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@darlingdax
I quite like when I press my hands against someone's head or face to pet them and they push their head into my touch. It can be gratuitous, in a way. Ceasing to perform human posturing like taking off a mask. Like a splash of fresh water revealing your desire for more of my touch. Directly asking for it in something that translates more clearly than mere words. It's cute.
something I've discovered a lot with my shock collar stuff is that girl's brains will melt if you're sweet to them while you're shocking them. "Sweetie, I'm glad you're sorry, but you know that's not gonna help you. Here, hold my hand, okay? Next shock is going to be worse and I know you're crying but it's going to happen anyway."
Good girl! You're doing so well for me. Look you've already gotten so high on the power setting. We're going to start pushing a little harder now, okay? I know my sweet girl can take it.
You can take it right?
Here, take the controls. You want me proud of you, right?
Prove it.
it’s genuinely fucking absurd that cis people have any goddamn say at all on trans healthcare
“oh yeah i mean im not diabetic but i dont really know how insulin works and i think its kinda freaky that you gotta poke your finger all the time so im gonna go ahead and say insulin is illegal”
thats how it sounds.
Favorite adderall review
You have to watch the dosage.
you sound like you've been struggling lately, let's get you some kind of medication that doesn't do anything
"hey I tried this other medication that actually does something. Can I have it?"
nope sorry, you should've been more annoying as a kid, you're too good at pretending to be normal for that one. also we've decided you're drug-seeking now
i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"
while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"
well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question
third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"
i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."
and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3
@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct
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hope is a weapon you are trained to wield
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You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.
"if Jax is a trans woman she's still an abuser so she's bad representation so the show is transphobic" you're an idiot. you want your blorbos to be perfect ideal angels, I want my blorbos to be realistic, nuanced, flawed human beings, we are not the same. I LIKE that she's messy and fucked up and problematic, I think it's a realistic depiction of how a lot of repressed and traumatized trans women are. I think the show goes to great lengths to explore how and why she is the way she is, and to evoke sympathy for this kind of person. it doesn't excuse her actions but it does make them understandable. and I think the fact women like that deserve sympathy is an idea worth stating and worth shouting. yes she's a bully and she hurt everyone around her and that may never change. she still deserves sympathy.
weird one mousey but am I wrong for thinking that trans women who exclusively thirst over other trans women are no better than chasers
nah, t4t is humanity's greatest achievement
BUT... I do agree with you to an extent. trans women are absolutely capable of objectifying other trans women
I think it's a combination of how a lot of us want someone to top and/or dom for us for once, and how a lot of us only feel comfortable flirting with other trans women
there's little in terms of consequences for objectifying a trans woman, even for other trans women, and so, like much of the rest of the world, some trans women do that
the difference though is that, as they are not TME, the power dynamics won't necessarily be unbalanced, so it also tends to be less of a danger in my experience. generally when another trans woman says something uncomfortable or objectifying to me I'm able to talk to her about it and that's that, no big fallout. so they're still miles better than chasers
Yeah that’s about my experience with it too
“I just need to learn how to seem more normal and they’ll leave me alone,” she thought, lacking any ability to understand why the boys they said were her peers seemed to hate her from the moment they met her
Patriarchal society teaches boys to hate girls and believe it or not being a girl involuntarily sorted into boys spaces can very often mean being seen as an acceptable (and even deserving) target for that prejudice
“Hello yes the boys you keep forcing me to be around keep attacking me on sight and the girls I find myself relating to and drifting towards have already learned that ‘boys’ are dangerous, which I don’t disagree with, but as a result they’re keeping their distance out of fear that I’m the exact sort of predator I’m trying to find refuge from, may I have some basic human kindness and connection, please?”
“That’s extremely selfish of you have you considered that maybe you deserve to be abused?”
“I had not! I’ll just internalize that now since it’s the only consistent message that anyone is sending”
I literally cannot stress enough the constant societal forces that work 24/7 to make even an unrealized trans girl think that her existence is fundamentally wrong and she deserves to be punished for it
Before I knew it was about gender I still knew that there was something ‘defective’ about me that justified the bullying and the harassment and the total lack of empathy from the people who billed themselves as figures of authority
sighs sadly
delineating between 'content i am/am not allowed to admit i am horny for' is silly self-policing. and once you've disciplined yourself enough, self-policing inevitably turns into regular policing, because you get fewer and fewer shots at the real goal of policing (including self-policing): doling out punishments
you are looking at something. it's art showing two people interacting. it makes you feel a certain strong way, an emotional response that isn't beholden to your rational teachings. you are afraid of what is inside of you. you were yelled at, maybe beaten for it before. suddenly you get an idea! turning inwards, you yell at and maybe beat the part of yourself you are afraid of. and to your glee you realise you have overpowered it, become a better and more rational person. you see someone else and realise you should yell or beat it into them too
they killed him for this
There's so many horror games about having to try to weed out and deal with inhuman imposters, but I want one where the script is flipped. You are something inhuman, you are an imposter, and if you want to survive you have to blend into a world that is trying to hunt you down and destroy you. You aren't human, but you must masquerade as one and infiltrate their world, or you will die.
I actually think we need to start inverting more Horror premises/tropes.
Like "You have to venture into the scary insane asylum!" VS "You're a patient who was admitted by force to an asylum, and you are very clearly in real danger, but everyone is pretending that you're just deluded, and are essentially leaving you to die because they don't really see you as a person."
I feel like there's a lot of Horror tropes built off of the fear of the other, when in reality it's actually often the other who is in danger. Maybe we could start recognising that more.
Interesting how the first half of the post has picked up popularity while the second part, which perhaps clarifies the idea of the original post, hasn't.
It's been interesting to see what media people are recommending based on the first post alone. A lot of recommendations for games/franchises like World of Darkness, Carrion, Kill All Humans, Among Us, etc. It's interesting because these are games that put you into the shoes of the violent other that has to infiltrate, without actually challenging the idea that the other is a threat. They actually parrot the ideas of the other as violent.
Funnily enough, the people recommending the comedy game Octodad understand the post much better than most of the people recommending horror media. A few mentions of Am I Nima, which isn't finished yet but does look like it could be what I am describing, so brownie points to the people recommending that.
But everyone saying stuff like "This is just being Trans/Autistic/Etc" really gets it, like really really gets it. Horror always communicates the fears and anxieties of the people who create it, this post was basically: "What if instead of communicating the fear of the other, we communicated the fears of the others, which are actually vastly more legitimate than the dominant groups fear of the other. We should recognise that it is overwhelmingly the others who are the ones who actually suffer and die, all for the perceived "saftey" and "comfort" of the dominant group."
This idea is about transphobia, it is about ableism, about anti-imigrant rhetoric and white supremacy, about queerphobia, it's about all of it. It is horror from the perspective of minority groups. It is the twisting of a trope built upon reactionary fears and narratives in order to critique them, it is a direct allegory for all those experiences you are describing.
Overall, it's just interesting to see who gets it and who doesn't.
having day bad enough that you're struggling to mask and disassociate at work is so funny. Oh right I think all of you are disgusting and in a just world you would be unworthy to comprise the soil on which i walk
Everyone say Thank You Miss Mordred
how does it feel, when the prongs of that choke collar dig into your neck? do you feel bullied, restrained, forced to heel against your will? or does it feel like a kind hand that holds the leash when you're given unmistakeable correction, without uncertainty?
I find it more calming than anything.
The weight is always there. The metal never warms fully to your body temperature. You have to be careful to hold a good posture or else you could dig the prongs into your own throat. Its existence is an ever present reminder you can never escape from.
You would think that would drive a dog like me crazy, but you're right. The certainty of that touch, of that correction keeps me steady.
It's like having a hand always on your scruff. Waiting for the smallest misstep to remind you you're owned. And when I get reminded? Fuck how perfect it is. Being drug up from my kneeling position to kiss, the whole time feeling that unforgiving metal bite deeper and deeper into the most vulnerable part of me.
Also, if I'm being completely honest I do like the safety it can project to others. Sure I'm a big dog, but I've been trained to mind my size and strength. This collar is a badge, showing others that just a tug is enough to bring compliance, so you don't need to be nervous.
A candy will appear inside the cup.
Through means of Magic, you may take a twine and twirl it around one's restless mind. Sleep shall come to the most weary of soul, and the minotaur's maze is to come uncoiled so. The gate is open; you will step through.
