It bugs me when people are unnecessarily mean. Like, you didn’t have to make that comment. You could have just kept your mouth shut and left that person not feeling bad about themselves. What do you gain from making someone else feel like shit? Nothing of substance. Maybe a fleeting moment of power but that’s gone as soon as it comes so why? There’s enough unhappiness in the world without you adding to it.
do you ever think about how weird it is that the moral of Frankenstein is kind of less just “graverobbing is weird and creepy” and more “take some fucking responsibility if you’re going to do so”
“if you’re going to create a large corpse son, you better be ready to love him”
Always be vague. Say I think they’re in today or not until later. If they press say it’s company policy not to give out the schedule. Most companies do have this and even if they don’t how would a stranger know. Don’t give out specifics, they can get people injured or even killed.
At my last job someone came up and asked when “Sarah” was working next. I didn’t tell him and then texted her a description, turns out he was an abusive ex who had been stalking her. Don’t do this shit please.
if you sulk and act like a sullen loser when someone asserts a boundary you’re not actually respecting their boundaries, basically if you make things unpleasant afterwards you’re creating an environment where people feel they cannot say no to you or assert themselves
This should be taught in every middle school health class
not to sound like a conservative local pastor but eight year olds should not be playing, like, call of duty even offline
of course i dont think playing violent video game by itself is going to make a kid capable of and willing to commit murder because thats also dumb as shit but children shouldnt be exposed to the concepts of violence and death before they’re able to grasp the implications of it and what effect it can have on them and the way they view the world
basically just, the cavalier attitude we have about violence in combination with never wanting to actually talk about sex in a constructive way that isn’t just used as a plot device, often in tandem with violence, in shows and games and movies is a pretty terrible combination
me after catering my online experience to my interests, my friends’ posts and only surrounding myself with people who don’t make me feel dreadful or flat out perplexed every time they show up on my dash
coined/popularized a number of terms for various tropes (including the word “trope” itself), streamlining discussions about media
exhaustive cataloging of examples makes it a helpful tool for discovering new stories (or finding ones to avoid) based on a person’s favorite character types or story elements
lack of “notability” requirements opens a theoretically equal amount/depth of analysis to everything from classic literature to children’s television to youtube video game review channels, making media analysis more accessible and appealing to people who may not be familiar with the “great works” of a particular medium
bad things about tvtropes:
level of analysis ranges from “film studies major” to “watched a nostalgia critic video once”
Other bad things about tvtropes:
You look up one thing and suddenly it’s 3 days later, you haven’t slept and you have 19000 tabs open
aang broke out the ice to find out everyone loved and cared about got bodied but still fixed the world within a year and restored his people before he was done. legend.
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