It’s nice to meet all you. I am she/her, can speak Toki Pona and English (non-natively), and locatable on Reddit as MozartWasARed. The links at https://discord.gg/sEuSSDz6TQ and https://www.deviantart.com/triagonal/art/My-copyright-policy-and-the-impact-it-extends-into-906668443 are pertinent to me.
That’s how old I am right now, and my mum (who was already retirement age when she adopted me) passed away a few months ago (dad, who was not elderly, passed away corresponding to the pandemic). Looking through our old belongings feels like peeking through a window at another lifetime. I’m becoming a quarter of a century old next month for both of us.
Or being a certain sect of it like I can be seen as.
The third one (and for most people it’s probably it, in fact you could technically make the second one a subcategory of the third one, as narcissism is a condition of the mind, and no, professional analysis dismisses the idea I am a narcissist despite the fact many people seem born ready to leap to that conclusion based on the idea the room seems not to be read alongside some elements of pride I carry) brings up something that even as a technical neurotypical (depends on the definition) I don’t get. If a social rule is so important, why does society keep it “unspoken”? I can’t imagine God for example being like “well, these rules are important, but instead of giving you these rules on Mt. Sinai, I’m just going to have faith in you on this one” (going back to the narcissism part, I’d argue that to me, leaving it “to the norms” comes off as more what I would expect from a “narcissistic” individual, I guess Socrates isn’t welcome in our society). Of course, the other things are not out of the question, and there’s a bit of nuance omitted (it’s where my experiences diverge from my BF’s, in fact I phrased it with my BF in mind), but nothing deceptive,
True human connections
No, though not for a lack of trying. I’m not saying this because it’s what a downer would say, but we have similar formulated gifting programs where I live, and people have grown wary. It’s understandable anything that is close to the donation industry is going to inspire this. The askers even went from asking for super big things like play sets to remarkably small things like a t-shirt as there are always users. It feels like we’re going about it wrong. If I see people suffering on the dark side of the economy, I’d rather just personally offer them my roof to stay under. Why institutionally beat around the bush as they say? In the words of Shia LaBeouf, just do it.
Phantom hatred. Imagine for a moment, someone is calm, consistent, and composed one moment. You then walk into the room and it’s as if a curse causes the otherwise stoic individual to be overcome by a visible dislike for you. You examine yourself and can’t pinpoint whatever about you could cause this, but it happens wherever you go. In short, something unknown and unexplainable about you causes people to act out of their principles in the worst way, like reverse charisma applied to mass hysteria. If a schoolteacher is lenient enough to only give detentions for big misdeeds, by this phenomenon, your luck finds yourself with a suspension. If you know an officer who is lenient enough to give only community service for things as major as vandalism, by this luck, imagine them giving you a few weeks in jail and all it can be chalked up to is this metaphorical voice that directs people into hating you. And yet not a single person lets their rationale be spoken aloud.
My parents being dead.
Can it run Doom?
He made threats at gunpoint.
That moment when you take the advice to ride a horse the wrong way.
Thanks Obama.
We’re all Pokemon fans, and one year for I think Halloween, when we got tired of dressing up as Team Rocket and going door to door reciting the Team Rocket motto for candy each year (because we couldn’t agree on the best arrangement, and to be fair, I needed a break from being Wobbuffet), we dressed up as a female Team Magma grunt (one of my best friends), a male Team Aqua grunt (the other best friend), a female Team Snagem grunt (me), and I think a male Cipher grunt (my BF). As a joke, all of us except my BF (Cipher grunts canonically didn’t exist for raiding) pretended to raid each other’s candy and recruit people to our team, but everyone including onlookers got carried away and we ignited something. Whoopsadoodle.
Well I was in the two “ask” communities, but then a person in charge, who many are concerned about in regards to motivations, made sure I got both the boot (the “normal” part of the punishment) as well as a taste of unprovoked exposure (wut?)
One thing comes to mind, but it’s not really liked/understood.
Social incentive is just as much a thing as economic incentive.
No, but oddly the reverse is the case, where it’s illegal to feed the homeless. They’re afraid of poisonings.
No, but I have a neighbor (who is otherwise a recluse) who has been noticed mowing his lawn at three in the morning, also while not wearing anything.
I like to think this is their way of confirming the two universes are canon and that the characters are subconsciously aware.
Describe it to me, maybe it will.
Car washes. All those pretty lights and water effects are now replaced with an instant transition.