MossyFeathers

joined 2 years ago
[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

Community is absolutely still a real thing. In my experience, however, you have to be willing to step outside of the mainstream and you have to be willing to touch grass every now and then. Socializing IRL is completely different than socializing online, which is different than socializing in VR, or in voice chat, or so on.

That said, there absolutely is a case to be made for idea that "community" being slowly ground into dust, possibly intentionally so. The death of open gathering places, the rise of online-only interaction and so forth, erodes at the kind of socialization you need in order to build a community. My tinfoil hat theory is that it's easier to sow division in the unruly masses and keep them at each other's throats when everyone is alone, so the rich and powerful have an incentive to kill the concept of community so that it's harder to rise up against them.

At this point, I believe the places where you're most likely to find a strong sense of community will be within marginalized groups; people who've traditionally been downtrodden tend to band together for protection, relationships and support.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you can't avoid pissing on the floor then fucking sit down like a civilized, intelligent creature. Don't be a disgusting degenerate.

Furthermore, if this is some weird masculinity thing where you feel like less of a man for sitting to pee, then you need help. Sitting to pee doesn't make you look any less of a man. You wanna know what makes you look like less of a man? Pissing in the sink because you're too scared that you'll have your man-card revoked if you dare to sit while you pee.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago

This is my experience as well. Anecdotally, at least. Lately I've been slowly putting together a community of friends, and my anxiety and depression have been dropping like crazy. Between that and the self-esteem boost I've been getting from finally starting hrt, I'm actually starting to feel competent enough to tackle things like getting a job, moving out (I'm gonna go looking at rental properties with a friend tomorrow), going grocery shopping, things like that.

God, I've always wanted to be able to just do something so plain as going grocery shopping for myself.

I can also tell that the anxiety causes a lot of issues with my motivation from the fact that my wonderful mom always throws worst-case scenarios at me whenever I try to become more independent. She's been throwing the entire warehouse at me lately because I've been talking about how I'm moving out with a friend. My excitement has been turning to dread despite my friend's reassurance that they'll catch me if I fall; and as a result my motivation and ability to get out of bed has been plummeting.

But... Yeah. Anecdotally, it's not laziness, it's being anxious, overwhelmed, overstimmed, depressed, feeling lonely (I mean, what's the point in doing anything if no one cares?) and so forth.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

2 would be the closest I'd consider to being ideal. The handle kinda looks like it sucks tho.

Ideal would be the head of 2 with the handle of 5.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 14 points 3 months ago

That's a 100% reasonable take. You're just jealous that you couldn't come up with a more creative statement.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 20 points 3 months ago

The world around them is collapsing. Tate promises to have the solution. For whatever reason, his solution makes sense to them. So they follow him.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 10 points 3 months ago

That shirt goes hard.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If I had Q's power then the world would be a hell of a lot more furry, more lewd, and less fascistic. Also the cis/trans dichotomy wouldn't really exist because people could just change their sex when they wanted to. Doing that would also probably cure a lot of sexism at the same time.

Fuck yeah.

Edit: Picard was an asshole for not asking Q to fix a lot of the woes of the universe. Q wanted to be Picard's boyfriend; he absolutely woulda done it if Picard asked nicely.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 11 points 3 months ago

The Easter Bunny lays the eggs themselves. There's plenty of drawings of first hand accounts out there which confirm this.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Having black characters isn't woke anymore unless you're in the deep south.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what she's doing. She's trying to "un-woke" her own series. What a fucking loser.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 points 3 months ago

Nothing new here has been said except that enginetrap is gonna be at FWA. I'm exciteeeeeddddd. I fucking love their art.

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