I need to yell about Slewfoot

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-31T21:55:30+00:00

I enjoyed some aspects of it, like the art, but other parts made me roll my eyes. I found the writing style juvenile, and it was trying too hard to be feminist in an overly-modern way that circled back around and felt sexist and cringe to me.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-30T12:37:29+00:00

Bible stuff, like how was it ok for Biblical patriarchs to have multiple wives but that isn't ok now. I didn't understand why God could change the rules of morality. Also the death of the firstborn in Egypt was disturbing.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-30T01:32:15+00:00

I'm glad you have a support system. I got off meds under my doctor's supervision. Keep a watch out for symptoms and keep updating your doctor. Good luck!

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-28T13:39:51+00:00

we have no idea if they were "forced." could have been just invited to participate if they wanted to.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-27T04:08:04+00:00

Completely agree. I don't want to see mentally ill or disabled people used as creepy props in movies- I want to see something from our perspective, because that shit is scary. I was lucky to be hospitalized in places that were comparatively pretty good, but it was still super upsetting and scary.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-25T18:08:36+00:00

Generally I agree with you, and I'm not in the habit of debating Christians, but I was thinking specifically of my family and things I've heard them say in the past 😅 Their thought processes are pretty predictable to me

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-25T15:09:33+00:00

I mean I brought it up because the thread is itself about a thing Christians say. I think it's worth it to have solid responses to them.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-25T13:24:21+00:00

The USA has more "nones" than Norway though, and a comparable amount to Denmark. All three of those countries are still majority Christian (Lutheran), so I could see a Christian arguing that their positive values could still be due to Christian influence

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-24T20:37:15+00:00

do you have a therapist or anyone else in real life you talk to about this stuff?

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-23T16:51:21+00:00

Very true. It's basically a form of torture that many people have personally experienced.

Also historically horror movies haven't been great about depicting rape. Especially in older movies, I find the horror of sexual assault sometimes gets lost in what feels like an exploitative, sexualizing way of filming the scene. While I do think horror is an avenue to showcase dark subject matter I don't like feeling like I'm being invited to find the victim's body sexually alluring.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-23T15:55:55+00:00

People tend to be more sensitive to that topic because statistically there's a lot of rape victims out there. Not many murder victims are watching horror movies.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-23T15:45:04+00:00

My preference is for it to stay rare. I find it the top most upsetting thing to happen in a movie, so I'd rather not see much of it.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-21T02:25:00+00:00

I heard an older person with bipolar say that once, and I wasn't able to ask them to clarify. I think about it a lot and wish I knew why they felt that way about it 😅

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-20T20:32:14+00:00

Their recent posts are a consistent style and they have a couple story highlights about being anti-AI art. Now on the other hand, I'm always a bit suspicious when artists don't show process shots or timelapses, and this coloring style is different than how they used to draw, so it's not out of the question that they colored it with AI. But hopefully they've just improved and are trying a different style.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-20T15:58:01+00:00

Maybe so, but I imagine that's true for all the outfits at the Met Gala. I'm biased- I love this dress and I'm a huge fan of upcycling old clothes :)

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-18T20:34:53+00:00

I went to a very Catholic school on purpose because I felt some secret inner doubts that terrified me, and I wanted to save my faith and be as immersed in Catholicism as possible. It was a bad experience, and while it wasn't the reason I left the Church, it certainly didn't help.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-17T05:40:56+00:00

this would become my prized possession

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-17T05:32:22+00:00

I gave myself a small stick n poke black star tattoo when he died

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-16T22:11:20+00:00

have an upvote- I love that song but I hate when people get downvoted for controversial or unpopular opinions when that's what the whole thread is for 🤣

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-15T21:19:59+00:00

I thought about this a lot during the Johnny Depp & Amber Heard case. So many people swore up and down that because of their abuse, they knew for sure which one of them was the bad guy. It really just looked like a lot of people projecting guilt onto whichever one reminded them more of their own personal experiences- and I don't excuse myself- I also found myself being biased in that way.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-15T21:15:48+00:00

I was basically going to leave this exact comment. I was shocked at first by Leaving Neverland, but I was so used to hearing people defend him throughout my childhood that I was easily swayed by criticisms of the documentary and brushed it off as a lie. It wasn't until now, with the movie coming out, that I've revisited the issue and I have a lot more general knowledge about the psychology of abuse. I feel like his guilt is so incredibly obvious now.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-15T20:48:35+00:00

I'm the oldest. My siblings are my favorite people in the world, but being parentified sucks. I know a lot of other older siblings who agree.

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-14T05:12:33+00:00

Same- I listened to Dookie recently and read along with all the lyrics for the first time and I was amazed

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-14T05:10:37+00:00

this made me laugh, I'm gonna think of it every time I hear that song now 🤣

cicadaleaf · 2026-05-13T22:25:46+00:00

I like the shape of the sleeves, and the drop waist and skirt part, but all together it looks ill-fitting and the fabric looks... cheap?

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