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sufjansjoy

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

sufjansjoy

wow

catasters

gallusrostromegalus

tags by @ultramarineblues: #deeply curious about how this person discovered the cat liked this game

tiktoksthataregood-ish

drtanner

Didn't like it

spiritualistapologist

cocoagott

doglover43-deactivated20250923

vancouver coastal “sea” wolves - source

haaarpb

h

#h

girl-mercury

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Remaining time: 6 days 5 hours

#see the thing is most of the time I introduce myself as my nickname?#but when I do introduce myself by my given name it REALLY depends on /how/ someone decides to apply a nickname #generally it's cute and fun and affectionate and I like it #but sometimes people will go 'ugh [given name] is so long. can I call you something shorter?'#and that pisses me off

chromorbid

"bears repeating" and "time flies" are two kinds of creatures that fill similar ecological niches

sycamorality

oh no i will lose my !

toastbutteregg

random-jot

Standing directly in the doorway to achieve peak mental health.

meowtalhead

yehudah

trans bears are literally stronger than any US marine

they-were-a-skater-gay

How on earth would they be able to tell that a bear is trans. I’m not saying they can’t be but how would they communicate that.

yehudah

:/

schizm-deactivated

this is so fucking funny

specialstarfish

update:

fortooate

we the jury find the defendant not guilty your honor

the-dao-of-the-zerg

ml-nolan

The ADHD fear that you will suddenly forget the name of your best friends of many years mid-conversation.

#...yeah

what-even-is-thiss

Yeah I saw the lovecraftian horrors and didn’t succumb to madness. What- no I’m not a cultist, James. For Christ’s sake. What you’re forgetting my friend is that HP Lovecraft wasn’t a flexible man. His brain simply wasn’t stretchy enough to take it all in. I however, have short term memory issues. Flexibility is the name of the game when you can’t remember if you ate lunch or not. What’s the size of the universe? Big. You knew that already, James. Come on now. You don’t need to witness the terrifying ocean at the base of the entirety of reality itself to know that. Pass the brandy.

what-even-is-thiss

You must imagine the character I’ve created here wearing a suit and a monocle, by the way.

thesilvertophat

During a Eldritch Horrors based tabletop RPG my character was a young dandy who wasn't particularly interested in all this monster mystery stuff but his father (my brother's character) was a researcher who WAS very into it, so Bertie went along to make sure the old man didn't get into too much trouble. It was your average Eldritch Horrors RPG in that you don't make your characters with the expectation that they will survive for very long, both the game itself and the genre are very intent on turning your characters inside out, driving them insane, and blowing them up in no particular order.

The thing was, everything in this nightmare hellscape just seemed to keep coming up Bertie because the man was too stupid to realize what genre he was in. Every time he had to roll for a sanity check whenever he saw something crazy, the dice treated him so well that he just... didn't get it. Gee that sure is a funny costume. There's something wrong with that dog. These mean guys in stupid hats are trying to hurt that young lady, we can't have that! I had not built him this way, his intelligence stats weren't even that bad, random chance just made it so that this man was living a scooby doo adventure while everyone else was being consumed by The Horrors. The final straw was at the end of an adventure when Bertie escaped from the cultist headquarters by breaking out through the mansion's front window on a motorcycle with a hot rescued sacrificial maiden clinging to his back and leading the cultists on a merry chase through the hedge maze while the other adventurers escaped. His sanity score? HIGHER than when the adventure had begun. He had found the whole experience quite thrilling and felt very good about life in general! Bertie retired from adventuring to marry the maiden he rescued and care for his aging father and delight and bemuse his friends at the gentleman's club with stories of his 'wacky' adventures. I didn't want to risk breaking his ridiculous lucky streak.