my parents visited today and their latest item of ‘what people you knew in school are up to lately’ gossip was about the absolutely BONKERS thing they’re trying to talk their friend out of doing to her daughter. I’m still in shock tbh
Their friend is helping her daughter’s boyfriend’s mom to throw a 200-guest surprise engagement party for her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend. The daughter and the bf are not engaged. Neither of them have even discussed planning to get engaged with their respective mothers. The moms are going to surprise the bf with his late grandmother’s ring at the party and tell him it’s time to propose to his gf. In front of 200 friends and family members. Just an absolute nightmare scenario.
Oh the kicker is that the pretense they’re inviting people under is that it’s a surprise “congrats on passing the bar” party for the bf. A thing he is currently stressing about having to take for the second time and may not pass. So it may turn into a 200-person surprise “sorry you failed to pass the bar for the second time, here’s your grandma’s ring, go propose anyway” party, which is a near-incomprehensible level of public humiliation.
Bf’s mom, whose brainchild this whole thing was, has already rented out an entire waterfront restaurant for the party. In Newport. This is what “more money than sense” looks like in practice.
Since this blew up overnight and people are asking, I managed to track the daughter down on linkedin today (the only social media I could find that we both have, lol) and message her. So she has been warned, and hopefully doesn’t take the message poorly.
my parents visited today and their latest item of ‘what people you knew in school are up to lately’ gossip was about the absolutely BONKERS thing they’re trying to talk their friend out of doing to her daughter. I’m still in shock tbh
Their friend is helping her daughter’s boyfriend’s mom to throw a 200-guest surprise engagement party for her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend. The daughter and the bf are not engaged. Neither of them have even discussed planning to get engaged with their respective mothers. The moms are going to surprise the bf with his late grandmother’s ring at the party and tell him it’s time to propose to his gf. In front of 200 friends and family members. Just an absolute nightmare scenario.
Oh the kicker is that the pretense they’re inviting people under is that it’s a surprise “congrats on passing the bar” party for the bf. A thing he is currently stressing about having to take for the second time and may not pass. So it may turn into a 200-person surprise “sorry you failed to pass the bar for the second time, here’s your grandma’s ring, go propose anyway” party, which is a near-incomprehensible level of public humiliation.
Bf’s mom, whose brainchild this whole thing was, has already rented out an entire waterfront restaurant for the party. In Newport. This is what “more money than sense” looks like in practice.
Since this blew up overnight and people are asking, I managed to track the daughter down on linkedin today (the only social media I could find that we both have, lol) and message her. So she has been warned, and hopefully doesn’t take the message poorly.
my parents visited today and their latest item of ‘what people you knew in school are up to lately’ gossip was about the absolutely BONKERS thing they’re trying to talk their friend out of doing to her daughter. I’m still in shock tbh
Their friend is helping her daughter’s boyfriend’s mom to throw a 200-guest surprise engagement party for her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend. The daughter and the bf are not engaged. Neither of them have even discussed planning to get engaged with their respective mothers. The moms are going to surprise the bf with his late grandmother’s ring at the party and tell him it’s time to propose to his gf. In front of 200 friends and family members. Just an absolute nightmare scenario.
Oh the kicker is that the pretense they’re inviting people under is that it’s a surprise “congrats on passing the bar” party for the bf. A thing he is currently stressing about having to take for the second time and may not pass. So it may turn into a 200-person surprise “sorry you failed to pass the bar for the second time, here’s your grandma’s ring, go propose anyway” party, which is a near-incomprehensible level of public humiliation.
Bf’s mom, whose brainchild this whole thing was, has already rented out an entire waterfront restaurant for the party. In Newport. This is what “more money than sense” looks like in practice.
Since this blew up overnight and people are asking, I managed to track the daughter down on linkedin today (the only social media I could find that we both have, lol) and message her. So she has been warned, and hopefully doesn’t take the message poorly.
there should be a such thing as a medical detective. you should be able to hire a doctor to figure out what the fuck is going on with you come hell or high water by consulting whatever specialists they can get their hands on, connecting your constellation of symptoms, etc, instead of 10000 different doctors for every distinct bone in ur body that all just kinda go “dang that sucks idk” when you present with more than one fucking symptom
Real life House, the thing you want is real life house.
I would like to be a homeowner as well. You’re so right.
This current trend of people being very openly hostile towards polyamory has made me realize a few things and among those things is that, apparently, to many people the bad thing about someone cheating in a relationship is simply that they are having sexual/romantic relations with multiple people at the same time. Like, that’s what the issue is to many of them that’s what’s morally wrong about it. Not the fact that they’re going behind their partner’s back to break a serious established boundary and their trust. Which is crazy
This is why they don’t care when you try to explain that polyamory is consensual therefore by definition not cheating it doesn’t matter at all because to them the issue was never consent. They just think being with multiple people at the same time is inherently immoral in any context even if literally everyone involved is cool with it
I’m really not apologetic with this hard stance, either. I’m very firm on this, too. My art has already been used, twice now by people who did not ask my permission, so they could “enhance it” with Gen AI. I really see nothing good coming from generative AI except poor excuses for laziness and glorified search engines that don’t work.
This is an important time to make the distinction between generative and analytical AI. Analytical AI is what AI is supposed to be for. It’s all the boring stuff like analyzing data for patterns. For example, you probably heard about that AI that was designed to tell apart bear claws from croissants for a bakery that is now being used to detect cancer cells with greater accuracy than human doctors. That’s an analytical AI, while everything mentioned in the post above is generative AI. (Which sucks!)
“Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college”
Because if you demonstrate to me that you’re willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don’t get into medical school.
“oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it’s not for my major”
Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?
Tumblr doesn’t like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it’s a question of character. And a person’s character is clearest when they’re being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn’t matter to them.
I don’t want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it’s inconvenient for them. When they’re busy. When they have something they’d rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I’ll be damned if I let there be more of them.
this is a shitpost but I think it’s not THAT wrong. Most kink is either one of (or a combination of):
You get to play at having power over someone else. This is your dominance sorts of things, your sadisms, etc.
You get to play safely. You can play with scary things while knowing there’s safewords and a dom/top who loves you.
Feet. By which I mean, there’s some normal part of the human experience that your brain has for some reason fixated on. Maybe you’re into red hair, or glasses, or fluffy tails.
“safety” can also present as “useful”. You have some intrinsic value that cannot be taken from you (because of some sex/kink thing). The safety is from abandonment, because you’re useful, despite everything. And “useful” is a bunch of kinks (none of which I’m comfortable mentioning here).
oh no, animal ears are feet
yeah. cat ears are feet!
can someone turn this into the calvin’s dad dialogue
oh god, this is so obviously calvin’s dad dialogue that now I’m worried that I plagiarized it without realizing it
the two types of tumblr post are calvin’s dad and rule 34. all posts fall into one of these two categories. despite being kink-related, this post is actually calvin’s dad.
In my ultimate form I’ll one day become the tippenfunkaport of chipped catra, there’s just so much untapped potential! Off the top of my head I can easily list off 7 different Little Sisters
Catra chipped internally and externally, regular show ver, but they didn’t remove it fast enough and the chip became permanent after the war
Externally chipped catra that ISN’T internally chipped and holy shit she’s trapped inside her own body
In/external chipped catra but she’s off the hivemind and doesn’t understand why she’s acting the way she is (gay for Adora [this is the one I wrote for Shade In The Light of Horde Prime!])
Number 2 also proposed the opposite INTERNALLY chipped catra that isn’t chipped on the outside and so fucking confused at what is happening
DID catra learning to live with a chipped alter who fronts half the time
Catra that isn’t chipped internally or externally chipped BUT it’s still fucking there. It’s embedded deep within her subconscious. Adora gleefully tells her Horde Prime is dead and Catra starts CRYING, then freaking out that she’s crying because it’s not joy but GRIEF
Catra that is completely not chipped internally or externally. She’s free. She’s fine. She. She’s missing something though… There’s some sort of empty hole in her chest. Oh god does she. Does she miss it??
I used the language of internal / external to explain some of these in a more digestible way, but don’t think that means there’s only a flat number of possibilities! An advanced Chipthusiast can create lots of unique Little Sisters simply by dialing her internal experience in various directions!!
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