I firmly believe that my (Chinese) mom is more Italian than my (Italian) dad. She earned multiple advanced degree in Italian history and studied abroad to learn how to speak the language fluently. She fought for it. The hell did he ever do? He grew up eating slightly more pasta than other kids in the United States. He was born into it. Fucking nepo Italian
I love using “by the way” as a segue into topics that are completely unrelated to the matters at hand. it isn’t remotely by the way, quite a ways out of the way in fact. a little adventure
i’ve seen quite a bit of confusion about this, so let me attempt to clear things up :
empathy is the ability to feel somebody’s emotions as though they are affecting you personally. for example, somebody tells you “my dog died last night!” -> you now feel as though you’ve lost a pet personally -> you feel grief and sadness just like the other person. not everyone has empathy. it’s a trait some people develop and others don’t. some have high empathy, some have low empathy, some (like me) have none.
sympathy is the ability to understand and care about somebody else’s struggles, even if you don’t feel them yourself. so, somebody tells you their dog died -> you realize how this affects them emotionally -> you care about this person, and are upset that they are suffering. not everyone has sympathy either! it’s a scale, just like empathy.
compassion is doing something to relieve another person’s suffering or make them feel better. somebody tells you their dog died -> you don’t want them to remain upset -> you come up with ways to help them feel better, like offering comfort and distractions, or other forms of support. compassion is a learned trait, not something you can be born with like empathy or sympathy. anyone can learn to be compassionate, although some may struggle more with it than others; it’s a skill, just like anything else.
however, none of these are required to be a good person. that’s a choice you make on your own accord. i hope this clears things up!
i’ve seen quite a bit of confusion about this, so let me attempt to clear things up :
empathy is the ability to feel somebody’s emotions as though they are affecting you personally. for example, somebody tells you “my dog died last night!” -> you now feel as though you’ve lost a pet personally -> you feel grief and sadness just like the other person. not everyone has empathy. it’s a trait some people develop and others don’t. some have high empathy, some have low empathy, some (like me) have none.
sympathy is the ability to understand and care about somebody else’s struggles, even if you don’t feel them yourself. so, somebody tells you their dog died -> you realize how this affects them emotionally -> you care about this person, and are upset that they are suffering. not everyone has sympathy either! it’s a scale, just like empathy.
compassion is doing something to relieve another person’s suffering or make them feel better. somebody tells you their dog died -> you don’t want them to remain upset -> you come up with ways to help them feel better, like offering comfort and distractions, or other forms of support. compassion is a learned trait, not something you can be born with like empathy or sympathy. anyone can learn to be compassionate, although some may struggle more with it than others; it’s a skill, just like anything else.
however, none of these are required to be a good person. that’s a choice you make on your own accord. i hope this clears things up!
[ID: Three panel comic with crudely drawn stick people. A character whose rambles are presented in smaller text will have their dialogue shown after the navigation links, and can be skipped.
Panel 1: A blue person with a dark green jacket and bright orange anime glasses is talking to a journalist, while a person wearing a large t-shirt with the text “c m y k” and a pair of scissors cutting off the k rambles behind the journalist.
Journalist: “Hey we need to show both sides on the confinement pits for chromatics issue, come debate this person?”
Anime Glasses: “Go fuck yourself.”
Panel 2: As the background character keeps rambling, the journalist condescends.
Journalist: “You know, I really don’t appreciate your tone here.”
Anime Glasses: “Less yapping, more fucking yourself.”
Panel 3: Anime glasses holds the journalist’s shoulder. There is still rambling on the side.
Journalist: “How do you expect to be taken serio-”
Anime Glasses: “You’re enabling someone who’d never be taken seriously without you. I am not cleaning up your mess. Go fuck yourself.”
Panel 1: firstly it is necessary to understand that the perverse urge to become green is a deviation that has been planted in our youth by the shadow druids, an evil organization that has been pulling the strings of our society to their nefarious ends since the invasion of-
Panel 2: the ultimate goal of the chroma cult remains aligned with the shadow druids: as worshippers of the armageddon beast they intend to saturate our children and grind them into colorful paste to paint their profane idols! they believe these idols will protect them when facing the beast but they are wrong, so entirely wrong, about many things, unlike me, i am right for i am guided by the light of facts, logic, basic biology and fundamental color theory, and common sense and also-
panel 3: -moon gnomes with their evil magics [spelled as “majicks”] hiding their pigments that they make from socks they steal from me, personally, that is where my socks go, and chromatics have never once taken responsiblity!
With the two having no contact with the outside world for decades, the idea of taking care of a kitten, much more their master, would be more than enough to make them panic 🙉
I can see the twins being a horrible babysitter so they run to Forneus for help <//33 (They totally love cooing Kittyrinder though)
It often feels like mainstream acceptance of queer people, particularly trans and nonbinary people, is contingent on there being few of us. When I was a kid witnessing arguments about gay marriage, statistics about LGBTQ people were so often presented in such a way as to reassure everyone else that we are not dangerous because we are rare. “It’s not going to cause societal collapse … because such a small percentage of people are gay.”
And conservative rhetoric against queer people, particularly trans people, which explicitly refers to us as a “social contagion,” really underscores that any perceived “increase” in sexual or gender diversity will be seen as a threat. If queer people are permitted to exist, we must be aberrant and isolated. If we are normal and natural and commonly occurring, it is because something has gone terribly wrong.
So. Forgive me if I bristle at the well-meaning argument that “these trans athlete bans are ridiculous, they’re only going to affect a few dozen people!” I understand where they’re coming from. But I think trans people should be free and abundant.
Do cishet people NOT understand that Portal 2 is a lesbian love story?
Your toxic ex tries to get her way back into your life. A twink friend of yours convinces you she’s evil and incapable of change, and drives a wedge between you. You run into her at a random place later on, and realize she’s not so bad after all, and together you solve the problem of this evil twink friend ruining both of your lives. Through this, you have an intense and fleeting romance that reminds you of the good old days. But, in the end, you acknowledge that you’re better off separated from each other- the problems that drove you apart initially are still there, but dealing with a mutual problem made you temporarily believe that the romance wasn’t dead. So, you break up on mutual terms, but not before she composes A FUCKING ARIA WITH A CHOREOGRAPHED CHOIR to bid you adieu
Oh, and along the way the twink basically confirms she was orgasming every time she flirted with you
That is NOT heterosexual behavior
I fucking stg I’ve seen this exact thing play out in college queer clubs
God, not to mention the deleted bratty degradation voice lines
Someone on Facebook Marketplace is asking questions about my queen Tempurpedic that I’ve listed for sale. Not to buy it, but about bed longevity and protectors as they just bought the same bed.
There’s two wolves inside me. The first is slightly indignant as they’re not gonna buy my listing but they’re asking questions and the second is incapable of hearing questions and not answering.
shrek 5’s teaser animation isnt bad you’re just nostalgic for movies made in 2001
“OMG why is there TIKTOK??? IN THE SHREK UNIVERSE?” <- person who has never seen shrek before
shrek has always been full of pop culture references. you just think it’s cringe now because you’re 20+ years older. now shut up and enjoy shrek’s lesbian daughter voiced by zendaya and pinocchio making thirst trap edits of shrek twerking on tiktok
I’m starting to sound like a nutcase at work because upper management keeps trying to implement AI programs and AI assistants and Chat GPT and my middle-of-the-road, don’t-infodump, don’t-engage response has been “I don’t like AI”, “I prefer to remain in control of my own tasks”, “I’d rather make my own mistakes”, and “I don’t trust any machine smarter than a toaster”
immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand
immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand
Don’t you mean classist Typo, as in discriminating against poor people, and not classicist, the type of academic who studies antiquity in southern Europe?
seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors
I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy “the downfall of society” because it’s “literally just porn” radicalized me
Men have an entire industry. Entire industries dedicated to their sexualities. Let women have fantasy sex. there’s not even a camera crew involved.
Wow, it sure is crazy how Terry Pratchett wrote Good Omens completely on his own. With nobody else involved. At all.
Folks, please. We can’t do this. We can’t pretend that Gaiman didn’t contribute to Good Omens and it emerged fully-formed from Pratchett’s head. I am as devastated as everyone else about what we’ve learned but we can’t just damnatio memoriae our way out of this.
Bad people can make good art.
Bad people can appear good. Sometimes for a very long time.
Just because someone turns out to be a bad person does not mean their art was bad all along and anything good they made was made by someone else. The world just doesn’t work like that.
We’re not doing the “hastune miku wrote harry potter” bullshit again.
The other knights break into the sorceress’s castle to rescue their former leader, who has been enthralled by the cursed amulet.
But the former knight is like “what? No. It’s not a cursed amulet, it just shows you what you’d look like if you transitioned. There’s no curse.”
“but why did you join the sorceress then?”
“her minions get fully covered healthcare, including transition. Do you know how long and expensive the process to get just one genderawap potion is, when you’re an underpaid adventurer for the kingdom?”
Sorceress: “it’s true, it’s not cursed. I just showed her what she could be… The black leather outfit and lightning powers were her idea, though.”
