#please remember

[kosmogrl]

[aeolianblues]

in the best case scenario my asexuality is a ticking time bomb that will have to be dealt with family-wise sooner or later. In today’s society it’s just not a normal accepted thing to simply be by yourself your whole life. Especially as people start breaking off into the family structure and friends who were once your community and support system become a smaller presence in your life because spouses and kids take precedence— I don’t know any ace people who haven’t worried at some point about dying alone. You don’t simply ‘have a housemate friend’ you live with where e.g. there is someone there for you if you have a sudden emergency. What if you can’t move? What if you’re ill and can’t get out of bed? I’m glad our worlds are better connected today, but the chances that you’ll be with someone safe and known if that happens are smaller than if you’ve got your own family, right? Or is the bleak best case scenario that an ace person has an emergency while at work?

Aces are a pretty small % of the population in general. To say you’ll find another ace person and cohabit is a really small chance. As most people start to move in with their partners, single people, ace people kind of find themselves either priced out of housing options unless rich, or being forced to find other strangers in unusual living circumstances.

I don’t know. I just feel like you are left more on your own in a societal structure that prioritises two-parent-and-children households. Or more generally, that sets you up for marital and couples living rather than necessarily community living, at least in the west.

So what I’m saying is that maybe ‘oppression’ isn’t the word to bring to the advocacy table. It is saying that maybe the thing to remember is that ‘oppression’ won’t look the same for everyone. It’s a reminder that comparing the weight of apples and watermelons doesn’t even make sense.

(This isn’t even aimed at the shortsighted people that think pride is all about labels and being ‘in’ the club. This post is aimed at people that remember pride is a political struggle to improve the lives of people left behind by our current norms. It’s why e.g. disability activists also calling their advocacy disability pride is instantly understood by most.)

It’s why ‘[x] queer group is so not oppressed’ is the emptiest and most wasteful statement you could make in the context of queer rights advocacy.

[pastafossa]

Am I late? I brought the community Ides knife bucket.

One per person please.

[echofoxart]

Idk how to tag this fully but

Hate is not worse than indifference when it comes to parental abuse.

Hate holds passion, it holds emotion. If someone hates you, they think of you, even if it’s negative. You are worthy of their attention. They care about you enough to truly hate you.

But when you’re faced with indifference? The person doesn’t even spend a thought on you. You aren’t worthy of their attention in their mind. You aren’t even a real person to them. You’re just something in the background for them to walk past.

Please, remember this. It could really hurt someone if they hear you say that they should be grateful that their neglectful parent doesn’t actively seek to ruin their life. It could send them spiraling, feeling completely invalidated like they have been through nothing and should suck it up despite having suffered for years with the anguish and longing for any connection.

Remember that indifference is the true opposite of love. Indifference is the absent of everything, especially attention, and that to a child can hurt just as bad as being hated.

[positivelypositive]

☀️

a tiny reminder...

...for you to just hang in there. it'll get better.

you've got this. we've got this ✨

[rhianna]

Quarter to Nine 9️⃣

Give it 🆙

To: KOol & the Gang

from: THE AMY PUMPERS SHOW

residuals from: You KNow Whooooo

[sdnik0]

Can I keep it so for real with yall?

Mixtape might be one of the absolute worst games I’ve ever played…?

Look, if you like this game, good for you. I’m happy it exists for that reason alone.

For me? This was absolutely miserable. And not for like a ‘oh, this game is too WOKE’ way or something. I find all three of the main characters annoying in their own way, and, I think that was the point, at least in Stacey’s case. And I love me an unlikable protagonist. I think that type of character is great. Stacey is just annoying. And it feels intentional, but in the wrong way. A GOOD writer can make a character annoying to the other characters and not to the audience, but this game does something weird where she’s only annoying to the player and not to any of the characters? Also, the fact that she calls her ‘Jenny Fucking Goodspeed’ every time just drives me up the wall.

But my biggest issue is the gameplay. I get it, this is an interactive story, the gameplay isn’t that important. However, if an interactive story doesn’t have, you know, a good story, then what is there to latch onto? No gameplay, that’s for sure, because this is a glorified movie. I heard from somewhere that this was originally supposed to be a movie but no one wanted to make it, and that tracks, because the ‘gameplay’ is fucking mind numbing. Visual novels are more stimulating than this.

Take the shopping cart escape for example! I decided to test something. I put the controller down and watched the entire section play itself. I literally got an achievement for not crashing one time. If that doesn’t represent everything wrong with this game, I don’t know what does. I feel like most of this game was filler so the runtime would be over 2 hours and you wouldn’t be able to refund it on Steam.

This game just has this pretentiousness to it that I don’t see in a lot of games nowadays. Even some of the most abstract and artsy games like, say, Silent Hill 2 don’t have this feeling of ‘this is the deepest shit ever’.

If you liked it, good for you! Like I said, I’m super happy you can find enjoyment in a piece of art that I couldn’t. I’m just gonna go back to the games i actually enjoy…