[sodomit]

Parents: "children should be taught that actions have consequences"

Okay, let them stay up till 5 in the morning and feel like shit for the next day, eat a bag of candy in one go and have a huge stomach ache, go out without an umbrella and catch a cold, watch a violent movie and get scared?

Parents: "actually, we mean screaming and beating the crap out of them when they try to do these things"

[spiribia]

Why is so much adult oriented 2d animation bastard ugly, do they know they don’t have to do that? The characters don’t have to projectile vomit all the time either, but maybe that’s asking too much

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

[uncertainlys]

i hope everything works out in the end because i am so so scared

[phantomleaves]

very into films from a child’s perspective about the weirdness, imagination and perversity of childhood at the moment

[phantomleaves]

my recommendations:

The Reflecting Skin, 1990, dir. Philip Ridley

Poison for the Fairies, 1986, dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada

Celia, 1989, dir. Ann Turner

Angela, 1995, dir. Rebecca Miller

Tideland, 2005, dir. Terry Gilliam

Ponette, 1996, dir. Jacques Doillon

The Spirit of the Beehive, 1973, dir. Victor Erice

Heavenly Creatures, 1994, dir. Peter Jackson

Ratcatcher, 1999, dir. Lynne Ramsay

Cría cuervos, 1976, dir. Carlos Saura

Don’t Deliver Us from Evil, 1971, dir. Joël Séria

Oh, Moon!, 1988, dir. Reha Erdem

The Innocents, 2021, dir. Eskil Vogt

The Other, 1972, dir. Robert Mulligan

[litteraeignotae]

This is one of my favorite kinds of movies, and these are great recs. I would add a few:

Fanny and Alexander, 1982, dir. Ingmar Bergman

Parents, 1989, dir. Bob Balaban

The Curse of the Cat People, 1944, dir. Robert Wise & Gunther von Fritsch

I Start Counting, 1970, dir. David Greene

Laurin, 1989, dir. Robert Sigl

Lemora, 1973, dir. Richard Blackburn

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970, dir. Jaromil Jireš

I Start Counting, Laurin, Lemora and Valerie are more coming of age stories, but I think they still fit.

And perhaps it's considerably different from the others, but I'd also recommend The World Is Full of Secrets, 2018, dir. Graham Swon.

[thememedaddy]

[summertydes]

I love you. I love you more than I love myself. I know it doesn’t say a lot but you’re the only thing I love this much.

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[pseudomantis]

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

[phaeton-flier]

How about you mind your own damn business

[letterful]

[anti-parent]

Solidarity with Children

this book is out now!!! it's a short read, less than 200 pages, and it's SO good. i literally had to pause halfway through just to send the author a message about how much i liked it. definitely leans more utopian than scientific, but that makes sense given the format, and i think it has a lot of good things to say.

once you really start thinking about how restrictive the world is for children and how many bullshit justifications we retroactively come up for it all the time, you can't stop seeing it everywhere. this book makes a good case for including children in our political efforts not as rhetorical devices but as an actual class of oppressed people.

[nongunktional]

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

[hadalstims]

So deeply moved by this puppy eating raspberries I had to make it a gif I felt compelled

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

monch monch monch <3

[woodsdyke]

im swimming at the lake and accidentally kicked a fish. this has never happened in my many years of swimming. sorry man

[hyacinthlbridgerton]

OUTLANDER: BLOOD OF MY BLOOD | 1.10 Something Borrowed

[transgenderer]

if david lynch was a crab hed be called david pinch and hed be able to edit his movies by hand with his sharp claws. so think about that a little

[coolyo294]

[bunniope]

[jewfrogs]

recently saw this screenshot in the wild and lost my mind because i knew it wasnt supposed to say girl. its ladykins. its get off the cross ladykins. i know this because ladykins is not something my brain could make up and i remember ladykins. and i was sincerely wondering if someone put in the work to censor ladykins for some inscrutable purposes but then i looked it up and

turns out that actually rupaul made the same tweet twice with 1 word changed 8 months apart. he meditated on this for 8 months and 5 days and the word ladykins came to him. i initially thought he copy pasted the first tweet but i dont think thats true anymore i dont think he was operating with any memory of the first tweet i think these words were always in him and will always be. second tweet did way worse by the way. the people did not respond to ladykins

[sandersstudies]

We were doing an activity where the kids got to make a playbill for a musical about themselves and all the other kids were like “character list: mommy, daddy, me, my brother, my best friend” “scenes: I get a puppy, first day of school, my baby sister is born”

But one little girl was like “oh, it’s a musical about ME you say” and the character list was all the other girls in the class cast as her body parts, and a story about how her body works.

“Kaylee is nice so she will be the heart. Lily is my kidneys. Sapphire is the lungs.”

She surreptitiously showed me that the girl who kept taking the crayons she was using was cast specifically as “left buttcheek” and I had to pretend like that wasn’t the funniest thing I’d ever seen.