Ramblings of the Clinically Sane

21 | she/her | I'm not sure what's going on here, but you're free to take a look and stay if you like

[pisghettio]

wylan has glasses

he couldn't read and he lived in a wealthy enough upbringing to try elixirs, tutors, and a ton of other bullshit, so it only makes sense that jan van dick tries prescription glasses somewhere along the way. they don't help him read (for obvious reasons), but they do fix some of the eye issues he hadn't known about before so he sticks with them. when he leaves for school (cough cough almost gets killed by his dad's hitman), his glasses break/get lost or he has to sell them for a little extra kruge and he just learns to live with bleary eyes and blurry features

fast forward to the end of crooked kingdom, he's back in the van eck mansion and after all the crazy dust settles he realizes, 'hmm, it would be pretty nice to see about now!' and he buys/finds/acquires glasses. hooray, now he can see again! except, uh oh, he forgot to mention to the rest of the crows that he's a four-eyes and suddenly all of them are staring at him, slack-jawed because 'you went through all of this and you couldn't even see????'

oh yeah, and jesper goes crazy because those are some slutty glasses

[kosmogrl]

the lioness still concerns herself with things she should have gotten over a long time ago

[cuunos]

really weird seeing posts on here about bullying by people who don't know how bullies work

[cuunos]

like a lot of people on this site have been bullied and so they think they Get How Bullying works. and it's all like "ohhh they wouldn't have bullied me if they knew i was autistic and depressed" and like. even if they somehow didn't assume that, im sure they wouldn't have been nicer to you.

[cuunos]

EXACTLY. they knew you were struggling with your mental health, they knew you were autistic, they knew you had anxiety, they KNEW. THEY KNEW.

[cuunos]

ALSO. "bullies want power and control, they only bully you because they want to feel better about their lives" actually sometimes they bully you because they want to hurt you for fun. by the way

[cuunos]

really good way to phrase it.

[cuunos]

final thoughts for the night. a lot of bullying is done in passing and the bully doesn't usually think much of it. it goes something like: this person has a haircut that i think looks stupid -> "your haircut looks stupid" -> i have to get to math class. it's truly not like people usually go "i am a bully i am going to bully you" it's more along the lines of "you're a freak and im going to let you know because that's the truth and i want you to be embarrassed and hurt and then i'll move on with my day and forget you." the tree remembers but the axe didn't even think about it.

[hopeless-eccentric]

if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills with my first two wishes, my third wish would be that sabrina carpenter would get gradually taller. she'd be in on it and think it was hilarious. we'd have a strong cap at 7 feet here, maybe an inch a week so people have time to theorize--let's not be ridiculous. but she'd still keep up the "ooh! im so little and small!" schtick. but shed be gradually getting taller. she'd be like 6'1" and still jumping for the microphone. and she'd never say anything about it. and if anyone asked shed act like she had no idea what they were talking about. and shed cheekily play into it a little bit but mostly still keep up the "ooh im so little and small" schtick. do you see my vision. do you get it

[hopeless-eccentric]

ok and so if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills in one wish i would do the sabrina carpenter thing second and third i would wish for all evidence of one random taylor swift song to disappear from the world once every month or so. taylor would have no memory of it. her fans would remember it and there would be an outcry over where it went (it's not even in concert videos anymore!) but taylor would have no memory of it

instead, all her brainspace spent on that song would be replaced with the vivid memories of roman gladiator, taylaurius velox. she's able to hide this at first, but her music begins to take on a gradually romaner and romaner tint. at first, people are like "damn, she's getting REALLY conservative, huh" and other people are like "wow, she's so deep, she knows what a rubicon is" but eventually travis kelce leaves her out of nowhere (he wasn't sure if dating someone possessed by a roman gladiator made him gay or not and anyway he was getting sick of being like "we're going to play the lions" and taylor being like "LIONS? WHERE?") and taylor publishes an entire brutus themed album about this betrayal and it's beginning to weird people out

and so eventually travis kelce is getting like, bomb threats sent to his family for leaving taylor and eventually he's like "okay, okay, i left her because she kept having all these vivid nightmares of gladatorial combat and she kept saying that football was giving her the ick because we never actually killed anybody for the glory of rome" and then he just gets more bomb threats because he left a struggling woman during a mental health crisis

and eventually taylor is writing music about her forbidden roman senator lover and her fanbase is either whittled WAY down or WAY up because people want to watch this trainwreck happen (or maybe she influences culture so hard that we're just all really into rome now) but she's being super cagey about the name of this roman senator. until. and now here's the twist:

weird al has been getting all of the same vivid memories of taylaurius velox. and he still has all his memories of her old songs. so he's writing all these detailed song parodies of taylor swift songs that don't exist anymore including specific details about their shared gladiatorial reality that taylor has never shared with anybody else. including that her lover's name was publius, and she's been calling him Poob for short

at this point a lot of original swifties are leaving. they could do the brutus stuff, but they really can't survive poob. taylor makes a clapping back at the haters song including the lyric "these bitches don't know publius" and it ends up all over all sorts of merch. there's a renewed archaeological interest in roman gladatorial combat

most importantly, the internet discourse is the best it's ever been. does this make taylor swift transmasc? is travis kelce problematic for leaving his fiancee while she gradually morphs into a roman gladiator? is this good queer representation? if taylaurius velox was a gay man, does that mean the gaylors were technically correct? is weird al morally wrong for capitalizing off of her music if she cant remember it anymore? was weird al sent by god to torment taylor swift?

anyway thats what id do if i met a genie

[queer-as-in-fuck-12]

drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw

[copper-nikl]

who is this teto-looking doll? where did it come from? and why do i have a bad feeling about it?

[copper-nikl]

who needs coyotes when there's people doing donuts in the parking lot to keep you awake

[copper-nikl]

where are my magical girls with bazookas and grenades??? i thought that's what madoka magica was all about?

[copper-nikl]

sayaka can break dance!??

[copper-nikl]

is there perhaps a support group for people who've watched madoka magica?? an ongoing lawsuit would be great too???

[yellowcatcallshome]

Nah I think you just gotta sit with the trauma. Then you tell other people how good it is and convince them to go in blind.

Misery loves company and all that

[copper-nikl]

aw man :/

but the fandom though. surely that'll patch the hole in my chest, right?

[howdoistuff]

No but you can watch the Rebellion movie and get a bigger one!

[copper-nikl]

welp i've come this far might as well

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[copper-nikl]

i suppose erasing the timeline where a charcter was evil is one way to redeem an irredeemable character

[copper-nikl]

is there perhaps a support group for people who've watched madoka magica?? an ongoing lawsuit would be great too???

[yellowcatcallshome]

Nah I think you just gotta sit with the trauma. Then you tell other people how good it is and convince them to go in blind.

Misery loves company and all that

[copper-nikl]

aw man :/

but the fandom though. surely that'll patch the hole in my chest, right?

[cranberry-branflakes]

hey did you know that I love you and im really proud of you for still being here?

[laterkiss]

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

[elierlick]

The Department of Education worked with the far-right Family Research Council to officially designate March 12th as Detrans Awareness Day last year. But what actually leads people to detransition? It's not regret, but social stigma, incited by the very figures who claim to protect detransitioners. I want to hear their stories describing how the current moral panic influenced their decisions.

[copper-nikl]

is there perhaps a support group for people who've watched madoka magica?? an ongoing lawsuit would be great too???