The Horror Won’t End

She/her. 28. Leftist. Weeb. Lesbian. There’s no way out of tumblr. The only “anti” I am is Anti-Fascist.

[memewhore]

[somecommonbitch]

veth: i’m so sorry i’ve made you unsafe and i’m asking you to move into this seedy bar with our son it’s unforgivable and i don’t deserve you two

yeza: the government had me on house arrest and a waring nation’s government kidnaped and imprisoned me. being your malewife has been the best thing to ever happen to me

[redjennies]

"if I keep getting my god drunk, maybe he'll actually help."

[my-nameless-bliss]

fix-it fic, also known as Canon Complaint,

[prokopetz]

Concept: magical girl who’s just an absolute twentysomething dirtbag.

Not bad at her job or indifferent to suffering, mind – she’s actually extremely good at the whole “protecting humanity” thing. It’s just, you know, as a person she’s the worst.

She’ll take down and exorcise a rampaging demon possession victim with minimal collateral damage and without harming so much as a hair on the victim’s head, then steal the cash from their wallet while they’re sleeping off the possession hangover and call it payment for services rendered.

She uses her transformation to avoid doing laundry because her civilian clothes are clean when they rematerialise afterwards. The audience eventually meets the extradimensional fairy who’s responsible for said cleaning; they’ve clearly been mildly traumatised by the condition those clothes have occasionally been received in, but we never do get the details.

She’s got some sort of dirt on her cute talking animal companion, and doesn’t hesitate to take advantage of this to blackmail them into performing demeaning favours for her. It’s implied that the companion kind of deserves it.

And – this is critical – the show never goes grim, it never turns into a Stark Moral Lesson™, and she never learns the error of her ways.

[frogcoded]

howl’s moving castle is fucking hilarious like this complete stranger shows up at his house and goes “bitch you really live like this? this is the nastiest house i’ve ever seen, i’m gonna be your cleaning lady from now on because you clearly need one” and howl’s just like “sounds fair, do you want some breakfast?” no questions asked

[mentalhealth]

how much of ur online presence is performative and how much is it u being u

[soil-boy]

baby every me is me, we are the mask and the wearer

[bixbiboom]

I want art of a shellshocked Caleb eating a baby carrot.

[blurrycriticalroleposts]

Same.

[cungadero]

thanks for letting me talk about a piece of media i love with you and responding in earnest interest with the intent of checking it out for yourself because of my recommendation. also how do you feel about being kissed directly on the mouth

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[prokopetz]

“Hey, this facial reconstruction of a Roman emperor just looks like some random Italian guy” buddy, I have fantastic news for you about where Rome is.

[glowinglightsabovethearbys]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

queer is a gender, sexuality, romantic orientation, political alignment, and mission statement, babey

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

in case you haven’t heard it today, or don’t fully realise it yet: i promise you that most people in this world are kind, loving and understanding. the people around you want you to succeed, they do not want you to fail. your friends don’t hate you, they love you, and they want to see you grow and prosper. 

the world is not as bad as it seems. don’t forget that.

[jollyreginaldrancher]

Sounds fake but ok

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

good news: it’s not fake. everything i said is true. being dismissive towards good things is a damaging mindset to have. you’ll feel a lot better if you have some trust and if you’re willing to consider optimistic viewpoints.

[bluelikecloudss]

Is this what non depressed people feel like ? Damn. You’re so lucky

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

i’m extremely mentally ill and extremely depressed at that. deflecting good advice that encourages you to think positively about life by claiming that the person who said it is not depressed (when i very much am) is also a very damaging mindset to have.

[langsandlit]

OP is the opposite of the “Then Perish” meme. All of OP’s replies read as “Then Prosper”.

[explorerrowan]

Hey all y'all, it turns out that saying positive things and encouraging others with them even when you don’t quite believe them yourself is an excellent coping strategy for clinical depression. I know it’s hard to understand when you’re in the pit, and if I’m honest it’s still hard for me to grok, but the more you say positive things, the more they start being true. If that means lying to yourself, lie! Your brain chemistry is already lying to you about bad things, you may as well lie right back about good ones.

[heartisamusclethesizeofyourfist]

“Your brain chemistry is already lying to you about bad things, you may as well lie right back about good ones.“ 

Wow. That is a really fucking good point. 

[kittyknowsthings]

THEN PROSPER

[overshadowedprojects]

THEN PROSPER!!

[falseinnocencereturns]

[plasmalogical]

haters will see you

[plasmalogical]

dr. haters will see you now

[godlessondheimite]

[fluffmugger]

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

[pennie-dreadful]

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

[mikkeneko]

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

[three--rings]

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument.  Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM.  The message is that it is BAD. 

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

at least two of these people are well-known for taking part in recent YA twitter and goodreads pile-ons over the past couple years that resulted in authors pulling their books from publication over accusations of racism and other problematic content, so if you’ve ever wondered whether YA twitter is sending its best minds to the culture wars, the answer is lol no

[artistcarcass]

I can’t wait to get murdered in Pokemon Legends

[modmad]