Me: time to deal with this in a Positive and Healthy manner
Me: *stuffs myself so full of mashed potatoes there is no room for the emotions anymore*
Mashed potatoes are the Platonic ideal of childhood-nostalgia comfort food. I actually feel nostalgic when I eat them even though I never ate mashed potatoes growing up.
this apparently answers the question of whether your kink genes are inheritable. congratulations for Science!!
I assumed that this was proof my grandmother DOESN’T have a hypnosis kink (not that I had given it much thought).
Because if she did, why the fuck would she drop that on my Facebook?
My reasoning for asking went like this:
“I’ve heard quite a few stories of children who don’t know yet that they’re kinky* playing (or trying to convince people to play with them) unknowingly-erotic games. Therefore, it is possible for some people to have the fascination aspect of a kink without the accompanying sense of propriety, at least as long as they are not made aware of the sexual nature of their fascination. (Just because *I* was always very uncomfortable when my parents sang me lullabyes doesn’t mean that *everyone’s* anti-incest instincts adapt to their sexualities without prompting.)
There is insufficient data to even hazard a guess at how likely someone is to make that joke assuming the absence of a hypnosis kink, but–ignoring propriety, for the reasons given above–it can safely be assumed to be less likely than someone who does have such a kink making that joke.
(Yes, there are so many non-hypno-kinky people out there that a random person (maybe even a blood relative) telling that joke is probably still more likely than not to lack the kink, but I didn’t say it was a strong suspicion.)”
tl;dr The story sounded like stories kinksters tell about their childhoods as evidence they were, in hindsight, kinky, but with your grandmother in the place of the child (and age alone isn’t always enough to make you aware of your kinks).
*These stories are usually told by the children’s present selves, now adults and more self-aware.
Tags:
#reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #I may not have shifted the writing part of my brain entirely out of lab-report mode yet #sorry if it’s too formal
so I guess it was some ancient Greek who said “truth lives at the bottom of a well” and I don’t know what he meant or why it stuck, but I’ve seen a lot of 19th-century references to it (because people always love showing off how much they know about stuff)
but I like this because imagine how fucking pissed off you would be if you lived at the bottom of a well in the first place, but then you had to climb all the way out of it somehow because humans were such unbelievable assholes that you were forced to yell at them in person
I want to turn this into a meme, so that every time somebody spreads a terrible study or something I can just post the picture and they’ll know what I mean.
I really love the idea of 19th-century men of letters having a heated argument over correspondence, and one of them includes an engraving of this piece as the equivalent of a smug anime reaction GIF.
#Star Wars #The Force Awakens #rickrolling #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I haven’t actually seen the movie yet but this is still funny)
Well, I’ve been in the Bay for 15 hours, but I didn’t have wifi for most of that time. However, I now have wifi so I can now tell you that I made it!
When I arrived at the airport there were a bunch of people waiting there to meet me. Unfortunately, I have forgotten most of their Tumblr urls in the meantime. I remember @theunitofcaring, @endecision, @ozymandias271, @michaelblume, @luminousalicorn, and @chroniclesofrettik were there. I also remember a bunch of other people by face/voice.
We played a dice farming game, because Kelsey had a bag of 150 dice on her, because Kelsey. Alicorn was the most successful dice tycoon, while most of my dice died of malaria. We then located our cars, while singing the Hamilton soundtrack, and migrated to a sushi restaurant.
Alas, the sushi restaurant was out of sushi. This is apparently a thing that happens. We moved from there to another restaurant where we discussed the morality of Sith lords, the moral relevance of orcs, unprincipled exceptions in politics, and how exciting it was to have acquired an Alison.
Then everyone drifted off to their homes. Kelsey and I went back to her dorm room and cuddled a lot. It was during the cuddles that it really hit me that I had made it. It stopped feeling like a dream. I was safe. I was home.
I slept well last night.
*cheering, also aww-ing*
(By the way, I think you need to update your Tumblr timezone setting. My brain’s timezone-translation subroutine is throwing an exception: Error: Feb 3, 2016 3:21 pm PST has not occurred.)
Tumblr has timezone settings?
I assumed it just took the d&t from the computer where the post was made.
Also, :D :D :D :D we have successfully acquired an alison
Hmm, yeah, I’m not seeing a button for it. Might be her computer’s timezone that needs updating, then.
Makes sense, which puts the actual timing of her post…63 minutes ago, I believe.
Wait, did you calculate that from her old timezone rather than just looking?
…right, Tumblr’s interface has crappy documentation and it’s easy not to notice that if you hover over the top-right corner (the link to the permalink page) of a post on your dashboard, it tells you the time (your local time) it was posted.
*hovers over OP’s corner* “2:21pm”
*hovers over your post’s corner* “3:24pm”
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#I hope Alison doesn’t mind the whole timezone-mechanics conversation going on in her notes #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #the more you know #reply via reblog
Well, I’ve been in the Bay for 15 hours, but I didn’t have wifi for most of that time. However, I now have wifi so I can now tell you that I made it!
When I arrived at the airport there were a bunch of people waiting there to meet me. Unfortunately, I have forgotten most of their Tumblr urls in the meantime. I remember @theunitofcaring, @endecision, @ozymandias271, @michaelblume, @luminousalicorn, and @chroniclesofrettik were there. I also remember a bunch of other people by face/voice.
We played a dice farming game, because Kelsey had a bag of 150 dice on her, because Kelsey. Alicorn was the most successful dice tycoon, while most of my dice died of malaria. We then located our cars, while singing the Hamilton soundtrack, and migrated to a sushi restaurant.
Alas, the sushi restaurant was out of sushi. This is apparently a thing that happens. We moved from there to another restaurant where we discussed the morality of Sith lords, the moral relevance of orcs, unprincipled exceptions in politics, and how exciting it was to have acquired an Alison.
Then everyone drifted off to their homes. Kelsey and I went back to her dorm room and cuddled a lot. It was during the cuddles that it really hit me that I had made it. It stopped feeling like a dream. I was safe. I was home.
I slept well last night.
*cheering, also aww-ing*
(By the way, I think you need to update your Tumblr timezone setting. My brain’s timezone-translation subroutine is throwing an exception: Error: Feb 3, 2016 3:21 pm PST has not occurred.)
Tumblr has timezone settings?
I assumed it just took the d&t from the computer where the post was made.
Also, :D :D :D :D we have successfully acquired an alison
Hmm, yeah, I’m not seeing a button for it. Might be her computer’s timezone that needs updating, then.
Well, I’ve been in the Bay for 15 hours, but I didn’t have wifi for most of that time. However, I now have wifi so I can now tell you that I made it!
When I arrived at the airport there were a bunch of people waiting there to meet me. Unfortunately, I have forgotten most of their Tumblr urls in the meantime. I remember @theunitofcaring, @endecision, @ozymandias271, @michaelblume, @luminousalicorn, and @chroniclesofrettik were there. I also remember a bunch of other people by face/voice.
We played a dice farming game, because Kelsey had a bag of 150 dice on her, because Kelsey. Alicorn was the most successful dice tycoon, while most of my dice died of malaria. We then located our cars, while singing the Hamilton soundtrack, and migrated to a sushi restaurant.
Alas, the sushi restaurant was out of sushi. This is apparently a thing that happens. We moved from there to another restaurant where we discussed the morality of Sith lords, the moral relevance of orcs, unprincipled exceptions in politics, and how exciting it was to have acquired an Alison.
Then everyone drifted off to their homes. Kelsey and I went back to her dorm room and cuddled a lot. It was during the cuddles that it really hit me that I had made it. It stopped feeling like a dream. I was safe. I was home.
I slept well last night.
*cheering, also aww-ing*
(By the way, I think you need to update your Tumblr timezone setting. My brain’s timezone-translation subroutine is throwing an exception: Error: Feb 3, 2016 3:21 pm PST has not occurred.)
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#unless of course you are actually writing from four hours in the future #in which case could you ask near-future me if she liked her dinner? #Mom talked Brother into making something new and I’d like to know if I need a backup plan #reply via reblog #home of the brave #(yes yes I’m sure I could do way more with having a contact in the near future) #(not the point)
