Super strange to show your kids some teen blast from the past stuff and they are literally HORRIFIED by the rape culture, body shaming, sex shaming, etc.

We mostly didn't know better back then, but it's 100% on us to purge that shit from ourselves now we know, and be grateful that we can.

Same here. I do my best to avoid the stuff I know about, & watch more carefully too. I'm considered pretty militant about it, in my family.

I'm not perfect at it, but navigating specifically 80s/90's culture and trying to shed the worst I've internalized will absolutely be a lifelong project.

Never be sorry! I make an orange juice basted Turkey that is so crazy juicy and delicious it makes a literal vat of gravy and it's never dry.

*Sesame oil sealed, with a pine nut and granny smith apple savoury stuffing.

**I've learned to make it gluten free too for my nephew with ciliac.

Ugh. I honestly should have known better than to get this tattoo 25 years ago.

(I have Magik on my arm and always in my heart. I mean, even my PFP is me as her on Halloween. I have been watching her popularity grow with extreme trepidation for reasons JUST like this.)

Just because Alberta only has oil to sell during the planet's end-stage climate crisis (end stage for human health and wellbeing at least) doesn't mean we have to ship it in BC.

Time to move to greener energy, which Alberta could have led if it had any vision whatsoever in the last two decades.

If Trump was in his right mind, I'd suspect he'd be making him stand like a shiny pawn while in the backroom describing all the terrible things they'd do to loved ones for generations in some kind of Putin style pwn display but..

Yeah. Truly dunno. I do think Trump loves success, no matter who

I had this copy! Read it to tatters.

always remember: Terry Pratchett said trans rights

this book was written in 1996 by a 48 year old British man and no cis person in 2025 has a single goddamn excuse to behave differently