Somewhere between before and after

Niki · nonbinary/transmasc · ig:@thenonbinarytrash

[jesuisdisgusted]

Microdosing opiates because my stress-ridden brain can't fathom a day without drinking 5 cans of beer

[ghostlynagisa-blog]

things dependent people do that they literally cannot help:

ask you to come online and comfort them often

will agree with you even if they dont actually agree (a lot of lying)

will do anything to keep you as a friend even if it starts to become so desperate and creepy

will be very very very hurt if you completely leave them mentally

so dont you dare call someone manipulative for symptoms they cant help.

[parad0xymoron]

okay so this post is making me mega uncomfortable

the first and second points like. ok. the first is fair enough if they’re just requesting that you give them some support and you agree to it. the second can develop into something pretty unhealthy but it’s also fairly innocuous.

but do not start me on the third and fourth.

a person can have dependency problems and still be manipulative, and they can have them and NOT be manipulative. manipulation is manipulation regardless of motive.

if someone will ‘do anything to keep you as a friend/keep you around them’, and those anythings include isolating you, sabotaging your other friendships or things you do that don’t involve them, deliberately damaging your self-worth, any other kind of abusive behaviour that they use to make you unable to leave them, that is still manipulative. that is still abusive. you are still 100% within your rights to get the hell out of there.

if someone wants you to care about them and doesn’t care whether that makes you unable to care for yourself, that is still wrong. 

it is not your responsibility to stay with a person who is manipulating you or abusing you just so you don’t hurt them. this post feels so much like it’s trying to tell people to just tolerate it, no matter how bad it gets, even if the other person knows what they’re doing but won’t stop. that’s really not okay.

[nous-portons]

Love this wow

[burlbread]

Slavs: Have free healthcare Also slavs: I’m not seeing the doctor unless dying, there are sick people there

[thes-hitoverlord]

I em Slavic, and this is 90% true 

however, you got one thing wrong 

Only snobs, hipsters, and fratboys drink foreign brands 

[burlbread]

Nonono this is a good cola. It’s the party cola. This is the cola you drink and enjoy. Coca cola is the cola you have stored in your home for months in case someone gets sick, that’s its only use. The scientific explanation (the scientist is my mother) is that american Coca Cola has more evil chemicals, therefore it vibe checks the evil out of your stomach.

[bi-dazai]

THIS IS THE SLAVEST POST EVER AMAZING

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

sooooo can yall help me determine if this is a fireable offense

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

a lady just came in asking if we have oat milk and we dont so i said “our soy milk is pretty good though, thats what i use in my drinks!” and she looked at me and went “yknow soy milk lowers a mans sperm count” and without thinking i just went “cant lose something you never had”

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

youre laughing. i got called a soy boy and youre laughing

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

okay to the people confused by this allow me to shed a little light on the subject

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

icant fucking breathe

[squirrelstone]

[beardedmrbean]

[konigstigerr]

[prolifeproliberty]

Credit to @year-of-the-taiga

[cartooncoyote]

If i was a make-a-wish kid my wish would be to have this video played on every big screen in new york at noon every day for a week

[samueldays]

Of banned books and "banned" books

If you went into a bookstore and saw the books being openly sold, that's strong evidence that they're not banned. (Source for illustration.) This bookshelf is a performative contradiction. You should be ashamed of taking it at face value, instead.

I spent half an hour searching and trying to chase down exactly where The Lord of the Rings was supposedly "banned", because it looked like a particularly implausible entry. Digging into citations and chasing claims, I found a game of telephone and a gradient of weasel words. An initial bombastic reference to "Banned Books" would link to a list of "Banned and Challenged Books" where the subheader negotiates down to "attempts to remove books from schools, libraries and universities" and eventually bottomed out in the American Library Association posting this fucking shit:

That is not a ban. That is not even vaguely resembling a ban. That's closer to a Florida Man headline. New Mexico Man Burns Bookshelf. Also they spelled it wrong, which underlines how much of a middle-of-nowhere, who-gives-a-fuck town this is.

It is not the only bullshit entry. In the case of Maus, the supposed "ban" amounts to the fact that the McMinn County Board of Education voted to remove it from the eighth-grade curriculum. This is slightly less retarded because it at least features an official organization, but curricula don't have infinite space and it's still deceitful to use the word "ban" to describe a local curriculum change. The book remains legal to buy, sell, own and read.

I have read the meeting notes of the Board where the motion passed, and they were explicit that they will still be teaching the topic of the Holocaust, but looking for a different book to use. This did not stop circlejerking j*rnalists from crying about Holocaust denial and book bannings, fabricating a Streisand Effect from a non-ban until Maus became a national bestseller. Unlike being banned, being "banned" is very profitable!

When you hear "Banned books", it may be useful to ask "Banned where?" (By whom? When?)

Reductio ad absurdum: I hereby ban all books from my bathroom. It's for your own good, to prevent water damage. Every book is now "banned" for a sufficiently low value of "banned".

[politijohn]

[unapologetic-autie]

Executive dysfunction in a nutshell

[lesbiansgoal]

[flowercrownsylveon]

[tibby]

tubi is one of our greatest warriors in the fight against streaming services costing a fortune for mediocre content. tubi has the most insane collection of movies you will ever encounter all for free. it has cult classics and questionable lifetime movies and movies that nobody except like three people on the planet have ever seen. tubi has movies that doesn’t exist. like if you just thought of a movie one day but never made it and no one ever made it it would somehow still exist on tubi. one day i will log onto tubitv dot com and i will see terribly inappropriate, overly complex, and strange on there. and i won’t even be surprised.

[blackphoenixincorporated]

Tubi is where I found this gem:

[highassi]

me: it is what it is

my brain: lmao you're sooo gonna cry about it tonight

[a-sadnoodle]

I cannot express how much I adore dappled shadows formed by sunlight in paintings and photography and in real life

[nikokristiina]

I feel like my brain is a chess set, except I don't know how to play chess at all and also all the pieces are jesters

[nikokristiina]

He’s definitely moodboard material

[regging]

*sitting alone on my bed* *thinks “hm. i can’t keep living like this.”* *keeps living like this*