just got back on with my new computer to say what everyone already knows, staff is running this site into the fucking ground and apple’s monopoly on the app market is very destructive for sex workers/queer people in general. Algorithms don’t work, actually hire people to moderate and pay them. capitalism is vile and it is working.

 Decriminalize sex work and reject violence as the greater influential adult vice component of our culture over sexual intimacy. Be horny on main or whatever. bang yr friends. have a happy new year

azaleatown:

azaleatown:

This website was literally so fucking stupid. You used to be able to just fucking edit somebody’s post. Like just change it entirely. Nothing was stopping you. What the fuck. Imagine logging into your youtub account and some bozo changed your funny comment to say you love being a dummy. That’s what used to happen here. Every single day.

It was the fucking best

middry:

something shippy

sillyandquiteawkward:

so many beans…..

shadesoforlando:

Detroit: Become Human is not about race

im-not-a-skelmersdale-monster:

rtrixie:

Imagine a world without Reddit

biggayofficial:

toystory-hentai:

asgardreid:

aviewfrommercury:

I liked the part where the possums ate fruit

mlapmlapmlapmlapmlap

:V :| :V :| :V :P

@possuman

captainsnoop:

captainsnoop:

homestuck is probably the best example of satire backfiring.

the trolls were conceived as mockeries of different types of people you see online, and quadrants were conceived as a mockery of the mental gymnastics people will go through to justify their ships.

and guess what? nobody knew they were being made fun of, and then Homestuck’s fanbase got flooded by the people the trolls were designed to make fun of. fandom culture as a whole was irreparably damaged because of it. 

the fact that everyone misinterpreted Fight Club has collapsed in on itself and become a sort of piece of non-trivia. like, more people know the fact and think it’s clever to point it out exist than people that still think Fight Club is a straightforward celebration of violence and masculinity. 

it’s like when someone points out a Wilhelm Scream in a movie. everyone knows what the Wilhelm Scream is and you’re not clever for recognizing it, but everyone acts like it’s still a big secret and that you’re smart if you’re “in the know” about it. 

homestuck being backfired satire on the other hand is still not commonly known. not enough people are willing to give Homestuck the time of day to read it and think about it critically enough to recognize that the Trolls were always supposed to be satire. 

but once you get to the part where trolls are introduced and the quadrants are brought up, any adult with the ability to read between the lines can immediately tell that andrew was being facetious. you were supposed to think the trolls were ridiculous one-note side characters to be made fun of and you were supposed to take one look at the biblical explanation of quadrants and think “i’m not fucking reading that.”

problem was, the trolls attracted the sort of people andrew was making fun of, and those people fucking ate up quadrants. they read every single word of the purposefully nonsensical and overly-lengthy explanation of quadrants and they ran away with it. 

and then, with one badly-written piece of satire, the way fandoms operate online was permanently changed and andrew could do nothing about it. no matter how much overt mockery he hurled at his newfound reader base, none of it stuck. they all just took it in stride as “hussie trolling.” 

homestuck irreparably damaged the way the internet discusses and behaves around all pieces of media. homestuck is the bigger failure, in my mind. 

nice

kaitycuddle:

for itsmythos

pathlesspagan:

dollsahoy:

queeranarchism:

itsfridaybutimstillaro:

tracyalexander:

asciiheart:

amal-wa-ahlam:

yourownpetard:

proudblackconservative:

asciiheart:

The nuclear family is probably the greatest enabler of child abuse, ever.

Putting two people in complete control of another person (who is particularly vulnerable and has few legal rights) and then having no oversight for the whole arrangement is the absolute worst idea.

Families are garbage.

Hahaha wtf

I wouldn’t even know where to start with this. omg.

OP, what would you propose as an alternative to families?

communal child raising

less isolated familial structures in general

children being made aware of how they should and shouldn’t be treated

Some form of child protection services that don’t just believe the parents and assume a child is lying when they report abuse

more legal and counselling services made available to children

I don’t get people that are like “lol, what? that’s so weird, lets laugh at the very notion that traditional families are abusive”.

communal child raising is the traditional family. 70-100 years ago 4 generations lived together in the same house, having 4 grandparents, 6 aunts and 15 cousins around every day was normal.

Things that should be mentioned:

- These communities are not necessarily connected by an biological ties. In a lot of these multigenerational ‘families’, including people in the family who are not relatives or married into the family is totally normal. This has always created a lot more space to support people without families, support people who do now want to partner up and to create communities in which couples who can not have children (like some queer couples but not all & other couples too) can be a part of child raising. 

- Having a lot more young people around often means young people learn from each other. In many cultures young people form a non-hierarchial group that learns together and can do a great deal without adult supervision. 

The nuclear family doesn’t just facilitate abuse, it facilitates hierarchy. It’s a training school for obedience to authority. 

Now, which system would push such a training school strongly so it could get docile obedient citizens? Which system whould push the nuclear family. 

I’m not saying it’s capitalism but it’s capitalism. 

And then there’s the fact that the 2 parent, nuclear family can be most easily pushed into the pattern where one adult works an extremely exhausting job many hours a day that leaves that adult hardly capable of doing anything else, while the other adult takes on all the other things that adult would otherwise have done: care for children, clean the living space, prepare food, prepare clean clothing, etc. for free. What we know as traditional gender roles. 

This way capitalism gets one intensely loyal worker who feels ‘responsible’ for ‘supporting a family’ while all the work to keep that worker going is done for free by an unpaid worker in the home. 

And, you know, communities need a lot less stuff. A community of 50 can do just fine with one or two hammers. 25 nuclear families need 25 hammers. The nuclear family demands a huge amount of commodity purchasing. 

(hooboy that last point)

Damn. What a breakdown…

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

this aquaman press tour is really starting early

hegurgurk:

true love is drawing your gf’s fursona at 2am on a monday morning