itsacon10:

maculategiraffe:

mintypineapple:

asktheangels:

Lately I’ve been getting most of my pep talks from Mister Rogers.

Great. Now I’m disappointing Mr. Rogers.

Mr. Rogers is not disappointed in you.  He’s proud of you for listening and thinking about what he said, and he hopes it plants a seed where sometimes maybe you notice yourself making an unhealthy choice and recognize it, because that’s the first step towards growth towards your best and healthiest self, which is a journey and a process, not an ideal state of which you are falling short.

Mr. Rogers loves you for just your being you.

I know I’ve reblogged this before, but I don’t care

artisticgobbluth:

Dennis Reynolds is a character who completely and totally (and PURPOSEFULLY) embodies the “woke” manipulator, the male feminist who knows exactly the right things to say to make people trust him. He “won’t do anything until he gets consent”, but he forces that consent via a hidden fingerprint scanner, unbeknownst to the person he’s getting with until the fingerprint has already signed a contract that they haven’t even read. ”The Gang Escapes” contained the extreme fingerprint example, but Dennis has always shaped sexual situations in ways where he is ensured “consent” but only because his victim feels like they cannot say no, like everything he’s said about cornering women on boats, for example. He has a safeword “just in case”, but doesn’t plan to actually use it. Dennis Reynolds is the most obvious example of a predator that obscures his strongly predatory behavior with cushy language and even when they take it to the extreme, like they did this week, it’s still flying over some people’s heads. In this essay I will