Personal Void Scream

there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

“women, especially straight women have so few outlets” so what exactly do you think lesbians have? like why does it always come back to straight women???

literally where are all these outlets for lesbian sexuality the op lives around

i'm literally a lesbian and while i've explained this several times, my point in this framing is that i do not have the same fears for my safety when engaging in NSA sex and hookup culture that straight women en masse have to contend with. if i want to meet a woman off an app and hook up after some basic vetting, i can be reasonably certain that if we're not vibing or the chemistry is off, i can leave safely and nothing bad will happen to me. i don't have to tell 6 people where i'm going and set up a bunch of check-ins and code words for my personal safety. straight women do. i have a reasonable spread of outlets for my sexuality as a dyke in a major east coast city but more importantly, i *do* feel luckier and better-off in this regard when compared to straight women who have to take far greater measures to ensure their personal safety and it takes away nothing from me to admit this. i'm a gay woman who has empathy for women who don't have the option to just withdraw from interacting with men while still getting their sexual and romantic needs met, cope and seethe about it i guess

An ableism that sometimes really pops out of people is allergies (+including gluten free either due to intolerance or esp celiac). Like people can be pro disability advocacy but then be like ew people are cringe allergic to stuff and make.it up for attention and are weird because of it and im.like hey man what

I got called an asshole at work because I'm allergic to grass. One lady loooooved having the windows in the office open, every single one. She would come in early to go around and open windows, no matter the temperature. And we are in the US so our office had A/C, so it wasn't a heat or cooling thing. She just really Had A Thing. I got hired, let them know I have quite a severe grass allergy and would need the office windows closed on the one day a week I came in. She got so pissed she started tormenting me. Escalated all the way to bringing grass clipping and putting them on my desk.

They killed our dragon and cake memes. The aro and ace dragon hoards are dead. But you know what? I survived and I’m the online version of a cockroach after a nuclear blast. I never forget.

"Only white people could-" wrong. Doesn't matter that you follow up with something negative instead of something positive. People of color have access to the full range of human experiences and thoughts, believe it or not, including those you deem negative, and are capable of behaving in ways you don't personally approve of. You guys would love phrenology I fear.

All of this, and it that they ignore what goes on in non-Western countries where the evil politicians are POC because that's what the majority of the country is. Or they just support it because those people are POC or anti-West.

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

dude i don't normally like to dig at peoples fun i generally think people having fun is good but it is slightly disheartening when there's a really really good story about a strong platonic relationship and then the only thing the fans can do is ship the characters or worse make a crack ship with an unrelated character from another media because it's like they can't STAND a lack of romance in media like they absolutely must try to insert romance where it is absolutely not needed or relevant and honestly sours the story/media a lot more for me or they'll Die because they can't just be happy with a really good platonic relationship. it makes me very sad as a demiromantic girlie.

there's a massive, underreported subculture on this site that i can only describe as secular mormonism if mormons voted democrat

shunning out the unwanted making a callout post + harassment campaign

What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?

My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually

Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.

What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.

I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.

@brainsforbabyjesus

OH HOW I LOVE THIS POST. It makes me so much happier about being alive. I AM BURNING VERY SLOWLY. *hugs it*

And once again, the internet makes learning history and science a thousand times more interesting than school ever did.

I love shit like this.

I was totally having thoughts along these lines and along comes tumblr to pretty much sum it all up. Bravo~

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You can’t own just one knight. They’re social creatures you must have a group of them. A group of knights is called a Guard. To maintain a healthy knight-based ecosystem, a squire must be provided for each knight in your Guard. Squires are an important form of enrichment and entertainment for you knights. They enjoy taking care of and teaching something and the squires admire the protection. Do NOT mix your Giggle (group of jesters) with an un-familiarized Guard. Knights are prone to attacking jesters if improperly introduced and provoked by jokes made at their Lord’s (you) expense.

Question: what's the best way to introduce them to each other? My Guard are quite boisterous at meals, which can prompt unexpected Knightly Acts and Games. How can I safely introduce my quite and sarcastic Giggle? They do such excellent improv and they just started doing Ironic Acrobatics, which I find delightful over a meal.