Posts made by GreenFlashlight

@silverfox Aw, what adorable little assholes! I'm so glad you told us about them. And shared photos.

@aria Thank you so much. You're also wonderful.

I am always going to feel isolated and separate from the rest of the world. I am always going to feel like a lesser kind of person, not by the reality I live but by the decree of people who have more power than I have. That's just how it is.

But sometimes, people will remind me that though I don't know how to reach out to them, let alone how to connect to them the way they seem to do so easily to each other, we have shared experiences that we can come together over and support each other through and try to lift one another out of. It's terrible that shared pain is what makes it happen, but something beautiful can come out of it, and for just a moment I can almost perceive the connections we all have but that I'm otherwise blind to; and that perception feels like being embraced by strangers who are trying their best to help me. It takes my breath away in the best possible way, and if it also does bad things to my blood pressure, that's fine. You gotta pay the cost to ride the rides.

I'm saying the MU thing I love is all of you. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry about it. You're sincerely better off for having missed it. I'm gonna take a little break now until I get my breath back, and watch cartoons about princesses who want to be friends even if it's dangerous to be.

@boneghazi said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

So of course he gets up at 4:30 and blasts music and wakes the dogs up early so they can rampage through the house, turns the bedroom light on so that I may wake up with him... and all around is a terror. Like he's TRYING to wake the baby up too.

I mean, what would I do with an extra hour of sleep anyway?

I used to wonder if men know how much they treat women like we're not people, just props and servants in their lives. Eventually, I stopped wondering that and started wondering instead how many of them would, if you told them, just prove the point by centering themselves in the discussion and angrily insisting we reaffirm how great and amazing they are.

@boneghazi I believe you are within every right to do so.

Why do I ask people questions before I just Google for my damn self? I'm so old and lazy.

@il-volpe said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@ortallus What they really want is a cataloguing librarian. Which is particularly ghastly, because while not all autistics are cataloging librarians, cataloging librarians are kinda notorious for being autistic more often than not.

https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/83698948

sigh

Guess I got a new dogwhistle to keep an ear open for. I'm glad you shared, just annoyed they keep thinking of new ways to signal.

@prototart God damn it.

I need to just stop liking male celebrities.

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@ortallus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I honestly don't know much about anarcho-syndacalist, but wouldn't anarchy, technically, be the extreme far far far FAR right? Absolutely no governmental regulation?

No, anarchy isn't about no government regulation. It's about power structures being arranged horizontally rather than vertically because vertical power creates hierarchies that are inherently exploitative. Most anarchists I've been exposed to want a democratic government, but a directly democratic one instead of a representative one and one in which any official can be removed from power at any moment by a simple vote.

@aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

...I'll just be over here in a corner, waving my little anarcho-syndicalist flag and reminding everyone that America doesn't have a "left-wing" party but it's super cute when folks think we do.

I'd be interested in learning more about your ideology.

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

"Nobody wants to work anymore," I keep hearing.

Motherfuckers of course nobody wants to work, that's what work is.

I think people want to work. We just want our work to be fulfilling and humane; and our overlords frown on that because then we start getting uppity ideas about being people instead of numbers on spreadsheets.

@silverfox That does sounds pretty grating. It's also something I never saw in the church my grandparents visited, so I'm curious, is that some kind of denominational thing, or just a thing your specific church does?

My sunburn has finally started flaking. I get the feeling when I wake up tomorrow, I'll wish I'd have waited another day to wash and change the bedsheets.

@solstice said in Good TV:

I watched it once in English and absolutely loved it. Then on a whim I fired up an episode in Japanese to see how the voice acting was.

Oops, I rewatched the whole thing in Japanese. And the lead voice actresses absolutely nail the poignant bits in Season 5.

And now it seems to no longer be available in Japan, which is garbo.

@ganymede If it helps, I'm constantly watching and rewatching it.

A game set in the world of the Cowboys of Moo Mesa. MOOMOO.

@kestrel Hers wants to smooch your face because hers luvs you.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

Wtf, they broke the alliterative naming convention? Why not Calvin Collins or something?

Superman has a history going way back of using pseudonyms that are based on "Kal-El," like Calvin Ellis. Naming Superpresident after one of those pseudonyms was a cute Easter egg for the hardcore fans.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

... Case in point:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-b-jordan-without-remorse-diversity-tom-clancy-universe-black-superman-rumors-165718542.html

I often wonder if racists ever know what they're implying when they argue that the most moral man on Earth can't be black.