some things that horror movie culture has taught you are scary…. are just ableist
….clarify?
okay sure. psychosis? scarier to have than to know someone who has it. DID? im more a threat to myself than people around me. wheelchairs and psych meds? are tools that help people live more functional and flexible lives and are not judgments of the persons character and for sure are not scary things. and for real, intellectually disabled people are not threats, but movies love to make them villains because they act different and understand the world differently. and people with notable physical differences? people who’s bodies look different? people with scars, growths, amputations, etc? are literally just people. and seeing themselves painted like monsters on the big screen is absolutely sickening and damaging to how society will see them.
its not only bad writing but its extremely harmful to people who actually live with conditions that are misrepresented in media. when i found out i had DID, my mom freaked out because her only point of reference was Sybil. when i was younger and first went on psych meds, i thought it meant i was set on a track to be a bad person, because in so many movies and video games you find out the bad guy has medication in his bed side table for some sort of psych disorder. the worst thing a hallucination has ever made me do was wake my mom up at 3 AM to check my bathroom to see if the bugs i saw everywhere were real and the worst thing an “episode” of any sort has made me do is hurt myself. my ptsd doesnt make me kill people, my alters dont kidnap people, my autism doesnt make me so morally unaware that ill murder for senselessly, my ocd doesnt make me hurt people etc etc etc
literally the only “horror” is the ableism. and the only way you can write good horror about disability and mental illness is if the focus is on how society and the medical field treat us rather than focusing on how we are apparently so scary, threatening, and bad.
Horror is and has historically been an incredibly ableist genre, and it is still largely unrecognized as such. This has genuine severe and real-life consequences for disabled and neurodivergent people in real life. Please keep this in mind if you are abled and/or neurotypical.
also asylum horror is deeply ableist.
oftentimes an asylum is much scarier for people who need to be there. surprise! you’re considered incompetent, so no one while believe you if you report abuse. so those doctors can really do anything to you.
Yeah, like, occasionally there’s one asylum horror that understands that it’s abandoned-prison-horror. Where the rusty restraints and the old messages of desperation from people who wanted out suggest the horrifying presence just out of view of the ghost-doctor or nurse who could do anything to you.
But most asylum horror is ‘crazy people are scary’ ableist bullshit.
accidentally got a site's ai assistant bolted down, and I do believe I was personally responsible for it, if only because I found out how to ask it for clothing suggestions in just such a way that it kept trying to find visions of hell in its stock and describing offerings of assorted red and pink scarves as like, insect-mutilated infants
like I do really think I might be at fault if they ever looked at the logs and saw what happened
remeber whenyou didnt have to wash an apple off WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED
you used to,, NOT wash ur apple before u eat it????????? do you think whashing fruits/veggies before u eat them was something invented bc of covid19??
if i killedmyself tonight would you cry
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okay so like I don't wash my apples? I just rub them clean on my pants? like I get it in a store a lot of people like touch it but when they're from your garden the only people touching it are the person picking it (me) and the person eating it (also me)
Countless bugs walked on that apple with their pee feet
Uh yall realize pesticides stay on your food til you wash like... Also specifically in America (iirc might be in other countries too) they usually put wax on fruit to keep it pretty so like yikes. Also salmonella and food poisoning is a thing that happens when you don't wash your produce.
so stupid. Who gives a crap?
The mechanical force of a tight grip and rub on your apple should be enough to remove those bacteria. Washing with water is mostly for the pesticides, but even then you can probably get them off with rubbing. Regardless, you should still be doing some form of cleaning your apples.
chips is fucking crying out for help and you people are just ignoring him to go on your soapbox
it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation
I'd say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn't the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I'm being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven't even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it
People get their panties up in a twist about astrology because they think it’s people shoving themselves into boxes that are not pre-existing.
Most people who like astrology like it because it reflects things about themselves that they relate to that they have difficulty vocalizing themselves. And things like doing a chart reading can allow you to gaze deeply into yourself
yes that's how confirmation bias works
#wait wasn't that also OP?#is this the third such post now?#we shouldn't be pissing on the poor at all#“ok so we should only piss on the poor a little when there's no toilets free”
It's more than three. I've lost count but this is at least the fourth.
OP what wizard did you cut off in traffic to get cursed like this
Web of my top 50 played last.fm artists each year from 2019 to 2025🔊🦌
- Only artists who were on the top 50 of at least two years
- Red means 2 years (38 artists), yellow means 3 (20), green means 4 (6), there were no 5s, blue means 6 (3) and purple means all 7 years since ive gotten last.fm (3)
- Edge weight (thickness/gravity) equal to number of plays of that artist that year
- Artist nodes sized by total play counts, or sum of edge weights
I think it's really interesting how clearly this shows the breakoff in my taste that happened in 2022, with the classic rock of 2019-2021 being more clustered to the left and 2022-2025's mostly more modern stuff being more grouped away on the right. Really love this web a lot in particular yaaaaay
web im particularly proud of:)
People I met for a few moments that live in my head forever.
Babe are you okay? You reblogged crystallizedtwilight’s Strangers that live with me forever. again
