juno steel and the audacity of they/thems

ohhhhh my name is paul baker and after passing out from a marathon i wake up to a beautiful woman on me like an angel and she gives me water and takes me back to her place and we make out on the couch for a bit and then i fall asleep only to wake up to a beautiful man on me who is in the middle of pulling off an insanely elaborate lie to his coworkers. and im sexually fluid. boy fuck you

characters making themselves have sex with people because they're longing for something they'll never find, characters disgusted by physical intimacy but into getting a story out of it, characters who never say no, characters who aren't victims and push themselves into uncomfortable situations, characters who could enjoy sex but won't because they refuse to share what they like, characters repulsed by things others find incomprensible, characters repeating the same patterns over and over, characters who use well-meaning others to hurt themselves

You literally just need to talk to some trans people who are over the age of 40 in person. I promise.

Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”

The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America

I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.

"cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas"

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

a type of guy that exists and that you get often exposed to as a sex worker is the type of guy who found out they like being dommed and now sincerely believe that they have overcome their misogyny, because now instead of treating women like submissive sex objects, they treat women like dominant sex objects.