Do Not Perceive Me

Science nerd. Hockey fan. Water polo player. Ace. Mostly post about my favorite musical tv shows. Icon from @mostlyicons

[blackbird-brewster]

i love you people still wearing face masks i love you people wearing them for strangers i love you people wearing them for themselves i love you people wearing them for family members i love you people wearing them for friends and coworkers i love you people wearing them despite it no longer being mandated i love you people wearing masks

[blackbird-brewster]

I love you people who are reblogging this I love you people who are still wearing masks and encouraging others to do the same I love you people who care

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for exposing my telling my sister that her thoughts were disgusting? Please read until the end before you click YTA.

So me and my sister are both 16f And she confessed to be that she had a crush on a voice actor cory burton. The problem is that he is 68. Which is very old. When she told me her crush was old and a voice actor I thought she meant like a 40 year old like troy baker or something not someone old enough to be her grandfather 🤢

I told her that her crush was disgusting and that she should have crushes on people her own age. And she told me that it's no different than having a crush on Taylor Swift or another celebrity BUT THIS GUY ISNT A CELEBRITY he's just a random voice actor sure he's been in a lot of stuff but he's not public or a super huge celebrity like Harry styles or Margot Robbie or something hes a very private person

So then while she was sleeping I decided to check her diary. There were nude drawings of this RANDOM VOICE ACTOR in there. I woke her up and told her that she needed to rip them up because it was a violation of his boundaries and she said that "he wouldn't see it because we live in another state" which yeah that's true but if I showed it to him he would probably be bothered by it.

She started crying because she trusted me and now she said that she didn't trust me anymore. But inb4 I find drawn nude pictures of other old voice actors in her book

Aita

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Voting ended onNov 22, 2023

What are these acronyms?

[coreyburtonthrowaway]

hi, I've seen the comments under this post so I'll clarify something's.

Burton does not go to conventions like at all literally basically nothing about him online besides old photos of his face and scattered forum posts on transformers websites.

He is a NOTORIOUSLY private pwrson. No social media no fucking reddit no goddam twitter no fucking discord (he's tech ilerate because he's old) fucking nothing.

I guess he could pass for a 40 something dilf because he looks a bit young and short but whatever.

Im just worried about my sister. She shouldn't be attracted to very old people with one foot in the grave like him.

You all mentioned 50 year olds but they won't be blown away like a wind like old people.

I'm worried for her mental health when he passes peobably soon because he's old and allthat's all

[coreyburtonthrowaway]

Ok so I red somemore comments and I wanna clarify more things

I said blown in the wind because he's tiny for a guy (5'6) and he's old too. Like he's not 100 but he's gettin up there

I said one foot in the grave because again old people are much more susceptible to injures than younger people.

People are confused about my "private person" thing but he really is I just worded it bad

I did not intend offense

My point is that people are not normally attracted to old people. Please understand

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Oh honey you are in for such a wakeup call in a handful of years

[bossbabyjesus]

Tumblr people are not real because there is no way someone can write all this and still think their sister is the one in the wrong

[allsadnshit]

I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

[swampgallows]

"tbh we might have clowned on [aros & aces] a lil too harshly" bigotry. the term you're looking for is bigotry. denying communities their vocabulary and ability to safely exist because you think you're the personal arbiter of which identities are "valid" is bigotry. minimizing and infantilizing and harassing entire groups of people based on their orientation is bigotry. aphobia isn't some forgettable phase of being cringe as a teenager, it's bigotry that inflicted long term damage to these communities.

[swampgallows]

These notes are heartbreaking. There are hundreds of aspec people describing in detail how they went back in the closet or lived in denial or in fear because of the malice, harassment, and ignorance toward aromantic and asexual people. Aspec positivity tags used to be full of porn and gore. This included pictures of the corpse of a teen girl who came out as asexual the day before she was brutally murdered—and Internet strangers responded by debating her orientation.

Aphobes tried to argue that only lesbians could experience corrective rape, or that it was somehow appropriating a term exclusive to South Africa, or that an asexual person willing to have sex could not be correctively raped. They insisted any evidence of oppression was either misdirected or fabricated. Being an entry in the DSM until 2013 and developing medication specifically for treating the condition didn’t count. 

They told us all of our words were either stolen or stupid: allistic people tried to say that “aspec” was specifically about people on the autism spectrum; “zucchini”, squash, and other innocuous aspec terms and motifs (black rings, playing card suits, cake, space, dragons, etc.) got ridiculed to death; QPRs as a concept are derided as “just friends” and irrelevant to anyone but aspecs, who themselves are deemed irrelevant. In fact, the “clowning” quote in the OP was in the notes on a post of mine about the importance of recognizing queerplatonic relationships. 

Aphobes insisted that aspecs couldn’t speak other languages, that it’s a “white people thing”, that teenagers are just trying to feel special, that it’s a side effect of SSRIs, that we’re “basically straight” (straight-passing, i.e. erased). Anything to deny us our existence. Anything to minimize us, to keep us invisible and silent, to blame us for intracommunity issues, to invalidate us. 

I got attention for getting angry in 2018, and I’m still angry now. This has been happening on tumblr for over a decade. It’s been known for a long time (and even admitted by terfs themselves) that aro/ace exclusion and trans exclusion go hand in hand and contribute to terf rhetoric. When you hurt us, you are hurting your own community. Arguing that aspecs do not belong is not “discourse”. It is bigotry.

[manhattan-gamestop]

Out of curiosity rb and put in the tags how many fics come up when you type your last name into ao3. Apparently even though my last name is uncommon there's like 500

[bonefarm]

I gave all my siblings gift cards for Christmas. Stuffed in tiny piñatas, with candy, and little five way hammers to open them with.

Every single person in my family was initially delighted that they got to beat some money out of a tiny paper mache animal, and then MORE delighted by the tiny Russian Nesting Doll hammers.

You too can provide at least 30 minutes of politics free enrichment to your families for $11.00s. Highly recommend. Didn’t take any pictures cause I was crying laughing.

[bonefarm]

Currently trying to figure out what to inflict on my siblings this year.

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

Do you think that there were any ships that went out whaling out of New England and missed the entire american civil war

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

Like they went out in 1860 had a long voyage for the usual reasons and came back in late 1865 with very little idea of what had happened. like "oh boy I've finally finished getting my whale oil I can't wait to see my favourite president Abraham Lincoln after having been out whaling since early 1860." do you think that that was anyone

[nastynas1991]

Something like this happened to famous Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton. He set out on an expedition in the arctic in 1914 just as the World War I had begun. The expedition was a disaster, he and his crew got lost and stranded. Somehow they survived though, and after much struggling and an incredible and impossible journey, they found help from a whaling station on South Georgia Island near the end of 1916. One of the first questions Shackleton asked from his saviors was something along the lines of "whatever happened with that war in Europe? How long did it last and who won?". The reply he got back was "the war isn't over. Millions are dead. Europe is mad. The world is mad". It's difficult to imagine the shock and terror that those few words must have generated.

[theconcealedweapon]

[songofsaraneth]

every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

Speaking of books it's been a while since I've seen one of these posts going around & I'm curious so everyone could you tell me what you are reading rn in the tags please

[rongzhi]

A mating dance (?)

[drsweety303-deactivated20240202]

Aww would you like banany in your smoothy...Too fucking bad theres a recession. Stupid decadent bitch.

[kaitcake1289]

“[…] Season four starts with meet Rebecca, and in the end, she did”

[thatonegaytrekfan]

[ultirex]

go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish

[unhinged-popsocket]

Ocean

[empress-of-dark2005]

Ocean

[shuffled-bunny]

Ocean

[ostrigjpg]

Ocean

[soviet-union-deactivated19911226]

Mount Grefell National Park in Australia

[transgendercrt-moved-deactivate]

Ocean

[quantroup]

Ocean

[pumpkinspicedlesbian]

Ocean

[adgjl103]

Ocean

[pucket]

Ocean

[bossbabyjesus]

Karakoram mountains at the border of Pakistan, India, and China

[machine-saint]

writing a callout post for our cat:

invading queer spaces (the dining room table)

refusing to listen to queer voices (us telling her to get off the dining room table)

harming queer bodies (puts her claws out when you pick her up)

[divorceddadrock]

[divorceddadrock]

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

OP you’re my personal fucking hero

[saintofnotbroken]

[ayamccabre]

I am once again reminding people that it wasn't unusual to have this sort of politics on the radio in the 2010s. It's not ahead of its time, your culture just got fascist since then.