Varyk

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[–] Varyk 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

nothing shocking there.

finally 35, she can run for president, she should win. if I trust any politician to pull the States out of a nosedive, it's sanders or AOC, and I do like that she's half a century younger.

[–] Varyk 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Varyk 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Varyk 7 points 1 month ago

not here. I checked the rules, posts here don't have to be funny.

[–] Varyk 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"I'd do it all day."

this is exactly your problem, that you're okay insulting people. You are bragging about not caring about others.

You care about your own feelings and want everyone to listen to only your feelings.

Insulting people or claiming that you wouldn't mind being insulted doesn't matter here, it's that you're hurting other people.

"as long as it applies to the situation/male I'm speaking with it'll be business as usua"

that's how definitions work, not people, not intention, not culture, and not objectification.

you can choose in your mind to believe that an insult is not insulting, but that doesn't stop the insult from being insulting.

You are exclusively targeting women here.

You can attack gay people on the weekends and swear that you just like hitting people with bats, it has nothing to do with them being gay, but if you are exclusively targeting homosexuals, then you are attacking gay people, it doesn't matter what your asserted beliefs are.

You can claim you don't mean an insult as an insult, but if you use that insult, then you are insulting people.

You are hurting others despite what your feelings are.

"What about the term ladies."

that is socially acceptable depending on the social group and your intentions.

you can say "punk" as a friendly jibe with a friend or you can call someone a punk in a bar and get yourself ostracized or even get your ass beat.

your problem with using "female" is that it's used primarily as an objectifying term in casual conversation, so again, you can choose to claim an insult is not insulting, but that doesn't negate the insult.

Your feelings do not negate the feelings of others.

When you use that term, you are insulting all women using a shorthand to show that you do not respect any woman as an equal person.

"street whore. Should that be shunned too?"

yes, "street whore" is another insulting term that should not be used to refer to half of the human race.

"we should just abolish English..."

that is an impractical and unrealistic solution to your specific bigotry.

There's no reason to punish everyone for your selfish bigotry.

"I really do not understand these weird feelings..."

This is probably a symptom of focusing internally rather than on the community you are a part of.

Empathy is the key. If someone tells you how they would like to be treated, treat them that way.

If they tell you they would not like you to insult them, then don't insult them.

You can choose to insult them if you want, but that doesn't make you a revolutionary, just an asshole.

"hey follow some rule of feelings. It’s absurd."

This is correct because it's what you are insisting.

You are insisting that everyone follow your feelings alone and to ignore the feelings of everyone else.

Which is absurd.

[–] Varyk 0 points 1 month ago (8 children)

"I doubt any male would find this offensive."

nobody said they would.

"Call em males, they are afterall. "

go ahead, next time you see ir are talking about a man or men , say "hey, male" or "males like to..." see how they respond to what has become a derogatory, sexualized term for a person in casual conversation.

the demeaning objectification is why insecure men say "female" and men are not addressed as "males".

[–] Varyk 12 points 1 month ago

He is a rapist.

does explain everything.

[–] Varyk 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"the squid, measuring about one foot in length"

yes, still cool, but guys.....guys....

[–] Varyk 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Varyk 2 points 1 month ago

I used to find them at secondhand shops, and I also reused the ones I got from the store.

if you have a pressure cooker you can sterilize them, and the lids aren't going to fail right away.

that said, i eventually did just buy a case of new jars because I wanted the right jars for the job and uniform materials.

[–] Varyk 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

what the AI shit, wasn't this posted a few hours ago also?

why irritate and drive people away from maybe the most important political movement in the US in decades?

[–] Varyk 3 points 1 month ago

i watched the first episode yesterday and liked it, definitely interested in seeing where the show goes.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

Yikes, I only remembered one scene from this book, and somehow managed to forget

TitleThe Atlanteans slicing open living humans and aliens to harvest their organs in the blood and sowing them back up into mummies.

Pretty hardcore.

And there's some cute Tobias Rachel back and forth.

Man, I wanna morph an orca.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

 

Tons of good quotes in this one.

I like that inside cover too, how they can't actually show the guy

spoilerstrangling a dog,
even though of course it's described in great detail in the book.

Ax is so funny as a human. When he finds out that Marco's dad is dating, and ax's been getting used to TV, he says <Ah. Perhaps your father is Young and Restless. Those who are Young and Restless frequently change mates.>

Love it.

You know what else is interesting, that both sides in this war look like humans, they look like anybody else, even though both sides can turn into murderers at the drop of a hat. Sure. The aliens look like humans, but the child soldiers who change into animals all the time and kill people also look harmless most of the time.

And Jake has a great line about how they're all different and they have to deal with their trauma in their own way.

And also Jake said I love you to Cassie! Wooo!

Marco has this great quote:

"Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that's tough."

I am definitely an unlikely optimist, I wonder if this book had any part to play in that particular personality development.

 

A great book for Cassie, although her books are always the most difficult because so many of her choices are to go against her nature as a pacifist and make some kind of sacrifice for the greater good. Like literally letting two different aliens control her in different books.

We get to read some impressive morphing showcases here and this inside cover is great.

 

What a cool lady.

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The gang has a great plan to disrupt a dangerous new weapon and the plan mostly works until

spoilerTobias is brutally tortured to the brink of death by a sadist voluntary controller.

He and Rachel finally kiss at the end after she saves him and doesn't kill the sadist much to my disappointment. Tobias convinces Rachel that killing his torturer would make them as bad as the torturer, and I do not agree.

Weird skin tones in that double andalite drawing. And a segmented rattlesnake tail, which I don't think we've seen before either and the tail has never been described looking like.

 

I'm having trouble seeing the points and I noticed that they're a dull gray and I believe tinier than they used to be.

Has anyone else having trouble reading the points in the smaller new font or is it update panic mode and I'm not acclimatized yet?

 

Thought I'd throw this up since the link is missing from the op and it is a very cool catalog.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

Mean Rachel and nice Rachel! Marco can date nice Rachel and mean Rachel can break his arm!

It's a win-win.

 

It's unfortunately such a pop culture joke that I've never listened to it before now.

I just listened to it, and it's amazing.

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Mulling Over Morphs - #31 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

In which the brutality of being child soldiers is explicitly spelled out to dispel any doubt that these kids are not irrevocably traumatized when

TitleMarco reveals he had a plan to kill tom the whole time in a way nobody would suspect the animorphs of doing it. And obviously in the last book a bunch of them tried to kill Marco's mom, so their moral compasses are pretty much destroyed by having to constantly kill things and make awful no-win decisions result in them hurting people, themselves were being tortured. Oh right, they torture Chapman in this book also.

I like this book because they really let you know that things are not going to be okay and these kids are not going to pull up out of the trauma that's going to shape the rest of their lives. This war has already ruined their morality and ethics and general social interdependency, and things are not going to get better.

This is kind of the book where you know things are not going to get better or get wrapped up neatly, no matter what happens.

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