So what I think is that there's this default belief in patriarchy that men are superior to women and therefore the "masculine" sphere is superior to the "feminine" sphere. And so, as feminists have fought to expand the number of allowable female activities, men (on the aggregate over generations) have retreated from those activities because they're now seen as "feminine", and so partaking in them is incommensurate with their belief in their own superiority. And, unfortunately, as this has progressed, this has resulted in a lot of men sectioning themselves off from, frankly, everything that actually makes being alive worthwhile. It's a misery spiral, and the only way out is to abandon male supremacy.

#more women in higher education meaning fewer men is incredibly depressing to me. funny in a sad way#what happens when women will finally get into trades? will they just stop working

morrowind and stalker are like cousins to me. transported for reasons beyond your current knowledge to be left alone exploring a strange and hostile world where the wildlife is trying to kill you and the people are indifferent to your existence. neither the world or the game are helping you through it. alcohol is hugely helpful, theres terrifying things with tentacle faces, and theres an old bald guy telling you how to do the main quest

simultaneously both deeply foreign and strange and also feels like coming home

trying to mold my skates to my feet so it doesnt hurt so bad when i try to actually skate with them. so im gonna play morrowind while wearing skates so i dont have to walk around with them on (bad for the blades)

feet hurts :)

the style of writing is not the problem, not the genre, not the subject matter, not even the words themselves. the SINGLE defining issue with the “Tumblr Prose” style i was trying to tackle is that it’s front loaded with imagery and metaphor and completely lacking in sense, reason, symmetry, motion, conveying information. i agree that plenty of writing can sound good and feel good to read when it’s all metaphor and visceral images but it needs to have a baseline that can carry it through or else the tail wags the dog and it’s all cool “quotable” lines and no substance, nothing to read between the lines, no character