Blue Rambling

People do not see masculinity as being as fluid and complex and nuanced as femininity and it’s annoying as hell. Because of patriarchy’s stranglehold on masculinity and radfem theory’s stranglehold on queer spaces, people really think with their whole heart that only femininity is subversive or experimental, or frankly, queer, and that masculinity is only a power grab and nothing more. Embarrassing!

despite everything, it’s still you (derogatory)

i think before you marry someone, you should sit down and go through the AITA subreddit with them and see what their take on those situations is

also, since this has turned into actual advice: you should talk through why you think what you think, even when you agree, because you might not be agreeing for the same reasons.

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

why does it take SO much energy to keep your house only sort of clean

"How did you spend the first day of pride month Lauren?" listening to women talk about dead things they picked up off the ground and want to display on the walls. To be clear this is the best thing ever. Happy pride :)

ok guys but imagine how hard it's gonna hit if something good ever happens again

I grew up in a jar and my bones grew into the shape of the jar, so a lot of regular human things are very stunted in me. it feels safer to allow them to remain that way because if there's anything more humiliating than being jar-shaped it's having to admit and address the consequences of growing up in a jar. it gets worse the longer I let it go because the older I am the more embarrassing it is to not have learned how to use those muscles, and the less it feels like an excuse that I was in a jar twenty years ago. there's no point to this post except Bonsai Kitten Problems.