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While we're at it: using language that downplays genocide is a form of genocide denial.

Joe Biden isn't doing a bad job, Joe Biden is providing material support for genocide.

Israel isn't handling the situation badly, Israel is committing genocide.

Employing euphemisms minimizes the reality of this genocide. It's disrespectful and dangerous.

If you are more uncomfortable with the word genocide than you are with the reality of genocide, then you are not prepared to be part of any serious discussion. Work on that on your own time.

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Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".

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Those who protest against Israel's genocide are punished for antisemitism.

But for some strange reason, authorities have never cracked down on antisemitism any other time. Any other time, antisemitism is considered free speech.

It's almost as if they know damn well that protesting against Israel is not antisemitism.

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he needs mouse bites to live

#you are a black man.

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THE BATMAN (2022) dir. Matt Reeves SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 (2022) dir. Jeff Fowler

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THE BATMAN (2022) | MONKEY MAN (2024)

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) dir. Mel Stuart

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namjoon waiting for you at the bar ♡

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Just so everyone's on the same page, the reason you're being ridiculed for this take (and the reason @astralcities pointed out that loss is one of the most common themes in art) is because, despite what you seem to think, depicting themes and ideas and events that are upsetting or distressing is absolutely useful and essential. Art isn't made purely for mindless enjoyment -- a lot of the time its authorial intent goes beyond simply entertaining you; a lot of the time it's intended to educate or enlighten you, or to help you process ideas and concepts, even if they're challenging -- and this is true for all forms of art, and for art aimed at people of every age.

Do you think Bridge to Terabithia is a useless movie, and by extension do you think it's a useless novel -- or, I guess, do you think Leslie's death is unnecessary? Do you think the author is maximising pain for no fucking reason? Do you think Katherine Paterson decided to kill a child in her book just to upset people? Do you think she wrote it that way because she just randomly felt the desire to kill a fictional child for no reason, and wanted to subject her audience to it?

The purpose of the novel (and, more broadly, the purpose of any media that involves the death of a major character, especially when its audience is very young) is to help its readers understand death as a concept, process it in a healthy and productive way, and understand that grief is natural and acceptable. It's aimed at ten-year-olds; for a lot of kids, they won't have experienced any significant real-life loss yet, and the story is crafted to help them understand and process losses they experience in the future. Plus, for kids who have already experienced loss, it'll help them process the feelings they're having, or understand/rationalise what happened.

Bridge to Terabithia isn't the only example, by a fucking mile. Ted Hughes' children's book The Iron Man tackles some incredibly challenging and complex themes, particularly the idea that it's not okay to kill but it is okay to die, specifically to help his very young children understand and process the death of their mother (Hughes' wife). He didn't write it because he just felt compelled to write something fucked up and couldn't stop himself.

Thinking it's useless to kill your characters, or that killing them is less fitting or appropriate than just subjecting them to "angst" (whatever that actually means here), demonstrates a hilariously shallow understanding of fiction and its relationship to the real world, it indicates that you have an incredible amount of emotional growth to do, and refusing to engage with media because it kills off a character you like indicates that you have a more delicate constitution, less emotional maturity, and weaker media literacy than most actual grade-schoolers.

im starting to think you guys dont like it when stories make you feel things

#like... jesus fucking christ

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just froze my enemy in a giant block of ice... his surprised expression is so comical

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gone girl is how blonde white women go insane and black swan is how brunette white women go insane

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LOGRAY Mike Edmonds | Return of the Jedi

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Sending in nazi stormtroopers to terrorize torture & imprison anti-genocide teenagers has bi-partisan support nationwide, slandering every protestor as a genocidal brainless nazi stooge of iran has bipartisan support nationwide, filling mass graves with executed families & doctors has bipartisan support nationwide, vote blue to stop fascism!

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LMAO

#amazing. they're right though #right column.

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saw a grown woman on tiktok snidely calling gen z the christopher columbus generation bc someone’s fifteen year old son ‘thought he’d discovered weezer’. newsflash every generation finds out about the music of the previous generation at some point it comes free with being fifteen. being annoying about music also comes free with being fifteen. a kid saying yeah i’ve just found this band nirvana have you ever heard of them should be a thing of joy

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All these vote blue no matter who crackers have never spoken to an Arab btw