“young Adult Dystopian Novels Are So Unrealistic Lmao Like They Always Have Some Random Teenage Girl

I got into an argument with a friend of mine about relationships and what's considered cheating.

They told me it's immediately a red flag if their s/o snatches their phone/hides it from them but like? No it's not? I'm not sure about everyone but I know for a fact that there's people out there who struggled to have privacy growing up.

Parents taking phones and going through it, having friends take it and do stupid shit, etc.. Hiding something from your partner and wanting privacy are two very different things!

I've never been given privacy, especially in my early teen years when I had a phone. My parents would constantly snoop around and ground me for dumb reasons just to have an excuse to look through it. Or they'd read my diary without my consent. My door/locks have been taken away multiple times. That's not right and seriously fucked up. Every human being deserves privacy.

Ask your partner to use their phone. Don't just assume it's free to use when no talks of boundaries have been set. There are conversations with friends and family that they don't want others to see because it's private and meant to be between two people. (Another example I've been put through: My father demanded I tell him the "truth" when I panicked and tried grabbing my phone away from him. My reason? A close friend of mine came out and talked to ME about THEIR feelings and thoughts. No one else was supposed to read that. It's not always because the kid is hiding something horrible like wtf lol)

And yes I understand parents can be worried about online friendships and relationships but at a certain point, when they're old enough to handle themselves mentally and emotionally, parents have no right to take action and steal/take away phones or take down doors/locks.

Respect your partner. Respect your kids. It's not that hard like c'mon now lol.

It really leaves a sour taste in my mouth how 1A really does fuck all to be there for Izuku while does everything to be there for them.

They sit by and let Bakugou bully Izuku.

While watching Izuku (and ONLY Izuku btw) trying to make sure Eri had a good time at the School Festival, they call him disappearing to get candy apples troublesome and problematic.

Instead of examining WHY Izuku believed it was safer for everyone if he struck out on his own and pushed himself to his physical and emotional breaking point, they take Bakugou of all people at his word that it's All Might's fault, ambush him, and then quite literally beat him into submission.

While Izuku's grappling with the trauma of losing OFA and having killed Shigaraki, no one checks up on him or reassures him that he's not some horrible murderer. I understand that they all had their own traumas, but if they could rightfully be there for Ochako, there's no way in hell they couldn't have done the same for Izuku.

Once Izuku loses OFA and graduates, 1A falls out of contact with him while his supposed first ever actual friends make a hero team on their own. Technology exists. They could have at the very least texted him, especially considering how sad and lonely those 8 years were for him. To make matters worse, they only get back in contact with him once he has the means of being a hero again through Iron Izuku (for that matter, did Tokoyami wind up getting Dark Shadow back?). To make matters even more worse, it's implied that they're all still in contact with Bakugou, who has done absolutely nothing to change his behavior and is a-okay after being told he wouldn't be able to use his arms again.

Really, for such an amazing found family, they're a bunch of fake ass friends to him in canon. I've seen fanfics that are infinitely better than canon at making 1A and Izuku's bond a more mutual thing.

TBH I was hoping for Touya to die. So, he won’t suffer anymore and I really don’t want him to be stuck in prison for the most of his life or for rest of his life. He do not need that. He once died and should have stay die. Now it’s like all over again for him to “come back from death” and probably still don’t want to do anything with his family. Damn.

y'know, it genuinely breaks my heart when i see how some writers treat their readers - and i think we, as a fanfiction community, don't talk enough about it

barking orders at readers, treating reblogs and feedback as some kind of currency they are obligated to pay for interacting with our work, having meltdowns because a text didn't do as well as suspected, calling people out for not requesting in the right and correct way™ - i see it around way too often

on our way to remind everyone that writers are people, not content spitting machines, we forget too easily that readers also are people, not tools to stroke our ego or a source of free and easy serotonin

“Here. It’s called Shu Hui. It’s an alternate showdown ending. It happens in one on one Heylin versus Xiaolin showdowns only. When someone changes sides during the fight, it means there are no enemies, so the showdown stops by itself… Wait, Omi, you didn’t become evil, did you? “

And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit

Western colleagues say that it will be almost impossible to classify Russia’s actions as the genocide of Ukrainians. I must reassure you. When genocide comes to your lands, it will be easily recognisable.

It’s when everything inside you freezes from what you’ve seen, your knees go weak and you become speechless. It’s when the realisation comes that the evil committed will have irreversible consequences.

It’s when the enemy daily changes the landscape of your consciousness, and your psyche – the essence of what you are – is forced to form new reactions, habits and broken patterns of behaviour.

It’s when the scale of the catastrophe doesn’t fit in the finite box of your imagination. It’s when it turns out that the previous day’s wrath isn’t sufficient. And you realise you are capable of feeling even stronger rage towards the enemy.

This is when all life is fighting for the future.

- Oleksandr Mykhed for The Guardian (x)

At the beginning of the full scale war, there were scary news about russians preparing 45k body bags, mobile crematoriums and new massive burial methods.

But they never take their dead soldier’s bodies.

Those body bags were for us. For the civilians.

Those mobile crematoriums were for us.

Those massive burial methods were for us.

Just because we are Ukrainians.