He said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said … : Today in Tweets

@Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
A disparagement habit used when speaking to a brown person’s mother regarding the son and his death. The bits and pieces of reputation accumulate. Variables.

IP and Sandra – Few of us are immune from this shit. I swallowed the “men want it all the time and never say no” bullshit and a long time ago, I unthinkingly refused to take no for an answer once myself. He never said “no” but I knew then, and am ashamed to have to admit now, that I blatantly disregarded his obvious reluctance to have sex with me. I’ve done a lot of other (thankfully consensual) sexual stuff in my life, but that’s the only thing that I’ve ever felt dirty about.

@dreemr, d’awww, it’s effortless with you, darlin’.

@Hambeast, are you doing okay?

@dreemr,
I’ve had the same experience with musicians and my son – “No, he’s dead too; yep, them too, etc. etc.”
I’m just glad my One True Love (Nick Cave) is still around, tho by rights he probably shouldn’t be 😀
Also, seconding what you said about PeeVee being so awesome – love you PV <3

@Sandra,
I'm so glad your friends had your back. What a toxic experience. Pls allow me to add to the list of kitties already provided. Hugs to you – and you too, Bina <3
This is Mei-Mei when she climbed up very high and was extra proud of herself:

Thanks, everybody, for the concern and good wishes. I got a mysterious phone call today regarding my missing kitty, and don’t know what to make of it. Apparently my mom picked up the phone, and some young guy, a kid by the sounds of it, asked if we had a cat named (kitty’s name). My mom said yes, hang on, I’ll let you talk to my daughter, it’s her cat. So then I came to the phone, said hello a couple of times, but got no response. Just silence, then a beep beep beep as the line went dead.

I tried to call the number back, but got only a generic voicemail message. This happened a couple of times.

Then my brother, who was in town for a visit (and who’s also a cat person, and very attached to my kitty), tried to call the kid (who sounded about 12 years old, if his curt little voicemail message is anything to go by) and didn’t get any co-operation either. So then he contacted the police and said he thinks we’re dealing with a prankster or a hoaxer here, because this kid let us believe that he might know where my cat is, but he’s not doing anything to help. It’s a cruel joke to play, if this mystery caller is a troll, because it’s got us all wondering and worrying and trying our damnedest, yet no closer to getting the kitty back.

But if this kid thinks he can get away with this kind of prank, a little call and visit from the cops might impress on him the seriousness of the situation, and he might learn something about hoaxing, and never do it again. One can only hope…

Anyhow, here’s a sweet little something to get all the bad tastes out of everyone’s mouths:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9BPTGwZBpc

(Doesn’t Smoothie have the most gorgeous eyes?)

Damn, Bina, if that’s a prank, it’s an unbelievably cruel one. >:(

Thanks Podkayne and Dimmy.

The egyptian-like nation isn’t very developed at all apart from the fact that the pharaoh is litteraly a god, or at least he have power far exceeding the normal for priests and mage alike. And I hinted for even more far-away nations, without saying anything specific about them.

Ohlmann: for a civilization colonizing the jungle you’ve got various examples such as the Khmer, the Maya, and civilizations that I know shamefully little about in the region of the Congo.

You’ll have to explain how it came to be that the jungle is uninhabited. Jungles around the world have been densely populated — and farmed — since before there were civilizations.

The only example I can think of would be New Zealand, which required advanced technology to reach (namely, ships that could survive weeks at sea and bring a load of crops and animals). The first settlers found an empty island, some of it rainforest — and some fantastical animals.

Numerobis : the explaantion will likely be monster in the forest, since it’s a fantasy universe and there *is* nasty monsters in that forest.

It’s likely a bit short of an explanation, but the handwave is likely enough, and I don’t trust me to show a nuanced indigeneous civilization in a respectable way.

@brony
I think open threads are fine for that. These daily tweet threads are open threads iirc.

PeeVee – I swear I’ve looked at this page of this thread at least three times and didn’t notice your question, so sorry!

I’m doing okay; the hardest part was calling friends who had a special relationship with our Catbeast; I didn’t want to just throw it up on fb until I’d done that. I’m still looking around for him when I go into the family room and feeling bereft when he’s not there.

Unless you meant about my confession in this thread? In which case, I’m as okay as I can be with it (it still feels gross.) I didn’t even think about it until I started reading lots of feminist stuff on the internets when I also had to come to terms with the fact that I’d been raped twice as well. I might go into it sometime if there’s a thread that seems appropriate.

I’ve always been a bit apprehensive about writing about that here. Not because of the regulars, but because of MRA trolls trying to make hay out of it.

ETA Bina, I really hope your kitty returns to you!

@Brony, I actually still have your post open from The Thread Which Shall Not Be Named! I am still thinking about it, though certainly not as hard as I ought. Mea culpa!

Hambeast, I meant both, actually.

I am so sorry.

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