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[swordalt]

Closure

I will continue to make artwork of the Qsmp 2023 but 2024 does not exists to me and any use of q!Quaickty would purely be for the character not the actor.

[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

[strangehorse]

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-

[momoboyds]

white europeans love to pretend like the united states and europe aren’t two cheeks of the same ass

[hiimneptune]

Listen, nobody who's ever opened a history book says we didn't do that shit first. Pick an atrocity and chances are there was a time europeans did it on mass to someone for the sake of profit. The difference, is that we have for the most part put that behind us, while the US is just sinking deeper and deeper into it. We're not perfect, and we were a lot worse in the past. But it has been a while since we were the problem

[momoboyds]

so the racism, antiblackness, islamophobia, and hatred for immigrants just disappeared huh

[creatingblackcharacters]

"its been a while since we were the problem" someone Black was murdered by police violence in Ireland last month

[creatingblackcharacters]

THERE ARE POGROMS HAPPENING AGAINST IMMIGRANTS, MUSLIMS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND AS WE SPEAK

[missmarvella]

I will also add that up here in Canada we love to pretend we are better than the US but one example of how we are on that same ass cheek is all the corruption within our police (acab). In the last three months we found out that:

3 Toronto cops flashed their badges after assaulting a woman in Barcelona

7 Toronto cops were charged with corruption, including leaking info to organized crime, planning murder, etc

16 Montreal cops "are under investigation for racist and hateful acts allegedly committed against Black and Arab people during police stops". Basically 1/3 of the cops from that station were so racist, other cops came forward to complain, and most have them have kept their jobs within the police force, just relocated.

[dontbelasagnax]

The very basis of kink and BDSM is that it is play between two or more consenting adults.

Kink exists because people find taboo or unorthodox situations erotic and/or stimulating to experience in their imagination but would otherwise be disgusted or traumatized if it were to be real. BDSM facilitates a safe way to play out these situations just like a theatrical play.

Pet play is not bestiality. All parties are human adults. Perhaps they are wearing leather or some sort of costume. That does not diminish the fact that they are irrevocably human.

Ageplay is not pedophilia. All parties involved are adults. They may be pretending to be younger than they are but they still are an adult and have the agency of an adult. They may be an adult in a diaper. Still an adult.

Consensual non consent (cnc) is not rape by definition. All parties agree upon the scenario of play and the safe word(s) they will be using beforehand. All parties are willing participants that are consenting and want to engage in the play. Aftercare is especially essential with cnc because dominant partner(s) can feel like they actually are a rapist - when in reality all parties consented and enjoyed the play otherwise they would have safeworded.

Kinksters attend workshops and seminars to ensure that their practices are the safest they can be for the type of play they are engaging in. They openly communicate with their partner(s) in order to make every experience the best for all parties. Of course there is no type of play that is without any sort of risk (it may bring up buried trauma you weren't aware of, one wrong placement of a cane and you might need to visit the ER, etc) but you cannot assume that every kinkster and BDSM practitioner engaging in "fringe" kinks is into those acts in reality outside play. People that abuse the BDSM space by participating in unethical practices are not welcome.

Disgust is not equal to morality. You can be disgusted by things and not personally partake in things without ascribing morality to it.

Murder, rape, pedophilia, and bestiality are unethical and immoral because they hurt people and animals. Murder in real life is a horrific, harrowing act that ripples through the lives of so many. Murder in fiction is just another interesting puzzle for Poirot to solve.

There aren't any crimes happening when adults play make believe. Thought crimes aren't real and you can't tell what beliefs someone subscribes to just because they're into a kink you would never touch with a ten foot pole.

Do some basic BDSM reading and start out with The New Bottoming Book by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy. Unlearn your conservative values and accept that not every kink is for you and that is okay.

[sizzlingcloudmentality]

"Disgust is not equal to morality. You can be disgusted by things and not personally partake in things without ascribing morality to it."

[enba-and-luka]

[ferrisaircraftian]

[ID: Tweet by @/NateB_Panic with an excerpt attached that reads, "Rape followed by the murder of Vietnamese women was so common that US soldiers had a special term for it: double veteran." Fuck July 4th and fuck America."

The excerpt reads, "Rape of Vietnamese women by US troops "took place on such a large scale that many veterans considered it standard operating procedure." It was "systematic and collective"; an "unofficial military policy". One soldier termed it a "mass military policy." Indeed, rape followed by murder of Vietnamese women was "so common that American soldiers had a special term for the soldiers who committed the acts in conjunction: a double veteran". Examples of soldier testimony regarding rape include: "…they raped the girl, and then, the last man to make love to her, shot her in the head." End ID]

[starlitbeetle]

Source of excerpted text: Robert J. Barsocchini, "American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered 'Standard Operating Procedure'" (Link)

[whatbigotspost]

2021:

Spanking has negative long-term effects, Texas researcher's review of nearly 70 studies finds

Researchers focused on whether kids that are spanked are more likely to share or, conversely, more likely to have anxiety, years down the li

2021:

The Effect of Spanking on the Brain

Spanking found to impact children's brain response, leading to lasting consequences.

2018:

Science Again Says Spanking Hurts Kids Long Term

The American Academy of Pediatrics says new evidence and research not only show that spanking affects a child’s brain development and increa

2016:

Spanking Harms Kids, Doesn't Work And Leads To Long-Term Problems

Kids who are spanked tend to act out more and have more problems later on.

2012:

A study reviewed more than two decades of research on the effects of spanking and found nothing positive to report, only that physical punis

2010:

The Long-Term Effects of Spanking

A multiyear study shows spanking kids makes them more aggressive later on

I haven’t pissed people off lately by reminding them that ALL types of physical punishment of kids has been proven beyond ANY reasonable doubt to have only negative long term outcomes.

So let me scream it from the hilltops:

Stop hitting kids. End of sentence.

If you think, “but I was hit and I turned out just fine” let me pre-reply: NO YOU DID NOT. You think hitting a child is ok, how the fuck does that qualify as “fine”?????? From one abuse survivor to another: please start healing yourself.

[whatbigotspost]

This post needs a "it's been 5 years" update, so here we go:

2022:

Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study

Spanking is a risk factor for children's social competency. However, establishing causality is a challenge, given selection bias in samples

The effects of spanking on psychosocial outcomes: revisiting genetic and environmental covariation - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Background There is a vast literature on the negative associations between spanking in childhood and various psychosocial developmental outc

2023:

Corporal Punishment in Schools - PubMed

The use of corporal punishment in schools is not an effective or ethical method for management of behavior concerns and causes harm to stude

Spanking and executive functioning in US children: A longitudinal analysis on a matched sample

Spanking has been linked to multiple maladaptive child outcomes. However, previous research linking spanking with children's executive funct

2024:

Corporal punishment is believed to precede various forms of violent behavior, yet prior research has yielded inconsistent findings, partly d

2025:

Corporal punishment of children: the public health impact

This technical report describes the prevalence, risk factors for, and consequences of child corporal punishment, which it defines as “any pu

Spanking and other physical discipline lead to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries

Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower

[whatbigotspost]

YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME TUMBLR

So annoying. So GD annoying.

[headspace-hotel]

The World Health Organization report I highly recommend because there are so many conclusions that are shocking and yet completely obvious.

For example, being exposed to corporal punishment as a kid makes it more likely for a person to commit domestic violence against a partner. In places where corporal punishment is normal, people are more likely to think that rape and intimate partner violence are normal. Kids who are spanked are more likely to be violent with and to bully other kids.

Spanking is literally teaching a kid that violence is okay and normal and it affects the whole society.

It also talks about how corporal punishment affects the brain in its development. It changes the structure of the brain and slows the development of mental abilities. Kids who get spanked have much stronger hormonal responses to stress.

[machine-saint]

we justifiably give Biden a lot of shit but I think "at least 3" is the funniest possible response to some right wing dipshit asking you how many genders there are

[madnessofmen]

wait it gets better

[aorish-deactivated20251222]

Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that's often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren't allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go "wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh" as if you're the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them.

And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further.

And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group ("You're seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?") and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they'll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn't an arbitrary restriction, you're the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.

[doomhamster]

This isn't just for cults either! Shitty partners, bosses, friends - they all do variants of this where if you kick back the first time they make an unreasonable request, it proves you weren't ever committed since you'd let such a small thing ruin everything. And of course, if it's the third or the tenth unreasonable thing they ask of you, it's SUCH A SMALL THING to be a deal-breaker at this late point in your relationship!

[fleapit]

"cis men dni" are you ready to come out of your "no boys allowed" treehouse yet. its time for lunch.

[totally-cis-offical]

Also not to mention it forces trans people to out themselves to interact.

But as OP said the sexism is immature and bad anyways

[the-haiku-bot]

But as OP said the

sexism is immature

and bad anyways

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[piscesanon]

By (not so) popular demand, my hate mail!

Btw, I’ve been on meds longer than Shelby’s been in therapy… and it’s mainly antidepressants and anti-anxiety

[piscesanon]

Heads up, I will be answering this one, as I feel I need to adress it.

Edit: I won’t be answering, but I may address it

[piscesanon]

Not an ask, but I still think it fits…

[piscesanon]

[piscesanon]

“Not center bit part of your life” tell me you don't understand what a HYPERFIXATION is… or how past trauma works…

[swordalt]

For a community that insists they're not obsessive y'all sure love to seek out Wilbur supporters just to bully them and still say you're the superior group, yet I've never seen one of y'all posting us Doing the same to you.

Genuinely as afab who's been victimized both when I was presenting fem and pass for male, y'all are doing too much. I wouldn't be sending my supporters to attack the supporters of my alleged assaulter and it's wild to me that shubble still can't control her audience.

You guys look pathetic and you're being hypocritical, "you don't have to be ride or die" nether do you and yet here you are doing exactly that.

You're not better than us just because you're on the other side, your streamer isn't automatically right just because she says so, it's not misogynistic to disagree with a woman and the more y'all push that dispite Wilbur's audience being mostly women because you can't get over your own abuse trauma and are projecting the behaviors of your own abusers on him is the more you do a disservice to yourself.

Seek therapy

[theconcealedweapon]

"But socialism causes more poverty than capitalism."

In other words, you fully acknowledge that it's the economic system, not poor individuals, to blame for poverty?

You fully acknowledge that a system that allows poverty to happen is evil?

[the-haiku-bot]

“But socialism

causes more poverty than

capitalism.”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[bigq-kisser2000]

"ADDRESS TYLER CASTROPHE" SHUT THE FUCK UP HES GEO GUESSING

[microsff]

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world.

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

[nullen-void]

The first time, she says "To me," and the mirror dutifully shows her her reflection. And she is pleased.

The second time, she says "To the King," and she is pleased to see herself once more.

The third time, she says "To the Royal Advisor," and is once more satisfied to see herself.

The fourth time, she says "To the scribe who takes the King's letters." She is shown the man's wife. And she seethes, but quiets herself, for it is only right that a man loves his wife.

The fifth time, she says "To the Court Wizard," and is shown the man's departed mother as he remembers her from his youth, radiant and smiling and warm and larger than life.

The tenth time, she says "To the Stable Master," and is shown the fastest horse in the stable, majestic and free as the wind even in captivity

"To the baker," she is shown the man's daughter, young and adorable and full of joy and laughter.

"To the artist who did my portrait," she is shown a painting of a woman done by the man's teacher, who he still looks up to now that he is well established himself.

"To the Royal Knight," she is surprised but not displeased to see the castle's entire guard force in the middle of doing drills.

The one hundredth time she asks the mirror, and it asks her "to whom?" she once again says, "To me." And she does the same the one hundred and second, and again and again and again.

It is a different person each time, and they are all beautiful.

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[bogleech]

In case people missed it, another real page on the white house website pretends to "reveal the truth about ALIENS" and once again means immigrants, which it calls "its."

4chan took over the country.

[headspace-hotel]

This is actually fucking insanely horrifying what the fuck

[swordalt]

Never understood the "trans people are trying to force kids to transition agurement" because we literally never said that, all we said was let trans kids transition but too many uninformed people thinks that means hormones.

It could be just socially transitioning, wearing different clothes, changing your name, the only hormo ne we'd recommend in that case in hormones blockers ONLY IF THEY PERSON WANTS IT and you can just get off it and slowly go back to normal.

I remember watching this person who identified themselves as a femboy who said they were frustrated that we said most detranstioners do it out of social pressure because his "parents made him go to therapy and there he realized he just likes women and was looking for their attention."

My guy you can be gay And trans that exist, you can be a trans woman who simultaneously likes woman while being a woman yourself you can have both gender envy and a crush on the same person!

Like it's weird when they make these agurements but have weak reasons to defend it. "Oh trans people are so annoying they keep saying I'm a closet trans" well yeah you said you only detranstion because you attended a therapist your parents made you attend, you use dress feminine, you use a girl model, not a femboy boy model a girl model with full tits as your vtube model and you're constantly talking about trans people.

Like what are you expecting people to think about you?

I know we can be pushy and sometimes we get it wrong, if someone is sure they're happy as a femboy then whatever, but why are you so upset that someone thinks you're trans? Just correct them and move. If they're not getting the hint I'm sorry for the bad actors but you can always filter it out of you comments.

Like they're doing it out of love, because they see themselves in you, because they know how much it hurts to be in denial and miserable. Like no one is trying to convert you into our "cult" but when you're constantly talking about trans people while showing common signs of being a closet trans you can't be all that mad about people thinking you're trans.

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.