Extremely dangerous how "grooming" in the context of child sexual abuse went from being a very specific pattern of isolation and trust-building with the aim of abusing someone to "telling children anything that contradicts their parents' ultra-conservative worldview is grooming" to "selling rainbow flags in a store is grooming" to "literally anyone I don't like is a groomer".
These days the word seems to most often be used by people who don't care about what it actually means and just want an easy "this person is irredeemably evil, kill them now" button.
It’s weird to think this comic predates the rise of Internet spam, though otherwise it reads like it could’ve been drawn yesterday.
I've been thinking about the phrase "verbing weirds language" for nearly 30 years
hobbes in the last panel deconstructing twitter decades before it’s invention
Casually adding "Well, I'm phasing" to my lexicon.
sorry, it's a GOOD thing if cishet people use non-conforming pronouns or dress in non-conforming ways or whatever else. for one, that person may not be cishet. but more importantly, living in a society where more people feel comfortable exploring their relationship to gender and sexuality is an undoubtedly GOOD thing
god I miss anime conventions
Item: mixed box of knives and porn
i couldn't reblog this gem so here you go
"won't make hostile mobs based on real animals" my arse. Do they think spiders are some sort of cryptid?
its called tumbleweed, just one puff will blow you all the way to the next town over
Let's also not forget the intersex kids who are forced into surgeries and hormones with no ability to consent.
Trans and intersex bodily autonomy NOW.
This. There are many intersex children who go thru puberty early, and most of the time intervention is chosen for us, not by us. Cis intersex children deserve autonomy too.
Honestly? I love this, this is great. This is my new favorite line to use when interacting with strangers online.
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its so evil that im the only person that lives in texas
/spawn human_man id:895_jerma 10000
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this is a desperate for people to hang out with post NOT a jerma post dawn
/kill human_man id:895_jerma 10001
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can someone in texas hang out with me now
/spawn entity:the_killer 1
rip 1920′s Conrad Veidt fangirls, you would have loved 2020′s tumblr
Connie I don’t know what you were expecting when you look like this:
Connie reading the 79th letter of a fangirl being like Ch0kE mE daDdY!!!
Happy pollinator week to a type of dinosaur that has a sword strapped to its face: the hummingbird.
I’ve been seeing some WASP NEGATIVITY lately so just a reminder that insects are important and interesting whether you find them “cute” or not. Which btw wasps are cute actually but anyways… (also sorry for the US-centrism)
Police supporters regularly admit that the police are the bad guys. They just don't care.
[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 7TH, 2023 | Image IDs: Four photos of a black, yellow, and brown hoverfly standing on a wooden deck /End IDs.]
Such a sleek looking thing! Hoverflies are another insect I could mistake for a plastic toy if I didn't know any better-