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[heylookitsghost]

Hey! Welcome to my Blog.

im ghost // they/them or neos

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The romo aro ™

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queer romo aro who is too in love for their own good.

☆im a system. my main blog for a hub is [insert] , and my identity hoard is at colorful-sunrise.

♡kinnie, and has a weird relationship with the sun.

☉disabled, i like the disabled sun.

✧i use my aro blog @a-romantic--aromantic a lot.

◇i use a lot of words and reclaim a lot of slurs.

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[foone]

the annoying thing about the privacy nightmare that is age verification is that this is 100% doable with double-anonymity: The verifier doesn't know what site/app you're verifying your age on, and the site/app doesn't need to know your personal information.

The fun part is that you could do this extremely easily by just bundling a key with an item you can't buy unless you're 18. Like a beer that includes a PGP key, or a pornographic magazine with a page that's a randomly generated key.

The site/app doesn't need to know WHO you are, only that you have access to something you can only get by being 18. This way they're putting the burden of verifying your age onto someone else, someone else who is already legally required to do exactly that.

But no one is interested in developing this because the point of age verification has never been age verification. it's always been governments trying to tie a real-world ID to internet identities, and companies trying to get more private information on users so they can sell it to advertisers.

(and also, it's not like this would be a good system even if it'd work and do what it says it'd do: We shouldn't be blocking minors off of large parts of the internet just for the sin of being underage, especially when "mature" labeling gets applied to more than just pornography. Queer teens shouldn't be separated from their support groups by parents who don't think they're mature enough to learn about that, for example)

[beggars-opera]

Looking back on it the funniest part of the super bowl is that everyone was so busy being racist that they failed to notice that not a single performer was straight with the exception of Bad Bunny who’s already gone on record basically saying “I’m straight at the moment but things change idk ask me again tomorrow”

[beggars-opera]

I’m going to address this in good faith.

Sexual fluidity is a very real concept, even if it is relatively rare. Perhaps even more importantly, people’s understanding of themselves can 100% change over time, and Bad Bunny as an often gender nonconforming dude and queer ally is intensely aware of that. His acknowledgment of it is important to stopping that kind of rhetoric and allowing people to grow and rediscover themselves over time, rather than forcing themselves into a singular box forever to their own detriment.

His exact words:

“At the end of the day, I don't know if in 20 years I will like a man. One never knows in life. But at the moment I am heterosexual and I like women."

[vetchtibbles]

this is a quick appreciation post for my mutuals who have my actual real life address and have never sent a hitman to my door to assassinate me you all are real ones

[possessable]

there's always a concern about learning to speak naturally and conversationally in one's target language and avoiding sounding bookish and literary because it may come off as stilted because nobody talks like that in real life . which makes sense . but also i do regularly say shit like "so unto thee i turn my ire , pointed sharp like a lance" and "vitriol begets vitriol when will you learn" in english so well , maybe not too out of place i talk like that in tagalog too ,

[possessable]

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[natequarter]

The Wheelchair Fallacy: when someone understandably upset about being persecuted tries to get across that they are upset about being persecuted by saying "you wouldn't say this about [other marginalised group], would you?" when people very much do say that about the other marginalised group. for example: stop saying rude things to cane users; you wouldn't say [rude thing people regularly say to both cane and wheelchair users] to wheelchair users, would you?

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[pensivegladiola]

Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem

[that-vexaholic-cryptid]

[gryffinite-gremlinlord]

Mulder's got a point

[eroscestlavie]

everyone envies me for my Mateo Point

[psychotic-gerard]

knew this woman who used to be a gay man and when he was a gay man he liked ‘ironically’ referring to himself as she/her and so when he came out as a woman he decided the next logical step was to also switch his pronouns to he/him.

[skarnish]

[tammog]

[thedaygoesupinflames]

okay so we all understand that sexual attraction doesn't always lead to sex. are we ready to consider that romantic attraction doesn't always lead to romance.

[thedaygoesupinflames]

and i dont mean this in a "its for your own good we dont date" way, or a "they got turned down and are still friends" way, i mean it in a "there is romantic attraction present but the one experiencing it doesnt want to do anything with it" way. am i making sense. are you hearing the words im saying. it wont fucking kill you if you dont act on it. like obviously you should probably communicate it someday but you dont have to let it dictate you or consume you. its just a feeling.

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

Can I add that you don’t have to communicate it? If you need to personally, then by all means. But it’s also okay to just feel it as long as you feel it and then let it pass. Attraction comes in many flavors and sometimes it’s just something to feel inside yourself and that’s okay.

[l-a-l-o-u]

My favorite human ritual is the unspoken rule that if you enjoyed a concert, you must clap without stopping at the end (if you were seated, you may rise to express further respect). The musician will bow, then exit the stage, but you must keep clapping. The musician must return and act surprised, bow again, then exit once more, and you continue to clap. Then, the musician will return and play one or two extra numbers (you stop clapping during the music) and at the end after they leave for the last time, you can clap as long as you wish but the musician will not return. It’s just such a cute song and dance. I've been to shows where the musician expects it (to the point that i could see their timer backstage that indicated how much time they had left for the show and they bowed for the first time with 20 minutes to spare) so they just go through the motion of pretending to end the show but the extra number is completely planned and we all expect it. Everyone in the audience is in on it but we all just do it anyway because it’s like a conversation were the audience and the musician are saying Thank You to each other over and over. Makes me feel some type of way

[woman-becomer]

thank you so much adblockers. thank you. I love you. thank you so much

[dragongirlsweetie]

i like how the mature content label is just completely fucking useless now

[tommiemommy-deactivated20251120]

Sharing wired earphone is a lost art.

[hbmmaster]

pistachios are a classic "two bowls" kind of snack

[flavinbagel]

cherries. edamame. peanuts. What's snacktime without a tasty lil sorting project?

[livelyspaghetti-blog]

When I tell people to delete anon hate, to not publish it, it’s not me saying “ignore it and it’ll stop; don’t fight back.” It is 100% petty and spiteful. Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than the person who sent the hate obsessively checking your blog and refreshing and refreshing, waiting for you to reply, and getting increasingly frustrated when the ask they so masterfully crafted never pops up & you just keep posting cute pictures of your pets and talking about how nice your day was.