Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!

Because we can’t disregard one person if we’re for human rights!

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Opinion piece writers salivating at the bit to tell you that kidnapping a head of state and starting a nakedly self-interested war is lowkey morally nuanced and kinda complicated as fuck.

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the grinch is fucked up right. he was created specifically as a critique of the commercialization of christmas, but now all his edge has been sanded off. now he's a generic mascot for "hates christmas," which is great to have because the commercialization of christmas has become so overbearing that that's a demographic you can market to! and now he's just part of the Christmas Fold. he's santa's edgier joker counterpart. he has become the very thing he sought to destroy. back in november i checked out a customer with a $1100 order and most of it was grinch merchandise

this made me cry so now i need everyone to see it

YES 100%

that's why I got so frustrated when I saw someone say "Greer's risographs are beautiful, but they suck at writing", because it's like....... my illustrations were shit for many, many years before I hit the skill level to illustrate professionally.

and at several points while I was learning how to paint and draw, I had PROFESSORS bluntly tell me "you're not good at this. you're not skilled enough. if people bought a book that included your illustrations, they'd be mad about the quality." and if I'd listened to any of them and stopped, I would've never have reached where I am today, where even the people who dislike me have to begrudgingly admit that I draw good.

tl;dr give yourself the grace to suck at shit, and give the finger to anyone who tells you to stop.

I don’t know why that affected me so strongly, but I’m watching a youtube video on disasters on Lake Huron, and the first one involves a coal freighter that was lost in the White Hurricane of 1913 called the SS Argus. Everyone on the ship was lost. But it’s mentioned that the captain’s body washed up later, and was found without a life jacket. So they thought, based partly on testimony of another ship that thought they saw them go down, that it just happened too fast for him to have time to get his jacket. But then another body was found, that of the second cook, and she was found wearing the life jacket marked ‘captain’. And that’s …

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe also some day more than a century down the line, maybe some idiot will be crying into her coffee because of what you died trying.

Pro-abortion rights are not just for women. I see a lot of advocacy posts (which are good!) that only say stuff like “women” and “she/her” about this general body of people that can get pregnant. Friendly reminder that women are not the only people that can get pregnant or have an abortion and pro-abortion rights should be for everyone.

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why can we not have conversations about including non cis women in reproductive rights without one of you chucklefucks bringing up mpreg. there are millions of men that can get pregnant. we are not a kink we are not a fanfic trope we are real actual people that exist and the fact that we cant even begin to discuss the concept of men getting pregnant without people bringing up a fictional reproductive system is deeply frustrating.

and it's especially ballsy to feign ignorance and, for some reason, insinuate that this post is about a fictional kink and not. y'know. men that already exist.

has anyone noticed theyre taking away what it means to be human

People need to understand that the point ISN’T “being single is not a failure if you’re aromantic”, the point is being single is not a failure full stop.

You can be allo and be single; it’s allowed. You feeling attraction doesn’t mean your priority NEEDS to be finding romance (it can be! But it also can not).

Being single should be normalized no matter what your romantic/sexual orientation is. It isn’t a tragedy.

here’s the thing, therapists are just human beings. they have biases and a constellation of beliefs that can be helpful or harmful or somewhere in between, depending on the specific client and situation. (i can’t necessarily think of a time when this particular belief would be helpful, but my point stands.) and when a belief is harmful to a client, like this one, often the client sees a different therapist. that’s fine. that’s GOOD.

once i had a therapist who was great for me for a while. i had pretty tough anxiety, and she was great about helping me through exposure therapy-esque activities and knew a ton about the biological and psychological backgrounds of different mental health conditions. but once i got to a point where i could, y’know, leave the house without breaking down, i started having other things come up.

like religion! i was raised presbyterian, my mom is a pastor. so i was very involved in the church. and after i grew up, i started questioning things, as people do. so i needed someone to support me on that.

and eating disorders! i have an eating disorder. often it shows up as binge-restrict cycles. so i needed someone to support me on that.

and gender! i started questioning that when i was 18 and still am doing that now. a lot of emotions come up as a result of questioning that which i am also still working through. so i needed someone to support me on that.

so anyway, my therapist told me the following things:

1. secularism is terrible and some form of religious spirituality is the only way.

2. just cut out carbs and your eating disorder will get better.

3. went on a long tangent about how children don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to gender and that we need to wait until they’re adults to let them have any control over their own bodies.

and no, this was not all said in the first session. or even in one session. it was revealed to me by individual conversations that made me increasingly uncomfortable.

so i said goodbye to this particular therapist! i gave her feedback on why, because most therapists want to grow, and also because i had grown to trust her over our time together and i’m a sentimental person. so i wanted to say goodbye i guess.

now i have a therapist who is supporting me in these areas of my life (plus others). and yeah, making the decision to leave my last therapist was hard, despite the obvious signs that it was time. because we had a relationship! there was trust built! but now i am supported in my journey of recovery and personal growth.

and if there comes a time when this therapist is no longer a good fit for me, i’ll make another hard decision. there’s no such thing as a perfect client-therapist match for one’s entire life, because clients are human and therapists are human too.

and here’s the thing: leaving my old therapist, her beliefs that were harmful to me later in the relationship, that doesn’t discount all she helped me with and the progress i did make while with her. all the leaving did was take me further in this journey, which is pretty much the whole point for me.

tl;dr You Get A Different Therapist*

*without guilt about leaving

if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills with my first two wishes, my third wish would be that sabrina carpenter would get gradually taller. she'd be in on it and think it was hilarious. we'd have a strong cap at 7 feet here, maybe an inch a week so people have time to theorize--let's not be ridiculous. but she'd still keep up the "ooh! im so little and small!" schtick. but shed be gradually getting taller. she'd be like 6'1" and still jumping for the microphone. and she'd never say anything about it. and if anyone asked shed act like she had no idea what they were talking about. and shed cheekily play into it a little bit but mostly still keep up the "ooh im so little and small" schtick. do you see my vision. do you get it

ok and so if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills in one wish i would do the sabrina carpenter thing second and third i would wish for all evidence of one random taylor swift song to disappear from the world once every month or so. taylor would have no memory of it. her fans would remember it and there would be an outcry over where it went (it's not even in concert videos anymore!) but taylor would have no memory of it

instead, all her brainspace spent on that song would be replaced with the vivid memories of roman gladiator, taylaurius velox. she's able to hide this at first, but her music begins to take on a gradually romaner and romaner tint. at first, people are like "damn, she's getting REALLY conservative, huh" and other people are like "wow, she's so deep, she knows what a rubicon is" but eventually travis kelce leaves her out of nowhere (he wasn't sure if dating someone possessed by a roman gladiator made him gay or not and anyway he was getting sick of being like "we're going to play the lions" and taylor being like "LIONS? WHERE?") and taylor publishes an entire brutus themed album about this betrayal and it's beginning to weird people out

and so eventually travis kelce is getting like, bomb threats sent to his family for leaving taylor and eventually he's like "okay, okay, i left her because she kept having all these vivid nightmares of gladatorial combat and she kept saying that football was giving her the ick because we never actually killed anybody for the glory of rome" and then he just gets more bomb threats because he left a struggling woman during a mental health crisis

and eventually taylor is writing music about her forbidden roman senator lover and her fanbase is either whittled WAY down or WAY up because people want to watch this trainwreck happen (or maybe she influences culture so hard that we're just all really into rome now) but she's being super cagey about the name of this roman senator. until. and now here's the twist:

weird al has been getting all of the same vivid memories of taylaurius velox. and he still has all his memories of her old songs. so he's writing all these detailed song parodies of taylor swift songs that don't exist anymore including specific details about their shared gladiatorial reality that taylor has never shared with anybody else. including that her lover's name was publius, and she's been calling him Poob for short

at this point a lot of original swifties are leaving. they could do the brutus stuff, but they really can't survive poob. taylor makes a clapping back at the haters song including the lyric "these bitches don't know publius" and it ends up all over all sorts of merch. there's a renewed archaeological interest in roman gladatorial combat

most importantly, the internet discourse is the best it's ever been. does this make taylor swift transmasc? is travis kelce problematic for leaving his fiancee while she gradually morphs into a roman gladiator? is this good queer representation? if taylaurius velox was a gay man, does that mean the gaylors were technically correct? is weird al morally wrong for capitalizing off of her music if she cant remember it anymore? was weird al sent by god to torment taylor swift?

anyway thats what id do if i met a genie

yall realize you can criticize religion without like. making fun of people for having things that are sacred and holy to them right.

not to be that guy but theres a huge difference between "this religion and it's practitioners has aspects that warrant criticism" and "lmao look at them believing in things" . its one thing to call out the toxicity and spread of dangerous information in, as an example, pagan communities. it is an entirely separate thing to make fun of pagans for what they find sacred and important to their lives, even if it doesnt make sense to you.

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One of life's great ironies is that almost everyone who makes the active decision to not have kids would probably be way better at raising a child than all the people who just kind of have children because it's what they think everyone is supposed to do

Like genuinely if you're like "I don't want kids because of the financial strain/the commitment/the irritation I would feel/the possibility of traumatizing them/whatever reason" you instantly demonstrate to me that you 1) understand the realities of parenthood and 2) believe that children should be treated with at least a base level of respect and compassion. Meanwhile everyone who's like "I want kids because I don't want to be alone" "I can't wait to dress up my babies" "I won't raise my children to be soft" may as well be talking about Neopets for all the fucks they seem to give about kids