I Bet Octopuses Think Bones Are Horrific. I Bet All Their Cosmic Horror Stories Involve Rigid-limbs And

I once wrote a super long comment like that AND THE AUTHOR MADE A SEQUEL??? FOR ME???? AND GIFTED IT TO MY ACCOUNT????

BTW i see these posts all the time like "ohhh i dont know what to comment on fics.." and every response is "keysmashes! or hearts!! anything works :3" and thats GREAT!! thats helpful!!

but: consider. if u genuinely like analyzing writing.. do u know ur just allowed to go through and quote your favorite parts and ramble abt what they mean to u and the author will LOSE IT WITH HYPE?

genuinely. i felt SO WEIRD the first time i did it.. but like. holy shit authors love it. its crack for authors. the first time i did it, it was on a fic that hadnt updated in half a year, give or take, and the author made 3 updates that month BECAUSE OF MY COMMENT.

LIKE. as an author every comment is INCREDIBLE!!! but also, dont feel like your comment has to be short or otherwise ur invasive or smth!! authors ADORE long comments more than ANYTHING.

בתור אדם שקיבל חיסון לכלבת השנה:

מאוד קל להימנע מכלבת. ננשכתם על ידי חיית בר? ננשכתם על ידי עטלף? ננשכתם על ידי חתול או כלב באיזור שקרוב לטבע? לכו ללשכת הבריאות הקרובה לביתכם, ותתחסנו. אם עברו פחות משבועיים מאז הנשיכה, תהיו בסדר. אם ננשכתם על ידי חיה שאתם מכירים, או חיה שאתם יכולים למסור להסגר, חכו עשרה ימים. אם החיה מתה, תתחסנו. אם לא, לא צריך! חיסון לכלבת הוא מאוד יקר למדינה, אז עדיף לא להתחסן כשלא צריך, אבל אם יש חשד קטן שננשכתם על ידי חיה חולה, חייבים להתחסן. תחסנו את החיות שלכם! חשוב מאוד. האדם שמת מכלבת ננשך על ידי הכלב של עצמו.

בנוסף, דברים שלמדתי מהרופאה כשקיבלתי חיסון כלבת:

התעוררתם כשיש עטלף בחדר שלכם? תתחסנו לכלבת. אפילו אם אתם לא חושבים שהוא נשך אתכם או שרט אתכם, אבל ישנתם אז אתם לא יודעים בוודאות, חייבים להתחסן. עטלפים זה מסוכן מאוד.

אתם גרים בעיר? נשך אתכם חתול באמצע הרחוב הראשי ואתם לא קרובים לשום טבע? לא יחסנו אתכם. אין לכם כלבת. בישראל אין הרבה כלבת, ובערים אין כמעט בכלל. עדיין חשוב לחסן את החיות שלכם, אבל אתם לא תידבקו מכלבת באמצע בת ים.

מה לעשות אם חיה נשכה אתכם:

1. תשטפו את הפצע במים וסבון. מוזמנים לחטא באלכוהול. זה אולי יגן עליכם מכלבת, אבל אם לחיה יש כלבת פשוט תתחסנו. זה סתם יגן עליכם ממחלות וזיהומים אחרים בפה של החיה.

2. חיה מוכרת? למסור להסגר/אם זאת החיה שלכם להשגיח בבית. היא לא מתה תוך 10 ימים? ברכות! אין לכם כלבת

3. אי אפשר להשגיח על החיה? זאת חיית בר? החתול שנשך אתכם ברח ויש חמישה חתולים שחורים שנראים בדיוק אותו דבר ברחוב? תבדקו אם אתם גרים קרוב לטבע. ננשכתם באמצע רחוב יפו בירושלים? לכו הביתה. אין לכם כלבת. ננשכתם ליד הוואדי? לכו להתחסן.

והכי חשוב, ננשכתם על ידי חיית בר? תתחסנו!

לכלבת יש אחוז תמותה של 100%. יש מקרים בודדים של אנשים ששרדו כלבת, ועשרות אלפי מתים כל שנה. אם יש ספק, תתחסנו ותצילו חיים.

new fear unlocked x

Me,non Christian: *getting out the popcorn*

I was raised protestant, and I have actually never met a catholic person in real life. Probably seen them on the street while travelling, but never had an actual conversation with one. Most of what I know about them is that they got custody of all the cool art in the divorce.

Have you ever been to SoPac in South Orange NJ?

I have never heard of that place. SoPac sounds like the house of Pac-Man, South Orange sounds like the southernmost part of the orange fruit, and it took me a google search to realize NJ is New Jersey and not North Virginia (I guess it would be NV but it sounds like it could be North VirGinia)

So no. Why do you ask? Is it important? Sounds like a goofy place

In Israel, both men and women need to do military service, but the men's service is longer. If you change your gender legally, you serve more/less, have to dress like your gender (there are different hair and clothes requirements for men and women)

Finland has mandatory military service for all able-bodied men. The summons come to every man on the year they turn 18, and your service status is visible on your government records - whether you've done your service, are yet to be summoned, or deemed excempt from service and for what reasons. Even if you're blind, deaf, in a wheelchair and cognitively impaired, you still need to show up for the evaluation, though ideally you'll already have a doctor's note for the occasion that basically just says "I mean just fucking look at this guy", and the military doctor will look at you and go "yeah" and sign you off as unfit for service for the time being.

And if you get your legal gender changed, your military status updates accordingly. When I got my gender marker changed to male in my late 20s, I automatically showed up in the government systems as an adult male who has not done military service yet, and I got summons the same year. However, back then being transgender was a diagnosis that you need a doctor's evaluation on, and being trans was one of those medical conditions that give you the option to opt out of service - in the "you can go if you think you can handle it" way, but you have no obligation to volunteer. So I didn't.

I met a friend recently who mentioned that he's going to wait a few years yet before getting his gender legally changed, so he can age out of the conscription system and avoid summons altogether. I said that I was released from service due to trans diagnosis, and asked if he can't do so as well. He said no - the law has been changed since I transitioned, and now that you no longer require a medical diagnosis to be trans, it is also not a diagnosis that'd make you excempt from the military.

So the finnish government basically just said "if you're a grown man with nothing wrong with you, then you're a grown man with nothing wrong with you. Now grab this fucking gun and do your duty for fatherland."

Just enjoy it?? Have a tiny kid climb on you. Let them control your actions like a robot. Help them jump and play games with them and laugh with them and talk politics with your baby cousin. It's fun. Alternatively, embrace being an adult. Talk about adult stuff. Find out your mom used to throw her little brother in the trash. Find out that your uncle knows German??? How? Learn about old stuff like. Talk to your grandma about why she became a mother at 21. Talk to your aunt about her kids education. You can enjoy all of it! You also might learn some weird stuff

reblog if you're the single teen at family functions so you just stand in the corner watching the kids play and the adults talk

Y'know all the Gen Z folks online who oversimplify the entire world and all morality into a binary oppressor and victim dynamic which...just doesn't reflect reality?

Which routinely regards murdering, raping, suicide bombing, gay-hating, misogynist terrorists...as the good guys?

Want to know how they developed this particular set of cognative distortions?

This worldview, often seen among Millennials and very common among Gen Z leftists, was produced by the corruption of a good and useful bit of critical theory meant to address nuance, complexity, and compassion: intersectionality.

Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, intersectionality began as a way to explain how different forms of discrimination overlap and interact, especially for Black women who face both racism and sexism in ways that neither anti-racist nor feminist frameworks alone fully addressed.

So, for example:

A white woman might face sexism but not racism.

A Black man might face racism but not sexism.

A Black woman faces both, and often in compounded ways.

This seems like a helpful way to understand complexity in lived experiences, right?

Because it is! It's fantastic and appropriate and necessary! Sojourner Truth brought it up in 1851.

So late Millennials and Gen Z college students were exposed to sloppy versions of Crenshaw's thesis and, like a lab leak, the idea spread beyond academic critical theory into activist and online spaces...where it began to mutate into something else entirely.

Instead of just understanding overlapping disadvantages, intersectionality became a kind of oppression calculator.

People began to stack their marginalized identities in a way that assigned moral authority. The more marginalized identities you hold, the more your voice is prioritized.

If you have "privileged" identities (white, male, cisgender, etc.), you may be expected in leftist spaces to sit down, shut up, and only listen.

The problem: it is awfully illiberal to grant agency to (or take agency from) an individual based on their group association.

(Liberals recognize that as old fashioned bigotry masquerading as justice.)

Oppressor/Oppressed

So this framing helped flatten the complexity of individuals into a binary of oppressor or oppressed, based solely on which and how many marginalized identities one can claim.

This inevitably led to hierarchies of victimhood in which competing identities are ranked to determine whose suffering is more valid.

Leftists seemingly trade memes like the one below without irony:

That's the origin of Oppression Olympics.

This is where it went completely off the rails, with some movements and organizations deciding that only those with certain identities or performed political perspectives should be permitted to speak.

But...what if you're not a holder of one of these victim identities? Well, if you belong to a privileged group, you're now the proud owner of collective guilt and are held responsible for the system of oppression...even if you've personally done nothing wrong.

This made it easy to turn entire groups, millions of complex people in varying and nuanced circumstances...into simplified moral symbols.

If a group is judged powerful or privileged, it (and anyone associated with it) is an oppressor.

If a group is judged marginalized, it becomes the victim.

Wait, though - it gets worse.

Once this kind of "intersectionality" (which no longer resembled Crenshaw's) became part of the social media discourse, algorithms boosted simple, emotional content that aligned with the victim/oppressor binary. In social media, engagement is everything, and it distorts everything.

Gen Z folks are particularly susceptible to these distortions because they have spent most of their lives soaking in performative social media activism which offers a (wrong but) clear, simple, binary moral compass in a world which otherwise feels messy, confusing, and overwhelming. This gives them the opportunity to express solidarity with those who suffer injustice, which makes them feel like they're good people for siding with the good people against the bad people.

So intersectionality went from "people are complex" to "if you check [X] boxes, you are righteous, and if not...you're complicit."

Intersectionality started as a tool for empathy and nuance, helping us see how systems of oppression intersect and interact. This, I want to repeat, is great.

In social media activism, though, it got flattened into a worldview where people and nations are judged morally and collectively based on their group identities and perceived power.

You know how you can tell that this isn't really justice? Justice is rarely so simple, binary, and completely devoid of nuance.

Okay, so there's the mindset of the Gen Z leftist. Let's look at how they apply it to Israel.

The many and complex facts and long history of the Arab/Israeli conflict don't fit neatly into this framing, so the narratives must be re-written to cram them into the shape such leftists demand:

Palestinians = oppressed

Framed as an indigenous, stateless people living under military occupation and suffering from systemic discrimination, they are exclusively innocent victims without agency who need the good people of the West to save them from...

Israel/Jews = oppressors

Cast as a colonial, European, settler colonialist, imperialist, racist power, seen as inflicting structural violence on a vulnerable population.

And because these leftists don't read history (just memes and TikTok), they believe this oppression has been going on from time immemorial.

(That's perhaps part of where they get the idea that "Palestine" is an ancient civilization.)

This framework, this need to be on the right side of a false binary requires them to aggressively ignore, bury, appropriate, downplay, or invert all Jewish historical trauma, indigeneity, and security concerns...all to make a complex set of circumstances fit into the box of their simple moral binary.

Think about it. Isn't that the content of most of the ugly comments you get from them? Simple, moral binaries which aren't supported by facts, evidence, or reason?

(Yes, the far right Gen Z folks do the same thing for different reasons and in a mirror...where victim and Oppressor switch places. That's how we get cishet white Christian males who are certain they're being oppressed, but that's a topic for another time, maybe.)

Israel as White Colonial Power

Israel is increasingly racialized as "white" or "European," despite its multi-ethnic population (including ~50% Mizrahi/ Sephardi Jews and ~20% Arab citizens).

Zionism, instead of being recognized as a liberation movement for Jews after ~2000 years of genocides and ethnic cleansings, is recast as an extension of European settler colonialism...despite Jews being undeniably indigenous to the region and never meeting the definition of 'settler colonialism.'

The term's definition, the leftists realize, must be changed so they can cram Israel into the oppressor box! It's become a common tactic.

Remember when Amnesty International could only try to make "genocide" stick to Israel by changing the definition of genicide?

Remember when Ireland demanded that the ICJ change the definition of genocide for the exclusive purpose of slapping that label on Israel?

Its still effin' ridiculous, but at least this finally explains their cognative distortion of reality: They must distort reality in order to feel okay about themselves.

Palestinians as Eternal Victims

Palestinians, to be crammed into this framing, are depicted as having no agency, portrayed solely as victims of Israeli evil.

Violence by Palestinian actors (terrorism, 138 suicide bombings, incitement...October 7th...) is justified, excused, or omitted as a "reaction" to occupation. They're oppressed, say the leftists, so they bear no responsibility for their choices.

Like children. Infantilizing, isn't it?

Power is Oppression

Israel's military, economy, and alliance with the US make it the powerful party and therefore the oppressor. Why?

Because the framing requires the more powerful side to be morally wrong...even if it is acting in self-defense.

Not satisfied with ordinary Jewish Erasure, this victim/oppressor framing erases:

Jewish indigeneity to the land.

The Holocaust's role in accelerating global Zionist momentum after WWII

The ethnic cleansing of 850,000 Jews from Arab lands, most of whom went to Israel.

~2,000 years of Jewish ethnic cleansings and genocides.

This false binary requires that Jews be racialized as white and labeled privileged.

De-legitimizing the oppression of Jews usefully de-legitimizes their right to self-determination.

So history, facts and reason are set aside, any attempt to bring nuance to the conversation is shut down, any fact or point of view shared by an Israeli or a Jew is obviously a lie because Jews, remember, are oppressors. As a result, any defense of Israel is framed as siding with oppression. (As has been the case so many times before, Jews are just wrong and evil and will therefore be condemned regardless of what they do.)

Again, think about it. How many times on Tumblr have you seen a reasoned defense of Israel and the response from the tankies is something along the lines of 'you're lying and defending genocide?'

The victim-oppressor lens simplifies the complex, long-term Israel-Arab conflict into a grotesquely, dishonestly simplified morality play with a powerful villain and a powerless victim.

That's why kids who claim to care about justice do shit like this:

Understanding how they got like this is just the first step.

The next question is:

Can they be de-programmed?

Thoughts?

this is the saddest fucking thing. wheres that post about when you cant even write a poem about it because its just there already

I'm fully against making judgments of shows without having the final product. Like, this might be target towards Daredevil Born Again people, but we don't have enough to consciously say the show is bad or amazing.

I don't lean either way before having the full product because it doesn't feel conductive and my opinion might change lmao.

From what I've seen so far, I has some issues but is not nearly enough to be called a bad show and again, it feels way too early to be saying that.

This show was reworked a lot, we are getting through the midpoint and season 2 will reach the final arcs, I don't expect the show to solve everything now or to deal with everything now, how could I?

That's just my personal opinion but I needed it to say that.

Some pralines I made.