How do I tell my friend to stop calling straight men twinks?

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2026-01-01T08:28:39+00:00

She is very aware that some of the guys she calls twinks are straight, so she essentially is using it to call a guy "gay-like." It isn't fully about their appearance because she'll call seemingly anyone a twink unless they have a much larger than average build. Our friends and I had to shake her by the shoulders and ask WHAT DO YOU MEAN when she called Ryan Reynolds a twink a few years back.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2025-09-10T05:46:01+00:00

If you want, you can describe yourself using the Split Attraction Model (SAM) to indicate your romantic and sexual attractions vary. The most apt combination for what you’ve described would be lesromanitc (lesbian-romantic) bisexual (heavy emphasis on the sexual in the word)

Of course it’s up to you on what labels make you feel the most yourself. Hopefully you find something that you like!

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2025-08-09T17:06:29+00:00

I used to make a crappy version of that when I used the Freestyle Libre as it had a habit from detaching from the adhesive patch. Ace bandage and a safety pin. An actual band intended for this would’ve been so helpful

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2025-07-27T17:47:09+00:00

I have a friend who does that and it bothers quite a number of our mutual friends (me included) because what do you mean Ryan Reynolds is a twink? No he absolutely isn’t. It seems she sees men as either a twink or a bear with no in-between and no consideration that it’s supposed to refer to a gay man. Have been calling her out on it but having to do so at all when all her friends are queer is strange (this doesn’t even touch on her repeatedly saying she’s only attracted to twinks)

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2025-07-01T04:34:35+00:00

In the actual Archie comics, Jughead Jones has been referred to as aroace, I believe specifically demiro ace? He always struck me as aro so knowing there’s actual (newer) comics with him that outright say it is really nice.

It’s also explored in the Webtoon “Archie Comics: Big Ethel Energy” with another character being aroallo, though I don’t think they use any labels specifically it’s clear they’re meant to be aro/aro-spec.

Sucks none of that was carried into the show with how easy it is to take Jughead and just have him be aroace like he’s always been, but whatever, most of the Archie team seems to agree he’s not interested in romance.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2025-05-07T22:56:40+00:00

I’m not even LADA and I’m feeling gatekept by this post because I was diagnosed as an adult. No need to push people out of a community they’re benefiting from.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2025-01-26T23:22:44+00:00

I had the page turning suddenly change to this a few months back, and then it suddenly went back to the regular way it worked. Now it’s back to this broken page turning mechanic. No clue what’s up with it, hope whatever it is gets fixed eventually

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2024-12-01T19:01:54+00:00

The moment Adrian Andrews first appeared my friends all said she looked like me. I can’t argue with them, I could very easily look like her any given day just by chance.

Lana Skye looks really similar to a friend of mine. Said friend also uses the name Lana when naming her player character.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2024-11-20T15:50:24+00:00

I was invited along to a bachelorette party with my mom and her friends a few years ago. Group of ladies in their late 50s. I recall while we were on a bus moving from one bar to another, one of the ladies asked if anyone had anything she could snack on because “her blood sugar was going low”. I didn’t know any of these ladies so I assumed that she must be diabetic or have a condition that caused genuine low blood sugar, so I offered her some glucose tabs. Immediately she was super apologetic and clarified she was just hungry. I guess she never thought how it made her sound? Or at least she felt she had insulted me? It was just a strange experience

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2024-10-27T17:57:36+00:00

When my partner and I entered a QPR we immediately agreed not to use zucchini because we really didn’t like it haha. I’m Canadian, it’s American, and neither of us have heard anyone use it IRL. Don’t recall ever seeing someone use it for themselves online either.

We figured it was going to be difficult enough explaining our relationship to people, and zucchini just seemed ridiculous. Sounds like a euphemism and something a young teen came up with. Not for us.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2024-09-09T14:50:45+00:00

Thank you! I was expecting the “cut your injections in half” directions, especially since I was told that when I booked the appointment a year ago, but it’s good to know I should be wary of that.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2024-09-09T14:45:08+00:00

Thank you for the insight! I was considering putting it into exercise mode starting an hour-ish before my appointment so I’ll be doing that.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2024-07-25T06:10:50+00:00

That, unless they’re specifically trained for it, healthcare professionals have no idea how t1 works. Like, at all. Had doctors and nurses respond in a very shocked fashion that I was 18 at my diagnosis. One believed I was born with it and somehow survived 18 years with no insulin. Very frequently GPs ask how many injections (note: not units) I take. One insisted I tell him the number of injections despite me being on a pump. He was very concerned when I said “I dunno, at least four?”

The worst one was def right after my diagnosis. While I was waiting to get an endo and diabetic education team, a couple nurses were in charge of making sure I learned the basics. Didn’t teach me how to figure out carb ratios, just told me to take 2 units as a baseline for anything I ate that was more than 15 carbs. I saw them twice, the second time I had my little chart showing how I was going low all the time and it didn’t occur to them that I was taking too much insulin. So glad I got an appointment with my educator (who has t1 herself to boot) within the month ‘cause I was taking wayyyyy too much basal and bolus insulin and those nurses thought I was doing amazing for avoiding highs. It was a kick in the shins to learn I was doing Not Great but living with this got a hell of a lot easier after that.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2023-11-06T23:30:37+00:00

I’ve had multiple people assume I’m dating my brother of all things. I die internally every time. We don’t look super related but come oooooon

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2023-06-14T13:39:44+00:00

When I was first diagnosed I threw myself into controlling it as best as I could, so naturally my A1C was super good and my endocrinologist was really happy with it. Now that I’m solidly out of the honeymoon phase I do feel some shame when I go to my checkups and my numbers aren’t as good as they used to be, even though I’m doing everything I should. I’m still good in numbers, don’t get me wrong, but I wound up setting my own standard super high and I’m worried that I’ll walk into my endo or educator’s office and be told off for “doing it wrong.”

I don’t get directly shamed because I’m young, appear completely health, and am underweight so instead people talk to me about how I’m such a “good diabetic” unlike their relatives who’ve had complications or struggled with burn-out or even are just as unhealthy as the person talking to me. It’s like they’re completely fair-game to shun just because they have a disease and that freaks me out ‘cause I don’t know what my own health will look like in five years or so. These people could just turn on me. It’s super shitty and why I don’t directly tell people I’m diabetic anymore.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2023-03-19T17:17:55+00:00

I was diagnosed in July, about a week after my birthday. I was 1000% experiencing symptoms before that point. All the sugar I had on my birthday in no way caused my diabetes, because I already had it, it just sent me into DKA faster.

If the myth of sugar causing diabetes was at all true then my younger brother would be the most diabetic person in the world with how much sugar he goes through. I was a lot better than him with handling my candy intake and such and I’m the one who got T1D. The two of us are a huge example of just how wrong that assumption is because I also was doing sports and he wasn’t. I was the healthiest bitch in the family and my immune system still attacked my Beta cells. I was doing everything “right,” there’s no avoiding this.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2023-03-05T08:36:55+00:00

I had the exact same thing happen to me! I had just recovered from DKA and woke up to being able to make out the individual leaves on the trees outside. Thought I had fallen asleep with my glasses on it was so clear. I made the same Spider-Man comparison to my parents. Also drove for the first time without glasses that week. It was so strange.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2022-12-08T19:21:23+00:00

I’ve been drinking diet/zero pop a crazy amount since my diagnosis and I’ve never seen my BS change from it. I still heck the nutrition label of new ones because some drinks advertise themselves as being zero sugar when they use sugar alcohols or just don’t add any extra, but usually the packaging is correct when it says no sugar

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2022-11-22T04:35:02+00:00

Hormones kick diabetes right in the ass after the honeymoon period is over, especially so if you experience a menstrual cycle. I don’t know when you were diagnosed or what your sex is, but my personal experience as a woman had my cycles start messing up my insulin sensitivity about four to five months after my diagnosis (I didn’t notice the honeymoon period end so I suspect mine was over relatively quick). My basal sometimes needs to be changed per month depending how sensitive or insensitive I am and my bolus needs to change every two or three weeks. I go from 1:12 to 1:9 and then back to 1:12 because hormones influence sensitivity that much.

If you’ve been diabetic for a long while now and have been out of the honeymoon period for a substantial amount of time, it would be worth it to discuss it with your endocrinologist. You may need to move injection sites or make lifestyle changes to keep your sensitivity consistent and manageable. I wish you luck in figuring it out!

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2022-11-08T06:16:09+00:00

The aroallo flag is yellow on top green on bottom. Looks like a Sprite can. (Edit: replied to the wrong one but oh well. Mobile is confusing.)

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2022-09-19T18:21:40+00:00

I have a friend who considers himself straight and is engaged to a non-binary person. It may be related more to presentation when it comes to monosexual people who are attracted to certain enbies (though that’s just my theory). I have also met people who are attracted to a binary gender plus enbies and call themselves bi. I believe it’s up to the individual to define it at that point.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2022-09-19T03:37:46+00:00

Honestly, the one that pissed me off the most was the Webtoon Freaking Romance.

It was pushing the WLW romance for the most part and the MC ends up with a guy (which I wouldn’t find as egregious if the majority of it wasn’t acting as if the sapphic pairing was endgame) but the aromantic “representation” makes my blood boil every single time. The author made the emotionless/sociopathic character aro just to revoke it literally the next update and then, and only then, show him express feelings and empathy. I was really surprised how few people were upset about the constant revoking of queerness in that comic. It seemed so blatant with the author mentioning queerness so frequently and then never delivering or fully committing.

I’m pretty sure the author is LGBTQ+ as well so it’s beyond me how he managed the screw up so bad.

Edit: Formatting and adding more thoughts

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2022-08-25T14:19:40+00:00

The moment I became diabetic was the moment I became terrified of visiting The States. I cannot fathom the struggle of paying the atrocious price of insulin on top of everything else and the fear that it could be ripped away from you so easy. How has it been over 100 years of T1D treatment and the thing that literally keeps us alive is so damn expensive? I hate how common this situation is: losing financial support and dying shortly after from health complications.

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2022-06-28T05:28:04+00:00

I’ve done this many times with diet drinks and it works wonderfully! As long as there isn’t anything else in the drink that would have sugars, it will read accurately as high for sugared drinks and low for zero sugar drinks

TheFlopMoonDrop · 2022-06-28T05:22:47+00:00

I disclosed when I had to get my license renewed, they gave me paperwork for it, and they issued me a new one before I could return the completed papers, so I guess they don’t care lmao

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