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I’m not sure exactly how to articulate it but—there is this bizarre base assumption i see from people discoursing about children’s media, and that’s the assumption that children are somehow unfamiliar with negative emotions. Like, maybe you’ve managed to completely forget your entire life before you turned eighteen, but kids spend a lot of time being hurt, and scared, and angry. A lot of people had terrible fucking childhoods, and a lot of kids are having terrible fucking childhoods right now. When i was a child, and i read books where bad things happened to kids, that was in no way shocking to me, i already knew bad things happened to children. It made me feel more connected to those stories, not less, and it made it more impactful when those child characters overcame it all in the end. That’s important for children. A lot of them are in desperate need of a little hope, and they aren’t going to get it from nothing stories with no conflict. They put conflict in children’s media for a reason

Also i see some of you handwringing over child protagonists going through, like, the most basic hero’s journey. Please, for the love of god, realize that you as an adult are going to understand children’s media differently than the actual kids it’s intended for. Because you’re all grown up now, you aren’t going to be able to relate to a child protagonist. You’re going to see a child in danger. The children the story is meant for are going to see a kid like them who is able to face hardship and triumph

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I think it’s incredibly fucked how capitalism discourages learning for learning’s sake. People will have interests they’ve spent years researching then say it’s “useless knowledge” bc it didn’t go towards a college degree and isn’t part of their job. Learning is never useless! Your brain is growing and developing throughout your whole life! People would never have epiphanies or sudden lightening strikes of creativity if they weren’t learning new things! That goes double for topics like science, politics, and history, which inform your understanding of the world you live in!

#I LOVE TO LEARN #I just want to go to school forever #but without the pressure #I don’t mind some homework and research papers as long as it’s not always so high pressure

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The situation of the Congo Genocide is complicated because we are all implicated in it. We can’t ascribe it to a foreign policy state interest as we can regarding Palestine. It is something we, as consumers, all have a hand in and given the ubiquity of the resources involved, a lot of us are caught off of guard by this premonition of the type of wars to come. This is that nasty intersection of neo-colonialism and hyper capitalism that pits the Global South against the Global North. It’s a war of sustaining a way of life means imposing slavery and genocide on others. This is an instance of global capitalism and hyper consumption as a lifestyle and convenience is being pitted against the humanity of those we deem expendable.

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local gay gets really into a book series that they should've read years ago because it literally has everything they like in it, and their friends have been telling them this also for years

(this is about the raven cycle) (i'm on the first one :^))

#YEEAAAAHHH BABY #WE GOT ANOTHER ONE #the raven cycle #trc

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I have thoughts about the whole feminist anti-interrupting thing. Like I agree, men do talk over people and it is disrespectful, but I also think there are cultures, specifically Jews, where talking over each other is actually a sign of being engaged in the conversation. It’s something I really struggle with in the south, because up in New York, even non-Jews participated in this cooperative conversation style, but down here, whenever I do it by accident, the whole convo stops and it gets called out and it’s a whole thing. Idk idk I feel like there’s different types of interruptive like there’s constructive interrupting where you add on to whatever is being said - helpful interrupting, and then there’s like interrupting where you just start saying something unrelated because you were done listening. I have ADHD so I’ve def done the latter too by accident, but I’m talking about being more accepting of the former.

#yeah :( #I didn’t even realize that other people think it’s rude #but in Cali people are SO weird about it #my partner hates it as well tbh #even though he’s a New York Jew #because he forgets what he’s taking about so easily #but I’m the opposite where if I don’t say what I’m thinking immediately #I forget

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This is making me cry

#THE WAY SHE FUCKING DID IT AGAIN #TO REACT THE EXACT SAME

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sometimes you dont eat fruit for awhile and then you eat some fruit and you're like oh fuck its fruit

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#he’s just like my boy fr

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Unmute !

#you rlly shouldn’t leave your motorcycle running like that

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okay everyone reblog and tell me your favorite perfume. but if your favorite is glossier you… don’t bother

#a long discontinued Batha nd Body Works fragarance called dancing waters #it came back briefly and I bought 5 bottles #still going strong on it #also I largely forget to wear body spray 98/100 days

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#Winnie the Pooh

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