every aroallo person whose had a “friends with benefits” style relationship with someone & regularly checked in to make sure that it was cool with the other person just for them to turn around and get angry at you and say you were leading them on and being shallow and manipulative should be legally allowed to commit murder
this has happened with me and like nearly every single aromantic person i know. i just think itd be cool if people could like get over themselves and use their brains and communication skills i think itd be cool
here is a helpful step-by-step guide to navigating your emotions when you are in love with an aromantic person
Bisan says that among all the aid organisations working in North Gaza right now, Ele Elna Elak is one of the most effective, geared towards resolving the water scarcity and making clean water and vegetables available to Gazans.
wore a white dress and walked in the rain to the barracks so all the knights could see my skin peeking through the fabric and i said “oh my, excuse me ladies, it seems i got myself lost in the downpour… i’m all alone and no one even knows i’m here…” and they just gave me warm clothes and made me soup so i didn’t catch a cold and escorted me back to my room. i fucking hate chivalry
just watched the knight that escorted me pick up a maid and twirl her around and carry her back toward the barracks while she giggled and blushed and kicked her legs. fuck my extravagant princess life
I wonder if “we have to torture this special character. in the lab facility. with secret science.” is an interest all 12-year-old children share or were we just the generation exposed to Maximum Ride
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You’re right. How could I forget to credit anime for its role in putting the special character in the secret torture facility (for science).
Genuine question: Isn’t this just Bond villainy and/or medieval torture dungeon? Or what kind of facility are we talking about?
The Facility is a critically important part here. See it’s a Science Facility. It’s run by a very shady clandestine organization, which is incredibly powerful. They’re maybe part of the government, or if not the government then something Illuminati-like.
As such The Facility is very high tech, and likely buried underground or hidden somewhere no normal person can access. The Torture being done is for Science, which the Facility is for. It’s all scientists in lab coats doing the torture. There is so much lab equipment and probably a lot of devices hooked up to the special character which will beep and go off the charts when the special character has a violent mind explosion. This part is important.
A lot of really good mentions in the notes here
Mewtwo
Secrets of Nimh
Wolverine
Akira
Elfen Lied
Shadow the Hedgehog
And a special mention to the couple of people identifying that a 12-year-old stuck in school all day is, perhaps, in a way, a special character being tortured in the science facility.
Epstein files discourse has me more convinced than ever that we need to be talking a lot less about “pedophiles” and talking a lot more about child sexual abuse.
“Pedophiles” are a distinct, discrete type of person. They’re Not Like Us, but also, they Could Be Anywhere. They’re hiding in plain sight among us, lurking and sabotaging. Anyone could secretly one of them. They’re queer, they’re Jewish, they’re vaguely foreign. They conspire. They’re a cabal. They have secret signals. They’re rich and powerful and secretly control governments, but they’re also poor and dirty and hide in alleyways. They’re sexually deviant. They’re everywhere and nowhere, and you should constantly be on guard against anyone who might be one.
Child sexual abuse, on the other hand, is abuse. It’s an action, not a type of person. Anyone can commit it, because it’s an abuse of power, and all adults and many other children have power over all children. Any adult has the ability to sexually abuse a child, because every adult has the ability to wield power over any child. Child sexual abuse is part of the continuum of child abuse, which in turn is part of the continuum of abuse, which can be committed by anyone who has the power to commit it.
The Epstein clients are the most prosaic phenomenon in the world. Rich, powerful people trafficked powerless people to force the powerless people to serve them. Rich, powerful people got away with breaking laws. Rich, powerful people uses people as objects – in this case, as sex objects, but by the same structural mechanisms by which they use people to clean their houses, pick their crops, and assemble widgets in their factories.
It’s not A Secret Cabal Of Pedophiles Conspiratorially Running The Government. It’s just kyriarchy working as intended. Absolutely, keep up the pressure to release the Epstein files and prove what we already know, but if you’re using “pedophiles” in a sentence where “illuminati” would make sense, put down the conspiracy juice and pick up the youthlib juice instead.
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