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Dance your sorrows away

@pellmelegy / pellmelegy.tumblr.com

Hello friend.

weird as fuck living in a culture where it's considered more impolite to speak up and defend yourself against someone treating you unfairly than it is for someone to be rude to you in the first place

older family members, coworkers, customers, and strangers in general can say the most batshit insane things to your face and somehow you're considered to be the "rude" one if you say "hey that wasn't cool of you to say"

by the way, quietly bottling your discomfort with someone and just hoping they'll "get the hint" until you can't take it anymore and then taking it to the nearest moderator isn't "setting a boundary" or "being victimized," it's actually called "being a huge piece of shit" and "expecting people to read your mind."

Sorry about your conflict aversion, but you actually need to tell people when they're making you uncomfortable. like, with explicit, clear, unmistakeable words that don't give you a safe cover of plausible deniability with which you can back out and "still be the good guy." It is kinder to let someone down face-to-face so they can hurt and move on knowing what went wrong than it is to lead someone on and then stab them in the fucking back, you know?

Also, I cannot stress this enough, it is not actually someone else's fault for making you uncomfortable when you literally make a point to lie to them about how much you like them by pretending you're enjoying their company more than you are. That's your fault. That's called making a bed to lie in. Maybe just desperately hoping someone who has already misinterpreted how close they are to you will just happen to pick up on the subtle signs of you desperately hiding your discomfort is, frankly, fucking stupid, and you need to get over yourself and say real words to them instead of getting some third party to punish them for your own inability to communicate.

Sorry this one isn't as nice as my other posts, but some of you need a wake-up slap. Stop fucking burning autistic people and trans women one-by-one because being a coward is easier than being a villain. It's not fucking nice, it's not cute, and the more I see it happen, the less forgivable it gets. Grow the fuck up and change in the scary but necessary ways.

Because it's kinder to tell someone when they're fucking up than it is to let them make the same mistakes in ignorance until you've secretly tallied enough transgressions to safely write them off as unforgivable, and thus disposable. Because I care about you, and everyone else, enough to give you a real chance to actually correct your harmful behaviors by being honest about the harm they cause. Because I believe people can make hurtful mistakes while still being genuine unintended mistakes, and that they can change.

Hint, hint.

Never coming out to my mom as aroace but telling her I don't like cake is just about the same experience

"but everyone likes cake"

I don't

"you've had cake before"

Didn't like it

"but there's that one cake you like"

It's just the one cake I'm willing to eat if I have to eat cake but I could do without it

"how can you not like cake"

Hate the textures and the taste is overwhelming. I like other sweets but not cake

"but cake is so good"

I still don't like it

"you haven't tried every type of cake"

I don't want to because I don't like the concept

Anyways my best friend once brought up ice cream cake when I said I don't like cake and my response to that is

That's not cake, that's ice cream. It's cake shaped ice cream. It looks like a cake but it's ice cream. I guess that's what our relationship is. Ice cream that looks like cake and everyone says there's cake but you and I both know there is no fucking cake it's a goddamn ice cream served in some fancy unconventional manner it's ice cream and anyone who tries to tell me that it's cake is a dumbass

Anyways I told my mom I don't want cake for my next birthday

That part is unrelated to my sexual orientation

If you write Star Trek fanfiction in McCoy's pov (I'm talking about 3rd person limited, not first person), how do you refer to him in the narrative? (+ please reblog and tell me why. Also tell me if you mostly write for tos or aos)

(If you haven't written anything in his pov, or only write in first person, just imagine how you would do it)

(Also I think Len/Leo/etc. counts under "Leonard" but you can also pick "Something Else" if you feel it's more fitting)

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