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"who do you self insert as when you read?"

This is me when I read:

sex-repulsed people are fully within our rights to be cranky and blunt about not liking sex and how it's fucking everywhere btw. we shouldn't have to tiptoe around and make sure our phrasing is perfectly squeaky clean because people interpret any criticism of sex and sexualization as puritanism. venting about compulsory sexuality is not purity culture. maybe you could stand to learn a thing or two from us.

papercranesandpride

I think if you want to understand bigotry against aromantics, I have a good case study. Let me talk a little about my dad's family.

My dad has 4 half siblings and two step siblings. They're all a decent bit younger than him. When I was a teenager, we went to a family reunion, and I realized something—my dad did not respect his siblings. He looked down on all of them. He saw them as fuck-ups and overgrown children. My dad had the American dream: well paying management job, suburban house, wife, and three kids. My aunt and uncles did not. Excluding my aunt, none of them were married or in serious relationships. They hadn't really settled into long term careers. Several of them were working the kind of jobs that get called "Unskilled labor." So he looked down on them because the youngest one was in his thirties (and several were much older), and yet none of them had "settled down" into what he saw as lifelong, permanent careers and relationships and lives. He was polite to their faces, sure, but I heard how he talked about them behind their backs, to my mother.

And then a few years ago, we visited his brothers again for Thanksgiving. And I realized something again--he respected them now. He saw them as equals. Why? Well. All of a sudden, every single one of them had serious, committed romantic partners. They didn't even need to still be with those partners—one of my uncle's fiance passed away from cancer before they could marry—just having had one showed that they matured into a real adult participating in society. In fact, at one point, my aunt was telling my mom about how one of my uncles was no longer living in an apartment she owned, but instead, after having a steady girlfriend for about a year, he moved in with her. And my mom literally said to my aunt, "wow. Look at that. He finally grew up."

One of the lines that frequently gets repeated about anti-aspec sentiment is "why would anyone hate asexuals/aromantics/etc? They aren't even doing anything." And that's exactly it. In the eyes of amatonormative culture, we aren't doing anything. Adults are supposed to do things. That's how you become a member of society.

I know that my father will never see me as a successful adult. He will never approve of my life. And I think most people would assume that that's because I'm trans. And don't get me wrong, he sure as shit doesn't like or respect that, but I do think if given enough time, he would get used to it. He would eventually realize that it isn't going away. And if I settled down with a spouse and a respectful job and a few kids, he could see me as a successful adult that he could be proud of anyway. But of course, that's not going to happen. Because I'm aromantic. So I'm never going to do that one thing that signifies that his job is complete, and I'm officially a full-fledged adult. I will perpetually be that fuck-up kid who won't settle down. In my personal case, that's okay. My dad is a conservative piece of shit, and if he doesn't approve of you, that just means you're doing something right. But on a societal level? This kind of attitude is a massive problem. Aromantics deserve to be treated like adults, and to feel like the accomplished adults that they are. We should feel like we belong in society.

glitchedcosmos

You’d think watching it a second time wouldn’t feel like being shot 47 times while having my nuts twisted off like fuck dammit this shits R O U GH

sodaluu

i love you Gobbles

My baby ipad kid

arctic-hands

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

evilsoup

gilliagandy

Truly thrilled to finally find this post on my dash.

bunabi

I think if the defenders of AI were just honest on god I wouldn't be so annoyed.

It's about profit. It's about maximizing profit. Not accessibility, not empowerment of creators, not improved work-life balance of developers, not relief of human suffering, not making fans happy. Profit.

It's about reducing labor costs and running skeleton crews and producing products faster and meeting quarterly goals and pleasing investors.

AI is a product like any other! It preys on the consumer's insecurity and lack of resources, promising instant gratification and discouraging you from thinking too hard about the origin or side effects. That's literally all it is. Like why are we bullshitting so hard about it. Pure diarrhea blasting on the feed in the name of defending capitalism. What happened to us?

lexsnotdead

with the Larian news, i would also like to point out that Owlcat are also using genai for developing concept art in, assimingly, Dark Heresy, and had a job posting (deleted after harsh backlash) that demanded skill in using genai

drbigsadbabymd-blog

As someone who's been a lifelong nerd for behind-the-scenes early development/concept art shit, its fucking wild to me they thought "oh no don't worry, we're just using AI to build the foundation for the art. The finished product won't be AI" would go over well

Like no that's...that's not how that works. You can't use AI as a fundamental building block for concept art and then say the art in the game isn't made with AI. That's like saying "Don't worry, I traced somebody else's drawing but colored it in myself, so really if you think about it the finished product is an original piece by me :)"

faggotgirl-evil

Let's go to a Jungle!

owenthetokencishet

When the male lead and female lead make it to the end of the story without kissing

alanaisalive

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

iguanamouth

oh shit

throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight

alanaisalive

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

docd666

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

luidilovins

the Nanotyrannus debate is finally put to rest. Paleohistology reaserchers have confirmed that the animals hotly debated on whether they were dealing with a new species or if it's a juvenile of Tyrannosaurus Rex through the growth rings of their bones that the specimens in question indeed passed to adulthood/sexual maturity, as well as things like fewer tail vertibre and skull nerve patterns.

Tyrannosaurus and Nanotyrannus were not in direct competition for food having ecological rolls known as niche partitioning. Wolves and coyotes for example. Nanotyrannus was more agile and limber which suggest it was a pursuit predator rather than an ambush predator like T. Rex.

It looks like Nanotyrannus is finally here to stay. Yippie!!