[psilocyboi]

Reporting live from the fucking gutter sis

[crabussy]

let's capitalise the first letter of random words.... Forever

[tyrantdaughter]

How To Love Your New Friend Without Being Overbearing

[tyrantdaughter]

I'm Gonna Eat Her I Think

[bruzum]

[wenlokholmes]

sorry, prev, your tags are too true to be silenced

[autistichollander]

t-shirt that says I ❤️ AVOIDING GOING TO SLEEP

[captain-price-returns]

oh no they’re going to start calling democrats the same thing they’ve been calling democrats for 20 years now

[hotvampireadjacent]

[thewellofastarael]

"Here’s a trick I learned during the Obama presidency for handling certain types of political labels. Take, as an example, the Tea Party claim that Obama is a Communist. Don’t take the word of the person making the claim (Tea Partiers). Don’t rely on the rebuttal of the target (Obama), because that will just be dismissed. Go to the group itself (Communists) and ask them. Ask an actual Communist if Obama is a comrade and see how they answer. Watch as they laugh at you, then explain in great detail how they wish there was a Communist in the White House, but here’s a long and exhaustive list of why that just isn’t so. Now apply this logic to the claim that Hillary is pretty much the same as a Republican. Ask an actual Republican if they think Hillary Clinton is one of them. Watch them laugh, and then explain in the same exhausting detail why that just isn’t so. Some of them might concede that she’s better than Trump, but that’s not the same thing. Finally, go ask a White Supremacist if Trump is one of them. As they excitedly explain how Trump is the guy they’ve been waiting for all these years, and how he’s really empowered their movement, use this to guide how you will be voting in November."

Source: a 2016 facebook posts by Craig Enan, since then deleted (OG link here)

[almostsweetmuse-deactivated2023]

obsessed with this man...

[notgaybuckybarnes]

NICHOLAS GALITZINE Masters of The Universe (2026)

[valtsv]

i dont think we gave the hunger games (books) enough credit for making katniss a 'bad victim'. Like she hurts people (including herself). Badly and repeatedly. In wretched ways both unintentionally and intentionally. She resists treatment and a good part of her suffering comes from people trying to make her palatable. And i love her

the thing about the hunger games novels is that they're genuinely good literature dismissed as typical of the YA dystopia genre that they literally pioneered because everyone who tried to imitate their success failed to understand what made them so brilliant in the first place (actual solid sociopolitical foundations upon which the world of the text was built and a refusal to engage in spectacle with an uncritical eye, as well as a firm anti-war stance that did not waver in its consistency even for the revolution).

[shamebats]

Imo the best type of system for children to grow up in would be one that assumes the birth parents/primary guardians won't do shit and takes care of every aspect of childcare that's essential for their wellbeing and development, collectively.

[shamebats]

But I'm just a guy who only learned how to brush his teeth properly and got glasses as a child because we had both a dentist and a doctor come to school on a regular basis. The dentist would have us all stand in a circle with our little toothbrushes and show us how to brush and correct our technique. The doctors would give us general health assessments and then have the teachers contact our patents and essentially peer pressure them into getting us any health intervention we needed. My parents only reluctantly got me glasses because they knew the teachers would judge them if they kept seeing me sit in the very front row and still squint to see the chalkboard. So I'm biased.

[shamebats]

The only times I ever remember seeing a dentist or doctor as a child was at school. I'm quite healthy physically and I'm very grateful for all the care I got from the various professionals who cared about my well-being and development more than my actual parents did.

We had free healthcare including dental, mind you, my parents just couldn't be bothered. When my brother, as a teenager, asked our mother if she could take him to his orthodontist appointments (which he'd already arranged for on his own) she basically told him she didn't feel like it and he had to take the bus.

If I could improve anything about that system, I'd take it even further and make it so kids could see a doctor and get meds, treatments, therapy, tests, disability aids etc. without having to rely on their parents as well. I shouldn't have had to put up with being bullied and guilt-tripped about the family finances and the time investment needed to take me to the optometrist every time I needed new glasses.

[shamebats]

Some parents would not take care of their children even if they were given all the time and the resources. Mine are a great example of that — my mother stopped working and became a homemaker when I was in kindergarten, my father worked from the garage and was also always home. They had a car and our village even had a bus that would come once or twice an hour that would take you to the next two bigger cities.

Did that, plus the free healthcare, translate into them actually parenting and caring for us properly? It did not. They only ever did any of that reluctantly when not doing it would make them look bad, and most of the time they did a shitty job because they could never resist the urge to boost their egos by means of bullying literal children.

So I have to wonder: what did they actually contribute to our upbringing? Like they didn't teach us shit and mostly they just endangered our mental and physical health — but hey, at least they gave me cPTSD! That took some work too.

[anarchistmemedistro]

see also family abolition, and youth liberation .

[applefae]

A knee-jerk response to neglectful parenting I see a lot is “people should have to get licenses and take rigorous tests to PROVE that they should be ALLOWED to have kids” which is eugenics. That’s just the starting line for eugenics.

We are at a point in humanity where there is no meaningful reason why we shouldn’t be structuring our societies around wellbeing for all instead of wellbeing for the “deserving”.

Assume some parents will fail. Build social infrastructure that is designed to support failed kids rather than punish would-be parents.

[queer-riot-dragon]

Parents do not have to be neglectful to fail!

They can be busy, tired, stressed about finances, ignorant, etc. They can want to do the best for their kid and Fail Anyways.

The best thing is to support the children and give them the tools they need to succeed even if the parents are already giving them those tools. Because you can never learn something too much.

[lessproblematical]

Also sometimes parents become disabled or die and family can't always be counted on, and sometimes there isn't other family

[cherubinas]

sister tom 😭😭

[kii-tty]

[anxietyproblem]

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

no no, I realise it, I’m just still driving despite the check engine light being on

[woman-becomer]

*adds something to my cart* I'm about to make an amazing digital purchase

[funstyle]

Was just having a discussion with my fiance that taco bell should change their slogan to "it's gonna be okay" or at the very least shorten "live más" to "live". just feels like thats what we need from them

[funstyle]

They should change it to "live por favor" and when they hand you your order you hold hands for a moment and look in each others eyes

[willbransdaughter]

more post-weirdmageddon pines twins hcs because they are my children who i birthed: first day home/day after edition!!

like I said the moment they enter the house they realize they've spent the entire summer without AC

on the bus they talked about keeping it from their parents since they would likely not let them go back if they found out about everything that went on, even though mabel was BURSTING to tell them

their parents aren't very happy with waddles since (if you pay attention in the intro sequence) they already have a pet cat, but one phone call to stan and suddenly they're more than okay with keeping a pet pig in their house

the parents surprise them with separate rooms for their 13th birthday, but the twins are NOT having it and dipper ends up with all his stuff in mabel's room that night just like in carpet diem. they turn the other room into waddles's room

on the first night they're super duper quiet. their parents think it's because they're disappointed summer is over (which they are,) but they're also just bored asf. there was always SOMETHING to do in gravity falls and now suddenly it was back to their mundane lives

on the first morning, they wake up confused for a moment. it's cold, and their parents are yelling at them to come downstairs and eat breakfast (never the case with stan because they usually woke up before he did.)

they have a couple days before school starts, so their parents fully expect them to stay home playing video games or whatever it is children do, but instead they eat their breakfast and immediately go outside and into the small patches of trees with an empty notebook. they come back with grass in their hair and an empty notebook

the whole time they're shocked by just how damn bored their kids are. they didn't think sending them to a town in buttfuck oregon would be so eventful, but now their children just want to go outside and try and find things, and when they're not doing that they're moping around or talking about going outside and finding things. this puzzles the parents

after the twins go to bed their parents call stan and ask why the hell their kids don't want to do normal kid stuff, and stan smirks to himself and says "they had quite the adventures in gravity falls"

[wikipediapictures]

Nintendo DS Lite