Gentle Oddity

level 22 transfemme/genderqueer/lesbian she/they | here for the strange, confusing, delightful freaks known as humans | life is art, art is life

[kosmogrl]

[recoiled4]

[gentle-oddity]

The little pieces that really show you so much of who someone is. The pieces of their life that are closest to the values they hold dear, that show you how they think about life.

There's something so powerful about understanding the pieces of how someone lives their life. I want to know how you organize your desk. What is your evening routine? What hobbies do you always come back to?

It's an underrated way of connecting to others, because so many of us take the jigsaw of our lifestyle as a given, much of it inherited from culture, family, and friends.

[daco-showman]

why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic

[transhuman-priestess]

He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

Capitalism is disgusting.

[fuckblast]

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

[transhuman-priestess]

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

[gentle-oddity]

Fuck I need to meet someone I can look up at adoringly, like an intelligent beast and their caretaker, like a dancer to their partner, the kind of intimacy found equally in the wearing of a collar, late night conversations in a parking lot, and a hug from behind in the kitchen.

Someone who doesn't always expect me to pretend to be a full person, who loves my existential rants, who has a matching curiosity for the whys and how's of the world.

Despite my introversion making it so much harder to connect, I would never sacrifice it. Because there's something special about being alone with someone else. About that layer of domesticity that's sealed off from the world, the core of your world on the living room couch, in the bed at twilight. The place where you can both shed the world, and for a time, become the entire world for each other. (In this specific sense, not even romance is required. Just plain intimate connection.)

Despite my lack of experience, I really am a lover girl. Now let's hope I can find a healthy fitting place for these tendencies sooner or later.

[redstonedust]

i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.

[redstonedust]

i love the USA: weird vibes. dont trust that.

i love muskegon michigan: you are experiencing a kind of personal joy that i can and will not take from you

[negativesanchez]

[mawofthemagnetar]

The problem with being low support needs is that people mentally autocorrect that to “no support needs” and then proceed to give you absolutely nothing and then get surprised when you implode after six months.

[gentle-oddity]

I always get so excited when I can feel myself changing. Because when you can feel changes coming around the corner, whether small or large, you know part of that experience will always be getting to know yourself just a bit more.

It's often a tiring experience (doubly so because the more I'm changing, the more I'm adding to my music library lol), but always so so gratifying. And as someone with ADHD-relates memory issues, I find those moments where I feel in contact with who I truly am to be absolutely magical.

Every day I recognize myself in the mirror just a little more, and I feel so so much love for who I am becoming, despite all the tribulations and traumas.

[i-am-a-fish]

I want everyone to have universal basic income please

[iceghosto]

This morning I had like the lesbian equivalent of that part from the Brian David Gilbert cooking video about getting called Boss haha

[emolgana]

incredible stuff happening out there

[pukicho]

There's gotta be someone more qualified. I'm fucking begging you.

[here-by-chance]

im obsessed

[the-real-seebs]

oh, of course. because he died for our sins.

[melanocetuss]

a few days ago i woke up thinking: snails are cute, but what if they had legs?

so i made this, and i was like "aww yeahhh such a funny animal"

and then a second image popped up in my head

what if they acted like dogs?

YEAAAAHHHHH HAPPY PUPPY SNAIL

[psilocybin-possum]

put a cucumber treat in his mouth pls

[melanocetuss]

here you go

sharing is caring

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you @aedifica !

[ceruleankitkats]

sincerest form of flattery

[stillhere-erehllits]

This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

[finnglas]

This is honestly one of the places I find Marie Kondo's advice most helpful. I stop, look at the thing I've spent time and money on only to realize I dislike, and I say, "Thank you for teaching me something about myself and my preferences. I think I've learned this particular lesson and we can part ways now."

And then I don't feel like I "wasted" things or made a mistake. I just tried one path of learning about myself, learned something, and now it's time for a different path. Works a lot better for my brain.

[ekjohnston]

The time Marie Kondo said "you can thank a a shirt you've never worn for teaching you about your taste", thereby making it NOT A WASTE literally rewired my whole brain. Acknowledge the thing and move forward, even if that means leaving the thing behind.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

ultimately i just want to be an object that attract crows

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"is this why you keep stealing people's gold fillings while they're asleep" no that's unrelated

[howtobangyourmonster]

Back when I was in forensic anthropology undergrad, one of my favorite units we did was on teeth. We received a mint tin full of teeth, and we had a plastic tray we taped a grid onto with a space for each tooth position, and then we had to use the wear patterns on the teeth and other factors to determine what position each tooth had held when it was in a person. I’ve always thought teeth were cool, when I was a kid and one of my silver-capped baby teeth fell out, I wore it around my neck as a pendant until I lost it somewhere, so I loved this unit.

At the time, I was also working at a pawn shop, and people would sometimes sell us teeth that had gold fillings, and one of the employees would remove the gold and then we were to dispose of the teeth, but I collected them in my own little tin at work to practice with(ethically-dubious, keeping people’s teeth without permission). One day, someone was at my desk and found my little tin of teeth and freaked out and threw them all away and I was very sad.

I also briefly worked as a dental assistant for a time, that was also fun, but I didn’t get to keep any teeth.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this website just feels like home

[fizzlewizard404]

i... i thought this would be funny... and somewhat fitting, idk...

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