shape on the ground it's definitely a horse.

[ariaste]

My hot take about Pliny the Elder is that it is an enormous fucking tragedy that he lived 2000 years before we invented concepts like "D&D" or "fantasy worldbuilding" and so he was forced to call it "yayyyy Natural History :D but EXCITING" and now we make fun of him for it :(

it's not his fault :( He should have been at the club :(

[pussyhoundspock]

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

[prismatic-bell]

And listen.

Sometimes stuff that is GENUINELY SCARRING to you can also be a surprise tool that helps you later.

I had to read Bridge to Terabithia when I was ten, and when I tell you that book fucked me up. I'm 37 and sometimes I still remember the ending and just stop in my tracks.

But it helped me to better appreciate my grandma's art when she died.

I've still got some of her work in my house. One of her painted plates is literally hanging behind me right now.

I read The Giver by choice when I was eleven, without any real idea what I was getting into, but when you guys hear me yell about the sanitization of the world, that is entirely The Giver and Brave New World speaking. The Giver taught me that pain and joy are intertwined and you can't pick and choose and still have a full life. That's why I rail so hard against censorship. It's The Giver, it's literally The Giver.

I read The Trial by Franz Kafka when I was nineteen. Yeah, the Metamorphosis guy. His work is abstract and reading it feels like looking through a melting mirror and the end is both horrifying and inevitable, and you will never read a more incisive critique of the concept of the panopticon.

Read it not "even if" it disturbs you, but because it disturbs you. Think about what you've read. Think about what it has to say to you.

It's worth it.

[terramythos]

'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now

[starless-planet]

Me, age 10, doing an essay on the pharoah’s curse for school: huh. So this archeologist that died and everyone thought it was because he disturbed the pharoah’s tomb actually died because he used a rusty razor to shave and it infected a mosquito bite. I can see how people could come to that conclusion, but it is a bit silly

Me, today, shaving my mosquito bite-ridden legs: I must tread carefully lest I incur the pharoah’s wrath

[liberalsarecool]

Losing your empathy, losing your imagination, and finding yourself alone are all connected.

Right-wing masculinity influencers are counting on book bans and banned words to shrink your heart and mind.

[quasi-normalcy]

[vibratome]

(trying to give relationship advice) from a narrative perspective i think both of you dying together would be the most emotionally satisfying resolution but i’m guessing that’s not what you want to hear

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

[nortism]

so interesting how each of les amis represents a different facet of hugo’s ideology. enjolras is republicanism as whole; combeferre, the importance of education and scientific progress; courfeyrac, being a chill guy who fucks; grantaire, yapping…

[byjove]

the pearl poet: a knight rides in and he’s ALL green, skin, clothes, armor, everything about him is green.

me: was the horse green

the pearl poet: now, I know the question you will be asking 700 years in the future. yes, the horse was green too.

me: awesome

[byjove]

me: what was gringolet wearing?

the pearl poet: now, I know you desperately want to know what gringolet was wearing. and I’m about to describe it. in heavy detail.

[lastoneout]

The Pope, desperate to avoid ever interacting with JD Vance again, went to the one place the Vice President couldn't follow: heaven.

[is-this-blasphemous]

No

[lastoneout]

[sheepsheeples]

Shout out to the USA for pissing Canadians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7

[rissahs]

Shout out to the USA for pissing Australians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

when I was a little kid at some point I got upset with my parents because I didn't have a crucifix in my bedroom and they did- I was like why do YOU get to be safe from vampires??? you're okay with me getting my blood sucked???? so we took a little trip to the catholic store but the one closest to us was run by a group of nuns that had been moved here from romania. I got a little baby pink cross and this sweet old nun was like 'aww, is this a baptism gift?' and I was like no. I need to be protected from vampires. and she immediately got SO serious and was like 'this is the best one we've got, you'll definitely be safe' and since she was literally from vampire land I was convinced she was like, van helsing. like the whole time my parents had been laughing about how cute my fear was but she literally Knew dracula and was taking my concerns seriously I held this over my parents for so long lmfao

[wlwaluigi]

listen she may have just been humoring you but even my limited experience with Romanian nuns has taught me that there is one thing they are absolutely dead serious about and it is their multi-generational fear of vampires