[moss-wizard]

What a year this week has been.

[we-dont-matteratall]

It’s Monday.

[jacuwi]

It sure as hell is.

[actualaster]

The earlier in the day Monday you reblog the funnier this gets

[aletheyass]

good morning and happy is it really tuesday tuesday

[ronedob-deactivated20220805]

doctors be like "we have no idea what causes this extremely mysterious illness" and the illness affects 1 in 8 women

[bob-belcher]

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) dir. Henry Selick

[solitairians]

happy first Bella From Twilight Depression Month

[solitairians]

happy second Bella From Twilight Depression Month

[thememedaddy]

[xeptum]

[konoko]

[melodymuse24-deactivated2024011]

[funnytwittertweets]

[everythingstarstuff]

[kaedien]

boot up, Bitch

[izhunny]

That reply is unexpectedly inspirational.

[realizes]

[catboyaoi]

wow this cannot be good for me *keeps doing it*

[pigeonriot]

oh yeah this would be good for me *never starts doing it*

[ilthit]

Some fandoms are easy to get your friends into like "hey have you seen this cool show on Netflix" and others are like "could I interest you in a bootleg translation of this Chinese fantasy web novel" and sometimes those are the same fandom.

[gaylor-moon]

[cal-frezi-deactivated20230604]

[onlytwitterpics]

[aqueerkettleofish]

#i know people have started criticizing the#‘men are afraid of getting laughed at women are afraid of getting killed’#but this is real?

Oh, yes.

A few years ago I went to pick up a woman I met on OKCupid for a date, and a friend of hers was there. They kind of over-explained “Oh, she just showed up to say hi” and there was a vague nervousness in the air that even my autistic ass was picking up on. Her friend was playing conspicuously with her phone. I went “Ah, the safety. Need to get a picture?”

Dead silence for about a second and a half, then the friend took a picture, looked at my date, and said “Have fun” and walked out the door.

(I would ordinarily have been clueless, but I’d just been asked to be the safety the previous night.)

My advice to male-presenting folks: recognize that this not your problem. By which I mean, this sort of security check isn’t a problem for you. It doesn’t hurt you. You aren’t being insulted or disrespected. And if you treat it like what it is– a reasonable adaptation to an unreasonable situation– and just roll with it, your dates will be more comfortable, and you will have a better time as a result.

The same applies to phone calls mid-date. Let them answer the damn phone without drama.

They aren’t accusing you of being a dangerous person. The very fact that they are willing to go on a goddamn date with you means that they have extended a certain level of trust. But the fact remains that there isn’t really a way to distinguish between “a man who isn’t dangerous” and “a man who knows how to behave like he’s not dangerous.”

[chandlerbings]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!