The IXian🥃🧭

I am a monument to all your sins.

Alt: @HeraldOfRlyeh

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

I have been anonymously yet reliably informed that I tweet like someone far less attractive than I actually am.

I just want you all to hear about this because producing such a response has been one of the secret goals of this account for some years.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

@Geoffiam Nah, you're actually funny.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

@dsawyer Ok, I don't know how I missed Eliot being T.S. Eliot, but that makes a lot more sense now.

The other two I actually remain unfamiliar with though, so thanks for the recs.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

Because that aesthetic, alongside aethetically similar terms like alt/punk/emo/etc had a very prominent presence in 90s through 2000s culture, which is pretty much the most recent generational period that almost everyone agrees was quite nice to live in. In fact, it's that to such an extreme even some people who weren't even born yet act nostalgic for the period.

So in short, it's literally sexual nostalgia.

[edgelordjinx on 🦋 @EdgelordJinx]

What actually is making men so attracted to the idea of a goth woman(not an actual goth woman) right now I don't understand this fixation

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

This is the hardest I've laughed at a piece of Limbus art since the one of Dante burying his face in Garion's chair.

[🍋Chanh🍋 @TrnPhongLam1]

#LimbusCompany

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

@dsawyer Hmm, actually looking at your post again, I don't recognize coleridge and eliot. If there's a common thread with the others, I uh, definitely need to fix that.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

@dsawyer Yeah, all examples of why I'm a fan tbh. If only he could have finished some of that later writing.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

The problem here is actually that you think excess abstraction layers are a source of insight rather than a source of making up bullshit.

Whether women are still on more abstraction layers given this correction is left as an exercise for the reader.

[Cassie (Final form) @Cassperture]

I'm not a sexist but I do think the average woman is viewing the world with at least 4 more layers of abstraction than the average man and is at minimum 50% more perceptive

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

I expect that that more generalizable explanation is also being exacerbated in current day with current media by the proponderance of hamfisted writers that succeed at the giving the villain the sexy traits part but fail miserably at making them appear as the actually reprehensible one to half the audience.

Not so relevent if we're talking about real life evil of course, but given how often I see "the fictional villain is hot" commentary, it seems worth considering still.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

@default_friend Thank you. Yes. It's incredibly annoying.

[Katherine Dee 🐬/acc @default_friend]

Sorry, I’m not backing down on this. Expressing gratitude or sharing your personal experience is one thing. Treating others like they’re beneath you, people who made the exact same choices you did in recent history, is something else.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

Pretty much needs to involve significant physical contact or the kind of blunt verbal flirting that has little to no hedging. Preferably both.

I'm not a generalizable example though because in my case, it's only partially due to some amount of being dense. I'm also heavily and intentionally filtering on these cues as I don't really care for women that are reserved or indirect about what they want.

[Vanessa @Nessakins_]

Fellas, how obvious does a flirt from a chick need to be for you to recognize it? 🤔

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

(Just initiating. Conversations are plenty entertaining once they're going).

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

Funny thing. I'm a guy, and I like cooking quite a lot when I have the time.

Alas, nothing that helps with forming relationships does much to help when your actual handicap is "I hate leaving my house and/or initiating conversation."

[Old Hollow Tree @OldHollowTree]

I’ll never understand the men who refuse to cook or claim it’s women’s work; I courted my wife mostly in the kitchen. “Come over, let me make you dinner.” and now, a decade later, I am frying up steak while she plays with the children in the garden.

Cook, bro. It’s so good.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

@MMusicanova @ThePurpIeKnight I hate to admit it because hassling the guy is blessed tradition, but it pretty much hasn't been the same since moot left. Was still going downhill before that, but that was still a strong time marker in retrospect.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

>be me
>open twitter
>don't want to live on this planet anymore
>close twitter
>know the cycle will repeat

I don't know why. I just know that neither the repetition nor the hate are going anywhere.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

@FeralPHunter Unfortunately. Unsurprisingly.

[The IXian🥃🧭 @IXianVernius]

@ThePurpIeKnight Man, I'd love to go back to /a/, but it's just not the same as it was in my heyday.