Milf-devotee

when my cat got deadly sick she refused to eat a single thing and it had been days but when i started crying she ate just a little bit, and upon seeing how happy it made me, kept doing it whenever she could.

now whenever im sad or crying she finds wherever i am with a mouthful of food and eats the pieces one by one, every time looking up at me making sure i was watching her eat it all because she knew it made me happy. and it DOES make me happy

PT’s response reads, “I can't even wrap my head around people who think like this. I love imagining my characters in various scenarios and all the intricate, complex ways they react to things. That's literally the entire reason they exist, that's the FUN PART

[head in hands]”

For reblog by vigil-of-the-red-waste: a poem by Abigail Sims:

ChatGPT fucks my wife

and I’m really not all that pressed about it. A natural evolution on our path to enlightenment, the fatal flaw made obsolete.

She enjoys the median output of the best lovers in history: Alcibiades’ favorite positions, King Edward’s lessons from the sex chair. Cleopatra’s dominating presence, Solomon’s finest poetry, in a package just the right size, delivered how and when she wants it—

Work smarter, not harder, right?

It sends me an automated email to let me know the labor I’ve conserved in a weekly insights report: Hours logged, achievements reached, orgasms tallied.

It saves me on average 15 minutes a day, every day, that I can spend checking my email.

But I press my ear against the door, sometimes, and wonder what I'm missing.

"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me"

I’m a child of indian immigrants in the west and I thought I understood casteism because we definitely brought that shit over with us to the new country, but I don’t think I really understood it until my dad was talking about his childhood.

we were talking about his childhood in the first place because he’s having some issues with his brothers right now (he’s the youngest kid and his brothers can’t accept that he’s a grown man that makes his own decisions (he’s 60)) and he was talking about how they used to be so close and their childhood was so good and blessed but then he was like ‘but maybe it was always rotten, maybe there was always this seed of judgement in us’

he was talking about how they, an upper mid caste family in a tiny farming village, would hire low caste workers to help out during the harvest. as part of their wages, they would get meals from the family. but because they were low caste, they weren’t allowed to use the same plates and cutlery as my family. it was thought that them using the dishes would permanently contaminate them. they weren’t even allowed to keep their own ‘contaminated’ plates in the house. instead, they would take their meals on banana leaf plates. and I was like ‘ok that’s fucked up but banana leaf plates are commonly used by all castes’

then my dad explained ‘if we were to give them sambar, they would dig a small hole in the ground and line it with leaves, and we would ladle the sambar into that. if they wanted water, we would ladle handfuls of it into their hands and they would drink it all and silently ask for the next ladle. this was part of my daily chores as a child, to feed grown men in such a degrading way. something about it felt wrong to me, but I was a child who couldn’t understand why.’

I was already shocked at that but then he continued ‘once, there were no banana leaves, so I went to give him the plate I was holding. the man wouldn’t even take it from me, knowing how the rest of my family would react. when he accidentally brushed against it, I was surprised and dropped the plate. he then picked up the plate and built a small fire from the branches nearby and threw the plate in. these were steel plates, so they could survive that. he then used a different leaf to pick up the plate once it had cooled enough to give it back to me. not once had I even spoken or asked him to do this, but he knew that the plate needed to be purified before it entered our house. I think I was eight years old.’

I think this was coming up for him because he was already realizing that his family weren’t always good people based on their interactions with him and this made him see their actions through a new light. my dad left the village and eventually the country fairly young so I think he hadn’t interrogated his fond childhood memories like that. honestly, it made me think less of my family.

I’ve heard some people compare castes to different sects of christianity and I don’t think that’s a good comparison. that’s bias based on thinking you’re the best. casteism is having a hierarchy and knowing exactly where you stand in that hierarchy and knowing that you can’t change that no matter what. that you are dirty and that you were born dirty and that you will never be clean.

- just because your family is one of the "good" brahmins does not make the existence of caste any less evil. It's a bit like saying "not all white people!" or "not all men!" If you are of a privileged caste of any kind you neet stfu about your perspective on caste and listen to marginalized peoples.

- if you are non-SAsian and this is your first time learning about this. LEARN MORE. educate yourselves, but be cautious. Many sources claiming to educate people on the history, purpose, and organization of caste are covertly or overtly aligned with hindutva fascist ideology.

- In that vein, if you don't know what hindutva is. LEARN. It is a deeply pervasive and disgusting ethnoreligious nationalistic movement. It is deeply intertwined with casteism, racism, antiblackness, nazism, eugenics, islamaphobia, xenophobia, and more.

- CASTEISM EXISTED LONG BEFORE COLONIZATION. Any person or source that claims otherwise (or that casteism was specifically installed or systematically upheld by european colonizers) are WRONG and are spouting HINDUTVA PROPAGANDA. The colonizers only weaponized what already existed.

- CASTEISM TRANSCENDS RELIGION. Muslims and Christians in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and beyond are also beholden to caste divisions. This is a result of cultural syncretism. Your anecdotal experience as a Muslim/Christian/whtv. South Asian who has never witnessed casteism in your community is purely that---anecdotal.