I spent so much of my life romanticizing the Great and Powerful Enormity of the Sea, reading about the salt and the sweat of the sailors straining to haul the sails or anchor while dreading the monsters in the cold, icy deep fathoms below…and now you tell me that a fathom is only 6 feet deep -
Six feet is still more than enough for a grave.
Hi, that is the most metal addition you could have possibly made to this post
the way people on here talk about the porn ban makes me completely fucking insane honestly.
yes I would love a return to the old ways.
no that isn’t something staff have control over, it’s a systemic issue with puritanical groups intentionally strangling online infrastructure to make adult content impossible to platform.
no that doesn’t mean the ban was value neutral and I will fucking kill you with my mind if you start going on about how ‘it just meant all the annoying people left’
sex workers left, and so did the high spending customers who made tumblr a viable platform for a lot of other small creators
a lot of sex educators and queer outreach groups also left, and nobody seems to remember that they were a huge part of the landscape here
you have to take the eradication of sexual content from online spaces seriously as an issue that affects more than whether you personally can post catgirl balls on one specific platform
there is no 'good social media’ in 2023 that will ever be equipped to solve this problem until the financial/cultural issue is addressed. decentralisation is your best bet. sorry.
I was hanging out with a group of ~7 people who were mostly or all poly, and mentioned reading More Than Two’s examples of problems that come up in poly relationships –
“I was flipping through it and going ‘this is trivial’, 'this is easy’, 'yeah whatever’ (sometimes with unwarranted confidence) and then I hit the scenario where your partner never has sushi with you, he refuses to try it because he can tell he’s going to hate it – and then he comes back from a date with one of his new partners and says, guess what, [she] got me to try sushi and it’s really good! And I went –”
I did not need to finish that sentence, because there was a cacophony of groaning & agonized writhing & knees being drawn up to chins. People did NOT like imagining that
That escalated so fast I feel like I needed a safeword.
