@ClownPoast@sukufshs I have never heard about flashlights being marketed like that.
Now I'm super curious how that would work. Do you get a plaster mould of a person's vagina? Do they sit in plaster?
@EaglePhan51@grok@AdequateEmily Why ask the bot a question if you're only going to accept one answer?
It's like if you weren't sure on the definition of a word, so you look it up in a dictionary, and it turns out to be something different to what you thought, so you conclude that the dictionary must be wrong.
@ByAllMeansMovie Glad other people could laugh through this to release tension or whatever, I was crawling out my skin through this entire scene. The hiding in the corner, the hiding behind objects, the crying, all of it.
@RepublicofTim@SheevTalks In the Christopher Reeve movies, Pa Kent dies of natural causes, and it teaches Clark that he sometimes he just can't save everyone.
This just teaches Clark that he should protect his own identity own the lives of others, which is so un-Superman it's kinda crazy.
@harumichiis That's why I think of myself as bi rather than pan like I used to. At the time, pan felt more inclusive, and that's how I felt, But these days I just don't see the distinction. I see how non-bi people define bisexuality, and it's not how bisexuals define it generally.
@taylorsgoodgirl@bandcampgremlin Ah so that's not what I meant. I've seen some people try simplify it down to butch=man and femme=woman. People saying that a butch woman is naturally always going to be the top, and she'll always dress in masculine clothing, never wear a dress, never have long hair, etc.
@bandcampgremlin I'm not even say that all lesbians are completely removed from patriarchy given the people who seem to apply gendered roles to masc and fem women based on appearances alone, although I'd hope that's specifically the younger, inexperienced crowd.
@my_that79452 I think it's in-part because 60s sexism feels expected and far away. Like "yeah that's what the 60s were like, what a time, the past is a different country".
But the 2000s was our lifetime. That feels so much closer. You think things really should have been a lot better by then.
@Dr_EPIC69@aantlerqueen I feel Nikki is written to be ambiguous. She's feeling lost, wants a change, she confides in Bear. It feels like they've genuinely had sweet friendship in the past, but ultimately I think she wanted to trust him as a friend more but can sense his feelings are getting in the way.
@mrshfield I'm shocked that anyone can play LiS and think that the whole darkroom plot isn't about rape. At absolute best, it's still a very direct metaphor for it. Mark and Nathan are portrayed as rapists. They're still characters with depth, but that's just what their plot is about.
@BillTheKid1603 It's trying to imply that the conflict is deeper than the movies really show.
In the wider lore, there's legitimate concerns of senate corruption, overreaching its power and failing people, but the films portray the CIS as corrupt corporate leaders following orders from the sith.
@QueenKennylla@skizyuri If you talk to any ace or aro folk, you quickly find out that we really don't want to be seen as special. We want to be accepted for who we are like everyone else, not apart.
I'd love nothing more than for everyone to treat it as not a big deal, and to mind their own business.
@thejmcgirl@jade__42@catnippacket I wonder if that’s where some defensiveness comes from for allo lgbt+ aphobes.
Some build their identity around being “other” to societal norms, but suddenly encounter people who are “other” to them, and they don’t want to accept that they’re the “in-group” in that situation.
@catnippacket To me it’s always been fairly simple.
Queer=anyone that falls outside societal expectations for gender and/or attraction.
Cis heterosexual/heteromantic=not queer.
Cis bisexual=queer.
Heterosexual transman=queer.
Asexual=queer.
Aromantic=queer.
Etc.
@30Hayyan@roundthefur Abelism is my concern with comparing BPD to a horror movie villain like this, it creates an awful idea of bipolar people that I can't see as helpful for literally anybody.
OP talks about her exes suffering from her actions but that frames Bear as the victim of Nikki's possession.