#fritbits

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Just read a post where op treats their personal interpretation of a media I love as objective fact and called out the personal interpretation I prefer as a moral failing and after an extensive fight with my worse nature I scrolled without saying anything. I think I deserve a sticker and an iced coffee and maybe a nobel peace prize

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Watching resident evil playthroughs as a virologist

Resident evil 1-3: so there’s this scary virus

Me: ohh cool, I wonder how it would work as a real pathogen? what host cells is it infecting? it has a broad host range what receptors is it binding to? What viruses did they use to make this recombinant strain? Jill gets a vaccine after 3 days but some people turn in hours or minutes is she genetically resistant or is Nemesis’ infection a slower incubation?

Resident evil 7-8: so there’s this fungus

Me: oh fuck that’s spooky

RE: no like it’s a fungus with eldritch powers

Me: all fungi have eldritch powers that’s science

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I started consistently writing 100-200 words per day and within a week my laptop experienced a semi-critical “screen fucking broke” incident I think I need some crystals or something before I start cooking on this fluff au again

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The general vibe I get from the corporations whenever there is a creative strike (or honestly any strike) is that of a mean girl in a movie who’s framing the protagonist for bullying by falling over and fake crying like

“Oh no these mean nasty writers won’t accept harmful working conditions so we can’t give you any content don’t you think they should get sent to detention for expecting me to give them human dignity!?!?”

No bitch I think you should fold like a ratty blanket and give them what you owe them get up this is embarrassing for you

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If you haven’t seen the aromantic discourse don’t bother the aphobes are just at it again but I felt the need to throw in a thought.

Many of the arguments that aromantics aren’t queer seems to be centered on aromantic heterosexual men claiming that they are just men who want to sleep with women without committing to a relationship and soooo many aspects of this reek with unaddressed patriarchy and heteronormativity

1)assumes that the women in this situation must want a romantic or longer term relationship bc what woman would just want sex

2) perpetuates the idea that men, particularly heterosexual men only want sex and don’t want other forms of intimacy and emotion and that the average allohet man doesn’t have romantic feelings or desires. Alloromantic men have romantic desires!!! They daydream about things like, falling in love, finding a partner, going on dates, getting married, and many other generally romantic activities. It is patriarchy, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity that teach us allo men don’t want these things!

So no arohet men are not “your average sex pest man who doesn’t want to commit” men are capable of a wide range of emotions and desire. Aro men experience the same but with a distinct lack of romantic attraction, which colors their experience with relationships and their own identity which falls pretty solidly into queer for me

3)the fact that aro men and cis aro men specifically are getting called out feels like part of that weird trend where people accept fem presenting or afab enby and gnc people but not masc presenting or amab people. Just say you haven’t unpacked your internalized gender bianaries and go leave aro men alone

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One thing about having siblings is that the lore runs so deep that even when ur having a normal conversation or even fighting ur still kind of doing a bit

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Me:🙁

*realizes I’m experiencing an extremely minor yet persistently irritating sensory Thing and removes the Thing from my environment*

Me: 🙂

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Being able and willing to go to therapy now that I’m doing Generally Okay is very strange. I’ll come in and be like “here’s something that’s been stressing me out rn and some overall patterns I see in myself showing up because of that” and we talk about it and then halfway through the week I go “Hmm I wonder when I should bring up the Bad Times? That was so long ago…surely my current issues have nothing to do with the Bad Times”