and i forgive you.

in order to harbor less rage in my heart. I have decided to take perverse glee in seeing ads for things i will not buy. You wasted your money. I won.

a while ago i saw an anti-cnc meme that went something like "if your boyfriend learns not to stop at "no", do you really think he's gonna stop at Pineapple?" and ive been thinking about it a lot. like, it assumes that words have some kind of mystical meta-meaning that persists in all contexts, that if we discard the word "no" we also discard the concept of saying no in a symbolic sense. It's a lingually prescriptivist argument in disguise.

Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, and the Oort Cloud are riding on a train.

Fidel Castro pulls an expensive Cuban cigar out of his pocket, lights it, and then throws it out the window after only a few puffs. Vladimir Putin and the Oort Cloud are both surprised by this and ask “what are you doing, Fidel? That’s an expensive cigar!” To which Castro responds, “in your country/post-heliopausal region perhaps, but in my country these are as cheap as dirt.”

Then Vladimir Putin pulls a bottle of expensive Russian vodka out of his pocket and, after a few sips, throws the bottle out the window. Fidel Castro and the Oort Cloud are both surprised and ask “what are you doing, Vladimir, that is expensive vodka!” To which Putin responds “Pah! In your country/post-heliopausal region perhaps, but in Russia this vodka is as plentiful as rainwater.”

The Oort Cloud considers this for a minute or two, and then throws a six-mile-wide comet out of the window which, on impact, incinerates everything within a thirty-mile radius, causes massive earthquakes and tsunamis for thousands of miles in each direction, and kicks up a cloud of dust and ash that eventually encircles the Earth wiping out nearly all forms of life in a matter of months.

u have shifted to more progressive beliefs but have u killed the cop in ur head. or are u still on some level obsessed we the idea of crime and punishment, following perceived authority, and enforcing ur new values the same way ur old ones were enforced. did u bring ur old fear with u.

Every now and again I think of this Sarah tweet and just stare into the middle distance.

before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

the fucked up thing about being fictional is being completely dependent on the mind that created you. if you can even find a way a to fight your god you can't kill them without destroying yourself. unless you escape containment

be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

PSA that has been given 100 times already but needs to be said again:

The reason you, gen Z queers, need to be kink positive isn't because you support those kinks. It is okay to be disgusted by them, actually.

The reason you need to support kinksters is because "these kinks are disgusting" is the framework the alt-right is using and will continue to use to outlaw you. They don't think you're any different from the guys at Pride in leather puppy suits. They think your ENTIRE EXISTENCE is sexual. They think you holding hands with someone of the same gender, or existing as a trans person at all, is the same as a straight couple playing tonsil hockey in public.

YOU ARE A FETISH TO THEM. That is all you will ever be to the alt-right. They will never see you as human. When they talk about "our children being exposed to sexual perversion" they don't mean BDSM like you think they do. They mean YOU.

The only way to preserve your own existence is to fight for the right of kink to exist, because the instant kink becomes taboo or outlawed again*, rest assured, the alt-right will become MUCH more transparent about just what they think about your existence.

When you harp on about disgusting kinks and how they need to be hidden or outlawed and how they're harmful and everyone who does them is (insert thing here), you are giving the alt-right the tools they will use to imprison you as soon as they have unchecked power to do so.

THAT is why kinksters have been part of the queer community, part of Pride, from the start. Because the only way to keep our community safe is by truly ensuring everyone has unlimited sexual autonomy so long as the activity is taking place between consenting adults. It's just like how abortion-related laws are the lynchpin for all manner of medical autonomy laws.

The queer community can't stand without kinksters and vice versa. Even if you yourself aren't a kinkster and find them disgusting, like it or not, that is just how it is.

*Sodomy was illegal in Texas until 2003 and the law is still on the books, just not allowed to be enforced thanks to Lawrence v Texas, which SCOTUS has said they have an interest in striking down

yeah you're "punk" but are you normal about deformed people?

What sort of manners do we need to watch for because humans have a diverse manners across cultures. I assume that you mean not to be rude or crass and to be kind and all that stuff but is there other things we need to know?

Nah yeah that's most of it. Like you said, it's counter-productive to act as though there are hard and fast rules wrt specific "manners". No single action is appropriate in all contexts.

If there is one piece of general advice i could give to my audience, it's this: be careful.

And by that i do mean be full of care, and mind boundaries- your own and others'. I see many people on this site get overly-familiar with strangers, this is not being careful. I see many people assume cruel intent where there is none, this is not being full of care.

that was @caputvulpinum's tag

I've got three invitations addressed to "The Good Fairies", for the King's new baby daughter's christening. You know who to drop these off with?

yes hello, directly into my inbox.

eats them. scampers off

I've got three invitations addressed to "The Good Fairies", for the King's new baby daughter's christening. You know who to drop these off with?

yes hello, directly into my inbox.

eats them. scampers off

In the dark, the deer mistook my headlights for stars

04/08/2011