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An incomplete list of Types of Guys (gender neutral) that I’ve met:

Guy who eats a sleeve of plain saltines and calls it lunch

Guy who goes to a strip club to do figure drawing

Guy who says they’re ‘reclaiming’ the word ‘Manlet’ when someone calls them out on using it

Guy who calls out tranmascs for using 'Manlet’ to refer to themselves

Guy who gets movie theatre popcorn uber eats’d to their house (pre-pandemic)

White Guy who imparts 'ancient indigenous wisdom’ at the local climate action gathering’s drum circle (no indigenous people were invited to the local climate action gathering)

Guy who calls putting on contacts 'putting his eyes in’

Guy who runs away to join the circus at 60 years old

Guy who wants the strawberries in his Wendy’s salad to not be cut up, so the intended recipient (guy’s mother) can cut them herself

Guy who spends three years articulating a baby horse skeleton for his art school (unpaid)

Guy who heard a baby horse died and said 'Hey, I bet I could get my student to articulate it’s skeleton for cheap’

Guy who has a home movie theatre sandwiched between his bedroom and bathroom

Guys who come up to you at the club to say they love your vibe but then ghost you on insta

Guy who comes to school in full joker makeup, just cause

Guy who runs an independent movie theatre, memorabilia museum, and cat sanctuary all out of the same building

Guy who pretends to be bi on dating apps to catfish straight men into going to their political protests

questbedhead

Additional Guys:

Guy who gives up meat for Lent every single year but still doesn’t know how to manage a vegetarian diet

Guy who asks you your birth date so he can tell you how many seconds you’ve been alive

Guy who feels comfortable assigning you a Hetalia kin

Guy who reminds you of that time you nearly drowned every time you watch something were someone nearly drowns

Guy who, as your doctor, absolutely needs you to know your boobs are not different sizes and that they only look like that because of your medical condition

Guy who joined a choir for the first time at 84 and has literally never been happier

Guy who pretends to read all of Homestuck, the famously long webcomic, in one night to impress a girl (unsuccessful)

Guy who spends all of highschool cycling through three different My Little Pony shirts

GNC Guy that dresses gender conforming for the church camp’s crossdressing themed dance

Guys who organize a crossdressing themed dance for the church camp

group of 50ish Guys between ages 7-15 who go so absolutely hog wild for the church camp’s crossdressing dance everyone decides to make it an annual event

Guy who needs his twelve-year-old students to know three things-

Shakespeare was a genius,

The Dark Knight Rises is the greatest film of all time, and

Bush did 9/11

theweeklydiscourse

Shippers get a lot of lashings for being annoying and “forcing romance” but not enough is being said about people who force the nuclear family structure on everything. Nothing against found families, but the amount of people who seem to cram every dynamic into a cookie cutter nuclear family mold is driving me insane. It’s another lowkey reductive way of engaging with characters that pretends to less reductive than the shippers they constantly complain about. Not every relationship can be categorized as “sibling coded” or “father-daughter” because most relationships are more complicated than that. Don’t even get me started on the way these people use “coding” *cough* their headcanons *cough* to shut down ships they dislike.

the-embroidery-bard

HAPPY PRIDE, US-IANS🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Here’s a free pattern featuring my first and favorite muse, the goose with a knife. Go forth, stab fabric, punch n@zis!

jingerpi

imagine you're a child, you learn your queer and your parents are extremely bigoted. you have some friends on Roblox who are very kind, they're in their early 20s and they sympathize as they went through the same things as a kid. they offer to use your correct name and pronouns, maybe some even offer to buy you a binder or help you find hrt or support groups local to you

roblox rolls out their age group system, and you can no longer talk to any adults on the platform. you can only talk to people in person, i.e. your parents, who are horrid. now you're back at square one, being helplessly abused. to make it worse, you're homeschooled, as I was. you can't reach out to anyone at school for support either.

or maybe you're not homeschooled, and you ask your pronouns to be used at school. it goes well for a while, and you feel some relief.

then your state passes a bill that requires forced outing. your teachers report to your parents that you've been trying out a different name and pronouns.

they pull you from school, send you to boarding school or conversion therapy, and force you to attend private schools in the future that match their values.

you are entirely under their control. you could've made connections with other adults, ones willing to help you out. to treat you like a human, give you access to life saving care. and it's stripped away, you're alone, and everything feels hopeless.

this is the reality for many children. this is almost exactly what I went through as a child. it is not a mere hypothetical, it happens regularly. please stop falling for this moral grandstanding, it's about control- it's always been about control.

cheaphalloweencostume

i love how Indeed is like

tailored for you! here’s your shortlist of job opportunities that perfectly match your preferences and abilities as an artist with clerical career skills:

-booger farmer (45 miles away)

-astronaut (5 minutes away)

cheaphalloweencostume

and neither of them are actually hiring

cheaphalloweencostume

cool new slang for organizing your closet “i’m gonna become a sales designer for closet world”

sibyllance

Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air

puppygirllaika

Fun fact! this is likely due to racism. Not the drivers, to be clear, but this is a not-entirely-unsurprising result of systemic racism in the greater Seattle area and the influence it has on infrastructure spending.

I'm a huge proponent of public transit, rail in specific, and I'm very glad that the greater Seattle area is finally starting to see some solid light rail infrastructure sprouting up in the form of the 1 and 2 lines, but that in no way stops me from critiquing the decisions made in planning and implementation.

Light Rail, in it's colloquial form here in the US, is basically always a compromise solution. It's cheaper than subways, can make good use of existing right-of-way around freeways, and can function as a kind of low-capacity commuter rail in the subways while behaving more like a tram or streetcar in downtown areas. It is crucially, however, not a streetcar, nor is it a commuter rail. Streetcars make frequent stops and are optimized for dense areas with lots of traffic. Commuter rails are larger and stop lest frequently, optimized for bringing suburban residents into city centers. Commuter rail should, however, be independent of street traffic so it can travel at higher speeds. For this reason, most of the Link light rail system in seattle is actually not at-grade (street level), but on either elevated or sub-grade track. Downtown, the lightrail actually functions as a low-capacity low-frequency subway system in what used to be the bus tunnel (we don't have time, but yes it was stupid). Everywhere else, it's up on elevated tracks that largely follow the freeway system.

There are three stations, all immediately south of that Mount Baker elevated station, where the Link actually runs at-grade. These stations run through the historic low income immigrant neighborhoods of southeast seattle. Here, the trains are forced to stop at red lights, interact with crossing and left-turning traffic, and even cross through terrifyingly narrow pedestrian islands. They could have built elevated track here, as they did everywhere else, but they didn't. they didn't want to spend the money. I have personally watched light rail cars carrying hundreds of people have to wait two full minutes for cars turning left in front of them, delaying trains so like, 5 people could drive there. Once it reaches the end of this low income immigrant-dominant neighborhood, however, the Link returns to it's above-grade status, with Mount Baker being the first elevated stop. You want to know how this woman, who claims she was misdirected by her GPS, probably ended up here? I would bet anything she tried to make a turn at the intersection just before the stop and got confused. The intersection, for reference, looks like this:

I'm not saying it's an easy mistake to make, but given the number of people who drive through here every day, it's honestly not that surprising that someone, especially someone who is from out of town, or someone who is used to shared streetcar lanes, would eventually make this mistake. When you're dealing with a city of hundreds of thousands of people, it's only a matter of time before a mistake like this happens. but it is only possible for it to happen because of the decisions made in the planning process, and one of those decisions was "we can save money if we make everything worse in that part of town where all the foreign poors live", and so they built the thing at-grade, instead of keeping it elevated like everywhere else.

and yes, those tracks are in the middle of a four lane road, and no, there is no way to get to any of the at-grade stations without crossing at least two lanes of traffic on a very busy avenue. and those tiny little pedestrian islands are not only terrifying to walk on, but a man in a wheelchair was clipped by a passing train car a while back because his chair didn't really fit through the tight turns well and one of his feet was sticking slightly out when the train passed by. This is not a problem at like, any other stops in the Link system. Just here. Just in this neighborhood. And it's a fucking disgrace.

spankerella

Just a little pick-me-up.

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

oh wait just realized i can edit my own posts.

like you can't edit reblogs anymore but you can still edit your own post even after it has a thousand notes or whatever.

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

i have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

olibabart

Qifrey x Olruggio ☀️

dragoncarrion

They're adding' outdoor cat owner" and "off leash dog owner" to the DSM

icantspellthings

I don't have time for sex, I'm too busy running a blog that only 11 or 12 people care about

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

hypokeimena

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

motherofcatsandmess

notsoangrybabsarts

❄️

inspired after finally reading The Mind and The Malady

toskarin

gyahaha sorry kid, but we're looking for someone a little more [finding out you don't actually want to join the Peerage of the Carnivore Sun] wait why

toskarin

[pulling back my sagely hood to reveal a second sagely hood] we've got knowledge [pulling the second hood back and an ostentatious wizard's hat decompresses before unfurling] and secrets [removing hat to reveal the skull] calavera [lifting skull to reveal smaller skull] calaverita