I know the kinds of stuff I say about otherkin often come off as mean spirited, but may I vent for a moment?
What's on your mind Kexruct?
No, Imipolex, that is a bad thing.
Spinor summed up what I was going to say.
I said this in response to a post about an otherkin documentary:
The problem isn’t the spiritual belief. The problem is that very often these people are appropriating cultures that would have a thing like “spirit animals” on only their most superficial level so they can say stuff like “I’m a wolf.” Like, I’m not going to argue about spirituality because that’s utterly pointless, but from a psychological or biological perspective it makes no sense. Being “a wolf on the inside” would require you be non-sapient and, y’know think like a wolf. And the problem is, they just sort of graft superficially animalistic qualities on themselves and pretend it’s the same thing as actually being that animal, and that’s simply not how it works.
Long story short: You’re not a wolf. You like the recognition that comes from saying you’re a wolf.
Which made that one otherkin friend I have upset, and caused some of her legion of 1200-ish followers to send me anonymous messages basically saying because people identify as otherkin, the idea is immune to any sort of scrutiny and I just need to shut up.
Like I said the other day, I always talk about how stupid teenagers are and how no one should take what they say and do seriously. It's high time I start practicing what I preach.
I can see how that'd be insulting rather easily. Though, yeah, that would help your cause to chill about other random people on the Internet on Tumblr doing whatever.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I feel better now, somehow.
I should do something fun tonight...I wonder if I'll finally be able to get AU to watch the Gravity Falls two-parter with me...he never seems all that interested but I've been dying to see it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i mean like, even if it's something seemingly silly like thinking you are an animal or whatever, people still should be able to expect that, if they aren't messing with peeps, peeps won't mess with them.
Kexruct said: Pangur Bán said: Kexruct said:It's just something that bothers me, honestly. And frankly, something doesn't have to have ~massive world shaking consequences~ to be bothersome.
i get that it bothers you, but you can be a polite person and keep it to yourself
I'm not going out of my way to share these opinions. That wasn't a message I sent to anyone else, it was just something I posted on my blog.
but you knew one of your followers was an otherkin and would get bent out of shape about it and take it up with you, causing all of their followers to see it and so-on.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know
I always use robocopy when I make my weekly backups instead of the default file copy command
Because it seems to be the only built-in file copy utility on Windows that can preserve timestamps
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TURNTABLE JUNKIES
LET'S GET SCRATCHED OUT jikkyjikkyjikkyjik
that's pretty good.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I suppose I should be happy that more animated Terra is in existence at all.
I suppose I should be happy that more animated Terra is in existence at all.
i get that it bothers you, but you can be a polite person and keep it to yourself
I'm not going out of my way to share these opinions. That wasn't a message I sent to anyone else, it was just something I posted on my blog.
but you knew one of your followers was an otherkin and would get bent out of shape about it and take it up with you, causing all of their followers to see it and so-on.