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queersatanic

When a cop pulls you over and asks what you’re up to, he isn’t interested in the goings-on of your day. He’s asking you, “Can you tell me something I can use to hurt you?”

When a hiring manager asks about a gap in your resume or why you left your last job, she isn’t chatting out of curiosity. She’s looking for a reason not to hire you.

Even when your doctor asks you questions about your thoughts of self-harming, they aren’t necessarily really asking you about this for your own benefit because sometimes they’re asking, “Would you like to be abducted and forcibly restrained for a minimum of a few days?”

The difference here is power. Power changes things because what’s associated is the threat of violence, direct or indirect. A guy holding a gun asking, “That’s a nice phone. Can I see it?” is not paying a compliment or making a request but giving a pretty direct threat while mugging you.

It’s not even autism; it’s just understanding realistic social dynamics.

Your landlord is not your friend. They don’t have to live up to their handshake agreements and verbal contracts. You should not be revealing information to them that they can use to hurt you, even if you think they won’t.

Snitching is not telling the truth, and covering for someone else by deceit is not lying (better to shut the fuck up, though). Because power transmutes social relations with the magic of violence, implied and direct.

px41

It's june

one-true-houselight

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Guess what I diiiiiid anyway I love them

illegaldownload

i love bald women

illegaldownload

let's replace veterans day with bald women day

mumblesplash

not nearly enough people talking about the way grace betrayed stratt too if you ask me. and tbf i get it, bc the implication is less overt (at least in the movie? still haven't read the book) but it's sooo much more interesting to me than the way she betrayed him.

bc like the way i see it she really did not need to pretend grace had a choice. those 3 hours she gave him were meaningless as far as the project itself and the fate of the world were concerned. and yes, it was in the hopes that he would come around on his own, but i don't think that was for grace's benefit. if anything, it probably would have been less painful for him if he'd never thought he had a say.

stratt wasn't asking for his consent, she knew it never mattered anyway. she was asking him to take some of the weight of his own death off her conscience, and he said no. no, i won't make the hard call for you just this once, not even with the whole world on the line. no, i won't acknowledge that you never had a choice either. no, i will not absolve you of the one sin it's in my power to forgive. that's gotta sting, even if she wasn't really expecting him to say yes, or even to recognize those 3 hours for what they were. she probably wasn't. she knows a long shot when she takes one.

breadstickemporium

Adding @mumblesplash’s tags

quinnick

It’s that time of year again so here is your yearly reminder that the world isn’t ending and people don’t hate you. The sun is just setting at 6 pm.

mrs-delaney

Please take your vitamin D

bundibird

HEY SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE GIRLIES, ITS OUR TURN TO ENDURE THE DARK DAYS NOW, BUT STAY STRONG. THE WORLD IS NOT ENDING; THE SUN IS JUST SETTING AT 5-to-6 PM. BUT SHE WILL COME BACK TO US SOON. TAKE A VITAMIN D AND HANG IN THERE.

wiisagi-maiingan

Alright this is going to be a very controversial thing to say but.

I really and truly believe that the "treat yourself" culture and people living well above their means and going into a ton of debt just to have fun and live lives of luxury with no regard for the future is a form of passive suicidal ideation. I am only now dragging myself out of a hole of suicidal ideation after being in it since my very early teens and the idea that what you do now doesn't matter because you don't have a future is like. Classic passive suicidal ideation. You aren't actively planning to hurt yourself, you don't actively want to die, but subconsciously or not, you are envisioning a future where you do not exist.

"It doesn't matter if I max out a dozen credit cards because I don't have a future anyway." Okay, why? Why don't you have a future? Where are you in this mystery future where none of your actions now can touch you? I am not trying to be mean, but I need people to really think about this and realize that they are setting up a future for themselves where they are not present and there's only one way that can happen.

Talk to a therapist. Get help. Build a support system. Reach out to your friends and loved ones living like this and express your concern. If they aren't willing to listen, fine. Lots of people living with passive suicidal ideation don't want to listen or acknowledge they have a problem. But maybe they will listen. At least you've tried either way.

wiisagi-maiingan

It's so scary and horrifying to see this become so common among younger generations and so much of it is because our economy is in the fucking trash. People see how difficult it is to buy a house, get a job they can survive off, get a job that makes going to college worth it, start a family, pay off loans and debts, buy groceries, etc and it's filling them with a horrific and deep existential dread. It's so easy to overspend and get into debt when you can't see a future where saving will ever be worth it, where you will ever face any consequences for spending recklessly now.

And again, that is a form of suicidal ideation. A future where you face no consequences and where you can't benefit from savings is a future where you are dead. Full stop. End of statement. Get help.

ms-demeanor

I've seen this pop up when I talk about Roth IRAs and 401Ks and such, especially among younger people. "I'm never going to be able to retire, I'm going to have to work until I die, so why should I try to save for retirement?"

I started smoking at fifteen because it didn't matter, I figured I'd never make it to twenty-five, why should I care about cancer? (classic passive suicidal ideation).

I'm turning forty this year and I really really wish I'd been aware how much building up debt would fuck me and what options there were for me to save when I was younger.

You probably aren't going to die before you retire. You are probably going to live past the age where you will be able to work. There is a tomorrow and we want you in it and we want you to be okay.

Talk to someone. Be kind to your future self and the people who love you in the future.

salmonandsoup

Also, as someone who's learning to become a financial educator: LITTLE SAVINGS, WITH THE PROPER AMOUNT OF INTEREST, WILL TAKE YOU SO FUCKING FAR. Put away $50 a month every month, and by the time you're in your 60s, if you have good interest rates and at least 25 years until retirement, if you just let it grow, you will have SOME nest egg to sit on. And the compound interest continues to grow. Save when you're young. Take care of your future self. You will be here for it.

ravioliet

been meaning to draw them as this peanuts comic for a minute now. i asked my friend rocky he said 🎵❗️

manuciruja

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

manuciruja

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

smadsel

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

smadsel

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

manuciruja

hey staff what the fuck

villainessbian

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

shrodingers-catgirl

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

blessyouhawkeye

forever thinking about that girl at my uni orientation who, after being told to pour out her water bottle before entering an event, looked at me and said "they tell us to stay hydrated and then make us pour out our water, this is like totally kafkaesque" and then poured out what was very obviously an entire water bottle full of whiskey. hope she's doing well.