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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

carbomcoco

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

aphony-cree

people always go "Instead of spending all that time on a study they could have just listened to us when we said these thing happen"

they did listen, that's how studies work, they asked people about their experiences and put all the data together in a nice package that can be cited

tomb-mold

look i knowwww this will make me sound like a pretentious asshole, but art and culture literally make you a better and more interesting person. im not exaggerating. you need to pick up some highfalutin classic literature or watch some experimental auteur films every now and then to gain some scope and perspective about the world around you. cultivate curiosity! this can help you in many ways☝

fluffysheeple

christian bad driver: my guardian angel watches over me, I don't need to look before I merge

atheist bad driver: I will rely on my own skill to see myself safely home after a mere 8 drinks

agnostic bad driver: no one knows where all these dents and scratches came from

#people being people

luxmoogle

#kh #kh fanart

setuaa

Okay my last rb actually has got me thinking a bit, and like, I think Roxas is Sora's one and only true failure

Sora as a character is. Unacquainted with actual failure. He faces setbacks and bad odds, yes. He's even self sacrificial to a glaring fault. But with the exception of Roxas, there's not been anything he's never been able to make right

Roxas can never not be Sora's Nobody, even as his own, whole person like at the end of KH3. His personhood (at least was) directly and completely reliant on Sora to exist in the first place. It never mattered how hard he struggled; Roxas was always going to be sacrificed to Sora like a lamb to slaughter, and Sora knows that. All of Sora's connections actively and willfully chose to sacrifice Roxas to him and he knows that. For a boy that will stick his nose into sham legal trials at the first opportunity and basically immediately forgive someone who desecrated his memories and stole a year from him, that's got to be an INSANE amount of guilt he's carrying over it. He's not equipped for that

(Riku too, tbh, and I wish KH3 actually showed the ugly emotions of everyone coming back one way or another instead of just "no harm no foul"ing it and leaving the plot thread open. You can't tell me a teenager who just made his first real progress coming to terms with the terrible harms he's inflicted on his friends wouldn't be haunted by what he did to Roxas and Xion. Especially with his idolatry of a version of Sora that doesn't really exist and never has ! but that's a whole separate conversation that I'm not ready to unpack yet !)

And it kind of shows how badly Roxas got screwed by just about everyone, because KH2 is Roxas' game. Despite playing as Sora and talking to his friends and whatever else, it inevitably centers Roxas and the emotional connections he made. Ones with the Organization, ones in the data Twilight Town, and the one with Naminé. Connections that were weaponized against the both of them. Sora inherited Roxas' rage, his sorrow, his self-righteousness and exhaustion, and he used that to sever every single thread that tied Roxas and his experiences to reality. And it's not like those emotions went away, either. You don't go from swinging wildly at what you already know is a projection of DiZ to immediately accepting your station as a temporary skill bank. Just doesn't track to me

The entire plot of KH2 is Sora unknowingly executing the systematic demolition of the things that root Roxas' existence as an independent being.

From the start of KH2, there's a noticeable tone shift from the goofy and impulsive, slightly violent Sora of the first game to an extremely combative and aggressive, snarky, unempathetic brawler in the second. This lasts through DDD and only clears up in KH3, returning to a more mature and emotionally open version of his characterization from 1

Even in KH3, all Sora was able to do was smile and nod as Vexen took advantage of the replica bodies they stole from Xemnas. Roxas returning to a physical form was, quite honestly, by sheer chance, and there was no backup plan if empty replicas were inaccessible somehow. It was completely and totally expected that Roxas would just live a miserable, disembodied life trapped inside of Sora's heart, and everything he fought for and lost would be rendered meaningless as a result. While I'm sure Roxas is grateful for having his own body now, Sora definitely would not feel accomplished by that outcome. Especially because it's not like he can undo all the hurt he caused Roxas just by them both being cursed to exist Wrongly in opposition to each other, now that he has a body. I mean, shit, Roxas was even the one to trigger leaving Sora's heart and moving to a replica in the first place. Sora was effectively a glorified taxi, and was cucked of any way to actually meaningfully contribute to separating himself from Roxas and Xion and getting them into their own bodies/lives

Idk I just can't imagine Sora of all people doing anything but getting himself stuck in self-misery about it whenever it comes to mind, even if he plays it off or pushes it away like the avoidant, traumatized boy he is

#kh sora #kh #kh meta

klapollo

various tv, film, and theater producers for the last 50 years smacking themselves in the forehead like fuuuuck how can we make it easy to understand why carrie is alienated from her peers and callously bullied at school WITHOUT making her a hideous fatass like in the book

heartspocky

The book makes it very clear that Carrie just dresses poorly, has fluctuating weight, and has occasional acne. Yall are starting to exaggerate way too much.

#stephen king carrie

urie

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

queer-reader-07

danceundersparklinglights

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

vampirefabio

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

the-prairies-calling-out

"Why do you buy books when the library is right there?"

Because publishing houses will not continue printing paper books if libraries are their only customers.

Also, I like being able to read at my leisure and generally have books at hand.

its-the-blob

#public libraries are good because they let people access books they might never otherwise read#private book ownership is good because it's Yours#physical books are good because they last a long time and again it's Yours#ebooks are good because you can fit a whole library into the physical space of a single book and they're cheaper to produce#audiobooks are good because they're accessible to people with eyesight or visual reading issues and leave your hands free#in conclusion: all books are good and people should enjoy them however and whenever they can#(lest it be misunderstood I agree with you completely OP I just also really like books in general and it got away from me)

YES. all books. every kind

xenineshroom

Every time exclusionists come up with a new enemy, it seems like the core tenet is, "this group's relative privilege means they should be deprived of, community, resources, compassion, or are otherwise invading and stealing from us, the real oppressed group."

Aro and ace exclusion was like this, they'd say "Asexuals are basically straight, they can just pass as straight, nobody cares if they want to fuck or not, there's aromantic straight man invading Pride, there are quirky asexual straight girls pretending to be queer, asexuals are appropriating Stone and oppressing lesbians."

Bisexual exclusion and it was all, "Bisexuals are basically straight, they can just avoid oppression by being straight, these fucking bisexual women are bringing their homophobic straight boyfriends to pride, bisexual women are appropriating butch and femme, and they can't say dyke, those are lesbian only terms, bisexual women are oppressing lesbians."

And now it's like, "Trans men are basically cis. They can just avoid oppression by saying they are men, these fucking trans men are dangerous rapists who can pretend to be women to avoid consequences, trans men are appropriating T4T, and they can't say tranny, and can't say they were once "eggs", those are trans woman only terms. Trans men are oppressing women."

This isn't even all, transmeds also fit this bill, their enemy is just "the transtrender menace."

Like here we are again, rooting out the fake queers, policing them, traumatizing an entire community, and when we all get embarrassed about how we fell for yet another fucking queer moral panic, the damage will be downplayed, nobody will learn anything and we'll move onto the next secretly privileged queer group who needs to be annihilated in order to defend some poor defenseless women who cannot possibly defend themselves from these ugly mannish straight invaders... huh, wait a second.... why does that sound so familiar?

For those who aren't catching the hint, all of these movements have rhetoric which maps directly onto TERF rhetoric where, "Trans people are privileged invaders, they aren't really oppressed at all, they are dangerous rapists, and mentally ill liars. They are invading lesbian communities, and transing the remaining lesbians, and trans people's very existence is an existential threat to women."

beefosaur

he said this 5 “one more spin”s ago

wiisagi-maiingan

I think we apply conspiratorial thinking to things way more than we should (though I think the basleine for conspiracies we should believe in is zero in general), from individuals to large scale ideas. Most people are not thinking about the specific ways to hurt someone or a group of people as much as possible, they simply don't care when that harm happens.

Most abusers are not doing math in their head to figure out the perfect way to manipulate their victims, they're just self-centered and cruel and they take advantage of opportunities that present themselves. Most abusers are not thinking "these are the steps I need to take to isolate my partner/child/friend/etc from everyone but me", they're just possessive and controlling in general.

In the same vein, most corporations are not thinking up ways to poison water sources or put lead into food or make cars more dangerous to drive; those things are just the consequences of cutting safety measures and labor rights to make a profit and corporations care more about the money they make than the harm being done, especially when the only consequences are a slap on the wrist. Marginalized groups are hurt the worst by this not because there is a targeted effort to wipe us all out but because we are simply not valued by society as a whole.

It's very easy to fall into this mindset because we don't want to think that our pain is often just a side effect of someone's actions, but the reality is that there isn't some grand conspiracy or a huge chunk of our society who are evil geniuses solely dedicated to hurting people. Most people are just. . . selfish and cruel and more focused on themselves than on how they're hurting other people. There is no shadowy group of people steepling their fingers as they plan their next waste plant to deliberately poison a town's lake. That just isn't what's happening.