i can't be the only one who's just straight-up ... bored with women hating themselves. my mom keeps lamenting to me how upset she is about her gray hair. my friend stares at her laugh lines every day in agony. my sister loses sleep over the horrible unbearable thought of looking fat. and every time these women i love open up to me, i can't help but think ... then stop staring at yourself? stop drowning yourself, narcissus, and just fucking live your life instead of sitting in front of a mirror obeying cosmetic corporations' lies. just stop it. this is getting ridiculous. you're too smart to be falling for this bullshit. "oh no but these men who hate women told me that if i'm ugly i'm worthless!" girl if you actually believe that then good luck. but i am getting worse at being supportive of people whose nonsense worldviews keep them trapped in pain. stop looking at yourself start fucking living i am pleading you deserve to be happy and it is stupid that you disagree

Someone in the comments said "you really said just stop being insecure" and yes :) make an effort to stop spiralling about your looks, challenge insecure thoughts and stop doing things that lead to you feeling insecure.

I always come back to this: Do your insecurities match your morals?

Do you truly believe that having belly fat makes people disgusting? That the media should have final say on how you feel about yourself? If you don't believe it and there is a mismatch between your moral beliefs and your gut reaction to your appearance...

Then yeah. Stop being insecure. It's work but it's worth it.

Promoting @sarkywoman 's tags as that's a perfectly distilled mantra:

I am not the exception to my beliefs

THE COYOTE'S NAME IS LAMP

the difference in performance between female and male athletes has far less to do with physiology and far more to do with the fact that boy athletes get the good coaches and the best ice time slot and the set of baby skates and the girl athletes get to change in the bathroom and to know that this won't be a career for them

real quick if anyone is confused: professional athletes are paid a lot of money because they generate a lot of money. if you believe that professional athletes should not be paid a proportional share of the revenue they generate, you are anti worker's rights and also fundamentally do not understand how labor works

like hey. im a communist. i am not arguing for rich people. i am arguing for workers to get paid what they are worth for the labor they perform. athletes being paid a lot of money is not a hill you have to die on. it is not a consideration you should be incorporating into your political and economic policy. athletes are not special, they are workers, and if you say "this worker does not deserve to be paid what they are owed" you are anti labor and you should not be trusted under any circumstances.

also like. arguing that white male athletes should not be adequately compensated for their labor is really not the leftist win you think it is when wnba players get 9% of the leagues revenue and pwhl players are forced to work second jobs. if you think the recognizable names of major men's sports shouldn't be compensated, what do you think about workers rights for bench players and 4th liners in women's sports who are paid astronomically less?

I desperately need to see Carmilla interact with Mendax and Melvira stat! 😂

[guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.

still feels a little unreal that we got animated blumendrei in Several episodes, these guys have lived in my head for five years and now theyre just here on my screen? it feels like it shouldn't be allowed too good to be true but we Got it

Holy fuck Midst is so good why can’t I get more people into this?

The narration is reminiscent of Disco Elysium in its eloquence and the way Third Person exchanges their voices.

The setting is inspired and quite literally unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, with a reimagining of physics and reality that feels straight out of 1900s early Sci-Fi (and also Discworld).

The themes and subtleties are so cleverly woven into things, especially on a re-listen.

The characters and the way they’re expressed are a treat and fill a lot of niches that I’m sure a lot of people have craved to experience.

The audio design is amazing and makes it super engaging for a podcast, having so much room to breathe and yet still quick and snappy.

The episodes is full old TV show length, and feels like one, so it scratches that itch, and is paced like one too where the episodes feel paced so well that they sometimes feel like fun filler but are always super meaningful when it comes to characterizing the cast and setting.

It is genuinely one of the most perfect pieces of media I’ve ever experienced. I don’t mean best, I have stuff I like more. But it feels the most perfect because it does everything it wants to do so well that there are genuinely very few flaws I can find in it.

Here’s my longest edit (maybe more of a longform edited video???) to date using a certain beautifully performed letter! Synnove and Katari are such beautifully complicated characters so I hope this does them justice! SPOILERS FOR REGOLUS: DARK AGE also occasional flashes so FLASH WARNING (take care of yourselves 😁)

me too brennan

unfortunately at this point it’s only a matter of time before someone asks Crosby and Ovechkin about Heated Rivalry

“I could fix him” “I could make him worse” well I could make him Kraft cheese, which his mother never did

That’s my floaty hot boi

THE COYOTE'S NAME IS LAMP

This post is about train accident prevention.

Do not derail.

gay people talk about the next critical role campaign like its the nfl draft

“2015 and 2018 Liam came through with traumatized emotionally complex bisexual man… expectations are that he’ll do the same in the new season.”

“There’s a lot of directions Marisha could take this season, but I see her having a hard time returning to heterosexuality after last season.”

“Ashley had to be pulled in the middle of the season because of her commitments with her job, but she made up for it with strong performances after her return.”

“Travis Willingham surprised a lot of people with the DnD romance at the end of the last season. He’s always been dependable, but who knows if this means that he’ll be stepping more outside of his comfort zone in the next season.”

The talk around the VM vs M9 oneshot was basically nerd sportsball, with comparative stats, equipment, experience, skills…. realizing it was the Geek Super Bowl was A Moment.

You are a regular guy. You can enter a space. You are a regular guy. You can enter a room. You are a regular guy. You can do that transaction. You are a regular guy. You know how to answer the phone. You are a regular guy. You know what sleep is. You are a regular guy. You know how to wake up. You are a regular guy. You know how to move through space. You are a regular guy. You know what it means to be you.