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who the fuck even knows anymore (I generally, begrudgingly, post supernatural, marvel, random other fandoms, some linguistics, and political ideas. I'm old and tired.)

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

lie to me

[toastbutteregg]

[random-jot]

Standing directly in the doorway to achieve peak mental health.

[meowtalhead]

[grackleclaw]

the human body is an engineering marvel. I sneeze in bright light. if I dont get enough sunlight on my skin I get tired and sad and have to drink a lot of milk to fix it. standing too much hurts, but sitting too much also hurts. if I get a virus, my body will increase its temperature in an attempt to cook it, which also cooks my brain cells. toenails exist. I have to turn the radio down to see better when I drive. there are 17 genes dictating what my hair texture is, but it completely changes when the air is too humid. yawning is contagious. there are more species of bacteria living in my body than there are species of birds in the entire world. every few months I grievously injure my neck by "sleeping on it weird." it took seven million years of human evolution to form me, and now I'm afraid of phone calls.

[tcustodisart]

Happy Pride Month!

Faust is back for the 5th time! If you want to use the flag of your choice as an avatar, they're under the cut. They're free to use as long as it's for personal use only.

[spitzonthefritz]

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

[jack-the-fool]

Murderbot is probably the most embarrassing hyperfixation to have because oh really? You're hyperfixated on the 'hyperfixates on media to avoid the real world stress and anxiety' media? Is it. Is it to avoid your real world stress and anxiety, perhaps??

[nicnacsnonsense]

I hate when people ask me how long it took me to crochet something I’ve made. Frankly, that’s none of my business. I put the yarn on the hook and worked on it whenever the spirit happened to take me to and then one day it was done. How long that process took is between the yarn and god; I want no part of it.

[another-orange-in-the-tree]

I only specify my things in weeks months and years. Like "I've been working on this one for 2 years" if they think I knitted a sweater with clouds on it non stop for 2 years they've at least realised that making things takes time

[essektheylyss]

fibercrafts are SO maddening cuz wdym I have to go to work tomorrow, I'm like a third of a way through making a whole ass fucking cape, don't you think I should be allowed to focus on what matters (my fucking cape)

[darkandstormydolls]

I feel like every fiber artist has a craft that to them is unexplainable witchcraft

For example. Mine is card weaving. How do they manage all those cards? How do the cool designs just appear? Also crochet. How do you make some loops of yarn and then it becomes a piece of fabric

However, I spin, and my friends who crochet are always like “howwww????”. But to me, spinning makes perfect sense, and the crocheters and the witches

I just feel like all crafters have some other craft that to them in unexplainable despite doing a craft that is someone else’s unexplainable craft

[sodomitecastiel]

chuck isn't god. chuck is the great american christian tulpa

[teaboot]

The only downside to talking to small children like they’re normal people and treating them like normal people (as per my mom) is that as they develop into bigger children they are viscerally aware of every single moment in which they are pandered to like stupid little accessories (as per my dad, my teacher, the special ed aide, every adult in my middle school) and you end up getting a lot of phone calls from people reporting your kid for (checks notes) “undermining authority”, “disrupting the classroom environment”, “disobeying elder peers”, and “unionizing the grade eleven gym class with intent to incite a mutiny” (as per me) and you end up with a Grown Adult who will absolutely encourage and enable other people’s children to fuck the sustem

[teaboot]

Anyhow the most empowering shit you can say to a kid in my experience has to be

“Wow that adult was being a jerk”

“That sounds really frustrating”

”Good job handling that, I would have lost my mind”

“It’s cool, I don’t expect you to remember me”

“You don’t have to hug me if you don’t want to”

“Yeah sometimes (authority figure you can’t avoid) doesn’t know what they’re talking about, it’s not your fault, just do your best”

“I don’t totally understand what you mean but I get that you’re upset, is there anything I can do?”

”Wanna go yell and break stuff with me?”

“You don’t need to be friends with that kid as long as you can still be polite”

“If an adult tells you to do something that will get you hurt, you don’t have to listen.”

“My number one goal is to keep you safe, but I don’t know everything and sometimes I’m wrong, so let me know if I make a mistake.”

“Man. Today sucked.”

“Yeah I also kinda wanna cry right now”

“Whoops, yeah, my bad”

“I don’t know the answer to that but we can probably figure it out”

[kidrat]

I also enjoy modern au goth Harrowhark. But canonically she isn’t alternative. She’s like thee extreme of her cultures traditions and stereotypes I’m sorry. She’s not ur emo gf. She’d be ur classmate who wears brown ankle length skirts and might be happier in a nunnery. She has severe mental illness and it is kissing her faith on the mouth and having neurotic religiously obsessive babies. People would say she reminds them of Carrie white except cold and mean. While u were at hot topic she was reciting the bible from memory in a dark room and abstaining. I want to see modern au Harrow where she veils! I want to see Harrow at uni weirding out her classmates with her unmasked autism and shivering little dog demeanour. Yes yes lesbians want her but gay people understand the allure of an offline girlfriend who collects dead animal pieces and ‘displays’ them in rows on her chest of drawers. She doesn’t wanna look hot!! She doesn’t wanna go to the mall!!! She has never seen the craft sorry lesbians she doesn’t own a tv. She also doesn’t own a laptop (she uses the one at the library or school) and that’s the only reason she’s not been the centre of a tumblr discourse. Possibly about unsanitary bloodplay. Maybe just for being an uppity cunt. I wanna see modern Harrow having the time of her life discussing some deeply uncool academic topic in the corner of the room at a close intimate gathering of friends. She’s having the time of her life. She’s wearing a shapeless beige knit jumper. Coronabeth is there in fashion nova

[kiwibee]

the monk’s tea wagon

(how I think Dex’s cart looks like from A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers)

[a-ramblinrose]

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”

― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

[sea-salted-wolverine]

I understand all the numerous reasons it didn't happen but I fully believe that Max and Vane should have had at least one instance of convoluted revenge sex proxy fucking that only barely parses as erotic. Like. I feel that would have fixed many, many things. Just, connect both ends of the carribeans most toxic polycule and see what happens.

Also jack would be hiding in a hole having an anyursm.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Sorry Rodgers, your second wife's exes have unionized. Or well, your second wife's ex boyfriend got together with his boy bestie's soulmates girlfriend who also had a thing with your second wife. Yeah, there's yet another murderous redhead in there somewhere.

So. Like. I get you got a lot riding on this whole retake Nassau thing, but have you considered changing your name and fleeing the continent?

[phaeton-flier]

Stupid, chauvinist misogyny: Men are X, which is good, while Women are Y, which is bad

Woke, Feminist Take: Men are X, which is reactionary, while women are Y, which is enlightened

[phaeton-flier]

Maybe, just spitballing here, maybe we don't have to do the "Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars" stuff at all. Maybe men and women aren't all that different, maybe the differences between individuals are far more important, maybe we just talk about good or bad behaviors directly instead of having to force everything into war of the sexes shit.

[phaeton-flier]

Some of you learned the shadows on the wall are fake but are stuck insisting the puppets being used to cast them are real

[hyperlexichypatia]

I can't even engage with the premise of the question of "How should we keep kids safe on the internet?" or "Whose responsibility is it to keep kids safe on the internet?" without first establishing exactly what "dangers" we're supposed to be worried about keeping kids "safe" from.

See, according to me, the dangers kids face on the internet are largely the same dangers adults face -- misinformation, scams, harassment, doxxing.

Anybody, of any age, can fall for misinformation or scams. Anybody, of any age, can be the victim of harassment or doxxing.

But to the extent that kids are generally more at risk of these things than adults are, it's because they have less of an experiential knowledge base to draw from to protect themselves.

An 8 year old may be more likely than an adult to think a "You've won $1000, click here to claim your prize!" banner ad is legit just because they've never seen one before. But as anyone who's ever met a septuagenarian with their first smartphone before -- or even anyone who's looked at the statistics around elder-targeted cybercrime -- knows, it's not like age is guaranteed to protect against these things.

And the best solution for keeping kids safe from these things is the same as the best solution for keeping adults safe -- providing lots of information and support for fact-checking and critical thinking about everything you encounter. What's the source for that information? What's the source's source? Is someone trying to convince you of something? Are they trying to sell you something? Are they trying to blame someone or make you hate someone? Why? Does it make sense that someone would just give money away to strangers? Why would they do that? Why does someone want to know where you live? Yes, they're your friend, but do they want something from you? Adults shouldn't extract things from kids. Are they trying to convince you there's a problem and sell you a solution to it? Are they warning you that something terrible is going to happen unless you do something specific right this second? Did you read the article or just the headline? Check Wikipedia. Check the Associated Press. Check Scarleteen. Check different sources!

But. Then I realize that when most people talk about "kids in danger" or "keeping kids safe," they mean from, like. Seeing a boob.