Related: Aspec People Are Confused/inexperienced/late-bloomers/prudes/traumatized.

Related: Aspec people are confused/inexperienced/late-bloomers/prudes/traumatized.

But the thing that really puts a cherry on this post is that line at the bottom: "Have the day you deserve."

For a lot of reasons, I hesitate to wish vitriol on other people even when they're being cruel or harmful to me (due to Very Normal anxiety that I would feel bad if such a thing actually came to pass) and I appreciate the phrasing here so much, highlighting both personal guilt and social shame as *consequences* not *retribution/punishment* and doing so without malice. People don't always get what they seem to deserve, but there's something freeing about wishing it to them anyway - especially if they claim to believe in fairness or righteousness, or any other merit-based mode of engagement with the universe, as such people very often do. it means that they'll never be entirely free of the concern that anything bad that happens to them might just be a confirmation of their worldview, and if it's not, then they must be wrong. They can resist the conclusion that they're doing the wrong thing in any case, but they can't expunge it. Such people are *always* feeling like bad things are happening to them.

My 90yr old Irish Catholic grandpa doesn’t miss with my gender. He’s never gotten my name wrong, or my pronouns, never even faltered over it.

It’s all so natural too: son, big man, young man…

We’ve never talked about it. He’s the only one who hasn’t pushed for details. He just accepted it and carried on because it’s not a huge deal.

It’s so comforting.

I’m just going to nudge this under the couch with my hair band and catnip mouse collection. … for later.

i made a whump wheel

want to beat up a character but don't know how you wanna do it? same here, friend. behold, the whump wheel! it currently has 60 different prompts/tropes on it and is ready for use! 🎉 i...love this thing. it is wonderful for writing exercises. (if you wanna know what's on it before using it, take a peak at the screenshot below)

This has vast CSU energy.

i love, therefore i bite

Saw an alignment chart, had to do some Murderbot artificial intelligences.

People love to talk about the immortality of the machine, but I'm a mechanical engineer, so I know they delude themselves. Most machines are far more mortal than flesh.

How long does a machine last? A car is a very solid machine, expensive, precision designed, and you're lucky if you get more than three decades out of them.

Your enemy is not the flesh. It's entropy. It's the death knell of the energy imbalance. If you want to live as a complex machine you will, by necessity, generate a great deal of entropy until your machine breaks irrevocably.

You want to be immortal? Then don't worship the machine, worship the stone, the forest. Seek that which is either simple enough to never know death or diffused enough to accept every death.

today my wisdom is: the ecological crisis of our planet is not a thing that will Suddenly destroy us sometime in the next century—it has taken decades of continuous work for our biosphere to be preserved thus far, and it will take decades more of continuous work to continue preserving it.

The apocalypse is not a single event hovering in the future bearing down on us while we sit helplessly. We are at least 150 years into an ongoing "apocalypse."

Things will continue to steadily get worse without steady action, but "augh! it's already too late to stop climate change and mass extinctions!" is specifically the worst response