glassamphibians
crimeronan

i got a 100% on this bostonian-to-english quiz but i grew up near boston..... i'm curious what you guys get. there's a couple things in here i didn't even know are regionalisms + a couple things i hadn't heard before but could parse pretty easily from context. tag/reply with what you got and if you're familiar with the area or not!

12/14 and i’ve never been to new england that’s what’s up bitchthese are mostly contextually definable especially with multiple choicehowever. i’d like to brag. it’s fun!
glassamphibians
mctreeleth

I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that's TRUE, there isn't, but honestly I DO think people who don't want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool

and so my suggestion is that y'all google "waxed cotton jacket" or "waxed canvas jacket" plus like, "motorcycle" or whatever style you think is cool, because there's a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn't use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.

*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway

**except beeswax but if you're going to object to that then honestly there's no helping you

mctreeleth

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waxed cotton looks so good and wears-in to a gorgeous patina and when it loses its finish you can re-wax it and that just makes it look even better and more patinaed instead of flaking off in horrible bits of microplastic leaving you with a ruined piece of clothing

you can do it yourself btw!!! you can wax a cotton garment you already own if you want!
rosenkranz-isnt-dead
tlirsgender

Mulder and Scully are sitting in their car and they're both thinking "am I a lesbian" and neither of them will say it. Mulder stays in the egg zone because being a woman "seems like a lot of effort," failing to realize that trans women can be butch & Scully likes to pretend she's simply career driven with no time for a man. But there's still that inexplicable longing. Their weird little tension. X files is yuri to me

tlirsgender

I want to stress that if Mulder ever transitioned she would look exactly the same. Mulder already looks like those 90s butches. You know.

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[ID: photographs of K. D. Lang and Fox Mulder, respectively. They have the same haircut and face shape. They're sitting with similar posture, wearing light blue jeans, and a brown sweater/jacket over a light grey shirt. /end ID]

i am going through this chain of posts because it is Meaningful and Important to Mefwiw this is exactly what i look like now and mulder is in no small part responsible for the type of lesbian i amx files

a cat’s favorite hobby is to take a 5 hour nap and then immediately upon waking up getting mad at you for not paying attention to them for 5 hours. girl YOU went to sleep i wasn’t ignoring you!!!!!!

orating!
naomiknight-17
shamebats

My child, who spends their entire life being transfered from home to car to school and back, and is not allowed to leave the house or talk to anyone and can only in their wildest dreams imagine a life free from constant surveillance, is very sad. Obviously they're dumb and lazy, like all kids these days.

whineandcheese24

kind of a tangent but i recently went to a bowling alley with my friend i'm 19 he's 18 and the woman at the door didn't want to let us in because there was a sign saying under-18s needed adult supervision. everything got cleared up and we were able to go bowl, but i'm still so mad about the fact that kids need adult supervision to go to a bowling alley and arcade. like okay maybe young kids should have supervision but what do you mean middle and high schoolers need to hold mommy's hand while they play video games. kids aren't just addicted to their phones because phones are addicting, we're addicted to our phones because there's nothing else to fucking do

shamebats

I'm sure banning kids from online spaces while simultaneously not ensuring that they have access to offline spaces to socialize in (without having to rely on their parents who already don't have time for them) will help them feel better & less alienated from society.

for many many years i was strictly required to be in direct line of sight of an adult at all timeswas not allowed to be in a room by myself even with the door openwhich is insane and also something i think i will never 100% recover fromthat was situationally specific to me but symptomatic of the larger problem this post addressesit sucks! it’s not good!it creates a culture of distrust in adults and isolation in kids and nobody’s happy