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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

It is so frustrating how often they get it right and then completely wrong!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I also have that aura, and I am here to lend credence to being able to see it in others, and them seeing it in me.

I have this cute phrase for when it's not just that aura but also the obvious background of trauma, "We have so much in common! I'm so sorry."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Mine is a super power in a crisis. The rest of the time it is a massive hindrance. But! I also think it's why I'm so unique and why I developed so many other skills, so I wouldn't trade it so much as living in a world that can't accommodate me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

This might be one of those things we haven't discovered yet, like the soap/cilantro thing.

Cucumber has a very strong flavor to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I can't get angry without a lot of reason, and even if I get angry, I can't stay angry, but that's on my specific presentation of C-PTSD.

Let's be unflappable twins!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Same here! Why isn't this a weird Olypmic?

...Why don't we have weird Olympics?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (5 children)

'Mansplaining' requires the explaining person to be a man.

You're entitled to having an opinion. You're allowed to share that opinion. You aren't entitled to people stopping to tell you why they think you're wrong. Nobody owes you the time to stop and explain things to you.

And receiving downvotes doesn't necessarily mean someone thinks you're wrong. It could just be that you're being needlessly antagonistic. An example of this, is how I'm removing my sympathy upvotes to your previous comments. You obviously didn't need my sympathy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Does the fediverse have a place for watch parties? Because a bunch of us are for sure watching Galaxy Quest today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I bet the weird censorship cut would've been a huge smash hit with the fans. (I'm one of them!)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

::: I spoiler tagged this long ass post in order to hide it from folks who don't care.

I'm not that person but I had the exact same thing happen to me! And let me tell you, when I was first watching it as a middle schooler, I knew they were in love! I didn't know that women-who-like-women had a word (lesbian), so I thought, "Well, if you're in love with someone, they're probably your friend. Probably your best friend, so that makes sense. But you can't just call them your girlfriend, because-"

I grew up in rural Oklahoma (and now live in Tennessee). A woman, who has a friend, and that friend is a woman, makes her a girlfriend. I still call women who are my friends, 'girlfriends,' even though it obviously could mean something romantic. So Uranus and Neptune probably couldn't just say 'girlfriend,' because all the girls who were their friends were their girlfriends, so 'best' friend is probably a friend who is such a good friend, that you're also in love with them. (This was the logic of a sixth grader.)

It's one of the reasons that Sailor Moon fans have always been so inclusive, have always stood up for other presentations or orientations. Why on earth would we support people trying to hide this stuff from children, when a not-so-small number of us knew what we were looking at when we were children?

To add to that, I might have had a very unique interpretation of the situation, because I would later learn that I was a demi bisexual (we didn't even have the word 'demisexual' when I was a girl) and what that means is... For me, I usually only want a relationship with the person who is such my best friend, that I also am in love with them!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Friend, you gotta not care about downvotes. If you bring attention to it, you'll get folks downvoting you just for that. And if you comment a second time, like you did here, you're going to get downvoted all to hell in the second one. Since it's obvious that you care, and folks on the internet love to irritate each other over nothing.

Future reference- just don't look at your comments again after you make them, unless you've come back because someone replied to you. No need to obsess over things you've said anyway. The internet will hate some, love some, and it won't always make a lick of sense. Put it behind you and don't concern yourself with it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

You just named 4 anime which aren't only relatively devoid of perverse humor, they're also not meant to be humorous.

I don't know of anybody picking up Attack on Titan, excited to laugh.

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