nikkiitalks:

metanarrates:

metanarrates:

the incessant sensationalization/sexualization/humorization of abuse is why abuse victims are never gonna be able to be fucking free in this culture btw.

if it’s a joke, if it exists only in sexual contexts, if it exists only as something scary and crazy, then it’s never something that you have to grapple with happening in real life. anyone who it’s happened to is far away, other. there’s nobody real who has suffered from it.

the reality is that abuse victims exist in your life. abuse is happening in your backyard. it might have happened to anyone walking down the street. your friends. your family. it’s uglier and far more prevalent than many people understand. you don’t know who it’s happened to. you can’t know. but every single survivor is human, living a life just like you.

and every single instance of this shit contributes to this low, background cultural hum that says your abuse can’t be real. it doesn’t happen to normal people. it’s too crazy. it’s too weird to talk about. you’re killing the vibe. everything that happened to you was too disgusting to take seriously, so nobody wants to hear it. do you see how this is fucking harmful?

for the love of god, you have GOT to operate with the assumption that survivors can hear and see literally every instance of you pulling that shit about their trauma. if you’re saying incest is hot, assume that an incest survivor will see it. if you’re making jokes about how crazy cults are, assume a cult survivor will see it. if you talk about how wild domestic abuse is, assume that a domestic abuse survivor will see it. and take responsibility for that!!!!!

look what you’re avoiding directly in the face. let it make you uncomfortable. if we’ve lost the ability to make people uncomfortable in discussions of abuse, we’ve lost the ability to discuss abuse frankly at all.

wisdomlikethis:

imsobadatnicknames2:

Wish I had been able to articulate this sooner but the current wave of discourse about Cozy Wholesome Farming Games really shows once again that a lot of people’s metric for the line that divides “smart person doing good, thoughtful analysis” from “terminally online freak looking too deep into into shit to start pointless discourse” is when they look deep enough to find something to criticize in a Popular Thing.

Like. The takes “Stardew Valley is an anticapitalist tale about the importance of community because in it the members of this small rural community band together to kick out the Costco analogue” and “The fantasy of landwonership on which games like Stardew Valley are predicated on is kinda bourgeois and the fact that it’s considered politically neutral enough to be a common subject matter for games explicitly labelling themselves as Cozy or Wholesome speaks to how entrenched it is in our our culture and art” attribute roughly equivalent weight and importance to the politics of a cutesy farming game, but one of them is very popular and widely liked and the other gets you anons like “Uhm it’s literally just a hecking cute farming simularino!? Touch grass lol you should be at the club lol do you even enjoy stuff lol not everything is politics are you really trying to make my heckin’ farmerino simulator problematic? Stop looking for politics in everything you’re just looking for stuff to get mad at you are a tar pit” etc etc etc

Watching people act like this extremely common observation in games criticism type circles came out of nowhere and is ‘obvious bait’ has been. Interesting? Observations that what is set up as an escapist fantasy in “cozy games” is inherently based on what is seen as “escapist” in the culture that created them, and that these things vary depending on ideological assumptions, have been around for ages. Discussions like “that games like Harvest Moon and its derivatives present pastoral life as idyllic plays into certain cultural assumptions that are driven in turn by ideological assumptions which, being so taken for granted, wind up in seemingly 'apolitical’ games” are so common in games criticism as to be. Like. Trite? TBH? So watching people on here spend a couple days treating them as Insane Terminally Online Takes rather than very well established areas of discussion has been weird as fuck to me. Ngl.

And in this case, I wonder if the “it’s OK to think hard about this stuff if it’s positive, but it’s weird and bad to think that hard about more negative implications” thing is a part of broader trends in spaces that orient themselves towards e.g. fandom. Fandom tends towards overvaluing positive opinions IME, as a kind of defense mechanism against being put down by outsiders to the subculture- and in turn that can make people really suspicious towards any kind of “negative” opinion because the assumption is that it becomes a cipher that is actually about criticism of fandom/fans.

If you assume that the rhetorical function of a critique of a piece of art/media is to argue why someone should not like or engage with it, you’ll react defensively to any critical approach to something you enjoy as though it’s a challenge to you, the person who enjoys it. But outside of fandom, that’s generally not the function of a critique; it’s something people participate in to better understand how a work interacts with, reflects and influences the culture it exists in. Not a call to like, stop stanning it personally or whatever. So the overreaction from fandom looks incredibly silly from any other vantage point, tbqh.

dr4gme:

shitfestcomic:

spider-man comic

littlegreenfag:

puzzlekinq:

littlegreenfag:

puzzlekinq:

he is in preschool do you love him

whats he studying?

toys and playtime

oh i’m sure he is a pleasure to have in class!

pkmn-ruby:

lt. surge & raichu

wasted-women:

ROUND 3A, MATCH 2 OUT OF 4

Which fridged woman deserved better?

Maria Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Ai Fuji / Amber Fuji (Pokemon)

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herpsandbirds:

McCoy’s Elf Skink aka Highlands Forest Skink (Anepischetosia maccoyi), family Scincidae, Australia

photograph by @skinkmania__

hatingongodot:

cauchys-special-boy:

cauchys-special-boy:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

loving-n0t-heyting:

despazito:

Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

this is how they look

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, CRUSTACEAN.

my tags need to go in the main part of the post actually

this is what im talking about that’s fucking horrible. worth noting though that the crustaceans are a broad class of marine animal which include barnacles and such as well as the usual suspects. so the nightmarish vision of a crab evolving into that terrible thing is thankfully not true

IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM @velociraptrix BARNACLES ARE DESCENDED FROM MOBILE LEG HAVING NORMAL ANIMALS. hell world hell world hell world

the-real-seebs:

the-spiciest-of-times:

kazieka:

so I started a new anxiety medication this past week and so far it’s been going very well except that I have extremely vivid dreams and apparently sleep texting. I seem to have sent this at 3am and i have no memory of it

but i am Right

okay this reminded me. i’m disabled and i’ve gone to the hospital a lot and one time in college during finals season i had to write my professor an email excusing my absence but the dilauded kicked in and well

i was not born in 1998

okay but if i get that note from a student, i am in fact excusing them

thememedaddy:

southernsolarpunk:

Original

partnoir4:

I realised to be authentic in your 20s means to include elements that made you happy when you were really small, mix them with the new interests you got as a teenager, and everything decorated with your current perspective about the world