#sorry to the youths

[answersfromzestual]

'Parents must be fully involved' in student's decision to change pronouns, Ontario education minister says

Gross. Because so many parents are just okay with their kid transitioning. It's not like a kid of SIXTEEN years can have their own identity without consent from their parent/ guardian...

This is going to cause a crisis. A mental health crisis in youths. There already is a crisis! I believe children and youths are humans, and this is a blatant violation of their human rights and our jobs to protect them.

Some people have really crappy parents when it comes to coming out with a new pronoun. This is going to cause a skyrocket in depression and probably sadly teenage suicide...

We need to start asking our kids, their kids, everyone's kids what THEY want.

What do pronouns have to do with a child's education? Why is this a priority over schools having updated learning experiences? Updated courses? Even hiring more social and youth workers?

Why do they just not use any pronouns before 16? Names are there to be used.

This is a target Ontario. By Doug Ford.

Sorry, I am appalled by Saskatchewan's government, Ontario's as well. Our government (Canada as a whole) likes to say one thing "progressive" and then do the opposite and carbon copy of how little changes that has lead to so much danger in the United States, and other countries around the world.

This endangers lives just to make the people who are older, biased, and heavily hold outdated, values feel better.

Stop pandering to the boomers and the echo boomers. These are not the people who we need to target. Younger voters (gen x and later) are too busy fixing what those generations broke to go vote. (Just as a side note me, my partner, and several of my friends all of the same age did not receive their voting registration. This puts a huge hurdle out there for us. It means we have to wait in line for possibly hours to wait in another line to fill out the form the government should have sent you. Last time I voted it took FOUR hours before I was done. Many companies pressure employees that they can't leave to vote because it takes so long. You get a maximum of three paid work hours to vote. Most people are bullied into trying to go after their shift, even if it's really not feasible.

Funding has also been cut in mental health resources. I don't believe these kids will have any form of mediation or help from the school or government. They barely had it when I worked in the school sector. There are not enough social workers to go around. Working in the school sector I had to cover 6 schools in 5 days...

Working in my sector is exhausting as well because there aren't enough of us to go around here either. My shift ends for me to stay around five more hours to finish my documents...

I don't remember anyone asking us if the government should cut funding to hospitals, mental health programs, education programs, or if my child needs my permission to use the pronoun of choice! I don't remember asking for the police to get license plate readers for all cruisers or to give the government officials raises and freeze doctors' wages even lower because doctors are willing to take a cut for more nursing staff. Where is the democraticy in this?

This was my personal opinion written under the article.

Stay Golden Everyone ✌️ 💙 💜

#transgender #parents need to approve childs pronouns #canadian politics #child gender policy #this cant be legally protected can it? #trans ftm #ftm transition #young transgender kids being a target for politics #this feels so personal to me #squash the system #government shouldnt control who we are #assigned at birth can be another term for trans-hate #lets be honest its never used correctly #children are people too #sorry i knew i was a boy from 2 and guess its a looooong phase right? #this has to do with education how exactly? #another law costing money that could be used to actually improve schools and kids learning #but no PRONOUNS #angry transperson #sorry to the youths #i dont want to see kids go through this pain #at 16 you know your gender identity for a public school form #people dont you see this? #doug ford targets transgender people #doug ford transphobic rasist government #tw politics #angry transgender person #angry rant on canadian politics about children's rights #child and youths are also humans and deserve to be talked to and treated with dignity #toronto star

[bruciemilf]

I reject your "Dick is the only responsible sibling" agenda, and bring you it's superior.

#bruce wayne #jason todd #dick grayson #damian wayne #tim drake #cassandra cain #dc #dc comics #batfamily #memes #sorry for the lack of activity btw im currently volunteering at an exchange program youth group so i dont really have the time!! #batman

[liecanthrope]

wait because seriously being an adult therian fucking rips, especially when you start being independent.

dog with a blog? nah. dog with a JOB. i come into work with my tail and my theta delta necklace and the building implodes from my sheer swag. weirdo teenagers love me. also having your own paycheck means you can get whatever gear/treats you want (once bills are paid, of course - bet youve never heard a dog say that!)

living in your own apartment? well the pet limit is 2 but if i include myself im going over the limit. whoops! good thing i love lying to landlords (fuck landlords). living alone (no roomie) is even better bc theres no one to judge you for your animal habits. i can make a huge den in the living room and who is going to stop me?

i even have my own health insurance. bro. imagine being a dog with medicaid. im climbing the walls and howling and barking. i love being a dog filling out government paperwork.

having your own vehicle? THIS DOG CAN DRIVE! if i feel like going to the lake i can just go to the lake! nobody is stopping me! midnight ride with the windows down to howl at the moon? yes please!!

you can literally just go wherever bro. i moved 11 hours from my hometown to the mountains to feel more at home. i lived in the great plains and now i can just go out for a hike in the rockies and howl at the sky.

being an adult therian slaps so fucking hard i cant wait for the youth to grow up and experience the joy of freedom. yes being an adult is incredibly stressful but if youve been stifled living with family, you get a real chance to develop who you truly are. adult therians i love you im rubbing against your neck and mixing our scents. mwah.

#no shame of course if you do not or cannot have these things #but i wasnt granted much independence as a youth so im very happy now #sorry for the ramble im just feeling rlly accomplished today #still settling into the new apt but i finally got my books and some of my trinkets unpacked and set up :) #feeling a little more homey and im enjoying the weather quite a bit. we're having a rainy week #angel barks #therian #therianthropy #dog therian #wolf therian #feline therian #otherkin

[horreurscopes]

thirty & flirty & thriving / shower drains HATE them

#horreurart #death note #spent an hour slapping some color on this several months old sketch because i really like it but i don't think it's ever getting finished 💀 #anyway where's morgan's Mello Is Fine posting. because he is. fine. look at him. he works out #also please note i tried to give mello stubble but i hated it so much i got rid of it. sorry im too much of a lesbian. i'm sure he'd #look properly rugged but i can't pull it off #anyway local hot goth who is aging like milk due to severe substance abuse in his youth + his ethereal elfin boyfriend of confusing gender #because mello is Fine near's hair gets done because in this universe he is not grievously depressed (: it's yaoi so i get to decide the #complex ptsd's been [REDACTED] out of him (it has not) #thanks for coming to my ted talk #meronia #near #mello #near dn #mello dn #mihael keehl #nate river #near death note #mello death note

[hunterrrs]

suburban sports goth who said: “wow that’s cool, podcasts are getting really big these days” and who came back into the store to ask the podcasters if they wanted a photo with him for their podcast

(also, the podcasters made a sign for the game with this photo, asking sid to come on the pod, and geno apparently read it and put his stick under sid’s leg to drag him closer to it and sid was like nah brah i’m trying to warm up! this is WAR!!! - so geno gave them stick taps on the glass on his behalf)

#sorry to this girl i tried listening seriously to your podcast but the guys interrupting you every thirty seconds are so annoying #pittsburgh penguins #sidney crosby #anyway that’s not sid crosby that’s troy crosby #also he supports local youths that’s so cute #evgeni malkin

[kimtaegis]

may you find happiness there, may all your hopes all turn out right! ↳ for @magicshop 🌸

cr. dwellingsouls, atoz v; insp.

#btsgif #btsgfx #btsedit #gfx #usergif #bts #bangtan #namtaegi #usersky #userkelli #trackofthesoul #userzaynab #userines #usersan #underbetelgeuse #*yg #*nj #*th #*gifs #*gfx #andi I'm soooo sorry this is so late 😭 #really just had zero time I hate it here #but here we go!!! your favourites are bringing you a little spring magic <3 #(HAD to use 'magic' in this somewhere hehe) #I used every little scrap of this unit photoshoot there was noooot much unfortunately :( hence the little ot7 appearance :) #most of the text are lyrics from ben howard's 'keep your head up' #this song reminds of a beloved friendship from my youth and just warms my heart so much #it's perfect for this time of the year and gives me this fondness that I also feel when I think of you #I hope you spent your birthday surrounded by happiness and love #and that this new year of your life will be filled with hope and positivity

[dawningfairytale]

MISCHA BEECHINSKI

#sorry if the image quality is shit #mischa bachinski #mischa rtc #mischa beechinski #noel gruber #noel rtc #passionfruit rtc #nischa #nischa rtc #idk what the Youths call this ship #rtc #ride the cyclone

[hamletthedane]

Hamlet’s Age

Not to bring up an age-old debate that doesn’t even matter, but I have been thinking recently how interesting Hamlet’s age is both in-text and as meta-text.

To summarize a whole lot of discussion, we basically only have the following clues as to Hamlet’s age:

Hamlet and Horatio are both college students at Wittenberg. In Early Modern/Late Renaissance Europe, noble boys typically began their university education at 14 and usually completed at their Bachelor’s degree by 18 or 19. However, they may have been studying for their Master’s degrees, which was typically awarded by age 25 at the latest. For reference, contemporary Kit Marlowe was a pretty late bloomer who received a bachelor’s degree at 20 and a master’s degree at 23.

Hamlet is AGGRESSIVELY described as a “youth” by many different characters - I believe more than any other male shakespeare character (other than 16yo Romeo). While usage could vary, Shakespeare tended to use “youth” to mean a man in his late teens/very early 20s (actually, he mostly uses it to describe beardless ‘men’ who are actually crossdressing women - likely literally played by young men in their late teens)

King Hamlet is old enough to be grey-haired, but Queen Gertrude is young enough to have additional children (or so Hamlet strongly implies)

Hamlet talks about plucking out the hairs of his beard, so he is old enough to at least theoretically have a beard

In the folio version, the gravedigger says he became a gravedigger the day of Hamlet’s birth, and that he’s be “sixteene here, man and boy, thirty years.” However, it’s unclear if “sixteene” means “sixteen” or “sexton” (ie has he worked here for 16 years but is 30 years old, or has he been sexton there for thirty years?)

Hamlet knew Yorick as a young child, and the gravedigger says Yorick was buried 23 years ago. However, the first quarto version version of Hamlet says “dozen years” instead of “three and twenty.” This suggests the line changed over time. (Or that the bad quarto sucks - I really need to make that post about it, huh…)

Yorick is a skull, and according to the gravedigger’s expertise, he has thus been dead for at least 7-8 years - implying Hamlet is at least ~15yo if he remembers Yorick from his childhood

One important thing sometimes overlooked - Claudius takes the throne at King Hamlet’s death, not Prince Hamlet. That is mostly a commentary on English and French monarchist politics at the time, but it is strange within the internal text. A thirty year old Hamlet presumably would have become the new monarch, not the married-in uncle (unless Gertrude is the vehicle through which the crown passes a la Mary I/Phillip II - certainly food for thought)

Honestly, Hamlet is SO aggressively described as being very young that I’m fairly confident the in-text intention is to have him be around 18-23yo. Placing his age at 30yo simply does not make much sense in the context of his descriptors, his narrative role, and his status as a university student.

However, it doesn’t really matter what the “right” answer is, because the confusion itself is what makes the gravedigger scene so interesting and metatextual. We can basically assume one of the following, given the folio text:

Hamlet really is meant to be 30yo, and that was supposed to surprise or imply something to the contemporary audience that is now lost to us

Older actors were playing Hamlet by the time the folio was written down, and the gravedigger’s description was an in-text justification of the seeming disconnect between age of actor and description of “youth”

Older actors were playing Hamlet by the time the folio was set down, and the gravedigger’s description was an in-text JOKE making fun of the fact that a 30-something year old is playing a high-school aged boy. This makes sense, as the gravedigger is a clown and Hamlet is a play that constantly pokes fun at its own tropes and breaks the fourth wall for its audience

The gravedigger cannot count or remember how old he is, and that’s the joke (this is the most common modern interpretation whenever the line isn’t otherwise played straight). If the clown was, for example, particularly old, those lines would be very funny

Any way you look at it, I believe something is echoing there. It seems like this is one of the many moments in Hamlet where you catch a glimpse of some contemporary in-joke about theater and theater culture* that we can only try to parse out from limited context 430 years later. And honestly, that’s so interesting and cool.

*(My other favorite example of this is when Hamlet asks Polonius about what it was like to play Julius Caesar in an exchange that pokes fun of Polonius’ actor a little. This is clearly an inside-joke directed at Globe regulars - the actor who played Polonius must have also played Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play, and been very well reviewed. Hamlet’s joke about Brutus also implies the actor who played Brutus is one of the main cast in Hamlet - possibly even the prince himself, depending on how the line is read).

#hamlet #hamlet meta #hamlet’s age #this obviously does NOT imply anything about being 30yo btw #any age is a good age to be driven to madness by guilt and grief #It’s just very usual for shakespeare to describe somebody well past their apprentice age as a ‘youth’ SO MUCH #and that makes those lines very interesting #shut up e #willy shakes #posting this while EXHAUSTED going to see a million errors and tone problems tomorrow sorry in advance yall #**very unusual #long post #posting Hamlet meta like it’s 2014 hell yeah

[deadsince1973]

Everyone I know who's into Chinese dramas (sample size: 3) got into them through The Untamed/CQL. At the same time, the Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi fandom seems to be larger than the fandom for all other C-dramas combined. So I'm curious about people (in an English-language fan space like this)'s relationship with C-dramas!

#Sorry for switching between The Untamed and CQL in the poll. Keeping the answers short enough was a pain. :/ #The Untamed #Mo Dao Zu Shi #Chen Qing Ling #MDZS #CQL #poll #Douluo Continent #The Wolf #Word of Honor #Begin Again #Love Begins at Marriage #Oh! My Emperor #Battle Through the Heavens #Love Between Fairy and Devil #Take My Brother Away #Till the End of the Moon #The Longest Promise #Blood of Youth #Joy of Life #Wulin Heroes #<- just tagging every C-drama I can remember watching off the top of my head #original #The Screen Foxes #Wish I could remember the English title of that romcom starring Zhang Haowei but I think the Chinese title translated to #Master Please Take Care of Yourself

[liss-art]

I don't have time for smth serious today, let it be Orochi with a ponytail 😛

#art #digital art #fan art #naruto #orochimaru #my art #by liss art #sorry orochimaru you're always a subject of my late night sketches #power of youth #or so

[bloodclotbitch]

‘Covid took three years of my twenties’ is such a some people have war in their countries moment to me sorry

#yeah life doesn’t owe you the perfect 20’s sorry 🤷🏻‍♀️ #for most of history people have survived horrible events in their youth you’re not special

[mattmurdeaux]

MATT MURDOCK LOOKOGRAPHY RATING

(As based on Hotness, Appeal, and Overall Yumminess)

HIGHEST RATED: 100 % Black Suit, Tuxedo, Shirtless, Smedium NYPD Shirt

LOWEST RATED: 45% Stick Cosplay

CRITICS CONSENSUS: "Matthew Murdock is an absolute ethereal, beautiful, show-stopping, gorgeous human being regardless of his sartorial choices." (Certified HOT at 100%)

AUDIENCE REVIEW: "Matt ur hot af." (Certified Down Bad for this disaster Catholic man)

#daredevil #matt murdock #charlie cox #an upgraded and updated version of my post last year if anyone remembers that 😂 #had to include the youth pastor flannel look from she-hulk 💕 #sorry to anyone who likes the hobo jacket look but i had to give it a rotten score 😅 he looks like stick in it 😬 #and i liked the yellow dd suit enough not to give it a rotten score lol #marvel #mcu

[canisalbus]

(im sorry)

Vasco would change after Machete's death, I think. He'd always be a good, kind man, and in time his smile would return, but never with its old radiance. Sorrow would age him prematurely, and white would creep over his muzzle like clouds blocking the sun.

But perhaps he'd look in the mirror some nights, and run his fingers across the white fur with fondness, remembering the white fur that used to press against him once upon a time. A last reminder of his love, forever on his lips.

.

#let out such a pained exhale at that ending jeez #yes I agree #Vasco always came across very youthful and resistant to wear and tear #especially compared to Machete who looked sort of prematurely aged by health issues stressful lifestyle and general gauntness #but I think he started greying soon after Machete's death #from grief and sudden lowered quality of life #eventually he'd mend and go on to live a long life mostly free from further heartbreak I think #but he'd never be the same as before #answered #anonymous #loving the 'I'm sorry' preface #death #cw death #you scroundel you romanticized grey muzzles #Vaschete scenarios

[weishenkun]

poppin' love dance practice : kun

#wayv #kun #qian kun #kuntent #i'm sorry lmao i have apparently too much free time #anyways i did it basically for the first gif only lol the rest just happened to be there #also i love how the filmed the dance practice if it werent for the zoom ins and zoom outs it would be a proper 2nd gen video #and i will pretend this is the only reason lol we love sm's fav group!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #also :D the way on my youth totally messed up my spotify history the whole album is my top everything now :) blondie who? i know wayv only

[jeonjeha]

-Did you do it? Hey, Jeon Jeha!-Anyway, our dad has a lot of money. My mom remarried him for that too.-That's not the issue right now!-That is the issue. My dad doesn't like me, no matter what I do. BEGINS ≠ YOUTH | Episode 3

#begins youth #kdrama #kdramaedit #kdramagif #userdramas #jeon jeha #jeon jin seo #kim hwan #seo ji hoon #hyyh #mine #mine:gifs #mine:begins youth #this coloring is all over the place sorry </3 this show is terrible to color #but anyway MY BABY I JUST WANT TO PROTECT HIM #breaking my heart!!!

[uncanny-tranny]

The idea that children are inherently duplicitous, manipulative liars is genuinely doing harm to children and further obfuscates when genuine harm/abuse is occurring because, "what can the adults do, children are demons!"

The idea that children have divine knowledge that transcends adults' own knowledge and they use that knowledge for personal gain is, simply-put, abuse apologism. You are aiding and abetting abusive behaviour from adults, parents/guardians, medical professionals, whomever it might be.

#youth liberation #abuse #abuse tw #abuse apologia #sorry if i talked about this before - if i had then i simply forgor #again i just fucking despise how people talk about children *and* childhood abuse #like how was i manipulating people who were like 30+ at... ages three to thirteen #like it's infantilizing the adults in somebody's life while simultaneously blaming abuse survivors because they did something to deserve it #post that's kind of piggybacking off the last one but also just... #...man i hate in-depth and nuanced topics when many people have them