yeah babey we sure fuckin can * closes my eyes real tight to give myself the brain thunders*
Me every time I see this post
You mean there are people who can’t do that?
not 2 be controversial on main but i think it’s pretty sad the first major generation to grow up online is projecting their adolescent self-hatred onto the “cringe” generation of tiktokkers
did zillennials seriously spend their youth making OC fanart on devart and livejournal and being told “oh look, they finally emerge” by their parents whenever they risked leaving their room only to turn around 10 years later and say “ewwwh you spent hours cosplaying an OC & learning a viral dance in your bedroom? fuckin cringe”
like….. did we truly lose sight so quickly of how it was to feel young and disconnected and desperate for someone, anyone, to really listen to you? to feel close to you? how quickly have we become jaded to the joys of carefully, earnestly crafting something alone in a dark bedroom and sharing it with the world, hoping for just one other person to say “that’s how i feel, too”? how much must we hate our younger selves in order to blame the teenagers of the world for creating costumes and dances and dreams for themselves???
a thread about a thing that keeps happening for some reason that I am still wildly unqualified for
I posted this less than two weeks ago and it is already relevant again ✌️
not that it’s an excuse, but people are lonely and lack role models they can trust. I can see why a queer teen might be asking online strangers if it’s safe to come out to their parents if there’s no trustworthy adults in their life
oh for sure dude, the why was never in question here and I can absolutely understand the reasons that people do this, especially young folks! But as you said, it’s no excuse for putting that kind of unwarranted pressure onto a total stranger. They don’t know anything about the factors in the asker’s life which could be affected by any response they might give, and the asker doesn’t know what mental weight the person might be carrying in their own life already that their question may only end up adding to.
What’s important here is making the where clear. (or at least, the where else) - If people need advice then there are plenty of places online that are actually dedicated to giving it that are going to have way better & more genuinely helpful answers than the inboxes of random people will be able to provide; and it’s vital for said random people to stress that fact rather than be expected or feel obliged to give advice they are not qualified to give.
people make a lot of touch-starved gay jokes about Lush but the truth is it’s not a gay experience, it’s a human experience. no one is safe, no one is immune.
you walk in there for the first time thinkin’ I’m gonna buy some hand soap today and then some dude who smells like something impossible, like he’s being described by a YA author, he smells like lavender, leather, and the steam coming from hot pavement after a short summer rain,
That guy. He comes up to you and he asks if he can help you sample something. He leads you to a small, metal basin of water. It’s so pastoral, it’s so quaint. You can imagine it sitting beside your bed with a porcelain pitcher in your farm cottage for you to use to wash your face in the morning.
He rolls up your sleeve a bit, and you awkwardly apologize for not doing it yourself, and he says it’s fine.
Sir LeatherRain gently rinses your hand in the warm water, and then he dries it off attentively. Then he massages some of the product into your palm. It’s the cinnamon bean massage bar. He says “don’t you love how it feels warm as you rub it in?”
He’s making more direct eye contact with you than you’ve ever made in your entire life.
As he finishes, a woman who smells like coffee beans and pink-skied winter sunrises approaches and says “oh I LOVE that product.”
You know it’s about the sell. It’s transactional, but you’re in love. You can’t help it.
You’re also More uncomfortable than you’ve ever been in your entire life.
As you walk away to the register, you clench your hand and unclench it like Mr. Darcy when he touches Elizabeth Bennet’s hand to help her out of a coach.
As someone who’s worked at Lush I assure you it’s just as weirdly intimate to be the one rubbing lotions into other people’s skin
oh thank god
Mrs (mistress) - feminine / female
Mr (master/mister) - masculine / male
Ms (mss/miss) - feminine / neutral
Mx (mix) - neutral / otherly
Me (mistree) - neutral
Mn (misen/missen/mixen) - neoneutral
Ml (misla) - neutral / otherly
Mb (misby/misbie) - neutral / enbinine
De/Dᵉ (done) - neutral / otherly
Mt (mixt/mistix) - demineutral / young mix
Mrx (mirx) - neutral / xenine / otherly
Mz/mzz (miz/mizz) - unknown / undefined
Mt from srt. (señorito/senhorito (young sir), srte. for señorite/senhorite (young mix), hence señorita/senhorita means single/young lady/mistress or specifically mademoiselle/madam). Senhoria is often translated as feud / manor / lordship / seigniory / madamhood / ladyship / landlady, not as in property or ownership, but as in mistery / mystery, “you all/mysteries” (vossas senhorias / vuestra merced) / mastery/masteries / folkness / personhood / peoplekind. -E suffix of done/dᵉ (neutral of donship) can be replaced with Y (dony/dʸ), I (doni/dⁱ) and X (donx/dˣ).
i think some people connect pronoun non conformity with feminine men and masculine women but that’s not always the case. she/her men can be feminine sure, but they can also be masc, neutral, androgynous, or something else. he/him women can be masculine, but they can also be feminine, neutral, androgynous, or something else.