honestly, why is the only language we have for sexual trauma that of rape and assault? there are so many kinds of sexual trauma that are done a genuine disservice by trying to grapple with them using the language of rape.
there's "i consented to this for self-destructive reasons," there's "i didn't know what i was consenting to because i didn't have enough experience to tell that i would be upset by this thing," there's "i initiated something that i now regret," there's dozens, even hundreds, of sexual situations that are traumatic and that need community support and care and some real trauma work to heal from, that just aren't accurately described by the language we have to discuss rape.
and like, trying to shoehorn them in under the umbrella of rape and assault often does a disservice to the victims trying to heal--trying to cast a sexual partner as a malicious perpetrator retroactively is often really psychologically damaging to someone who is experiencing a complex trauma around an experience they consented to, especially when the trauma victim themselves initiated the experience.
this is so wolfstar coded
“Don’t rub your eyes it leads to wrinkles and eye bags!!” you live in a world where you feel guilt over even the most microscopic of life’s pleasures and I will never want to join you there
guy who is not necessarily nonbinary but also not NOT nonbinary. guy who doesnt fit into the binary-nonbinary binary. if you will
Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland and Tobey Maguire on set of “Spider-Man: No Way Home”
good news i still have nipples
everything is so so significant to me how am i supposed to live
― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy
Interviewer to Remus: So what it's like to marry someone way, way, WAY out of your league?
Sirius, grabbing the mic: Amazing. I never thought I would ever be this happy.
i loooove being able to say i don't know what you're talking about when people tell me things happening on tiktok