Lifes imitations

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[ltfib-deactivated20260409]

How often do I have to stumble and sink before I learn how to make this shit actually work.

Don't get me wrong, I know how the saying goes learn to walk before you run, but fucking hell it's been years and I'm getting tir. No. I AM tired. Tired of myself. Tired of the snail paced fucking rat race monotony of everything.

Time really does have this weird way of speeding past you so quick you feel like you've living in slow motion. It feels like you should still be 18 with no answers and just dreams, and that should have been only three or four years ago, right ?

Until you see a picture of a school friend and her daughter on social media and you don't realise it's her daughter at first because wasn't she just born? How has it been nearly a decade and I'm still so stagant. I've been moving like that machine that leaks oil and is forced to just continuosly scoop and scoop it's only source of sustenance.

[the-end-society]

[thekashishverse]

I hate having an internal monologue. Girl shut the fuck up.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

if we lived in a real society I would get food and clothing and housing for free, and anyone in town could come to me when they need a robot or Contraption of some kind built, and I would also teach programming and political activism to kids. it would just be like "come to dragon's house he'll build you a cat feeder and teach your offspring to circumvent internet censorship." but instead we live in this shit tier universe where I have to have a normal job or I die

[dragon-in-a-fez]

idk if I've told this story on here before but one time I was sitting at my desk at work and a random dog I'd never seen before strolled into my office and curled up at my feet. and I was like oh you are adorable but what the fuck?

then a woman knocked on the door and said "oh I'm so sorry he's a therapy dog he's trained to seek out people in severe distress"

and I was like right okay, just getting my whole life drive-by roasted by a dog then

[dorothylarouge]

[joeyclaire]

my mom’s trans allyship is on another level

[joeyclaire]

she once called my friend’s deadname “that stupid thing his mom calls him”

[asideoftrashplease]

I was once talking to my 75 year old Chinese dad in passing about a trans friend of mine not getting along with her family and he asked why and I said err, because she's trans, dad.

He asked: "Oh, was she the only son or something before *waves hand*?" and I was like, warily, no she has two brothers. And he responded with a great deal of confusion: "Then what's their problem?!?!"

Later on: "Anyway, even if she WAS the only son, that's not her problem, that's THEIR problem. They should have had more sons if they were going to be bothered about it."

[apopcornunicorn]

Yeah, for some reason there's a real emphasis on sons in Asian cultures. If anyone knows why, please enlighten me.

[pokeperson1000]

Tangential first; filial piety. Bigger role in eastern countries.

Second, in history, daughters were considered to mainly be a part of the family they were married off to, with a relatively tangential relation to their birth family. Sons were considered to mainly be a part of the family they were born to. And the first son was generally expected to take the role of the next head of the family.

So in this posts context, aside’s mid 70s dad was like “did their friend’s family hate their trans child because they no longer had a son in the family?” based on the thought that sons, by old eastern values, were traditionally more important in ensuring their family lineage continued. When he learned she had brothers who could potentially remain sons of the family, Dadman went “they still have sons, why the hell are they butthurt over this?”

Then later the same dad was like “even if the girl had been their only son, so what? That’s sounds like a skill issue on their part. Just have more kids and more sons. Get good.”

Summary: aside’s dad has traditional family values, but that doesn’t stop him from taking a stance of support and being an ally in every way that matters.

Cool Dad has declared that trans girl isn’t at fault, her family was being pissy over nothing, and even if it was a hypothetical scenario where it wasn’t being pissy over nothing, the fault is still a skill issue on the side of the family and friend is still faultless in the matter.

[fembutchboygirl]

The ADHD urge to not

[fembutchboygirl]

To just not

[fembutchboygirl]

I have several overdue assignments

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Same

[allthefoolmine]

Reblog if you too do not want to share outside with them.

[kosmogrl]

don’t take my defeatism too seriously I will always begin again and again no matter what

[kosmogrl]

I might sound miserable most of the time but at my core I’m a very hopeful person

[ltfib-deactivated20260409]

When I'm trying to sleep the day away, but my stomach is like, no my love, we are making the whale noises now.

[cheatcommandos-deactivated20180]

its 1:42 am and i just heard the unmistakeable sound of someone sprinting down the road wearing flip flops. good luck buddy

[oldwizardboots]

@sarsimio this tag fucking obliterated me

[ltfib-deactivated20260409]

When I'm trying to sleep the day away, but my stomach is like, no my love, we are making the whale noises now.

[cheatcommandos-deactivated20180]

its 1:42 am and i just heard the unmistakeable sound of someone sprinting down the road wearing flip flops. good luck buddy

[oldwizardboots]

@sarsimio this tag fucking obliterated me

[iratetreasure-deactivated202310]

Mallow based

[tenitchyfingers]

“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

[queerhumanbeing]

supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

[freyjawriter24]

It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.

[copperbadge]

[ltfib-deactivated20260409]

Oh whats that gap in my résumé you ask? well I was working full time as a recluse. But, I did gain extensive experience in hitting rock bottom and can confidently say I now specialise in low to negative resources living.