I’m getting really tired of the wise serene pacifist trope in fiction. Every committed pacifist, prison abolitionist, antiwar activist, etc I’ve ever met in real life has been vibrating with compressed rage at all times. Do you know what it’s like to believe deeply in your heart that doing harm to others is wrong and the goal of society should be to alleviate suffering for all people and live in the United States of America? IT’S NOT FUN. Show Us The Pissed-Off Pacifists.
Dude there might be a word for the emotion that is forged when someone’s deep abiding love and compassion for all people and living things welds itself into decades of built-up foaming fury at how those people been treated their whole life by those in power to create a sort of alloyed super-commitment to a set of ethical principles but i promise you “tranquility” is not that fucking word
[Image Description: a picture of Sir Terry Pratchett, with a speech bubble across the top of the image to make it look like he’s speaking the post above]
Id like to officially welcome the UK into the “our government is falling apart” gang. There is no catering but someone did start a bonfire in the corner.
“Generally speaking, we (men) do not believe things when they’re told to us by women.
Well, women other than our mothers or teachers or any other woman who happens to be an established authority figure.
Do we think women are pathological liars? No.
But, does it generally take longer for us to believe something if a woman tells it to us than it would if a man told us the exact same thing? Definitely!
This conversation is how, after five months of marriage, eight months of being engaged, and another year of whatever the hell we were doing before we got engaged, I realized I don’t trust my wife.
When the concept of trust is brought up, it’s usually framed in the context of actions; of what we think a person is capable of doing.
If you trust someone, it means you trust them not to cheat. Or steal. Or lie. Or smother you in your sleep.
By this measure, I definitely trust my wife. I trust the shit out of her.
I also trust her opinions about important things. I trusted that she’d make a great wife, and a trust that she’ll be a great mother. And I trust that her manicotti won’t kill me.
But you know what I don’t really trust? What I’ve never actually trusted with any women I’ve been with? Her feelings.
If she approaches me pissed about something, my first reaction is "What’s wrong?”
My typical second reaction? Before she even gets the opportunity to tell me what’s wrong? “She’s probably overreacting.”
My typical third reaction? After she expresses what’s wrong? “Ok. I hear what you’re saying, and I’ll help. But whatever you’re upset about probably really isn’t that serious.”
I’m both smart and sane, so I don’t actually say any of this aloud. But I am often thinking it.
Until she convinces me otherwise, I assume that her emotional reaction to a situation is disproportionate to my opinion of what level of emotional reaction the situation calls for.
Basically, if she’s on eight, I assume the situation is really a six.
I’m speaking of my own relationship, but I know I’m not alone. (…)
There’s an obvious parallel here with the way (many) men typically regard women’s feelings and the way (many) Whites typically regard the feelings of non-Whites.
It seems like every other day I’m reading about a new poll or study showing that (many) Whites don’t believe anything Black people say about anything race/racism-related until they see it with their own eyes.
Personal accounts and expressions of feelings are rationalized away; only “facts” that have been carefully vetted and verified by other Whites and certain “acceptable” Blacks are to be believed.
So how do we remedy this? And can it even be remedied? I don’t know.
This distrust of women’s feelings is so ingrained, so commonplace that I’m not even sure we (men) realize it exists.“
“adult who logs on and works themself into a furor over teenagers not having perfectly articulated opinions and thoughts on the world” is quickly becoming my least favorite genre of Poster Du Jour
“this teenager is overly skittish and prudish about alcohol and drugs” i was like that as a teenager because i was a sheltered child and not every person in the world enjoys substance use or has the proclivity for it and that’s fine
“this teenager has conservative ideas about sex” theyre literally at a point in their life where they’re only beginning to grapple with sexuality, that’s their business and barring some far flung outliers it’s probably extremely weird that you care about what a kid you dont know thinks about sex
“this kid’s opinion about this complex issue is ill-informed and not as articulate as it could be” that is normal because they are a child
“this teen online doesnt understand queer history” maybe you should gently guide them as a peer in your vulnerable community instead of trying to dunk on them for your followers
“this kid on the internet is a loser because [x]” if youre an adult and say stuff like this i have to assume youre projecting bc you were bullied in tenth grade
Made this because my other “ms paint tips” post is going around, but the images in it were only made as supplemental material for a paper i had to write and dont include all the necessary information on how the tricks work. As a result people are getting very confused when they try them out to unfavorable results. I hope all those people find this post and their confusion can be cleared up.
The problem with Victor Frankenstein isn’t that he’s not as smart as he thinks he is. The problem with Victor Frankenstein is that he’s exactly as smart as he thinks he is in one very specific area, and he just expects that to automatically translate to every other area of his life and is taken completely by surprise every single time it doesn’t.
maybe he could have had a career in academia after all
ok i've been called a sex freak tranny too i get where you're coming from but like also please be more careful with extremely vague posts about Problematic Kinks
no. people’s openness about what two consenting adults can do in private has no bearing on how likely they are to be child abusers or close ranks about child abusers & thinking there is some correlation is a sign that your stance on sexual abuse is mediated more by disgust reaction and aesthetic associations than by structural analysis. there is a pretty hard and obvious line between not condemming consensual sex acts between adults and being a pedophile and thinking that it’s some sort of spectrum or slippery slope there imo speaks poorly to your conceptualization of why SA is a bad thing.
people love to say that X or Y kink Normalizes Abuse, but, like, actually think about communities where sexual abuse is ‘normalized’ in society. is the problem with the catholic church that it’s too pro-kink? is the problem with US professional gymnastics that it’s too pro-kink? is the problem with the amish that they’re too pro-kink? was the problem with the british entertainment industry in the 1970s that it was too pro-kink? is the problem with the prison system that it’s too pro-kink? &c. &c. &c.
sexual abuse doesn’t happen because people are degenerate perverts and everyone is too accepting of that, sexual abuse happens because society is full of institutions that give adults structural power over children and men structural power over women. giving credence to the former, even in the form of thinking you have to be “super careful” about perverts, is a straightforwardly reactionary position.
meet penis from my new cartoon “steamboat penis” where the titular character penis pilots a boat shaped like a penis right into some sharp rocks killing himself and all other 42 passengers on board
when tumblr inevitably dies we should all start blogging via carrier pigeon instead
you’ve just finished dinner after coming home from a long day at work. a pigeon flies in through your open window with a message tied around its leg - a post, from your beloved mutual. carefully taking it off the bird’s leg, you unroll it. the message reads “penis strike at the cock factory”
[video description: a big orange cat sits inside a large metal pot on a kitchen counter looking around slightly confused and bewildered as two people off screen repeatedly point at him and say ‘little baby man’ over and over again overlapping with one another as they repeat the phrase /end description]
“Twenty thousand cocks for ten thousand guys” is actually a statistical error. Cocks georg who lives in a cave and has 9999 cocks is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
While you’re out arguing whether necromancers or illusionists are more evil, the evocation caster just set 15 people and various nearby inanimate objects on fire, which is a clear breach of Protocol III of The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, thus constituting a war crime. In this essay I will —
Hey everyone always says capitalist wizards are inherently evil, and….
…and….
And they’re right.
All of you are stupid. The Enchantment wizards are evil. They are literally taking away free will. Also, them and bards try to magically seduce people. That’s not real consent!
How dare you. I use my enchantment magic exclusively to cover up crimes and when it would be very very funny to do so
Use illusion for that
I do. But what happens after I get caught. Not anymore
Verbing nouns is great, but for my money nothing beats adjectiving nouns. If I can find an excuse to describe something as “wizardy” it makes my whole day.
Arguably even more fun to adjectiving them with “ish”. A catish creature. A wizardish man.
Top pic is a single tile, and bottom is how it looks filling a 1920x1080 canvas.
Made this for my icon set project by scanning in a piece and then tweaking it to be straighter and tile better. Free to use for anybody else who wants it– no credit needed, including for commercial applications, etc etc.
Islamic Relief also offers the option to donate to Yemen and Sudan efforts. Please, if you’re able to, spread this to other people and communities beside online spaces.
!!! I use Magma Studio!! It’s a website which is actually useful for collaborations, where more than one artist can be on the same canvas!!!
It’s my primary drawing program, but otherwise, my secondary is Krita, which is both an art and (not that great) animating program!!
*sobbing* but how smooth line? my hands and mouse arent steady enough and the lines come out shaky like a two year old made it
That comes with practise and time. Rest assured, I also had shaky lineart when I started out. I’m pretty sure I still have art with shaky lineart somewhere in my storage (not that I will show them because I cringe at them a lot)
There’s nothing wrong with shaky lineart either. With time comes practise, and with practise comes improvement. You’ll get there someday!
again, if you find yourself continuously drawn to internet discourse and engaging with it to the point it’s hard think about anything else
read about moral ocd or ask a professional about it. i promise that is not normal or “just being chronically online”. there are treatments and experts who can help navigate your obsessive tendencies
it’s gonna be alright. having the most correct discourse opinions says nothing about you as a person. you’re gonna be ok
my rule of thumb is if i grabbed any dude at 7/11 and asked him about the discourse and it sounded like a different language to them, i’m not allowed to obsessively spiral over it
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