bpdummy:

“if they just spend all their time in front of electronic devices, everyone feels like shit”

or maybe i do that because i feel like shit?

because i don’t know how to be alone with my thoughts without having them consume me?

a-rinna:

i feel like a lot of people who have never experienced verbal/mental abuse think it’s having obscenities screamed at you all the time and it can be that but also

someone can be mentally and verbally abusive without ever raising their voice or using a single curse word. someone can insult you, degrade you, berate you, gaslight you, and break down your sense of self and sanity for literally hours at a time without ever slipping from having a genial, even tone. sometimes it’s the victim who finally snaps and screams and tells their abuser to stop or fuck off and the abuser then uses that against them to make it out like they’re the one in the wrong—you raised your voice and your abuser didn’t so you must be the one in the wrong, right? you’re the one who said a curse word so who is really being abusive here?

mental and verbal abuse is not always obvious. it’s not always loud. it’s not always attention-grabbing. sometimes it’s insidious, sometimes it’s delivered with the same tone and inflection that you’d get from someone small-talking with you about the weather at the store, sometimes abusers do it in public—surrounded by other people—and no one even notices it’s happening at all. sometimes when survivors finally tell someone about it what they get in reply is “but i never heard them yell at you” as though breaking someone’s spirit can only be done at a certain volume.

mental and verbal abuse don’t always look the way you think it might look but that doesn’t make it any less abusive or any less harmful to people who go through it.

sentientviolets:

I hate how normalized it is for parents to talk bad about their kids.

I mean how many of you have heard parents talk about how tiring kids are, how expensive it is to raise a child, how absolutely awful the teenage years are?

when you decided to become a parent, you knew a baby would keep you up. you knew caring for a child costs money. you knew how hard even being a teenager was.

you knew raising kids would be challenging. so if it’s so awful and terrible, why did you have a kid? if you weren’t ready for the challenges, why did you think it was a good idea to bring a child into the world?

no child asks to be born. no child deserves to hear how tiring they are, how expensive they are, how awful they are. no child deserves to feel like a lesser person just because you couldn’t handle raising a child. no child deserves to suffer because of you.

marvel-lous-things:

T’challa, a weary sibling, testing new gear: is this a prank

Shuri, ignoring the 42 hidden 360° cameras, 26 hidden audio recorders, her YouTube livestream, her Instagram livestream, the camera she hid in his shirt for a first person pov, Peter Parker on the ceiling, the camera in her hair, Nakia behind the door, and all the Dora Milaje staring through the window: no

archmage-modera:

macbcths:

sassacrusher:

“you can’t have an asian elf. elves don’t have human races”

*puts my mouth on the mic* excuse me mr. big bad dungeon’s master but i think it’s gonna be hard for you to run this campaign when you’re too busy being a shitty little bitch

why are half the comments on this post “it’s fine i guess if you can make it fit with the lORE” like dear god are ppl of color just . not real to you weirdos we don’t need a “””reason to exist””” in fiction or reality

Anyone who says X cant be this skin color doesn’t understand how skin
color even works. People are not black because they’re “African”.
They’re black because their ancestors lived in a equatorial, arid region for ten thousand years and their bodies darkened to protect their
cellular structure from solar radiation.

People are tan because their ancestors either A) lived closer to the poles but still close enough to the equator to need darker skin tones or B) they lived on a coastline and fish was a huge part of their diet.

People are light because their ancestors lived very close to the poles and did not have a large seafood diet and needed lighter skin to absorb more sunlight so they can produce the essential Vitamin D.

That’s right. Your skin tone is because of an essential need for Vitamin D. The more sunlight you get, the darker your skin gets. The less, the lighter.

So an elf can be darker skinned because every world has a fucking sun and elves need Vitamin D too.

Unless you’re a drow and then you’re just a fucked up elf.

thebibliophibian:

okay, compatriots

Enough time has passed. I’m going to tell you about the best thing I’ve ever done, which has resulted in:

  • the only person I still know from high school thinking I’m a complete monster, and
  • another person proposing to me the first day he met me. 

Warning for nsfw pranksmanship under the cut. Also, if you’re afraid of the mothman… welcome to the club?

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