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cal (or foxglove if you're like a fun and interesting person)

I reblog gore.

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cal uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 49 films watched. Favorites: Whiplash (2014), Crash (1996), The Dreamers (2003), Marty

#intro post

0thello

Salome (detail), 1906

by Franz von Stuck.

shamebats

Imo the best type of system for children to grow up in would be one that assumes the birth parents/primary guardians won't do shit and takes care of every aspect of childcare that's essential for their wellbeing and development, collectively.

shamebats

But I'm just a guy who only learned how to brush his teeth properly and got glasses as a child because we had both a dentist and a doctor come to school on a regular basis. The dentist would have us all stand in a circle with our little toothbrushes and show us how to brush and correct our technique. The doctors would give us general health assessments and then have the teachers contact our patents and essentially peer pressure them into getting us any health intervention we needed. My parents only reluctantly got me glasses because they knew the teachers would judge them if they kept seeing me sit in the very front row and still squint to see the chalkboard. So I'm biased.

shamebats

The only times I ever remember seeing a dentist or doctor as a child was at school. I'm quite healthy physically and I'm very grateful for all the care I got from the various professionals who cared about my well-being and development more than my actual parents did.

We had free healthcare including dental, mind you, my parents just couldn't be bothered. When my brother, as a teenager, asked our mother if she could take him to his orthodontist appointments (which he'd already arranged for on his own) she basically told him she didn't feel like it and he had to take the bus.

If I could improve anything about that system, I'd take it even further and make it so kids could see a doctor and get meds, treatments, therapy, tests, disability aids etc. without having to rely on their parents as well. I shouldn't have had to put up with being bullied and guilt-tripped about the family finances and the time investment needed to take me to the optometrist every time I needed new glasses.

shamebats

Some parents would not take care of their children even if they were given all the time and the resources. Mine are a great example of that — my mother stopped working and became a homemaker when I was in kindergarten, my father worked from the garage and was also always home. They had a car and our village even had a bus that would come once or twice an hour that would take you to the next two bigger cities.

Did that, plus the free healthcare, translate into them actually parenting and caring for us properly? It did not. They only ever did any of that reluctantly when not doing it would make them look bad, and most of the time they did a shitty job because they could never resist the urge to boost their egos by means of bullying literal children.

So I have to wonder: what did they actually contribute to our upbringing? Like they didn't teach us shit and mostly they just endangered our mental and physical health — but hey, at least they gave me cPTSD! That took some work too.

anarchistmemedistro

see also family abolition, and youth liberation .

applefae

A knee-jerk response to neglectful parenting I see a lot is “people should have to get licenses and take rigorous tests to PROVE that they should be ALLOWED to have kids” which is eugenics. That’s just the starting line for eugenics.

We are at a point in humanity where there is no meaningful reason why we shouldn’t be structuring our societies around wellbeing for all instead of wellbeing for the “deserving”.

Assume some parents will fail. Build social infrastructure that is designed to support failed kids rather than punish would-be parents.

#yeah ive been to the dentist twice #ive had 5 doctors appointments ever #my mum threw my birth certificate and my letter with my nin in the bin twice #ive been to the opticians once

reject-tiefling

Star trek title generator

segamascott

aya--bb

thinking about Armand's hair this episode... dreamy sigh

arhapsodyofwords

like mama like daughter

xroub

i will say that i personally hope that the rest if the season isn't..... like that. hoping that a lot of the "trippy" visuals is moreso just to highlight lestat's drug induced breakdown

aya--bb

very pleased that Daniel's first line this season was "the cuntessa!"

berryberrytaeberry

Where the finest fuck is louis' leg

calcified--heart

The Vampire Lestat pronoun joke transphobia bullshit in the current political climate feels a bit evil. It's nasty and meanspirited and pointless.

calcified--heart

First Gabrielle gets hit with the cis woman feminization beam, because women can't be butch and vampires can't be nonbinary. And she's suddenly reciprocally in incests with lestat for subversive brownie points despite the fact that it's a complete betrayal of her character. Gabrielle doesn't want to fuck Lestat, she wants to BE Lestat and live vicariously through his masculinity. They've even feminized her name under the guise of "authenticity", motherfucker her italian heritage was not integral to the character, her struggles with gender were though. BUT NO!!! GABRIELLA HAS TO HAVE HER BAPS OUT AND TONGUE HER SON. This show ??? hates trans people and faggots and women???? duing pride month??????? MARKETING THIS AS SUCH A GAY SHOW ????????????????? AND THEY'RE DOING HETERO INCEST WITH NO DEPTH OR MEANING AND MISGENDERING SIDE CHARACTERS FOR NO DISCERABLE REASON.