abandonment issues are sooooo funny. “i’m scared people will leave me so i push them away first to avoid being hurt” girl the prophecy is self fulfilling!!! the sabotage is coming from within!!! you forgot about the cycle!!!!!!!!!
“if you tell people they should leave you alone then they’ll leave you alone” ummm actually if they love me enough they’ll stay. this time for sure.
thinking about the time they sent me a seven year old autistic patient to investigate if he was suffering abuse because in every psychological test he kept drawing awful monsters
and I start the consultation already miserable as fuck and I give the kid some pen and paper so I can maybe communicate and see what’s on his mind
and then I go WAIT A GODDAMN SECOND I KNOW THOSE MONSTERS
turns out the kid just had a special interest in Five Nights at Freddy’s
I pointed at the monster and went “That’s Freddy!” and I’ve never seen a kid that ecstatic in my life
the mom looked at me as if her son and I belonged at the same satanic cult and that’s why I knew the names of the demons in his head
I wrote back to psychologist like “I’m not sure how to explain this but looking up five nights at freddys might bring you progress with this patient”
at some point the nurses realized the autistic children and I were like, Really Vibing
so they decided to highkey just appoint all of them to my day and it took me almost a month to realize that the fact that I kept arriving and finding that all of today’s appointments were autistic children was Not A Coincidence
anyway this one time there was a kid who was really into christianity but it was like, specifically angels
so I’m trying to start up a conversation with him and I ask what he’s reading and he goes “do you know what a nephilim is”
and like for one hellish second my soul is suckerpunched out of my body and thrown straight into supernatural-fanfic-on-wattpad hell, and then I reassume control of my flesh prison, ignoring the mental edits of Dean and Castiel making out, and go “Aren’t those the guys who are half human and half angel?”
and the kid was so fucking happy but the mom was staring at me like ‘why are you privy to this bit of occult jesus lore’
and my heathen lesbian of a self just looks at her and goes
Brother (increasingly frantic): Yeah but I’m, I don’t wanna fuck it up. Is it— what does that mean you said she/they and then you said “oh wait no use they/she,” which one do I use?
Person filming: They- they more than she.
Brother: Oh god
[laughter from the person filming]
Brother: Okay, like, how- how much more though? Is it like if- do I- am I being an asshole if I say, like, they maybe like 4 times and she 2 times?
with the note that invisibility isn’t privilege I’d like to remind people how erased aro people are
like I work with several queer people, gay and bi and such. Not one of them knew what aro or queer platonic was before I told them
during pride month you know what flag they don’t have in general stores? Aro
Even at pride itself when I went last year, there were four aro things. That’s it. Do you know how depressing that is to go to the queer place specially and you have to stop at every single stall to scour for a single thing to represent you?
we need to normalize aromantism. We need to stop more than friends and “you laughed at what he said you’re in love!” Or “you spent the night with her just admit you’re gay” attitudes. Romance is not required to be a human and it’s not required for intimacy. It should be just as known and accepted as being gay.
during pride month you
know what flag they don’t have in
general stores? Aro
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
one of the things I hate about this webbed site is trying to find the original post of a Reddit screen cap just to find out the people in the post blocked me?? ok I guess I’ll just repost the screen grab like a booger eater lmao
just gonna turn this post into a mega thread of Reddit tumblr screencaps I can’t find the original post of but I think are absolutely fucking hilarious.
not even trying to look for these anymore tbh because I have so many it’d be painstaking work lol
tumblr is thwarting my ability to make the longest image post
KID WROTE “MPREG VORTEX” ON THEIR DOODLE PAD AT LUNCH CLUB
I ASKED THEM TO PUT IT AWAY
ANOTHER KID MUST HAVE SMELLED MY HORROR
ASKED “MS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS”
SAMANTHA YOU ARE THIRTEEN WHY DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS
@too-many-muses I went full on startled prey mode 😭 I froze, shook my head way too quickly and then started aggressively cleaning the whiteboard lmaooo
don’t you fucking DARE I cannot go down in history as the omegaverse teacher
I know for a fact that they think tumblr is dead as they have told me I look like used to have tumblr before it disappeared lmao
My kid and I were listening to something (can’t remember what) and something came up that was innocent in context and would only register as worthy of note if you know about the Omegaverse and we both flinched
Which is the more horrifying?
Knowing your teenager is aware of the Omegaverse
Or being a teenager and knowing your parent is aware of the omegaverse
Anyway both of us died a little inside as we realised the other one knew
It’s come up a few times since then but purely in a “yes we both know what this is and we are not discussing it further” kinda of way
Anyway I feel your pain a little bit OP but also you totally outed yourself with that reaction
See as a teacher myself, this is when you get very calm and blunt with them.
“Teacher do you know what omegaverse is?”
“Yep! It came out as a trope when i was a bit older than you and I’ve read some of it.”
*stunned silence*
“And I also know its not a school topic so we are putting it away. Back to math.”
Kids are eager to see adults freaked out by inappropriate things or confused about a modern fad.
When you show them that adults are just as much a part of things as they are, they lose all their power.
Fun fact: The original version of this joke was made by Lachlan Hodson on twitter, and we know this because we were eating lunch with him when he came up with it, and he sprinted home to make the graphic without finishing his meal.
The tweet was so funny we gave it a retweet on Batshit Auspol’s twitter account and then watched it get immediately nicked without credit by a big twitter account, after which it went viral across the web, so it would be nice if Lachie could get some love for this!
It's hard/painful to even move/do basic day-to-day tasks.
Cramps/mood swings/etc are bad, but not to a horrible extent.
Cramps/mood swings/etc are annoying to say the least.
I don't get cramps/mood swings/pain from my period,/I only get blood.
Other.
Might be a bit of an odd one, but I have genuinely never gotten anything but blood when on my period so I am curious on how other people's periods typically are/how bad they are.
Is it bad if my school librarian told me I was checking out to many books? (the graveyard book, fortunately the milk, and coraline) She is saying I need to 'branch out my authors' and 'im obssesed'. I was holding 2 books (stardust and good omens) by you and a book you introduced (Fahrenheit 451) as I checked the other 3 out. The same librarian didn't let my sister (10) to get coraline or the graveyard book as she was 'to little', she has read those books before but she wanted to read it again. Is this lady just a dick or like is it bad? (I'm 14, she also got mad I read books for 'baby's' 30 seconds after my little sister tries reads books for 'adults')
Sounds like she’s just not very good at her job. A librarian’s job isn’t to stop people reading things.
That’s like actually specifically breaking the rules of her job, isn’t it? Would reporting someone like this be too extreme a reaction?
Hard to say. In the US right now, a lot of employers and even a few state legislatures seem to think that riding herd on what children read IS a librarian’s job. (Historically, even within the profession there have been waves of this condescending puritan nonsense. We’ve beaten them back, but it’s always taken work and courage.)
They’re wrong. Unequivocally wrong. But it goes to show how poorly librarianship is understood outside, well, librarianship and a precious few knowledgeable and supportive people like @neil-gaiman and LeVar Burton.
So if this nitwit were reported to the school administrators, the most they’d likely do is shrug, not understanding the problem. As for librarianship itself, while we do have ethics codes and whatnot, they’re aspirational; there are no profession-specific enforcement mechanisms.
There’s an outside chance of a state-level agency (probably the Department of Education or equivalent) that would take an interest, but my hopes wouldn’t be high.
A theatre kid might consider taking the most visibly inoffensive of their checkouts to the principal’s office, crying their eyes out because the librarian was sooooo meeeeeeeeean and won’t let them take out more books and said bad things about the beeeeeeeest booooooook and BAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW.
I hate to say that’s the thing most likely to work… but it’s the thing most likely to work. Unfortunately.
Yea, the code of ethics being more aspirational is what I wasn’t sure about
Alright, guess this toy’s gonna talk about Palworld, because it’s seen Discourse™️ start to crop up about how “supporting the game is immoral because it’s stealing designs from Pokemon!”
Now look, this toy’s not about to sit here and tell you that all of the monster designs in Palworld are completely original and the game isn’t, on some level, a bootleg. Obviously a lot of the designs are bootleg pokemon. That’s not the point it wants to get at. The point is that it doesn’t really matter.
First of all, nobody is being hurt by Palworld having knockoff pokemon among the ranks of its monsters. Game Freak is not some tiny indie developer struggling to make ends meet having their work unfairly co-opted by a big, bad corporation. Pokemon is, in fact, the largest, most profitable media franchise of all time, and Palworld is an indie game. The reason that something like this would hypothetically be scummy/shitty is if someone were taking someone else’s work, changing it slightly, claiming it as their own, and thus depriving the original creator of credit/visibility that they should’ve had. But that literally can’t happen here, because everyone already knows what Pokemon is. So unless it gets found that they’re stealing designs from fakemon artists or something (there was one alleged instance, but it seems to have just been a coincidence of two different people having the idea of “what if Chimecho but with big, bulky arms?”), Palworld is hurting nobody through having bootleg designs, so the moral argument against the game falls flat.
With that out of the way, there’s a much more interesting topic to discuss here: Why is it that when someone’s fangame gets C&D’d, everyone immediately jumps to the creator’s support, accurately assessing that our copyright system is broken and primarily serves to hurt independent artists, but the moment a developer makes the changes necessary to make sure their fangame doesn’t get hit with a C&D (and to allow them to make money off of it), it’s suddenly bad and cringe and unoriginal?
The argument that “Palworld is lazy and unoriginal and therefore bad because the monster designs are too similar to Pokemon’s designs” is something that this toy would be willing to hear out if Palworld were a turn-based singles-format RPG with similar systems/overall structure to those found in Pokemon games, but, uh. It isn’t. It’s a third-person shooter with monster-catching mechanics and, like, Factorio-ass automation and base-building, from what this toy can tell. And it doesn’t know if the game is good, as someone who has not played it (or even really seen gameplay of it), but it can absolutely tell you that the game’s not lazy.
Sure, they could have done more to make the monster designs feel more unique, and that’s absolutely a valid criticism for the game. This toy doesn’t want to come across like it’s saying otherwise. It just wants people to recognize that that’s kind of a nitpick when the game is, on a mechanical and genre level, something completely different from anything any Pokemon game ever has been or ever will be, and that nobody would be complaining about laziness or a lack of originality if this came out as a fangame literally just using actual pokemon. In that reality, people would’ve been popping off at how high-effort it is, actually. And like, even putting money aside, this game literally could not exist as a fangame. A while back, someone uploaded some videos on Youtube showcasing a fangame they were developing that was an FPS where the enemies were pokemon. They got hit with a C&D and their Youtube account was terminated within a couple days of the videos being uploaded. The game was not monetized, and in fact, never even had a download link, to this toy’s recollection. Palworld would have suffered the same exact fate if it wasn’t its own IP.
Okay but the company also used stuff for their other games from indie developers, like Hollow Knight, without permission. They also used fan pokemon designs without credit to the people who made them in the first place. To top it all off, they also use ai generation in their games. They aren’t JUST taking from a big company that isn’t hurt by it
Okay, that post had thousands of notes andyou didn’t link to the actual evidence, so I had to go digging:
So, what we’ve got here is this background:
From their next game which is apparently hollow-knight-esq, and its being said that it’s swiped from this:
It’s an underground ice cave with generic “tribal” banners.
I mean, they probably took inspiration, the game is a Hollow-Knight alike, after all. At most you could call it an homage. But plagiarism? I don’t think it comes within arm’s reach of that, not without more points of connection.
I’ve personally busted on them for not making their designs very distinct, but here’s the deal, any time there’s an IP lawsuit, more than just the case in question is at state. Precedent is at stake. And that precedent rarely shakes out in favor of the average artist.
If stuff with this level of similarity gets determined to be infringement, lots of homage and parody is suddenly on the chopping block, and a lot of fair use too.
Expys are a long-standing tradition, and because of the inherent stupidity of “Pokemon with guns”, they have a strong argument for the intent to parody.
But lets talk about the fakemon situations.
Here we’ve got Arsox and Flairees, a fakemon from Pokémon Sage.
So we’ve got fire-ungulates, a wooly ram and what appears to be a goat. A similar critter with a similar element is not enough to draw a connection, nor is a color shcheme, as russet-brown, cream, and orange is a basic fire colorscheme.
The two animals have entirely different distinctive features. Arsox leans heavy on the wool-as-fire thing, and has huge horns. Flairees has a lot of actual fur, and it’s distinctive traits are the helmet and the fire mane and tail. Similar foreheads, but again, they might have seen this, they might have come up with it entirely independently.
If I have 20 fan artists the job of doing a fire type sheep or goat pokemon, I bet I’d get at least 2 or 3 that would be similar enough to either of these to raise an eyebrow.
pyroaura98’s Mega Delphox is pretty eyebrow raising, at first. But I’m not super into pokemon, don’t know much past gen 3, so I looked up actual Delphox.
So.
Delphox is a girl fox with a design that evokes a witch (baggy sleeves, ‘skirt’, magic wand, the ear-flames are kinda like flowing hair).
I mean, it is possible someone at that japanese game studio saw that particular piece of Mega Delphox art and either intentionally swiped it or did so subconsciously.
None of us were in the room. But it’s also entirely possible that two different artists were looking to do a spin on Delphox, one intending to make a Mega form, the other looking to file off serial numbers while keeping it an expy, and came to the same very obvious decisions:
Swap the colors around. Intensify the saturation. Witch her up.
There’s only so many ways to make her witchier, and one of those is a giant hat.
However, one of the previous accusations of ripoffery, a fakemon by Pupeh on Twitter/X, and Hangyu, was similarly damning… until it was shown that Hangyu was in a trailer 2 years ago, and Pupeh made theirs in the last year.
Thing is, the process of creativity to create a transformative idea is the exact same one that makes “original” ideas. Both are only slightly divorced from the process of plagiarism. New ideas are the novel assemblage of old ones filtered through our perspective and experience.
If the idea is insufficiently novel compared to the one it’s drawn from, it’s plagiarism, if it’s sufficiently novel we call it transformative, and the less we’re aware of the influence, the more original we consider it. And the thing is, we associate certain ideas with each other, and those associations form webs and chains. If you’ve got two people with similar interests and similar tastes working on similar ideas, they’re going to follow similar paths of association.
DC’s Swamp Thing and Man-Thing never became a point of legal contention because they were both riffing on the Heap. A whole lot of the franchises you know and love have just as naked lifts as what Palworld’s got going.
I’m not here to defend Palworld. I think they flew too close to the sun in several areas. I’m just very concerned that this is not very strong evidence of actual plagiarism, and if that’s where the line is, a whole lot of parody, fair use, and homage is on the chopping block.
You don’t want the level of protectable concept to be as simple as “fire sheep/goat”
Also, semi-related, why do people keep making pokemon fan games?
You know they’re going to get shut down the second Nintendo or the Pokemon company hears about it. Your hard work and loving tribute to their franchise will be turned into lost media because you dared to try and give them free advertising.
Because Nintendo hates the idea of fanworks, and they don’t seem to keen on fans in general. They sent a dude to prison for essentially life for selling DRM workarounds, they will kill youtube channels for playing hacks of their games, they won’t take your tribute in the spirit it is offered.
You should be serial-number-filing your mon, Zelda, mario, and Metroid-likes from day one. It will give you a chance to actually build on your work and let your work survive for longer.
Look, I just saw the post I linked yesterday. I never heard of Palworld before that, I just thought that if people WERE plagiarizing from other games, it would be good to get that info out there. I personally have no knowledge of either side of this, so take it up with the person who made the original post instead
You thought it was better to spread the word before you looked into the veracity of the claims?
Well I saw Goody Prestminster at the Devil’s sabbath fortnight before last if that’s any interest.
What were YOU doing at the Devil’s sabbath to see them?
“killing” a process means to end the function that does it
“a child” is a process created by another process
so what the message means is “stop the program VLC or stop the sub program of it that causes the problem”
Thank you technology side of tumblr :3
You’re welcome. That’ll be one (1) child sacrifice, please.
That’s not the only funny processs names we have
Orphan - a child process whose parent process has ended
Zombie - a child process that finished but still has an entry in the process table because it’s waiting for it’s parent process to read its exit status so the parent knows if it finished successfully, after which it’s removed from the process table (this is called “reaping”)
How come bisexual men get to call themselves gay or bisexual interchangeably, but if bisexual woman calls herself a lesbian, she gets her whole upper body bitten off cartoonishly.
Because TERFs and bioessentialists and others that are similar have created a mentality of people “taking away lesbians” and lesbians and womanhood as this sacred thing that must be protected from those that wanna take away from their space and their “sanctity.” You can see it in the “they are dtealing our lesbians” stuff thrown at trans men, or the “men are trying to invade our spaces” thrown at trans women and trans masc lesbians and multigender lesbians and lesbians who use he pronouns and butches and especially those who fit into multiple of those categories. It stems from exclusionism of that type, the belief that identities need to be policed. They think there is a platonic ideal of lesbian, the cis gold star lesbian. It also connects to some peoples view of bi people as being not really queer, as if theres some like queer test you have to pass to earn being a lesbian, or any other queer identity for that matter see transmedicalists or anti bi sentiment in gay mens spaces(which is rampant too) or people who think ace and aro people are not queer enough.
All of them are fools and all of them are erasing queer history. Lesbian has always included bi people and trans people and there is no perfect platonic ideal, this box you can place around a label, for any queer label. So call yourself whatever you want and change it if you need to because in the end labels are tools, ones we should use for connection not division.
To the exclusionist pathetic weirdos, have fun being disconnected and miserable I’m going to be having a lovely time with all the lesbians you are too pathetic to love. I hope someday you can get over your puritanism cause you sound like christians at a witch burning.
it gets worse: funi had an option to buy anime outright. but, it was bought digitally, and now CR has said that they’re not going to honor that, so if you bought anything from funi digitally, CR are taking that away from you
This is absolutely insane but the part that I find funny is that there isn’t a community on earth more dedicated to piracy than western anime fans. For ages the only way to even get your hands on anime and manga in the west was piracy. I literally don’t think Crunchyroll could have picked a worse group to try the “we’re a monopoly so we can charge you whatever we want” play on. I doubt there’s a person over the age of 25 who saw that and thought anything other than “welp, okay, piracy it is then!” like honestly the Crunchyroll executives are out of their fucking minds with this one.
What I think a lot of new fans miss is that… there used to be rules.
I have now run anime cons for 20 years. I got into anime in the period where the internet was rising, and legal access to this stuff was sparse, and generally limited to the biggest titles. I bought Fruits Basket on four. Separate. DVDs. I got each ON SALE for around 20.00. I paid EIGHTY PLUS DOLLARS for 4 DVDs of Fruits Basket.
But most of my early access was on blank DVDs with names and episode numbers written clumsily in sharpie. Handed over by friends, traded at con meetings, mailed to me by a friend via media mail. Fansubs and bootlegs, torrented and copied endlessly.
But there used those be a rule. A covenant. Unbreakable. Once a property was licensed, all illegal distribution stopped. Instantly.
The last episode of Fullmetal Alchemist I saw involved Hughes in a phone booth. The series was licensed right after that, and all access stopped. Fansubbers closed their listings, torrents dried up.
Because the end goal was licensing. We wanted nice, physical copies. We wanted professional, properly coded subtitles. We wanted an English Dub cast. We wanted to make anime a viable industry in the West.
So we bought Fruits Basket for eighty goddamn dollars.
So as I reach bitterly for my DVD burner yet again, it’s time to remember. We upheld our part of the bargain. We bought it legally from them. We paid to see this industry grow and thrive.
also on that note weird teenagers empassioned about niche interests are the backbone of this website. stop being mean to them
a 15 year old video game kinnie who reblogs stimboards and fanart and gifsets has infinitely more coolness than a 26 year old who slings around the r slur at people ever will. post.
this is cringe
it’s called authenticity and it won’t kill you.
Also, they’re on the cringe website, so I dunno what they’re expecting.
“Why am I surrounded by clowns?” Asks the person who set up shop in a fucking circus.
Also, they’re on the
cringe website, so I dunno
what they’re expecting.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Homosexuality explained in a German Children’s Book
Ok, two notes: it doesn’t say “my dad and his friend” it says “my dad and his boyfriend”, they’re just the same in German. And it doesn’t say homosexual, it says gay - this is actually still pretty modern language despite the way it looks.
IM CRYINGGGG MY HEART
I’d like to add that it doesn’t say the only way but the nicest way to achieve happiness. Love is not a necessity for happiness, please don’t forget that.
First person: Black people are treated like a sexuality. And I do not-
Video cuts to second person: See, I actually like this video. And I think I got a explanation for you.
The reason that blackness almost acts as a sexuality is because antiblackness is something that is so innate in the minds of nonblack people when growing up, that them preferring not to date someone who is black is almost as normal as them preferring not to date someone who isn’t their preferred sex.
Did y’all follow that? Like, let me give you an example. Like, a straight white male saying that they don’t date black girls is just as normal in society as a straight white male saying that they don’t date boys. And straight white women saying that they don’t date black boys was almost as normal as them saying they don’t date women. And granted, that example might not be as prevalent as the last one, but still.
And I know in both of those examples, they were white, but it applies with nonblack POC too. And to add a little bit of intersectionality, let’s be honest, it probably applies to some black men, too. And that’s a shame, that we would treat our own women similarly to that of a sex we don’t prefer.
Oh, I just thought of something! Antiblackness is something that is so innate in the minds of nonblack people that they would almost have to come out! Come out! And say that they like black people. It’s like homophobia was so innate that you would have to come out and say you’re homosexual.
That’s the one. I’m not even gonna lie, that’s the one. End Video Transcript.
Worth noting that interracial marriage became legal in 1967. 1967. That’s about 52 years ago.
Oh this.
EVERY single one of my relationships, once we get to meeting the parents? I have to ask them three questions:
Do they know you’re gay/bi/pan/whatever?
Do they know I’m transgender?
Do they know I’m black?
Sometimes I’ve gotten “I don’t see how that could be an issue” for the last one and I tell him I don’t care, warn them in advance that I am black. You know most of them have reported back to me “they were really surprised, I don’t understand, it’s more surprising to them that I’m dating someone black than someone gay and transgender?”
I’ve been through this song and dance with friends already, friends who neglected to mention to their parents that I’m black prior to me coming over and whose parents had less than fantastic reactions to seeing their kid playing with a little black kid in their yard. I’m not doing a surprise round with a partner I’m trying to determine if I want to spend the rest of my life as part of that family. My sister still has not met her white husband’s family because she insisted on the same prior warning before walking into that house, and a good thing too because his parents basically disowned him for even considering marrying a black girl. They’ve been married more than a decade! They have children together! They’re straight! And he had to ‘come out’ to his parents and get kicked out of his family for his attraction to a black woman.
It is one of the major reasons I stopped actively pursuing relationships with people who are white.
Interracial marriage was legalized when my parents were teenagers. My parents grew up not knowing they would enter an interracial marriage, not thinking it would be possible. It remains a major factor in why my parents hesitated for YEARS to get married, thinking the ruling would be overturned and they would have to end their marriage and not wanting to do that to their future children. Or that they would have to constantly uproot their kids and move around the country to stay safe. I remember growing up repeatedly having to explain how I could be black even though my mom is white [passing], because everyone jumped to 'adoption’ and not 'her husband is fucking black’
I’m just going to put this here again so you understand I’m not just ranting alone by myself
their homeowner is selling the house they live in despite them literally always paying rent on time, so my friend and all of his roommates have to find a new place to live asap. if anyone can help, or just rb, that would be wonderful ☹️
“Member” features photos of naked men, some trans, some not, to highlight the differences and similarities of all men’s bodies and dispel the notion of one particular “trans body.”
One of my favorite little facts about history is that the Mexican peso was functionally the everyday unit of currency in China in the 19th and early 20th century. Silver was one of the few western commodities that Chinese merchants were willing to trade in at rates that made shipping it to China (an expensive, arduous process) profitable; this trade became so voluminous by the 19th century that large everyday transactions even far away from port cities were conducted in pesos, in large part because Mexico’s large domestic silver supply and existing transpacific trade links meant that the currency was stable (a known quantity to merchants in a time and place where relatively pure silver coins were otherwise uncommon) and readily available for use in trade
Zhang Zongchang, the bandit general of the warlord era, could call himself (or at least be called) “Old Eighty-Six” because of the peso - everyone knew or had a vague sense at least how tall a stack of 86 pesos would be, and that this was an impressive length for a guy’s dick
tbh it doesn’t rly hurt teenagers to incorrectly id as ace like… what’s the worst than could happen? they don’t have sex till they’re older?? lol
“ohh but it’ll take them longer to realize they’re actually gay” i know my experiences aren’t universal but like. if i wasn’t ready to face my lesbianism then i was Not Ready, you could’ve eliminated every other label in existence and i still wouldn’t have accepted it. if anything, the ability to try out different labels helped me learn about myself, explore the community, and accept that maybe not being straight wasn’t so bad.
also lots of people identify as bi before realizing they are gay, lots of people identify as gay before realizing they’re bi, lots of people identify as gay before realizing they’re trans, etc etc etc!!! exploring and getting it wrong is a necessary part of the process!!! why is it so different for aroace identities?????
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