“shinigami eyes is bad?” well i encourage you to draw your own conclusions of course but

everyone who said one direction owes me five dollars

i’m so tired of it. oh you’re jaded? oh you’re casually cruel? oh you think it’s funny? you think you’re better than everybody else? snooze! why don’t you go get a real personality

To come back around and be serious on this post, I think I've accidentally hit on part of what made the original "Sold To One Direction" meme so funny to people; the two halves, so to speak, of the concept are only jarring because they're being paired together.

Like, teenagers are daydreaming about One Direction? Of course they are--1D was the most successful boy band of the 2010s, and providing a vessel through which young girls can examine their own developing sexuality is (if viewed as positively as possible) what boy bands are for. And teenagers are daydreaming about being sold to hot boys against their will? Sure; the bodice ripper is a very old sub-genre, the appeal of which has been explained many times, and which isn't likely to go away any time soon. The thing that makes this weird is the fact that so many teenagers apparently looked at the squeaky-clean, clean-shaven, J-Crew-and-Hollister-clad young men on their bedroom posters and thought "Yeah, these guys look like they could be doing human trafficking. I don't feel the need to spend any time or worldbuilding justifying this to my audience."

If you did this same set-up with, idk, Mötley Crüe, it would still be Some Freaky Shit, but it would undeniably be more tonally consistent with the band's public image, you know?

answered in the replies but reblogging with info too jic:

its based on an proverb about two wolves constantly at battle within oneself where the one that wins is the one that is fed, this was made up by a christian and was falsely attributed to cherokee / indigenous people

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"don't tell me how to raise my kids" is seen as a good defense and it's so disturbing to me.

children are not your property that you can do whatever you like with.

giving birth or impregnating someone or adopting doesn't give you some inherent wisdom that means you can never fuck up.

and you shouldn't have the right to abuse or neglect or misinform a child just because you have legal guardianship of them.

they deserve to have others speak up on their behalf. i don't care if it hurts your ego.

the vast majority of the time, it is all about ego and control btw.

a staggering amount of parents view their children as their property and see advice as someone trying to take away their "deserved" control.

a ton of them are more concerned with being perceived as a good parent over actually being one.