Murder In a Clearing

Heyo I'm Rainy ♌️ | Forever 21+ | Female | AuDHD Tired of being tired. I cannot donate.

[wiki-but-made-them-up]

[samejimasatoru]

[victusinveritas]

There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

[vyvilha]

need some female director to lock in and make a movie where a grotesquely ugly and disgusting and monstrous woman slasher killer butchers handsome men in humiliating and sexualized ways. and it CAN'T be because they are rapists or abusers or otherwise misogynistic okay, she has to do it because she's a fucked up pervert

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

[wymanthewalrus]

God I am sick and tired of people uwu-washing indigenous American history.

Did the Inca have exquisite building techniques, efficient messengers, and quality waterworks? Yes. They were also an expansionist empire built on violent conquest and the splitting up and relocating of conquered peoples.

Did the Aztecs have a gorgeous capital city built at the heart of a lake, with floating farms and towering temples honoring their fascinating pantheon? Yes. Guess what tho. They were also a violent expansionist empire who practiced ritual sacrifice of prisoners of war.

The Iroquois confederacy had one of the most unique representative political systems I’ve ever heard of, with women taking a forefront in most local government matters too. But their internal peace allowed them to redirect violence to their neighbors, as so often happens with tribal confederations, and they eventually violently conquered the Ohio valley and destroyed or displaced dozens of other indigenous groups.

Even my beloved Cahokia has the graves of sacrifice victims amidst its ruins.

A society should not need to be (and fundamentally cannot be) squeaky clean unproblematically stannable in order to be worth studying and remembering, and pretending that they were is no less disinformative than the European accounts painting them as godless savages.

[restinan]

Likewise, a society does not need to be ethically pure for violent conquest and subjugation of that society to be ethically monstrous.

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

Also, a person is not the society they come from, and the moral deserts of that society (or its military, or its ruling class) should not be confused for theirs. The average Aztec civilian may have been complicit in some loose way in their state's imperialism, as the average Japanese civilian was in their military's atrocities in China, as the average American was in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but no one with a scrap of moral sense would say that's enough to judge that each deserves to be murdered or enslaved. Moctezuma may have been a brutal imperialist cut from the same cloth as the conquistadors who killed him, but the same is not true of the hundreds of thousands of his subjects who died in the Spanish conquest.

[greatwyrmgold]

The uwu-washing is obviously a response to centuries of colonialist propaganda painting indigenous peoples as violent, bloodthirsty savages who needed to be exterminated, or at best to have their culture wiped from existence and replaced with a carbon copy of Christian values.

uwu-washing is preferable to justifications for genocide, but it's ultimately making the same mistake: Reducing entire societies to a caricature far too broad to encapsulate an individual, let alone a continent's worth of cultures.

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[cheesenames]

personally i do not prefer when stories engaging with complicated topics attempt to make themselves good educational resources on said complicated topics

[cheesenames]

and i understand that sometimes it's a very thin line between giving a realistic depiction of a serious topic and ending up in after-school special mode, but i also notice that no one is doing this when a character gets the flu (which kills many people every year) and PERSONALLY i don't love the patterns i'm vaguely sensing about which experiences can be depicted normally and which experiences must always be a learning opportunity

[ducissatenebrarum]

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

[2ndplaceleader]

[anywhoozles]

[bloodclotbitch]

[pomegranateteeth]

You wake in the middle of the night to a peculiar zapping sound only to look out your window and see me on my evil balcony casting chain lightning on mosquitos

[noah-wyles]

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

[fluoritegalaxy]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[contourkit-deactivated20160224]

What if everything gets better in 2016

[melonisopod]

[sprucestairs]

perks of writing:

its fun

i can do literally whatever I want

cons of writing

i just forgot the word "passenger" and had to search for "cargo synonym referring to a person"