#is just... mindboggling

[javussyannihilator]

[uraniumnm333]

ngl i feel like every night is just a sleepover w polysho. like i've already made a post ab the eepies and how they shnork mimimi but like. id imagine that they sit around in a lil circle n play truth or dare, spin the bottle ect ect ect. but none of them know how to play spin the bottle and it ends up just seeing how hard they can spin the bottle so they can see how long itll spin. also emu and tsukasa jump on da bed. emu does it bc it's just an action she does n it makes her happy. helps her let out energy. and tsukasa sees this and offers to do it w her so they. just hold each others hands n jump on da bed. nene lays on the floor lookin at the sky and everyone else just joins her instead. they'er like a little hive mind i swear. one of them climbs a tree ??? better b prepared bc here comes everyone

[dr-stxrk]

hi i'm currently losing my mind over the fact that there are more stucky fics on ao3 than there are stony fics

[bisexualseraphim]

Also, I refuse to entertain the discourse as to whether acespec people are “oppressed” or not, but I will say it’s really fucking lonely — especially if you fall somewhere on the spectrum that’s a little more unconventional.

I’ve discussed many times before how I feel absolutely no attraction whatsoever except towards my lovely partner. I went through the phases queer men tend to: exploring many types of pornography and cruising on Grindr. I really tried, and none of it has ever done anything for me. It wasn’t until I started having sex with my partner that I realised, ohhh, so that’s how most people feel. And even then, enjoying sex with him is far more of an intimacy thing than the actual physical sensations. I do not fantasise about other people or consume porn. There is only him.

And yet when I’ve spoken about this in acespec spaces, I’m still treated as some sort of weirdo who doesn’t belong. I’ve literally been told many times that I can’t be demisexual because demis will still fantasise and consume porn (although that doesn’t line up with my understanding that demis require a close bond to feel sexual attraction, but never mind), and I’ve even been accused of having some weird internalised Christian puritan shit going on because I genuinely cannot comprehend ever looking at or thinking about someone in that way who isn’t my man. As if anything about this is a choice for me and it is offensive to them somehow. As if only feeling attraction to one person is like… “worse” than never feeling any attraction at all. I’ve never once shamed others for how they experience sex and sexual attraction and never would, yet people act like that’s what I’m inherently doing just by speaking about my own experiences.

So no, I won’t say whether acespec people are “oppressed” or not because honestly, when is this shit ever going to come up in conversation and ever be that relevant? But the fact I don’t feel I can talk about it even amongst other queer people, even amongst others in the acespec community, kind of speaks for itself.

Being a queer man who can’t relate to all the stereotypes and anecdotes about enjoying casual sex is one type of loneliness. Being a queer acespec man who can’t even relate to most others in the acespec community is another. I can never win, and either way I do not fit in.

[kwyw]

To this day, 9 years later, Taylor still honors this moment with her girl. 😍

[liittleemiixeer]

do you think he'd let Luna kiss his moles? they're so strategically placed it makes my head spin... I need a scene where I kiss all his beauty marks

[sailorsally]

genuinely having such hard time tryng to connect with people over severance on here because everyone seems in either MarkHelly or MarkGemma camp and I am just standing here like 🧍‍♂️

[thequeenofsastiel]

Something kind of interesting about the reactions Americans who downloaded Rednote are having to learning that Chinese people are actually, like, people, is that it reminds me of my reaction to Thai BLs when I started watching five years ago.

Before then, literally my only understanding about Thailand involved news stories about underage girls being human trafficked there and taken advantage of by shitty American men, and a single watching of The Hangover Part II, which, from my hazy memory, depicted Bangkok as half beautiful beach, half city steeped in poverty that bore hardly any resemblance to the cities I've been to in America.

Then I watched 2gether.

It absolutely blew my mind how similar our cultures are. Obviously there are some big differences, but our cultures are so much closer than I ever dreamed. Frankly I never really gave Asia much thought, past the fact that I thought it was super fucked up that we exploit Asian workers for our cheap goods. In my public high school we were taught virtually nothing about Asia past the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Watching Asian BL shows has educated me so much. I can now read in Thai, something I never would have dreamed of even wanting to do six years ago.

All this to say, it's very strange watching vast swaths of Americans discover things about China just as I, in a different way, discovered things about Thailand(as well as Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and also China, but to a lesser extent).

I question the motives of the US government in banning TikTok, but I've gotta say, I really appreciate the way it's opening the eyes of many Americans.

[afromaniiac]

wait what

[st-just]

Look I know I'm a loud annoying atheist but at least I never imply that the only reason Jews and Muslims haven't converted to Christianity is because Christians were mean to them.

[thedreadvampy]

I really can't substantiate bc it's an ongoing situation but one of my best friends works at a formerly extremely inclusive and queer-friendly women's charity which has recently come under new management

and they told me the other day

that their 'gender interrogation' is this week (their words, not the employer's)

apparently, they and 2 other employees out of about 30-40 have been singled out and asked to say whether they self-identify as women. implicitly as a condition of continued employment.

because it's a women's charity they all already self-IDed as women when they started there for the purposes of the Equalities Act exemption on gender-specific services.

oh also as a Strange Coincidence all 3 of the staff who've been asked to reassert their gender are butch/GNC and there are femme nb people there who aren't being asked. My friend is nonbinary (but uses she/her at work), but is a dyke in Dickies and buttondowns so has to pinkie promise they're a woman in order to Protect The Women.

they're so fucking mad about it cause they're like. wild that as an afab person I have to self-ID as a woman for it to count, but self-ID means nothing for amab people (the charity has already jettisoned all its transfem staff)

and I'm just like

jesus well that's not a good sign on the Weimar Mindmap is it.

[batbabydamian]

My condolences for being an American

LOL thank you it makes me ill

[borgialucrezia]

me when someone asks what's the plot of peaky blinders:

[pizzleyanked]

i'm sorry but telling people to buy veilguard on every platform they own simply because the game needs to do well for the studio to survive and because you want it to do as well as bg3 is some of the most ridiculous shit i've seen

[marimayscarlett]

So my family visited me today to bring me something my mom ordered for me to "cheer me up" (year's been a bit rough so far).

So...safe to say I'll cry for the rest of the night. 🥲🥹

[sentienceisoverrated]

Not gonna lie it actually kills me a little bit inside whenever someone doesn't know, and refuses to learn, anything about computers. Like I'm no tech guru. If you asked me about circuit boards or programming or how a gpu really works, I won't be able to tell you, but if you asked me what kind of gpu I own, and other hardware, I would. I have it all memorised, not only because I built my pc myself (and researched extensively for it) but because it's useful information.

I recently started playing Warhammer, and when I tried to launch the game for the first time, it warned me there was a problem with a specific type of cpu. My type of cpu. If I didn't know that, I wouldn't have recognised there was a problem, and I could have severely damaged my computer over time. I had to update my bios (which I had never done before ever), the concept terrified me, but I did research, and I managed it. I learnt something new.

But there are people I've talked to who don't understand the difference between a web browser and a search engine. The number of people I notice who sit their laptops on a fabric case in a lecture and risk overheating. In response to a photo I posted online of my pc, someone asked me where the computer was because there was no visible monitor. A person once recommended me a website to print and deliver photos for free and never even checked the terms and conditions for such a sketchy business plan (lo and behold you were practically giving them rights to your personal images). I get scam messages with urls that are so obviously fake I'm mind-blown when I remember people fall for it. I had to explain to someone else today what a sim card does.

You don't have to be the most informed person on the planet, you just have to put in the effort to learn these things. You use these devices every single day, keep one in your pocket, your bag, almost constantly, and you don't know the bare minimum of how it works??? You can't search for your device specs? Can't read a url? Don't know the difference between a download and an installation? Friends I'm begging you you have all the world's information beneath your fingertips and you haven't ever questioned how? You've never read a five-year-old reddit post for a hyperspecific problem only a handful of people have encountered? I'm so far from the paragon of Computer Knowledge but at least I know the difference between a browser and a search engine. At least I can confidently say my settings reflect my needs.