#a gruff intp vulture's thoughts

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #17: Since the term aromantic comes in different layers in the spectrum, I can be identified as somewhat between aegoromantic and cupioromantic --- I accept the place of (and sometimes even entertain the idea of) romantic relationships in society, but rather often don't seek myself to be in one. I'm generically an uninvolved spectator. Do what you will with that knowledge, you're welcome.

[d-lone-vultywr]

A valuable lesson to drill into capitalist bosses.

CHILCHUCK TIMS SAYS WORKERS RIGHTS!!

Inspirational words for freelancers, hourly paid workers and salarymen alike

(There will be stickers, watch this space :,,)

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #19: There's always a place for anyone and everyone..... And as for me, my place is up at the metaphorical landfills. Because I pick up on the spoiled refuse that others left behind and forgotten by time (particularly, childhood interests).

That doesn't mean, however, that the feeling of being in love is among the refuse I'd willingly take. No one is obligated to "love" me per se, and also I'm not obligated to"love" anyone --- particularly the skewed definition that the word love is often associated with.

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note #14: Love languages.... yeah sure, I have my own, but mostly words (of isolation, not affirmation).

"I don't need love."

"Get the hell away from me."

"Hm? Love? What does that word even mean anyway?"

"Nah, I'll pass/I'm good."

"I'll be fine."

This is pretty much me IRL. Take it or leave it.

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note #9: There are A LOT of entitled hypocrites to meet every single day, that I know fairly well. Like what kind of fiend calls the LGBTI community an "I can get away with anything" group, when it's those sexually straight sticks up the a$$ that usually tend to get away with anything (from rape to thievery to murder).

[d-lone-vultywr]

Was anything better nowadays than before just because the Christofascists with their orange messiah had seized power for four full years for the entire world to see??

The mere fact that the Christofascists had the moment to spare talking and complaining about woke media, LGBTQ, people of color and (for the love of Zeus) even women ---- can alternately be seen as progress that had been growing steadily from the last ten years. No longer will planet Earth be the stomping grounds for white straight, male (and wannabe hero) Christofascists wearing sunglasses and neckbeards, wearing Nazi symbols and sexually simping on 2D young girls that doesn't really exist ---- they have no monopoly of the spotlight anymore. All the Christofascists can do in just mere four years is to try their hardest to undo or reverse the overall progress in their favor --- but never kill the progressive ideals altogether.

Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #17: If there's anything I've learned and proven over the last year that I can keep in mind into this new year, it's that people online can be just as downright atrocious as they can be IRL --- save for a certain few.

Communication with such kind of problematic people is beyond impossible. To them, your opinions are plain irrelevant (and theirs aren't). It's definitely better to be safe than sorry, and just avoid having to talk to them in general --- spare yourself some of your braincells, because they can drive you insane.

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #21: I just hope for much of this year that my own country (where I live at) won't just throw everything away by waging war against a rather well-known national superpower ---- over some maritime territory my own country's government had already sold out to that same national superpower during the last administration. Surrendering said territory to fuel a foreign country's expansionist desires is already a detestable thing (for nationalistic eyes); forcing an irresponsible war is yet another.

Had my own country's government officials ever had diligence, rationality/forethought and merit of leadership, they should've known by now that not all issues need to be dealt with aggression and militarism. Don't even get me started on this: my own country, priding themselves to be sovereign and operating independently from world government, would want to wage war WITH THE HELP OF OTHER WEALTHIER NATIONS?? Is the idea to wage an irresponsible, aggressive war really sovereignty, or stupidity in action?

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #20: About the "man or bear" rhetorical question ---- the sheer lack of demarcation between love and lustful sex is the main and very compelling reason why nearly majority of girls/women would rather have to be with a bear (as ferocious as it is) than a random male stranger they don't really have any obligation to trust. There's no sense of safety and security written on both choices, because neither had the obligation to provide such thing.

Which is why people must be allowed/encouraged not to pursue intimate relationships they don't need nor want to be in by their own volition; not everyone had the luxury of having someone they FULLY trust!! Obligatory intimate relationships that are too reliant on the necessity of sex and money (as traditionally observed in mainstream society) must be treated as a paradigm from way back the Iron Age --- it will have its time limit.

[d-lone-vultywr]

The irony that crazy right-wing loonies and anti-wokes spew....

Morning Sermon

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #18: It's happening and it just gets worse from here on. Climate change IS a reality. The end-of-the-world scenario that doomsday wishers wanted is just within reach. And just like the Napoleon Bonaparte meme quoted, there's nothing we can do (or as of now, probably stuck to just miserably little).

Are the end-of-the-world wishers happy now that their vilest wishes and hopes being a reality?? Yes?? Good, because to be honest, people who had committed su1c1d3 just made the wisest decisions humanity can probably make ---- they don't have to see how deep on the depraved end society and governments have gotten. There's no room for future generations now in this current timeline. And honestly, there's absolutely NO POINT to get married, have children and build a family (as per the norm society usually promoted) in such a polluted, toxic environment as what awaits after this month.

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #16: Now that the depressive paranoia over the eclipse had just passed, can anyone blame me to be very cynical about the chance that end-of-the-world conspiracy nuts cracking all over again in the coming months or even next year??

Clearly enough, humanity had a hypothetically sexual attraction to apocalyptic end-of-the-world scenarios, and more often than not take it to great extremes over the most trivial of phenomena. But will it all just solve all the world's current problems (petty violence, disease, poverty, societal injustices) effectively? When all it means is a complete wipeout of all players directly or indirectly affected by such issues?

Perhaps I just had the misfortune of having to live in a world teeming of equal parts greedy and insanely selfish monsters that had been conveniently rebranded as "humans" --- who so wish/threaten for the world to cease to be as soon as possible, all for their imaginative satisfaction. And here I am, sinking deeply in questioning whether "the common good" is a cause that even exist anymore.

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #15: Three days passed since Valentine's Day/Me-Alone Day. 24 years of existence. And still, some honorable idiots (who are a lot like Matt Walsh) tell me that love and sex is inseparable ---- when they should be.

Is it too hard to tell the difference between love and sex? Is it that hard to fall in love yet not have sex, or vice versa? Or has the human race's comprehension skills degraded over the past few decades understanding differentiations? Because if it's the latter, it's no wonder that rats, apes and corvids grew smarter than before compared to humans.

[d-lone-vultywr]

So very true. Those people who kept yapping about how gays/the LGBTQ are "evil" are the ones quite willing enough to commit evil crimes if it's for their own cult-like beliefs ---- and they also want no accountability held onto their actions, they just want their "freedom".

'How dare you try to groom my child into your set of beliefs!?! Now hang up that copy of the Ten Commandments, please.'

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #15: As if the world hasn't been quite noisy already; now I had the misfortune to meet the noisy anti-woke cult and their whinging complaints...... Wow. Just exactly what I'm supposed to need in 2024.... Not!

Is dramatically complaining over each and every liberal democratic direction (or put it simply, making too much noise on how "woke" things had been nowadays, while looking for ways to end them) the epitome of true democracy? You cannot always have what you deeply wished for or desired IRL, and even if you do, you cannot keep it forever. Even I, who deeply wished for relationships to finally be deregulated and not be made an obligatory recommendation, will have to deal with expecting derisive and dehumanizing outlooks from others IRL.

[d-lone-vultywr]

Note to others #12: A well-intentioned cause or advocacy can easily be contaminated or ruined by a hateful, noisy minority. I had been supporting one for a while, and methinks it's wiser to reallocate all that support ONLY for the main purpose of that advocacy ---- not for the specific identities standing by it just to proclaim superiority.