TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something’s going on I’m not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term “Pet Play” is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I’m not mad about using the term “pet play”. That’s a perfectly fine term. I’m mad because they didn’t use that term: they used “pet p!ay”, a censored version
Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.
To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 
For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.
You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them
no offense but two characters running from the authorities and then one of them pulls the other in a dark, small alley to shake them off and they’re both breathing hard and there’s not much space there and they’re looking at each other while trying to hold back chuckles and one of them brings their finger to their lips playfully in a ‘shhh’ motion while smirking and oh no now they’re looking at one another’s lips and one of them whispers “i think the coast is clear now. we could leave.” and the other says “yeah. we could.” but they’re still looking at the other person’s lips and neither make a move to go and they can feel each other’s breath against their skin and. y eah
the thing is that they’re so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can’t imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.
sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.
you can’t tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that’s sexual in nature, because the body isn’t a body, it’s a vessel of sex. it doesn’t matter that it’s been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it’s ‘dirty’ to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they’re sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.
it’s gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.
but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.
they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.
they will crow that it’s inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it’s teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words “barely legal,” a hiss of glass sand over your skin.
barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn’t god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.
and they love sex but they hate that you’re having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can’t kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can’t get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can’t get admit you were sexual assaulted because real men don’t get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren’t ready yet.
but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.
they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don’t say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it’s staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it’s normal!
this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.
Show me a censor and I’ll show you someone who thinks a *lot* about the thing they wish to censor. The more earnestly they demand it, the more they themselves fantasize about it.
Therapist: The Liniennetzplan of the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft isn’t real, it can’t hurt you
The Liniennetzplan of the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft:
As someone who lives in that region, let me explain to you why this is so weird:
Usually, when you want to go to a bigger city from a smaller town you’d usually take a train to the central station and then get onto the bigger city’s public transport, right?
Well, you can do that here. But you know what else you can do? Get on a train in a smaller town and take it right into the city center of Karlsruhe without ever having to change trains because those trains can drive on both tram and railway tracks. It’s called the Karlsruher Modell. Fancy a weekend trip to the black forest? No problem. Want to go to the neighboring state Rhineland-Palatinate? We got you! Wanna go to Swabia? Just take the tram!
As you can probably imagine, that’s a lot of lines.
Five Straßenbahn tram lines that only operate within city limits (single numbers without the S). Not including the three lines exclusively for students of the European School
17 Stadtbahn tram lines that go outside of Karlsruhe (S[number])
Your regular regional trains (RB, MEX17a and IRE)
So they had to make it look like a biblically accurate angel to fit all of them on one Liniennetzplatz. And it doesn’t even include the bus lines. Or the ever-present diversions because there’s yet another construction site. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a day where every tram line took exactly the route it was supposed to take.
conducting a new experiment called maintaining a normal conversation. i’ll let you know how it goes
brought up the eel sex discovery again :/
speaking of: did you guys know that the mystery of eel breeding has finally been discovered??
the reproduction of eels has been a mystery since ancient fucking greece and they JUST discovered how they do it. scientists followed european eels that migrated thousands of kilometers from freshwater streams and rivers to the Sargasso sea (which is by north america) where the females released millions of eggs into the water and the males fertalized them and then the eels just died. because appearantly thats the end of their lifespan.
its insane. its bonkers. ALL european and american eels reproduce IN THE SAME PLACE. european eels swim across the north atlantic ocean just to reproduce. these eels live for about 20 years and go through multiple complex life stages but they begin and end their lives in the same place, despite how far they travel. and god dont get me started on other species of eels-
