*taps The Microphone* Hey Is Thing Fucking On???

The Jamil Viper decision tree when he is (most unfortunately) caught off guard (please disregard the fact that he does in fact have a hood in the "object nearby" branch. he is simply panicked.)

reminder to trans, nonbinary, non-cis and intersex people in the usa: there are people that love you and care about you. things are going to be okay, please don’t do anything drastic. i know things are scary right now but your lives are all worth so so much. don’t let him win. i love you

Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

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I cannot believe they named the new marvel character after the Belgian don't drink and drive advert campaign

I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

I don't like a lot of my old art but I kinda like this one. I feel like I could probably remake this one to articulate my feelings on this better but I'll do that another time

So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.

imagine playing with his hair…

Housewardens x Reader

Riddle doesn’t love it but as long as it’s in private and not distracting him then he won’t stop you. His upbringing left him rather touch starved. Your hand mindlessly fussing with his red locks is actually pretty comforting. You’ll have his cheeks turning the same shade in no time.

Leona threatens to fall asleep the second your fingertips meet his mane. He’s especially fond of the way you’re gentle around his ears. He won’t say out loud how much he likes it but when he rests in your lap and tells you to undo the braids, you get the idea he does.

Azul is tricky, you have to ease him into it. You wait for that moment during paperwork that he takes off his glasses and pinches the bridge of his nose and then go in for the opportunity. He ends up leaning against you as you stand beside his chair, fingers soothingly combing through his pearly white hair.

Kalim will take off his silk headdress in anticipation when you sit next to him, he adores it. Even if you’re just ruffling his hair, it’s attention from you that he loves and craves. He leans into your touch with a beaming grin on his face.

Vil would prefer if you didn’t.. or, at least, not without first asking. You find a happy medium where he’s sat in front of his vanity at the end of the day, brushes and combs at your disposal. You don’t use them. He smiles fondly at you in the mirror while you’re content to play hairdresser with your hands.

Idia falls off the bed when you first tried, stuck between fear of you and for your hand. Warn him next time! Now, he hardly notices when you’re playing with his fiery locks. A light, bashful smile pulls at his lips when he catches you.

Malleus was surprised to feel such a delightful sensation while he was reading. You were so engrossed in the story he was reading that you didn’t realize you began petting him, circling your fingers around his horns and threading down his ebony hair. He quickly began to read again in hopes you’d continue. To his joy, you did.

Persian/Iranian Miku! :DDD✨💛💙

Jumping on the trend :3