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26. Compromise or silence. Submission is not an option.

[stonefemmesiren]

idk who needs to hear this but if someone sees a post you made and interprets it in such bad faith that they start having a mental health crisis and fabricating accusations about you out of thin air you don't actually have to treat that like a serious emergent situation and you're allowed to absolve yourself of the optics on you because those are also a product of bad faith

[sabertoothwalrus]

I have a new dungeon meshi au where everything is the same except for this

[sabertoothwalrus]

this is how I know yall weren’t reblogging the companion to this post 🙄

[asneakyfox]

in any given fictional situation, there is exactly one character who is At Fault and every other character involved is a passive victim. media literacy is when you correctly identify and condemn this character

[maalidoesart]

every miku is canon…..

[balaclava-trismegistus]

[Getting so angry it makes my brain disease worse] people sre supposed to be nice..

[anchovy]

Was taking screenshots of a foal video for study refs and this doesn’t help. What are you.

[phantomrose96]

Hey kids, you need to start worrying a little less about getting “#mogged” and a little more about getting “#smogged”. This is an Air Quality Index public service announcement.

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[amuseoffyre]

She also royally screwed over a domestic abuse charity in Edinburgh purely because the woman running it was trans and was ensuring equality for all staff, but when one of the staff got aggressive about knowing what was in a non-binary person's knickers (if you're asking "what are you *really*", that's what you're doing), it all kicked off. According to staff who worked there at the time, they were subject to harassment and threats by the affiliates of that woman.

Don't believe her when she says she cares about welfare of survivors of abuse. She brought to bear her wrath against that charity, doing unimaginable damage and causing fear and distress for the employees as well. She attacked Amnesty International and has threatened them as well.

She's also gone after neurodivergent people and ace folk as well, not to mention so many of her associates are now known affiliates of right-wing organisations. When you get this toxic in so many directions already, the sky is the limit for how bad it could get.

[pleasuresoftheduke]

Jean Agélou (1900-1917) 

[release-the-sheep]

just witnessed something devastating

guy on the subway with one ear pierced, little gold hoop. other guy on the subway very quickly and subtly googling "which one is the gay ear". it is not the gay ear. visible disappointment on his face as he puts his phone away.

[tall]

[toskarinfr]

they've yet to make an experience more bewildering and confusing than trying to pick up a rpg after more than a week

[toskarinfr]

coming back to a platformer after a year: man, I used to be able to make those jumps! I'm so washed...

coming back to an rpg after less than a week and a half:

[beaft]

the phrase "but i didn't mean to!" in the context of causing harm is kind of redundant to me, because almost nobody means to cause harm. most of us just want to do the right thing. and i don't mean that in a wishy-washy "oh, we're all good deep down" way, i mean that even people who regularly do the most heinous shit imaginable will have a way of justifying it to themselves. the world is not populated by hollywood sadists and psychopaths.

[beaft]

actually i have been thinking about this some more and i want to add on to it:

abuse in caregiving professions (like teaching or nursing) is not solely a result of power dynamics. it's also because people who go into those professions often have a idea of themselves as Good People, and are consequently incapable of recognising or acknowledging when they've hurt someone else. instead, they mentally put 'people who have inconvenienced me' into the Bad People box so they can freely abuse them while maintaining their moral high ground.

i read ross greene a lot when i was working with "difficult" or "behaviourally challenged" children. his refrain is "kids do well if they can" - meaning, in short, that most kids act out only when the demands of a situation exceed their capabilities. punishing them for this is not only cruel but also completely pointless, because they also don't want to be doing what they are doing.

a teacher who believes that there are two categories of people - Good People who Mean Well, and Bad People who Cause Problems on Purpose - is not going to see it that way. they're gonna put themselves in the first category, and the misbehaving kid in the second category. and once they have effectively depersoned the child and placed themselves on a pedestal, the world becomes simple again. because abuse is something that only Bad People do.

[psilocervidae]

Green + yellow + orange is a highly underrated colour combo

[psilocervidae]

Look at her don't you love her

[bill-gates-hate-blog]

@malachite-flame

[tabris-the-seventeenth-angel]

HEARTBREAKING: friends who i should be going to the movies and playing dnd and watching anime and cosplaying and going to the mall and having sleepovers and exploring the woods with live one hundred trillion miles away

[sylestial]

just invented a new cocktail called i want you

[sylestial]

just invented a new baked dessert called everythings gonna be okay

[bloodclotbitch]