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teachimera · 27 days
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girl what happened to just creating fanwork to satisfy your needs
going directly to the developers for canonical changes to the work has gotta stop like what happened to boundaries
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teachimera · 28 days
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"Haters" were a form of Sacred Fool in the late American empire. [1] They performed many social duties, acting as a check on the egos of popular artists and entertainers, a buffer against parasocial engagement, and a safe arena in which to practice a form of performative oral poetry known as "Banter" or "taking the piss." [2]
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teachimera · 29 days
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if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band
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teachimera · 30 days
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quick are you mythologizing sex again? are you making it seem like a special category of human behavior rather than just a thing people do? are you forgetting that it can be silly or fun or simply pedestrian? are you forgetting that it requires conversation and negotiation just like every other human activity that involves other people?
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teachimera · 1 month
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In highschool I wrote a story about a middle-generation of stellar travelers. Their parents were born on earth and left as children, and the middle generation will not live long enough to see their destination. They live their entire lives on the ship and I wrote about them trying to find their place in everything. They will never know blue skies and warm beaches and open fields with warm breezes. They’ll never know birdsong or crickets or frogs. They’ll never hear the rain on the roof of a dreary day. I never could find the right way to end the story. I wanted it to be a happy ending, but I didn’t know how to do it.
I realize now that it was a book about me dealing with depression before I even knew it. Looking back at how blatant the projecting was, it’s obvious now. It wasn’t then.
In the story, the middle-generation people are lost. They’re apathetic. They’re just a placeholder. The only job they have is to keep the ship running, have kids, and die. As the middle generation of people began becoming adults, suicide rates were skyrocketing. Crime and drug rates were jumping. This generation was completely apathetic because they felt that they had no use.
In the story, a small group of people in the middle-generation create the Weather Project. They turn the ship into a terrarium. They make magnificent gardens and take the DNA of animals they took with them and recreate them and they make this cold, metal spaceship that they have to live their entire lives on into a home. They take what little they have and they break it and rearrange it into something beautiful. They take this radical idea and turn the ship into a wonderful jungle of trees and birds and sunshine.
And I realize now how much it reflects my state of mind as I transitioned from a child into an adult while dealing with depression. You always hear “it gets better” and “when you’re older things will be easier” and I was so sick of waiting for it to get better. I was in the middle-generation stage. And I was sick of it. I was so sick of waiting.
When I was in highschool I didn’t know how to end the story. I didn’t know how to have a happy ending. I didn’t have the life experience then to finish the story in a meaningful way. I didn’t know how to make it better for these middle-generation characters.
But now that I’m older, I’m learning. That if you sit and wait for things to get better, it never will. You have to take your life and break it apart and rearrange it into something beautiful. You have to make the cold metal ship into the garden that you deserve. You have to make your own meaning. You have to plant your own garden.
You have to teach yourself that being happy is not a radical idea.
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teachimera · 1 month
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being neutral about other peoples kinks is necessary by the way. when consenting adults are doing things between consenting adults, and you prioritize your discomfort over their autonomy and right to exist safely in a space without having their private interests excavated and recontextualized to make them out to be predators, that says way more about your willingness to place yourself in the position of moral authority than it does about them and you deputizing yourself on the basis of nothing but vibes and your personal traumas makes you very dangerous politically.
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teachimera · 1 month
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technically we’re ALL, always LARPing, because the Self is only a construct,
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teachimera · 1 month
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teachimera · 1 month
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Alt. Story Yaga
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teachimera · 1 month
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we honestly need to debunk the myth of the “warm pillow and blankie in bed.” the blankie is not warm it is a SCAM when the blankie “keeps you warm and cozy” it is because of YOUR natural body heat that blankie just holds in. thats right. youre doing most of the work and your blankie is taking the credit. but really what can you expect these days
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teachimera · 1 month
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The super bowl or whatever I'm not american
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teachimera · 1 month
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2002 Michigan Renaissance Festival
Wiener Dog in Armor
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teachimera · 1 month
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I have no concept of tmi you should tell me everything
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teachimera · 1 month
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sometimes i feel like dogs get frustrated that they can't talk. like obviously they have their own ways of communicating and don't seem to need it most of the time, but sometimes they get all squirrelly in a way that makes me feel like they're furiously button-mashing trying to figure out how to communicate something. i feel like they've been with us long enough that some of them can figure out that we can transmit more precise information and abstract ideas with language, and if they wiggle and roll around enough maybe they can unlock that power too
i don't think cats have this problem. i think they do communicate, but if communication doesn't work you just need to communicate more and maybe louder
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teachimera · 1 month
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Breq is underrated as fictional AIs go because her solution to ‘all powerful space empire ruined my life’ was: gun
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teachimera · 1 month
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teachimera · 1 month
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Good evening to my short kings
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