#unwanted attention

[aroacephotographer]

Weird thing happened at a zine fest

Not sure if this counts as a full-on trigger warning, but this story has a mention of unwanted compliments.

I'm lucky enough that there are zine festivals in the Bay Area. I got to attend my first one yesterday. There was a panel that I decided to hop into as it was about print in the age of misinformation.

It was pretty interesting, but I hopped out at the beginning of the audience Q&A. I had a friend I wanted to meet up with and had been sitting for an hour already, so it felt like it was time.

While my friend and I made the rounds one of the panelists was suddenly in front of me. I did not expect that but here we were.

He asked why I had left early during the Q&A. Which went into us briefly discussing the energy of the audience and the rest of the panel.

The conversation was waning fast and I was suddenly happy for it. Then he mentioned that he looked over and noticed the cutest person in the audience was suddenly gone. And he stared directly at me.

Look, I'm an adult and can look past this, but I'm not the kind of person who expects this as someone in their 30s. I've given unwanted compliments in my past, which I hate. So it's weird being on the other side of this. With a mask on most of my face.

This stands out to me because I'm non-binary and am constantly seen as a guy. This is something I've had a lot of dysphoria over. So getting a compliment like this was a little unsettling.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

It was Stapleton with his butterfly-net. He was very much closer to the pair than I was, and he appeared to be moving in their direction. At this insurance Sir Henry suddenly drew Miss Stapleton to his side. His arm was round her, but it seemed to be that she was straining away from him with her face averted.

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[yuukicyan]

STICKY GAZE

Yeah, you're not subtle but definitely gross.

We shouldn't have to grow knowing exactly how receiving 'the gaze' feels like. Girls and women all do.

[ivorybrier]

Why is being disabled at a young age such a thing for people to gawk at?

I have gone out with a cane in public (such as malls, transit, and other outdoor activities) very minimally. the majority of my use is for school, where i get the usual attention from teachers wanting to make sure that my mental health is okay and im getting around fine.

BUT EVERY SINGLE TIME IM IN PUBLIC literally everyone looks at me, if not everyone most people. and they look down at me, very obviously looking at the cane. I understand that its weird to have someone who is young with a cane, however, staring and the comments are so awkward

“what happened to you, are you okay?

-I was born, thanks.”

Does it ever like, get more normal? Do people get used to this? and if so, for the love of god why do i have to get used to being treated like a zoo animal?

[atwhughesversion]

16 entire teams are making the playoffs. that’s half the league!! but these are things that only canucks fans will be able to say they experienced this season:

learned what a popliteus is, because our goalie had the first ever torn popliteus by an nhl player. our goalie! the first ever! sports doctors will be writing medical papers about thatcher demko in the near future, not “connor hellebuyck” or “andrei vasilevskiy”

watched 2 guys with the exact same name play for our team at the exact same time

watched 3 guys w the exact same last name play for our team at the exact same time

had quinn hughes on our side of the game

a little side soap opera between two star players that every other fanbase was forced to hear about for months. did it suck? yeah!! but think of the drama value that we can say we caused 🤌 we were the main characters for half the season, sorry not sorry

had a goalie break the record for longest-road winning streak for a goalie to start the season

had a player who not only broke the hits record, but is like 150 hits ahead of the rest of the league

gave up a 3-goal lead with less than 5 minutes remaining, for the franchise record — that’s history, baby!

had two latvians playing

so idk sure your team may have “clinched a playoff spot” or whatever but it didn’t do any of this stuff so really, who had the less lame season?

[foone]

One of my toxic traits is that I honestly believe that if someone trains an AI model on you without your consent, it is totally justified if you knife them in the stomach in the public square.

Like, I'm not saying it should definitely be legal per se, but it'll be a close trial, with a lot of jury members going "well, they definitely did it, but I can't really vote guilty because it was justified".

I don't mean like "we scraped every deviantart post ever and stuffed them into a database", I mean like specifically going out to download everything you'd posted across your various social medias and stuffing that in a specific "that person" AI model.

It's like you go over to someone's house and they're like "oh I have good news, you won't need to come over again, I made something new!" and they lead you to a damp closet where there's a dripping half-formed flesh homunculus which has your face, even if warped, and it's crying out in pain from the unbearable misery of existence and they expect you to not react with horror and disgust and virtuous anger.

It's like, I'm sorry, but if you tell me you tried to build another me out of rats you stapled together and brainwashed with the collective output of my assorted social medias, I'm going to have to add "kill them" and "kill you" to my todo list, in that order. The former out of mercy and to alleviate suffering, the second out of justice and revenge.

I mean, I can be a pacifist all day, but the kind thing to do to an animal with rabies is not to let it live.

[archangelgabriellives]

Can't believe i haven't posted the greatest set of pictures of my cat

Look at his feets!

[googlyowo]

how do we all think the floof squad would handle the infamous "they asked for no pickles" situation bc i've been deliberating about it since last night

[veifei]

xia fei is (was?) on scholarship for an applied physics course which means he must be fairly smart/hardworking — i wonder if he genuinely had passion for his degree but then reality sunk in (no money, trying to fend for himself alone in yingdu). or was he just going through the motions because he had a knack for the subject and thought it would lead to a good, well paying job.

other people only seem to fixate on his looks though, without recognising his talents. and he himself doesn't seem to like people pointing out his appearance. maybe after years of trying to prove he's more than a pretty face, he grows tired and concludes maybe his beauty really is the only thing that will get him anywhere in life

[hplonesomeart]

When you…when we….when I uh….uh…it’s the day :)

[weapon-xox]

logan taking a leak on wades crocs every other day from the stress of living with him like a cat, blames mary puppins, wade scolds her in a high pitched and over dramatic tone to put on a show but he knows its logan cause a) thats a lot of piss! and b) marys a good girl and logan is not (most of the time) but he doesnt wanna embarass his honey badger

[mielwriting]

The Collected Miscellany videos are solid evidence to the idea that Dainsleif, when he's not hunting down Abyss Heralds or talking to the Traveler, spends a signifcant amount of time spying on all the elemental wielders of Teyvat.

Which is hilarious to imagine as his hobby.

Doubly so when you remember a lot of people probably realized he was watching them. Venti, Zhongli, Shenhe, Yelan, Cloud Retainer, Nahida, Neuvillette.

[primamchorus]

Emergency C0mms for Dad

I got a call recently about my father who needed to be rushed to the hospital. My dad's been one of the beacons in my life growing up and even now, and I'd honestly just like to provide what I can where I can. I just would like to help pay any hospital bills that I can doing what I can.

At this current time, we don't know what's up with him. It could be an onset of diabetes, the development of a tumor, or the development of epilepsy. We're hoping that out of all three possibilities, it's diabetes.

I hesitate to open c0mmissions because I struggle with ADHD, though I'll be limiting myself to three slots at a time (it's to keep my workload light within a time frame and to not feel overwhelmed and creatively paralyzed; the slots will reopen with each set of three I complete).

Discord/Twitch Emotes :: $10 per (no limit; c0mmission as many as you want)

Sketch Lineart :: $20 Bust // $30 Half Body (+$10 for additional character)

Chibi/Panty & Stocking Style :: $35 (+$15 for additional characters)

Full Color :: $60 Bust // $85 Half Body (+$30 for additional character)

Current slot status :: 3 / 3

Message me on Discord if you have me, or through Messages here on Tumblr. Once we've come to an agreement, you'll be provided my PayPal or Ko-Fi link.

[isuggestforcefem]

WAIT, I THINK I MISREAD THAT ONE POST!

PLS IGNORE THE FORCEMASC ASK!!!!

You didn’t dw

[amogus-real-not-clickbait]

silly dumb au where benrey is a cat(?) that the science team has to take care of,, except he's an ungodly creature so ofc things get weird. i imagine gordon slowly losing his mind as he's starting to doubt whether or not it's all normal cat stuff (everyone else is gaslighting him)

also i drew some carrots frenrey hugs bc im sad so warning for vent kinda?

[viperwrites]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Katekyou Hitman Reborn! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kozato Enma & Sawada Tsunayoshi & Skull, Skull/Verde (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!) Characters: Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!), Verde (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!), Sawada Tsunayoshi, Kozato Enma, Miura Haru, Arcobaleno (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Arcobaleno Curse, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Fluff and Humor, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Implied/Referenced EDNOS, Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)-centric, Minor Fon/Mammon, Minor Colonnello/Lal, Implied Reborn/Tsuna Series: Part 21 of everyone knows the stars come out at night Summary:

casual encounters

I’m a 28 year old professional stuntman on break looking for something to keep me busy so I don’t die from boredom. Very punk-rock, with bright purple hair and tattoos and piercings. If you'd like to have me as your strictly platonic date, or have me pretend to be in a very long and serious relationship with you to torment your acquaintances, I'm game. I can do any of these things, at your request: defend you and get mad on your behalf regardless of who’s right or wrong (but will get more vehement about it if you are wrong). start instigative discussions about politics and/or religion. propose to you in front of everyone. pretend to be really drunk as the evening goes on (sorry, I don’t drink, but I used to. a lot. too much in fact. I know the drill). start an actual, physical fight with someone, either inside or out in the open for everyone to see (I know martial arts but will hold back if you ask me to). I require no pay but some fun and the free meal I will receive as your companion (and bail if it comes to that)! • do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers

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