Long way from history to anime and then back again. Thorfinn and Canute in some early medieval manuscript

Have you seen them in the same room though??

“clone high college” only real ones remember that it was CLONE STATE ‼️‼️🗣️🗣️

man the new x-men 97 episode was great

this is like. the same photo

Annie January's childhood bedroom

Did that fight feel like mufasa v scar or to anyone else or just me

I think that generally speaking, everyone can change for the better. Some people will struggle to change more than others, and some people take more time than others, and some people can only change certain things they do and not others. Some mindsets are harder to change than others. That's okay. There's a reason why I try to be patient with people in my life who misgender me; I know they're trying, and I know they accept me, but they're just not used to my name and pronouns. I know I struggle to change a bit too, but if someone explicitly tells me, "Hey, this hurt me, and here's why; can you please not do that?" I will try my best to fix my behavior and try to figure out what to do differently.

The problem is that some people refuse to change their behavior, and they refuse to acknowledge they're wrong or that their actions were even hurtful. Some people insist they can't change. This isn't tied to a specific group of people, by the way; people can be like this regardless of what their political views are, their religion, their race, their gender, their age, their disability status, and other things. This refusal to change is part of why I'm no contact with my parents; they refused to even try, and they doubled down when I called them out on it.

It's important to be able to recognize the difference between someone who, as that one meme goes, "[is] a little confused, but he's got the spirit" (or she, they, or whatever pronouns someone uses) and someone who pretends to be confused about why you're mad and refuses to change their behavior. It's important to recognize the difference between good faith and bad faith statements and questions. It's important to know when someone is on your side or is working on their biases and is just struggling with the words or saying things exactly right (like, if someone doesn't know that trans people can be nonbinary or nonbinary people can be trans, they're probably on your side if you're nonbinary and trans, but they're just a bit uninformed) and when someone says they're on your side but will never be on your side. (If they say they're a safe space/safe person to talk to but make it clear they won't accept you unless you conform to what they want, that's a big red flag.)

But yeah.

(Also, do not tag this post any variation of "narcissistic abuse." That's not a thing, and this post isn't about pwNPD. It's about recognizing when someone is abusive or when someone is toxic and refuses to change, which are both things someone can be regardless of what disorders they have or don't have. If you do tag that, I will block you.)

Sav put your goddamn seatbelt on pLEASE

I don’t have anything that smells like pants man but I have something that I think would smell like zhongli

Despite being a womens perfume this is musky as hell

What the packaging looks like

It basically smells like Chinese tea dust with testosterone

Anyways I need to find some coffee now I can’t smell anything except this perfume

"Chinese tea dust with testosterone"

Is this that tea for T everyone is talking about-

(that was awful and I'm very proud of it >:3c)

Today on Limited Life, Scar hits red.

Today in real life, I start my period.

Coincidence? Unlikely me thinks

Maybe all the things you thought made you you aren’t really…you. Barbie (2023) / Fight Club (1999)

Isn't. Isn't this We Ate The Children Last

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.