because LIFE is uncomfortable. Death and suicide and sex and pain are straight up going to happen. not having words for the way it discomforts you doesn’t make it more comfortable, it just makes you less able to reach out about it.
even more vital, you gotta be able to say words like “rape”, “abuse”, “queer” or “racist”. cause we fought fucking hard to name those experiences. to identify “rape” as distinct from “sex” and “racism” as distinct from “acceptable behaviour” and “queer” as distinct from “invert”
like the function of communication is not to minimise immediate discomfort. we gotta be able to talk about stuff that’s hard or sucks or causes difficult conversations.
This is what’s so goddamn terrifying about the Internet slowly collapsing into the same 3-5 websites–if Facebook deprioritizes you for saying “sex” and TikTok shadowbans you for saying “suicide” and Twitter X locks your account for saying “racism” we’ve lost a lot more than just the culture of the old weird internet
oh so they’re just saying the quiet part out loud? Good to know they’re just out and open now
That’s not the quiet part.
There’s something else, something they might not even be fully aware of themselves. The real quiet part is that if it was *their* child or *their* ectopic pregnancy they’d pull out all the stops to save their life or get their grandchild aborted. Planned Parenthood sees reactionaries and regressives all the time, and they are every bit the nightmare patients you’d imagine them to be. But the one thing all those patients have in common is that *their* abortion is *justified*, and the next week they’ll be outside the clinic again, rejoining the protestors for “killing their baby”.
It’d be one thing to have ghoulish principles, but the far-right have none at all.
When I was younger and had more time to waste on the internet, and spent a lot of time in various online forums getting into arguments – on purpose – I made up a game I called Six Degrees of Slut.
The game (which is a variation on the well known Six Degrees of Bacon) was very simple. In any discussion of abortion, see whether you could get the other side to articulate, within six back-and-forth exchanges, some variation of The Filthy Sluts Must Be Punished. Regardless of where their argument started, the goal of the game was to get them to admit that.
I never once lost a game of Six Degrees of Slut. On a few occasions the match was inconclusive - the other person left off arguing before we reached round six - but I never lost; I never once reached six rounds of debate with a prolifer without them expressing some variation on this sentiment. But what was really remarkable to me was, a lot of times, that there was no effort involved at all – they would blurt it out themselves, with effectively no provocation.
Scratch a prolifer, and you’ll find right under the surface the conviction that The Filthy Sluts Must Be Punished. I have never once yet found an exception. Sometimes you don’t even have to scratch.
Ok this post has well crossed 2k notes, so I should probably finally explain the story of the computer in the middle.
The controversial middle emoji in this set is from the original tossface emoji set. This was an emoji font put together by a Korean company mid-pandemic lockdown, that had a number of drastic emoji changes that were later edited and resubmitted as tossface exclusive emojis, mostly in regards to updating technology or replacing Japanese cultural references with more Korean alternatives. One of these changes was replacing hugging with a video call, as at that moment it was more common.
I included the computer as the center as a representation of online relationships. I myself have experienced a number of close yet long distance friendships over the years with people I likely never would have met otherwise in online communities. People I’d give big hugs if I’d ever met in person that maybe I never will.
I will also say I have noticed a fair amount of cynicism towards the formatting at this board, with a number of people calling the middle emoji “evil”, “soulless”, and “sicking”. I understand where the malice towards the idea of online relationships replacing human love with digital interaction comes from, but I’m going to ask people to lighten up a little on this one; It was supposed to be cute for people with online friends.
well. if this post get 10k notes by the time i get my adhd evaluation, theeeeen ill read homestuck. im not telling you WHEN my adhd evaluation is, you just gotta hope and pray it isnt soon. ill be nice and give you a 1 week warning though!
Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.
hey what would u do if there was 40 dancin little men hitting it so funky fine fresh outside your doorstep they are having a cool funky fresh time and they invite you to join their funky fine fresh dance would you throw it down harder than u ever have would u dance so good and join those little dancin guys what would you do
people who say “I block for spam liking” like damn sorry that you hate joy. Every time someone goes through and likes 3829278 posts on my blog I’m filled with a love and power that you will never know and I pity you
i understand why people like the queue and i do respect you guys for using it but that is just not how i roll. if i think these 37 posts are funny you’re seeing them right fucking now
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???
WHY ARE THESE GUYS MORE SCOTTISH THAN THE KIDS??
(also, aren’t they Vikings or something?)
To be fair, almost everyone in Ratatouille does have a French accent. The real question is why Linguini and also all the rats sound intensely American
If it was just the rats I’d say it’s because the movie can be interpreted to mean that the rats understand but don’t necessarily speak human languages so the rat dialog isn’t literally taking place the way we see it but that doesn’t explain why Linguini has a rat accent
LINGUINI HAS A RAT ACCENT
Do we ever hear like
For sure that Linguini grew up in France tho?
It could be possible he’s just an American immigrant
I mean his name is Alfredo Linguini so I always assumed he was Italian
I’m sorry his first name is Alfredo?
What
ALFREDO???
he’s American you guys his mother was American it was mentioned in the beginning
I’m sorry, I’ve moved on to the fact his mother was going through her cupboard for baby names
Alfredo was a name before it was a sauce let’s go over the movie from the top again
This is Alfredo di Lelio (right) the inventor of fettuccine Alfredo, he’d come out to the table and make it in front of you by hand
The chap on the left is an airport
I think you might have your left and right mixed up, my friend
I don’t know any of you, hitting the reblog button.
Nono guys you don’t get it you’re only allowed to interact with mutuals, no liking, commenting, reblogging, following or even viewing unless they’re your mutual. Otherwise you’re rude, oh well
One should always have at least 2 craft projects going. That way, when one of them is messed up and misbehaving, you can switch to another, and let the first one sit there and think about what it’s done.
Sometimes (oftentimes), when a creative project is “misbehaving,” it’s because it is tired, and overstimulated, and just needs a time out to rest – like toddlers often need.
And sometimes, you should give your creative projects time to talk to each other, as well as to you.
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banned from queeringthemap.com for attempting to tag each stretch of highway where i popped turgid at the sight of a passing driver’s truck nuts and those lady cars with the slutty eyelashes
What if a vehicle has both?
i listened to a podcast interview with you once where you paused mid-conversation to take a call from a prospective job and came back to tell the hosts you didn’t get it.
i do not understand when parents are like “okay we can go in the gift shop but no touching and we won’t buy anything” like dude you are setting this kid up to have a fit. under no circumstances do they understand what you just told them. to them the sentence was “okay you can go in the heaven-like area filled with awesome toys all for you” and when you tell them they have to leave without taking any of it, they will weep like adam evicted from the garden of eden. you have fucked up now
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