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phantomladyoverparis · 3 months ago

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You're Human Like the Rest of Them (1967), dir. B.S. Johnson

#You're Human Like the Rest of Them #B.S. Johnson #short film #experimental film #60s #british cinema

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bumblingbabooshka · 10 months ago

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Polycule Moments Guess who got access to recording software

#chakotay/janeway/tuvok #st voyager #Chakotay how could you!!! Tuvok wanted to show off!!!#I love how Chakotay looks so much like '????' after - as he SHOULD.#Chakotay #Kathryn Janeway #Tuvok #A little slice of how Janeway & Tuvok normally operate...delicious <3 #they are so.....suave??#I can't believe Tuvok actually STOOD up...SIR. Sit DOWN!!! Heheh this ain't drama class <3 #Janeway's expression when she finds something funny but can't laugh...'oop!'#I love early seasons Tuvok he takes every opportunity to be like 'Hello Captain who I know better than everyone else. I assume you want #xyz?' (Yes Tuvok you're brilliant as always old friend) and then if he were human he'd turn to Chakotay with the smuggest grin ever on his #face #I wish they'd used this trait of his to tell us more about their friendship pre-voyager #or had it originally be just the two of them as more insulated from the rest of the crew before Janeway starts branching out #(and maybe they can make it a plot point that Tuvok doesn't in a 'we've gotta befriend him!' episode)

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that-foul-legacy-lover · 3 months ago

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today just will not let me rest huh. reasons are in the tags but i get very emotional just be warned

#hush n shush wifi #just a tad sad #actually more like angry as shit #okay let me TELL YALL about my day #first: the annoying #i was going shopping at a grocery warehouse and you know how those parking lots are always super crowded?#well it was. there were no parking spots and there were so many cars and people trying to go everywhere #i scraped my wheels too which is fine but one of my relatives who likes cars acts like it's a sin #so that shook me up enough that i didn't go outside for the rest of the day #and THEN #OHHHH AND FUCKING THEN.#if anyone remembers the absolute ass of a person from last year who i thought was my friend but said horrible things to me out of the blue #WELL THEY CAME BACK #i never got a chance to block them initially because they blocked me first #BUT I GOT FUCKING MESSAGES FROM THEM TONIGHT #AND ALL THEY WERE SAYING WAS ESSENTIALLY THAT THEY MEANT WHAT THEY SAID #they said some bullshit about the execution being wrong and that their ex wrote it for them #which by the way is just scummy on its own #and that they get mad emotionally which is a horrible excuse #and had the AUDACITY TO ASK IF I HAD ANY QUESTIONS #IN WHAT DELUDED SELF CENTERED WORLD DO YOU HAVE TO LIVE IN TO THINK I WOULD EVER WANT TO TALK TO YOU AGAIN #my trust is a VERY VERY FRAGILE THING #AND THIS IS A VERY LARGE CONTRIBUTOR TO IT #this isn't an apology. they regret none of it #this is a way for them to make themself feel better #the scariest part is that this person by now is almost/IS an adult #which is terrifying if that means there are more people like that out there #i try not to wish ill will but i genuinely hope no one ever has to suffer through being their 'friend' ever again #anyways they're blocked on all of my platforms now.#if the person is somehow reading this. hi! never talk to me again. you're a horrible human being with no consideration for other's feelings

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agalychnisspranneusroseus · 27 days ago

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RiAAU Sasha's complicated relationship with her adoptive parents, Percy and Braddock, stems from an awkward mixture of unconditional love, resentment over their inability to protect her from Grime in her childhood, and their fear of what she's become.

#raised in amphibia au #amphibia #sasha waybright #my posts #they sort it out but it takes time #percy and braddock have loved sasha since she was brought to the Tower all dirty and crying and scared at the tender age of 3 #and they did their best but also... they were very young themselves. like early 20s maybe #hell they weren't even together by the time they adopted her #they were just friends who saw this kid in need of parents and legal guardians and decided to take care of her #but with Grime being their superior and Sasha being forced to grow up in the Tower...#Percy and Braddock had to do compulsory military service for like. 15 years or something idk. this is my made up toad lore: toads have to do #at least 15 years of military service in their youth. like not all of them. there's probably like some sort of lottery and if you're #disabled or had a family that depended on you or if your daddy is a corrupt politician or something you'll be spared #the rest can either follow the law and be assigned to the closest tower or like. become a runaway criminal and join a group of bandits #or something #anyway percy and braddock had to do their time in the South Toad Tower so they couldn't just leave with their kid #and raise her in a more child-friendly enviroment #another point of contention! when sasha learns there's another human who was raised in a quaint little farm by frogs in wartwood she just #it's devastating to her because *that could have been her*. she could have been safe and she could have grown up like a normal kid #she could have developed like a normal person instead of becoming... *this*#and she resents Percy and Braddock for not giving her away to someone else when she was little. for not noticing when she started #acting ''abnormal'' as a result of trauma. she could have been normal like Anne. but she wasn't.#pair that to the fact Sasha is the one who remembers Earth the most and the one who wants to go back the most #AND the one who feels the most distant to her adoptive family #and the understanding that she's been *broken into* this world and that she can never go back. even if she finds a way... she can't go back.#she can't bring her REAL parents this monster #she can't explain what happened to her #and even if she went back Amphibia would alwahs haunt her #so. she can't go back. not like this.

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icewindandboringhorror · 4 months ago

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Lineup of all of the characters that appear long enough to need a visual representation of them in the game lol

#I added a few people that you can randomly run into around town (like at the inn or in the forest or etc) and have very short conversations #with just to kind of flesh out the world a little more in a more natural-ish seeming way. Like nobody in the main cast would really #have much reason to talk about the actual city you're in or anything. Since most of them havent lived there that long anyway.#But if there's a ''city inspector'' that you can run into whilst he's writing up notes examining the local inn. then maybe there could be a #few dialogue options with him where you can ask about things like that. since he would know more about the area as an offical Government #Worker or etc. Optional of course. since I have to be so wary of my natural inclination to lore dump lol and am trying extra hard to make i #all stuff thats easily avoided/skipped. But for the people like ME who deliberately choose to exhaust every possible optional dialogue #option and explore every single inch of the world and try to collect as much information as possible - then there are a few extra places to #do that. Though obviously not all of them just give exposition for like 15 paragraphs blandly. Some you don't really learn anything from #and it's kind of just.. random flavor to make the non-shop map locations more ''lived in'' feeling. Like the random #little girl you can talk to in the park doesn't bizarrely start reading out the wikipedia description of some War that happened 10 years ag #or whatever. she's just complains about school a little and asks if you've tried the nearby ice cream cart treats and etc lol #ANYWAY..#some of the art is so so evil but I'm not going to spend 800 years trying to clean it up and update it. whatever the hell mess I sketched #out in 2018 or whatever is just what I'm keeping lol... it is what it is #One of the many trials of the whole 'briefly work a few months on something and then abandon it almost entirely only to pick up work #on it literally like 4 - 5 yrs later and now you must contend with trying to decipher whatever weird shit you did years ago' experience lol #Also given the population breakdowns of the world in general I think there's an unrealistic amount of jhevona in this lineup since #they're a much rarer species to just see out and about anywhere but.. it IS a global trading center type area. and the game #takes place in the north (the country of Asen. near the coast. for the maybe 2 or less people who actually keep up with my worldbuilding #enough to know where that is lol (the same continent as Navyete (where the avirre'thel live)) and there's a decent concentration #of nothern jhevona only a short ways away so... tee hee..I shall pretend it makes sense and not merely me just wanting #to represent more of that species because I think their lore is interesting lol #I MEAN also realistically there would NOT be a human here because humans are extremely isolated species that don't even know the rest #of the world exists really and human territories are extremely protected from the outside world but... of course it's like.. well we need #at least One of them to be there for the Optional Lore. Same with the Ythrili. But at least those are like.. PLAUSIBLE.. not nonsensically #outlandish. If I had a Verrucalt or something in there THEN that would be truly lore-breaking almost lol #ANYWAY.. rambling that only means anything to me because nobody else knows what I'm even referencing but hbjh #also I think my character designs are so funny in the sense that I really do just love to do the same thing over and over again ghbjh #wow... random asymmetry and belts and arm straps and high collars where the neck is completely covered?? you dont say..how novel

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korpuskat · 6 months ago

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Ramattra watching his partner ascend the stairs on all fours

Ramattra standing there like

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this is it. this is my human's flaw.

#he really looks it like oh. you're not as shitty as the rest of humanity because youre Weird. got it. \#HONESTLY i do this and sometimes it freaks my partner out if im chasing them up the stairs jfdhshgd #kat answers

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ichthyorelationships · 10 months ago

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ideas: i didn't really think of him being underwater but they deserve to have drama by crying there too so i just think you could say something about the composition being denser than water or w/e. proteins

i'm always like good thing he didn't try to exit asap via swimming in ciao alberto But What If He Did lol. just swim Somewhere else along the coast, maybe panic about [money??] & whether somehow this ruins school for luca, whether he can get in touch w/o it being On Sight b/w him & all marcovaldos, consider just kind of trying out other places, traveling after all...fascinating considering the other povs on the issue like: now there's the paguros to sympathize w/a kid vanishing, luca however in a somewhat more novel position there, giulia's throwback to alberto being a bit perplexing lmao, kind of thinking the best massimo could do is have a prewritten letter for luca to give to alberto If Possible, conveying something like i know you didn't set my livelihood on fire on purpose but even if you did i'd want you to stay. and luca in a position to do all of "maybe give the island fun facts so someone can check if he's there" & "wait & hope alberto can/does get in touch" & "have a lot of feelings"....not even the context of what this drawing is about necessarily, just tacking it on here anyways. ahead of time i went "heh now i Know they're gonna have it get little Real here b/c it's really about alberto wanting the security of feeling he can 'earn' a sustained relationship" then the short cleared & i was lying completely dead on the pavement

#luca 2021 #pixar luca #alberto scorfano #love when like ''yeah ofc you Could guess approx what would happen; b/c of The Themes & things following them''#but then like of course it still manages to Surprise. feels apt when like ppl doing some savvy media analysis can Guess along w/the film #like oh we're gonna fight here we might have our secret revealed here yep. then get caught off guard by alberto but 110% surprised by luca #even as ofc it all makes sense & is cohesive w/those Themes that have been unfolding; not just breaking w/the material to Surprise us #but still unpredictable. the whole movie being so vignettey (god bless. i live) allowing for a lot of that too like just Stuff Can Happen #someone can guess alberto's dad is not in the picture really but you could think oh he's been killed by humans. No lol...#or massimo lost an arm to sea monsters. but no. oh my god & this is how i realize i didn't draw alberto's arm scar hang on lol #okay there it is. here we go gays (me turning in for some rest at 8:15 am)#oh i read this picture book in the internet archive abt like A Parent Expressing Unconditional Love via conversation w/a child. hang on #''even if i did something awful'' by barbara shook hazen; i did think of it here. let me obtain a quote for effect...#[but what if i did something really truly awful?] [like what?] [like playing ball in the living room after you told me not to & breaking #the vase daddy gave you for your birthday even if i didn't mean to & it was an accident? would you still love me then?]#[i love you so much i'd love you if you Did mean to & it wasn't an accident. / but i might also be mad & yell things like 'i've told you a #thousand times!' & 'this is the last straw!' & 'i've had it with your disobeying!' & send you to your room with no dessert... / ...& cry a #little & pick up the pieces.] [i'll help.] [but i still love you no matter what; no matter how mad; no matter how awful. & i always will.]#so long as it's commitment to Actual support which; massimo already On That even before realizing like oh bereft And you're of the sea.....

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tswwwit · 2 years ago

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Did Bill not come to terms with his feelings for Dipper until he was forced to in Confessing It, or was it earlier in the series (even if he would never admit it)? Sorry if this is sorta implied, I’m not amazing with subtext. Rereading atm and I was curious lol

Actually, Bill (sort of) came to terms with having fallen for Dipper well before Dipper got his feelings sorted.

It's in Faking It chapter 15:

[Bill] glances up at Dipper. “You…. are the single worst thing that has ever happened to me. And I don’t say that lightly, you got no idea how old I am."

#answers #Bill still had a lot of struggling to do after that #But if you're looking for him accepting his feelings *this* was the moment #When Bill realized he'd fallen pretty far even though he couldn't make himself say or think the proper word yet #His thoughts on the matter are addressed in more detail in Chapter 9 of Hating It #Dipper liked Bill. Even when he was trapped and nearly powerless and in a shitty situation - Dip *still* respected and lusted after him #Not after position or power or wanting him to be different. Even knowing he wasn't remotely human!! He just wanted *Bill*.#And it goes BOTH ways #Dipper was most of the way there too but also trying REALLY HARD not to care about a demon at that point #Then a minute or so later Bill's cheering up attempt did the rest of the work #Dipper had stayed so strong. Fighting against this horrible yet compelling demonic force. No feelings here no sir it's a bad idea #And in the one moment he got weak. When he teared up. Bill got awkward and tried to perk *him* up #Both hilarious and relatable AND a moment where Dipper realized Bill actually in his own way cared about him #These idiots were never going to be able to resist someone who could see them at a truly low point and like them anyway #Confessing It is basically: Them Trying To Actually Talk: The Fic #They both already knew how the other felt #But actually Communicating about it like a functional couple was hard #All the very kinky smuts are canon btw #I like my absurd smut to have character development #And believe it or not #Amazingly they communicate well when both of them have the same fun goal in mind

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welcometogrouchland · 2 years ago

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Lmao was watching the fight scene between Luz and Belos in YBOS and the lines that stuck out to me were "okay, I'll play" and "go be a hero".

Because both are spoken with a bit of amusement and condescension, which is appropriate when you realise that, in Philips mind, his little genocide plot and especially the detour with the Clawthorne sisters in s1 really is a bit of a game to him. A game that's important to him, that he's determined to win, but a bit of a game nonetheless.

Like, he doesn't see any of the isle's inhabitants as people, he's framed the whole thing as a game to the collector to get them to help him, he's essentially been continuing his childhood game of witch hunters this whole time on a bigger scale, complete with a "Caleb" and everything.

And then the line "go, be a hero" is SOOO funny to me, because the reason he's so dismissive of Luz is because, in his mind, he's the hero of this story. No one else, not even the other human, him. He's painting Luz and naïve and delusional here for thinking she's doing any good WHEN THAT'S EXACTLY HOW HE THINKS. Get a load of this guy!!!

#ramblings of a lunatic #the owl house #toh #I'm obsessed with how belos perceives his relationship to luz bc it reveals so much abt how much of a dick he is #he acts like he's treating luz especially well compared to the other witches and demons on the isles by letting her live #trying to get her to buy into his worldview that it's them as humans vs the rest of the demon realm as non-humans #but he barely treats luz like a person with agency! he just treats her like some brainwashed kid who can't think for herself #(which like. compare that to how he treats hunter- a kid who's actually brainwashed but whom belos perceives as like. especially malicious-#-in his intentions bc he's always looking for reasons to take his anger towards caleb out on the grimwalkers)#tbh not viewing the ppl he treats as important to him as ppl with their own agency and desires is a theme with belos #it honestly reminde me of how Dana said one her influences when writing/conceptualising Belos was conservative relatives #if you're different in a way you can't/dont want to hide (like the witches) then you're treated overtly poorly by them #but if they perceive you as ''one of the good ones'' or as the ''us'' in us vs them #they'll dismiss any of your own feelings and opposition and act like they speak for u #anyway. i wanna kill this guy. i can't for someone to kill this guy i hope it's as narratively satisfying as I've dreamt it'll be <3

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snekdood · 3 months ago

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Your impulse to believe every last bad thing people say about a guy and then if that guy is victimized by those people or the people who spread the rumors you dont even try to look into if thats even the case, you just assume hes bad by default-- yeah thats incredibly unfair to guys who are victims of abuse.

#so here i am having to heal my trauma on my own bc people think im a bad person. cool.#and then people would use me as an argument point 'this is why men who use guys who are victims of abuse as an argument need #to actually do something to show they care' she said so smugly. knowing those guys wont give that guy any care no matter how #correct she is about sussing them out on their bullshit.#so instead im being given 0 options at all bc both men and women want to use me as an argument jumping off point rather than see #me as a real human right here right now whos suffering and in need of aid.#you're arguing about giving me a place to stay right in front of me. and at the end of the day neither of you actually want to help #create a space for me to heal anyways. im just another talking point to you. left in the dust. left to try to figure out how to heal #myself alone all over again. something I never expected to have to do in feminist spaces- spaces I intentionally entered to get healing #about ANOTHER abuse that happened to be as a kid- though if im honest I never really found healing in such spaces its all kinda just #hating on men for the most part- so truly like the rest of my entire shit life i've had to learn how to heal my trauma all alone. which isn #great nor ideal since on my own im bound to pick up worse coping mechanisms than if I actually got help from others. and lord knows #I have *motions to the scars on my arms* but yknow you'd rather use me as a talking point rather than be what I thought you were-#the last resort I had to maybe actually finally get some actual fucking help with my trauma.#vent #to say im disappointed is an understatement. i'm more just sad at this point. i'm tired of being promised better and then its shit.

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phantomladyoverparis · 3 months ago

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You're Human Like the Rest of Them (1967), dir. B.S. Johnson

#You're Human Like the Rest of Them #B.S. Johnson #short film #experimental film #60s #british cinema

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musical-chick-13 · 3 months ago

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#when you don't belong anywhere because people tell you that you don't deserve to belong anywhere so if you're going to be #isolated from the rest of humanity forever because there's Something Wrong With You then maybe you can at least be the one #in charge of that isolation. people can't reject you if you actively REFUSE to belong anywhere right. you can't be denied community if #you actively avoid it. yeah sure making yourself into a husk of a person so that you don't have to think about belonging anywhere makes you #miserable and self-hating but you know what at least it's manageable this time at least it's coming from stuff YOU do and not from #other people deciding you're not worth it. sure you WANT community you WANT to belong somewhere but that's impossible and not happening #and you gotta learn to work around it just like you do with everything else we can't always get what we want and you need to be #prepared to face that. yeah that requires lying to yourself and making yourself inscrutable and all these other things you don't actually #like doing but this is the price you pay for other people not hurting you anymore. for not having to confront the fact that you're innately #unlikable and un-want-able and meaningless and alien and disgusting and all the other things you've never been able to de-internalize.#you can't start thinking it's not worth it because remember what it was like being rejected by everything all the time? you're not going to #survive that again. all the options suck and you still need to make your choice. good luck :) :) :)#I think. perhaps. after I post the event ficlets. I go on full blog hiatus again. I can't.#I can't be around the discussions that keep happening on this website. and they're so prevalent that no amount of muting/blocking/filtering #can ever be enough to totally avoid them.#In the Vents

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damiemontclair · 11 months ago

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Is it ridiculous to think maybe this whole hospital thing and related business has mildly traumatised me? Is it ridiculous that I want to write about it in excruciating detail, just get the experience out on paper, on my blog, somewhere? It feels dumb but I want to write fic about it. I think it'd fix me.

#Still haven't really properly cried tho I am kinda tearing up as I write this #I'm not having a good mental health time rn ngl #The callous way some of the docs treated me; the way their sole focus was on reproduction without a single care for the hormones...#The generally terrible way I deal with surgery/post-surgery #It wasn't. As bad? The last few times?#I think I've also made myself forget a lot from the first 2 times #3rd time was more traumatising.#This last one tho... I never stayed for more than a night at the hospital. I never want to stay at a hospital ever again.#I never want to have surgery again #I swear if I have to do that again I will have my panic attack before they even put me under #It was so painful this time and people weren't listening to me at all when I told them the iv wasn't sitting right anymore #Nurses and doctors kept dismissing my opinions and wishes and needs....#It was like as a patient you're less than human.#My arm is still bruised from where they fucked up their blood draws...#I'm so tired but I can't seem to rest #I'm so full of emotions but I can't seem to let them go and *cry*#Its like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop #Pls ignore me amd my rambles I'm just. Not doing too hot rn.#damie talks

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kirbyddd · 9 months ago

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ok that was a new one

#trying to fall asleep half falling asleep and then instantly waking up in a cosmically dissociative state #that was not ok. it can't start happening to me without an adverse reaction to treatment ...#i can't remember when the other time in my life i experience a similar thing was....#one part of the brain fully awake but an entire other part still asleep and the rest conscious without it (NOT supposed to happen)#hellish stuff maan not ok not ok #i looked at my hands and recognized and understood them... but also recognized and understood the arbitrariness of their shape and number #and of the form of my mind and perception and place in time and errything.#cmon man you're only supposed to do that to people on random drugs not overstressed ppeople tryin to frickin sleep 😭#fuckin worst anxiety attack in a long LONG while fuckin hell.#i had to walk and wait for the rest of my brain to wake up and start perceiving so i could fuckin have the rest of my human context back #like where do you even hide man when the rest of your mind isn't there to run back to. it's like being stripped under the eye of sauron #the zones of my brain are too frickin detached and desynchronized i need to be neurologically sewn back together #i experienced temporary (~hourlong in ebbs and waves) broca's aphasia at treatment the other week. wild. and not ok #im gonna try tms again i think. it wasn't a silver bullet for me but it did help repair my cognition and memory and coherency for a bit...#til i lost it again at least #i miss josette. i played her game when rising on the brief crest of tms before my exhaustion started outweighing the few improvements #I'll revisit josette and sedona blue if i do that treatment again. J1 is too much of a slog to replay but J2 is a timeless precious gem #tms is so painful though it shocks my neuralgia #but im desperate i guess #ahahaahhh i need helppp. i ain bin this screwed since 2020 i think

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coquelicoq · 2 years ago

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oh no this reality dating show is really sweet actually. this was not supposed to happen. crap. crap. i didn't sign up for this!

#dammit! they're all flawed people in whom i am rapidly becoming invested! how dare they make me care about their contrived #relationship problems!!!#i was supposed to feel soooo above it all but now i want to see them grow up happy and healthy :(((((((#FUCK! SHIT! MERDE ALORS!#on the one hand the premise of the show is genius and perfectly tailored to avoid the main things i don't like about reality dating shows #on the other hand i just find it so ridiculous that anyone would go on this show that i can't take these people seriously #or i THOUGHT i couldn't! but now i don't know!!!#and they're all so young so that's helping me cut them some slack #one couple is 24 and has been together 5 years and i'm like oh babes. of course you're doing this. good for you. live a little #television #my posts #also just heard a guy use 'dont'. hand to god #the donts are out there. i'm not making this up!!#granted he didn't really say much of a word there...it was like d[rest of word is swallowed]#but it had to be dont just based on the syntax and the fact that it definitely wasn't duquel #anyway the show is called the ultimatum france #probably that is not the french title lol #i think it's probably l'ultimatum: on se marie ou c'est fini #anyway this was NOT how i planned to spend my evening. peeved at my sister and these complex humans and the world in general rn #how dare you how dare they &c &c

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grimark · 2 years ago

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not that anybody asked but i do think terms like "cis+" or "cisn't", which i've seen thrown around in relation to the prev post, are a bit unnecessary. to me, it just seems like excessively atomising a fairly common experience, which is the desire to not be subject to the more uncomfortable and restrictive aspects of socially constructed gender roles. and sure, it might never even occur to a lot of cis people to do this kind of introspective analysis of their gender identities, and they might therefore be lacking some of the additional perspective of someone who has, but i don't think we necessarily need need a special new category for it. when you get down to it, "cis person who has previously questioned their gender" and "cis person who has never felt the need to question their gender" are both still cis, which in theory is a value-neutral description and a perfectly fine thing to be.

#this isn't meant as a criticism of people who like those terms or find them valuable or validating #it's more just. i don't get it and i don't really see the point of them but that's fine because they're not aimed at me anyway.#if you're cis but you want to add a modifier to encapsulate your gender journey then you do you.#to me just seems a bit patronising to tell cis people they're actually cis+ or whatever #like. aww you did such a good job thinking about your gender! here is a star sticker for you that says 'more evolved than other cis people'#instead maybe we can just trust that 1. people are the experts on their own identities and experiences #if someone says they're happy to continue identifying as the gender they were assigned at birth we can probably take their word for it!#and 2. accept that we all probably have a lot more in common than we might assume #it seems like a mistake to think 'this experience (gender discomfort and introspection) is exclusively a trait of x category of person'#'so if someone from y category has experienced it they must not actually be y‚ they must be something else instead'#which allows you to comfortably continue to paint people from y group as a wholly separate other with fundamentally alien experiences #and no possible point of overlap or common ground.#i see this a lot with the eternal thorn in my side which is posts about how The Neurotypicals Do This Thing #and also with a certain flavour of ace discourse #which presumes that 1. anyone who doesn't choose to identify under the asexual identity umbrella must necessarily be allosexual #2. there is a single unifying allosexual experience which can be equally applied to the rest of the human population #and 3. no allosexual person could possibly have a complicated or fraught relationship with sex and sexuality.#or if they did have any experiences in common with asexual people they'd naturally choose to identify as ace instead.#therefore these two identities must be wholly separate groups with no experiential overlap.#like idkkkkk clearly these hyperspecific labels are useful to some people!#but to me they often just seem to generate feelings of division and othering #or they're used as a way to claim a particular experience as exceptional to one group #when it's actually a pretty common feature of the human condition.

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