So Much For Stardust

Dex|27|they/them|🇨🇦|childhood cancer survivor|agender

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm so so so angry. in Horsey Game, I found a wild legless horse, cloned it repeatedly, and mass-sold the clones to all my rival ranches to pollute their gene pools. and when my plan finally reached fruition.....when at last, I came into a race where every opponent had no legs.......my stupid fucking horse fell over.

[pangur-and-grim]

[despazito]

Sometimes I'll be looking at bullshit online that I know will just rile me up and I have to think of this image to get myself to stop

[fryday]

"this does not mean we're gonna turn into couple vloggers in bed" phil said. 23 hours later:

[gokucat]

feeding her stuffie must live on....

[todaysbird]

we used nicknames too often and now he thinks his name is “stinky stinkman”

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

Pictured: Socrates, or "Sir!", blurrily turning towards me as I say, "Sir!"

Pretty sure Socrates thinks his his name is, "Sir," at this point, because I treat him like a customer who is Being The Whole Problem.

Socrates: *concerned-sounding meow* (they're always concerned-sounding)

Me: "Sir! I'm going to need you to calm down!"

Socrates: *confusion increases*

[filthy-rat]

stop putting touchscreens in cars and get to the features people actually want: oscillating vent fans, visors that move automatically to block the sun, and the ability to fire red koopa shells at people who change lanes without using their turn signal

[foxes-in-love]

[not100bees]

They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

[god-monsterr]

this reply deserves to be here.

[poikaboo]

{ID - reply from time-compass reads, "Try actively listening for assurance. I found I just missed it because I was so preoccupied with my own thoughts, but really today's assurance came in the form of my roommate offering to share the dinner she made. It came in the form of my coworker raising his eyebrows, impressed with my work. I found it in my father's hearty laugh at a gimmick I showed him. People won't sit you down and tell you directly; switch your overanalyzing from internal to noticing good things." END ID}

[danielhowell]

IS PHAN REAL? one of the biggest conspiracies in the history of the internet - we’re gonna talk about it https://youtu.be/Cxe_YMJ4nUs

[reunitedinterlude]

do you think you and phil will be best friends forever? that's the plan.

[diphowell]

being told that you don’t have to be forgiven for being traumatized is like so much

[3liza]

i think one of the main issues with "dating culture" in total is that the actual percentage of humans who want or need to pair bond or reproduce is a lot lower than we think it is and this creates conflict from dumping an enormous amount of resources into pursuing unsatisfactory goals, having an identity crisis when yet another relationship or partner is boring or disappointing, going through a destructive breakup and resource partition, and then being coerced into starting over from the beginning and just doing this over and over until we die. i don't think relationships and love and romantic attachment are fake I just think a lot of people don't actually need or want them who have been convinced otherwise

[3liza]

I'm not aromantic or asexual, in fact quite the opposite. I'm a full fledged poetry writing romantic and a lot of the most euphoric experiences of my life have been very stereotypical Falling In Love/Being In Love situations. I'm just saying if you really ask someone "do you like this. do you like your girlfriend. do you want to be around her. do you enjoy spending time with people you think you are romantically interested in. do you think about them in a way that makes you feel that way no one has successfully described. or are you just doing these things because you feel somehow that you are obligated or owed 'a girlfriend' (unspecified) like it's a desk lamp or toilet brush" and I think the honest answer is the second thing for a lot more people then is acknowledged

[eggy-tea]

For all that my experience of gender is mostly ‘No thanks, I’m good! Happy for you, though!’ there is one context in which I have always happily accepted a gendered term, and that’s when I worked customer service in stores and got to be The Lady. As in, a parent comes in with a small child and tells them to “give that to The Lady,” or “ask The Lady your question.”

I first got to be The Lady at 16 or 17 while working part-time at the local convenience store, and the novelty never wore off. Only ten years before, I was in stores with my mother being told to pass that to The Lady so we can pay for it, and now here I was, become The Lady myself! Part of a grand tradition!

I think the reason that The Lady sits easier than “girl” or “woman” for me is because, as The Lady, I’m not so much defined by my gender as my position within the interaction, which is “kindly adult figure who is here to help introduce the young human to the ways of Social Interaction.” The Lady is a sort of simplified archetype, generalized into a useful teaching tool to convey the lesson that folks working customer service are usually happy to help you when you approach them with respect. When learning something new, and especially something complex, it’s often best to break it up into its component pieces and work one part at a time. The Lady’s gender doesn’t actually matter — “Lady” is just a basic stand-in for “respectful term used to address a stranger.” The actual focus of the interaction is How To Do A Shopping. It’s all a performance to capitalize on a teachable moment, anyway — the gender marker chosen is incidental, based on what seems simplest and most likely. So yeah, it feels weird to be referred to as “the woman,” but I’m always up for being The Lady for a kid learning social skills. I could happily be The Gentleman, too, or just The Nice Person — that’s all I want to be, in the end, anyway.

[akashicrecord]

Norman being a pleasure to have on the porch

[cartoonrival]

any phannie worth their salt will tell you that its not the fact that they're in a relationship that is shocking its the fact that they announced it

[cartoonrival]

ppl who dont/havent watched dnp keep saying things like "i thought we already knew" which is funny because none of the phannies, who did actually know, are saying that, because its explicitly rude and also completely besides the point

[cartoonrival]

"i thought we already knew" i could fill libraries with what you don't know

[diphowell]

[ahappydnp]

fuck it *2014 galaxy edits your hard launch*