Lofibop

i've returned to my old online inspiration board

[faun-grove]

[faun-grove]

he's so weak and helpless :(

[transhuman-priestess]

the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.

[transhuman-priestess]

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

[genderkoolaid]

& then for some reason people fixate more on "ugh these teenagers just want to be treated like babies!!! teenagers are to blame for the rise in puritanism!!!!!" than how this is a very obvious example of ageism and the increased control over a socially vulnerable and exploited group

[absolxguardian]

I think a commonly overlooked part of this coddling is that it teaches kids and teenagers to be afraid of things they don't need to be afraid of, which is exactly how they end up as "puriteens". I remember as a child being terrified to change the channel on the tv because I had ended up with the impression that seeing even seconds of an R rated movie or tv show would give me nightmares. And then as a tween every time I saw swearing I felt sick to my stomach because I had been taught such a thing is bad and harmful. I think I would have suffered less if I hadn't been raised with everyone around me acting like mature media was so bad. By the time I was a teenager I had figured out this was bunk, but understandably a lot of people don't. By making this whole system worse and stronger you have teens who have been told that seeing explicit or dark media Will Harm Them, and so they act in ways that would be appropriate if it really was the info-hazard it's implied to be.

[headspace-hotel]

^^ never heard anybody specifically talk about this but yeah. parents acting like sexual or any "dark" content in a story or show was going to put bad things in my head that were going to be there permanently just gave me a deeply distressing sort of contamination anxiety

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you're laughing. charles dickens had a son named plorn and you're laughing

[mediummarketpaperback]

HE HAD A SON NAMED

WHAT

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Plorn

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NICK I LOOKED IT UP AND SAW NOTHING OF THE SORT IS THIS A PRANK

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technically his name was edward but everyone called him plorn

[mediummarketpaperback]

Edward “Plorn” Dickens. my god.

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I have something worse

[mediummarketpaperback]

oh???

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[mediummarketpaperback]

imagine getting stuck with the nickname Plorn

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imagine getting sent to live in the Australian outback when you were sixteen

[mediummarketpaperback]

WHY WERE THEY SO CRUEL TO MY BOY PLORN

[cherishablematerial-deactivated]

I have an answer to that one too

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[cogentranting]

The face of a man whose father nicknamed him Plorn.

[elodieunderglass]

Born without a groove 😔

[linguisticparadox]

[telomeke]

With each addition to this, I find myself nodding and murmuring, "Mm hm. The Plorn Dickens."

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[soldhissoulforrocknroll]

Woe betides the grooveless Plorn

Ambitions lacking, face forlorn

His father's industry and wit?

He never got a lick of it

A childhood spent in anxious gloom

And sent away to certain doom

No wonder all the people say

"Hurts like the Dickens" here today

"God bless us, bless us, every one

"Except for Plorn, my grooveless son

"No spot of extra gruel for him

"I'd give him to the Jacobins"

The old man's love or high esteem

Could only happen in a dream

Imagine such a father's scorn

To so disdain his grooveless Plorn

[josilverdragon]

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

[ddorothywei]

[lleyksie]

happy year of the horse 𓃗 .°˖⋆

[machinot]

Scientists have found that if you get 8 hours of sleep and are still tired during the day it’s because your soul is cursed and your body doesn’t think you deserve happiness. There is no cure or treatment

[anasabdin]

Orion Spur [ 7 colors ]

[victusinveritas]

Wondermark by David Malki.

[fellshish]

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

[rebornofstars-deactivated202510]

you're falling in the trap!! it will be read by many people, many times, and it will live on in their memories. and maybe no single other human will match you in time spent dedicated to your story, but as a collective we will outlast you. acts of creation only grow when they are shared

[galadriel1010]

This. Writing is not like dinner. It can be consumed many times

[sapphia]

you write it once so it can be read forever

[beardedmrbean]

[oldschool-romantic]

— Nina MacLaughlin

[theprofessional-amateur]

Well played Merriam-Webster.

“There is artificial intelligence, and there is actual intelligence” 🎤🫳

[theprofessional-amateur]

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

children have learned all they can from fairy tales. it's time to remake them into Dire Warnings for parentfolk

[sceera]

Dear people who think that using AI/Artificial Inteligence to produce soulless fanfiction that no one is ever going to truly connect with, care about, or even remember in a couple of weeks for the sake of getting clout in fandom spaces is worth causing irreperable damage to the environment,

Please, please for the sake of all that is good in the world, get the fuck off the internet.

[thoughtkick]

“I like cancelled plans. And empty bookstores. I like rainy days. And thunderstorms. And quiet coffee shops. I like messy beds and over-worn pajamas. Most of all, I like the small joys that a simple life brings.”

— Unknown