So. How are you holding up? BECAUSE I AM A POTATO

“asexuality is just the lack of a sex drive, or a really low one” uuhhh no. really, no. that is incorrect, you have been lied to, i’m sorry.

asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to anyone. sex drive is your horny meter. you can still be horny and not be sexually attracted to people! similarly you can be sexually attracted to people and not be horny!! amaze

oh my god this actually clarifies so much thank you

If you put a lesbian in a room full of men she can still be horny as fuck but their ain’t anyone there she wants to do it with.

Also note that if you put a bunch of horny dudes on a naval vessel for years on end, even if they’re all straight, some of them are probably gonna end up fucking (which is why back when sodomy was illegal on land it was allowed on a ship). Similarly, some fraction of asexual people do have sex for recreation, but never with anybody they’re actually attracted to because they aren’t actually attracted to anybody. Friction is friction and endorphins are endorphins.

Conversely, there’s a lot of allosexual people who never have sex. Some because of religious or moral objections, some because or psychological aversion or trauma, some out of an abundance of caution about the risk of disease or unwanted pregnancy, and others simply never get around to forming that kind of relationship.

There’s a pervasive misconception that asexuality and abstinence are the same thing, that a person can choose to be asexual or not. That assumption hurts a lot of people, from asexuals pressured or even forced into sexual encounters they don’t want in order to “fix” them, to perfectly normal and healthy allosexuals being shamed and repressed as “sluts” just for feeling natural and uncontrollable emotions.

That’s being ace, buddy. Ace people can experience hornyness.

Ominous..

I think ive said it before but you really gotta feel bad for oedipus that wanting to fuck your mother got named after him. He really did not want to do that . It is central to oedipus rex how badly he didnt want to do that. Dick move by freud

i have witnessed unspeakable horrors . the horrors weren't undescribable or anything, i just had to sign an NDA

I love the alarmed tone of the cat meows when I’m home much later than usual. It sounds like “did you know?? Did you know it is late at night?! Hey! Hey! Did you know that there has not been dinner?! No dinner for cats? Hey! I can tell you are as concerned and worried about these developments as we are. My brother and I are also very concerned. No dinner!! The cats have not had dinner! Hey! Heeey!! Should you maybe call a police or pope or something? Congress? Dolly Parton? Did you know about this?”

Some poor suffering gobs!!

I love these and I wish to adopt them.

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)

Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.

Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!

Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks

Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!

Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row

[ ID: Five successive tweets by C.W. Howell @ cwhowell123 that read as follows: So I followed @/GaryMarcus's suggestion and had my undergrad class use ChatGPT for a critical assignment. I had them all generate an essay using a prompt I gave them, and then their job was to "grade" it--look for hallucinated info and critique its analysis. *All 63* essays had / hallucinated information. Fake quotes, fake sources, or real sources misunderstood and mischaracterized. Every single assignment. I was stunned--I figured the rate would be high, but not that high. / The biggest takeaway from this was that the students all learned that it isn't fully reliable. Before doing it, many of them were under the impression it was always right. Their feedback largely focused on how shocked they were that it could mislead them. Probably 50% of them / were unaware it could do this. All of them expressed fears and concerns about mental atrophy and the possibility for misinformation/fake news. One student was worried that their neural pathways formed from critical thinking would start to degrade or weaken. One other student / opined that AI both knew more than us but is dumber than we are since it cannot think critically. She wrote, "I'm not worried about AI getting to where we are now. I'm much more worried about the possibility of us reverting to where AI is." /end ID. ]

If u want to write a story about a character that's just you but hotter with a dark twisted backstory and magical powers and a pet falcon or something, I think u should just go ahead and do that. Who's gonna stop you? The government?? Fuck the police.

What if someone barges in, points at said character and scream, “Mary Sue!”

Tell them to come back with a warrant

This post came across my dash again and now I am having an absolute blast with self insert hotter me that gets the girls and guys everywhere.

This is the Way

Reblogging because I am very pro-writing whatever the hell you want, even ”bad” things, and also because “tell them to come back with a warrant” BROKE ME

⚠ Tip! You can attract someone's [white ass] with a piece of [cheese]

I told a kid in my class the other day that it was going to be the year of the tiger! This kid is a kindergartner, five years old.

Usually there’s some interest when I bring this up, but this kid sort of sat with that for a couple minutes, expression settling into a thousand yard stare. Just as I was wondering if something was wrong, he looked at me with his haunted eyes and asked, in a tone of resignation: “When are the tigers coming?”

I had to quickly reassure him that the year of the tiger was like…an animal assigned to the year, and not another plague or natural disaster! Between the Covid, lockdowns, and huge flood of cicadas last year this child probably decided that this was in line with how the world worked and was mentally getting his affairs in order.

‘​I guess a plague of tigers might as well happen’

This website is full of free sewing patterns that will automatically alter to ur measurements

https://freesewing.org

WHAT.

@roboticchibitan

this is the post that started me off making my own clothes, i never actually used a pattern from this site bc i learned how to make my own too quickly but this is where the jump from wishing to doing happened

now im making money doing sewing commissions so lmfao i guess tumblr did do something for me after 10 fucking years

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

For some reason traffic is full of old men whose world view is based on the stalwart belief that the only way they will get into warriors' heaven is dying a glorious death in a vehicular accident they caused on purpose out of spite.

Guans Art Works on Etsy

still thinking about that long post about unsolicited fanwork critique and just want to toss out there:

there is no moral obligation to improve at your hobbies.

I do think that once the Internet Slapfights die out that people will recognize that AI art can actually to some pretty cool things, but on the other hand it is pretty undeniable that a lot of the people most vocally pushing for it are just... not very smart.

Like...

What "rest of the photo." Abbey Road is a real place in London. You can physically go there. What the hell are you talking about dude.

This is also another example of why it's extremely important to examine who is coding AI, what their biases and assumptions are, because to me this looks extremely USAmerican, like London streets just don't really look like that.

For reference, the real view is this (or at least it was about 15 years ago when this photo was taken):