romancing the misanthrope

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

Am reading PHM after seeing and loving the film and I'm realizing that it is an academic's fantasy of getting kidnapped into your dream job with, oh no, all the resources and funding and exciting important space adventures! It's like fifty shades for asexual researchers

as someone who's asexual, aegosexual if you're fancy, headcanoning ryland grace as aro ace is 1. very important to me and 2. should NOT prevent people from letting him be a freaky monster fucker. yeah.

When you think about it, Shirley Jackson's The Lottery is a wholesome story about preserving beloved community traditions in the face of a judgmental and hostile modernity.

I absolutely fucking hate this. Gold star, no notes.

what do you mean my disability disables my abilities? what the fuck

after a lot of introspection i have come to a decision to stop yearning for human connection👍

relapsed again