I feel like George R.R. Martin was doing that with incest. Starts out with shocking incest between twins, and then spend a bunch of books getting you used to the idea until you find yourself reluctantly cheering for a dude hooking up with his aunt.

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I feel like every time I hear “neat” it’s meant semi-sarcastically. Like, okay, I guess that’s kind of interesting, but it’s not really relevant or I don’t know how to continue the conversation.

“So, not that it relates to anything we’re talking about, but I’m a world champion in this one very niche thing that you’ve never heard of.”

“…neat.”

It looks like there’s no walkway along that street anyway, so why go to the corner just to walk on grass anyway?

Edit: just noticed the whole thing is a walking path. Disregard.

At my old unit, we somehow managed to justify (and purchased) a really nice 3D printer for my shop. One of the pilots came in at one point and printed a 9 inch long purple spiraled Unicorn horn with NVG mount locking points built into the base, and attached it to the flight helmet of another pilot who everyone thought was a bronie. It was a masterpiece and fit perfectly.

Seriously, everything up to the introduction of Alfheim was fantastic, to me.

Then they just kind of… went a different direction with it. I even liked the romance story arc until they turned her into a fuckin Damsel In Distress.

I think my favorite part of that is the pair of tiny hands passing that double deuce right back.

I don’t get it. Are most trans women gay?

They’re prepping for the first week, and amassing guns to take from more prepared people after that. To them, Doomsday is their opportunity to go Mad Max style. They’re looking forward to being the bad guys in every post-apocalyptic film, the raider group everyone runs and hides to avoid.

A fighting game (like Street Fighter) but it’s all young children, in various schoolyards around the world.

So, like, some Jurassic Park/How To Train Your Dragon/WoW Dragonflight mashup type of thing?

It’s funny that the only reason I understood modern speech of an ancient story is because I already knew the ancient story.

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You don’t want a masochistic sword. Swords should be sadistic.

But you definitely want a masochistic shield. If it’s a switch (toss a spike on it), even better.

Got some Erza Scarlet vibes.

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Then it’s a pretty stupid metric. A small country could imprison and torture half its population and still be a tiny fraction of total people in prison.

That being said, there’s obviously way too many people in prison in the US right now.

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I’m not arguing with your point at all, which is a good one, but this one hits me kind of funny. In Coast Guard aviation, the Rescue Swimmers (the guys who jump out of helicopters to save people, are in incredible shape, etc) have two main jobs when they aren’t actively flying: work out, and sew. Their shops have several industrial sewing machines in them, and they are excellent with them. You rank up and need new patches on your uniforms? Leave them in the swimmer shop with a six-pack, they’ll get done better than any shop you might take them to. A lot of the survival gear gets made or repaired by them, so they have to be good.

So it’s just funny that the most hardcore, masculine men (and women) in the Coast Guard all sew for a living.

Love and accept others.

Look, I’ll accept others, but that’s as much as I’ve got. What I can offer is indifference and disinterest unless they are being unjustly attacked.

I’m not interested in the details of your sexual orientation, but if someone starts shitting on you for it I’m there to back you up. You go by “they?” Cool, easier for me, everyone is technically they. You go by “she?” Sure, that’s what it looked like. Somebody goes out of their way to use a gender pronoun that, confusingly, doesn’t match what you look like? I’ll point out that they’re being dickish and silly. It’s not because I love trans people or pansexuals or queer people (not picking them out, I don’t “love” cis-het people either), it’s because I think people shouldn’t be shit on for who they are if they aren’t harming others.

So basically, I don’t want to have sexual orientation, genderidentity, or anything like that to be a constant topic of conversation, just like I don’t have to constantly hear about people being cis or straight, and in that I share the words, at least, of many of the right-wing people I know. But the reason we still have to is because assholes want to attack them wherever they can. I long for the day when I can stop giving a shit because they are so accepted it’s not an issue.