My disdain for cops is institutional, not individual. Just because you may have a positive personal relationship with someone who is a cop doesn’t change the fact that the law enforcement system in this country is rooted in white supremacy and is used to repress and control the working class while protecting the elite.
All cops have signed up to enforce a system which is oppressing marginalized people in this country on a daily basis. Your personal relationship with an agent of oppression does not change this fact.
everyone is always up in arms about the morality/immorality/virtuousness/wickedness of reading/writing about certain subjects but for some reason there’s never any attention paid to the morality/immorality/virtuousness/wickedness of being responsible for your own behavior and owning your own emotions. i’m really sick of the culture on here that acts like it’s some heinous crime to expect adults capable of searching out hobbyist fictional material on the internet to also be capable of monitoring their own consumption of said material and their own internet use. you used to have to wade through endless LJ/AFF.net/fandom-specific-archive/personal-geocities-page fic descriptions on the off chance of finding that rare fic you actually wanted to read. and yeah, a lot of it was disturbing, even triggering (AFF.net was a cesspool of untagged scat, rape, abuse, necro, etc), and not written well, and in poor taste. so you didn’t read it, and if you read some of it by accident you closed the tab and went outside, because you understood that by entering your birthdate at the welcome screen you were acknowledging that you were an adult who was capable of managing their own internet activity.
now a great deal of the material global fandom has produced over the last 10 years is in ONE place, with a standardized, readable format and an extensive tagging system that is wrangled/curated by fellow fan volunteers. it’s a god damn wonderland, and if you occasionally stumble upon something that wasn’t warned ‘correctly’ (because who gets to define what is sufficient or correct? who gets to decide?), and makes you feel sick, and you suffer legitimate distress from that, maybe you should reconsider whether reading hobbyist fictional material on the internet is a good choice for you.
when did it become cool to be so helpless and victimized by the mere existence of another person’s words, which are available to you at your leisure, which have nothing to do with you? whose author does not even know you exist? it indicates a serious lack of emotional resilience and boundaries, and to take your own shit out on authors is not cool, it’s not going to help you, and all it shows is that you cannot control your own behavior enough to close your browser when you know you need to. and if you cant do that, you have a problem, and should take a break from the internet.
fanfiction is free, it takes work to make, and we publish it as a favor, because we want to share it with other interested parties. the amount of entitlement and childishness around this is really stunning, and it’s not doing anyone any favors, especially people who are using social justice language to get out of working on their own emotional issues.
My doggo, Ezri, who rarely barks and mostly borks.
When I got her, she’d been abused and would cower and pee at almost everything, and had been mistreated when she’d barked, so she never would. One day months after I had her she got excited on a walk and borked at a bird, and then immediately cower-peed. I had to re-teach her to bark by gathering her whole human pack and having everyone bark and howl and feed her treats and pet her till she got excited enough to join in, and then got more treats. Took a while but I was able to teach her to bork on command (and she’s gotta be excited or she just stares at me like “Sorry, the bork system needs charging”) and she’ll do it happily when she’s excited to go for a walk or upon seeing a friend, and at birds. I love her croaky borking, especially when she started off terrified of making a joyful noise.
What kind of dog is Ezri? I love her!!
I… did not expect this post to blow up this much but I am delighted at all the tags and replies and Ezri has been told the internet thinks she’s a Very Good Dog. 😀
She’s a German spitz – in the same family as keeshonds and pomeranians. She might be crossed with something else as her freckled coat, non-pointy nose, and personality are not standard for her breed (they’re usually a lot more high energy and excitable – she’s super laid back and chill). She’s a bit less fluffy than breed-standard too, mostly because she’s grown out from her spring/summer trim (not usually necessary/good for her type of coat but she gets terribly itchy otherwise). It also makes her look like a puppy of a large breed:
Ezri’s best friend is Murder Cat, who is a gentle friend to humans and Ezri, but does things to mice that would make Hannibal Lecter go “Isn’t that a bit much?”
I got Murder Cat as a kitten, and she used to try to nurse on everything when she was small. Eventually, she settled on her favourite thing to nurse on, Ezri, who has never had puppies and a little confused at first but eventually went with it. She grew out of it, but they have stayed snuggly buddies ever since.
New Years here is full of fireworks outside and Ezri gets Vry Scared. I usually set her up somewhere with a snuggly spot right by me, and Murder Cat comes and does this all night:
She goes everywhere with me in my bakfiets (cargo bike) and lets me warm my hands in her fur on cold days.
And her ears disappear if I say her name to get her attention.
ok so great thanks for coming to my TED talk about my dog, good night, drive safe
THIS TED TALK WAS NOT LONG ENOUGH I NEED MORE INFORMATION!
funeral-biscuit 