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I play games and complain about things, witch of the waterfall, bog hag, has sleepy bitch disease, Trek nerd. ko-fi.com/xandaria Is 2020 over yet?

[exuberantocean]

I've had a conversation with an old college friend a couple months ago and she told me where she lives now, it's not permitted to have your children share a bedroom, which surprised me. And she also thought it was abusive to do so. So, yeah, poll time.

Should siblings be permitted to share a bedroom.

Siblings can share a bedroom.

While not ideal, siblings should share a bedroom when necessary.

Siblings can share a bedroom, but only if they're the same gender.

Siblings can share a bedroom, but only until a certain age.

Siblings should never share a bedroom, but I wouldn't call it abusive

Siblings sharing a bedroom is abusive.

Neutral/No opinion/Show me the results

Voting ended onMay 26, 2024

[xandariathepink]

I shared a room with two of my sisters growing up, it's not weird or abusive, it's just how families used to work when they had more than two kids, my single mom wouldn't have been able to afford a 5 bedroom house. This wasn't that long ago either, like mid 80s.

[thingsfittingperfectly]

The way this entire can of coke fits exactly in this coke glass

[humans-areweird]

It’s 1am and i had a solid minute where I stared at this and thought someone had peeled the coke

[rin-tezuka]

Yeah we're legit at the point where mid-2010s free the nipple breastfeeding is okay feminism is leaps and bounds of improvement

[prgnant]

women in nyc can legally go topless wherever men can btw

[curiositysavesthecat]

Do you personally know someone who has the same name as you?

Yes, 1-4 people

Yes, more than 4 people

No

Voting ended onMay 18, 2024

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[lasrina]

The Jennifers, Amys, and Christy-Kristi-Kristin-Kristen-Christines born in the nineteen hundred and seventies/eighties have obviously not found this post.

[xandariathepink]

I am glad my mom chose a family name for me that is basically like me and a single famous academic, but I have spent far too much of my finite mortal span telling people how to say and spell my name

[neil-gaiman]

I apologize if you’ve been asked this question before I’m sure you have, but how do you feel about AI in writing? One of my teachers was “writing” stories using ChatGPT then was bragging about how good they were (they were not good) and said he was going to sell them. To put aside any legal concerns in that, I’m just trying to talk him down from that because, personally, I would not enjoy dream job being taken by AI.

The poor man.

Many magazines have closed their submission portals because people thought they could send in AI-written stories.

For years I would tell people who wanted to be writers that the only way to be a writer was to write your own stories because elves would not come in the night and do it for you.

With AI, drunk plagiaristic elves who cannot actually write and would not know an idea or a sentence if it bit their little elvish arses will actually turn up and write something unpublishable for you. This is not a good thing.

[thyla]

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES season one | episode twenty-five; the devil in the dark Mister Spock, you are second in command. This will be a dangerous hunt. Either one of us by himself is expendable. Both of us are not. Captain, there are approximately one hundred of us engaged in this search, against one creature. The odds against you and I both being killed are 2,228.7 to 1. 2,228.7 to 1? Those are pretty good odds, Mister Spock. And they are of course accurate, Captain. Of course. Well, I hate to use the word, but logically, with those kind of odds, you might as well stay.

[dduane]

...I had opportunity some while back to do a brief analysis of Who Gets Into The Most Trouble in classic Trek. And the number of times when Spock waits until everybody's distracted and then runs off on his own (citing logic, because of course he would) to expose himself to yet another kind of trouble, is truly hilarious. :)

His Captain's glancing-around-at-unseen-audience "oh God, am I actually going to buy into / let him get away with this again?" expression in the reaction shot is therefore right on the money.

[xandariathepink]

Spock is the uncrowned king of shenanigans.

[peachfromcmbyn]

Do you have a birthday that falls on or near a holiday?

I have a birthday that falls on a major holiday

I have a birthday that falls very near a major holiday

I have a birthday that falls on a minor holiday

I have a birthday that falls near a minor holiday

I have a birthday that sometimes falls on a floating holiday like Thanksgiving

My birthday isn't on or near any major or minor holiday

Voting ended onMay 13, 2024

[intermundia]

this is the single worst way i've ever read to describe an erection, frank herbert

[lasrina]

Never apologize for your "cringe" fanfic sex scenes again

[writerofstuff]

Dead Boy Detectives was surprising.

It surprised me when, instead of Crystal dropping in and fracturing Charles and Edwin's thirty years of friendship, they went with Crystal sinking into the fold of Charles and Edwin's friendship and becoming an important and unique addition to the group.

It surprised me when, instead of Gay Boy Pining Over Straight Best Friend, they went with Gay Boy Realises Feelings For Straight Best Friend And Confesses Almost Immediately with a bonus of Straight Boy Accepts Confession With Surprising Grace And Nothing Changes, Not Really.

It surprised me when, instead of making the female characters repetitive and semi-rational and ultimately less powerful, they went with characters who are smart and selfish and kind and cruel and strong and flawed and oh, they happen to be female too.

It surprised me when Charles liking Crystal did not affect one bit of how much he loved Edwin.

It surprised me when Jenny talked about spinsters with cats and Niko did not bat an eye.

It surprised me with Edwin and Niko. It surprised me with, we have forever to figure the rest out. It surprised me with Crystal's kindness, Jenny's empathy, the casual and absolute, the good you do will come back around.

Dead Boy Detectives was surprising. One day, I hope I can sit back and watch another show and none of this has to be surprising anymore.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[medusasbush]

i found the tenth circle of hell: it's where your fave blows up on tiktok

[xandariathepink]

Hozier is amazing, but I avoided him for years based on the shallow tiktok girly view of him, and maaaaaaaaan do they really not get any of his songs.

[geekysteven]

[at glory hole]

"So...when do I get to meet your parents?"

[xandariathepink]

[homofocused]

be honest.

Star Trek

Star Wars

Voting ended onApr 6, 2024

No third answer. No it's complicated. I want to know the truth. Reblog for sample size so I can gain the truth.

[greelin]

$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

[meilintheempressofdreams]

Reblog for unexpected $$$ dropping into your Bank account.

[symbolblue]

uhh did i forget how time works or was the first post in december 2018 and the second in august 2018

[greetings-inferiors]

Reblog for time travelling $$$ dropping into your Bank account.

[vaspider]

The original song is from 1981, which, like... the lyrics reflect a different, older understanding of queerness, but -- I have to stress -- this was originally recorded in 1981, and Willie Nelson recorded a cover in 2006 [EDIT: I heard the original as a kid, and I always thought it was Willie Nelson, even before he covered it in 2006. IDK why.] And now he's recording it with Orville Peck.

Fucking rad.

Well, there's many a strange impulse out on the plains of West Texas There's many a young boy who feels things he can't comprehend And a small town don't like it when somebody falls between sexes No, a small town don't like it when a cowboy has feelings for men

And I believe to my soul that inside every man, there's the feminine And inside every lady, there's a deep manly voice loud and clear Well, a cowboy may brag about things that he's done with his women But the ones who brag loudest are the ones that are most likely queer

Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other Say, what do you think all them saddles and boots was about? And there's many a cowboy who don't understand the way that he feels for his brother And inside every cowboy, there's a lady that'd love to slip out

And there's always somebody who says what the others just whisper And mostly that someone's the first one to get shot down dead So when you talk to a cowboy, don't treat him like he was a sister You can't fuck with a lady that's sleepin' in each cowboy's head

Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other What do you think all them saddles and boots was about? And there's many a cowboy who don't understand the way that he feels for his brother And inside every lady, there's a cowboy that wants to come out And inside every cowboy, there's a lady that'd love to slip out

[katjohnadams]

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

[katjohnadams]

Time to bring this back. Again.

[katjohnadams]

Apparently this is evergreen. Dammit.

[citadelofmythoughts]

I remember adults telling me, as a kid that girls can be equal to boys in all fields including athletics. Now, they consider girls to be delicate flowers who could never hope to compete against boys.

[xandariathepink]

This, this makes me so mad. My foremothers fought so hard to be equal and their descendants want so hard to be fragile flowers.

[sillyfroggremlin]

people with chronic pain and chronic fatigue will be like why does it hurt and why am I so tired