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alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
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Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
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Little signs you are healing (even if it doesnât feel like it):
You pause before reacting, even if itâs just for a second.
You notice your thoughts instead of immediately believing all of them.
You have moments, small, quiet ones where things feel a little lighter, even if they donât last long.
You are starting to recognize what hurts you, even if you donât know how to fix it yet.
You come back to yourself a little faster than you used to.
You let yourself rest sometimes, without as much guilt.
You are more aware of what you need, even if you struggle to give it to yourself.
You are trying. Even on the days where it feels like you are failing, you are still here, still moving through it.
You have days that feel okay, and instead of them feeling impossible, they feel⌠real, even if unfamiliar.
You are learning that not every thought deserves your attention.
You are still hurting sometimes, but it doesnât feel exactly the same as before.
Healing doesnât always look like big changes.
Sometimes it looks like this, small shifts, quiet awareness, softer moments that come and go.
And even if it doesnât feel like progress, it is.
You are not stuck in the exact same place you were before.
Something in you is changing.
Even if itâs slow. Even if itâs subtle.
It still counts.
There is a very specific kind of sadness in realizing your parents loved you, and still did not always know how to meet your emotional needs.
Because it is confusing. It would almost feel easier if there was no love there at all. But sometimes there was love. In the way they tried to protect you. In the sacrifices they made. In the ways they worried about you, cared for you, wanted a good life for you.
And at the same time, there were still things missing.
Maybe comfort did not come in the way you needed it to. Maybe your feelings were not always understood, or noticed, or handled gently. Maybe you learned to keep certain parts of yourself quiet because it felt easier than trying to explain them.
That kind of hurt is difficult because it does not always come from cruelty. Sometimes it comes from people who loved you deeply, but did not know how to emotionally connect in the ways you needed. People carrying their own wounds, limitations, fears, or ways of surviving.
And you are allowed to acknowledge both truths at once.
You are allowed to recognize their love and still grieve what you needed but did not receive. Those things do not cancel each other out.
Forgiveness, for a lot of people, is not pretending nothing hurt you. It is slowly accepting that someone can love you and still fall short of understanding you completely.
That does not make your pain dramatic. It does not make them monsters either. Sometimes it just means everyone was trying with the emotional tools they had, and some of those tools were not enough.
And I think many people quietly carry guilt for still feeling hurt by parents they know tried their best. But being loved imperfectly can still leave wounds. It makes sense that it affected you.
At the same time, you do not have to stay trapped only in anger forever either. Sometimes healing looks like understanding that your parents were human before they were parents. People shaped by their own experiences, their own upbringing, their own emotional gaps.
That understanding does not erase your feelings. It just softens the sharp edges around them a little.
You deserved emotional safety. You deserved gentleness. You deserved to feel understood, comforted, and emotionally close to the people raising you.
And if they could not fully give that to you, it is okay to mourn it.
But I hope you also know this: the love you needed is still something you can experience in your life. Through other people. Through chosen family. Through the way you learn to treat yourself now.
The story does not end at what you did or did not receive growing up.
You are still allowed softness after all of it đ¤

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[as if this is not a normal and natural human thing to want] yeah i just really want to connect with people for some reason. Like some weird loser freak
this is true and all. but also never stop talking about your ship because if itâs what makes you happy then you can and should talk about it for yourself and your own enjoyment too.
thereâs nothing wrong with the tweet in the screenshot, but I feel like weâve forgotten that shipping and fandom are first and foremost for ourselves and our own enjoyment, not if the ship is popular or if thereâre enough people shipping it.
just have fun. fandom and shipping is about yourself and your own enjoyment.
Video captions: And stop trying to show your ex what they missed out on! Stop trying to teach your family a lesson for not believing in you! Stop trying to shit on your haters! Do it for you! Do it because you deserve it! Do it for YOU! Water your dreams with love! Donât put no hate and resentment, and try to â âoh Imma fucking show them, Imma showâ â FUCK THEM! Fuck them, do it for you! They donât matter! They NEVER mattered.
Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.
Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health đđž
Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-
So we all talk about being in fandoms for things that are charmingly bad, and being able to acknowledge that theyâre charmingly bad. But of course some people are in fandoms for things that are Actually Amazing. There are people out there who write fanfiction for The Best Science Fiction Novel Of The Twentieth Century. Or who draw fanart exclusively of The Best Movie of All Time. And there are even more people who are in fandoms for things that are Actually Pretty Good, which is not quite amazing but is closer to it than to Charmingly Bad.
And sometimes, you have a string of fandoms that are Actually Pretty Good. And the danger of thisâthe very great dangerâis that when you have a string of Actually Pretty Good and even Actually Amazing obsessions, you start to believe that maybe you have taste. Perhaps you are now immune to the indignities of losing it over something mostly bad.
And then it is shattering to discover that no, bad things can still stick a fork in your brain. đ
So I understand why the âtransformative fandom gathers around things that are not good because there being a problem makes people desire to fix itâ model is popular. I even agree that itâs accurate in many if not most cases. However it is not what this post is about. Plenty of people do transformative and creative fandom activities for things that are very, very good. Simplified models do not encompass everything.
And frankly, itâs starting to really get on my nerves when people read âI think this thing is good. I wouldnât change a thing about it and frankly I donât even think there should be more canon added to it, but I am still going to write thousands of words of fic, make a cosplay, and draw fanartâ and then completely misunderstand and respond with âyes I agreeâI like things that are good too. But I never feel the transformative/creative fandom instinct for them because they are too good.â
Some people do not feel it. Other people do. Stop misreading me to avoid having to adjust your mental model of how fandom works.
one of the ways a Canon work can be fandom bait is by missing something that fans want to fix, i.e. "it's bad", but i think this is only one way out of multiple that something can be fandom bait.
compelling worldbuilding (invites interaction with the setting)
interesting gimmick (see: daemons, drift compatibility. subcategory of compelling worldbuilding)
shipping bait (duh)
original character bait (in-universe categories/factions and design elements that make it fun for people to create their own characters)
compelling narrative (invites interaction and tweaks to the storyline: AUs and fixits and so on)
basically anything that invites interaction and recombination. but fandom also has a sort of multiplying effect: the larger the interactive audience of fandom is, the more likely it is to generate ideas and works that draw in more participants. so:
network effect (the larger the established fandom, the more likely it has subfandoms and infrastructure that appeals to niche audiences)
Yes this exactly, thank you bless.
Things that have space to play in are fandom bait, but space to play in does not equal holes.

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my 100% failproof way to handle reactionaries asking why i donât shave at all is going âbecause i donât want toâ it works because what they really want is an argument about the merits of feminism, and theyâll draw it out and try to convince you itâs a cult or whatever, but you can avoid it all by sticking to âi just donât wanna. donât feel like itâ and if they argue with you about it you can use your ultimate ability, which is âiâm sorry i thought it was a free country?â which, believe me, they cannot come back from. theyâll either drop it or start harping on something you didnât say, and itâs important you donât take the bait at that point. when they canât argue with what you say, they assume your beliefs and attack those. and you crucially must be visibly baffled at their change of direction because it will make them seem and possibly feel crazy (which they are). âi donât want to shaveâ is a perfect response because truly it all comes down to autonomy and the ability to do what you want. theyâll try to say âfeminism makes you think you have to do thatâ and itâs important to not take that bait. to reiterate that you donât know what they mean and you just donât like shaving and that itâs really weird to look into it that deep. this works i promise
they just donât do any classic homophobic children moments like this anymoreÂ
There was really no winning that one
Please remember that Pride is important because someone tonight still believes theyâre better off dead than being themselves.
i think with how many jokes we make about pride and how happy we are about it, we need to understand why we have it. to appreciate people who lost their lives or are currently losing their lives for being themselves. remember the people who fought to give us the rights we have today. there are still so many people who are homophobic or transphobic, and that is what we need pride for. it is our job to be proud of ourselves so the bigots donât win. show them weâre not going away. pride month is about loving yourself and others no matter their sexuality
Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars everything is now 200 dollars
I'm having my weekly crashout over the fact that billionaires exist, and that all the things I'm trying to save for that are at this point impossible dreams - a breast reduction, a switch 2, a down payment for a house - would be easily attainable with what for them would be pocket change.
Unfortunately MY daddy is a mechanic, and THEY by and large inherited generational wealth or had parents to support them while they took financial risks. So they can have more money than god, and all I got are these big tiddies I don't even want. đ
Related aside: people who unironically tell you to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" missed the joke. You can grab your own boots and pull and pull and pull, but you ain't going up that way, that's for sure.

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I'm having my weekly crashout over the fact that billionaires exist, and that all the things I'm trying to save for that are at this point impossible dreams - a breast reduction, a switch 2, a down payment for a house - would be easily attainable with what for them would be pocket change.
Unfortunately MY daddy is a mechanic, and THEY by and large inherited generational wealth or had parents to support them while they took financial risks. So they can have more money than god, and all I got are these big tiddies I don't even want. đ
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone