blight

based

tell him the internet weirdos say hi

tag yourself im the 4/5th soldier from the right with the face

Happy someone is finding joy in my agony haha!

Yeah the last time I declared my love to someone, I talked to them in a public place to make sure they felt safe, and I didn’t get angry. When I got up to leave, I had planned to just instantly walk, but it was actually they who initiated a goodbye hug, which indicated that they still trusted me, so I think I passed the initial vibe check.

Immediately afterward however, I tried really hard to rationalize their answer, which wasn’t “I don’t feel that way about you” but “I have a partner”. That still meant I had some narrow sliver of hope. – How do I know that this time I’m not rationalizing my current crush’s “leaning gay” in a similar way?

Later, I got really depressed, because I hadn’t done my basic homework. They had relatively recently started dating one of my closer friends and I didn’t even know. I felt totally socially incompetent and every time I met them after that it reminded me not just of my bad luck, but also my undeveloped social skills. So I got really awkward around the both of them.

Maybe I learned my lesson that time, and I’ll be better emotionally prepared now. But I feel like if there’s a concrete lesson from my previous failure, it’s not that it’ll be fine, but that I should do my homework to better understand the situation before getting courageous.

Then at the same time, I feel dishonest if I keep keep being their friend without telling them. Eventually it will probably either spread via rumor, or I’ll let it slip accidentally. I’d like to wait and give them time to forget about the negative experience with the other member, but that might take forever, since that member is still around, if a bit more distant, luckily.

I’m cis and I support this

GOOD post

even if shipping companies had to segregate Cuba and non-Cuba ships

wouldn’t that also be totally unfeasible? how many countries does the average cargo ship dock in? structuring your entire shipping plans around one little poor troublesome country just doesn’t make sense?

Unauthorized goodposting is to be punished in the manner of commenting the phrase "GOOD post" followed by an emoji that has not yet been used in the thread

phew its still a badpost, almost got me there

I just want to remind you that my posts here, while I do my utmost to keep them True and Fact-Based, are indeed cherry picked examples from my flawed love-struck memory. I’ll try to give some more complex context.

Basically, we’re in the same organization. Some of our encounters have been within that, and some private (and some in that unclear middle territory that any org usually has), and I really don’t want to risk developing any common traits with the Leftist Org Sex Pest. I know others of us have already hit on them, one in a very annoying manner at that, which is why I’m even more careful. We’re both pretty active, so if they get weirded out and I’m the straw that breaks the camel’s back, I would be personally responsible for the resulting fallout.

he choked on a beanis

Crushposting (now with even more overthinking!): I’m straight. I already knew they were leaning gay, but then they made the suggestion (in a group) to go to a gay bar. So I don’t know what combination of things this could mean:

• did they somehow get the impression that I’m gay?
• are they are looking for a gay partner there and therefore entirely uninterested in me?
• did they simply want to join our other gay friends out?
• did they know about my crush, and are they trying to gracefully get it through my thick skull that “I’m gay, you idiot, stop wasting your time”?
• or was it simply a spontaneous suggestion and not aimed at me in particular?

The last one? Ok thanks genius.

dunk tank

update: i am posting from bed