[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[teaboot]

"Oh yeah, we have an outdoor Corgi, he just gets so bored cooped up inside all day. He knows to stay off the road. Don't worry, he's way too smart for coyotes and the neighbor's know to look out when they drive past."

"Us? Oh, of *course* our Dachshund sleeps inside- we just let him out in the morning and make sure he comes back for dinner. He just does his own thing, no worries."

"Um, you know it's not humane to keep a chihuahua confined to an apartment? They're dogs, they're natural predators. They need to experience hunting behaviors or they get depressed. No we don't leash ours, he absolutely hates it, we just let him come and go whenever."

Yall get how fucking stupid that sounds, right? So stop letting your goddamn cats get eaten and attacked and infected and hit by cars

A toddler would probably love full unattended access to the neighborhood too, but we don't do that either, do we

It's 2026, "keep your damn pet in a house or in your view" should not be controversial

[angel-stars]

I had to go on a hunt for this but it was worth it. 100% agree

[teaboot]

"Oh yeah, we have an outdoor Corgi, he just gets so bored cooped up inside all day. He knows to stay off the road. Don't worry, he's way too smart for coyotes and the neighbor's know to look out when they drive past."

"Us? Oh, of *course* our Dachshund sleeps inside- we just let him out in the morning and make sure he comes back for dinner. He just does his own thing, no worries."

"Um, you know it's not humane to keep a chihuahua confined to an apartment? They're dogs, they're natural predators. They need to experience hunting behaviors or they get depressed. No we don't leash ours, he absolutely hates it, we just let him come and go whenever."

Yall get how fucking stupid that sounds, right? So stop letting your goddamn cats get eaten and attacked and infected and hit by cars

A toddler would probably love full unattended access to the neighborhood too, but we don't do that either, do we

It's 2026, "keep your damn pet in a house or in your view" should not be controversial

[angel-stars]

I had to go on a hunt for this but it was worth it. 100% agree

[dizzyghoast]

i think its funny how if you imagine something scary enough your brain starts treating it like its real and out to get you. its really cool and not annoying at all

[dizzyghoast]

someone: i made up a guy called the Scary Getter! He's real spooky when he tries to getter you!

me: wow thats scary.....the Scary Getter.....what if hes real....what if he getters me???

[dizzyghoast]

gonna start reblogging this every time i start worrying about about the Scary Getter

[iys-cloud]

I just got. The single funniest dm I've ever received in my entire life

Characters in media fighting back against the mind control:

[iys-cloud]

I just got. The single funniest dm I've ever received in my entire life

Characters in media fighting back against the mind control:

[iys-cloud]

I just got. The single funniest dm I've ever received in my entire life

Characters in media fighting back against the mind control:

[unfinished-cardigan]

Thinking about how different lesbyler's dynamic would be to regular byler's one.

Note: I'm taking this as a whole genderbent AU so every character's gender is reversed, not only Byler.

TW: mentions of implied SA and victim blaming

Because girls are allowed to touch each other more. A girl can hold another girl's hand, and they wouldn't get screamed at from the get-go for that. This doesn't mean that they wouldn't get targeted as queer, but the bullying surrounding that specifically would have started later in life, when the platonic touches started to look like they had double intentions.

Because girls don't get bullied for looking too sensitive/delicate, so little Will Byers wouldn't have been a target for being "too feminine," since little girls are expected to be feminine. But little girls do get bullied for wearing clothes that are too raggy and too old, and for having bangs that are too blunt and hair that is too short. Because little girls do get bullied for looking disheveled and messy. And little girls get bullied for behaving too much like boys.

And because girls get bullied for being too much like boys, they also get bullied for hanging out too much, too closely, with the tomboy, with the girl that doesn't behave as such. At least that's consistent between the two universes.

The girl who goes missing has the same background and issues as the boy who goes missing. She also comes from a single-parent household, her family is also heavily stigmatized in town, and she's still accused of being in love with her best friend.

But the best friend still has to witness the whispers and rumors, and she has to bite her tongue when she hears her mother talk about how the girl she loves the most in the world was probably dead because she went with the wrong man. Is the best friend that has to witness as it suddenly is her best friend's fault instead of the fault of the person who took her. The best friend's counterpart, while he had to witness how they trash-talked his best friend, didn't hear the hardest blows from his own family.

And as they grow up, the girl who still looks young, the one who doesn't have any interest in boys, and the one who still wants to play gets relegated. Because she's too childish. And while this is consistent with regula Byler, in girls this shift in early adolescence is bigger. Because the world has more expectations for you, and you need to grow up and mature. And if you're the girl who still looks like a girl and doesn't want to stick to growing up, then you fall behind.

Lesbyler overall grows up really similar to their male counterparts. They still fall in love, where Will falls first, but Mike falls harder. They still love each other with every bit of their bodies. They would still kill, die, and live for the other. And while the little details are what make the difference between them, the kind of love they have for each other is the same, which is why they are in love in every possible iteration.

(PD: I believe Lesbyler got together earlier in the timeline than regular Byler tho. Like, the boys got together around senior year of high school—because they're too into each other but too dumb to see it—. But the girls got together around the time the world was ending, because Micha has 0.00001% better communication skills than Mike, so she told Will everything earlier.)

[liberalsarecool]

No distraction too petty.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[its-the-blob]

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

[liberalsarecool]

Ivanka's performative tweets are pathetic.

[outtagum]

👏👏👏👏👏

STRANGER THINGS 4.08 "Chapter Eight: Papa" 5.07 "Chapter Seven: The Bridge"

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Imagine if politicians actually cared about the health and well-being of the people, instead of feeding corporate greed.

All our lives would be better.

[liberalsarecool]

The disgusting hypocrisy of it all? Congress gets socialized health care for life.

They love THEIR socialism. Their paychecks. Their food per diems. Their pension.

[aturnoftheearth]

i’m sorry but it is so fucking funny that misha collins clearly can’t talk about dean winchester being in love with cas in any way whatsoever it’s like he signed a NDA (no dean-talking allowed) so now he just says shit that’s so clearly not true

[aturnoftheearth]

“this (5x03) is when castiel started developing a crush but dean didn’t notice” i mean yeah i’m sure he didn’t notice but also. who was the one who said IN 5x03 “last night on earth, what are your plans” having said that as a pickup line before? and who was the one who said “there are two things i know for certain. one, bert and ernie are gay, two, you are not gonna die a virgin” ? not castiel.

[aturnoftheearth]

actually this could work. he just keeps saying things that are so incorrect that dean finally takes over jensen ackles and we get some really fun times

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[catherinebunnington]

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

[mirkwoodest]

Obsessed with the fact that this really happened😳

[wan-shailu]

When I was a student at Oxford, both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were lecturing there, Lewis magnificently and Tolkien badly and inaudibly, and the climate of opinion was such that people explained Lewis’s children’s books by saying ‘It’s his Christianity, you know,’ as if the books were the symptom of some disease, while of Tolkien they said he was wasting his time on hobbits when he should have been writing learned articles…

I imagine I caused Tolkien much grief by turning up to hear him lecture week after week, while he was trying to wrap his lectures up after a fortnight and get on with The Lord of the Rings (you could do that in those days, if you lacked an audience, and still get paid). I sat there obdurately despite all his mumbling and talking with his face pressed up to the blackboard, forcing him to go on expounding every week how you could start with a simple quest-narrative and, by gradually twitching elements as it went along, arrive at the complex and entirely different story of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale – a story that still contains the excitement of the quest-narrative that seeded it. What little I heard of all this was wholly fascinating.

– Diana Wynne Jones

[mirkwoodest]

Obsessed with the fact that this really happened😳

[wan-shailu]

When I was a student at Oxford, both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were lecturing there, Lewis magnificently and Tolkien badly and inaudibly, and the climate of opinion was such that people explained Lewis’s children’s books by saying ‘It’s his Christianity, you know,’ as if the books were the symptom of some disease, while of Tolkien they said he was wasting his time on hobbits when he should have been writing learned articles…

I imagine I caused Tolkien much grief by turning up to hear him lecture week after week, while he was trying to wrap his lectures up after a fortnight and get on with The Lord of the Rings (you could do that in those days, if you lacked an audience, and still get paid). I sat there obdurately despite all his mumbling and talking with his face pressed up to the blackboard, forcing him to go on expounding every week how you could start with a simple quest-narrative and, by gradually twitching elements as it went along, arrive at the complex and entirely different story of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale – a story that still contains the excitement of the quest-narrative that seeded it. What little I heard of all this was wholly fascinating.

– Diana Wynne Jones