@dysaniadisorder / @sanmightingale I owe u my life she's so beautiful...
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If your response to the information "an alarming number of people simply cannot read well enough to function in the society that was built around them" is "wow I'm so much better than them" i think you need to kill yourself
It's not like education will fix every problem but it is almost certainly one of the most important things to push if we want an improvement in material conditions for everybody. Writing off your auntie because she gets overwhelmed trying to decipher densely packed text and "professional" language is not going to build a better future for anyone.
they don't tell you how unfulfilling forgiveness is. you were horrible and i forgive you. i will not forget. i will not hold this against you. i think people can change. i will have always been hurt by you and nothing can ever change that. nothing inside me is different. i'm deciding not to hold this against you, just hold it inside me.
Emojis for convenience and humor: 🎨🖼🍆💦
I know someone's gonna yell bait about this but idc, like, what? Do you want proof? Video evidence? Grow up.
So I (30x) really like Goya's Black Paintings. Like, Saturn Devouring His Son, Duel with Cudgels, A Pilgrimage to San Isidro. I think they're hypnotic, beautiful, evocative. They make me feel emotions I can't quite explain properly.
As the title says, sometimes I beat my meat to them. Whatever. It's not really about horniness. But the intent doesn't matter.
Recently (in a discussion about sexuality in art, I promise it was relevant, similar sentiments were being shared) I mentioned to my partner (33nb) that I do this. They were pretty taken aback.
Apparently, they find this 'gross' and 'kind of dodgy' because Goya's black paintings were never intended to be shared with a wider audience. They were art that he did not mean to share, painted on the walls of his house near the end of his life. They say it seems like the work is too personal to jerk off to, that it seems invasive or like a violation.
I don't think it's a big deal. The guy is dead, it's not like his ghost knows what I'm doing. It's a good thing to consider, but I don't think it ultimately matters, ethically.
So, I guess AITA for this?
OP here with some updates.
1. Some people in the comments seemed confused by this so I want to clarify.
My partner is not dubious about the 'jerking off' aspect, but instead the spread of Goya's art when he did not intend for it to have an audience. They find the mugs, t-shirts, posters, and other merchandise just as ethically dodgy.
This isn't an issue of masturbation being worse, or "thought crimes" this was an issue of my engagement with the wide spread of Goya's most private works.
2. They have since caved and also jerked it to Goya's paintings just to give it a shot. Well, they tried. It wasn't for them. They get where I'm coming from (the paintings evoke strong emotions that are very complicated, beating your meat as a form of stimming can help you with working through these.) It just wasn't their style. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
3. Re: variations on "you couldn't torture this information out of me". Sorry you have so much shame about your sexual proclivities. Try unlearning shame and loosening up a bit, perhaps.
4. At the request of @monikererror, I will now be rating how much I enjoy each painting for this activity. Full review below the cut.
Ironically, creating and sharing this AITA post has publicised these works and increased engagement with them more than OP privately jerking off to them, so by the standards set by their partner, the AITA post itself makes them more the arsehole than the jerking off
HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND THE BEST FUCKING HOUSE EVER. I NEED IT IMMEDIATELY SOMEONE GIVE ME $3.75million RIGHT NOW.
What even is this??? Why are there so many shapes? Why is there a fake mining tunnel with cars about to drop off a bridge like in a bad western?
There is just. So much going on here. And I love all of it. Supposedly that garage fits 11 cars and comes with a lift and a painting setup.
IMAGINE the DND games you could have right here.
Look at this fucking castle shit. Apparently there’s a huge dumbwaiter to bring up your firewood. And does that support pole have a tiny rock climbing wall???
OH MY GOD IT DOES. And there’s a piano with…rails? IDK.
I have 10% of an idea what’s happening here but is that…bench? covered in a string of heads??? With some kind of…prayer kneeling thingy at the end there? What is happening. What kind of weird religious bastard built this place?
I have so many questions about this random mining tunnel thing. So fucking many.
There’s even a 3D tour available: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/36570-Us-Highway-24-N-Buena-Vista-CO-81211/2076799379_zpid/?
Please, I am begging you, take the virtual tour. I’ve been clicking around for 20 minutes and I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface.
i think its pathetic that journalists and even some casual speakers call twitter "X" now. weak fish behaviour. you dont have to play along
this can’t be real
He put them together at the kids table that doesn’t exist I’m fucking crying
its easy to make fun of this (and i think we should) but its also important to note the description of this new department that trump has given
[transcript: "together, these two wonderful americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies - essential to the 'save america' movement," trump wrote. "i look forward to elon and vivek making changes to the federal bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all americans."]
to be clear: trump is planning to create a new department whose purpose is literally to deregulate and defund government oversight. this will lead to corporations having greater freedom to fuck over consumers while making more money, and he is putting two billionaires in charge of it.
sure, maybe this is just a ploy to keep them quiet. giving them the illusion of power in exchange for backing him. but lets not forget all the regulations trump cut during his last term
which has directly led to the constant recalls of consumer goods and foodstuffs over the past several years. the recent e coli outbreak at mcdonalds? the boars head listeria recall? these are the products of deregulation. getting rid of laws and standards that protect consumers by making sure money hungry corporations dont cut corners.
the funny name is a smokescreen. keep your eye on these fuckers.
You guys can't comprehend just how infinitely thankful I am with how much you've helped my friend Nader and his family get closer and closer to their goal.
When I first started chatting with him, his campaign, which has a total goal of €50,000, was at a bit above €5,000 at the time, about a month ago.
Thanks primarily to this sweet 17 years old boy's daily efforts and the help he's received from some Tumblr users, we've managed to get his fundraiser to 91% of its total goal!!!!
We're so so close!!! This family deserves a chance at a peaceful, dignified life!
His campaign is verified. It's the 4th campaign in this spreadsheet.
If we reach this €50,000 goal, we'd be saving not just Nad, but several young children, his father Ahmed who's a cancer patient, and many others. Reminder too that an uncle of his was martyred very recently. Anything can happen at any moment, and he gets very disheartened whenever donations decrease. We need to get them all out of Gaza as soon as possible.
His little niece is suffering from malnutrition, and every day when Nad and I resume chatting again he tells me how exhausted he is. I'm very worried for him and his family, as there's people dying of starvation all around him and him and his family aren't doing well. His family has already been displaced NINE times!!
Come on! We can't slow down now!!!! Only 8% left to gooooo!!!
Continue to share the link to your socials!
Tagging for reach
turns out being repeatedly neglected as a child and only having wild animals (birds) and the extremely dead (prehistoric life) for comfort for the first 12 years of my life broke my brain or something idk
I think people habitually ignore my documented insanity bc they've convinced themselves that insane people can't be
a) articulate
b) in public life
c) knowledgeable
d) able to work with/past their delusions
e) in the workforce
so my being a fairly articulate, outside-going, well read actual paleontologist who knows that The Thing I Heard Was In My Head Actually freaks them the fuck out and breaks their brains
it's blatant sanism actually
wasn't going to reblog this here but given how much people like to say I'm ableist for *checks notes* talking about my experiences with insanity, I figured it was worth posting here
(I'm OP, it's my Jewish/social justice blog)
#fun fact my family is currently tryin to adapt to a really fucking late psychoses diagnosis#and all i can say us that uhhh#I really fucking wish that kind of thing was talked about more because#lots of people have these problems#and uhh the way we as a society treat people with these problems is not exactly helping ykwim
yeah society's sanism is... real bad. like bad enough that it warrants its own term outside of ableism or neurotypical-normativity
insanity poisons everything you say and do to everyone regardless of how well you manage it (ie: I avoided admitting I was insane publicly for a long time out of fear it would make everything I say be disbelieved)
and it is so "otherized" that people think they cannot possibly be delusional, psychotic, or otherwise insane
when actually making shit up or believing lies is a common brain tactic for dealing with an undealable-reality
and so while kids need to stop saying "i'm so delulu" on one side fucking adults need to stop saying "it's not delusional to believe x" on the other thanks
So the school I work at has a reward for kids where they can choose the music that plays over the intercom in-between periods and one kid has a shit ton of points and picked 1 song to play for the upcoming entire month and It's been playing this week. I'm not part of the people that put it on so IDK the names of the songs, usually it's popular stuff that I don't know, but this week it's felt SO god damn familiar and I was worried it was going to drive me crazy almost knowing it. Then I realized what it was from.
The kid has picked "My Time" from Omori. Holy fuck finally. Also are you okay 12 year old.
why did like 4 of my mutuals decide that boypussy thursday is a holiday now
true. Happy boypussy thursday everyone
Found this again
Jesus this gives me such a chuckle
Still gives me a chuckle
That new alliance raid is fucking crazy btw.
I ain't ever seen 3 consecutive healer LB3s go off and we still wiped
At one point I took a triple tankbuster by myself by invulning through it last second
I tanked the hell out of that shit
