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chewbacca

🍂🔪🎃 We’re hell raising and we don’t need saving 🎃🔪🍂

#horror queeeeeens

thisyearsgirl3

happy pride to Buffy Summers <3

#buffy

oonachaplinsource

Oona Chaplin as Naomi in Realive (2016)

#oona chaplin

ex0skeletal-undead

Omnibus brevis ultima multis, Photoshop illustration by Vincenzo Lamolinara

#art

evilscientist3

sci fi is when it's called a "mission" and fantasy is when it's called a "quest"

sarafangirlart

Hera by Marilee Heyer

#art #hera

barnsburntdownnow

Wall Creeper Rajesh Mahajan, 2022 Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh

#birds

charnel-grounds

Hernán Conde De Boeck, “The nightmare of the serpent poisoning a castle”

You ever just realize how lucky you are that you did that weird thing that led to you being friends with the people you are friends with?

#absolutely.

serializing

Fantasia (1940) - The Pastoral Symphony

#i can hear the music

junglejim4322

Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane

junglejim4322

I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay

junglejim4322

“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch

transhumanisticpanspermia

When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?

#helpful info