Idiot Windy Dude

I don't care what you call me. You can even be a dick. Only if you're funny though.

[creekfiend]

I remember you talking about trying to find a good shoulder compression/posture harness a while back. Did you ever find one you like? I’ve been losing my mind because I’ve bought three separate ones in the largest sizes they have and they were all too small or crappy material that I can’t wear for long periods.

Oof, my biggest issue w shoulder stuff is that I have really tiny narrow shoulders, so I doubt my recs would necessarily be applicable to someone with the opposite problem -- I know some followers who might have recs though, so I'll post this and see if any of them have tips

[lyrslair]

HANG ON MY BROAD SHOULDERED CHUBBY BUTCH ASS HAS YOU COVERED!!

THIS ONE seems to work ok though keep in mind I wear like. A 2x in shirts (sorry I am a hobbit) and I feel like if I only want like, light compression (I have nerve issues with my shoulders so I have to be careful) it kinda only just fits me so if you need larger than that mind the sizing guide.

Worth noting I picked this one because it hugs just under the bust so I kinda. Picked it for having a lil extra possible support in that region for me. LOL But otherwise it fits kinda like a backpack with a slightly firmer area along the spine. On me at least it doesn't bunch or catch under the armpits which were important factors for me. I do however wear it over top of my shirt so I can't say how it is against bare skin.

[foolishaetherguardian]

This looks promising. I’m built like a Dorito without any of the muscle that usually entails so I've been struggling.

[foolishaetherguardian]

One day I will not feel like I’m being hunted for sport every time I go near that place.

[foolishaetherguardian]

Just had someone honestly suggest I go read Lolita because I clearly don’t know what an unreliable narrator is. And… I just have to ask why? Would you ever suggest that to a stranger on The INTERNET?

[creekfiend]

I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while and I am sorry if it comes off oddly. How do you navigate an intelligence gap in a relationships? I have dated men of equivalent or greater intellect and found them inadequate in other ways, but when I have dated men less intelligent than me I become frustrated with them and their insecurities bleed into the relationship. You and Ship (or the personas you perform publicly) seem content. How do you avoid getting frustrated? [cont.]

"[part 2] I mean no insult to Ship of course. They seem very attentive and I used to really enjoy their detective skits. From the contents of your blogs they come across as so much less intellectually curious that it surprises me that you are compatible. Do you get adequate intellectual stimulation from other relationships/is that not a need for you in a partner/are my standards unrealistic?"

i have no idea how to respond to this. we have all been in absolutely helpless hysterics about it for the last thirty minutes. this is by far the most deranged ask I have received about my personal life on this website in my fifteen year career on here, and that is saying quite a lot

i can't decide which part of this message is my favorite, but if I HAD to say, probably the part where you appear to be entirely in earnest about this? in almost any other case I would assume a message like this was an elaborate way of insulting me or my partner or both, but I really genuinely don't think that's the case for you, which is actually MORE confusing. its just so compelling. there's so many layers here. i want to hire someone to cross stitch this for me so I can hang it in our living room. i can hear ship intermittently breaking out in peals of hysterical laughter in the kitchen

[maxleggy]

i love that maned wolf pups also do the canine thing where they feet too big for their got damn they, but because they also have the long ass legs they end up looking way more normally proportioned than the adults. like this:

like those are regular wolf proportions

[curiositysavesthecat]

If you could restart your life from age 15 with all the knowledge you possessed now, so that you COULD go back and fix all your regrets/mistakes, would you do it?

Yes

No

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[loveridden1999]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

dog sex is occurring wow this sucks

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

he looks so guilty and won’t meet her eyes or mine

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, being spent on species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[foolishaetherguardian]

Because I was recently made aware of Lewis and Clark discourse(?) regarding them being an unrequited gay love story…. I had to go and dig through my books. And I have concluded that there is no sexual or romantic explanation for their relationship in their records. If they were twins we would write them off as twins being weird like that but because they weren’t we don’t have an explanation for why they were like that. Lewis and Clark had something weirder than an unrequited love story. They were joined at the hip best friends who were so deeply important that one of them told the President of the United States (his boss and most powerful man in the country) that he would desert if he couldn’t take his quantumly entangled best friend on this dangerous wilderness exploration mission. There’s not a straight explanation for this. But there also isn’t a gay one.

[rosieandthemoon]

Keith's Tower in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Built c. 1824

[creekfiend]

a funny thing about having conversations with people within institutions (academic in this case but also others) about gatekeeping, is that you end up having a conversation over and over in which you're like, "hey this alligator spike pit moat you have erected around your institution is keeping a lot of people out," and they're like, "well *I* navigated the alligator spike pit moat just fine," and you're like, "right. by dint of us having this conversation, you within the institution and me without, it is understood that you navigated the alligator spike pit moat. due to that being an inherent requirement of entering the institution," and they're like, "I don't think you understand the prestigious history of our alligator spike pit moat," and you're like, "is there a reason why there needs to be an alligator spike pit moat encircling the concept of higher education?" and they're like, "look, the alligator spike pit moat isn't for everyone. some people just aren't cut out for the alligator spike pit moat :)" and you're like, "right, yeah, like disabled people and people coming from poverty or unstable home environments or underserved communities or people dealing with difficult to navigate life events like pregnancy or abuse or prison or addiction or the death of a loved one, for example" and they're like, "how dare you imply that we are keeping those people out on purpose. it's their own problem if they can't wrestle the alligators and avoid the spikes while also disabled and/or poor and/or pregnant etc" and you're like, "well that seems evil," and they're like, "it sounds like maybe you're just bitter about the alligator spike pit moat because of your totally random individual experience with ONE bad alligator spike pit moat. have you considered therapy?" and you're like, "did you know that there's some patterns here in terms of how y'all are handling this stuff?" and they're like, "actually yes. we even have a department of alligator spike pit studies :)" and you're like, "that's great, how do I get access to and participate in those conversations?" and they're like, "well firstly you must cross the alligator spike pit moat"

[creekfiend]

if you can document that you have a medical condition that might make it challenging for you to navigate the alligator spike pit moat, they'll give you an extra 20 minutes to complete your navigation of the alligator spike pit moat

[creekfiend]

IMPORTANT: any injuries incurred as a result of navigating the alligator spike pit moat will be the sole responsibility of the injured parties. once you leave, the people who made you navigate the alligator spike pit moat and the institution that installed the alligator spike pit moat will never contact you again. except sometimes to ask you for more money.

[foolishaetherguardian]

The stupidest thing is that once inside the moat, the moat becomes a measuring stick. I have gotten into heated arguments with other academics about the moat-as-measuring-stick and how useless it is. If our measuring stick is an alligator moat then everything is scaled to alligator moat as the base line. Instead of like a drawbridge.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

some smells really just stick in your nose. never the ones you’d like to, either.

[homunculus-argument]

My boyfriend went to get some groceries on bike - more for the exercise than out of need, as we both hate doing exercise for no other reason than for the sake of doing it - and as soon as he got outside it started absolutely pouring. And my boyfriend, he's the human version of those huskies who happily nap face down in a pile of snow on the yard while refusing to come back inside. And he fucking loves rain. He's got this green rain cloak that he likes, but he would've been just as happy out there without it. He's not built to live indoors, keeping him in a city apartment regularly feels like keeping a wolverine as an inside pet.

So he was cycling, in what as far as he is concerned is unironically the best possible weather, getting to the store. And while he was locking his bike, some old lady first glanced at him with concern, and on a second glance took her own bike and got the fuck out of there. And at this point my boyfriend realised that due to loving the weather, he was smiling, really grinning like an idiot, beaming pure joy. And as he doesn't really smile a lot, he's not used to making that facial expression, so in hindsight he was going around looking like this:

[foolishaetherguardian]

The only right response to rain.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

was thinking about how the concept of god is usually characterized as male (thanks patriarchy) and i came up with a question: in christian theology,

does "God" have a penis?

surely the catholic church made some sort of ruling on this

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

stop derailing with Jesus's foreskin, this post is about God's genitals ONLY

[myfairkatiecat]

Hi, Catholic here—the only part of the holy trinity with a human body is the Son (Jesus) so yes, but also God the Father doesn’t have a human body so no, but the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all the same being as well so yes, but all humans including women are created in the image of God so hypothetically He has everything else too. Hope this helps.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

thank you it did not!

[foolishaetherguardian]

Technically in the original language the words used more support a neutered god. As in the word looks masculine at first but upon interrogation is realized to have no gender.

[creekfiend]

love when I see a doctor and they're just like

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no more historic events this decade that is ENOUGH, i’m putting my foot down

[alettertofutureme]

History is not done with us yet my friend

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I have received all manner of threat, up to and beyond “I will play a flute carved from your femur,” and yet this is the first time I’ve felt truly threatened

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i knew posting this in 2022 was risky but holy fucking shit

[foolishaetherguardian]

Our darling history is never done with us. She will burn our eras into her. And when the death throes of this era pass she shall smile. And gather us up again. To play out whatever the next act she has planned for us.