[sandersstudies]

Wish there was a better social shorthand for “I’m sure they’re a lovely person in their own way but we are so baseline incompatible that being around them longer than five minutes makes me feel like exploding into smithereens.”

[whatbigotspost]

Maturing and building truly healthy relationships MUST include what OP is speaking to here. It’s unrealistic to like all people and be liked by all people. Some people are “good” but they’ll still bug the shit out of you. Some people’s communication styles aren’t “wrong” but they may trigger tf out of someone else by no fault of their own. Some people who are annoying to many may be the life of the party to a few.

Abandon all or nothing thinking. Resist false dichotomies and honor the VERY REAL AND COMPLEX space between “I like them” and “they’re my enemy and/or an actual bad person.”

Expect and accept when people just don’t mesh well. Set your own boundaries AND also support and reinforce your friends’ rights to not mesh well with your other friends when this occurs. This doesn’t have to be mean, toxic, or “drama.” You can just create social spaces with different friends at different times. And when it comes to work, you can learn to work well with all measures of annoying (but well intentioned) people, I promise 😅

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[throesofincreasingwonder]

About to say something that will make everyone very mad but actually sometimes being uncomfortable with discussions/depictions of sex is a 'you' issue and you need to address it.

Yes, it is fine to be uncomfortable with sex. But if depictions or discussions of sex make you so uncomfortable that you don't think they should exist in public or without warning, you have to do the work of asking yourself why sex makes you uncomfortable, and to what degree that discomfort is helping or harming you or others

You are being actively pressured by large societal forces to be uncomfortable discussing sex and uncomfortable with seeing it. There are people arguing that gay people are deviant and need to be kept from public spaces because what makes them different is sexual preference, and that makes pride pins allusions to sex that could traumatize unconsenting people. This is people using their discomfort with sex to harm others.

There are laws being passed around the world right now predicated on the idea that seeing sex or discussions of sex are traumatizing or harmful for children, and this is not true. This is people using your discomfort with sex to get you to allow mass surveillance and the heightened control of minors.

Is the "movies shouldn't have sex scenes" discussion the biggest problem in the world? No. But it is part of a larger cultural trend toward isolating sex (a normal, natural thing the majority of humans do or want) from the rest of the human experience, and using that distance to other and target marginalized people by painting them as perverts.

Sexual liberation is and always has been an important cornerstone of queer activism because sex negativity is real, harmful, and the current cultural norm.

[pomaril]

its pretty simple all you need is a fuckbuddy a better job a good therapist welbutrin clothes made from high quality natural fibers a good diet lots of water a social network a supportive family a fulfilling hobby a comfortable bed two hundred dollar leather shoes sun exposure (but not too much) a silk pillowcase a workout routine an education rich parents a 401k a trip abroad a plan for the future a short commute no debt a hair stylist you trust white teeth no roommates wool socks a costco membership good insurance a screentime limiter clear skin a healthy sleep schedule and a blunt!

[mousemilf]

next time you encounter something confusing, try using your fan fiction reading device to access websites like "wikipedia" or "miriam webster" to break down those pesky difficult topics. its sorta like a "enemies to lovers" situation, where the scary new knowledge can become your friend - and then you won't look so unflattering when you comment

[velvetwar]

Love how Babylon 5, in the middle of season 3 out of nowhere, goes, you know what the show is missing? Soul music.

[character-tarot]

Does Justice (Upright) fit Susan Ivanova?

Yes, this is the perfect card for her!

This fits her well enough.

No, another card would work better.

I don't know this character (Results)

Voting ended onMar 4

Justice represents clarity, justice, fairness, consequences, harsh judgment, the truth, balance, responsibility, law and order, ethics, karma, and cause and effect. Reversed, it indicates injustice, unfairness, hypocrisy, immorality, refusal of responsibility, biases corruption, dishonesty, and disproportionate retribution.

[moringmark]

[nitewrighter]

[haildiscordia]

[zombieofdrake]

Here’s dril’s candles on a graph for reference.

[macaronniart]

what if the spider loved the fly 😳 and they were both girls

(ko-fi / youtube)

[allowedtobewrong]

[birdofmay]

My brother randomly told me something that really made me think.

About what "Protect the youth" has become. Idk what it was like in other countries and I know that it very likely could have been stricter than it was in my country back then. But generally:

He was like "When I was 16, there were two kinds of adult content: Horror movies and explicitly depicted sexual content. The first made me have nightmares, the latter (as in what you could get in video rental stores) generally wasn't of much interest to me because it wasn't something I, as a 16 year old, could relate to. And other sexual content that was interesting (and/or helpful) WAS freely accessible. So whenever I saw an "18+" label somewhere, I just completely ignored that content because I knew it wouldn't be interesting at all to me.

But NOW, what's declared 18+ is even an excessive amount of swear words in streams! NOW, when I see an "18+" label, I don't know if it's horror movies that'll give some 16 year olds nightmares, if it's completely unrelatable porn, OR if it's educational sex ed, a 20 year old talking about their really healthy relationship with their partner (that includes intimacy), education about consent in BDSM (which affects 16 year olds as well, there's no age limit to curiosity), a live stream of wholesome musicians who happen to drink a couple of beers during kind of therapeutic talks, or simply people who aren't puritans and say "fuck" a lot! An 18+ label isn't worth anything anymore!"

And yeah... That's just it.

People who talk about body changes during their (first!) puberty are even labelled adult content. Even though puberty very much happens BEFORE adulthood. It's helpful content for minors. And it's labelled "adult" to "protect the youth".

Nothing means anything anymore.

[bean-wrld]

There’s a lot of things you’ve done that Becky doesn’t know about

[ireneloveslife]

“hehe”

[budugu]

“will call”

[shinchansbitch-deactivated20250]

12:30

[natures-marvel]

“lol, not my problem 😂”

[marvel-potter-1d-korea]

“The landline is working”

I’m fucked

[elvencantation]

“man Big Weather really doesn’t want me to play the funky flute does it”

hmmm. might confuse them enough for me to be able to smack them with something??

[marzipanandminutiae]

“ ‘why are there so many lesbian period dramas?’ because we are a wonderful demographic and the Muses smile upon us; next question”

you know what? I’m okay with that

[pizza-hats-of-the-world-1882]

“Tutant meenage neetle teetles”

[babischlong-six]

“get eggs”

[hetchdrive]

“thanks, see you tomorrow”

[allowedtobewrong]

"[CHILD'S NAME] left her labubu here, in case she was worried she lost it

[segamascott]

2026 and i still don't know what homestuck is

[unspeakablearchives]

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

[enigmaticagentalice]

Delenn from Babylon 5

[enigmaticagentalice]

Something so rarely addressed in the show (understandably because not many characters know) is Delenn’s role in the near genocide of the human race, and how it affects her life and her decisions post-war. Even after the Shadow war and everything that came with that, I still think this would be one of the defining moments of her life – a moment of grief and rage that led to the deaths of millions. What’s interesting is that I don’t personally think she feels much in the way of guilt for it, but rather a persistent sense of responsibility that does inform her actions, towards humans especially. What’s even more interesting, and not a little morally ambiguous, is that as far as we know she keeps this part of her past a secret from the man she loves for her entire life. This is what makes Delenn such a fascinating character to me – she has a very questionable set of morals at times, often acting for what she perceives to be the greater good without actually consulting anyone else, and rationalising away the more unpleasant aspects of her own personality. That being said, I do love Delenn, and I like to think that she suffered from a fair few nightmares over the years when the things she did came back to haunt her, even though she thought she’d long since made peace with them.

(this picture is a ton better in high res by the way)

[laylainalaska]

That’s a fascinating point about guilt vs responsibility (she said, showing up 12 years later …) and I think it’s true, Delenn has accepted that this is part of her past and decided to spend the rest of her life, not even exactly making up for it, but devoting her life to fostering better understanding between her people and the people she nearly wiped out: basically she devotes her life to trying to create a universe in which it can’t happen again. She doesn’t even seem to spend a lot of time thinking about it; it simply is, and the question, for her, is what is she going to do about it.

It’s interesting to compare that to Londo, because his situation is similar in some ways, and he even does something vaguely akin to what Delenn does afterwards, although for more personal reasons - Londo is instrumental in creating the foundations of what becomes the Alliance, as well as laying the building blocks of a lasting peace between the Centauri and Narn. But in his case his feelings about his role in the war are dominated by guilt, and there’s almost a certain … basic helplessness to the way he relates to it, both in the way that he got dragged into it more by his weaknesses than his own choices, and his crushing yet somehow impotent guilt about it afterwards.

(Of course there’s also the fact that literally everyone on B5 knows about Londo’s part in the war, even if most of them other than G'Kar and Vir don’t know the full story of his collaboration with the Shadows, whereas Delenn at least has the advantage of starting over with people who don’t know her history.)

It is too bad this is something they never had a chance to talk about in the show - I mean, maybe they never would, it may be that Delenn would never be ready to discuss this with Londo, and he never knew it about her. It is interesting, though, that she was there for his entire fall into darkness and his role in starting and exacerbating the Narn-Centauri war, and then ending it. It had to have informed some of her reactions to him during that time.