Have Courage And Be Kind

Your Demons Have Good Advice, Actually - a short comic about moving on after trauma with a fresh new start

cant believe i drew this entire thing and STILL misspelled ‘whether’

seen at least 6 tags mentionings this was on tiktok, please link me I cannot find it

Arts by Skirill on DeviantArt

one of the most disturbing things about men is how important it is to them that you talk to them privately about their abusive behaviour, and how extremely entitled they feel to that privacy

on multiple occasions either myself or a woman I know has been scolded by men - either the abuser or someone else - for not “sorting it out” with them privately

don’t fall for this bullshit

they have NO intention of actually sorting anything out with you - their idea of “sorting it out” is to give you a horse shit apology riddled with excuses and convince you to keep quiet, lest others think badly of them

but others SHOULD think badly of them

and if you don’t want your horrible treatment of women to be spread all over the internet, well gee, I dunno, maybe try not treating women like shit in the first place?! I know that’s a novel idea but maybe give it a try sometime

OH, YES… DON’T “CAUSE A SCENE” AND CALL OUT AND ABUSIVE MAN IN PUBLIC! /S

OH MY GOD i quit choir because of this. It was believed by not only the abusive rapist, but also his ex and all his friends that calling him out/warning girls he was grooming was WRONG. I made the director aware of it, even and she ignored it like it was inappropriate of me to put it out in the open what the fucking fuck

In this culture we’re taught from an early age that women are liars, even if very few people would state it in such frank terms. If you accuse a man of abuse it’s assumed you’re either lying, or you’re mistaken about what happened to you (”It was a misunderstanding.” “It was an accident.” “Don’t flatter yourself.”) So when you accuse a man publicly, the default assumption is that you’re wrong and you’re making him look bad for no reason - and of course a man’s esteem in the eyes of his peers is sacred and inviolable and WAY more important than a woman’s safety.

Abuse survivor contesting all of this:

This isn’t a “just men” thing. This is literally an abuser thing. Abusive people do this. If someone is trying to do this they are doing it for the reasons listed above, but don’t let this become a “be wary of men/.” Be wary of EVERYONE doing this.

Yeah, this behavior isn’t gendered, it’s a basic abuse tactic. Keep the conversation private so you can lie about it later.

It’s also pretty common for groups to apply social pressure on the person perceived as most likely to be susceptible to that pressure. It’s easier to get the affected victim to not make a scene than to get a habitual abuser to behave, so the social stigma is shifted onto the victim for rocking the boat and “making the group uncomfortable.”

— Gore Vidal

we are in a media literacy crisis

friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You're correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.

i hope both sides of bradley's pillow are cold because mouthing "i love you" to colin right before arthur thanks merlin during their final scene was absolute king behavior

seeing people be like ‘I know it’s going to be hard to support the sag strike because movies and shows will stop coming out but-’ is so fucking funny like can I introduce you to a beautiful concept called the million billion movies and shows that already exist that you couldn’t even get through in a lifetime if you wanted. welcome to heaven <3

Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

Word for today: wisdom of repugnance

The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad

this is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all

by 狮宇uncle     (CCL)

can we get the teen wolf movie in spanish i’m trying to see smth

TOTALLY BROS, DUDE

Inspired by @helpimstuckposting​​ blog + tags  Bonus: 

Fine you sad fucks, he just had to fake his death for the FBI to get back to his family and retire.