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himboskywalker · 2 years

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Okay so I saw some prev tags on the art you just shared that said something to the effect of: “I am desperately trying not to ship obikin but I so get the general appeal” And I am frothing at the mouth!!

Do you have any thoughts on why Obikin is viewed as this ~taboo~ ship when there are literally thousands of hetero romance books and ships out there with older man/younger woman, teacher/mentor, daddy kink, etc, etc tropes?? Like even tame hetero romance books (yes I know I am Showing My Whole Ass here) feature wider age gaps or far less equitable power dynamics with seemingly no issue?? Maybe I’m over sensitive? Maybe a combo of the fact that it’s a homosexual relationship set in one of the most popular fandoms of all time?

I’m just trying to live my life!! I need to stop reading tags and mind my own business! Sorry for dragging this to your door step!!

This has very much been a hot topic as of late where a lot of us obikin content creators are getting a lot more general attention than normal from outside our little corner of fandom. And I think it really just boils down to homophobia. Yeah people would get hella offended by you saying that,but the allowance of problematic tropes or icky power dynamics or questionable morality in Heterosexual romances while not allowing it in queer ones is an issue! It’s this societal expectation that’s been drilled into people’s heads that,oh you little gay house pets,we’ll accept and allow you and your representation,but only if you fit within an approved narrative or a dynamic we see as uwu cinnamon roll pure babies. I hate it,I hate it so much because it’s a policing of queer spaces to make them palatable to westerners who view queerness through a very specific lens,aka a colonial,white,Christian one.

@binaryeclipse made an excellent point on @intermundia ‘s post about this very issue.

Statistically speaking, queer relationships tend to have larger age gaps than heterosexual ones. This can be for a variety of reasons but usually people are gravitated towards people with different life experiences so that we can experience a broadening of our horizons and thus more fulfillment in our romantic lives. You can find that in a generational gap. So when people begin to point to the age gap as part of the source of obikin's "problematic" nature, they run the risk of treading into homophobic territory. Are you uncomfortable because there's actually an "abuse of power" going on, or are your biases for queer relationships to be only "wholesome" and analogous to heterosexual ones showing?— @binaryeclipse

We have a history,specifically in the United States,of large age gaps in queer relationships because of the AIDS epidemic. It’s built within queer culture here,and is a well known dynamic from that era on top of a dynamic well established through human history. Which only further infuriates me,because people say they “accept” queerness,but when queer relationships exist outside of their narrow world view of acceptable and non-problematic than it turns into a policing of morality from a very specific,white,western,Christian point of view. It’s a similar problem to the extreme policing and schisms in the present queer community,where you have gay youths who say if you don’t use the correct terminology or the correct flag or the correct form of expression or identity,than you’re problematic. The trans women at Stonewall who called themselves transsexual and those surviving STILL identify that way would be branded homophobic or a bigot for what some consider to be outdated language and views.

This is all to say,that it comes from a perspective of queerness that demands and expects it to fit within a perfect,whitewashed,clean and unproblematic wholesome mold in order to be accepted and tolerated. The expectation and demand for queerness to meet a perfect standard of acceptability and cleanliness is inherently homophobic. It stems from the same belief system that gayness is inherently sexual,that gay men are inherently pedophiles,and the belief that queerness is only palatable if perfectly pc and within the confines of acceptability.

Does this mean you’re homophobic for not liking obikin? No of course not that’s an absurd statement. But the vitriol people react to it,with calls of it being disgusting and based in power imbalance and incest is. Because the tunnel vision view of queer ships only being okay to ship if they’re unproblematic,is saying that heterosexual romance is allowed to exist in its base and complicated and gray forms,but queerness must be held to a stricter and higher standard in order to be okay. It’s the same as any marginalized group only being accepted if they’re the smartest,the most well behaved,the top 1% while the majority get away with skating by because of who they are. You don’t have to like obikin, you don’t have to like obikin shippers,but the assertion that the ship is dirty and wrong for a dynamic that queer people have loved one another in and engaged in all through human history? Maybe you should self evaluate to examine why you feel that way,and if it’s out of discomfort from going against what you’ve been taught as acceptable love,than I think you should further examine that.

#star wars #obikin #problematic ships #shipping #queerness #lgbtq #gay history #queer history #anons

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bitletsanddrabbles · 1 year

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Scene One: Open for Brit Picking

Okay, so! Something I’ve not done before, but figured I’d might as well try: I have asked one of my Trusty Sources in the UK about how Rocky Horror is handled over there and, as always, received Good Information on the subject. However, since it is always possible to misinterpret things or find out after the fact that there was a question you didn’t know to ask, etc. and since this is only two scenes, I figured I might as well plunk this down and let the entire UK (and other people with Knowledge) go over it.

I mean, yeah, if I do that with both scenes, people will have read the whole thing before I put it up on Ao3, but meh. Not all the world has Tumblr, and it’s just a Silly Thing, right? Right.

If this goes well, I might do it with other pieces in this verse. If not, hey! I learned a thing!

THERE IS ONE MAJOR RULE TO THIS! (Well, two, but I shouldn’t have to state ‘be polite’) As my mother will tell you, if you are going to knock a big ass hole in my plot and demolish the entire thing, you need to then give suggestions on how to fix the big ass hole. If, for instance, you say to me “Richard couldn’t wear that in public because sequins are illegal in Yorkshire” you need to suggest something with the same general feel that he could wear. Failure to do so will result in either me junking the entire project or just frothing at the mouth for a bit before yelling “FUCK IT HE’S WEARING THE SEQUINS ANYWAY!”

We good? Great! Let’s party!

“I don’t know how I let you all talk me into things like this,” Thomas muttered, climbing out of the car and pushing his glasses up on his face. He normally only wore glasses when he was working at the computer for a long time, or reading late at night, and it was odd to be out with them. He also felt like a bloody school boy with his hair falling into his face.

Guy slipped out of the driver’s side door and closed it. “It’s easy,” the other man replied in his usual, relaxed manner. “Chris likes to see you having new experiences, so Richard and I talk you into humouring him so none of us lose our minds.” He stepped around the car and adjusted Thomas’s bow tie for him. “Don’t worry, though. I suspect you really will enjoy this, once you get over the initial culture shock.” He gave a conspiratorial grin. “Then the next time we’re in the states and Marion ropes me into the cast, you can throw cards and toast at us.”

To say Thomas was skeptical was an understatement. Admittedly, after hearing Guy talk about his experience standing between an audience and a screen, having the audience yell crude things between his lines, the English experience didn’t seem quite so bad. Still, he couldn’t imagine wanting to throw toast across a room as a visual pun. Other reasons, yes, but he wasn’t working at Downton Abbey anymore. More to the point, he couldn’t imagine wanting to have toast thrown at you! “If you say so.”

Guy took his hand. Unlike Thomas’s outfit, which made him feel like an absolute tosser if he was honest, Guy’s outfit was quite smart. Overdone, perhaps, but he wore that suit to premiers, so you couldn’t say it didn’t have class. Even with a brocade waistcoat instead of his usual, discreet black, and a maroon seven fold tie instead of a bow tie, there were plenty of events where he’d have blended right in. Just being with him helped calm Thomas’s nerves a bit. “I do,” he promised, in what was probably a deliberate play off of marriage vows.

Thomas smiled and shook his head, then turned toward the theater. “Right, then. Let’s find the oth-” He trailed off, blinking, as a man and woman walked past them wearing. Well. The woman was in a maid’s outfit, which was odd, but it was Halloween. The man was wearing black leather, or PVC, or something like that. He also revealed a lot of skin, and fishnet, and Thomas had the odd suspicion that his outfit was actually designed for a woman. “What. On. Earth.”

“Mm. That’s a nice Frank-N-Furter costume,” Guy noted, placid as a lake, reaching to his jacket’s inner pocket. He pulled out a cigarette case and opened it, producing a sherbet straw. He offered it to Thomas. “Need another?”

Without a word, Thomas took the straw, worked it open, and emptied half of the contents into his mouth. Once they’d stopped fizzing and he could swallow, he looked after the couple, then back at Guy. “People really dress like that? I mean, the Internet said, but…they really…?”

“They do,” Guy nodded, slipping the cigarette case back into his pocket. “And most everyone is hyped up on something, if only adrenaline, so if you need another of those, let me know.” He gave Thomas his most reassuring smile. “We won’t stand out, I promise. Most people dress like the more flamboyant characters, it’s true, but there will be at least ten other Brads in the theater.” He ran his eyes over Thomas and added, “Although I doubt any of them will be half as charming as you.”

“Flattery will get you nowhere,” Thomas muttered, before finishing off the sherbet. It was rubbish, of course. Flattery could get any of his boyfriends just about anywhere, with a bit of perseverance, and they all knew it. Guy and Richard took less obvious advantage of it than Chris, though. He took a deep breath, closing his eyes and reopening them just in time for a woman in next-to-nothing and lots of sequins walked past. Trying not to grimace, he pulled out his phone and texted Chris. We’re here. Where are you?

A moment later, his phone pinged back. Street corner. Left facing theater.

Armed with instructions, Thomas and Guy began to weave their way through the growing group of theater goers. For the most part, the costumes didn’t get less ridiculous, but Thomas did spot a couple of other men in standard shirts and jumpers, things he wouldn’t consider ‘costumes’ if they didn’t all have glasses and bow ties. One of them was accompanied by a young woman wearing a dress and jacket that almost looked like something the Queen would wear, only with fewer decorative bits. And she didn’t have a hand bag.

Thomas had almost convinced himself that Guy was right, that they didn’t stand out and that the night (well, extremely early morning) would be enjoyable after all, when he heard a familiar voice calling his name.

“Thomas! Oi, over here, Thomas! Guy!”

Turning, he found the other two members of their party leaning up against the theater wall. He froze, staring. On some level he was faintly conscious of his mouth falling open. In the same way, he was aware of Guy beside him, saying his name, and nudging lightly at his arm, indicating they should move.

He didn’t move.

Finally the other two seemed to decide that if he wasn’t going to come to them, they’d have to come to him. Pushing off the wall, they made their way over to Thomas and Guy. As soon as they were in ear shot, Chris grinned and said, by way of greeting, “Hey there. We’d about given up on you.”

“Would you believe there were some sheep who thought the middle of the road was a good place to spend the night?” Guy asked. Part of Thomas was grateful that the other man didn’t tell them the real reason they were late, namely that it had taken two pints and three sherbet sticks to get him into the car. The rest of him was still staring.

“No,” Chris replied, all cheek.

Thomas finally managed to choke out a greeting. “What are you wearing?”

Admittedly, as far as the surrounding costumes went Richard’s wasn’t that bad. It was unusual, to be sure, and involved a lot of sequins and fishnet, but it was also mostly black and had trousers. Chris, on the other hand, looked like he’d robbed a cheap porn store. His outfit, if you could call it that, was one of the leather-or-PVC ones, again with fishnet, but it looked like it was held together with string. As soon as Thomas managed to get his eyes above the other man’s waist, he realized there was also eyeliner involved.

Chris arched an eyebrow. “Clothes, and good to see you too.”

Thomas looked over his outfit again, stopping just before he hit the waste. “Those are not clothes.”

The criticism earned him a full dose of puppy eyes. “What? Don’t you like it?”

“I…” It was not a fair question, really. In private, in one of their bedrooms, he wouldn’t have a problem with it. In fact, he might quite like it. Standing here on a street corner in York, outside of a theater, he couldn’t believe the other man hadn’t been arrested for public indecency.

While he tried to wrap his brain around Chris’s clothing - or lack there of - Guy and Richard greeted each other with mockingly exaggerated formality. “Good to see you, Mr. Ellis.”

“And you, Mr. Dexter. Thank you for getting Thomas here. I can’t imagine it was easy.”

“It could have been worse. Thank you for suggesting Brad, by the way. It did make things easier.”

Jumping on the opportunity to dodge Chris and his questions, Thomas turned a scowl on the other two. “I said I’d come, didn’t I?”

“You did,” Richard smiled, his eyes twinkling, all mischief. “And I’m sure you’ve changed your mind five times since then, including twice tonight.”

“It was only three times,” Thomas informed him, “only one of which was tonight.” Really, it wasn’t fair how well they all knew him. “And most of those times was because I decided to look up what the whole thing was about.”

“And it didn’t really take that much to convince him not to call out last minute,” Guy assured them, once more reaching into his jacket for his cigarette case. “Speaking of which, would anyone like a sherbet straw?”

Chris’s eyes lit up. “Oh, brilliant! I’ll take one of those, thanks.”

“Any flavour preference?”

“Naw, cheap energy is cheap energy.” Chris took the straw that Guy handed him and ripped into it. He then eyed the actor critically. “I’ll admit, Rocky Horror didn’t seen like quite your thing, but I didn’t expect Thomas to be more in character than you.”

Guy blinked at him a few times, then looked down at himself. “What’s wrong with it?” he asked, with what Thomas knew to be exaggerated confusion. “It’s always done in the past.”

With an air of open skepticism, Chris explained, “When we say ‘dress up’, we don’t mean for a bloody premier!” The ‘are you really this daft?’ was implied. Even when he was drunk, Chris was too polite to say that out loud to someone who had just given him a gift, even if the gift was just flavoured sugar.

“Oh, don’t worry. I may spend half of my life in America these days, but I’d never wear this waistcoat and tie to a premier!” Guy assured him, all pleasant smiles. “This exact outfit is saved especially for lectures on abnormal pathology.”

Chris blinked, several times, clearly trying to work through that.

Before he managed, Richard gave a short guffaw and graced Guy with his best Cheshire cat grin. “So what you’re saying is that you’d like to take us on a strange journey?”

“If I may,” Guy demurred.

Chris looked, if anything, even more non-plussed. “Oh, you are too hot to be the Criminologist!”

“Oh?” Guy asked, in that teasing, distracting way that he always adopted when people complimented his looks. The way that looked charmingly confident rather than slightly embarrassed. “Then who would you cast me as?”

Chris’s eyes narrowed. He twitched his mustache back and forth, then rocked back on his heels a bit, eyes narrowing further. “I’m not sure,” he finally admitted. “But not the Criminologist! I’ll figure it out by the end of the film.”

“Speaking of the film,” Richard looked over his shoulder toward the door, “I think they’re letting people in. We should probably go.” With one of those comfortable smirks, he walked over and stood next to Thomas, although once there he turned his smirk on Chris. “You lead the way, Doctor.”

With a playful snort, Chris turned and led the way to the theater. Guy followed him without question, trusting the other two to follow.

A light hand on Thomas’s arm kept him still for a moment. As soon as the other two were out of easy ear shot, Richard leaned forward and muttered. “I didn’t get a chance to tell you that you look good. Glasses suit you.”

Thomas felt his ears go warm and he grinned. “Yes, well, I feel bloody under dressed.”

“You look great,” the other man assured him, letting go of his sleeve and taking a step toward the door. “And don’t worry. I’m sure Chris will attract any unwanted attention away from you.”

Following him, Thomas looked ahead to where Chris was calling for them to hurry up and join the queue. “Is that why he chose that outfit?” It wasn’t beyond belief. As outrageous as he could be, Chris did genuinely mean well, and could be surprisingly thoughtful at times.

“Mmm, maybe a little,” Richard allowed. “Although he’d have probably done it anyway.” He paused as he slowly started to follow the others, then added, “Having you come as Brad really was my idea.”

Thomas glanced at him. “Oh really?” He smiled a little, although he couldn’t help the rueful note in his voice as he noted, “No need to ask why. Thank you, though, for knowing I’d be most comfortable as the ‘normal’ character.”

“You’re welcome, although that wasn’t the only reason I suggested it.” At Thomas’s questioning look, Richard smirked. “When I first saw this movie, I may have had a terrible crush on Brad Majors.”

#downton abbey #downton abbey fanfiction #wip #thomas barrow #chris webster #richard ellis #guy dexter #modern au #open for brit picking #also yes thomas really is kinda 'baby gay' in this #so everyone else knows way more about nearly everything #polyamory #thomas/chris/richard/guy

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messedupessy · 2 years

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HERE SHE IS AT LAST, MISS RUTHIE (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ❤

She took, way too long to finish like holy shit, she took me like over a year for some flipping reason, probably because I had some troubles getting some things how I wanted them alongside other things, but here she is at last and I am so happy with how she turned out!

This will be my last time I draw a ref pic like this, aka go full out on the colouring, as firstly you aren’t supposed to colour like this for refs which I know but I just really like to colour, and secondly it just takes way too long for me to do so, but luckily I have figured out a different way of doing these refs which will keep it easier for me and also easier for anyone who needs them refs haha!

Anyway, so very happy with how she turned out, been working on her for way too long, but fuck her design turned out so darn good and I am so damn happy with it! Very happy with her fur coat, which is actually inspired by Cruella de vil haha, and I am very happy with the colouring on her poffy shorts, as they look like a bit silky which is what I wanted! Also very happy with her hair, it took me ages to figure out a way to colour black hair how I wanted to, without like making it a bit purple or blue etc, while also making the like details visible, but I finally figured it out and I am so happy with it! So yeah, very proud of her, I love her so much haha!

So yeah enjoy! ❤ and under the cut there will be some info about her for ya all, also feel free to send asks and ask about her if you now want to!

WARNING for some dark stuff: like drugs, sex, maybe some cannibalism hints kindaish, and a little bit of not fully consensual stuff, but nothing overly detailed!

Just as her name says, so is she a pretty damn ruthless lady, get in her way or you catch her eye, her fancy, you most likely won’t live that long whenever she gets her hands on you. She’s flirty, seductive, playful, cruel and pretty damn sadistic, she loves to toy with people, mess with them, like a cat playing with their prey, before eating them up.

She can be incredibly charming and sweet, really good at buttering people up and get her way, manipulative as fuck, lot’s of touches when she do, a amazing liar. She’s a bit of a black widow, where if you sleep with her you might not make it out alive one way or the other, she is also not afraid to use sex and other such things to get her way.

She runs a mafia like type of drug ring, with her bakery as her front to mostly hide her shady as fuck business, although it’s not all that secret at least underground as most monsters know what she is doing, but either they are part of her clientele or they are scared absolutely shitless of her, fearful of catching one of her many eyes.

It’s rumoured that she uses the dust of her victims/people that have caught her eye to make her drugs and baked goods, whether that is true or not is uncertain, but no one dares to question or even look into it in case it’s actually true and that they would then be next.

What is not rumoured but actually true, and is actually sort of well known, is that she do try out many of her experimental drugs she have made on anyone she finds, so watch yourself if she ever offers you anything, as it’s a very big possibility it is drugged somehow.

Kind of obvious by now, but she is a expert on drugs, on chemicals and how they work, alongside poisons and how to make even the strongest monster or human crumble at her feet frothing at the mouth after a simple taste of her drugs or poisons. She also got great knowledge how both monster and human bodies works thanks to it.

She herself is very immune to most poisons and drugs, having experimented a bit on herself to make sure she won’t fall prey to her own toys. Just in case though, and great as a bartering tool, she do carry several antidotes on her person, hidden away in her clothes and her magical inventory in her phone, but most of them are hidden in her clothes.

One of her favourite things to do to mess and fuck people over is to kiss them and make them swallow poisons and drugs that way, a kiss of death so to speak.

She got a kind of messed up crush and obsession with Edge, as he have caught her fancy, very dangerously so, but also differently to anyone else before. As she wants him badly, to ruin him, destroy him and keep him as her own, which partly is because she can’t do none of those things without most likely getting killed by a very overprotective Red.

Which she almost already did once, as when Edge was still a lieutenant and not yet captain, he was assigned by the then current captain Cackles aka fell Undyne to make a visit to Ruthie’s abode. Which then almost ended fatally for Edge as Ruthie succeeded in drugging him, and then almost had her way with him as she found him very cute and handsome, and thought why not have some fun before she dusts him, but was stopped by Red who had followed after Edge like the overprotective fuck he is.

At getting caught by Red, and finding out that not only was Edge under Red’s protection but also his literal baby brother that it was very well known he was very, very protective over, she made a very hasty retreat to safety. As Ruthie knows there are two monsters in the underground you do not mess with even when it comes to someone of her status and fearfulness, which are the King and Red, and she was now most likely on Red’s hit list.

Luckily for her, so did Edge stop Red from doing anything to her after the drugs had worn off, as without her strong grip on the drug market things would most likely fall apart and into chaos etc. Which surprised Ruthie, and now have made her very, very interested in Edge so much it’s a crush, a obsession, uncertain if it’s actual love or not, but it’s something, and it has only gotten worse since she can’t do anything to him without getting killed.

But she also can’t help but play with fire, and so she only accepts Edge to come and talk to her and not anyone else from the guard, as anyone else who have tried have not been seen again, and she even demands to have meetings with him time to time, which he unluckily can’t refuse, not even when he ends up becoming actual captain of the guard and in charge, as to him she is useful but he also finds her completely revolting and he would like to do anything but be in her presence, but he got to do what he got to do so to keep the peace, and slowly but surely make the underground a better and safer place, even if it means to work closely with a sadistic drug dealing spider monster who is crushing on him hard, although he is not aware of said crush.

#undertale #underfell #underfell muffet #MessedUpEssy #Essy's Art #Essy's Undertale Art #Essy OC Refs #Essy's Undertale Headcanons #it's taken me 5 days to write the info about her haha #because I had forgotten to do so and then forgotten some things #but think i remembered most of it after a bit #gods i love how she turned out so much #she so pretty #and dangerous af haha #she gonna mess you up real good #one way or the other #hopefully my ramblings under the cut makes sense #her backstory with edge is one of my fave things #inspired by a now gone ut n/s/fw artist #whose art i still love so much #and whose fell muffet i ended up taking allot of inspiration from #alongside their red #also if u follow me on twittör you can see her without wearing anything haha #because i can #and she pretty #so ofc i had to draw her with no clothes on pft #should prolly wait later in the day to post this #but im impatient af haha

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whoree321 · 3 years

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I am not sure if you have done this already, (if you have, you can ignore it) BUT... I'd love to see some NSFW headcannons for Tech...

i have not done this yet but i am frothing at the mouth at the opportunity! the lust that i feel for that man is indescribable

nsfw tech headcanons

warning: if the title wasn’t clear, these are literally just dirty dirty sex thoughts. X rated shit. if filth of this nature is not suitable for you plz don’t read<3

first and foremost it is very very important for me to say that i know, with 100% confidence, that tech is the best at sex of all the bad batch members

i understand this may be a controversial take. some of you may disagree. i don’t care.

the reasons that tech is the best at sex are threefold

1) tech does not tolerate being anything less than exceedingly proficient when it comes to his knowledge and abilities in any given subject of interest. regardless of the occasion, he won’t accept a below average performance from himself. tech has put in the hours, on and off the field (if you will), to ensure he is well versed in anything and everything to do with sex and pleasure. and he’s always anxious to experiment and learn more

2) tech is not hindered by shyness in the bedroom. when he knows what he’s doing, tech is confident (borderline arrogant), and as stated in reason #1, he KNOWS what he’s doing. tech may be a blushing, bashful mess when it comes to the emotional aspects of a relationship, but once y’all start getting hot and heavy he loses pretty much all of that. he knows he’s gonna show you a good time, and he’s excited

3) tech is also not hindered by pride in the bedroom. he has a very holistic view of sex (seriously he did a lot of research, he knows every school of thought regarding sexual intimacy), and he understands it in both a physical, theoretical way and also in a more emotional way. his main concern is mutual satisfaction by any means necessary, but if you’re in a relationship he’s also very interested in using sex has a way to like strengthen your connection. tech has no interest in being some kind of macho, alpha male that can conquer you or something. he’s not gonna limit himself to certain positions or methods to try to preserve his sense of masculinity. he wants you to feel good, and nothing is off the table. he will explore anything to enhance the experience (like seriously anything- we will get into that in a bit)

so for those reasons, i think tech is lowkey a sex god

whether or not you’ve had sex before when you and tech get together, sleeping with him for the first time might as well be your first time ever

because you did not know sex could really be THAT good

and that’s before he has the opportunity to really learn your body and figure out the best ways to pleasure you

i think that for a hot second, sex with tech is always a little bit of an experiment

he’s obviously focused on you and the moment, but he’s also doing research. (with your permission) tech will literally take detailed notes, he’ll record you so he can watch it back and analyze his performance like a professional athlete or something. he’s keeping track of how you respond to different things, how fast he can get you hurtling over the edge with different positions, paces, toys, etc.

side note: he loves toys. tech will modify toys (or fully build his own) based on both of your specific needs, so that even the toys yall use are designed with maximum efficiency

that’s really the only flaw with tech in a sexual sense: he’s really really methodical in the beginning, and it can sometimes take away from the genuine passion of the moment

once he’s satisfied with his research and feels confident in his knowledge of your body tho, it becomes wayyyy more natural and intimate rather than a science experiment. he’s solid in his physical knowledge of you, so he’s more focused on enjoying the moment and having fun

it’s almost like he needed to memorize the best way to fuck you and do it over and over until he didn’t need to consciously think about it before he could fully let himself go with you. there’s a notable transition when sex goes from being a technical mission for him to achieve your orgasm, to being a mutually/equally passionate, erotic experience

tech is a switch and you can’t change my mind

he usually assumes more of a dominant role, enjoying having you begging and whimpering beneath him, but he also loves when you take the reigns and have your way with him

i don’t think he’s the horniest of all the batchers, but he most certainly has a plentiful sex drive

when y’all haven’t had a chance to fuck in a while tech is secretly incorrigible

to the untrained eye, he’s good at keeping it to himself, but it’s very obvious to you. he goes out of his way to be just a little too close to you, his eyes linger on you just a little too long, his hands find their way to be touching you more than normal

he’s usually really easy to tease, but especially when he’s like this

literally you just stroke his forearm and whisper something lightly seductive in his ear and he’s pulling you into the nearest private space and absolutely rearranging your guts

circling back to what i said about tech becoming less scientific and more passionate during sex as time goes on with you, i think that also applies to dirty talk

i think he’s generally pretty vocal in bed, but it takes a little bit for him to nail the sensuality of dirty talk

at first, it’s not something he can really do that sounds very natural, like it comes out just a little too technical sounding

but once tech gets comfortable with you and really lets himself be fully vulnerable and open to you, he’s actually really really good at it. it still sounds just a little formal, but in an endearing and sexy way

he loves to tell you how sexy you are, how beautiful you look, how well you’re taking him, how good you feel

this man def has a degradation kink (specifically with intelligence)

like he doesn’t even really realize it himself until one time he’s testing out his newest toy on you and he asks you how it feels and you can’t even string together a coherent thought, much less a sentence, and he notices and starts asking more and more questions just to see you struggle to think of a response

and then he’s putting the toy down and going absolutely feral on you, pounding into you and saying that you’re just a cock dumb slut, that you’re so desperate and horny for him you can’t even think, that it’s so easy to just just absolute filth and he’s so condescending and arrogant about it

you both finish almost synchronously and after the aftershocks have passed and you’ve caught your breath, the two of you can’t help giggling a little bit as you comment that you weren’t expecting that to be as hot as it was, and he agrees

and omg if you uno reverse card it and do the same thing to him? he’s a fucking mess

like you’ve been torturously edging him, and every time you get him to the brink you ask him some sort of complex mathematical question or something, and he’s so wrecked he can’t spit the answer out so you say something like “aww i guess you’re not as smart as i thought, that’s ok baby at least you’re still pretty”. he’s a whining, shaking mess by the time you let him cum

(once he pulls himself together he definitely gets you back for it too)

also i think tech really really likes to leave hickeys on you exactly in the most precarious places. like he knows the exact measurements of where your clothes cover your skin and he loves to leave marks like right on the edge so that it’s mostly hidden but if anything shifts it’s visible

if any of the the other boys notice and tease you, he gets the most smug little grin on his face. once you have a second to yourselves, he saunters over to you and apologizes, but you know he’s happy to remind everyone that you’re his

overall i am just so fucking horny for this man like i just know tech is a phenomenal lover, he’s so focused on you and is just so good at all of it i would give anything to take him to pound town

#the bad batch #bad batch #tbb #the bad batch x reader #the bad batch headcanons #tech tbb #tbb tech headcanons #tbb tech #tbb tech x reader #tech x you #tech x reader #the bad batch tech x reader

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littledead-ridinghood · 2 years

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Wait can you please post a link to starrboy's fic? I can't find it and I love Jason + lanterns <33

waiting for it, that green light series by starrboy

so this series has been put on indefinite hiatus(and every day I selfishly pray our lovely author once more gathers inspo, but that's neither here nor there and completely their choice), but it starts out with Jason dealing with phantom pains from the Batarang wound a la UtRH and Guy Gardner finding him, taking him in for the night and then, well, Jason just...never leaves and Guy never asks him too. Over time he befriends the other four corpsmen and gets adopted into their posse. I really like how all the lanterns give Jason a chance at face value, of which Jason returns, and then it works out so easily with them all accepting each other. There's no real conflict except subtle underlying their collective issues when it comes to dealing with other bats(Disrespect, disregard, Batarang scar, etc). It's really cute and fluffy, with good mom!Talia, JayKyle, and HalGuy, while also just being an easy feel-good read. This series is like my version of that fandom fav trope: "Bruce hugged Jason during that showdown, so now Jason understands how much Bruce loves him and everything and everyone is happy and fine". This is my sugar & honey-sweet comfort series. It's domestic and it's Lovely. Guy and Jason's friendship have me frothing at the mouth, and them bonding over shared experiences with shitty fathers and other factors of life bring me overwhelming joy

---you've probably read these next fics as you're also a lanterns + Jay lover, but for others: here are some more series recs!---

Star Sapphire Jason series by Do_not_careissa

starrboy actually wrote in their notes/comments that they pulled inspo from this series and what made them fall in love with lanterns+ jay content! Personally, I love me some jay content that doesn't devolve into "he's the angry, stupid, jocky one :/" and this series does it amazingly! This series is about Jason's growing anxiety about his spot in the family, feeling like he'll never be able to live up to the high expectations they hold for him nor being able to recover his lost connections due to his death and messy resurrection. Though worried over where he stands within the Bats, Jason still continues to work for his recognition and makes sure his family stays safe. The series purposefully states that Jason's anger stems from his love and compassion for others and that's what earns him a star sapphire ring AHHH perfection. Jason struggles with his own self-worth, value as a person, and how he's in over his own head while still depicting Jason as capable, smart, and willful. It walks the line of Jason being a sensitive young man who usually leads with his emotions and not always being able to handle them, but also not woobifing him to hell and back fantastically. I love the friendships formed, Jason's road to healing(his self-worth and is finally being told, after years of "you're too emotional, and need to shut them out more", that it's okay & good to feel and express his feelings) by being surrounded by people who appreciate his company, and also focusing on the side-effects of Jason disappearing off the face of the planet as well as other characters relationships to each other(not just to Jason). This series has JayKyle & HalGuy(all stupidly failing at romancing their other and pinning horribly obviously), Star-Sapphire-who's-eager-to-learn&grow!Jason, Bats trying to work through their issues, and the lanterns taking in Jason as one of their own(including Dad!Hal!). Still marked as incomplete and has yet to update since the end of Nov. 2020, if those kinds of things put you off, but there are 14 parts, and, like, I can not stress this enough, It's so good! I just can't get over the friendship between A. the lanterns between each other and B. the lanterns with Jason!

Emergency Line series by crucifixinhell

Brand new series, so far with only 2-parts, and it's about the friendship between Hal and Jason. Very cute. Angsty as well because, well, we all know what happens to robin!Jason :/. Written within Hal's POV and is snippets of Jason talking to him about his day, asking for help, etc. as Hal reflects on similarities between him and Jay while appreciating his companionship all within part one. This leads into part two where Hal reflects on how he was probably Jason's safe space (in the way that an English teacher is for many) as he struggles to deal with the death of Jason, how it affects him and his relationship with others(primarily Bruce). It's really nice to read about robin!Jason having someone to reach out to, especially because, in his run, Jason was so isolated from the hero community due to Bruce's need to keep him close(and not run off with friends like Dick to form a new superhero team which...I mean...mission failed successfully, I guess, B-man). Hal and Jason's friendship is really cute, and, as it's in Hal's POV, we don't realize how much the relationship affected both of them until the realizations start to fall into place *After* Jason's death. The author says they plan to write more for this series once they figure out where they want it to go, but if they don't, they've started to write other Hal & Jason works which are really good as well

It's Just Paint... Right? series by Jane0Doe

In this series, Jason is secretly a blue lantern and hiding his ring from the other Bats as not wanting to deal with the backlash and negative connotations they already have with lanterns. This three-part-and-in-progress series has Kyle-in-denial about how hot he thinks Jason is he feels with Jason now hanging around with him and the other corpsmen. This is what I read for my angsty, yet more than decently self-indulgent, pleasures with incredibly-bad-dad!Bruce. Some would say he's OOC, I would say "read it with feeling because sometimes bruce Sucks Ass and I Don't Care About Nuance because Jason's my baby and I'm using him to work through something right now, and if that includes him running off to space to refind a found family then so be it." the entire series is only about 3,550 words, so it's a quick read, but it gives me my much needed Jason whump with a side of lanterns and Jason friendship

Of course, there are a handful of other lantern+Jay fics, ones that I very much enjoy or can't wait to read(Glowsticks and Bullet Holes, I'm looking at you. You've been in my tabs for weeks(months, actually shhhh), and I can't wait till my brain finally kicks and reads you), but these series definitely help feed me and my happy little lantern lover/Jason lover heart

#fic rec #series rec #writing this out made me want to pick up more lantern comics so i can write fics with them + Jay but not OOC #If you must know; yes i'm still pronouncing Hal wrong; no i will not be fixing that matter; good day #I went a little overboard in expressing my love and joy but these authors are out here doing the lord's work #they all just mesh so well together!!! and so many people Just. Don't. Understand.#jason todd #hal jordan #guy gardner #kyle rayner #green lantern corps

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The ASoIaF fandom can be so frustrating sometimes.

It’s okay to admit that one doesn’t like this or that character. There’s nothing wrong in disliking a character.

I am pretty open on my blog about my indifference towards or dislike for Sansa because of her stans. I don’t make disclaimers about how much I love the character before proceeding to criticize Sansa. I am not a Sansa stan and that’s okay. My blog is a place for me to jot down my thoughts and celebrate characters, books and shows I do like. If you love Sansa as a character, block me, don’t follow me etc.

What’s obnoxiously annoying are the folks who claim to love all the characters the same and then give their ‘unbiased’ opinions which are held up as canon facts because they came from neutral book reader experts. To hell with that nonsense.

These posts reek of hypocrisy and double standards. It often tears down some characters while subtly propping up others - and it’s gobbled up by the wider fandom as unbiased interpretation of the text.

One example is pushing forth the notion that calling Arya pretty (Something that both her father and brother tell her she is in the books) is wrong, it’s sexualizing her, it’s okay for Arya to be ugly, she’s canonically not pretty because Cat/Sansa said so and no other interpretation is allowed etc. And then the same person who says all this celebrates Sansa’s beauty and ships her with a 27 year old man who falls in lust with Sansa.

Or when they say that the Arya-Lyanna (and Sansa/Lyanna parallels, because it’s always important to mention Sansa with respect to Lyanna even if said person claims to not care about Lyanna as a character) parallels are overrated and not important and they don’t care about Robert’s Rebellion characters but on their blogs there’s all these posts, fanarts and meta about Elia Martell - a Robert’s Rebellion character.

A so called book expert would note that GRRM has several characters outright compare Arya to Lyanna or mistake Lyanna for Arya in the books while Sansa has no such comparison. But no, the unbiased book expert thinks that the Arya-Lyanna and Sansa-Lyanna parallels are equivalent and are both overrated.That post just annoyed me excessively into writing this long ass rant post.

Why are these neutral, unbiased folks so interested in stripping away from Arya’s story?

In the books Jeyne Poole is masquerading as Arya Stark - but that story is only Jeyne’s, has nothing to do with Arya or Arya’s importance to the North.

Arya is a strong warg, Nymeria and her wolf pack are a ‘Chekov’s wolf pack’ that GRRM has hung on the wall - Our expert opinion is that Direwolves are not all that important in the grand scheme of things.

Arya is pretty - why needlessly call Arya pretty, it adds nothing to Arya’s story and is all about sexualizing a child.

Arya-Lyanna parallels - why do we need these parallels, Arya is distinct and interesting without them.

These aspects are all important parts of the character’s story. There are so many very well written essays exploring these concepts with respect to Arya’s journey of self discovery in the books, the narrative significance of her parallels to Lyanna, her bond with Nymeria and her warging talents. For those who are interested, here are two bloggers who actually like Arya and have written about her character and character arc.

https://donewithwoodenteeth.tumblr.com/meta-masterlist

https://ashotofjac.tumblr.com/tagged/arya-stark

Some of these same people will rush to condemn any reading of the books that does not have Sansa wielding power at the end as being ‘Sansa hate’. But they will have no issues to undermine and devalue Arya’s actual book story, the relationships she has, the parallels she has, the skillsets she has, her appearance, her importance to the current story happening in the North.

There is a whole ass plot currently in the books of Northerners rallying for Arya Stark and preparing for battle against the Boltons for Arya Stark. But that’s not important because it’s actually Jeyne Poole and Arya’s story is about sailing off west of westeros. But hey, Sansa will definitely go North and hold power and that’s like 100% happening because we are the unbiased book experts and we say it is so.

Or when all else fails - Arya is a Mary Sue, she’s a fantasy character, she’s a ‘strong female character’ because she fights with a sword, people like her because she’s a tomboy who fights. Sansa is realistic, Sansa is complex - but here are all the essays that basically transfer Arya’s complexity and story to Sansa - because it fits more with their fave, because these aspects would fit better with the traditionally feminine character even though they never tire of talking about how GRRM is deconstructing tropes. Because the trope deconstruction is only applied to Arya, Jon and Dany. Never Sansa.

And honestly, why are these people reading a high fantasy series if they hate fantasy and fantasy characters so much? We love Sansa because she’s so non-magical! Then go read non-fiction books. They also twist Jon, Arya and Dany into ‘fantasy’ characters - despite these characters going through some very real and human experiences. What’s fantasy about Arya’s experiences in war torn Westeros, Jon dealing with bigotry at the wall, Dany trying to rebuild Meereen, while dealing with famine, disease and insurgency?

Or how Jon and Dany getting any kind of happy ending or becoming rulers would be so boring, sweet, predictable, conforming to tropes, a happy ending etc. But Sansa getting love, romance, going home, becoming the Stark in Winterfell, getting her fairy tale ending - that’s totally what GRRM is going to do! No trope deconstruction there! In may ways, Benioff and Weiss’ ending is not all that surprising - Mad Queen Dany, Jon remaining a bastard with the freefolk, Sansa having power as a leader - are all popular theories among bnfs in the fandom. D&D wanting to wind up the show quickly with easily found fan theories is not that much of a stretch.

ASoIaF reddit is equally frustrating. Instead of Sansa stan bnfs on tumblr who pretend to like Arya and Dany while subtly undermining their story and importance, on Asoiaf reddit it’s Stannis stans who dislike Jon and Dany because these characters present a challenge to Stannis. The mere suggestion that Jon may play a role in the battle against Ramsay sends them into frothing at the mouth rage. They hate Jon, Jon is a Gary Sue because he dared advice Stannis - the greatest general ever - on Northern military strategy. Never mind that Jon grew up in the North and learned from Ned, how dare Jon Snow know more than Stannis! Unacceptable!

And I love Stannis Baratheon. I want Stannis to crush and defeat the Boltons. But unlike reddit dudebros, I can see that he is a secondary character, a tragic character who is most probably going to perish and Jon takes over because Jon Snow is a central protagonist in the story.

I feel it’s the same with Sansa. IMO, GRRM clearly doesn’t see Sansa in the same way as he does Arya, Jon, Dany, Tyrion and Bran. Whenever he is asked questions about the books, book plots, long term arcs, endings, age gaps etc it’s these characters he often brings up and references. It’s these characters who are important to him.

And that’s why there’s a lot of undermining and undervaluing of these character’s and their stories, them being described as fantasy characters, tropes, Mary Sues and Gary Sues, ableist rhetoric about Tyrion and Bran to undermine them.

I am damned certain that if it was Sansa who had all the parallels to Lyanna, or if she was the warg, or Jeyne Poole was impersonating her, this would all be ‘VERY IMPORTANT’ and on all the gifsets and essays. But she isn’t. So fandom bnfs are reduced to talking about how these aspects are not all that important anyway.

It’s like how this quote - ‘You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts’ turns up on gifsets every other day on the Arya tag but this quote - ‘Sansa could never understand how two sisters, born only two years apart, could be so different. It would have been easier of Arya had been a bastard, like her half brother Jon. And Jon’s mother had been common, or so people whispered’ very rarely does and will not get reblogged when it does.

Or when Sansa sees Joffrey trying to kill Arya and sides with Joffrey or when Sansa throws Arya under the bus and tells the Lannisters that it’s Arya who is the traitor - just sisters being sisters y’all!

It’s all about maintaining a certain narrative about Sansa - and when others point out her actual relationship with Arya in the books, we are accused of hating and wanting Sansa dead and how we should be criticizing Tywin and the Mountain instead. This is nonsensical whataboutism and ignores that people talk about these aspects of the books because sometimes bullying, getting mocked for one’s appearance, abuse and neglect from parental figures etc. can resonate with certain readers unlike getting one’s head smashed in by Frankenstein.

At the end of the day, I wish these people would be honest about the characters they like and relate to. We are all biased. That’s why our opinions and interpretations are subjective. There’s nothing wrong in saying, hey, I like Sansa more than Arya or Dany, I relate to her character more.

I relate to Jon Snow a lot, I see things from his POV, I would disagree with the characters who disagree with Jon, I enjoy his story at the Wall and the North. My interpretations of the text are therefore colored by my bias towards Jon.

For others, it’s Dany or Sansa or Arya or Tyrion or Jaime. And that’s okay because these are fictional characters and liking one more than the other is not going to earn anyone woke points and lead to women’s rights.

And finally, there’s nothing edgy or cool about disparaging the central protagonists of a high fantasy series as being fantasy characters - go read other books if one is not into fantasy.

#rant post

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tokyoghoose · 4 years

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Tsukishima and Kyotani with a self-conscious chubby s/o

bear with me please this is purely self indulgent and written with an empty, no thought but negative thought head lmao

Tw: mentions body dysmorphia and has brief suggestive content :)

Tsukishima

so first off I'd like to begin by saying, i feel like he'd be one of the characters who have been in your shoes before when it comes to feeling bad about his body...

And i say that because from personal experience, a lot of tall, skinny guys i know often feel a little dejected and self-conscious of their body and from what ive been told they feel weak, too skinny, bont, etc. Right. So although it may not be the exact same thing you are feeling, i think he'd understand and relate to it on another, physical level. He would try not to make a big deal about it, often not one to speak about his own problems unless he brings it up himself so he's not going to try and force you to tell him anything but his keen observation skills tell him all he needs to know. From the way you frown looking in the mirror after getting ready for a daye night, the way your hand lingers over your hips and stomach to the way you pick at your food or simply forgo eating a full meal in general. He doesn't want to make a scene, he knows you'll tell him about it when you're ready so he does more subtle actions instead. He'll buy your favorite snack from the vending machine and shove it in your hand with a passive aggressive mumble that he accidentally put a 2 instead of a 3 like he meant to or he'll pass over the rest of his lunch because 'i can't eat it all and i cant take it to practice of hinata will froth at the mouth.' Or if you aren't eating anything he'll 'offer' (more like tell you you're going on a date last minute) to your favorite cafe to order strawberry shortcake and split it (probably one of the most romantic things he'll do, so please 🥺 hes really trying here).

And if you happen to get upset ans have a breakdown over the fact you're bloated or you have more rolls than last week or that your thighs touch and you cant fit into your favorite jeans, he won't hesitate to actually show you how beautiful he thinks you are. Like my boy will not HESITATE. He's the type to like swing an arm around you and pull you into a side hug before shifting to pull you into his chest, sighing lightly through hia nose and rubbing soothing circles into your back for a moment. You two would probably just stand there until you calm down a bit before he starts talking to you in a low voice. It doesnt really sound sweet or anything, it's just kind of comforting in it's own way. He's not much of a praiser, in fact he says it in a very matter-of-fact way like he's stating the obvious about your body and how stunning you are. If you're feeling like he could leave for someone better he's quick to shut that down, flicking you lightly with a tsk as a way to shut you up before stating that if he could've done better he would've but you're the best. Top tier 🥺 he makes more of a conscious effort after that to let you know, probably hugging you from behind with his arms wrapped around you and kissing your thighs when he's laying his head in your lap and kisses to your shoulders. It's not much, but his efforts go a long way 🥺

kyotani

baby boy 🥺 he may not be self conscious about his body (i dont imagine he would be, more so his personality probably) but he'd be so supportive in the most passive aggressive way lol

Honestly, he'll probably be a little uoset at first, almost angry because why would you think bad things about yourself? Like its not that he's never been there or anything, but he just doesn't understand it on your level because he genuinely thinks you're like everything right in the universe. When this boy sees you, his eyes really do light uo even if his smile doesn't. So that being said he'll probably tell you off a bit begrudgingly and you might mistake it for him brushing it off but that's not his intentions, in fact everytime you mention something about your body he stores it in his memory. When he starts to notice a pattern he's one of the few hq guys i can see outright calling it out without a second thought. Straight up just being like 'why aren't you eating?' Or 'You keep changing clothes, they all fit the same. What's up with you?' He may not be as observant as Tsukishima but he's not stupid, he catches on eventually. He's not the typw to sugar coat it either, by the way. He'll be like 'yeah you don't have a thigh-gap, so what?' And 'everyone has rolls in their stomach, I like them so who cares?' Like he's not going to lie to you or anything, he doesn't do the whole noo you're not chubby thing. He tells you straight up and then he tells you how much he loves it and you anyways.

And if you were to breakdown in front of him or he were to walk into your room when you're getting ready and sees clothes strewn everywhere, it clicks instantly for him. He'll probably catch a shirt you throw to the side or pick up one hanging haphazardly off your bed— probably one he knows is new because you're probably excited to wear it out, which means it's probably your first choice if he had to guess. He tosses it to you before settling himself beside you on the bed or floor or counter. He doesn't make a move to hug you and he gives you a minute to tell him what's up before he finallt caves and just says it himself. He'll let you cry it out before placing a hand on your thigh and making a move to actually hold you. You know the whole thing where someone like kisses different places and says something, well he does that and it's actually really endearing even if he thinks it's absolutely cheesy later on when he thinks about it. But he'll kiss your cheeks, then your neck, your chest and stomach ans you know how it goes, caressing your thighs before finally kissing your lips probably changing it up from 'this is beautiful, and this is...' to like 'and you're all mine' or something before picking you up 🤪 you guys know what's next from there but it's complete body worship. LIKE literally the king of body worship now, i don't make the rules i judt reinforce them

#haikyuu headcanons #kyotani x reader #tsukishima x reader #just in case someone else needed these today #they aren't my best work #but 🥺 it made me feel better #mickie writes

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pocmuzings · 4 years

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hello hi , it is g , ur friendly local neighbourhood hindu indian ( as in south asian ) ! so a few people requested that i just make a guide-esque sorta thing on hindu indian characters ! im not really good at guides , so instead , these are just little things i’ve noticed or picked up on that could really potentially strengthen the next indian character u ( pretty please ! ) pick up !

disclaimer : i am writing this from my perspective and it is NOT definitive , nor do i speak on behalf of all hindu indians ! i am a 23-year-old bisexual cis female hindu indian , with one older gay brother, and a Train Wreck middle brother . my mother is from new delhi , and my father is from nairobi but has indian heritage ( not sure which part of india bc he’s an Engima ) . i have extended family in india and have visited india about 10-15 times throughout my entire life .

so firstly , im so glad u all are here and want to write more hindu indian characters ! please please do so ! i hope this helps , encourages u , and isnt too confusing !!

psa : i need everyone to know that this is a very basic ‘ guide ‘ and theres a lot it DOESNT touch on or address bc i didnt want to get too Extensive and Detailed and have people Turn off and not Read it . this is just written in the terms of hopefully helping build character / be relevant to characters a bit better that ive employed into writing my OWN hindu indian character creations ! but if u have any other questions pls reach out to me or any other indians in the rpc and im sure we’ll try our best to assist u !

FCS:

one thing i’d really like to say is that its great to see fcs like dev patel , deepika padukone and avan jogia picked up every now and then in rps , but there’s actually a LOT of other indian fcs you could be and should be using ! the main reason people don’t seem to know them is because they’re not ‘ hollywood ‘ stars per se ( it was a super big deal when pr*yanka broke out of bollywood and into bollywood but we don’t talk about her on this Blog ) . they’re usually bollywood stars and i don’t really see bollywood discussed that much in the rpc !

if you’re after MORE indian fcs , i have a tag of indian females here , and indian males here . the fcs on my blogs are also not ALL that exist . there are plenty of other blogs out there that post indian fcs , such as sonamhelps & bollymusings !!! there’s also some really great faceclaim directories out there that include a LOT of indians with resources !

unfortunately , i do not know of any trans indians or nonbinary indians but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist . indian cultures and beliefs are still quite Old School and not super progressive . india only just had it’s first wlw mainstream bollywood film released last year . lgbtqia+ issues are NOT really spoken about in india or within indian families at ALL , and if they are - they’re usually dismissed or reacted to Very Very Badly . ( again this isnt definitive and im sure and hopeful that some indians have had GREAT coming out stories and been accepted by their families but this has not been a common thing ive seen or witnessed from my cousins my age , indian friends , myself and my brother who are lgbtqia + )

FOOD :

we do eat with our hands and we eat like PROS with our hands . we can shovel it so easily and quickly . i don’t know how to describe it but you use the first three fingers of your hand to place the Food there , and then use your thumb to kinda scoop it off and into your mouth . this is NOT unhygienic because indians wash their hands very regularly and most of the time we aren’t actually touching our mouths to our hands !

indian food is MADE to be eaten with your hands for the most part . it is literally NOT practical to eat food with a knife and fork . here’s a really great article explaining things more in depth re: indian food and using our hands !

cows are seen as Very holy beings in hindu indian culture , and for that reason - there isn’t a lot of beef being eaten or consumed. sure , some indians DO eat beef but i don’t think its super common, but in my personal experience as a non-beef-eater this results in A LOT of me asking ‘ oh , sorry what sauce does that pasta come with ? ‘ ‘ oh those are beef sausages ? sorry i can’t eat them ‘ etc etc . beef is in a LOT of things , and this makes me very very careful and almost pedantic about what i do eat and ask about , food wise !

indian food is seen as stinky by a majority of white people . it has a very very strong smell as im sure u know , and opening ur lunch box as a little kid to a Curry or Dal ur mum has made u ? one way street to being bullied . i also remember a time a real estate agent continuously told my dad nobody was interested in buying our house bc it smelled too much like curry, despite my mum not having cooked curry in Weeks ( just say what u Really mean , bitch ! )

indian curry exists but so does dal / daal . this is curry-like dish that is usually made out of lentils . so if ur going to talk about indian food and u know curries and samosas . . pls also bring up dals . and sabji ! ( sabji is usually just boiled vegetables plopped together . a lot of potato usually )

desserts are what we call Indian Sweets . this is stuff that is usually very VERY sugary and a bit of an accustomed taste . theyre very colourful and LOOK beautiful but even i , for one , can not eat many indian sweets bc they are a Lot of Sweet and Sugar . examples of indian sweets that u can google : gulab jamun , burfi , rasgulla , jalebi etc . here’s a great link for more !

give me spiced food or give me death . literally . . put some cumin in . . put some garam masala . . put some chillies . . flavour ur Food for my Indian Taste Buds

FAMILY :

if you are the oldest son of an Indian Family . . congratulations . you are now the Head of the family and must carry every weight and burden alone . it is extremely isolating and taxing on you ( my dad is the oldest indian son , and also - so is my eldest brother , obvs ) . there is a LOT that is expected of you to do . you are expected to quite literally run the family and be the ‘ man of the house ‘ by yourself .

if you are a daughter . . . even BIGGER congratulations ! you are basically a maid to every male or guest who EVER comes over to your house . you must be a Hostess , you must be in the kitchen cooking , serving snacks, bringing tea , and then washing up and basically waiting on Hand and Foot . you will not be included into a lot of dialogue or engaged in a lot of conversation and TRUST ME ! THAT WILL GRIND UR GOD DAMN GEARS IN THE 21ST CENTURY !

if you are a boys’ boy ( aka straight and Sporty ) , then congrats ! you get it the easiest : you are the favourite of every social event . the uncles and cousins love talking to you and dude-ing it up with you , and the aunts fawn over you and think you’re the Best Thing since sliced bread . sit back , put your feet up , and expect to be treated like a God. you can do absolutely no wrong . ( my middle brother is this to a T and listen . . he’s been in and out of jail for physical violence and ab*se for over 5 years . and family still FROTH over him . my teeth are gritted to dust thinking of this again )

indian aunties are lethal . they gossip like teenage girls . they will find out everything . they will bitch behind your back . they can NOT be trusted .

everyone is ur uncle or aunt, sister or brother . literally everyone . ur cousin ? no. thats ur sister . ur dads friend ? no , thats ur uncle . you will call them as such . EVERYONE is family .

family is in general a VERY BIG THING in indian culture , too . ‘ what will it Look like to everyone else if we don’t all arrive together ? ‘ my dad usually asks dskjdfjn . it’s all about Looking Right and Standing As A United Front . that being said , indian family has undying and unwavering loyalty for one another , they just show it in a very Weird way .

FASHION:

female hindu indian formal clothes are usually really embroidered to hell and back and this makes them very scratchy , uncomfortable, and HEAVY . you aren’t running anywhere anytime soon in a full blown lehenga or saree

most ‘ modern ‘ hindu indian women do not wear full Indian Clothes all the time . some do , but usually it’s a lot of wearing a kurti tunic with jeans , or just normal everyday clothing . again , this is going to be different based on which parts of india your character is from , though !

usually , older women and married women wear traditiona hindul indian clothing quite often . i know my mum wore a sari AT HOME everyday when i was growing up, until i was like 13 and took her shopping with me to get something Else to wear .

bindi’s just stick right onto ur forehead but they do fall off a lot , especially when ur wearing makeup or sweating . again , you don’t need to wear a bindi everyday , unless thats ur preference . i usually only wear them for festivals . ( festivals means indian celebrations , not like . . coachella ((which u should not be wearing a bindi to , if ur not indian fyi )) )

male formal clothes are usually just literally anything Formal and buttoned up for the most part , and u can get away with that , or you can wear a really nice kurta

indians wear white at funerals , not black ( not sure if this should go in the fashion section but this entire thing is being organised into a Mess by now anyways ) . you CAN wear black to a funeral of course , but its common to wear white !

DATING ( tw’s for islamaphobia ):

modern day indian / desi fuck boys exist and my god they are Something Else . hasan minhaj did a really good piece about this and explaining them to a T ( starts at 1:43 )

( THIS IS THE POINT THAT WILL MENTION ISLAMAPHOBIA AND HOMOPHOBIA ! ) basically according to Older indians , , ur dating options in 2020 go like this ( if ur a cis female like me ) : hindu indian men are god tier , white men are Not Okay But I Guess So Bc We Have To Accept They’re Everywhere , females / being lgbtqia+ is not Taken Seriously , and muslims are literally not even close to being an option or Accepted . again this isn’t definitive but based on a lot of indian media i’ve consumed and seen how they portray muslims in general as well as Dating Options , as well as talking to other indians , both who are older / traditional and hold these ideals , whereas Younger gens generally do NOT hold these ideals / actively are Against these backwards ideals. i remember when i was in year 6 and had my first boyfriend . . he was a muslim and my dad FLIPPED the FUCK out . it’s not even that i was dating someone / young / his only daughter . . it was mainly because i was dating a muslim . again , this is a very OLD SCHOOL and traditional way of thinking and it is NOT CORRECT . pls don’t take this as a note to be islamaphobic if u write an indian character bc . . thats literally the opposite of what im trying to tell u here .

yeah arranged marriages are definitely still a thing for us , even now in 2020

YES if u are an unmarried / single indian ( ESPECIALLY if ur a woman ) about to enter ur 30s . . ur in DANGER and u are the black sheep and theres probably something Wrong With You bc why are u still single ?

TRADITIONS / BELIEFS / SUPERSTITIONS :

idk if its just me and my family but we are SUPER superstitious . if you say anything like ‘ he hasnt gotten sick in years !’ immediately , everyone knocks on wood or their head . if you were planning on leaving the house and sneeze ? thats bad luck , stand and wait for five minutes then u can leave . we have a strong belief in drishti , or alternatively : The Evil Eye , and making sure we don’t invite it into our lives . a lot of our prayers are about warding drishti away .

the evil eye is kinda Complicated but basically its an ill-wishing upon an unsuspecting person . if somebody is jealous of you or angered by you , they may wish upon you or cast upon you the Evil eye ( or even just glare at u whilst ur not looking and thats Big Bad ) .

a lot of older indians , like older people in general i guess , are not super progressive or Open . this isnt ALWAYS the case but older indians can be very very stubborn in their beliefs in what is Right and Wrong , Normal and Not Normal

theres a LOT of hindu indian festivals and events ! tbh too many for me to even keep up with . but without fail at least once a year ill say to ONE of my friends ‘ oh sorry i cant make it . i have an indian Thing on that day ‘ and its usually about a festival , so pls be aware that there are a LOT of indian festivals and if ur writing an indian character , its perfectly understandable and Relatable for them to say they can’t make it to a party or hang out with their friends that night , for that very reason !

the main / most popular ( ? ) festivities that i personally do celebrate every year without fail are :

diwali ( the festival of lights , celebrating goddess lakshmi roaming the earth . in my household this is usually turning on literally every single light and lighting candles and fireworks / sparklers and saying some prayers , and eating a formal dinner all together ! )

holi ( the festival of colours . celebrating victory and love . again personally for me , this was usually celebrated at the temple with all of us Kids running around throwing paint on each other ! )

rakhi / raksha bandhan ( a day of sisters celebrating their brothers . you tie a rakhi which is usually a bracelet / holy string around your brothers wrist , feed them some food , pray for their wellbeing and in return they gift you something . in my case, i usually get money from them ) .

navratri / durga puja ( 9 nights and 10 days of celebrations but tbh u don’t have to do all the days . or i mean . . i don��t . i fast one day from morning to night and then i slide on over to boogie and dance dandiya which is literally the MOST FUN dance ever bc its based off some Historical Fight and u go faster and faster and keep going until ur absolutely SPENT bc u dont wanna lose ur place in the circle )

there are SO MANY HINDU INDIAN GODS too . and so many prayers to all of them and to just general Life Wellness . chances are that ur character will know at least ONE aarti / gazal / prayer off by heart and have sung it at least 30 times in a monotone voice . the ones i know off by heart bc ive had to sing them 3000 times ? om jai jagdish hare , & the gayatri mantra

GENERAL LIL THINGS I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO CATEGORISE ( tw’s for skin whitening , colorism and classism ) :

( THIS IS THE POINT THAT NEEDS A TW FOR SKIN WHITENING AND COLORISM ) lets hold indians accountable right now : we advertise SKIN LIGHTENING CREAM . i think they finally stopped that earlier this year / due to BLM ( i’m not entirely sure / could be wrong ) , but thats literally how bad it is , that we would openly advertise and encourage people to literally bleach their skin rather than look darker .

( THIS IS THE POINT THAT NEEDS A TW FOR COLORISM AND CLASSISM ) colorism is a BIG thing in india and usually linked to class . generally speaking , the people who are Darker Skinned are usually people who work outside / labourers or homeless even , and are therefore seen as lower class / bottom class . the lighter skin you have , the more privileged and advantaged you are bc ur seen as working a Good job out of the sun and having a home . it’s incredibly classist as well as just generally Fucked Up . why am i telling u this ? mainly so u understand the importance of using a dark skinned indian fc vs a light skinned indian fc which i know is hard , bc a lot of darker skinned indians arent in hollywood / have resources , but its still something to Think About .

i have a long Ethnic name . literally my first name is 10+ letters , which i know doesnt seem that long Necessarily but its also a Super Ethnic name with e’s and and j and n . it Flows and Sounds very clearly different from a christian name . it is VERY important to me that my name be said Correctly because i’ve spent so much time having it said incorrectly or Westernised . i also know a lot of indians my age who ( like me ) have had to dramatically shorten their REAL first name ( which is usually also pretty long . not always , but it is Common ) , to fit their name into white people’s mouths better . please put some thought into ur indian characters name !

not all indians speak hindi ! hindi is one of MANY dialects within india . there is also tamil , urdu , bengali , punjabi , telugu and SO many more , so pls research which part of india ur character / their family is from bc hindi won’t always be the default language for them !

not every indian is hindu ! of course ur character doesnt have to be religious at all , bc if im being honest IM barely religious but my FAMILY is and this is smth u should think abt bc religion is a pretty big thing for indians . so even if ur character isnt hindu , they were probably raised with SOME religious beliefs . have a think about which religions they would have been brought up with ! there’s a very large percentage of practicing muslims , sikhs and buddhists too ! and even christianity !

WRITING WISE / CREATING AN INDIAN CHARACTER WISE :

the first step should be to consume indian media ! listen to indian music . watch bollywood movies ! theres SO MANY out there on everyone’s netflix . if u want some recs , let me know and i can try my best to find smth for u ! if u want smth thats Hollywood-indian . . . Hasan Minhaj is great to watch , especially his episodes on indian culture / politics , and Never Have I Ever on netflix was rlly good / relatable for me personally as an indian growing up in a western society !

i would really really love to see more indian rep in general , but i’d also like to discuss the Stereotypes that ive seen indians portrayed as in mainstream hollywood media :

indian women as soft spoken and subservient beings who are abused by their husbands and have no say in anything

heterosexuality within indian relationships and indian dating

indian men as sleazy

indians in general not being seen as Sexy or Sexual beings with any sex drive at all

Stumbling , Stuttering , Nerdy awkward messes of men who don’t know how to interact with anybody they find sexually appealing

an indian character that everybody ( usually white ) finds Uncomfortable and Weird and is seen as usually the Butt of the joke .

i think those mentioned above could be helpful in how to plan your next indian character and think about how to SUBVERT a trope theyre often portrayed as , or create an indian thats not stereotypical !

so what and who SHOULD you write ?

an indian character who is proudly and openly gay , or bi

a trans or nonbinary indian ( PLEASE ! )

an indian character with really super accepting parents and family

an aromantic indian

an indian who is focused on their career first and not their dating life

a fuckboy / fuckgirl ( honestly . . i’d love to see it )

a indian character who is a party animal

an outspoken indian female who takes no shit and is strong in every sense of the word

a confident , smooth talking indian businessman who is Sexy and Lusted After ( not in a gross christian grey way but just . i’d love to see indian characters seen as Sexy . not in a fetishy way , either , but just because it’d be a nice change in pace ! )

a character who IS traditional / religious but also very progressive and forward thinking in their beliefs

honestly just any character that isnt whats mentioned above

#guide #writing help #rph #rpc #islamaphobia tw #colorism tw #classism tw #idk if this is any good and i was very uncomfortable putting in the part abt how a lot of older indians feel abt muslims #but i mean . . lets just call it the fuck out bc its Gross Behaviour so lets call it out and work to change it #anyways every trigger is tagged super clearly in every point that talks abt it #i kept those parts Brief and as Direct and Honest as possible #pls let me know if u need me to tag anything #and lastly . . . pls write indian characters !!!!

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Not to sound like the joker™️ but i hate western society. I know that hair and clothes aren't gendered, so do most of my mates, ive been working hard at unlearning the internalized transphobia that's just a part of being trans in the UK and actually ALLOWING myself to think about going on hormones and dressing in ways other than "ambigious as possible" despite the fact im non-binary

i grew myself a little mullet because ive not been working in the pub and wanted solid snake hair, ive allowed myself to look at my face and the long hair around it and not despair because i know that longer hair doesn't make me a woman, but the moment you go into a shop, or get takeaway or pass by people in the street its all "move out the way of this lady!" and "thank you, ma'am"

i dont want the gender option of 'other' on my ID i want to know 1 good reason why gender should be listed on an ID in the 1st place

ive just come back from the range and i had my hair up like some e-thot fuckboy, i had to go BACK to the range because they got my click and collect order wrong so ive got two members of staff looking over my order, im dressed in black jeans and a black masc-looking ripped shirt, mask covering half my face and as the manager's showing the kid who served me the receipt they go "oh I served that guy earlier" and the manager corrects them "its a lady". I say "im niether" and they both just stare at me like im a toddler. Im already panicking because the air feels the same way it did when some cunt came after me in the pub toliets. "dont worry about it :)" i say, they both turn back to the tills and completely ignore me.

Anyway, micro-aggressions, ive experienced a lot of them for many reasons over the course of my life and today ive decided to snap.

Not at the people in the range like, just in general.

I will never pass. That's just an element of trans euphoria i will never get to experience. Not right off the bat, anyway. Not where i live, and most likely not in my lifetime. Maybe for kids in LA or Brighton, and hey power to you guys man im happy for you, but people assume or guess m/f when they look at me and they will never get it right.

So when i see people on this site try and twitter etc rank "who's the most oppressed"™️ like a godamn smash bros tier list it blows my mind because of all the things you could spend your days doing thats what youre expending energy on?!

You could be the exact same age, race, sex, gender, sexuality, you could have the exact same disabilities, mental health conditions and money in your bank as another person on this site and you'd still never understand what they've been through. Our experiences, our families, our morals and lives are always gonna be different and the moment you try to write definitive rules on whose got it worse you've already lost and you're already wrong. Oppressed classes are not a fucking hivemind and pretending they are is only going to cause you more problems. I get the strong sense that some of you looked at the word intersectionality, went "ah yeah, i know what that means" having never read up on the matter, then proceeded to play the pain olympics.

And its creating a culture where kids feel the need to spills their souls online to justify living their lives!

You've not listed your disabilites in your bio so you're able-bodied. You're Irish but haven't listed your race so you're white. You're cis man so you've never played with gender and suffered as a result. You're asexual so clearly you're a cringeworthy baby who's never experienced a wrong-doing in their life.

The reverse is true too, if you list every aspect of yourself then you're automatically honest. The more opressed you are the less likely you are of causing harm to others. Psht, don't have a carrd in this day and age? What are you, a fraud? cishet white man playing make believe? Post a selfie or face the wrath of ozymandaus. What's privacy? It takes me 3 minutes to read the bio on this discourse side-blog so clearly they're an angel.

my mam abused me for years, she did the same to my brother when i left home at 18 and my dad drank himself to death. My nan, his mother, never believed me because my mam's a disabled woman with a lot of trauma, and at 14 how do you explain to the woman who takes you to the beach that it's WORSE because as she's beckoning you to the side of her bed so she can scream point blank in your face, or hit you, you're never truely sure, you're thinking about running away because of course she physically can't chase you but she can throw. And then where would you go if you did buggar off?

"You have to sleep sometimes" she used to say to me when I'd piss her off. Other days she told me horror stories about kids in care, and disabled people having their kids taken away, made me promise that I'd always love her and always be her baby, and I'd do that for her because she's my mam, she'd be satisfied then ignore me for a while. I grew up thinking that was entirely normal until i'd tell funny family stories at school and nobody would laugh. The closest I got to truely running away was when I changed my name and pronouns and her rejection, turned to vitriol one night and I so, so, nearly held a knife to my throat and simply fell forwards in the uni showers. Obviously I didn't do that.

But she's had a shitter life than me thus far so she's in the right, as the online black/white dichotomy states. I keep her at arm's length but I'm unable to cut her away without losing the rest of my family because I dared defy the role of eldest child and care for her as I've done my whole life, as is expected.

we need to take things on a case by case basis, and learn when stuff is none of our business.

"Hey! :) I see you've reclaimed (X) slur, without submitting the proper paperwork. Real quick tell me every trauma you've ever experienced or I'll write a callout post :) delete this anonymous message (as is your right) and i'll assume you as sus ❤"

you can only call yourself a dyke if on your 13th birthday, the moon's tender rays struck you through your bedroom window and gave you your first wet dream about girls.

Great, cool. I have no interest in calling myself a dyke, i cant call myself a lesbian because it makes me dysphoric, thats why im queer, but i can assure you that when 3 kids from catholic school pinned me under the bridge and threatened to cut me open for being a "dirty dyke tramp" they didn't play 20Qs with me first to check that i was actually a lesbian.

if your first thought is "well thats just misdirected homophobia, so youre not ACTUALLY a victim" log the fuck off and consider what's wrong with you. Because all our oppressors care about is sniffing out the wrong on you and beating it out, they dont care what breed of wrong it is.

so you're going to spend your day, the enlightened adult that you are, frothing at the mouth because some 15yr old dared call themselves butch despite them being OnLY a BiSexUAl? You're gonna say that trans woman deserves to be suicidal because yes she may be trans BUT she's from the UK, so clearly she loves her horrid country and government. You're gonna say that black lad deserves racial abuse because he's trying to focus on his studies rather than go to protests. That 19yr old who's living in poverty deserves it because they work for Amazon. Texans deserve to freeze to death because there are republicans in Texas.

You're going to harass a complete stranger coming to terms with the parts of themselves society has taught them are worthless at best because they're not doing it the way YOU think is right.

This post has not ended where I started it but I really dont care:

Some of you are so fucking desperate to be the bullies you never got to be in secondary school and it shows. But you're cowards. You can't just admit you want to divide and concur so you do it in a new woke way and when your time on this earth is done, you'll have commited the same pain that's been dealt to you and wonder why you died miserable in a world thats more or less the same.

okay to reblog but dont @ me for a debate because i have, like, real problems and will just block you

#tw suicide mention #child abuse #homophobia #transphobia #ablesim #racism #*muffled screaming*#im shit at tagging sorry if i missed anything but im out i think

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Relative Charisma & the Incel

WED SEP 30 2020

So the first of three debates between Trump and Biden happened yesterday, and it was... as CNN’s Jake Tapper so aptly put it, “A hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.”

I didn’t see it, because I was at work, but I’ve heard enough sound bytes, and seen enough post debate coverage to know that... history will remember this one and play back those clips for centuries to come... of Trump, behaving like an angry, wounded animal.

For some context, despite my last entry, in which the indy left media (TYT mostly) was crying that Biden was losing the election, based on two stand alone polls that had Trump up a tick in two states... Biden’s lead in those and all other states is actually holding, or slightly growing.

I should disclose that my information is coming from an independent YouTube polls analyst whom I’ve come to trust over the past few years. There are many such channels on YouTube, but this guy eventually won me over, because he’s thorough, transparent, always has receipts, and pretty good at calling trends, while keeping expectations grounded in reality.

In my experience, news outlets... be they mainstream media, or indy news sources, only present polling data that they can sensationalize.

Right wing media just deny reality and convince their viewers all news of Trump being behind is fake. But Mainstream media always wants you to think it’s a dead heat... because that gets ratings. Meanwhile, the indy left news wants you to think Biden is losing, to fuel more activism and more participation.

And none of this is the subject of the entry at hand, but... it’s important to get this out of the way as we move into October, when the polling data is really going to be indicative of what happens on Election Day.

I vetted a lot of different YouTube analyst channels and settled on the one I have, because... I trust this guy.

So... when I sit here an say that Biden has a significant lead in all critical states, has several paths to 270, is ahead in national polls, etc... I’m getting that from a trusted source. It’s not just me being blindly optomistic based on some things I happened to pick up here and there.

Okay...

Back to context for Trump behaving like a wounded animal in yesterday’s debate...

On the one hand, yes, Biden is still way ahead, and looking like he’ll be the clear winner... which I’m sure Trump doesn’t like. But on the other hand, Trump was also deeply humiliated this past Sunday when The New York Times published a bunch of his tax returns... going up to 2017 and 2018, when he was, of course, President.

And the story reveals that he’s drowning in debt, and has been for quite a long time... with most of it being owed to mysterious unknown parties... which is a security concern. It also exposed how little taxes he’s paid... which may or may not be tax evasion, technically, but is not a great look for a populist President.

Quick sidebar here... Presidential tax returns are never normally news, because all Presidential candidates since Nixon have willingly published theirs upon declaring their candidacy... until Trump.

So it’s not like he’s being singled out by the New York Times for exposure of his private business.

On the other hand, the tax returns weren’t exactly a bomb shell. More like a fizzling sparkler. No personal check from Putin, with, destroy democracy, written on the memo line.

Yeah, he pays almost no taxes, but... we already knew that’s par for the course for all billionaires. It’s kinda the reason the progressive left exists.

But in terms of context for Trump being a wounded animal... it’s the drowning in debt thing he never wanted to go public. For Trump... it’s an unspeakable humiliation, like getting pantsed in public, only to reveal that you like to wear Wonder Woman Underoos or something.

It’s a massive blow to the image he’s created for himself, and defended so dearly... of being a legitimate billionaire, who used his shrewd instincts, and financial brilliance to amass deep pockets of untouchable wealth... self proliferating, tax free, multi-generational wealth.

Instead, he’s just an idiot, billions of dollars in debt, forcing the US government to pay millions to his Mara Lago resort, for hundreds of golf outings (around 200 to date) and he’s still in the red... at Mara Lago! Forget his other debts and failing ventures!

A quote from Iron Man 2 is very apt, here...

Ivan Vanko : [laughs] If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in Him. There will be blood in the water, the sharks will come. All I have to do is sit back and watch as the world consumes you.

That was Ivan’s rationale for attacking Tony Stark at the racetrack. It’s also been interpreted as a foreshadowing of the scene in Infinity War, several years later, where Tony Manages to punch Thanos hard enough to scratch his cheek and get a single drop of blood out of the mad titan.

Here in 2020 reality, the New York Times did get that single drop of blood... on Sunday.

And going into his first debate with Biden... who has been stubbornly leading in the polls all summer long... Trump was so furious, he could not keep his composure.

And this, at long last, brings us to the matter of relative charisma.

I’ve talked about it several times in the past, saying that, if you want one simple rule of thumb for predicting the next president... it’s that, whoever has the most relative charisma will win the election.

Relative, in this model, meaning... relative to the opponent.

A great example of this would be George HW Bush (Bush1) who had way more charisma, relative to stodgy, stuffy, Michael Dukakis, in 1988. But four years later, the same George HW Bush, looked himself, quite lacking in charisma compared to his new opponent, Bill Clinton.

It’s happened in every election of modern times. Carter had more relative Charisma than Ford, but far far less relative charisma than Reagan... and on and on back to FDR.

It was also, obviously true that in the match up between Trump and Hillary Clinton... Trump had all the relative charisma. PT Barnum levels of charisma!.. as the happy, quippy, rude, outsider... to her... boring gramma persona saying, “Pokemon Go to the polls!”

And early this year, during the primaries, when Bernie Sanders was still in the running, I said several times that Trump would, “mop the floor,” with Biden in a debate.

But... that was before Covid19... and 200,000 dead. Before record unemployment and record evictions. Before the Black Lives Matter movement caught fire in the streets, facing off with fascist police with tear gas and batons all summer. Before Biden sailed through all the insanity, staying ahead of Trump in the polls, to get the nomination.

And it was before Trump, in recent months, sent thugs to kidnap protesters in Portland, threatening all other democratic cities with the same, began knee-capping the post office, was exposed for calling our soldiers suckers and losers, refused to accept the election results if he wasn’t the winner, refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power unless we, get rid of the ballots, and... was exosed as swimming in debt.

So in Tuesday night’s debate... while he did try his level best to mop the floor with Biden... Trump came off as... well, an incel*.

We all, sadly know how incel’s debate, having suffered them like a bed bug infestation in every comment section on the internet for the past ten years, and in last night’s debate... Trump was, incel personified!

Moderator Chris Wallace, of Fox News, even gave Trump the chance to back away from the event horizon of the black hole that is at the heart of incel culture, by asking him to simply denounce white supremacy.

And not only could Trump not denounce white supremacy... after dancing around the quesion, he wound up saying that a group of white supremecist incels known as the Proud Boys, should, “stand back, but stand by!”

In other words... he’s not only banking everything on the incel vote... he’s calling on the incels to join Beta Force, and be ready... to intimidate voters in person on election night... and to create mayhem when he loses.

Please stand by, incels... but you understand, this is not a paid gig, right? I’m kinda tight on money right now, so you’ll need to be fighting for me out of the prematurely ejaculating spite in your sexually inadequate hearts!

The point here, is that the question of relative charisma between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has finally been answered.

Incel vibe, is not charisma. It’s the opposite of charisma. It’s a combination of wounded spite, bitter frothing at the mouth, and indefensible stupidity... all the things that make normal people want to puke.

So, while Biden may not have much in the charisma department... he does have a few charming attributes above the base line for a decent human being capable of empathy and logic.

And in a match up with the Trump of October 2020... that means, Biden has all the relative charisma... and he now has it on lock down.

We can talk soon about Trump’s incel chances of stealing the election by incel force, and the true threat that his army of incels present to our democracy, but for tonight... Trump is an incel... and incels have zero charisma.

I’m going to bed.

*Incel is a portmanteau for, Involuntarily Celibate.

It refers to straight, cis boys or men, most often white, from 15 to 35 who, despite deeply craving to engage in sexual activity with counterparts of the opposite sex, fail to attain it. Such males believe they are entitled to sex with the partner of their choice, and are thus baffled and aggrivated by their inability to obtain it consentually.

Incels are characterized by their extremely toxic interactions, which go beyond the mysogyny one might expect, to encompass all of society. For, in their mindset, it is not simply women who are to blame for their lack of sex, it is the entire framework of society... and that framework is also to blame for every other wish they perceive as being unfairly denied to them.

Incels resort to harassment, often thinly veiled as debate or argument, in order to torment those (most) who will not recognize their entitlement, and dream of reforming the societal order, such that their bullying rules the day... often waxing nostalgic for imagined times in the past when men such as themselves ruled without question.

They are thus, quite attracted to all forms of fascism, including, but not limited to white supremacy.

In the modern day, incels are widely regarded as a scourge, and considered by nobody outside their circle to have anything resembling charisma.

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royalrastafariannaynays · 7 years

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i’m a dirty rotten ace inclusionist, and here’s why

so against my better judgement and some advice from friends, ive decided to make a post about ace discourse

because it just kinda... hurts to see shit about it every day. and i feel like a broken record saying that, but it hurts.

if youre reading this, and youre an exclusionist, please read the entire thing and don’t come storming into my inbox to tell me hurtful shit because odds are, ive seen it already and im sure im not gonna cover everything, just some of the stuff ive seen today

So, me. ill tell my story even tho no one asked for it, because unfortunately on this website people demand proof of person in order to give someone validity or some shit. im asexual. and i stick to that, because i don’t really experience attraction or arousal at all. that changes sometimes, but rarely. im genitals-repulsed as well. but i am still intimate with my partner sometimes, and sometimes i force the candle to light, because idk i get bored.

but when i figured out i was ace, i was texting my best friend. and he suggested it, and immediately i felt broken and wrong thinking about the fact that i could be ace. I had to be convinced that it was okay. that’s something that non-ace people dont seem to get. not feeling sexual, or sexual about other, real people, can make you feel broken. it makes me feel like shit, and i have some dysfunction with partners as well. i have trauma in my past, but im convinced that doesn’t have too much to do with it. And maybe it’s a temporary thing, and ill change in the future. But that doesn’t change the fact that it makes me feel like less of a human being when i think about it. and i have no doubt that the idea has crossed other ace peoples’ minds before. “am i broken?” i ask my girlfriend that question so much. because my body doesnt do this thing that both science and the modern media and society tell me that it should do, and should do very easily. my FAMILY tells me its weird and ill be fine. my FRIENDS don’t get it. my mother thinks it’s horseshit. and there’s another thing.

i kinda feel like, if someone is gonna go excluding ace people and shoving them out, will i be shoved out for being closeted, or straight-passing when im not with my girlfriend, as well? it’s a legitimate fear and it feels really bad. and then, can you imagine how it feels having a portion of my identity actively shat on by this website? every fucking day of this month? the pride month?

another thing that non-ace people dont seem to understand or consider, either, is the dysphoria that ace people experience. ace people frequently hate their bodies, feel like they don’t belong in them, or feel separated from normalcy by what they are.

it’s not a “whose suffering is worse” game, though we can still understand that people face greater harm and trials in their life by being different parts of lgbt, and allow people who suffer less, like say people who are closeted, bi or pan people who are “straight passing” dating the opposite gender, etc, to be a part of it. in my experience, lgbt+ is about acceptance and love, and ill stick to that. yes it’s possible to recognize that say, a trans woman would suffer more than a cishet ace. but that doesnt mean that one should be less allowed to be a part than another.

“ace people aren’t oppressed” well no maybe not to the degree that the typical lgbt person is, but around the world people are forced into obligatory sexual situations they may or may not want, and if they refuse or cannot perform, they can be labeled as broken, thrown out of their home, or r*ped. there is social pressure from the intensely sexual modern media; there is social pressure from society and family; there is social pressure from significant others and partners to perform, and then, especially for women, there is pressure to accept things, and there is pressure to perform sexually in order to have a happy life; IE: having children, families, satisfied partners, and so on. no, these aren’t as significant outwardly as “getting stabbed to death for existing” ((which yeah, does happen, but is an extreme example that someone i know loves to use to win arguments by playing the manipulative “of course this means you care less about the human lives of gay men than the thing you’re arguing for” card. im not saying that situations are equal here, jesus, im saying that oppression exists in many forms)). and, for a society where sex is a function that bodies easily perform, it seems easy enough to go along with things. But for some people, bodies either do not or will not perform. or there is repulsion, or other things and i lost my train of thought. got distracted, my apologies

ace people might be cishet, yeah, but that doesnt mean they belong any less in my opinion. no, i dont think they should be able to call themself qu**r, thats stupid. they aren’t allowed to reclaim any slurs that dont belong to them. that’s also really fucking stupid. and im sorry, but no decent person will try to do that. and why not let them come to the club, okay? they still face problems. like i say maybe fifty billion times in this post, yes, they don’t face the same problems, but they still have them.

“start your own community” where? how? if you can give me a legitimate answer on this without frothing at the mouth, please do. But i have no idea how ace people are going to go into starting a community without being ridiculed, shoved aside and stuff. i have no idea how they are all going to bond and meet over a lot of different pipelines of communication, like the ones in communities they are already a part of. shoving people out, putting a stake in the middle of the cracks in the floor, it does nothing to strengthen our community.

“well this person treated me badly” yes and that exists everywhere on this hellsite. I’ve seen a lot of shit, im sure you have too/

the split attraction model, in my opinion, is useful. but mainly for ace people, or aro people, to make describing themself easier in a shorthand. that’s what the model is best for. and if you come into my inbox and say stuff about how “someone forced the split attraction model on me” that was an individual person and does not lend to the usefulness of the model. and then if you come into my inbox with something about “the split attraction model harms people who arent ace and lets people deny their sexuality”. it is a tool. no one forced you to use it. im certainly not saying everyone should use it. in fact, maybe a lot of the people who do use it, should not. but i like the split attraction model, especially for myself. because i can easily identify and people know what im talking about. that simple.

okay, that’s all i wanted to say. i wish i had a concrete conclusion but i am just. really tired. i need to unfollow some people. i just wanted to get it off my chest, and say my peace in a place i can find it. again, sorry for my mobile people

#sorry to people on mobile #long post #hopefully this wont pop up on mobile #:l #ace discourse #minor tmi putting that tag to be safe

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electric-sympathy · 7 years

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Official “Things Sam Didn’t Know About Dean That He Absolutely Should Have” Post, And What This All Means

Sam:

Did not know Dean was phobic of flying

Did not know about Cassie, a huge event in Dean’s life, or that Dean was even capable of a serious relationship

Did not know that Dean was skilled at building electronics, surely something that would have taken much visible practice

Did not know that Dean is above the most bare minimum of literacy, and seems to forget again every time Dean’s considerable literary knowledge is brought up

Did not know Dean is good with kids… (Even though… He… Raised him???)

Did not know that Dean is a great cook (Even though he likely cooked many if not most of Sam’s meals growing up)

Did not know that Dean wanted to be a fireman when he grew up even though this is pretty much one of the most common childhood conversation topics possible

Did not know that Dean had hopes and dreams outside of hunting (While this might be taken as, "He didn't want John to know", the fact that Dean maybe didn't feel comfortable sharing this with Sam in private is very telling in how their relationship was not a lovely bed of roses)

Did not know that Dean has critically low self esteem (He seemed somehow surprised by this in S3 and S1, and exasperated by in in later seasons as if he does not have the ability to examine Dean’s childhood)

Did not know that Dean was typically punished for Sam’s transgressions

Didn’t know Dean had gone mute after the fire, even though mutism typically lasts for years without stable treatment, and is considered an anxiety disorder (i.e. ongoing potential for relapse over one-and-done)

Did not know Dean was a publically recognized star on the wrestling team (Here’s where your “But Dean hid it all with superhuman ability because he’s a weird traumatized invalid” argument falls apart)

Did not know that Dean carried him out of the house, or that Dean saw their mother die and seems confused about and callously disconnected from Dean’s devotion to the cause on her behalf, even though a smart person like Sam should be able to tell that he’s missing part of the story– and, you know, that Dean not being an infant at the time means a hell of a lot for his relationship with her

But please, tell me more about how much of a wonderful caring lovely perfect attentive exceptional brother Sam is...

From my experience being in a good family, your relatives often demonstrate that they know more about you than you ever thought they did. They know what you love and what you don’t, even if you thought you’d hid it. They might even know if something’s wrong even before you do, just from your face, your manner. (Tell me how many times Dean has shown his discomfort physically and Sam has not picked up on it...)

Sam being younger than Dean is not an excuse. It’s a basic principal in any parenting guide that kids understand far, far more than you give them credit for. Especially considering the fact that Sam is supposed to be the smart, observant, emotionally intelligent brother, no-- Sam was just inattentive, self-absorbed, did not care enough to pay attention.

Dean takes a paternal role (which opens the way for Sam to take the childish role) because he was abused into it. These roles are not ever natural or rightful. It’s unhealthy, not “cute”. It also bears consideration that Sam is constantly saying that he does not want to take that role anyway. And yet his inattentiveness still mirrors that of a spoilt nine year old.

I would say that, especially for trained fighters used to danger, saving each other’s lives is a pretty basic thing, actually. It isn’t a magic button that makes you a Great Brother. Certainly not when you don’t follow up and fix your behavior afterwards. In fact, sacrifice is often used at the end of tragedies as a last, desperate attempt to make up for their utter failings.

Humans need more love than just on the big occasions to sustain them.

Good family members, great siblings, don’t just love you when the rubber hits the road. They love you daily.

They love you for who you are, take interest in your interests, take pains to get to know you. They love you even when they disagree with you. They love you when you annoy them, they accept you, don’t try to change your likes and dislikes and especially your harmless coping mechanisms to suit them. Their love is not conditional, to be taken away with grievous insult the moment they feel wronged; they value and consider your viewpoint, take into account the fact that you love them and want the best for them. They love you even when the ability to support them has been taken away from you. (i.e. Dean post-Hell.) They respect you enough not to lie about the big things, because they love you for who you are and not for what you can do for them, and they are unable to toss you to the side like that.

You can love Sam all you want, but he is not some incredible example of a brother. He is not some bastion of emotional intelligence. His relationship with his brother is not some kind of near-telepathy level of goodness like fics pretend. His flaws need to be realistically considered just as much as his virtues. Don’t let the show’s narrative tell you how to think. Don’t let it tell you that codependency is normal and great. Just because these people are professional writers doesn’t mean they know how families are supposed to work. Just because Bobby says “Family is supposed to hurt you” doesn’t mean he’s right (Especially since he is canonically a child of abuse). Would you just sit there and take it and act like nothing happened if your brother strangled you over his drug habit? If your mother told you to fuck off when you needed basic support she was fully capable of providing? I certainly hope not.

Sam tends to disregard information that contradicts his prior beliefs (ie Dean’s intelligence, literary and otherwise, Dean’s propensity for interpersonal compassion, etc). Is this a coping mechanism born from an unstable childhood? Probably. Does that mean you get to ignore it? No.

This post is not a competition. This is not a post saying you can’t like Sam-- aren’t the flawed characters always the most interesting? I’m not even saying that this is Sam’s “fault”, because he sure as hell had no role model, and the Parentification their father used made him predisposed to selfish behavior (It would benefit you a lot to look up what the codependent relationship actually entails). This is not where you barge in and scream about how horrible you think Dean is, too. This post is meant as a matter of fact wake-up call for all the people that wax poetic about how much of a wonderful laudable brother Sam is, nothing more. There is a difference between a brother that is okay and one that is exceptional. Sam does not meet the criteria of exceptional.

By all means, a true fan would not be frothing at the mouth with their heart utterly broken to find out that their fave isn’t perfect.

Like Sam for who he is, not who you want him to be.

#bibros can suck my dick #Some of these would have been forgivable as story mechanics if they stayed in season 1 #but they CONTINUED PAST THAT #so they are definitely character traits of sam's #spn wank #sam meta #dean winchester #spn meta

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confessionsofahippy-blog · 7 years

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A hippies guide to survive an LSD overdose.

What is LSD?

Have you ever taken LSD? If so what has been your dosage? For the benefit of our non LSD taking friends, let us try and give a small introduction to LSD and its doses. This is what Wiki says “Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects. This may include altered awareness of the surroundings, perceptions, and feelings as well as sensations and images that seem real though they are not.[11] It is used mainly as a recreational drug and for spiritual reasons. LSD is typically either swallowed or held under the tongue.”

This hallucinogenic drug comes in mainly the form of a colorless liquid or small stamp size papers dipped in this liquid. Pound for pound, LSD is amongst one of the most potent chemicals known to mankind. Its life changing properties are well documented. The experience of talking LSD is very difficult to explain. It’s like trying to explain what you see, when one looks inside a microscope. Unless you see/experience it for yourself it is hard to fathom such a world. Similarly a psychedelic experience is hard to put it in words. Generally the dose is one drop. Just one tiny drop! And 20 minutes later one starts to feel its affects.

A Deadly Music Festival!

Now to the crime scene. The year is 2012 and I’m in the middle of nowhere in far north Queensland, Australia. I have made my way up here with my mates to witness a total solar eclipse. There is a 7 day music festival being organized to celebrate this astronomical event. We were a crew of around 15-20 who had made our way up from Melbourne. There had been a major buzz amongst the doofing community in Melbourne regarding thins solar eclipse festival. Our whole crew had been planning for months for this festival. This was a 7 day long festival located 3000 kms away from Melbourne! This needed more than 5 months of meticulous planing. My mate Jane (name changed) took the lead in booking festival tickets and other logistics. Transporting drugs for all of us was also a big issue, but thanks to my good mate Dave (name changed) he had some boys drive 10 days from Melbourne across the whole length of Australia to get us our drugs. Other than this we all had our own personal stash which we had to deal with.

As the festival date got closer , the excitement levels were off the roof. Especially for my friend David, Dave in short. Along with his girlfriend Jane, were probably the most excited amongst folks amongst us.

Dave had stocked up considerably , with around 50 pills of Ecstasy , 5 gms of MDMA , 15 gm of Ketamine and a bottle of LSD (around 100 drops).( How I know these exact amounts? I’ll tell you later in the blog). I also had some small amounts for personal consumption that I took with me on the flight from Melbourne (Tell you about that another day).

Fast forward to the festival. The location is a good 2 hour drive from any civilization. The festival is huge with 7 dance floors and around 20,000 people camping up over a few kilometers. Our whole crew found an amazing camping spot with shade and not too far from the main dance floors. The 1sttwo days were amazing with music, friends, dancing and a lot of drugs. Everyone in that festival was loaded with drugs. This the kind of stuff we dream of! Dave was killing it. He was the go to man with his plethora of drugs at his disposal. The LSD he had was not the strongest, but still quite good. But the killer was the ketamine which he got from India. That shit was sooo potent. Just a tiny bump of it up your nose and the world transform this large dancing trampoline! With a concoction of various other drugs and amazing music, the 1st 2days just flew past.

Day 3 – Today is the big day. The day before the total solar eclipse .All the big acts of zenon records were playing. The music lined up for the sunset stage was off the hook. I remember everyone was very high that morning. There were a few of us who hadn’t slept the previous night. Dave was one of them, and needed more drugs to sustain himself. By lunch time most of us were all pretty exhausted and were resting before the main music starts around 3 pm. It was just me Jane and Dave when the music started on the sunset stage. Dave was already a wreck by then. He had snorted a shit of Ketamine by then. I was not doing too bad as well and was sufficiently high on LSD and some MDMA. I remember the afternoon like it happened yesterday! What did I know that the next few minutes will change my life! As me and Jane were rolling a cigarette, we saw Dave drinking something out of a bottle. And then it just hit us!

OMG HE’s DRANKING THE WHOLE BOTTLLE OF LSD!!!!! Just like that, before we could do anything, the empty bottle of LSD was on the ground. Dave turned around and looked us straight in the eye and said with a loud grunt “Holy shit… what I have done!”

It took us a few minutes to realize what happened. I walked straight up to Dave and asked him what he had done? If he really drank that whole bottle? When he replied “Yes”, that was the most sober I had seen Dev for all the 3 days we had been in the festival. As it dawned on the 3 of us that we need to do something and fast, a bit of panic set in. Some of the other dancers recommended that we give Dave a large dose of Zanex (sleeping pill) and he would be fine. But I knew that no zanex is going to help him now. He had around 90 hits of LSD inside him. Can you even imagine what it will be like? All my high had come down so had Janes. We decided that I will take Dave to the medic tent while Jane goes and gets our other mates. Thanks to some quick thinking from Jane and myself had made the right decision. Dave was pitch sober by now and can’t believe what he has just done .As Dave and myself scamper towards the medic tent I remember him telling me that he will never be the same person again!!

We find the medic tent in a corner of the market area. Inside the medic tent we have two volunteers who look like they have just walked out of a Viking movie. The heavily bearded man and his assistant seem to be busy taking care of a few Japanese girls suffering a sun stroke. As we enter the tent the bearded Viking volunteer as me “How can I help?” To which I replied “Sir. My friend here has drunk a whole bottle of LSD, around 90 hits”. There was pin drop silence for a few seconds. The volunteers couldn’t believe what they had heard. Quickly he told me that the paramedic team was waiting outside and that we should consult them directly. We step out of the tent and find the paramedics next to their ambulance.

I greeted the officers and tell them what had happened. To my surprise, the officer’s dint knows much about LSD or its effects. I made a suggestion to the medicos that maybe sedating Dave will be a good and safe option. That suggestion was not accepted as the medics dint want the sedatives to react with the drugs DAV had already taken. We were advised to sit down in the medic tent and wait it out. I couldn’t believe the medic had just told us to wait it out! Does he even know what he’s talking about? There are 90 drops of LSD in my mate’s body and it is going to explode! But then we had no other choice and made our way back to the tent. I sat on a stool while Dave sat next to me on the ground.

It had been around 20 minutes by then since Dave had taken the hit. The ere silence inside the tent was very unnerving. All of us in the tent knew that all this LSD is going to hit Dave anytime. Dave new it too and it was making him restless. He kept telling me that he had a good life, with work, girlfriend etc. He kept repeating…“ What have I done”!!! In that stressful situation Dave showed great awareness to empty his drug stash and gave it all to me. I quickly put the big stash in the pocket of my camel pack. I tried to reassure Dave that we were at the right place if something were to go wrong. To hang in there and to be brave. Then there was total silence for a few minutes. I knew the moment had come. Dave was breathing much more heavily now.

He shouted “Oakley shades Zenon records…. I understand now” as he stood up. The look in his eyes scared me. I tried to tell him to calm himself, but he pushed me to the side and ran out of the medic tent. By the time I picked myself up to follow him, he was gone. A difficult situation had become dangerous and life threatening. I walked up to the paramedics who were having a chat with some festival security personals. I simply told them that I had done my duty by bringing Dave to the medic tent and due to their irresponsible behavior Dave had escaped into the festival. Dave was a true danger to himself and other in this state. The Security personals straightaway understood the seriousness of this situation and started to send message on their walkie talkies.

As I step out into the market area to search for Dave I bump into Jane and my other crew members. I briefed them about the events inside the medic tent and the fact that Dave was out in the festival somewhere high as fuck! We decided to split up to find him. Luckily we bumped into our Japanese friend “Yuji”. He ran up to us and said “Dave is very high and doing crazy stuff on top of the viewing hill”. A few hundred meters from where we were was a hill, the best vantage point to see the eclipse.

We spot Dave the moment we reach the top of the hill. He was rolling around in the red Australian dirt. Eyes rolled up and frothing from his mouth. His face was pale, almost blue. Making high pith groaning noises he was punching the ground and throwing himself everywhere. We were 6-7 guys who tried to hold him down. But he was throwing us around like an animal. The best word to describe him is probably “manimal”.

Within minutes the paramedics had come with the ambulance. They told us to stand away from Dave who was still convulsing like a man possessed. Along with a few security men they try to administer some sort of relaxant via oxygen pipe. That dint work. Then I could see one of the medics on the phone to some doctor at from Cairns (3 hrs away) for help. It seem as though the doc told them to knock Dave out with intravenous Ketamine. Next thing you know the medic reaches into her bag and administers Dave with a full dose of intravenous Ketamine. They wait for it to show its affects, but to no avail. By this time Dave is free falling through his own consciousness. He muttering names of kids he went to kinder garden with. The medics administer 2 more doses of ketamine to calm him down. You could see the look on their faces on how serious this whole thing was.

Meanwhile one of the security guards taps me on the shoulder and says that some officers wanted to talk to me. I turn around to see two cops. Then I get introduced to them as Dave’s friend. My heart started pumping, as I had all Dave stash of drugs in my camel pack. If the cops ask me to show them my camel pack, I’m going straight to jail! And for a long time!

I guess it was my lucky day. The cops asked me a few questions. They seemed genuinely worried about Dave. They asked me about how he did this to himself and what drug etc. to which I gave them honest answers. I was also a little surprised when they patted me on my back for having taken care of my mate. By this time the paramedics have successfully managed to knock Dave out as he’s gets strapped on the stretcher. The paramedics ask one of us to go with them as they shift him into the ambulance. It was a strange moment. Jane had helped us plan for this festival for all these months, and now she had to leave it mid way. I spoke to her for a few minutes as she cried. I told her that going with Dave on the ambulance was the right thing to do.

There is a dust storm approaching us as Jane gets into that ambulance to leave. The surrounding light and atmosphere were surreal. We could see thousands of people dancing in the sunset stage below us as the ambulance left us. The approaching thunderstorms were making multiple rainbows against the setting sun. It is one of the truly beautiful sights I have seen in my life. The LSD in my system made this sight almost unbelievable with trails and layers. I felt as thou the nature was telling me that Dave was going to be fine. The multiple rainbows were the best thing that happened to me that day. Later I was told that Dave had to be air lifted to cairns as he was not breathing properly.

Dave made it through that night without much problem. He woke up nearly 19 hours later and was properly conscious and aware of what had happened. But this even had changed me. It put life and parties in perspective for me. Thanks to some good decision making between me, Jane and the paramedics were able to avoid a potentially life threatening situation. It was a great example how fun can go wrong.

Dave made a full physical recovery, but same can’t be said regarding his mental aspect. He has shown a downward trend after this incident. Something happened to him that night. His brain got rewired somehow. After almost 10 years after that incident, he finds himself in and out of rehab for Heroine and alcohol. This event changed me too, but I believe for the good. This was my queue to get the fuck out there and make a life! Which I did and got back to India and cleaned up my act.

I hope my experience shed some light on how to deal with an LSD overdose. If you or your friend fined yourself in this situation, then see help. Tell your friends what you have done and Get to a hospital a sap. Don’t try and find a fix for this yourself, because you can’t. These chemicals are so powerful that are way beyond a mortal human beings capabilities. One drop is the dosage. Don’t play with LSD, It is not a joke. If you do, then it will teach you and your friends a good lesson in life. Don’t take this god given sanity for granted, it can vanish in a split second.

Do you think I did the right thing? Would you have done it differently? I would like to hear from you so please leave a comment. Looking forward to interacting with you fellow hippies out there. Until next time…Drop Acid, not bombs!

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liamsan · 7 years

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New Party

It is time to create a new, viable, stable, third party in the United States. Its purpose should not be for presidential elections but for the purpose of wresting control of the Congress of the United States, the first branch of the federal government (Article One) described in the Constitution, from the hands of all current partisans. The simplified concept is to create a cohesive, moderate coalition or caucus of representatives and senators who, when elected, would constitute a bloc of sufficient size to stabilize the shifts of power in the United States House of Representatives and Senate. These Representatives and Senators would serve as a buffering system that might prevent the nonsense that has become the norm over that past decades. The stance would be to express a moderate, inclusive positions on most issues, have the goal and capacity to reconcile bi-partisan positions, and – without condescension – educate citizens as to how pendulum swings are not in anyone’s best interest.

In Congress, the actionable goal is to create an environment in which the current major parties, ostensibly Democrats and Republicans (listed alphabetically), are forced into less than majority factions. The current majority/minority scenario seems to invariably lead to polarity which is to say “you’re either with us or against us,” a binary situation. The less than majority situation, in other democracies, necessitates groups to seek coalition and consensus, a need work together, in order to govern rather than impose a one-sided philosophical proclivities on a pendulum swing basis.

This concept and movement to create the bloc will, undoubtedly, find antagonists everywhere, especially from the major parties. A wasted vote is one popular characterization of third parties in the United States. For an election of a president, yes, wasted. But on a local basis, where all politics begin, I would like to believe that there are more individuals with open minds and a desire for moderation and civility than for the frothing mouth deceptions that currently exist and dominate our nation and place in the world. For many persons of my ilk, this would be an improvement over being in a situation to elect the least worst candidate. The third congressional bloc would be a start in defining an alternative to extreme trending groups, a moderate middle, a balance in all things.

There are various theories regarding the size of a control element that is effective in a system. In the case of Congress, there are really only three criteria: simple majorities, the Senate’s 60 vote rule, and two-thirds needed for a presidential veto override and Constitutional Amendment approval. While the required numbers of seats in the House or Senate that could achieve stability may be debatable – and, at some future time, definable – for the sake of opening arguments the suggestion is a minimum of 20% of available seats: in the Senate that’s 20; in the House that’s about 87.

In the case of the Senate, assuming the current near even split, 20 seats would wrest control from either party disallowing spurious rule changes and purely partisan dominance. A case in point might be the Senate’s 60 vote rule that solicits level thinking and resistance to pendulum swings by both major parties. Unfortunately, in confirmation hearings, that precedence has already been set as to how easy it is to dispense with the rule. Within the 20 seats would rest the margin necessary to override a veto, one of the only mechanisms available to the Congress to check and balance the Executive, regardless of which party controls it.

In the case of the House, assuming the current split, 87 seats would also wrest control from an unabashed disregard for the minority party’s opinions, in either direction. Again, the number should be sufficient to affect veto override along lines other than those purely partisan.

In order to form such a bloc, there should be an expression of beliefs fundamental to the group. The coalition should adopt their beliefs, declare them and strive to live by them in their every action. There are many seed topics for inclusion in such a statement but one can probably define the top 25 important to them and, probably equally surprising, determine that 15 to 20 of their concerns will likely appear on all others’ lists. There are solutions to each of these topics that are in keeping with our Constitution and most beliefs but bi-partisan controlled processes will never find the right path unless everyone in Washington suddenly has a common epiphany, catches a serious case of altruism, or a renewed affirmation of what is good for the nation and its place in the world. I solicit your input: what are your top 25 issues? Top 15? Top 5? I’ll take anything you are willing to submit.

As an opening, I offer two topics: health care and abortion. By the way, I may be provocative, from time to time, in order to spur discussion. The words are intended to solicit reasoned response.

Seed Issue 1: Health care is a life-long concern. Genes (nature - conditions over which one exercises little or no control) and upbringing (nurture - things that establish habits, values, and life styles) start the ball rolling. Diet, life-style, habits, exercise, screenings, etc., need to be understood and considered. High risk pools: smoking, obesity - not age or preexisting conditions - and others; low risk pools: exercise, appropriate diet, and others. Consider these as well as “do no harm (drs/nurses),” “do not profit on human misery,” “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Cliched? Maybe, but such adages have associated experience bases.

Seed Issue 2: Abortion seems to affect women more than their co-conspirator men. Their only defense is “my body, my choice.” We can discuss topics such as responsibility, pro-choice/right to life, shared obligation, murder, but the fact is that the issue is based, mainly, on unwanted pregnancies. If you want to be a righteous, pro-lifer, educate the masses - if you thing knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance. If you want to be a pro-choicer, teach responsibility - the seldom discussed partner of freedom. In both cases, recognize that the population concerned involves both women and the men who initiate the problem.

To resume, the best intentions and platforms that support them are nothing without individuals who are able to make them happen in the face of the torrents of factional interests currently existent within political circles of the United States. It is likely that these souls, in their attempt to establish balance in the system, will be attacked by both sides. The best individuals should be elected to this citizens’ bloc. They need to be more than politicians, they need to be open-minded pragmatists whose integrity, honesty, and character transcend current standards for politicians. They need to be able to walk a mile in all others’ shoes.Unfortunately, they are probably individuals who do not want to be soiled by the political processes of our current system. They need to be true patriots.

By no means should one infer that there are no such individuals in service at this time. There are! But, they are often mired in associations that compromise them and their true beliefs. Their moral compasses need to be firmly oriented to what is good for the country and its citizens not what is expedient, plays on fears or hides dark traits, good for the party, or favors some specific faction of the population. They should be persons of conscience and, as Aristotle suggested, possess educated minds able to entertain competing thoughts without necessarily adopting them. Their relationship to data from reputable sources, not polls, probably should be a critical consideration. The capacity to reconcile issues and bring competing schools of thought to the table and, with some work, consensus is critical. Ego? Check it at the door.

These champions or heroes also need help. They need to rally like minded souls around them. It is a team, precinct, city, county, district, state, country sport. Teams are required.

Tall order? No, I don’t think so. Persons, candidates or teams, of this ilk exist in numbers but generally stay out of the political domain because of the incivility associated with veiled drives for power and the insanity that accompanies it. They must be willing to enter that fray but be ever mindful that it is the power and insanity that have resulted in our current circumstance. We must find and elect these persons, persons of specific virtue.

What would you call such a body? Independent? Too vague, over used, meaningless, wasted votes in most cases. Most of the good names extracted from our founding documents have been used for efforts of presidential hopefuls who never had any real chance. Even derivatives have been exploited. For the sake of a beginning, how about Citizens Who Care (CWC), Rational Citizens (RC), or Better America (BA)? Something else? You choose.

Should there be interest, it must be expressed through determined, local groups. Grass root concerns blended with adopting a common core beliefs is appropriate. You’d think that the Constitution is enough. Obviously the intentions of our country’s founders is open to interpretation based on justices’ personal, political, or philosophical foundation. Thus, a strawman or tentative food for thought statement of beliefs should be available for discussion and amendment. They need to be explained and justified. Opening the ideas to Interpretation is not desirable. Prior to a more organized, nation-wide efforts, it is suggested that an exchange of ideas in forums other than twitter and in forms in which whole ideas can be offered, intelligently analyzed and discussed, and local organization formed. Cynicism should be kept to a minimum. Civility should prevail. Realizing one does not become taller by making everyone else smaller should be a core belief. Genuine, authentic thought and opinions should dominate our thinking. A thought: no ethical improvement has ever been achieved by stooping to the methods of those enmeshed in the problem.

In summary, I amuse myself with the delusion that a simple citizen can call upon like minds to rally and create a synergistic entity, something bigger and better than any of us as individuals. I would like to believe that is what the founders of the United States and those who have brought out the best in us intended over the past 241 years. May we find our way back to their tenets and the evolving vision that once inspired us to be the “lamp beside the golden door.”

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