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Minchowski
Ana - pronouns: they/hir I'm bi, ace, and genderfluid
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One of the most memorable interactions was Saturday. Into our booth strolls a small family, tempted by free samples of freshly brewed tea. We chatter and give them the spiel, that the tea is character merch and we’re a cozy health-based app called Forage Friends.
The young girl zeroes in on our pride pins.
“They have my pin!” She says excitedly. “They have my flag!”
The dad blinks. He is surprised, but also calm and positive when he sees it’s the lesbian flag. “Oh. That’s… different from what you told me.”
“That was months ago, dad.” And she rolls her eyes. Definitely a teenager.
I turn to him and say, “Yeah, dad.” And we share a little laugh about it.
He says, “No, it’s great. That’s amazing, honey. It was just news to me.”
“Well, I guess I just decided to stop lying to myself. About liking guys. Like right now.”
A little lesbian just came out to her dad and he was super cool about it.
I’m standing there in my tie-dye mask and my cheery blue apron pouring tea and making small talk and I’m trying really hard not to cry or compare it to my experience, the fire & brimstone, the disgust, the conditional acceptance as long as I never bring it up.
So as this beautiful bonding is going on, the girl’s even younger brother turns his gaze around. He’s in a snorlax hoodie and bored and wants to go look at the swords across the hall. But on the other side of our booth….
“WHY DO PEOPLE DRAW THAT?” He asks loudly, and we all turn to our neighboring booth.
Our neighbors were extremely lovely people. Every time we had a break we would talk, and we became good friends over the weekend. They kept apologizing that their booth was next to ours and we kept repeating that it was totally fine. Their booth was great. I even bought their merchandise.
The thing that was so contentious, that they felt the need to apologize for, was that they were selling explicit titty hentai stickers of popular characters. They were censored with little yellow R18 labels but the content was very clear.
So back to the family: I freeze and immediately go somewhere else to let dad handle this question. With adult customers I’ve been loud and positive about our neighbors. (“Man, how has it been boothing next to them?” It’s been great! They bring a lot of foot traffic and they’re kind and wonderful professional neighbors. If anything it’s a fun juxtaposition. We believe in artistic freedom. I bought a sticker too!)
But this is a kid, it’s not my place to explain anything…. But I was extremely curious about what this chill dad would say.
“Well,” dad says with a long measured silence between each word. “Sometimes people are horny.”
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did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”
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I'm from the US, and I really need an option that starts a 3-4 hours. Because, like, if I'm leaving the state, I'll definitely consider that a road trip, but if I'm just going to a friend's house, they might genuinely be 2 hours away with traffic.
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Anon said: This one may be stupid but mine color change so I never know
Feel free to tag your eye colour!
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I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently
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https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQuxw52/
I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
#very irritating in a traditionally published novel#I have some first printings that are nearly 500 pages long and have at least one notable mistake on every single page#that gets annoying#but if I saw the exact same thing in a self-pub book it would be fine#it's really dependent on the situation
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If you're allergic to more than one of these, answer with whatever you have the most frequent or worst reactions to.
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
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adhd gothic
you want to watch a movie. you put it on. two hours have passed. you haven’t watched the movie. there are five new tasks in front of you. you want to watch a different movie.
there is an object in your hand. it is extremely important you don’t lose it. you look down. there is nothing in your hand.
you don’t know your friend’s name. you’ve been friends for months. they just told you their name. you do not know their name.
your friend doesn’t laugh at your joke. why didn’t they laugh? do they hate you? they assure you otherwise. you know they are lying. did they ever like you?
someone asks you what you just said. did you say something? you said so many things. you said nothing. you said everything.
there is something you’re forgetting. you check. you check again. there is nothing you’re forgetting. there is something you’re forgetting.
you had something to say. you can’t remember. it was important. wasn’t it? you can’t remember.
there is a task that needs to be done. it should take ten minutes. you check the clock. it’s been five minutes. you check the clock. it’s been two days.
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mine has to have an apostrophe added to be even slightly pronounceable
Anch'shl does seem reasonably draconic, though
YOUR DRAGON NAME
last two letters of your first name
middle two letters of your last name
first two letters of your mother’s name
last letter of your father’s name
mine would be Urlelan. Reblog and tag this with yours!
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*person has consented to being eaten; they’ve donated their body. they died without suffering. you can cook the meat. you will not get sick from the meat.
bonus: explain why!
#no#I have a biology degree#I literally spent time learning about kuru and other prion diseases#even if safety were guaranteed#I'd just be way too in my head for it#also I'm a picky eater
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i think that killing a dragon should have catastrophic nuclear-fallout level environmental consequences tbh. their blood should scorch and wither the earth with fire and poison, the toxic fumes released as they decay should choke the land and all nearby living creatures, and the entire landscape where they fell should be transformed into a blighted wasteland where bleached leviathan bones loom upwards out of the ground as a warning that can be seen from miles away, the boundary markers of an exclusion zone.
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So in the last two weeks, I've had two different middle-aged men ask me my pronouns. Which is super cool for me 'cause it gives the impression that I'm doing a better job of passing than usual. Given that usually no one questions anything, and everyone uses feminine terms for me (an nb afab dude). For context, both conversations were had in private residences owned by mutual friends of ours.
So, yeah, dude 1 last week was very I don't want to offend you or anything, but are you a guy or a girl? And I was like both? neither? why would I be offended? I want people to ask; the lack of clarity is on purpose. I'm nonbinary, and we briefly discussed pronouns, and I allowed that while I prefer they/them that he/him would be acceptable if that was easier. Best part: he called me out for not telling everyone when we were introducing ourselves, and I'm like, no one else included their pronouns in their introduction, and also Mark specifically corrected someone who misgendered me because apparently Mark Meer won't stand for that even accidentally.
And then dude 2 today was like I don't want to be offensive and like made gestures clearly referring to the fact that I have a bit of facial hair and couldn't make himself ask the question. And I finally had to just have mercy on the poor bastard and tell him it's they/them. Best part: our host genuinely greeted me by calling out my new look and pointing out the facial hair and being all 'I'm not surprised,' which (1) made me a bit self conscious and (2) was a funny response from a person who hasn't seen me in 4 years.
And it's just really cool to me that multiple people have asked in a pretty short span of time. And it's very odd to watch people tie themselves in knots to not insult you by mentioning things you're very clearly doing on purpose and are thrilled to have noticed.
I mean, I am nonbinary and I want people to ask me the question. So it's upsetting to me that people are so scared they're going to insult me by asking. Are cis gender nonconforming people upset by being asked for their pronouns? Like, who's actually insulting by this?
I did, also relatively recently, have dinner with a work colleague who just straight out asked me what the correct pronouns for me are nowadays. And I just really appreciated that shit. And then was like what did I do to make you ask, because I want to make sure I'm doing that for everybody. And then she got all self-conscious about having asked, and I'm like, 'no. you did a good thing, and i want to push more people to do the thing.'
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as stupid as this is, it is an important part of Georgia Tech tradition now since this is how they got the nickname ‘The Ramblin’ Wrecks”
as in there’s a line in one of their fight songs “I’m a ramblin’ wreck from Georgia Tech and a helluva engineer”
but I don’t think most people outside the Wreck Club, the band, or the football team would necessarily know the origin story of the nickname (I was in the GT marching band)
#amazingly despite auburn pulling this shit#we still have more animosity towards uga#granted they were more violent#like throwing rocks and someone got cut#clean old fashioned hate#in 2013 someone in their student section threw an empty beer bottle at me because i was in marching band uniform#no one who cares that much about college football is entirely sane#but i swear they take it to a different level entirely
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