No offense but I think some of you would be a lot happier writing a fictional atlas or encyclopedia instead of a narrative story
Concur! Go forth and write your Dragonology and your Guidebook to Fairyland! Write a traveler’s diary of a setting! These are fun and legitimate things to do!
watching this random video that popped up in my feed that’s “wearing a shock collar and getting shocked every time I swear” and. this is just bdsm. like I’m watching it and they’re just doing. they’re just doing bdsm and I feel like they just didn’t think about it and never considered whether they’re doing bdsm because apparently they don’t know each other and are doing a silly youtube video but jesus christ I’m just watching this girl get dominated virtually with a smile on her face each time she gets shocked and I feel like the pervert for saying something about it
like I think bdsm has just been so widely spread around as this pervert sex thing that it’s wrapped around to the point where someone can genuinely believe that just because they’re not actively horny that strapping a shock collar to your neck and giving the controls to a stranger on the internet who constantly abuses that power is like. just normal. which it is! technically. but isn’t this crazy
if only more people understood that laughing and being horny are basically the same thing
whatever whatever the “dopamine addiction” industry is lying to you the point of life is to have as broad a range of pleasures as you can. the problem with dependency is not that it’s evil to be dependent on something, it’s that it can be unhealthy to rely completely on a singular source of happiness/pleasure/escape. this does not make the desire to escape inherently evil or some kind of inherent weakness. you are not addicted to dopamine you have a habit of relying on one thing for all your needs and that is a habit you can change slowly over time without complete ‘abstinence’ so to speak. and comparing any of this to a substance addiction is unhelpful + unhealthy + will get your local addict (me) to kick you in the shins very hard
Asexual people who feel pressured into having sex when they don’t want to and queer people that are afraid or ashamed of having sex even though they want to are actually being repressed by the same societal forces but nobody seems to want to talk about that
Society at large wants you to experience sex in a very predictable way. It might feel like the “other side” of this problem is actually more societally accepted but this isn’t true. Society not only demands that you have sex but it demands you have a specific type of sex in a specific type of body with a specific type of person with another different specific type of body.
Having sex with a body outside the norm or with a person outside the norm in a way outside the norm is seen as rediculous. So is opting out of sex altogether. In reality both are seen as unacceptable.
The desires of those who don’t want sex and those who want sex that’s seen as abnormal by society may be different but the thing that’s stopping us from living how we want is the same.
i cant believe that there’s still gamergate STANK on games that women enjoy. NASTY misogyny residue. stardew valley is in fact a video game. animal crossing is also a video game. so are otome games and dating sims and twee little cozy games. sometimes a bitch doesnt wanna play bloodborne that shit’s hard
guys who mainly play 2k and fortnite will still be like oh youre not a real gamer for having 1000 hours in stardew. mother fucker you’re larping as a basketball player
People always talk about cats being soooo solitary and sooo independent as if these aren’t the creatures that will scream and cry so so loudly if you try to piss by yourself
Endlessly diabolical how you can’t say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.
It’s not r*pe, it’s rape. It’s not su*cide, it’s suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.
And it’s been proven that on certain websites, you don’t even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.
I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can’t ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like ‘unalive’, I think of that.
Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.
I feel like pirating media that isn’t sold or offered anywhere legally anymore shouldn’t be called piracy. Girl thats archaeology
we already invented the term “abandonware” for the people who need to feel morally pure about piracy but can only do so if they have silly rules to it.
