Just making the clarification that when I say “nerd stuff” relating to stuff I make and rb it is being used as a replacement for cool.
Anonymous asked:
i'm making susan and franky in tomodachi life do they have official birthdays (right now i have susan's set to april 15th because that's tax day and for franky i just chose a random day)
punkitt-is-here answered:
april 15th is canon because thats funny. Franky’s shall be July 13th. there is a reason for this
I like to say ____ jumpscare whenever I see something that I recognize
*walks into bookstore, sees Hall & Oates cd, is not jumped or scared whatsoever* omg Hall & Oates jumpscare
stop saying "gen z brought back bush-era purity politics" i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren't saying that you're a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged
Literally almost every millennial I know has a memory of accidentally walking in on their parents or hearing their parents having sex. It's fucking normal. Human beings have sex. Your parents fuck. Get over it. Being weird about it isn't healthy.
I really loved Robert Evans’s response to this
I walked in on my parents fucking once, I quietly closed the door got some water and watched cartoon network till I fell back asleep. Yall are pussies.
My parents used to “take naps” every Sunday after church, from the time I was very small, onward.
When I was younger their bedroom was on the ground floor of the house and me and my sister slept upstairs. But when I was about 9 we moved to a house where all the bedrooms were on the second floor. It was one of those Reagan-era colonials that filled the Midwest like so much mulch in a playground.
So as it happened, their bedroom was directly above the kitchen. I mean their bed, had it fallen through the floor for whatever reason, would have landed more-or-less perfectly in the space between the counters and the fridge.
And so every Sunday we’d come home and id hang out in the family room (behind the garage, across the house from the kitchen) and my sister would go to her bedroom and my parents would “take a nap”.
And that was how it was for a couple of years. Around the time I was 12 or 13 I started getting more of an actual understanding of how sex worked, mechanically speaking, vs the sort of broad-strokes version that preteen me got from my fairly liberal parents. Anyway, one day I’m making myself some pasta in the kitchen, and I hear this rhythmic squeaking from above me.
See, my parents had this really, really rickety and fragile ikea-style bed that they’d had for years and years. And I’d heard these noises for literal years. But suddenly it clicked what was happening. And so many giggles were had by me.
A couple of months after that I was talking to my mom in her room, I’m sitting on the bed and she’s standing around doing something it other. Maybe putting away laundry. And I’m just kinda sitting there, rocking back and forth, stimming.
And mom goes “oh don’t do that, the bed squeaks a lot” and I just look at her and without missing a beat go “oh yeah, I know.”
Anyway that’s the story of how I mortified my mother into buying a new bed.
also, I would argue that treating sex like some disgusting morally disgusting thing is MORE LIKELY to make it traumatizing!
children are capable of understanding at least the basic gist of sex and reproduction, and are able to understand that it's something adults do alone together sometimes. turning it into this fucked up disgusting hidden act that only addicts and sex offenders do is just how you makes people repressed and traumatized, and prevent them from understanding what a healthy relationship with sex and sexuality looks like.
Yup. The reason people are traumatised by this is the societal conditioning that sex is “dirty” or “disgusting”.
I walked in on my parents having sex as a kid. Do you know what happened? I was a clueless child and didn’t realise for some years. I pushed thoughtlessly past the thing they had put in front of the door and thought it was weird that they gave me some obviously bullshit excuse why it had been there, but I picked up on the “we’re busy” vibe and wandered back to my own bedroom to play with my toy horses.
And I hope they got back to it, because they had two hyper AuDHD kids who slept terribly and didn’t get a lot of “them” time.
When it finally occurred to me, *years* later, what had happened, I burst out laughing. But warm and sympathetic laughter. I don’t think it’s hilarious, disgusting or traumatising that my parents had sex and probably still do. They’re people. Honestly, thinking about it now brings up warm and sympathetic memories of my OH and I having our sexytimes interrupted by our anxious pup and having to stroke her to reassure her the noises were not distress noises as we finished off.
Sex is a normal human thing most humans do. Not everyone - ace-spectrum folks who don’t enjoy sex, or who are sex-repulsed, are *also* normal. It’s normal the way queerness is normal, and the way disability is normal - essential, if not universal, parts of the human experience.
Pretty much all of my ancestors were working class people living in very crowded living conditions. They had a lot of kids so they clearly had a lot of sex. They managed that with as much privacy and dignity as they could in very inadequate housing. Because they were people. Doing human things.
Honestly, I’d explain sex to your kids while they are young. They probably won’t be super-interested. Children generally aren’t. I think people build it up in their mind as something that’s going to be Important and Excruciating, and it mostly won’t be. Let them ask questions and answer them honestly, or explain it when it comes up naturally in daily life.
If you have animals, or your kids are interested in animals, that might be quite early, and that’s fine. Humans are animals with our quirks of mating behaviour like every other species, and it’s really good for kids to get that perspective too for all kinds of reasons. We are not that special, and neither are our sex lives.
best thing i ever accepted about people is that most people are just kind of gross like, physically
like most people have gross little bad habits and let the laundry go a little too long and sweat in weird places and are messy eaters and have weird laughs and are a little greasy and asymettrical and have stains and tears and wear on the things they own and its like literally fine and human. we dont need to worry about that stuff and frankly we should kill whoever is responsible for making us think humans are even capable of being perfectly polished made up hygeine machines 24/7. we are little animals we came from the dirt and sometimes you scratch your buttcrack or pick at scabs or what the fuck ever it is literally normal animal behaviour !!! let the soft animal of your body ect ect nd sometimes the soft animal of your body is a little yucky.
Do you write music with the view of being politically active and delivering a message or does it just happen and the rest follows?
#this is a perspective I’ve only seen from people who truly think broadly and sympathetically about life#like he’s literally right I’m sorry and people who aren’t white or cis or straight learn so so SO early that your existence is political#not inherently but because white cishet men have crafted society in a way it’s impossible for it not to be#and ignoring that isn’t going to make you ascend above it god I’m so tired of having to explain that to people#I’m tired of people’s experiences in both places of privilege and place of oppression being used to scapegoat what we all can see#like look at his example!#‘going out for a dance on a Saturday night’ means something different if you’re poor if you’re gay if you’re a racial minority#’walking into a shop’ who owns it how often do you go is it a big box store or a small owned business is it walkable#there’s pOLitiCs in all of that! in ever aspect of your life!#ESPECIALLY if you take your life experiences and turn them into art of any form (via @twentyfour-mp3)
Friendly reminder that Hozier’s first music video, in 2013, involved him literally taking his life savings and using it to make a protest video about anti-gay actions in Chechnya. This was not a popular position at the time, to the point that damn near every interviewer asked “so, are you gay?” because they literally could not figure out why he cared so much.
Incidentally, after the first few times of saying “no, I’m straight but it’s important,” he started saying “you can think that if you want.” ALSO not a popular position at the time. Adam Lambert’s entire career had been derailed only four years before because he dared to be openly gay and sexual about it.
He literally came out swinging like Muhammad Ali and has not stopped. And he finds it odd that people find it odd! Like he was asked if he was aware of his “lesbian cult following” and seemed genuinely puzzled why he has a lesbian cult following (and, later, just a massive queer following in general) and it’s like. Honey. You loved us first. You loved us more and harder than most people were willing to. When it was unpopular to even whisper about how maybe queer people shouldn’t be seen as inhuman actually, you grabbed a megaphone and screamed. You risked not just losing a career, but never having one at all, to stand by us. You loved us. We’re just loving you back.
congratulations! after some kind of miraculous incident*, you've been given the head-features** and tail*** of an animal! what kind?
canine (dogs, wolves, foxes)
feline (large and small cat)
lagomorph/rodent (rabbits, mice, beavers)
ungulate (deer, cows, whales, anything with hooves)
reptile/bird (lizards, snakes, dinosaurs, birds)
amphibian (newts, axolotl, frogs)
some other mammal (bears, weasels, bats)
mollusc (octopus, snail, nudibranch)
arthropod (moth, spider, lobster)
other!
*possible incidents may include: chaos mutation, wish granting, regular mutation, shapeshifting gone wrong, combining your dead dream-self with your omniscient, faceless, green-flickering pet and then recombining upon apotheosis, surgical modification, and HRT
**includes ears, horns, antennae, additional eyes, pedipalps, spines, frills, feathers, external gills, and tentacles
***tail, abdomen, whatever
addition: you may get random additional features such as claws, insectile wings, feathers, tapetum lucidum, nictating membrane, scales, animalistic behavior, shells, and many other!