I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.

Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)

But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.

I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:

I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)

They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.

So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.

(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)

Kokobot is incredibly predatory and exploitative. I wrote a post about how it exploits minors' empathy and gamifies "giving mental health advice", resulting in an unregulated mess that can only do harm to teens' mental health in the long run.

There are young people on tumblr that actively seek support from KokoBot right now, if you check the tag for recent posts. Those people did not get paid to promote it, so do not harrass them. If you can, direct them towards resources about Kokobot (like this post) that are more transparent about what this company is up to.

This... is DEEPLY DISTURBING.

SIGNAL. BOOST.

warrior nun cancelled. first kill cancelled. paper girls cancelled. one day at a time cancelled. the owl house cancelled. im not okay with this cancelled. legacies cancelled. everything sucks cancelled. the babysitters club cancelled. dare me cancelled. i know what you did last summer cancelled. teenage bounty hunters cancelled. the wilds cancelled.

the attitude held towards sapphic media is clear and honestly just appalling. im so sick of this treatment we deserve better than this.

ily jason todd

Mad this. It literally says he got jailed for ignoring a court order telling him to stay away from the school - yet the headline says it's for not calling a kid they. He broke the court order cos he was being a self righteous stalkery Christian weirdo. I know the sort, they did the same to us at school cos we were scruffy poor unfortunates / desperate people that apparently needed god to save us. Loads of Christians are like this, proper weirdos.

I wish lesbians were as easy to find in real life as they are on tumblr

11 FUCKING THOUSAND NOTES ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WHERE ARE YOU ALL COME DATE ME

ok

update: we are dating

update: we are married

update: we knocked up

This is the cutest story on the entirety of Tumblr, I swear to god!!!!!

Update: had a baby together

Update: he’s 1 year old today

Update: he’s 2 today

500k notes and neither is deactivated. tumblr legends.

Rhys , I believe every woman should get too choose

Also Rhys , nesta you slut you need to stop being so moody and traumatized you need to be happy and friendly like us were taking down your house and making you live with us have fun with house arrest

i literally can’t get over SJM’s approach to writing men and women, and the way she thinks about them in her head

in multiple parts of the interview she brings up nesta’s bad behaviour. says she doesn’t need to be an asshole forever. talks about a minor arc in acosf where nesta was being scared her friends would find out what a ‘piece of shit’ she is and i’m not here to argue if these things are true or not because YES nesta has been a bitch to people and god the text has reminded us about 1000 times what a horrible person nesta is and how horrible she’s been to others in her life. which fine that’s totally fair. but the way she calls out nesta and then waxes poetic about the men is just vile

from the interview it’s clear, in SJM’s opinion, growth for nesta means not being an asshole anymore forget dealing with her immense feelings of self hatred and unworthiness, nesta always needs to be indebted to feyre and the inner circle but to go on these long talks about nesta being horrible, nesta growing, nesta accepting she’s done terrible things AND THEN dead ass turn around and sing about the utter perfection that is rhysand and cassian ??? are you actually kidding me ???

do i even need to go into what rhys and cassian have done wrong? rhys can do all the absolutely shitty things he’s done from the moment he was introduced to hiding medical information from his wife in the latest book and … he’s perfect? cassian can exhibit about 700 pages worth of red flag behaviour where he is most certainly NOT perfect or good or amazing and it’s not even a slight mention?

i can’t really formulate my thoughts into words on this topic properly because there’s just so much to cover but it’s so irritating and annoying. and just makes sarah look like she’s oddly obsessed with the men in her series and condones seriously toxic behaviour from men and then calls it ‘the way every woman should want to be treated by their partner’ 

even if you’re the greatest nesta anti on the planet and you manifest every day that nesta dies in the next book, do you still think the way SJM handles men and women is okay? like stan rhys all you want but we all know he is farrrr from perfect. same goes for cassian

ugh idk everytime i hear SJM talk about nesta i get so irritated. how is she actually preaching about writing healthy relationships where the man is ‘only there to uplift the woman’ if she can’t even see the red flags IN HER OWN WRITING AND WORK

“it’s fiction therefore shipping incest is okay.”

It just means so much to me :’)

G'morning it's time for another Jason rant. Aside from just how insulting I think it is to imply grew up in crime alley - stealing tires to survive- father working for two face - mother with an addiction Jason wouldn't understand the idea that people don't always do bad things out of malice / people can change is - aside from that. Making Jason ~come to see the light of rehabilitation~ still doesn't actually address his narrative position.

Jason's point isn't, really, that xyz villain can never reform. His question for the narrative is: how many people will die waiting for that? Why are all their lives worth less than this one man's potential? Whether or not someone *can* reform matters less to Jason than the question of how many people have to die before they do.

It's why imposing real life morality onto the bat world doesn't work for me. In real life the head of organized crime isn't a literal supervillain with a skull for a head importing killer androids and kryptonite. In real life the same serial killer doesn't break out of jail every year and go on another killing spree. But in Gotham? They are. They do. And Jason's entire existence as a narrative foil is to ask how many more of him there need to be, for this cycle to stop.

And of course the answer is it never will because hero comics are a cyclical narrative and so Jason will always be a screaming wound of a man able to see the structure of the story around him but not knowing he can't ever truly change it.

#Me when

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) dir. Taika Waititi

neverletyougo (iv)

Summary: He keeps your hand on his cheek, and you glance at the small, sentimental gesture. It ignites something in you, something you can’t quite name yet, but you think it might’ve been there a while.

Info: jason todd/reader, friends to lovers, friends with benefits, mutual pining, minor zatanna/reader. smut.

You like to watch Jason in the kitchen when he cooks like he’s got a family of twelve to feed. Which, to be fair, he does sometimes. But even as he slaps hands and chides, he looks comfortable in the rowdiness, like he’s finally home. There’s no danger present apart from snooping, prying fingers looking for an early treat.

It’s why you follow him out as he ventures to the bathroom for a moment of retreat. It’s only his element for as long as his social battery’s charged, truthfully. You stay behind, though, giving him a couple of minutes alone.

You choose to make your presence known when you hear the tap run. Thankfully, and for some god-forsaken reason, he hasn’t locked the door, so you enter without a problem. Immediately, his eyes flick up in the mirror, ready to tell the intruder to fuck off, but the words never come.

Instead, his mouth lifts coyly. “Cornering me in the bathroom, huh?”

“Would you believe me if I said it was an accident?”

Jason finishes drying his hands, then turns and rests his back against the basin. “Nope,” he says.

You shut the door before you walk towards him. His gaze is sharp as he follows your prowl. You stop only a foot from him, chin tilted upwards. Your eyes settle on his in a similar fashion, and for a fleeting second, Jason feels nervous.

me after removing myself from a toxic environment (my job)

im gonna go ahead and say: what house of the dragon is doing with alicent hightower is misogyny. i’m 100% serious. hotd made her into a passive pawn of her father, with no will and ambition on her own, stripped of all agency. book!alicent is a compelling character precisely because she is active, with ambition and will on her own. in house of the dragon she is completely passive, simply tossed around with no will on her own. perhaps this will change in the future episodes, but so far it’s a really disappointing how they took this character and stripped her off all the complexity and ambition and made into a one dimensional, boring can of spoiled milk who simply obeys her dad and is a mere victim of her circumstances.

Annabeth: bitches b like “im baby” but have childhood trauma and neglect like wtf do u know about being baby u were forced to grow up from an early age anyways I’m bitches

neverletyougo (i)

Info: jason todd/reader, friends to lovers, friends with benefits, mutual pining, minor zatanna/reader. smut in later chapters.

Much to Jason’s displeasure, your legs are hiked up on his coffee table, socks shifting the things upon it. However, he’s long past chiding you since you often find worse ways to taunt him. There was the time he told you off, and you subsequently shoved your feet into his face.

So, he prefers this: you, slouching into yourself, destroying your spine, but at least you look cute while doing it. He likes watching the small contortions of your expression as you scroll through your phone. Sometimes you lean over to share what’s caught your attention.

But today, it’s him who wants your attention. His knee nudges yours, and it pulls your eyes away from the device. You look at him expectantly. He has to swallow.

“You remember that story I submitted?” Jason starts.

“Yeah?”

Sheepishly, he says, “It got published.”

(◡‿◡✿)

(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”

✿＼(｡-_-｡) “Kick his ass, baby.  I got yo flower.”

i found it

the original post

i found it

this should have the opportunity to be on everyone’s blog. 

*tour guide voice*

and here on the left ladies and gentlemen, you see one of the posts before everyone went batshit crazy

World Heritage Post

Everyone here is dead.