giving your kids no independence/autonomy/trust is not helping them grow up. if you're worried about predators you should statistically be looking much more at the men in your own family that you're probably "sure" would never hurt your child
this is why i like "pronouns optional" in introductions, where it's not weird if someone doesn't include them, because i really appreciate the invitation to share mine, but i also want other people to be able to skip it if they're uncomfortable
the fact that you think you can experience "genuine joy" with clinical depression makes it obvious you don't understand clinical depression. the worst part of depression for me wasn't the crying, it was the total apathy
Wow, so Laura isn't even responsible for the karaoke scene??? Sandra literally had to tell them the pilot footage existed and suggest the juxtaposition??
you said we built it to escape the way media ignores women, this is patently false given that predominantly het/slash ships being censored on lj were the driving force for ao3's creation. we built it to write our own stories not to write the ones you think we should write
