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goobersplat

Russ Berrie Kara Cat Sleeping White Plush

yesornopolls

Any plans for the weekend?

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Voting ended onJun 8

neurodivergentaf

it's so wild when your parent changes when you become an adult. my dad is very cordial and non confrontational - he regularly helps me with adult stuff like changing the oil or providing insurance tips. he's always smiling when i call him on video and providing jokes when i complain about college

when i was a kid, i would have to tiptoe around his anger issues often, sometimes running quietly past his work table until he got his own place completely separate from our family, locked away for days. every so often he would start screaming in the car and trying to hit me or my brother for talking too loud while my mom attempted to calm him down as he swerved on the road. and now he, smiling, helps me with car insurance.

like oh, this is just who you are when you have power over someone, and this is who you are when you dont have power over someone. no wonder you can have a normal life, friends, work while scaring the shit out of your kids and wife. i see it now. i see why no one would have believed me. that, i think, is one of the core fears of trauma - seeing the outside of it from the perspective of other adults that brushed you aside, and understanding. of course, that understanding gives the opposite of solace; it just gives you more grief with nowhere for it to go

hotvampireadjacent

moominirl

fuckyeahkitschy2

ahotknife

YOU don’t have to be perfect to be loved. but I do

tredekim

josephbrassey

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

gudamor

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

badassdemonsword

Heated rivalry shouldve been about 2 ugly old guys that play mahjong then maybe id consider watching it

krownest

i don't remember them playing mahjong but they do other old man things like going to the wet market together and drinking soup and taking walks. anyway go watch suk suk / twilight's kiss

krownest

"ok but where's the old chinese lesbians" go watch all shall be well. it's by the same director and the old chinese lesbians are also at the market

eatcopperwire

i-merani

marinella-ela

mammalianmammals

Short beaked Echidna

aubryjoi

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️🌸🫶

krisunderrune

The fact that minors can be abused and neglected (physically, mentally, psychologically) just because their parents just chose it like that is insane to me.

A parent can literally just choose their child needing help is an inconvenience and not important and just ignore it. Just let their child suffer for no reason. Because they don't care, because it's not something that benefits them as the parent.

I'm fucking sick of all the people that never talk about and have never even thought of the fact that being a minor is being like a lesser human socially and legally. We're literally just lesser beings with less rights. You are not fully human until you're 18 years old.