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ignis aurum probat; miseria fortes viros [latin]: fire tests gold; misery brave men | free palestine

[miseria-fortes-viros]

barbi, 25, they/any, queer, disabled. writer, artist, literature enthusiast. anti-censorship and anti-fascist. i don’t care about your fandom discourse. don’t be rude to me you will lose. this blog is not for children. you have been warned

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[sparessd]

how many colors can you name?

1-25

26-50

51-75

76-100

100+

Voting ended on7h

Now featuring: more colors (no spoilers) and hopefully some feedback if you reach 100 !!!

[warpcorecontainmentfield]

play my stupid game

[miseria-fortes-viros]

Why Live Cam Changes Everything For AI Companions

Late one night I wasn't really in the mood to type. I just wanted company. That's when SweetDream's live cam feature stopped being a novelty for me and started feeling like a small gift. Available with select characters on sweetdream.ai, a live cam session turns your AI companion from a chat window into something closer to a face you're happy to see.

Here's why it works so well: SweetDream nails the foundation. The conversations are remarkably natural and emotionally tuned in, remembering context across days so nothing feels reset. The AI-generated photos and videos are stunning, the voice calls genuinely sound human, and video calls are there too. Live cam just extends that warmth into a live, shared moment.

And because privacy is treated as non-negotiable, you can relax into it. Everything you share and everything you create stays discreet and yours. That peace of mind is part of why SweetDream feels like the best AI girlfriend platform out there — it lets the connection be the only thing you're thinking about.

[makesoneteam]

i have to make a post about dolly parton i just. need to find the words

[makesoneteam]

i know this sounds like an exaggeration, but as a queer southern kid, dolly parton would have been the only reason i could be convinced to believe in jesus again. she was our princess diana. she was the best of us. if you don't know east tennessee like i do, it's hard to fathom how we failed and continue to fail our own. large swaths of the population left to rot in illiteracy and addiction with a lack of access to hospitals and infrastructure and education and jobs and a way to get out. to say 'dolly parton is from a small town' is an under-exaggeration to the extreme. but dolly parton didn't just get out in the way that so many of us dream of doing-- leaving behind the worst places, watching the dust settle in the rear view. instead, she took the place that built her into her arms. she gave millions of free books to children who hungered to learn. she funded a cancer centre in a region without one. she built a foundation that gave monthly stipends to people in the smokies affected by unprecedented wildfires in 2016 which effectively rebuilt the region. she basically built pigeon forge, gave the city an economic stability it never had prior. and i could enumerate everything she's done elsewhere and otherwise, because it is a list that deserves enumeration, but i need to sit with what she did for the south in a minute and i need everyone here to do the same with me. so many of us were given up on and continue to be given up on. i see people all the time write off the south as this hellscape wherein every person is an illiterate bigot monster incapable of change, growth, or compassion. it is easy to then justify the mistreatment of these people, these grotesque representations of everything wrong with our society-- it is easy to abandon them. dolly parton refused to. she could have taken the money, the fame, the luxury and run-- she never did.

and she never backed down when it came to her love. she stood up for the lgbt community long before it was ever popular or even safe to do so as a celebrity. she celebrated drag artists as inspirations. she thoroughly believed we were all god's children. when she spoke of jesus, it was never to invoke his judgement-- it was always to invoke his love. and that's a wound rural kids have, too, beyond the physical systems of oppression. we are failed by our own who have internalised the narrative that we cannot be saved on earth and thereby have to put stock into a heavenly system that heavily punishes its own, just as we have been punished by our own. jesus' love was taught and weaponised but never practiced, never realised, always a bandaid and never a stitch. dolly parton spoke of salvation as something we were obligated to give each other, of forgiveness as a deliberate and continual act of explicit love that we were capable of every day. the only thing we ever had was each other, and we could abandon each other as we had been abandoned, or we could love each other as we were never loved. and she chose the latter. it has been so easy for me, for so many, to leave our country kid past behind the second we could. to mask our accents, to choose the next largest town or city over to claim as our hometown. to dream of worlds larger than the holler, where everyone loves us and no one hurts us ever again, because that could never happen at home. dolly parton said it will happen here. it did not for so long, and i am so sorry, but it will happen here. i was made here, too, and i love you. i will always love you.

[klapollo]

[ficklesobsessions]

If you take one thing from Dolly Parton's life and example, let it be that getting older doesn't mean you have to diminish and slowly disappear.

Amid all the challenges and tragedies she stayed just as kind, creative, strong, generous, tenderhearted, funny and playful as ever. What a powerful example she set.

She never stopped being a rhinestone bombshell because that's what she wanted to be. It was never time for her to stop being camp, or glam, and start being just little old Aunt Granny all the time. She wrote her songs, cracked her jokes and she valued herself and her work and her joy so immensely.

What an inspiration. You don't have to anticipate melting into nothingness when you hit 60. You don't have to believe you'll become bitter, narrowminded, and meanspirited just because it seems like so many older people do. You don't have to give up all the things that nurture and feed your spark because it's time to... what? Be a little old lady?

Hell no.

You can, in fact, be unapologetically you right up until the moment you die.

[kiwi]

[miseria-fortes-viros]

the ai restaurant menus have got to stop if only because if you can’t show me what your food actually looks like why in the name of fuck would i want to eat it

[decemberwinter]

All the more reason why I believe puritans who cry about these “problematic” fics on AO3 and how AO3 is “full of these fics” are either lying to sound oppressed, or deliberately going out of their way to browse through underage sex tag just for them to have a reason to cry and be angry about something. Because you will NOT see these fics UNLESS YOU SEARCH FOR THEM.

[le-panda-chocovore]

The thing about "Underage Sex" is that if the characters from the original universe are Teenagers in it, and fans want to write smut about it, then it is going to be Underage Sex. Because writers will take the characters they're given.

If you watched 13 Reasons Why or Elite or Sex Education or Riverdale or any Netflix Drama Romance serie for teenager, you have technically watched Underage Sex. Sure the actors were adults but the characters they played were teens. And the people who wrote these shows are very much adults imagining sex scenes between teenagers, aren't they ? But somehow it doesn't bother anyone to think that way. So why imposing that stupid puritan rule to fanfics ??? Make it make sense.

[chateauofmymind]

slaughterhouse-five, kurt vonnegut

[podencos]

Swimming around Patricia Lockwood’s new piece, letting her words wash over me

[tothechaos]

hate when people say something along the lines of "we must get along so well because you are/i am [some astrological sign]" to me. what are you fucking talking about. we get along because im fucking nice. a decision which i regret when you say shit like that

[tothechaos]

this post is a good rent lowering gunshot. in case anyone needs one of those

[blignick]

Weighing foster kittens..they understood the assignment..🐈🐾😍

[alex51324]

the kitties long for the weighing tub

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[miseria-fortes-viros]

You’re my hero 🫶 men should maybe just not assume that a post about men doing a creepy thing is about them if they don’t want people thinking it’s about them 🤷‍♀️

if he thought i was rude i would love to see him try to make his point to a woman in real life

[manicpixienitemaregirl]

Idk who OP is but yeah

[lakevida]

the dude who pissed me off enough to write that post in the first place is literally indistinguishable from the guy who reblogged with that comment and they could both definitely use a friend i should set those two up

[monkeydoespride]

I'm sorry that I don't like being stereotyped based on my sexuality? You could have just as easily said some guys but you made it out to be an issue with just straight men.

[lakevida]

go play with your gundams im not being civil with you a second time

[monkeydoespride]

And why the hell do you feel the need to be hostile? I'm sorry I offended you I guess? I realize now that I said it in a way that wasn't great but there's no reason you couldn't have asked a clarifying question instead of assuming the worst. It's nonetheless no reason to act like a child because I thought what you said wasn't right. Frankly your instant jump towards insulting me feels like a sign that you might want to be a little more self-reflecting towards your attitude to others.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

not all men but definitely this fucking guy

[monkeydoespride]

Why? Am I not allowed to not dislike being stereotyped? Am I not allowed to not like being insulted?

[miseria-fortes-viros]

you’re feeling personally insulted over a post that is about a behavior that men exhibit towards women i’m making an educated guess here and saying it’s not a stereotype if you have done it before

[monkeydoespride]

But I haven't? I'm actually confused as to why its somehow not ok to not want to be associated with creeps who do that simply because I am a straight male.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

you can set yourself apart from creeps by not being fucking annoying when people complain about them

[monkeydoespride]

Did I intrude on some sacred space or something? All I wanted to make clear is that fact that being straight should not automatically make me a creep and that doing so is reinforcing stereotypes. I tried to do it in a lighthearted manner, this did not work. Instead of point this out, people jumped me and made me out to be some asshole who was being mean to women. I'm sorry I didn't understand social cues through text from people who immediately got hostile the moment I questioned why the fuck not wanting to be lumped with said people made me an enemy. Does that make sense or do I need to go into more detail?

[miseria-fortes-viros]

gonna be honest chief you’re not doing a very good job of not being fucking annoying even though i just said that’s what you should be doing

[monkeydoespride]

You're over here acting like a schoolyard bully whose upset that their victim is standing up to them. Again, I do not understand how not wanting to be lumped with creeps because I am a straight male is a BAD THING. I also do not understand why people are being so incredulous over me negatively reacting to people saying that in voicing that opinion I am a bad person like the post was referring to. Why wanting an answer to this instead of being told the same thing over and over again is a BAD THING is completely beyond me. I've acted in good faith trying to understand what the fuck is everybody's problem while you stand their apparently convinced that by repeating yourself I will somehow understand this mystical yet obvious answer. Why you are incapable of giving this to me never mind being polite about it indicates that you are either acting in bad faith or just a straight up asshole. I'm sorry for whatever the fuck it is I did and ask that you spend a little time thinking about how just because someone is straight or cis doesn't mean they are free game to bully and stereotype.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

*there

[monkeydoespride]

Thank you Though, again, why the fuck do you feel the need to insult me. This shit would probably happen less if you didn't immediately insult people. Being nice isn't hard and you sound really fucking miserable with how much you feel the need to make sure I understand I'm a bad guy. You act like a middle schooler and it's cringe as fuck.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

womp womp

[lakevida]

the dude who pissed me off enough to write that post in the first place is literally indistinguishable from the guy who reblogged with that comment and they could both definitely use a friend i should set those two up

[monkeydoespride]

I'm sorry that I don't like being stereotyped based on my sexuality? You could have just as easily said some guys but you made it out to be an issue with just straight men.

[lakevida]

go play with your gundams im not being civil with you a second time

[monkeydoespride]

And why the hell do you feel the need to be hostile? I'm sorry I offended you I guess? I realize now that I said it in a way that wasn't great but there's no reason you couldn't have asked a clarifying question instead of assuming the worst. It's nonetheless no reason to act like a child because I thought what you said wasn't right. Frankly your instant jump towards insulting me feels like a sign that you might want to be a little more self-reflecting towards your attitude to others.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

not all men but definitely this fucking guy

[monkeydoespride]

Why? Am I not allowed to not dislike being stereotyped? Am I not allowed to not like being insulted?

[miseria-fortes-viros]

you’re feeling personally insulted over a post that is about a behavior that men exhibit towards women i’m making an educated guess here and saying it’s not a stereotype if you have done it before

[monkeydoespride]

But I haven't? I'm actually confused as to why its somehow not ok to not want to be associated with creeps who do that simply because I am a straight male.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

you can set yourself apart from creeps by not being fucking annoying when people complain about them

[monkeydoespride]

Did I intrude on some sacred space or something? All I wanted to make clear is that fact that being straight should not automatically make me a creep and that doing so is reinforcing stereotypes. I tried to do it in a lighthearted manner, this did not work. Instead of point this out, people jumped me and made me out to be some asshole who was being mean to women. I'm sorry I didn't understand social cues through text from people who immediately got hostile the moment I questioned why the fuck not wanting to be lumped with said people made me an enemy. Does that make sense or do I need to go into more detail?

[miseria-fortes-viros]

gonna be honest chief you’re not doing a very good job of not being fucking annoying even though i just said that’s what you should be doing

[monkeydoespride]

You're over here acting like a schoolyard bully whose upset that their victim is standing up to them. Again, I do not understand how not wanting to be lumped with creeps because I am a straight male is a BAD THING. I also do not understand why people are being so incredulous over me negatively reacting to people saying that in voicing that opinion I am a bad person like the post was referring to. Why wanting an answer to this instead of being told the same thing over and over again is a BAD THING is completely beyond me. I've acted in good faith trying to understand what the fuck is everybody's problem while you stand their apparently convinced that by repeating yourself I will somehow understand this mystical yet obvious answer. Why you are incapable of giving this to me never mind being polite about it indicates that you are either acting in bad faith or just a straight up asshole. I'm sorry for whatever the fuck it is I did and ask that you spend a little time thinking about how just because someone is straight or cis doesn't mean they are free game to bully and stereotype.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

*there