everyone's "well-adjusted" and "mentally healthy" until the "sometimes I wish I'd never been born at all" part of Bohemian Rhapsody comes on

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everyone's "well-adjusted" and "mentally healthy" until the "sometimes I wish I'd never been born at all" part of Bohemian Rhapsody comes on
"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is
Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.
Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.
You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.
Sex is not what makes someone an adult.
Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.
Sex is not equally important to everyone.
You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.
You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.
Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.
The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.
Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.
it's always so funny whenever people are like "well if sexuality isn't inherently innate then why are most people straight?" like idk maybe massive social forces
yknow something really concerning about this discourse is that people are hesitant to acknowledge that sexuality isn't innate for everyone because "then that means conversion therapy would work!" which means they think the reason conversion therapy is bad is because it doesn't work and not because it's....like......a violation of personal sovereignty
That's why I despise the "if you fantasize about fictional men or wish you were in a relationship with men you are NOT a lesbian" argument. Societal expectations are not just stories pushed on us- they quiet literally are built into our brains and personnalities from birth. I could know I'm a lesbian for 50 years and I would still fantasize about marrying a random male celebrity. Just thinking of the social validation I would get is exciting. Simply loving a man feels validating to my feminity. And it's as real of a pleasure as anything else, cause yeah my brain is fucked up and so is everyone else's btw.
The discourse about innate sexuality is harmful because the fight isn't just you versus the world, it's you versus the faschist that lives rent free in your little head.
As much as I understand why people love JJK, I think between this and AOT I am done with the "and nothing they did ever mattered in the end because the system is bigger than them", storylines. Bring back "their death mattered." Bring back "I want to understand this system so I can fix it." Bring back hope pls.
they're still arguing about surrogacy on twitter
the reason surrogacy warrants particular scrutiny, aside the fact that its roots are literally chattel slavery lol, is that it is a contractual arrangement premised on the basically total surrender of bodily autonomy. it transforms a human body into a site of continuous, high risk labor with consequences that cannot be paused or meaningfully mitigated
can a surrogate safely "quit" in any real sense? can they safely get an abortion? can they quit after 4 months? can they quit after 9 months? do they get to clock out after 40 hours a week? do they get breaks? do they get a union?
in what world is it a leftist position to defend 24/7 labor
mmm you reminded me of this woman who was a surrogate for twins whose commissioning "parents" just.....never picked them up and now she has to raise them and as the linked article mentions, she is far from an isolated case
“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
- Vincent van Gogh
Really scared for my new big girl job, should I buy myself a Gojo plushie and carry it around in my bag like a preschooler ?
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Good evening! English isn't my native language, so I apologize for any mistakes, but I really enjoyed your work on OBKK. And I'd really like to know if there will be more work with Kakashi and Obito; the way you write is very touching. Your work is amazing! Thank you.
Hiii, thank you so much ! I love obikaka so yes probably at some point I'll write more. It's one of my goals to write a lot in 2026 😭 hopefully the year will be a bit more peacefull than 2025. I think I'll probably do a long epilogue to my first fic cause it was so short 😊 IDK when but fingers crossed next year 🤞🤞🤞
The fact that I never read a fanfiction featuring Satoru Gojo as a children's rights activist is a fandom sin and I might have to fix it :(
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sometimes I think about how rattlesnakes are starting to adapt to bite immediately instead of using their rattle as a warning, because this defense mechanism that says "im here! im frightened! don't come close or ill bite you" has instead ilicited a reaction of "oh fuck a rattlesnake, i should kill it"
so of course every snake that has the instinct to warn humans of its presence gets killed, and only the snakes that bite first and dont make themselves known get to survive. a human who's been bitten is too worried about his swelling ankle to decapitate a snake with a shovel.
it's a good example of how humans make the world more dangerous for ourselves by believing that we have mastery and ownership of it. we think we have the power and importance to control the life around us down to the snakes and insects, but every animal fights for life. and no animal thinks that any human is more important than it's own life.
When people see a hissing cat and immediately go to "punish it" for showing defiance I die a little bit inside.
Analysis - TSHD is about queer selfishness
So after watching those twelve episodes, I can confidently say the main theme of The Summer Hikaru Died is the selfishness inherent to being queer.
-Obviously "fake" Hikaru is a representation of queerness. His love isn't friendship and it isn't romantic in a traditional heterosexual sense : it's queer love. -Yoshiki feels like he himself is a monster because he's gay, and believes the selfless thing would be to hide his true identity (symbolically, let Hikaru go). -But he can't do it, because it will literally kill him. I truly believe OG Hikaru made that wish "I don't want Yoshiki to be lonely" because he was aware of how close to killing himself Yoshiki is. That boy is DEPRESSED. -I think in that moment "Hikaru" realizes that. He tells Yoshiki "you're even more of a kid than I am." He's suddenly made aware that Yoshiki isn't this morally superior being who just wants to be helpful and keep everyone alive. Yoshiki needs him, and he's ready to cling to him even if it kills people. "Hikaru" can't make everything right by going back to the mountain knowing that.
-The salamander represents, symbolically, selflessness. It's "being someone else for the comfort of everyone around you." Hikaru reminds him, "you gotta take that home, or else Kaoru's gonna cry". Kaoru is told to become a future mother a bit earlier, she symbolizes having a heteronormative lifestyle. Yoshiki refuses. He's starting to lean into his selfishness.
-It's the theme of their relationship because most of it is just "Hikaru" indulging Yoshiki. He's also helping him become more "selfish" because "Hikaru" is very true to himself. He's emotional, full of desires etc. Yoshiki is starting to mirror that.
-"Hikaru"'s "muderous impulses" symbolize how people see queerness : as equivalent to murder. In order to accept his own identity, Yoshiki knows he'll have to face rejection and hatred. "Hikaru" is his safe place, because they're the same (monsters).
With that in mind, the anime throws in your face how bad it feels to be a gay teenager. Because being yourself is not just wrong, it's selfish. It "makes Kaoru cry". It hurts your family, your community, the world, God. It's self hatred so deep it doesn't require direct bullying to push you to suicide. This anime isn't about Yoshiki saving "Hikaru", it's about "Hikaru" saving Yoshiki, who is a danger to himself.
-The mark on his arm isn't a symbol of Yoshiki becoming gayer (he already is). It's a symbol of him loosing "restraint", of becoming less and less preoccupied with social norms so he can keep "Hikaru". It's him loosing his humanity symbolically but in reality he is loosing the "social mask" he is wearing.
-"Hikaru" 's true form is a representation of when that social mask is slipping. Because "Hikaru" the being inside the corpse, is 100% true, unacceptable, disgusting, queerness.
Hey maybe you guys should stop writing for the Addams family cause you don't get them at all.
Imagine my girl Morticia saying that shit in any other portrayal? NO? Because she wouldn't.
I really love Jenna Ortega as Wednesday
And when she's given good material to work with I love Catherine Zeta Jones as Morticia
but this show really does not seem to get the dynamic of the Addams Family as a whole like it just does not seem to grasp what their deal is as a family
The problem with Netflix's Wednesday is that one of the main things about the Addams Family is that they are counter cultural. Specifically counter to cishet, white, American, suburban norms.
Part of that is being the opposite of the shitty sitcom family where the wife is a nag, the husband is an idiot, the mother-in-law sucks, and no one seems to like each other very much. The Addamses actually love each other. There's no 'take my wife' bs. If Gomez calls Morticia a battle-axe or the ol' ball and chain he means it to be highly complimentary. There's none of the nonsense like in the pics OP posted. Gomez or Morticia lives with their mother in law (it depends on which version whose mother she is) who is literally a witch (geddit, 'my mother-in-law is such a witch...') and get on great. They genuinely and openly support, love, and care for each other through thick and thin.
But the biggest problem that Netflix's Wednesday has is that to make a really good Addams show rn would mean scrapping the Sabrina the Darksided Witch/boarding school Monster High concept, going back to basics, and having them live next to an upper-middle class, conservative values, MAGA family and letting their differences fuel the plot.
A really good Addams Family show would have Morticia fighting against book bans at the school and having hilarious misunderstandings about what her neighbour means about "Liberal witch hunts." It would celebrate queerness, and gender (and species) non-conformity because the Addamses are queer and gender non-conforming, and not always definitely human (Cousin Itt, for example). You know Fester's gender identity is probably something like 'an abomination.' If one of them gets asked, "What are you?" the answer is a prompt, "An Addams."
They would be fighting for co-ed sports so Wednesday can trounce a boy at fencing, and would find out her chromosomes are just 'spooky' or something.
There'd be an episode about immigration and being targeted by ICE. OFC several Addamses come from somewhere weird and arrived in the USA via broomstick, or tunneling from some underground community of cryptids, or other hilarious misadventure. Gomez would desperately want to be blackbagged and treated like a dangerous animal (cue a major flirting moment between him and Morticia). They would permanently scare ICE out of the town.
Wednesday would fiercely support Landback. Pugsley would get redpilled and learn a lesson real quick. Gomez would get into (and out of) Crypto, and Morticia would have run-ins with MLM 'huns.' They would advocate for freedom of religion. Granny would rally alongside Evangelicals to have religion in school, only to reveal she meant witchcraft. They would support UBI, and be anti-landlord. Easy episode idea: Gomez is a landlord and goes on a spiral about it ("But, Gomez, you love leeches and scum" "Not this kind! Morticia, they've painted everything white, in my name!!!" "No!") and they wind up in a battle with the town because he wants to unburden himself of this shame and the town wants to stop free community-owned housing.
The point is that Netflix isn't going to touch any of that with a ten foot pole. They don't want to; that's way too political for them. Instead, they made this wildly unrelated supernatural teen drama that has nothing to do with the original concept or world that the Addams Family exists in (they're outsiders in the real world, that's the point).
And, worse, Netflix's Wednesday actively goes against the original themes by being vaguely conservative in its values.
Netflix's Wednesday fails the assignment so bad I'd laugh, if it wasn't so disappointing and enraging. Just take a look at what the Mary Sue had to say about the whole "werewolf conversion camp" debacle for a microcosm of the many things wrong with this show.
"It wants to use hot-button topics like conversion therapy and colonization but it doesn’t understand how to work them into the metaphor. In fact, it barely knows how to work with the basic metaphor of “monsters” and how they function in the horror genre in general. In storytelling, the monster or the freak has always been the stand-in for the societal outcast. For the person who can’t be controlled by the dictates of polite society. They are the subtext for the outcast. But Wednesday makes the subtext text by literally splitting the characters into “outcasts” and “normies.” And yet the outcasts, the monsters and freaks who live on the fringe, are also the privileged and elite."
In my opinion, Netflix's Wednesday is wholly unworthy of the Addams name and is an outright blight on the franchise.
Apart from anything else, Morticia would never "let Gomez believe he is in charge of the family." She would usurp power from him ruthlessly, reduce him to a groveling servant at her feet and take joy in his total debasement.
Or, as it is known in the Addams household: "Soirée en amoureux"
It’s frustrating, because I really do love Jenna Ortega as Wednesday, she absolutely nails the role (to a wall, with a hammer), and her dynamic with Emma Myers’s as Enid is fantastic. It’s just also pretty much the only thing in the series that seems to fit the feel of what the Addams franchise is supposed to be about.
As someone who considered years ago getting a tattoo based on the Addams family - I absolutely despise this show. Sorry, I get why people like it but they didn't have to drag the name of the franchise against everything it stands for.
Started playing lads recently and I feel a toxic pull to this instable, needy, bitchy man.
Also if anyone can send me a fuxking timeline for the events of this game pls do I am so lost.