Ihadhopeoncetoo

im like if there was someone who never knew what was happening or going on

I think we as a collective need to stop telling young marginalized people without friends that their isolation is self-made and will end if they start to be more outgoing when this is actually more often than not a result of being raised in small bigoted communities and poverty.

People younger than me from liberal metropolises have advised me that if I want to find other LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodivergent folks I should join a local queer space, mental health group, book club or tabletop group and then I had to explain to them how I have to work until my mid-twenties to afford moving to a place where those things exist. I live in a conservative small-town and my options for meeting new people irl are "school / work" and "parties". Which is where the bigots are.

But simultaneously we're told that isolation is inherently detrimental to our happiness, that every year spent in that state is wasted, that even when we don't feel miserable, we secretly are without realizing it. That a life without a certain amount of irl friends and social activities isn't worth living. That we must spend every waking minute trying to exit isolation. That we're wasting away. Which is bullshit.

Stop treating social isolation of marginalized teens and young adults as a sign of personal failure to be outgoing as well as a state of inevitable and constant suffering. Start treating it like the structural problem it is. Stop demonizing being alone. Start normalizing online friends as real, valuable friendships. Start normalizing the idea that times spent alone are worth living as well. Because some of us are going to be here for a while, whether we like it or not. Hand out hope, not pressure.

Art

this post is for all of my transmascs and my trans men. all of you with wide hips, with long hair, with big tits, all of you who embrace femininity while still being wholeheartedly, beautifully, transmasc. all of you who decide to wear dresses because you love it, all of you who absolutely fucking rock it in thick eyeliner, all of you who don't want surgery or hormones, all of you who use all kinds of pronouns, and you're still so wonderfully transmasc.

and then. this is for my masculine transmascs. all of you who bind and layer to look masc, all of you who are on T or want surgery because it'll make you happy, all of my bears, my punks, my butches, my leathers, all of you beautiful, beautiful fucking people who are so proud and so confident in your masculinity. you are not dangerous. testosterone does not make you evil or predatory or harmful to others. you are also not immediately obligated to be a protector for others. you are allowed to enjoy your masculinity and still be loved the way you deserve to be loved.

this is for my black, asian, indian, latine, muslim, jewish trans men/mascs, my disabled transmascs, this is for my trans men and mascs who don't feel comfortable in the community all the time. you still deserve to find comfort in who you are and your identity because there will always be a place for you. you will always deserve love and support for who you are. trans men and trans mascs we are not lesser people we are not evil we are not endangering women/femmes, we are not less worthy of protection for being trans. i love you because of who you are.

Women in celestial dresses, 1880s

sick and tired of takes like these andrew tate is a fucking human trafficker who is successful because he tells men they are free to rape women and treat them like shit and that women are naturally inferior and should be submissive and believe it or not, this appeals to them. sit with that. try to reflect about why such a violent rethoric is so entincing to cishet men instead of taking it as a sign that men’s feelings are ignored in this society uwu uwu🥺 or you could try having the same energy about every other hate group since you’re such a mental health advocate lol

rick riordan having percy think of jason telling him his dream of growing old with piper and it inspiring percy to embrace his own dream of growing old with annabeth and grover has to be the most diabolical, evil, MEAN thing i have ever read from an author, and this is the same man that wrote the cliffhanger in mark of athena. i read jujutsu kaisen. i have read trigun maximum. this is worse. this is fucking LETHAL

Hii I was writing a response but it got way to long winded so its here if you still want to read it: https://www.tumblr.com/worlds-oldest-teenager/719482151699185664/why-i-think-apollo-is-the-golden-child-and-not-the?source=share

(sorry this is my unused main account and idk how to make those nice looking links)

Omg adding on to Meg and Apollo being the golden child ™. Idk how canon it is cause it's been years since I read the books but Nero's adopted abducted children are all sort of replacements for the Olympians right? Is Meg supposed to be Apollo's replacement? Cause it would be so messed up if Nero purposely raised her how Apollo was raised to cultivate the perfect Apollo or whatever.

It's very crack theory. Nero probably was like that to Meg cause abusers just be like that. Also he's so dramatic he would love to get a little child of apollo and it would be so much easier to turn a child on their absent father than a random child of another god. Unless Apollo is such a good father he'd notice they got abducted immediately so they had to go with another child. Nero and Caligula especially want to replace Apollo with themselves so idek man.

However it opens up a bunch of super funny stuff. Like Nero thinks a better Apollo is just someone with all his trauma, who talks less and has the ability to swordfight?

Where did he even get this inside info on Apollo's traumatic childhood? I'll tell you where: From Commodus. He probably couldn't resist shit talking his ex to Nero who took it all as parenting lessons.

Commodus: And then he was saying, "No, Commodus the bolts did it to me. My father would never hurt me." How stupid do you have to be to think an inanimate object is abusing you?

Nero, writing furiously: Manipulate child into viewing you and your abuse as two separate people.