god’s honest truth 🍎

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

i love how much of a snarky gal twilight is in the first couple seasons of fim, she’s kind of the squidward of the group and it made her shoot up to my favorite pony like instantly

like i do love Literal Embodiment Of Anxiety princess twi and how much she grew but man. socially stunted lil weirdo twi was such a gem

my fav relationship ship dynamic is where it doesn't matter if you call it platonic or romantic or queerplatonic because they always act the same in every type of relationship. and the way they act? fucking weird.

via @endless-natterings

Awawawawa kittens

Clippy just wanted to help...

oh well, you know... *gesturing incoherently* as above, so below.

Charmeleon!! He's here!! He's just a cool dude!!

hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.

watch out for the trap! there's ONE QUESTION where the last option *isn't* the max 'no AI' option, read each part carefully to be sure

Reblog and put in the tags a work of media that commonly gets praised for being “feminist” but really isn’t in your opinion, and why.

a femme and her gaggle of butches

too much emphasis put on mutuals on this site.

ilu followers i never followed back. ilu people i follow who never followed me back. every post on here about mutuals applies to you too.

this pieces old as HELL but yall seemed interested in her so ill post it here. gonna eventually redraw it to make her look more animalistic and closer to the current design 🙏🙏 //base mewtwo ver

print disabled access and the internet archive

to access books on the IA that have lost public rights (aka most of them) all you need to do is this:

fill out this self-reporting form, where it asks if you have a disability and are thus eligible for print disabled access.

what this form asks is if you have ever had accommodations during schooling, if you are mentally ill, have a physical disability, etc. and you submit it and in a few days you get access.

they do not ask for any sort of documentation or information, just say 'i'm disabled'...they want to give it to you.

This isn’t stealing disabled resources or whatever btw. It’s a loophole they came up with after a lawsuit a few years back that said books couldn’t be publicly available to everyone (for copyright reasons). They want you to exploit this system because they wanted things to be free in the first place. The only downside is you can’t download pdfs directly and to download the epub you need conversion software. The in browser reader is really manageable tho ! Especially with an archive.org account where you can bookmark/list/favorite.