re-watching the original trilogy is great because you really get a sense for how weird luke skywalker is, just how quickly he becomes that weird AND how quickly he commits to it. Like he's honestly pretty chill in a new hope, but the absolute INSTANT he figures out he can move shit with his mind he goes full send on the cryptic off-putting bullshit. Walking around in full black robes, speaking in riddles, aura farming and backflipping whenever physically possible. He's clearly annoyed when he first meets yoda in empire, but he dismisses that pretty quickly in favour of ALSO becoming an over-dramatic space wizard. The combination of his two teachers being yoda and obi-wan kenobi and him being the son of anakin and padme creates the single most intense and fundamentally kind force sensitive perfectly embodying the heart of the jedi order whilst also serving egregious amounts of cunt and being bizarre to be around. He would have THRIVED as a jedi master during the high republic. he would have been every padawan's favourite and every other master's worst nightmare

i wish usb ports were several magnitudes larger and made a hefty "kerchunk" sound when you plugged stuff in

embarrassing behavior fr 🙄 (i do this with everyone i’ve ever been close to)

Going through a BIID forum and hearing "we don't want to lose anyone else"....

Yeah this is what I hear

Someone felt so fucking awful about having a limb they didn't want that they almost removed it in a deadly way, this is what people think is being a "faker" ? Someone who "can't possibly understand being disabled" ?

How about the fact someone has said "we can't lose anymore people".

How many people have to die before we decide it's not the big bad boogyman to want to get rid of limbs or their functions? That maybe doctors should be legally allowed to amputate or paralyze patients, because if they don't those same people will do it themselves and die.

These are people want to be free and comfortable, I've read up on several who figure out ways to get what they want, but it's incredibly legally and physically dangerous, putting themselves in horrifying amounts of pain to finally live a life they are okay being in

We need to make changes, and we should start looking into our medical field to do so

here's a youthlib opinion im seething over having had this conversation just now

when you avoid kids because of your pedo OCD you are treating them as objects

and ironically that is materially worse for them than interacting with them even if you're someone who is usually engaged in NSFW spaces.

i recently came to this realization because i was talking to people about fandom spaces and proship and antiship and how regardless of the stance of those involved, children are more likely to be groomed in general because these spaces strongly discourage adults from interacting with kids at all. this ties a lot into adults' moral OCD over being considered pedophiles and to be so fucking honest

YOU TREATING KIDS LIKE A POTENTIAL OBJECT OF ATTRACTION DEHUMANIZES THEM AND HURTS THEM WORSE THAN ANY FRIENDLY INTERACTION YOU COULD HAVE WITH THEM

IF YOU BAR KIDS FROM SOCIAL SPACES AND PREVENT THEM FROM HAVING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS WITH ADULTS THEY WILL BE PUSHED INTO SEEKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH ADULTS WHO WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM

This happened to me and this happened to tons of fucking people where we were kids because adults either wouldn't talk to us out of fear of being called predators or would condescend to us because they saw us as dumb annoying children so we either turned to lying about our ages or talking to any adult who would listen to us which was often people who would take advantage of us!!!!!!!! When you refuse to treat kids like people and push them out of places where they could learn to develop healthy boundaries, connect with people and learn about themselves and their place in the world you HURT THEM worse than interacting with them would. Do NOT pretend like you're protecting kids with your avoidance, you're literally just like everyone else. You are doing what the system already does. Deal with your OCD the way you would if it made you scared of any other group of people INTERNALLY AND THROUGH EXPOSURE THERAPY

Fuck your MDNI.

One of the guys I worked with told us a story about how, when they were doing archaeology surveys in the woods they ran into a bigfoot hunter. Bigfoot guy asked if they had seen signs of bigfoot, and he was like "Sorry, nothing like that. We're archaeologists, so we're looking for human stuff." and the bigfoot guy was like "Oh! I saw some Native American cairns on my way out here. I can give you a general location." and when he was like "Yeah dude, that'd be sick. We're actually looking to document those." the bigfoot guy was like "Yeah, they looked pretty cool. I didn't touch them though, because Native Americans built them, not bigfoot."

Signs of abuse, neglect, or mental health issues in younger people often get turned into a joke or a stereotype and I think that’s worth talking about.

The depressed teen that hates their parents has been a trope for years. Saying someone has daddy issues or that their behavior is fatherless is an insult. People call kids “ipad babies” and make fun of their short attention span.

It’s dismissive. Dare I say victim blame-y?

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

i think once u successfully win a debate there should be a period where they let you get out all the ad hominems you were holding back