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Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.

InsNe that dishwashers are more efficient and easier than just washing them manually but they also use less water. It’s a win win situation

They ALSO sterilize dishes, due to operating at a far higher temperature than human hands could ever tolerate. It's a win every way.

I absolutely adore dogs but I think dog haters are (usually) more justified than cat haters wrt their reasoning

i like to think that kaz is ambidextrous not for fighting in the barrel, not for sleight of hand, forgery, or lockpicking, but because jesper is left handed and used to always sit next to kaz at restaurants so that their elbows would bump together and kaz eventually got ragebaited enough to do something about it

to bite. Fondly.

love is stored in the throat offered willingly AND in the teeth sinking in. Or something

I know litcrit isn't for everyone And That's Fine but god it makes me so frustrated when someone responds to a piece of analysis with "I don't like that and it makes me uncomfortable so therefore it's laughably wrong and you're crazyyyyy for saying it." the classic example of this is how straight people often respond to basic queer readings ("lmao they're literally just friends you're clearly a virgin loser who's never had normal friends before"), but I'm also thinking about how fan people on tumblr sometimes respond to analyses that imply unpleasant things about characters they like or vice versa ("that scene doesn't mean anything it was improv it was a mistake they kept it in by accident it's obviously irrelevant it's distasteful to acknowledge you're actually the weird one for bringing up something so fucked up"). in my ap lit class in high school we had a substitute come in on the day we were supposed to discuss seamus heaney's "blackberry-picking" and he got absolutely scandalized at a bunch of seventeen-year-olds telling him that this poem about picking blackberries had a lot of uneasy sexual subtext, he told us we had twisted dirty minds, then when our regular teacher came back the next day she said "yeah that's exactly what the poem's about."

I'm not exaggerating the "that's wrong and you're crazy" btw, I have been called specifically "delusional" for textually-supported litcrit a remarkable number of times. some people would genuinely rather try to gaslight me than sit with an interpretation of a piece of fiction that disagrees with them.

any other aromantic people ever thinking about how scary it is being an adult in a world where romantic relationships, in which people generally prioritize their commitment over their friends, leads you into situations where you know if it came to it everyone around you could, like, move far away due to work/life/general circumstance, and you're just kinda the fodder left behind, not because they don't love you or value you, but because you're not the priority. and you can't really get upset at them for it because they're making the choices they need to make in their life to be happier and you're happy about that but you also can't act like you're happy with the cards currently at your disposal and you're always a little antsy about it because, well, yeah sure maybe your friends would be okay with you moving in or living with you if you needed to. and for the sake of sustainability, convenience, or necessity, that may very well be what happens. but would you be satisfied with that? would you be happy? you know that's not really what you want, not like that. maybe you want to be the definite priority. maybe that's selfish to ask for. but your closest friends have life goals that aren't your own, which is fine and you'd never blame them for that or get in their way of getting it, but where does that lead you in the end? when will it be you? when will it be You

And then when you're angry about this other aromantic people tell you it's just internalized amatonormativity.

IT IS NOT SELFISH TO FEEL LONELY

my futile wish is for people to understand that "sex scenes in movies/TV don't have to serve the plot and can genuinely just be for pleasure" and "sex-repulsed people are allowed to complain about how rare it is for media made for adults like them to be something they can enjoy completely" are both true statements. unfortunately society hates both sex and people who don't like sex, so everyone gets far too defensive about any sex or lack thereof in fiction to actually have this conversation

I need a movie that's just stratt so bad. there doesn't even need to be a plot

all the people coming up with potential plots have some great ideas but misunderstand the original point of the post. I want to watch 2 hours and 30 minutes of eva stratt doing mundane tasks and nothing else.

Whatttt is with the tendency of Tumblr users to seek absolution from every single person who offhandedly posts about disagreeing with something they do

I say this not unkindly, but firmly: to function as a member of a social species, you have to get comfortable with the idea that not everyone will like you