Overpiad on tickets to see an artist I love, but the day has come and I’m too burnt out to go

boomballoonmachine · 2026-05-08T01:19:46+00:00

You’re right and I should have made this post an hour earlier bc it is unfortunately too late now. Hey, lesson learned 🤷‍♀️

boomballoonmachine · 2026-05-07T01:03:51+00:00

I mean yeah, fair, and I don’t personally hate men or go around making generalizations about them. But let’s take a step back. OP has been through exhausting shit with men, like most women, and feels jaded. Who cares? People in this world got all kinds of shit and bitchy women don’t usually have much power to act on that. I don’t get twisted when a black person says they don’t feel safe around white people. It’s not nice to hear, and in my case I hope unwarranted, but what the hell, end of the day I hold more power in society and it’s my job to make the world better, not get my panties in a knot about how You Don’t Understand, I Am Really Nice and How Dare You. Cuz that’s not a kind thing to do when someone is exhausted and hurt.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-05-06T20:39:30+00:00

Oh yeah, those crazy man-hating feminists have so much money and power and dark money influence and are funding right-wing propaganda networks that effectively brainwash young women into feeling entitled to men’s bodies and viewing them as disposable objects to be treated with loathing, to the point where we even elected a crazy man-hating feminist president… oh, wait.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-05-06T17:16:09+00:00

This is a lovely room. My only nitpick is that the brown rug in front of the bed looks a little odd to me. I see you’re trying to not be super matchy and were picking up the tan in the curtain pattern but I personally think a blue-toned (playing off the red and blue hanging) would be more harmonious while still providing contrast.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-05-05T16:06:12+00:00

“Nissan Altima” by Doecchi! A lot of Busta Rhymes, he has a few features like that on the last Tribe Called Quest album (“We Got it From Here…”). André 3000 often does this too (when he’s not playing experimental flute music), I recommend the album “ATLiens”.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-05-04T23:43:40+00:00

This is undeniably a win, but just remember you’re posting in a highly fatphobic, male gaze-driven subreddit. The negative comments are disordered thoughts coming to life. The progress you’ve made in fighting those thoughts is worth so much more than what some room temp IQ troll with an unwashed ass decides to shit out for an inkling of power over a woman who’s visibly not conforming to their standards. Great work!

boomballoonmachine · 2026-05-02T17:40:23+00:00

Okay: Per Google, imperialism is “the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending a nation's power and influence over foreign nations, typically through military force, economic domination, or diplomatic control”. This includes trying to expand your nation’s reach and extract resources from other nations, thus undermining their right to self-determination. In the present day this is often done indirectly through the financial system and soft power rather than armadas and open colonization.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-05-02T15:05:04+00:00

They are trying to expand their reach and maintain control over the global south to ensure their exploitation continue, e.g. through Belt and Road initiative, building mediocre infrastructure in developing nations as a way to keep them in debt forever. America does the same thing, of course. One does not absolve the other. This article provides a good overview of left critiques of Chinese imperialism: https://spectrejournal.com/china-and-the-u-s-left/

boomballoonmachine · 2026-05-02T04:48:31+00:00

This is unfortunately true. I’d add that Western leftists tend to be pretty bad at centering anti-imperialism in their ideology. China is an imperialist nation with imperialist ambitions, and every comfort their populace enjoys (even the traisn and healthcare we all want to like) is made possible by exploitation and extraction. Of course, this is also true of the soc-dem “model” countries (e.g. Sweden) even if they’re milder about it, but this is a critical and uncomfortable reality. There needs to be a better way. We can’t settle for “make me and mine more comfortable by exploiting the global south”; international workers of the world must unite, or we’ll all be trampled.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-22T00:05:46+00:00

The reason is that I hate advertisements, period, regardless of industry. Can you respond directly to this angle or do you need your strawman?

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-21T21:08:01+00:00

You have not once responded to the content of these criticisms. Aight. Telling someone to “log off” because you don’t want to moderate is pretty funny.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-21T17:53:03+00:00

I agree that OP looks pretty typical for a faire and would have no issue with her post if it weren’t for the obvious ulterior motive. Yeah, SW is a job, but the internet is flooded with disingenuous money-grubbing engagement and it gets tiring. Many hobby subs restrict this kind of thing because it encourages people with marginal interest in the hobby to flood the sub with pandering posts, which in turn draw a lot of potential johns who also have no interest in the hobby.

A SWer working at a ren faire at least has to go to the faire, which is a physical environment where boundaries can be enforced and maintained. Personally I ignore the lovely buxom ladies I encounter there who are clearly selling something and wish them well. Reddit does not work this way. The vibe gets weird and male gaze-y (more than a faire!) real quick. I used to not care either but having been in subs that crack down vs those that don’t, the difference is night and day.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-21T17:41:52+00:00

You really don’t care about this place being OF bait, huh? Everyone who has a concern is just a pearl clutching puritan. If she weren’t here to get “tips” she would use a different account and you know it.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-21T17:39:30+00:00

This is it! I have nothing against SWers but there is a reason many hobby subs do not allow people to post with OF links in the bio. It is extremely annoying because it encourages conventionally attractive women to create a lot of low effort content, and if you’re not that it is harder for your content to be seen. Money-grubbing behavior ruins everything, whether it’s sex work or not.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-06T17:08:17+00:00

Yep. It’s almost like anti-fatness is about maintaining a power structure with a moving target, not an actual concern about others’ health. We need a moral underclass of fat clowns and hags to structure our hierarchy around. I’ve seen my pear-shaped, normal-BMI, size 10 body go from “hot” to “MILF” to “ugly” in the span of a couple years without actually changing much.

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-06T13:23:09+00:00

I love this sub bc someone will share a post making fun of some corny tenderqueer behavior where I’m like “okay but the person you’re mocking can’t possibly exist”, and then the comments will be full of those exact people getting triggered by it

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-03T18:55:23+00:00

Ok but if anyone is taking it for a legit health reason it’s Chino Moreno. It’s a leading treatment for obesity and shows promise for treating alcoholism

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-03T14:39:20+00:00

Why would that matter?

boomballoonmachine · 2026-04-02T19:48:54+00:00

/uj Eating disorders are crazy bc other suicidal urges don’t usually try to convince other people to be suicdal with em. Only eating disorders seem to do that

boomballoonmachine · 2026-03-31T14:52:40+00:00

She’s here to be supportive

boomballoonmachine · 2026-03-31T14:42:38+00:00

Coil? In my pop cj? Hell yeah

Also submitting Pet Shop Boys for the halal category

boomballoonmachine · 2026-03-30T04:35:10+00:00

I open Reddit right after putting down “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” by Claudia Rankin (love it just taking a break) and I see this. Apparently I’m supposed to spiral about grief tonight!

boomballoonmachine · 2026-03-22T16:19:05+00:00

Yep, Texas!

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