congration!

see me #lol tag for a lol (she/her)

[soviet-union-deactivated19911226]

“you’d fumble some girl asking for your star sign by going Um akshually it’s pseudoscience ☝️🤓” she’d fumble me by believing in astrology ngl

[bonesbeetle]

[shipoffoos]

so you lie to women

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

yeah

[cheaphalloweencostume]

all movies are for children because the moving image is inherently juvenile. to be entertained by it even moreso

[cheaphalloweencostume]

did we like, all forget about telling jokes

[cheaphalloweencostume]

its gigglebait. its hehebait

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[glasshomewrecker]

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

[distractionsfromthefood]

[fly-on-my-sweet-angel]

I’m going with number 2

[peacevine]

You Are Not Immune To fanart of characters who die in canon that has them alive and well, with scars from the wound that originally killed them

[peacevine]

[tinfoilmagician-deactivated2025]

Opening the notes and immediately taken out by prev.

[portaltomb]

this lettuce smells like dog

[iamoutofideas]

you bought dog lettuce

[swarnpert]

[all-pacas]

honestly fascinating how informed consent and the tyrant directly parallel one another and echo one another and force cameron to grapple with her own beliefs and morality: in informed consent she wants to vaguely "protect" the patient, from treatment he doesn't want, from his own desires, to the point that she tries to opt out of the case entirely: she doesn't agree he should be treated against his will. she doesn't agree he should be allowed to die. she doesn't agree he should be killed. she's all over the place, and the other characters call her out on it repeatedly:

HOUSE: But you do; you know everything. CAMERON: I didn’t say that I — HOUSE: Exactly! You can’t decide if we’re helping or hurting him; if he’s good or bad; or if you want paper, plastic, or a burlap sack. Do your damn job.

she wants to be right, to do the right thing; she completely freezes up when there isn't a clear answer. she tries to take a morally superior stance. she tries to opt out. you can't, she is told.

this is a flaw cameron has to grapple with fairly regularly: faced with a difficult situation, she runs or avoids. she quits her job (role model). she ghosts chase (saviors). she freezes when she doesn't know what to do.

the tyrant sees her running into the same problem. in this case, it seems obvious to cameron: dibala is evil. he should die. done. except… she's still waffling. she keeps hinting that something should happen, that someone should do something, but she stops short of being willing to take action herself. eventually, dibala himself calls her out on this: if cameron wants him dead, then go ahead and kill him. she freezes. she doesn't.

DIBALA: You tell my colonel I'm a sick, dying old man who can't be trusted. CAMERON: I didn't say… DIBALA: You were trying to put a gun in his hand and point it at my head. The gun is now in your hand. That is a practical difference, not a moral one. If you want me dead, then pull the trigger. It is not so easy when you have to do it yourself.

she wants to opt out. she doesn't want to make a difficult decision. she doesn't know what's right, so she freezes.

in informed consent, she and the patient also have a conversation. he is surprised when, after spending much of the episode waffling and opting out of his care, cameron arrives in his room to get a sample from him; they talk about the bad things ezra has done and cameron grows impatient and takes a skin sample without permission.

and the patient is happy for her. she is making a decision. she is taking action. his line is echoed directly by dibala in the tyrant:

EZRA: Good for you. Finally standing up for something; acting on what you believe.

DIBALA: She is too weak to act on her beliefs. That is not her fault. Most everyone is. […] Men make choices.

at the end of informed consent, cameron makes a choice: to help the patient die, as he wants. at the end of the tyrant, cameron makes a choice: she can't tell people to kill dibala if she isn't willing to herself, so she devotes herself to curing him instead. she comes to opposite conclusions in the two cases -- but she's acting according to her beliefs. she's picking a side. she makes a choice.

[all-pacas]

@housewifemd

to take your tags and run with it:

it isn’t an accident! it is consistent, she is consistent. it’s even a theme of the show.

house-the-show (and character) spends a lot of time questioning what is right. what the right thing to do is. house is constantly searching for answers, trying to figure out what is right. he is an intensely moral character — not an ethical one, maybe, but he has strong ideas of what is right and wrong and acts accordingly.

so does cameron. only while house is out here looking for an objective, rational truth (and there’s a whole other post here about how he often falls victim to bias and self sabatogue), cameron is looking for something closer to a moral good. she wants people to be nice, for motives to be pure. for marriages to last, for cheaters to get caught. she’s naive, but she isn’t stupid: she knows the world doesn’t work like that. she and house talk about in in s1, when she tells him her dead husband story. you can’t be that good a person and be well adjusted, he tells her.

and cameron… lowkey is kind of miserable. she’s unhappy. it’s a coping mechanism. literally every time she puts her faith in a patient or relationship or concept, she is proven wrong. the couple in fidelty break up, the wife in clueless is poisoning her husband. que sera sera guy doesn't appreciate her attention. the woman in acceptance is dying of lung cancer. house doesn't want to be in a relationship with her. there's a whole series of s2 episodes that further underline this point: in tb or not tb she's asked if she likes her job and she has no answer. in hunting, she is asked if she's happy and she isn't. i used to try to make everyone else happy, the patient tells her. now i'm happy.

(he's lying. this is another betrayal. but it's also telling that cameron does meth here, that she sleeps with chase here: that she needs the excuse and drugs to do something that, implicitly, she has wanted to do for some time -- whether it be sleep with chase specifically, or just act reckless and irresponsible and have fun for once.)

cameron's faith in people is intentional. it's practically weaponized. she refuses to give in to cynicism ("or start hating people?", her retort to house in fidelity). this also, unfortunately, makes her life hard. if she's always going to want to do the Right Thing, and Help People, and Be Kind, what do you do when you're treating a evil dictator? what do you do when your boss is antagonizing a detective and hurting people? she can be morally superior, she often is, but then she struggles with gray areas. she emphasizes with people, but also overdoes it: she has the habit of kind of… over-reading people, putting her thoughts into their heads and acting accordingly (see: her s1 crush arc, where she catches on house is vaguely interested and spins it into everything he says and does is directly related to me; see: her occasional dips into being patronizing or white knighting). see also how she freezes up when it isn't clear what's right or wrong.

and of course, this all ties into her habit of running when things get bad or hard enough: if she doesn't know what to think or do, she tries to opt out and avoid the situation entirely. after both her marriages ended, she moved across the country. when house rebuffs her in role model, she quits. she doesn't handle making mistakes well, she can be kind of controlling: she really struggles (we see this with chase a lot) to make herself vulnerable, to push herself out of her comfort zone.

(take the way she propositions him in s3. foreman just called her out on being afraid of commitment. she was mad about it. offended. she turns around and goes to chase and… tells him she doesn't want to date him, but does want to enter a relationship with him. she tells him she will never fall in love with him. by the next episode they are spending all their time together and coming into work together. her whole this is fwb and i will never love you speech would be much more convincing if we didn't also know it was right on the heels of her wanting to prove foreman wrong, but cameron also can't say chase, would you get coffee with me, because that's emotional vulnerability and she needs an escape route planned.) (and this is, i'd argue, the exact same thing as her insistence that people are Good And Fair And Kind: it is a way of controlling the situation. it is a way of keeping herself safe and avoiding hurt. she has to be a good person, or she'll start hating people.)

she has been hurt a lot. she is a deeply traumatized and hurt person. she has reacted by trying to fit the world into categories, into figuring out what is right and wrong, into being Moral and Correct and believing in good and kindness because the alternative is worse. she's entirely consistent, and it bugs me to death when people write her off as a "hypocrite" or "unfeeling" or try to reduce her to "she has a fetish for fixing people."

[beatricecenci]

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895)

Vase avec anémones et sachet de bonbons

[headspace-hotel]

Here's an idea about why kids are so anxious and depressed all the time...the environments kids are in most of the time are very stressful and don't fulfill their needs for play, rest, proper variety of foods, positive social opportunities, and freedom from fear pain punishment etc

[headspace-hotel]

Like everyone with any basic understanding of animal welfare knows that if you put an animal in an enclosure that is too crowded, without hiding spots, with no freedom to move around, no ability to avoid harsh and stressful stimuli, and scare it by shouting at it and punishing it, the animal will become stressed and start chewing its own fur off or hurting itself or become sick or unable to eat...

But we expect human children to grow up in these conditions and literally blame them when they develop the exact type of problems that any creature under those conditions would

[sin-ophelia]

But its those DAMN PHONES... not the eradication of third spaces were young people can roam and hang out without spending money, or any of the above mentioned, no no, just remove the one tool for connection they have! That will fix it!

[captain-price-returns]

[katelyn-danger]

✈️✈️

[thememedaddy]

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest not letting it get this far

[cjsnaake]

I fuck with this

[hypokeimena]

[image description: screenshot of writing formatted as a question and answer exchange. headline of piece is: The Proposal to Raise Every Boy as a Girl. (author not listed)

Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl? Yes.

Q. Why? A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls.

Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as boy? Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as boy, and not a girl.

Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'? That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl.

Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls. If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests.

Q. But boys and girls are different. All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls.

Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy? Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made.

Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves? The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl.

Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty? If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.

/end description]

[doctorwhogifs]

[moonfallplays-deactivated202501]

#how long have we been holding on to this one?

[adulthoodisokay]

i’ve had this queued for 365 days

[rainydaydecaf]

I never saw people say stuff like this enough when I was a teenager, so I’m saying it now.

I’m in my mid-thirties and I have never had sex. I’ve thought about it and could have had one or two opportunities if I put in more effort, but I always decided against it because I just wasn’t into it at the time.

I can safely say that I do not feel I have missed out on anything. I was perfectly capable, by myself, of learning about my own body and boundaries without anyone else there to muddy the waters. The immense pressure that was there in my teens/twenties to Have Sex Just Do It is basically gone. I’m vibing. I’ve got my routine by myself in bed that I enjoy, and that’s enough for me.

And in the unlikely event that I ever decide to have sex with someone in the future, I don’t feel at all like I’m lacking some essential Knowledge or Skill that would “make it good” for someone else. I fully expect to ask my partner out loud what they like and to receive an answer clearly communicated and to relax and have fun. And if it’s a disappointing experience, I’m fine with that too. It is what it is.

Sex is just not that big of a deal. I suspected it as a teen, and I’m more sure of it now. It’s fine to have it or not have it. It’s whatever.

[theehorsepusssy]

[viralfrog]