Outer Wilds Embroidered Solar System Map
Over 50 hours of work and thousands of stitches. This was a passion project and really exciting to see come together. Some of my favorite details include the fireballs falling from Hollow's Lantern, the Moon orbiting Dark Bramble, and the Strangers no one seems to notice until I point them out (directly 'south' of the sun).
available for purchase in my Etsy page (the original has been sold, but I'm planning on putting the design in my shop, for anyone who wants instructions on how to make this themself)
i desperately need like a canopy bed or a tent bed or an in-wall bed or something i need to be tucked in i need to be protected from the elements i need to be in a little hole in a den in a nest im just a prey animal trying to get by
do you get it or do you not know anything
never will forget the gay porn I watched where the director quietly told the bottom to “lose the anime voice” and you could see overwhelming disillusionment form in his eyes
oddly sensual mechanism
People literally think about me. There could be multiple people thinking about me right now. It could even be fondly. Wtf.
SAME GENDER MARRIAGE PLANE FLIES IN TOTK
SKILL ISSUE
oh to have a silly little house like this...
the inside has to look like this.
the impulse to hide what I'm doing at my computer still sits so deep even tho I'm literally never looking at anything objectionable , the door will open and I'll hurry to close the page like oh fuck no one can know I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for the Balkans
oh my god everyone cute is in an open relationship i'm going to squeeze my phone until it shatters. where are the single people who don't care about dungeons and dragons
so does anyone else have advice
try to set out bait for people who like sports - various balls or nets - just throw back the ones who wear a utility kilt (chances are they larp, which means they likely are poly as well)
Dear newbie queer kids,
We appreciate the sentiment but stop "correcting" the older LGBTQ+ community. And by "correcting" I mean trying to force them to adopt your language.
"Actually, it's pansexual if you're attracted to any gender. Bisexual means only men and women." (I really was told that one today.)
"Actually if they're attracted to anyone despite gender and even to non-human entities in works of fiction that's omnisexual."
Guys, you may not know it but what you are doing is what we'd once call bi-erasure.
A little LGBTQ+ history:
The word bisexual is still relatively new for a lot of people. In 1973 when David Bowie came out as bisexual, a reporter misunderstood that to mean he had both male and female reproductive organs. Even today I've stumbled upon people who think bisexual means "nonbinary." meaning "I don't identify as a man or a woman."
The only connection the words have is the "bi" part so this one is painfully stupid.
In the 1990s there were older queer folk who didn't even know bisexual is what they were. When Roddy McDowall was confronted by Vincent Price's daughter and asked "Why didn't you tell me my father was bisexual?" He said "We didn't know the word."
In the 90s most bisexual people used the term to mean attraction despite gender.
I'm fine with the use of the word "Pansexual" but it IS actually gatekeeping to tell older bisexuals that the word bisexual means "disincluding trans and nonbinary" and "attraction to the gender instead of despite the gender."
I can't think of very many people who identify as bisexual who are okay with those added restrictions that they didn't agree to.
For most of the older queer community bisexual means their own gender and everything else. That's the two for bi.
I am certain there are some people today who don't mind the new restrictions added to the word bisexual and use it to self-identify but those that were identifying a bisexual in the 90s and early 2000s didn't have such restrictions because the options of pansexual and omnisexual were not in use yet.
Pansexual was a term invented by Freud to mean "attraction to anything" (this included furniture). It's modern meaning of "consenting adults without consideration of gender" is relatively new and frustratingly this was originally how most of us were using the word bisexual.
When you "Correct" someone who self-identifies as bisexual that they are actually pansexual because you want them to use the more modern language, THAT is gatekeeping.
Ironically this just happened to me and when I corrected the person that was "correcting me" by explaining that older people who identify as bisexual tend to use it with the same meaning as the modern pansexual, I was suddenly accused of "Gatekeeping."
So now, ironically, they're misusing the term gatekeeping while gatekeeping.
Please stop doing this. The new terms are okay but don't tell us how we can use the older terms, especially when bisexual isn't that old of a term in the grand scheme of things. I sometimes use the term pansexual just to make things easier for the younger folk since they adapted to the restrictive version of the term bisexual we never asked for. Also I like it's connection to mythology.
But please don't "Correct" people for using the term they had for themselves since the 90s because they never added those new restrictions to it. This is rude. And that is the gatekeeping. Them telling you what the word meant decades ago is not "gatekeeping." You telling them how they have to us it now- that is gatekeeping.
Sincerely, Most queer folk over the age of thirty.
language prescriptivism is a plague upon the queer community
I've been rolling something around in my head.
If everyone receives Minimum Basic Income, what happens to all the relationships where one of the individuals no longer has to depend on the other(s) to survive?
Just let that marinate for a moment.
Not just the economic landscape but the social landscape could be transformed.
Not for nothing, but this is literally part of the entire point of Universal Basic Income.
When abused people can just literally walk away, knowing they can still have enough money to live, the world will be a lot less sheltering of abusers and that is a massive fucking benefit.
It gets better than that, if we go with my ideal UBI scenario, in which we peg UBI to "enough to live in any major metropolitan city in the country" and do NOT adjust it for cost of living.
Suddenly, the poverty and scrabbling for survival of rural areas? Gone. That UBI will go a whole long fucking way out there. Suddenly, people who had to move to the cities to get jobs that paid enough? Can afford to move back. Heck, they can afford to get decent fucking broadband out there and continue working, just, not in the city. Suddenly, people who live in rural areas but want to move to the cities with like-minded people? That's affordable, too. Suddenly, people who want to have a bigger house, but are stuck in a tiny apartment in a city? They can afford to move out to where there are bigger houses.
Universal Basic Income would realign our whole damn society, and I think it would long-term be for the better.
