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Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you

No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.

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I think it's interesting how and where people draw lines in the sand about things. I have this great aunt who is well into her seventies and does not really get or understand being nonbinary or transgender in the slightest. She has moments where she says something kind of racist and immediately continues with an "I'm sorry that was racist." She does typically try to understand things and be a decent person but does not always hit the mark. She also has a complete inability to keep any thought to herself.

She is my absolute favorite aunt and while sometimes she says or does something infuriating, she is the only aunt I have who bothers to at least in part acknowledge any of my queerness and has been a constant support force throughout my entire life.

This aunt used to infuriate me as a teenager with nitpickyness and lectures (my god the lectures) but somewhere in adulthood we kind of figured each other out and became friends. My siblings did not quite do this. And they justifiably get angry on my behalf when she doesn't really do the pronouns or says something mildly offensive, but I personally enjoy the fact she just outright acknowledges her misgivings on the subjects at hand and talks to me directly about my queerness. There is no song or dance around not approaching my being queer. She's not dancing about the subject. Which for my family is the most refreshing thing on earth.

I would rather have a million bigoted but trying to figure it out aunts ask me offensive questions and say what's in their mind about my queerness than deal with even one relative doing the passive aggressive tiptoeing "if we don't talk about it, it'll go away" thing that the rest of my family strides in.

I don't feel the need to draw the line around the people who are trying but aren't quite there yet that others, mostly allies, do. I get it in a you don't need to put up with anything you don't want to way, but it really comes back to "the faggots. They still got rights." Type of discussions. You gotta meet people where they are sometimes and there is a vast difference between someone trying to be decent and someone who won't even acknowledge the subject at hand.

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Indie RPGs will be like "this is the Sinister Man. Yes, that's his legal name – first name 'Sinister', last name 'Man'. All he does is vaguely threaten the player character and sell overpriced mid-game gear, and also it's kind of implied he might have eaten a child?", and the fandom will be like "I will draw him attending a tea party".

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I hate this motherfucker the most. People in my family who should know better fell under the sway of this lying, psychotic monster. If you’ve ever loved anyone with any kind of disability, you are betraying them by looking up to this man and giving weight to anything he says.

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"Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order."

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this post is so funny to me because this is absolutely a thing and was very popular at one point. people already did it 40 years ago and its called new romantic

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Describing how I experience my asexuality is wild because I feel like when I talk to anyone other than my wife about it, I get looked at like im saying the moon is landing is fake or the earth is flat.

The way I experience asexuality is like looking at a gallery of all different kinds of art. The feeling of having no sexual attraction, to me, is best described as looking at a beautiful painting of a landscape. You can see the flaws in it, the brush strokes, the colors, the perspective, and the technical ability needed to make such a thing, and you suddenly feel a divine sense of awe. But you dont want to fuck the landscape painting.

Thats how it feels for me to experience no sexual attraction. Because even though I dont have sexual attraction to anyone in particular (male, female, nonbinary, etc) i can still admit when someone is beautiful.

But being asexual, as many asexuals already know, doesn't mean you're always repulsed by the act of sex. I would consider myself a sensory seeking, sex positive asexual. Which to me means that while I don't experience sexual attraction to anyone, I can still desire the sensation of sex and the closeness I'd feel with a partner. I can still desire the sensory experience and pleasure of sex without feeling sexual attraction. But I also don't need to do it in order to be happy in my life or relationships. It's just a fun little added bonus if I have a partner willing. And just because I can have sex and sometimes want it doesn't make me any less asexual than any other ace.

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hold on a second man…

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i don’t think there’s anything funnier than saying “god forbid women do anything” in response to women doing the most objectively horrifying actions possible.

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Very funny to see Super Mario theorycrafters getting worked up about what Pauline being a little girl in Donkey Kong Bananza implies for the notional timeline, given that a. the specific version of Donkey Kong from the Donkey Kong Country franchise showing up in any sort of Super Mario crossover media has literally never made sense timeline-wise, but this is the final straw? and b. I feel like "why is she a child?" is eliding the much more pressing question of "why is she a rock?"

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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has anyone told Joy @thebibliosphere that NerdForge on YouTube made a giant rotating book out of the Discworld series yet

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warm baked goods are insane. something so beautiful and almost maddening about absolutely tearing into them when they’re fresh. feeling warm all over after. I really do get vampires for real

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i love when dvd players hold out a little tray and you put the disc on it. it’s like you’re placing it into its little hand. hate the dvd players that make you push the disc into its mouth and then it swallows it obediently