Does Anyone Wanna Hold Hands Until We Feel A Little Braver

everytime someone tries to make mulder rude and bad-boyish and scully emotional and people-pleasing to fit them into gender-roles one year gets taken off my life

i think the normalization of laying out your own sexual trauma as a pre-amble to a (typically anti-kink) argument is a really dangerous discussion format that we should not be legitimizing. even beyond the fact that experiencing trauma in no way makes you a kinder, smarter, or better person, the demand that we re-open wounds and bare our vulnerabilities as "victim credentials" to (usually hostile) strangers is a bad bad bad fucking expectation to legitimize. i understand the desire to elevate survivors' voices and this absolutely has a place re: conversations about remedial justice and survivor resources. but the idea that one's understanding of systems of sexual violence can only be confirmed by falling victim to them and later willingly offering that trauma to others is equal parts fallacious and dangerous, and it further insults those of us whose advocacy and understanding come from years of study, research, and work, not from our victimization at the hands of another person. i understand it's the impulse to fire back when reactionaries open and end cap every argument with a gratuitous statement of trauma qualifications but you Cannot be ceding ground on this -- not just for reasons of intellectual integrity, but also because your fellow survivors deserve the right to advocate for our lives and communities without being expected to first divulge voyeuristic personal trauma narratives

I’m just going to leave this here

the thing about having a job is i just don’t want to do it. Sorry

my wet kitten <3

Buffy Meme: [4/10 Scenes] 5x22 The Gift

"Tell Giles, tell Giles I figured it out, and I'm okay. Give my love to my friends, you have to take care of them now. You have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn, the hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me."

Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975) 

Satan taking a break from hate crimes ,2022