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not gonna lie guys, I think the amount of fanfiction i consumed in my formative years may have actually done something to me

ur-favorite-fishgirl

sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.

innerchildabortionclinic

getting kicked off love island for just swimming in the pool and not talking to anyone

wizardshark

So fun fact from when I worked on multiple reality shows, names redacted for NDA purposes.

Gay people are INCREDIBLY ANNOYING for production when they are on reality shows cause they always do shit like this. Reality shows pick their cast specifically for people who will create drama, so it tracks that bringing in some gay people (in the era that I worked, 2013-2018, this was considered to be new and interesting) would diversify people enough to create some conflict. To a degree, this was true.

But what actually happened was that the gay person, or worse, people, would end up estranged from the other people because Straight People Who Are Fucking Nuts in a way that would be ideal for a reality show are very different from Gay People Who Are Fucking Nuts.

There's one particular instance I remember in which our Gay Person tm wasn't getting into drama and no one could figure out why. Any time anything happened it would just defuse almost instantly. Eventually we prodded during a solo interview and one of the guys said something along the lines of "Mayn gay marriage just got legalized n shit if I yell at this guy I'm being a homophobe". This meant that our gay was COASTING along in this reality show cause no one would vote him out!!

But you know what the PINNACLE of this was?

DATING SHOWS.

One... Very popular dating show I worked on (you know the one) has an unofficial, unwritten rule: you can only have 1 queer woman in the cast of ladies. This is because for a solid few years, if ever there were two bisexual women in the show, they would ALWAYS abandon the man and run off together instead. You can't have contestants saying shit like "this guy has no personality and sucks ass. I prefer this girl I met who actually listens to me". Like this was an actual epidemic in the casting. It happened over and over for YEARS and they couldn't find a way to stop it without literally separating the women from each other, which obviously wouldn't be good for the show. They also couldn't show this was happening because that. Uh. Would be pretty bad to reveal to audiences.

Eventually they just decided to subtly prod and see if women who were going on the show were gay and then avoid having two on the same season at the same time. To my knowledge they still do it this way.

Anyways the summary is that gay people are fucking crazy in a way that heterosexual tv just does not know how to handle

askthegrandhearthmother

I love(hate) how their first solution was to be blatantly biphobic

instead of getting men that don't suck

galapagos-spinch

I mean with option A you only have to find straight women and with option B you have to find dudes that don't suck, one of those sounds way easier than the other

starfieldcanvas

Specifically you have to find a dude that doesn't suck and is willing to look for love on a reality show, which I think are two entirely non-overlapping groups pretty much by definition

gobelindoll

im rereading project hail mary already dont judge

winchester-cas

Dying

roboticchibitan

Making your own clothes truly is like eating the fae's food because

Once you realize you can have any item you want in any color you want you become a menace to society. I have bright purple pants. I have bright turquoise pants. My new Look is "crazy bright hand embroidered pants, plain black T shirt" or brightly colored everything because my goal in life is to be as obnoxious to look at as possible

Once you've tasted THESE pockets, you can never go back

(Pants pattern those pockets come from link to page that includes plus size grading tutorial link because I know y'all are gonna ask)

I regularly carry around in these pockets

Small A7 notebook I use to write things down in so I don't forget them as a brain fog backup brain

Mini pencil to use w notebook

Handkerchief

Glasses cleaning cloth

Glasses lens wipe (up to 3)

Lactaid (up to 4 individually packaged chewable tablets)

Carmex lip balm (the in a little pot kind)

Measuring tape (flexible for sewing kind, 60"/150cm long, button retraction, sooo useful to have on you all the time. My hot butch preparedness thing. Impresses people every time)

Small pair of folding scissors (comes in soooo handy)

Pocket rock (rn it's a garnet cube)

I feel like I am forgetting something but don't feel like getting up to check

I have also either previously all the time carried or on occasion added

Small A7 sketchbook I made myself

16 oz water bottle (full)

And man it really is like having plenty of good food around you and starving anyway because you cannot go back to the way things were. I have items from indie designers that have decent sized pockets for ready made clothes but they piss me off because I can't put a whole saddlebag's worth of stuff in them without stuff falling out.

When I make the clothes, I decide how big the pockets are. I am limited only by the strength of my waistband. Truly this is power.

roboticchibitan

Thing I forgot: phone

Have added today to the things I usually carry: this folding bluetooth keyboard I got to use w my phone because I have fucked up hands that bend in ways they are not supposed to when holding a phone which results in typing on one being very painful for me. It's about 6" x4" or 15cm x 10cm and has plenty of space in my right pocket which up until now just held my phone

This thing rules. Hands hurt way less using it. Accessibility win!!!

roboticchibitan

I am so sad that the version of this post that's circulating is just the original post and not my addition because I think an entire fucking keyboard I use as an accessibility aid (admittedly one that folds in half but) is a really good way to shamelessly brag prove my point about the pockets.

Also, been carrying it around successfully for several days and it's not even like. Annoying to carry around. I just have to take it out of my pocket before I lay down to rest because it's a bit flimsy and I'm afraid I'll forget it's there and roll over on it.

unstablecryptid

idk how many more "higher temperature is expected today"s i got left in me

grenade-maid

Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

somethingusefulfromflorida

“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”

olivia-online

The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America

melonisopod

I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.

computationalcalculator

"cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas"

moonlitorchestrator

Basically if you lock yourself in a room forever and then dont leave because you're too tired you can make yourself into the most miserable person in all of existence

maidthings

[clearly experiencing symptoms of mania] oh i get it! im finally normal!

guooey

One of the most important things I have learned today..

deeisace

He really actually did

The Names of All Manner of Hounds is a unique list of 1065 names for hunting dogs (running hounds, terriers and greyhounds) found in a fifte

gatheringbones

[“The Roman Catholic Church’s definition of incest is one of the most intriguing features of medieval marriage. Neither the Old nor New Testament provided any basis for it. But in the mid-sixth century, church synods began to denounce as incestuous the Old Testament practice of marrying a brother’s widow. Also, during the sixth and seventh centuries bishops began condemning marriage to first and second cousins, stepmothers or stepdaughters, and the widows of uncles. In 721, Pope Gregory II even forbade marriage with the godmother of one’s child or with the mother of one’s godchild.

A few decades later marriage was forbidden up to the seventh degree of separation, or “as far as memory could go back.” This made it illegal to marry a descendant of one’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather! By the end of the eighth century it was incestuous to marry in-laws, the kin of godparents or godchildren, or a relative of someone you had once had sexual intercourse with. It was also forbidden to marry a relative of someone you had previously promised but failed to marry. These prohibitions were so broad that almost any match could be ruled invalid. One historian notes that, at least in theory, the incest rules prohibited young village men from wedding “all the marriageable girls they could possibly know and a great many more besides.”

[…]

On the other hand, because the rules were so routinely ignored at the time of marriage, they could later be used to invalidate an existing marriage. A claim of incest provided an escape clause from the Church’s strictures against divorce. A married couple, or one of the pair, who desired a divorce might suddenly discover that the marriage had been incestuous all along. In the late eleventh century the Count of Anjou was able to repudiate five of his own marriages by dint of diligent genealogical research. In 1152 the divorce of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine was approved when the couple pointed out that they were related within four or five degrees. The excuse served, even though this had been common knowledge at the time of their wedding and Louis’s next wife, Constance of Castile, was even more closely related to him than Eleanor had been. As one historian notes, the church’s “abhorrence of incest provided a gap in the laws of monogamy through which a king . . . could drive a coach and horses.”

In 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council narrowed the definition of incest to four degrees of separation. The council’s stated aim was to enforce the modified ban more stringently. But popes continued to grant dispensations for political or financial gain. Under the papacy of Boniface IV (1389-1404), marital dispensations were openly available for sale, with a sliding fee scale based on the value of the concession being sought.”]

stephanie coontz, from marriage, a history: from obedience to intimacy, or how love conquered marriage, 2005

brightlotusmoon

quasi-normalcy

Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.

batsarebetterthanpeople

He does so to dodge the draft

phantomrose96

Prompt-based fandom events are when you really learn everyone’s colors like you’ll find the people who take the prompt “death” and come up with some smarmy ship-art of character A and character B walking over dead leaves while wearing scarves and drinking hot cider and then you’ll find the people who take the prompt “sunshine” and write how a bright glint of sunshine reflected off the barrel of a gun is the absolute last thing character A sees before taking a bullet to the chest

you can lead a content creator to water but you sure as fuck can’t make him drink

allthingshyper

content creators, much like the elder gods, must not be given requests that can be left to interpretation, for the results bring madness upon the unwary

fibro-memes

raisinchallah

when your erotica ends with a bibliography of works cited

whitepeopletwitter

Is it the freedom

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