Author: LectionaryStan

towardsmorning:

thesymbolofpeace:

to all the minors following me you dont have to reveal everything about yourself on the internet you dont have to make a laundry list of the MI’s and traumas u have endured be on your about its ok to not make this very extremely personal stuff you wouldnt tell to people you first meet irl easily available on your online web page you really dont owe anything to anyone and you can and should indulge in privacy 

i might even go further and caution very strongly AGAINST doing so for minors ESPECIALLY, like look, i am not your dad and cannot demand you to avoid doing so, but it honestly allows predators to sort of “cold read” your vulnerabilities and exploit them. and be wary of anyone who demands to know that information to make a judgement on you because someone who wants to know your “weak spots” before interacting is someone whose idea of human interaction is, at best, messed up.

ok you know what’s best about olivia dunham?

jumpingjacktrash:

it’s that she’s so unfriendly.

she doesn’t smile unless she wants to – to the point where her boss occasionally makes a quip about how she just did a great job and could smile about her achievement if she’s up for it maybe. she certainly doesn’t do the Obligatory Female Social Smiling thing.

she doesn’t wear makeup. i mean, obviously the actress is wearing makeup. but just enough that she shows up on camera. olivia’s look is pale and hard; her eyebrows kinda disappear; her lashes are short and blond, no mascara; her lips look a little chapped. this is a woman whose beauty routine consists entirely of using conditioner in the shower so her hair doesn’t turn into a static puff.

she doesn’t wear sexy underwear. we see her in undies every so often, when she gets in the suspension tank for the brain machine thingie, and it’s a plain black set of skivvies, and the camera doesn’t linger. she has no shame about it, either, no coy show of modesty. she just drops the robe and goes ‘hook me up’. the camera is more interested in the electrodes than the panty shot.

she doesn’t have to be twice as good as the guys. she doesn’t have that desperate drive to prove herself that female cops on tv always have. she’s not pushing back against sexism. she’s not even acknowleging it. she is a juggernaut. people can get on board, stand aside, or get run over. she is not asking your permission, and frankly isn’t interested in your opinion. when jackasses pull sexist shit, she either draws a battle line and dares them to step over it (”call me sweetheart again”) or just gives them that blank, eerie stare like she’s deciding whether to catch them under a cup and let them go in the bushes out back or just squash them with a rolled up newspaper.

she’s a misogynist’s worst nightmare: a woman who doesn’t even care that he exists, let alone what he thinks of her, and over whom he can exert no control whatsoever, not even if he’s technically above her in the chain of command, harris, you poor asshole, you are so doomed, i almost feel sorry for you.

shipping-isnt-morality:

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.