kirazalea⁷

dont mind the trash pit that is this blog // she/her, 20s

[writerlyn]

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

[rocketsaurus]

[peachfromcmbyn]

I just saw the world's freshest baby in Panera bread. Like that thing was JUST out of the oven. I've heard of being wet behind the ears but this baby was wet behind the everything. It was still damp.

[t4t-fwb-meronia]

[theshitinsidebones]

[ID: a reply by mythrilskirt reading "finding out straight sex isnt real and babies are baked at panera bread through this post. #relief #thenightmareisover". the reply has 32 likes. / end ID]

[starspaceace]

i like to imagine the eridians having similar conversations that we're having about their alien

[nnebuchadnezzar]

in class and we were told to pull up chatgpt on our laptops to experiment with and the guy in front of me pulled up a deli menu and started looking at sandwiches

[fucking-relax]

when your body is stiff/aching,

try slowly stretching it out.

if you stretch too far to point of pain, back off to point of ache and hold it there for a bit.

body may still hurt but at least it’s at a higher threshold now.

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

[jung-koook]

please never separate them again

[clementine-kesh]

i love fanfiction stats because sometimes you’ll see a 2ish year bump in the numbers caused by a single person writing at a rate that would make stephen king quake with envy and you just know that’s what they were doing instead of writing their masters thesis

[wolfythewitch]

rocky introducing grace to adrian

[wolfythewitch]

My favorite bit of this is since eridians say no by tapping their fists together, this can either be taken as Adrian having already learned what an applause is and clapping, or Adrian going No No No No at the weird alien Rocky brought home

[emolgana]

incredible stuff happening out there

[pukicho]

There's gotta be someone more qualified. I'm fucking begging you.

[thefoxboy]

@evilwizard

[evilwizard]

don’t involve me in this…

[kilgarraghforever]

@theshitpostcalligrapher ?

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

[leafcrunch]

my neighbourhood has never had an ice cream truck. in the summer, we have the knife sharpening truck. it slowly circles the block and rings its ominous bell. i have never seen someone interact with it. it may be that only those marked by death can see it

[sun-and-time]

alex??? this is truly frightening ??

[leafcrunch]

i never really thought about it much until today but you’re right this is honestly a messed up thing for me to be accustomed to

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous truck

[dyke-parade]

[bellabooisnotagoodusername]

okay if you work in any environment that requires frequent use of scissors, this truck is like Jesus showing up. We cut ribbon and paper constantly at my job and when OUR knife sharpening guy rolls through town, once in a blue moon, we all run after him in the street waving out hands around like children after the pied piper. We carry our shears out to him like bouquets, shaking because we are so excited to have sharp scissors again.

So anyway we may in fact be marked for death in the way all retail employees are, but shout out to knife trucks everywhere.

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous truck

[kittynoct]

i legit overheard this when i was in class

kakashi: (muffled voice) how do i save my file teacher: what? i cant hear you kakashi: (takes off mask) how do i save my file

[salenathesource]

Who is kakashi

[kittynoct]

kakashi from accounting class

[kittynoct]

i saw kakashi in accounting class

[noodles-07]

everything I hate about ai and love about wikipedia on one image

[spookyboywhump]

Guy who never feels like his problems are “bad enough” to be taken seriously: what if I hurt the character so horrifically that everyone around them could not possibly deny the severity of their pain even if the character themself tries to downplay it.

[adhdchaosbean]

[sandmandaddy69]

[cannibalcaprine]

i feel like we don't appreciate these days how much the twin towers sucked, like, design-wise

they were contemporarily hated for just being these giant grey monoliths

like there probably could've been an easier way to get rid of them, but they probably needed to go either way

[tgirl-subway-the-dark-ages]

crying at this. the curb is brutalist. the sidewalk is brutalist. house made of concrete bricks is brutalist. lmao??

[cue-jay]