too tired to sleep

using gender neutral language doesn't pretend that women don't exist. gender neutral language is gender neutral, and should be used because menstruation and anything related to it is gender neutral. using "women + people who menstruate" still puts a focus on menstruation being a "woman thing", which it is not.

to say that menstruation only affects the female sex regardless of gender is also incorrect as some intersex people have a menstrual cycle. and not all cis women have periods either, so "people who menstruate" is the most inclusive term for all.

- Garbage man.

- Line cook (Boston dirt bag flavor)

- Line cook (Montreal bisexual flavor)

- Guy who secretly has a degree from MIT but he works for a start up that lets you take your dog to work and take weed breaks so everyone assumes he's unemployed because they see him wearing slides and a hoodie on Tuesdays

- Trust fund baby

- He and Troy are doing whatever those guys from Smosh are doing nowadays

- Banksy.

- Male equivalent of a Victoria's Secret Angel.

- Actually legitimately just unemployed.

Mainly because 1. Ilya lives with him and 2. Shane gets so fucking squirrely when he is asked about it 3. Ilya always has weed when Shane throws team parties or goes out and he occasionally brings Ilya. 4. He's always hanging around sketchy Russians (these are crucially just his Russain diaspora friends, like Svetlana, who are also not millionaires).

Hayden: (making Shane sit on a bench in the locker room, leading this as Shane's best friend) "Listen dude, we really didn't want to have this talk, but we think it's kinda important."

Shane: ....?

Hayden: "Look, we get you have addiction problems. I mean, a good number of us here have some issues with drinking, so no one is shaming you. This doesn't make you a bad person. But we're getting really worried about what this might do to your body long term-"

Shane: "Excuse me, what? Addiction problems-"

JJ: "Shane, buddy. I'll admit I've done some stuff over the years; I'm a party animal, we all know this. I know the signs of addiction from myself and friends. You are constantly tense when you don't have a hit from your dealer after just 24 hours; it's concerning. On trips you get tense as shit because he can't give you something- you leave mid events with him to get a hit, then come back-"

Shane: (Standing up) "Wait wait wait, back up; you think Ilya is my drug dealer?"

The whole team kinda shrugs murmurs of yes's and agreements.

Comeau: "Shane, you're so hooked that you had the guy come live with you. That's concerning ass behavior, you need rehab or something."

Shane: (So confused he lowkey might laugh) Guys, I'm gay.

The whole locker room goes silent; you could hear a pin drop.

Shane: "Ilya is my boyfriend. I'm leaving events to go spend time with my boyfriend when I get overwhelmed or I'm too tired for other people's bullshit after a long game. I get tense on trips because I miss my boyfriend."

The whole room is silent still, processing that, not really sure what to say, and Shane interprets that as he thinks that think that Ilya is both drug dealer and boyfriend.

Shane: "I am only addicted to one needle, and it is the one in between my boyfriend's legs, okay. No drugs involved. Goodness.."

Shane turns away from them, shaking his head, and starts packing his bag up for the night; it had been a long ass practice, and all he wanted to do is go home and lay between his boyfriend's legs.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

BUT

torrent fans on reddit are planning to donate to lavender rights project when abbey murphy scores!

Lavender Rights Project (LRP) is advancing gender self-determination, collective safety, and community-rooted systems of care. We work at the intersections of housing justice, policy transformation, movement lawyering, and narrative power to shift cultural norms and expand what safety and liberation can look like for Black, Trans and gender-expansive people.

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado