i think a lot of people would be happier if they viewed labels like homosexual and transgender as social technologies rather than identities
that is to say, “transgender” is a useful way for me to convey how i move through the world to others rather than some essential qualia. i am of a class of people with an infinite number of relationships with their genders
maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them
starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost
At the checkout in Home Goods loading the belt with nothing but candelabras in all shapes & sizes while the cashier watches sympathetically and asks if it’s the maidens again
Sometimes depressed people develop a kind of frantic contrarianism: they must, absolutely must, be positive about everything. Not a radiant positivity but a doubtful hedging, carving out a hollow space for goodness within every single thing, as if to keep the weight of the world suspended safely above.
The work of doing this tends to mire you in an endless confusion about whatever you see. That’s a lot of why it’s tiring. You don’t allow yourself an honest opinion in case it destroys you. It might destroy you with its bitterness. The hardest hurdle is that you think you’re doing the good work of keeping hope alive, the whole time.
Someday, ruefully, you do realize. You are not hope’s seeing-eye dog, and it doesn’t even need to lean on your shoulder. There was never a responsibility.
carl sagan said in contact that one measure of a relationship’s intimacy is in how many of each person’s sub-personas can see and commune with each other. and that hit. do you wanna see if our inner children want to play together 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
She began to understand why lovers talk baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the children inside her were permitted to come out. If the one-year-old, the five-year- old, the twelve-year-old, and the twenty-year-old all find compatible personalities in the beloved, there is a real chance to keep all of these sub-personas happy. Love ends their long loneliness. Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. Carl Sagan, Contact
worst thing a video game can do is give me a bad reason to kill guys. either give me a very good reason or just say ‘there’s no good reason, you’re playing as a sicko’. don’t be like, 'uhhh they are Raiders so you can kill them en masse with unlimited brutality but during our sidequests we will inexplicably provide incongruous moral choices about whether or not it’s okay to kill Namedcharacter van der Warcrime’
'do you want to Spare babymunch the evil wizard… or Kill him… or perhaps join him and turn against the village folk 😈 ? this is a world of complex morality……’ — a game in which you’ve killed a triple digit number of human beings
16th April 2024
Reblogged From decadent-trans-girl
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