Raine

they/them, ace, queer, unpublished writer, art comissions open

[rockabillywife]

You guys would like my posts a lot more if you had my exact life experiences and internal monologue

[memecucker]

I think it’s funny how Mormon God was like “look polygamy is super important and I am telling you my followers to practice it even in the face of persecution” and then 40 years later Congress said Utah wouldn’t be given statehood as long as the LDS practiced polygamy and Mormon God was like “Ok tell everyone I changed my mind”

[memecucker]

I just really like the idea that Mormon God like, basically caved into pressure from the federal government

[afurioushawk]

This is literally pro-life rhetoric. You are anti-choice.

[prismatic-bell]

This is one of those spots where I'm not sure you can say anything and win. Because:

On one hand, selecting for disability and disorder absolutely is eugenics and should not be encouraged.

On the other hand, we already select for some disabilities and disorders in order to protect the kids who would have them! Tay-Sachs is the obvious example; we do not want these children to die horribly so we try to make sure they're not conceived in the first place.

On the other hand, a potential parent selecting for disability is concerning because not all disabilities show up in the womb, and some are acquired. Do we want to encourage people to become parents if they're already wanting to walk away from any difficulty?

On the other hand, there are disabilities and there are disabilities. What if a potential parent is like "listen, ADHD I can handle, but the disability you're talking about is so severe I don't think I could handle it"? Is that eugenics, or recognizing one's own limits?

On the other hand, if we could ask the fetus "here's what you'll deal with; do you want to live?" would it say yes or no? Some quadriplegics love living. Some amputees who lost part of a leg will say they wish they'd died instead. Every disabled person will have a different answer, including two who have near-identical disabilities and life circumstances. Hell, I'm disabled and whether I'm saying "it doesn't bother me" or "I wish I was anyone else" comes down to the day.

On the other hand, does it make a difference if the answer to "why do you want an abortion" is "I don't want a baby" or "I don't want a baby I perceive as defective"? Do we judge one but not the other? Why?

I could go on like this for hours. I don't think OP is right and I also don't think they're wrong. I'm not sure there is a "right" answer. I definitely don't think there's a one-size-fits-all answer. Life is THE most annoying bitch on earth that way sometimes. And insofar as there is an answer, I actually think it lies with creating support, not restricting abortion. Would you still say "abort" if you had an extra $10k a year? What about someone to watch the kiddo on Saturdays so you could have some decompression time? Is there a load-bearing straw we can remove to spare the camel's back, or is the camel simply not capable of hauling this particular shipment of straw?

Sometimes there are no good answers.

[fittingoutjane]

For what it's worth, a lot of abortions related to fetal abnormalities are lethal ones. A lot of people who would be willing to raise a disabled child are not willing to endure several more months of pregnancy for a child who is expected to die soon after birth. They just want it to be over, and I can't see any wrong way to respond to that sort of tragedy.

Abortions for manageable problems or disabilities do, in fact, horrify me, but is it any less horrifying than sex selection abortion? Or someone who really wants to be a parent but can't afford to care for a child? And in all cases, the answer is not to make abortions harder to access but to make parenting easier to do.

[prismatic-bell]

It's funny you compare this to sex-selective abortion, because that's literally what I was thinking of.

[hihogandalfaway]

also... even if the pregnant person is like "I do not want a 'defective' baby no matter what support I get, ew disabled people" - yes it's a bigoted attitude to have and I would much rather they changed it, but ultimately it's an individual choice (as opposed to systemic / legal), and so it is disingenous to use that hypothetical to attack another marginalised group (pregnant and capable of geeting pregnant) when it doesn't do anything to actually support the marginalised group (disabled people) that it invokes

saying "oh but if we deny pregnant people healhcare make abortion easy to get people will abort disabled babies and that's eugenics!" do we maybe not think that there are more effective ways to help disabled people. just maybe.

anger doesn't have to be praxis, people. I would be horrified to meet with my hypothetical pregnant eugenicist but that doesn't make them an effective target

[prismatic-bell]

...yeah, when you put it that way it does make a sucky kind of sense.

[kooldewd123]

every now and then i am reminded of nintendo's official solution to the wii u pro controller not having gyro controls and it never fails to send me into hysterics

[kooldewd123]

i think the wrist strap is what really pushes this over the edge for me. can't forget about the wrist strap.

[occudo]

They wear suits, but they don't even know basic etiquette.

Based on @cowardsexual 's post of a very sleepy phm science team and Grace's teacher instincts

[fiollaigean]

how to cover letter:

polite greeting (it's me, boy)

introduction (i'm the ps5)

establish credentials (speaking to you inside your brain)

establish purpose (leave the girl, we don't need her)

describe what you can bring to the organization (cowboy times in space)

[fluoresensitives]

(smoking a cigarette) the average american is afraid of what is new and what is foreign, and especially of what is adult. they are trapped forever in daycares of their own design, reading books and watching shows made for children. And while there are interesting things made for children, by and large, they tend to stick to inoffensive, intensely juvenile things that won't challenge them much. And worst of all, if you suggest to your Average American that they should try to step outside of their narrow box, especially if they're trying to become artists, animators, film makers, novelists, etc, everyone acts as if you've just bombed the daycare. Wow.

[aro-ace-chaos]

I’m so tired of the “why do people hate aspecs, they aren’t doing anything?” argument. I know that it is an attempt to support us, but it fails so spectacularly to understand aromanticism, asexuality, and any other aspec identity that it’s actively frustrating.

We are doing something. We’re rejecting allonormative ideals and that’s a massive thing to do. We’re actively fighting not just to help other aspecs, but to help everyone, because amatonormativity (and allonormativity as a whole) hurt everyone. Single people who want to find a partner but can’t also deserve to be able to exist.

There are so many issues with the expectation of marriage, including:

A single income isn't enough to get by anymore

Having a spouse is almost necessary under the current medical system

Society shames and pressures people who are single to get into relationships constantly

Rejecting allonormativity means fighting against these things that hurt everyone.

So, no, aces and aros and other aspecs aren't "doing nothing." We're doing quite a lot.

[mymansmoon]

imagining shane hanging out with his parents and while he's away from his phone doing something with his dad a call comes in. yuna sees this and goes, "shane, someone's calling you!"

and shane says, "who is it?"

"lily!"

"oh." shane immediately sets aside what he's doing and walks over, saying to his mom, "that's ilya."

yuna looks at him in confusion as he picks up his phone. "why is ilya saved as 'lily' in your phone?"

and shane looks at her, away, shrugs as if it's obvious and simply says, "I can't have ilya rozanov saved on my phone, mom" before answering the call with a, "hey, baby" and walking away.

leaving yuna (and david) standing shocked and, once again, shaken at how little they knew about their son and the layers of concealment he's had to operate under for years just to love who he loves.

[bloodlvstfvlz]

the problem with "isn't a queerplatonic partnership just being friends?" isn't the "friends" part, it's the "just" part.

many defenses of the queerplatonic relationship label miss the entire point: the QUEERING of a PLATONIC relationship. it is not "more than friendship but less than romance", it is a friendship that breaks the boundaries of what's expected of one, to the point that "friend" may not feel like a strong enough word in a society that treats certain types of affection and levels of commitment as "above" friendship.

[friendforthefucking]

This ☝️💯💯💯

[canonically47]

“there is no straight explanation for this” neither is there a gay one. there is however an aromantic one

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Boris "professional idiot" Johnson wanted to build an island airport in the immediate area.

it's fucking visible

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It is fun to learn.

[therealraewest]

Hey what the fuck

You weren't kidding they've been trying to get the masts off for 5 years and keep getting foiled because there's probably bombs leaking out of her

[angeluslupus]

Fun fact: Doxing myself but I live in the blast zone if that thing ever goes up! It's even immortalised in a local artwork:

[slowlymychaos]

@tatzelwyrm

[trickstertime]

Me: *burps extremely loudly* did ya like that one???

Cat: *delighted, and as loud as the burp* brRAAApmf!!!

*distant sound of my wife closing a door and continuing a work call I didn't know she was on*

[quotidianart]

Roost

[wayfire-official]

Sex should have a secondary gameplay loop where you build bases, manage resources, and expand your territory

[flammableengineering]

polycule

[thecorpsethatwalks]

re-watching the original trilogy is great because you really get a sense for how weird luke skywalker is, just how quickly he becomes that weird AND how quickly he commits to it. Like he's honestly pretty chill in a new hope, but the absolute INSTANT he figures out he can move shit with his mind he goes full send on the cryptic off-putting bullshit. Walking around in full black robes, speaking in riddles, aura farming and backflipping whenever physically possible. He's clearly annoyed when he first meets yoda in empire, but he dismisses that pretty quickly in favour of ALSO becoming an over-dramatic space wizard. The combination of his two teachers being yoda and obi-wan kenobi and him being the son of anakin and padme creates the single most intense and fundamentally kind force sensitive perfectly embodying the heart of the jedi order whilst also serving egregious amounts of cunt and being bizarre to be around. He would have THRIVED as a jedi master during the high republic. he would have been every padawan's favourite and every other master's worst nightmare

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

[zhoudadudugongjin]

me everytime one of my seemingly non-specific homoerotic text posts breaks containment

[inthefallofasparrow]