fear is a reasonable response to life

• they/them •

[iidolomantis]

checked under the sink a bit ago and saw i’ve got an angel infestation. annoying bastards. it explains all the weird dreams and salt pillars and how my neighbor’s dog kept barking in latin the other day, i guess. i’ll have to pick up some more glue traps tomorrow. i’m just hoping my cat doesn’t manage to catch any of them before the traps do; last time, i found a bunch of halos and chewed-up wings, and it was a whole thing with the vet. eight hundred bucks and a vision of the heat death of the universe later, and they tell me not to worry, it happens all the time, and to bring her back if she still has more than two eyes after a week. what a fucking scam.

[gremlininho]

let me. innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[stiinken]

we are all sinners

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[its-the-blob]

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

[ralfmaximus]

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.

[gakkubi]

Though not as often, sometimes Konan is the one hurt and needing to be taken care of

[trangoldin]

[pangur-and-grim]

[soranatus]

SINNERS By comic artist, Rombutan

[chanafehs]

‘you put that cig out, you can hold her’

[watchagonnado]

[rottingtrouble-child]

I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.

Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…

[rottingtrouble-child]

“This 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad use”

Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.

[rottingtrouble-child]

“Children don’t have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.”

Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.

When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they can’t hold a pencil properly?

[rottingtrouble-child]

People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say it’s the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.

It’s like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.

[adamraczek]

POV: du bist Markus Söder

[unbloodiedmartyr]

Now does he feel his title/ Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe/ Upon a dwarfish thief

[magekrove]

Joined artfight late to make some sketches, tired already

[spoiledmilks]

i really like this area

so i painted it

[may-i-consume]

:p

[zookja]

Just realized while explaining The Dispossessed's order of chapters to a friend that they align very beautifully with Shevek's discussion on sequency and simultaneity of time at that party on Urras (Chapter 7).

If Le Guin had written this book in a linear order (starting from Palat picking up toddler Shevek in the daycare and ending in Shevek's return to Anarres) it would have been according to sequency:

"There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation." (Chapter 7)

But the way she wrote two different places and two different phases of Shevek's life alternately until the end (Chapter 13) takes us back to the starting point of the book (Chapter 1) which is the Port of Anarres is according to simultaneity:

"And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises." (Chapter 7)

HOWEVER sequency still matters! Because the chapters in itself are written in linear order. So, as Shevek said:

"I prefer to make things difficult, and choose both [simultaneity and sequency]." (Chapter 7)