I think a lot of the people banning kids from both online and irl spaces aren't necessarily doing it because they just haven't put the obvious 2 and 2 together and they're somehow blissfully unaware that they're forcing kids into a life of constant control, surveillance, and isolation. I think for a lot of the adults pushing for these bans, the control, surveillance, and isolation are the point. they want to control what information their* kids (*read: the kids they're claiming as their property) could learn. they want to control what kinds of people their* kids could befriend. they want to monitor everything their* kid does, says, or thinks so anything they don't approve of can be immediately "corrected". they don't want their* kids to exist anywhere other than in their home, because they see any potential friendships, love, or care that their* kids could be exposed to elsewhere as an inherent threat to their own claims of ownership and property!

I compulsively deleted the original version of this post around the same time I wrote it, but I'm bringing back a saved reblog from my drafts, because I was correct.

milk-thistle is an example of a word where the tongue barely moves… basilica is an example of a word where the movement involved is like a seesaw. opium as a word is circular to say. to say a word like violence involves a bit of a forced pause in the mouth where the o connecting the syllables is. etymologists trace the word’s history, poets feel the word’s impact, singers listen to the word’s musicality, linguists tell the word to go this way and that way, and the word is gracious to all in return

disenfranchisement

im sorry i was so weird the other night. thats how i am every night

Krampus delivering Yuletide presents !

It's not gay if you're on a quest

terrible website feature that came to me in a dream

my hot take is you should care about russophobia even when it only and solely effect russian.

“russophobia is bad, to explain why i need be russophobic for a sec”

my progressive liberal website where in order to get people to care about the shit that gets russians de facto segregated in some countries, killed in others, harrassed, dehumanised, attacked ect. i have to explain how this could also badly effect someone mistaken for a russian

liberals need to be told that bigotry can maybe affect real people before they stop harassing vulnerable minorities because we're just representations of The Enemy. russophobia might hurt ukranians. transphobia might hurt cis people. misogyny might hurt men. it's all completely fine as long as it only hurts undesirables

five year plan: i'm hoping to get shot in the back of the head randomly soon

i feel like a lot of the time fatphobia tends to manifest as a similar phenomenon to the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" thing especially among older people. sooo many people who have gained weight with age see themselves as temporarily embarrassed thin people. like 60+ y/o people who have not been thin since their 30s but they still keep going on diets. it sucks to see cause it reads like such a clear expression of self-hatred to me, like they're punishing themselves for their bodies developing in ways that they probably in reality had very little control over. fatphobia is such brain poison dude

When I was in my twenties in the 80s in Chicago there was a columnist for the Tribune who wrote often about struggling with his weight and once said he had realized that getting and keeping the weight off meant resigning himself to being hungry all the time all his life. I read that and I said to myself "Fuck that noise"

Genuinely why is everyone 12 now.

The worst part is that everyone else being 12 is making me more 12 out of necessity. Like what do you mean my most very strongly held and controversial beliefs now include "cover your mouth when you cough that's yucky" and "it's good to be nice and bad to be mean. You shouldn't be mean to people." That's the shit they used to get mad at me on the playground for.

They teach you this shit on carebears man. They teach you this shit on the smurfs.

"what i experienced in that lab changed me forever. the effect that hormone replacement therapy had on those subjects... some kind of chemical effect, a pheromone of sorts, that rendered me docile and... and aroused. a mere week into the experiment, i found myself on my hands and knees, prostrate before them, utterly ensnared in a narcotic haze, ready to kill or die at the command of my new gods" - guy who doesn't know he was in the control group

zoning out or imagining things is not dissociation. dissociation is a severe trauma response. fucking stop with this. you were not traumatized by your math homework and dissociating at your desk, you were uninterested and zoned out.

Titanic where everything is the same except Jack is a werewolf and its not explained

he's like i'll never let go and he actually doesn't because his knot