ye olde "blog"

Goodbye white people no more cheeseboard

What have white people ever done to deserve this?

and like really the thing is just that, like any other form of abstinence-only education (whether it be abstinence from sex altogether or from unprotected or other higher-risk sex), treating STIs as a moral failing and/or a horror story is directly counter to the best possible measure against widespread unchecked infection, which is regular testing. getting tested and knowing your partners' stasuses is the #1 thing that can allow you to treat infections when they happen, make informed decisions about the sex you're having, access prep and pep when relevant etc. and frankly that testing does not happen in a social environment where a positive is treated as the end of the world, because stupid or not, many people will respond to said environment by avoiding testing altogether so that they don't have to reckon with the possibility

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imagine if you couldn't buy video games anymore because one corporation spent the past several years becoming a monopoly on the home video game market and they fumbled it so bad that everyone in america collectively agreed to go back to playing arcade games instead. if you think this sounds like it would be literally 1984. you'd be correct

“come, let us march against the powers of heaven, and set black streamers in the firmament to signify the slaughter of the gods” is such a raw line you’d think it’s from Shakespeare, but it’s actually from the slightly earlier Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe