Hot take but praise is a good tool for encouraging healthy behavior. Positive reinforcement is good. Relying exclusively on punishment to change people's behavior is both cruel and ineffective. If someone does better than they did yesterday, let them know you appreciate it, let them know that they're improving!

"Don't praise anyone for doing the bare minimum" is a shitty take that prioritizes your sense of superiority over the actual betterment of people. I understand that things shouldn't be as bad as they are, and anger can often be justified, but you need to get over the propaganda that kindness is naïve, that cynicism and bitterness are intellectual. Withholding praise from those who haven't caught up with you doesnt actually help them, it doesn't motivate, it doesn't encourage, it only discourages them. It breeds bitterness and apathy, which are antithetical to empathy.

Growth isn't something you do on your own. People need support, they need community. Bootstraps won't get them there. Kindness will. Do you want results or do you just want to feel superior?

Rping is great and no one deserves to be made fun of for that alone however if you rp on some random person’s post you deserve all the scorn you get

Unique tumblr experience is that if you’re here long enough you will inevitably be accused of making a Homestuck reference.

You give your OC a birthday and someone in the tags will be like “#I see you OP #July 12th? Same day as David Karpet’s first time loop death #I see what you did”

You reference blueberry pie in a post and it turns out that’s Vegeta Nupita’s username you spell a word funny and happen to nail Rose Landslide’s typing quirk you make some post that YOU think is incomprehensible like “don’t listen to them bro your muscles are huge and your hamster is GNC as fuck” and someone in the tags will be like “#OP you’re not slick #Homestuck” bro the HAMSTER?????

One time in 2015 I wrote a fanfiction and I needed a random date for the fic to happen on and by luck of the cards I chose 4/13 and I Janskjsjenbd doohhwhyhwsddfffff

The real meta is the half-dozen people in the notes accusing me of being a Homestuck purely on account of having made this post.

I can't even add to the joke I can't even add anything this is just 100% nail-on-the-head what I was parodying in the original post just turns out I need to try HARDER with the parody part because I accidentally perfectly distilled reality.

i need to swim in a clear cold stream and then lie down on a big warm rock in the sun to dry this is non-negotiable

the word "girl" is losing its original meaning to me I just say "girl help" and "girl why" every time something even mildly inconveniences me

It’s not my fault that everything is a sign

ngl people coming w u so they can keep talking to u while ur running errands or just chillin in ur room while ur cleaning… love that kind of love