Rarely as a kid, but I pushed for adult discussions when I got older because otherwise I would never talk to them and it was clear they wanted to talk to me.

They only wanted to talk about inconsequential things, which is boring so no thanks.

So whenever I talked to my mom or dad after like 25 or something, I resolved to only talk about things I was actually interested in, and to cut short in consequential conversations and steer back to interesting topics, things I normally didn’t talk to my parents about (drugs, relationships, philosophy), and eventually one topic or another got their attention (my mom told me about smoking pot in high school), and I continue trying to be as honest as I could with them because I don’t want a relationship with someone comprised entirely of small talk, but I don’t want to ignore my parents either.

I definitely think there’s a correlation between how you’re brought up and your relationship with your parents now, my parents implicitly taught me not to bring up consequential life topics to them as a child, and I had to recognize and actively fight against that terrible lesson as an adult in order to have any sort of mature, human relationship with either of them.

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Holy crow, that freaked me out. That’s really impressive. Pretty uncanny valley, but I can definitely see the appeal.

sewing is mine also. I don’t think I’ve talked to a single person in the 15 years I’ve been sewing that hasn’t reacted with shock to some degree or another upon finding out.

i like repairing clothes and making backpacks.

because the lines are bad?

is that a common drawing exercise?

sorry what’s the context here? I’m having a beer night.

cannibal: the musical

I laughed at this, but now I might actually show it to her.

the longer that story goes on the less ridiculous it seems. I have a more favorable impression of the skibidi toilet series than I do of the official transformers movies.

I just got to show this to someone yesterday for the first time.

they were confused, but want to keep going.

https://archive.is/8i8pG

a bunch of forums that talk to each other.

a decentralized collection of independently operated social media platforms that can choose to share information with each other.

I kind of want to hear your story that made you ask this question

tines of three, handle of five

putting on deodorant

feels gross smells gross

in case you don’t know, there is the option under user settings to hide bots.

memeoffice.

didn’t think msoffice would be the easiest platform to build memes/diagrams on.

I actually didn’t even know office could build something that complicated.

thanks

huh, i much prefer libreoffice to msoffice, i can’t even think of a reason why anyone could prefer msoffice.

Im a but gobsmacked at the notion.

what do you use the drawing for?

my 2 cents:

none of what you’ve written here indicates you weren’t born gay.

“…wish i was in the woman’s shoes in porn (autogynephilia), that was my first homo sexual desire.”

that doesn’t sound like you were “simply born straight”

your post strongly suggests to me you have a lot to learn and accept about sexuality.

“always had a totally masculine identity, male engagements”

saying something like this indicates to me that you don’t understand the complexities of masculinity, femininity or sexuality.

did you read a lot of books as a child? is that masculine or feminine? did you climb trees?

assigning labels and expectations to your behaviors may be why you don’t view your own sexuality as “a case of normal, stable homosexuality”.

which is what it sounds like you are discovering: a case of innate normal, stable homosexuality.

he’s right.

China has invested a ton of money and diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia for the past 5 years, and for the next four all Xi has to do is point at Rump to negotiate closer ties.

China is the safer economic and defense partner at least until rump is gone, and probably for much longer.

thank you I was wondering about the public reaction to the mines closing, since it does seem like a good thing on its face, no you’re absolutely right that a problem doesn’t need to be handled the hardest way.

interesting to hear about the cycle coming around again with steel workers now.

that was a great write up and an appreciated explanation, have a good one!