starry-eyed-adam

[starry-eyed-adam]

One sad side effect of big box stores is that you just don’t get lifelong hyper fixation guy access like you used to.

Like yeah I can go to Menards and buy a door.

But it used to be I could go to the door store, and speak to a man whose sole passion in life was doors and who would talk about the history of door insulation patterns over the last 50 years without stopping to breathe.

That man is gonna find me the BEST door option for me.

Seriously my neighborhood had one of these. They were across the street from the lighting shop owned by the guy who could tell you the exact date, off the top of his head, that your property got electrical wiring based on your address.

Now these guys rarely get to own a shop, make a good living, and sell the very finest doors for decades. They’re relegated to Reddit posts which are informative but ultimately do not replace door guy having a door shop.

I don’t want to talk to some miserable, underpaid 20 year old who was in plumbing last week and in doors this week and doesn’t know a hammer from a hanger.

I want my door guy back.

[starry-eyed-adam]

[starry-eyed-adam]

"fruit has sugar" warning post reminds me of my coworker who told me to make sure I don't get "addicted to fruit". yeah i'm also addicted to a nice walk on the beach

[starry-eyed-adam]

I've been planning to make this comic for so long now, but a strange feeling of shame has stopped me, year after year.

Today is IDAHOBIT, the international day against LGBTQ+ discrimination. I feel like now is a good time to share it.

It's easy to slip into shameful silence because of survivors guilt, because "it wasn't that bad". But it was bad. Homo- and transphobic violence is bad and needs to be talked about, especially in a time where homo- and transphobic rhetoric is rampant and normalizes seeing us as lesser humans, normalizes hurting us, verbally, legally, physically.

[starry-eyed-adam]

[starry-eyed-adam]

ROTTMNT Voice Cast.

[starry-eyed-adam]

I was lying in bed writing this fervently and my roommate looked at me and went ‘what are you working on’ because college and I went uh. Nothing.

anyway give it a look <3

Head Over Boots smutshots update tonight! can you believe I banged this out in one night

[starry-eyed-adam]

hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

[starry-eyed-adam]

I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

[starry-eyed-adam]

Your response to the question about CNC is concerning to me- I think it's really important to note that it means "consensual non-consent" and that things like somnophilia are NOT consensual. It's disingenuous not to mention how that community is full of rape apologia and pushes the boundaries of consent as you've shown by listing somnophilia - you can't consent when you're not awake-> no longer in the arena of pretend, that's just normalized rape.

If your blog wasn't an education one I wouldn't be sending a concern like this I would just dip- but I feel the need to say something for the sake of the rest of your followers. I really would avoid encouraging anyone to participate in that or get involved in that space especially considering your audience. Again I say this out of concern, not spite.

I understand where your concern is coming from, 100%, but I'm not sure if you understand how somnophilia or RACK (in connection to CNC) works.

You're making a huge generalization about a "community" but I'm not even sure what you're referring to. Like, is this a specific website or place you're talking about? I don't know.

It's very true, you cannot guarantee someone's consent while asleep. Which is why scenes like that (aside from the roleplay scenes) rely on informed consent, which is where any parties involved know/agree upon what's going to happen beforehand and are aware of any risks, including the fact they might not be able to ask someone to stop in the midst of it. (Similar to medical decisions that involve impaired continual consent.)

It's also similar to people who's kink is drunk sex. They'll often agree on having sex beforehand to better insure someone's consent before it's impaired. It works similarly with somnophillia/sleep play.

Is it a murkier area, consent-wise? Yes, but that's why it's CNC. It's also why people are encouraged to practice RACK (Risk Aware Consensual Kink) specifically with things like CNC.

People are allowed to do things, including get into riskier and/or murkier types of kink play. Not just physically but mentally as well. That's their business. I'm not encouraging anyone to do anything without consent, that's a whole separate thing.

I definitely appreciate you sending this ask, it's very kind. It's just I think maybe we're on two different levels of understanding with CNC/RACK and that's kind of clashing.

Feel free to ask any questions though, if this doesn't make sense.

[starry-eyed-adam]

[starry-eyed-adam]

ok this dni has me sobbing

proshippers are the ONLY thing on the list

this person doesn’t know what they are

[starry-eyed-adam]

Guess what's baaaaack?!?!?

I left @ambersonic96 for 5 minutes in a Magma improv session and came back to this concept.

[starry-eyed-adam]

Guess what's baaaaack?!?!?

I left @ambersonic96 for 5 minutes in a Magma improv session and came back to this concept.

[starry-eyed-adam]

I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

[starry-eyed-adam]

daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

[starry-eyed-adam]

Red.

It was supposed to be funny but it got depressing-

So i added text

Its still kinda sad…