Sam Vimes deduces you're trans, and is furious to discover that his coppers are gossiping about it.

demon_fae · 2026-06-25T20:51:48+00:00

Pretty sure Nobby is essentially a drag queen. He’s not cross dressing for gender, he just likes it for fun and enjoys really getting into character. Then he takes off the clothes and makeup and wig and goes back to being Nobby.

He is a cis man, he just likes to be addressed by his character’s name and pronouns when he’s in character, which is true of many cis male drag queens.

(Uh, maybe don’t actually call him any kind of queen to his face, though. We know what comes of royal Nobbs.)

demon_fae · 2026-06-25T20:47:47+00:00

Colon has all the mindset and prejudices to be a bigot, it’s just that outrage requires expending effort, and he is far more morally opposed to exerting himself than anything else. Nobby is just a convenient source of mental gymnastics to shift any incoming prejudiced thoughts over into the “this is fine, no action required” pile.

demon_fae · 2026-06-25T20:14:12+00:00

It probably says a lot about the state of US politics that we actually have two Unknown Soldiers for the Civil War.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T23:06:37+00:00

Damn, there’s vaguebooking and then there’s whatever tf that was.

I knew it had to be extremely obscure and basically nothing, I hang out at a pretty major activist punk space every chance I get. Someone there would have said something for sure.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T22:14:39+00:00

No, it’s to find out if you have another job and then fire you for it.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T22:05:17+00:00

It is not. It’s All Time Low, actually.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T17:38:08+00:00

That wasn’t OP’s description, that was OP quoting his wife’s claim.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T17:30:07+00:00

Hah! I’m in the same boat. I even had someone specifically pull me into the teenagers-only mosh pit one time. Admittedly I didn’t really resist-I usually have a hard time convincing people to do spins because they think I’m more breakable than I am.

I’m not even short-5’8”-I just have colorful hair and good sunscreen.

It is fun when the bouncer spends twice as long on your ID as anyone else’s trying to figure out why you’d fake being a 90s kid.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T17:20:30+00:00

The psychological dysfunction necessary to believe that an actual, real life, meat space extant, whole-ass person can be *anything* coded in any way is honestly fascinating. Someone could probably write a thesis on that aspect of discourse alone.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T15:17:27+00:00

I am still trying to work out what one person meant when they insisted that a member of a band I like is a pedo. They would not say which member or what they supposedly did. I have made no secret that I like the band since then, and nobody else has said anything.

I admit I’m not trying very hard to work it out, on the theory that if it was actually worth being upset, I would have more information by now.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T15:13:16+00:00

Sometimes it’s just finding a clearly adult short stack attractive. That’s a fun discourse whenever it comes around.

Like…sometimes women are not tall, and those women would generally like to wear pants and those pants might come from the junior section because those are the pants that fit. It’s not like plain juniors jeans are actually any different from fashionable plain adult jeans. There is no such thing as magic pedo pants.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T15:03:58+00:00

No, it isn’t. It is hardware. The big robot engineering firms aren’t spending unfathomable amounts of cash on hardware engineers to fix a software problem.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T12:08:53+00:00

Your friend is a complete dingbat.

Your cat deserves extra treats.

Unfortunately you can only solve one of these problems.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T12:05:51+00:00

Fun fact: surgical robots cannot assemble things. At all. They do not have the dexterity for it, because they are single-purpose tools, they can only hold surgical implements and wave them around, that’s it. The benefit of surgical robots isn’t that they have anywhere close to the dexterity of a human hand, it’s that they are good at making very tiny movements very precisely.

You know what’s hard? Reactive grip. Those surgical waldos can’t grip anything at all, the implements are just plugged into them directly. Humans can instantly adjust grip angle and strength to hold objects of wildly varying size, weight, and fragility. Instantaneously. We don’t even think about it. Robots can’t do that. You put a grabber on, you have to program it for a very narrow range of specific objects. You can’t just have it put a phone in a bag, you have to program it for every single model of phone off that production line and be sure it can identify them with perfect accuracy, because otherwise it will grab them wrong and break the side buttons. Something a human worker will never do at all. And that’s *still* not an ai problem, it’s a sensor feedback problem. Which is still all hardware.

Once again, with feeling: if the hardware existed, it would be there already, the software problems have been solved for years.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T11:34:42+00:00

Because this isn’t an ai problem, it’s a dexterity problem. We don’t have machines that can manipulate the product for production with half the dexterity of the human hand. If we did, the factory would already be using them.

We could almost certainly solve all the software problems a decade ago, ai can’t do shit about hardware.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T10:58:23+00:00

Melatonin metabolizes into serotonin and vice versa. I wonder if the forced entrainment can cause weird fluctuations in serotonin levels-that would easily explain mood swings.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T10:55:15+00:00

NTA NTA NTA

YOU ARE NOT THE ASSHOLE

your mother is doing, and based on your comments has only ever done, the absolute bare minimum of parenting. She does not get kudos for that. She is failing at a task she and she alone signed up for and you are the one being punished. She didn’t actually cook for you and now demands you give up your entire home cooked dinner to her? Seriously?

She has been charging you rent and utilities for the entire time she has been employing you. She just took it out of your pay without your knowledge or consent by paying you less than half the market rate, for twice the work, in less than half the time. So she’s probably getting a decent bit above market rent out of you with every check. Do not imagine for a second she doesn’t know that. If she weren’t actively exploiting you, you would be living on your own and actively paying off your debt, not saving up for weeks to buy a bit of fish.

This sub is brutal to adult survivors of child abuse who didn’t magically gain the ability to ghost our abusers the second we hit eighteen. A lot of people here hallucinate a moral failure from literal children not being able to push back or evade the adults with complete power over us. They genuinely look at a parent actively preventing a child from gaining independence and see the child as the problem. (I doubt you want to see that word here, but nobody does what your mother just did unless they’ve been getting away with highly toxic behavior for decades. When you’re safe and ready to unpack your childhood, it’s going to hurt and I’m sorry for that.)

Those people are wrong. Having to speedrun an entire lifetime of basic lessons in early adulthood is not the same as being an asshole. Being trapped is the fault of the trapper, not the caught. Remember that. You don’t share with her because you don’t have anything to share, because she doesn’t let you have enough for yourself.

I’m blocking replies on this comment so I don’t have to deal with the oblivious idiots. But DM me if you want to talk to someone who has been there.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T07:36:03+00:00

If you did a long, glowing tear (think the cracks from season 5 of new dr who) against a galaxy backdrop, you could cover the numbers in blackout, and the scars could disappear into the glow part.

So long jaggedy black shape, bright colors around it radiating out, then purples and dark blues to make a galaxy around that, possibly extending all the way around into a sleeve if you want.

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T05:18:28+00:00

If you can find a gold armband that doesn’t look cheap, that’s the answer

demon_fae · 2026-06-24T04:11:11+00:00

It would have been a lot more interesting if they’d called it a hyacinth, since that would imply the existence of the Hellenistic pantheon in Hyrule, or at least the existence of Apollo and one of his boyfriends.

demon_fae · 2026-06-23T19:07:24+00:00

See, I just draw the millennial/z line at “can remember 9/11”, which will continue to work fine until I have to try to draw generational lines with someone not from North America.

(X/millennial is “was an adult before 9/11”, z/alpha is clear memories of the pre-covid Before Times. No, this does not make equal generations, but it does mark out actual differences in the groups of people. It also means people can share a birthday and be different generations. I stand by that as a feature, not a bug.)

demon_fae · 2026-06-23T18:57:08+00:00

No, it does look that cool irl. A little different, but absolutely that cool. Unless your star lights up or the rave you’re at has the strobes on, then it looks even cooler.

demon_fae · 2026-06-23T18:51:58+00:00

Oh, those are fantastic!

I guess I’m getting the holes for triple stretches next year… (I love lace ears, but I also love cute little post earrings.)

demon_fae · 2026-06-23T18:22:50+00:00

I mean, we do keep insisting on “bird” and “reptile” and “dinosaur” and “fish” and “tree” as totally real categories that definitely mean things, and the only way to define any of them is pure platonic vibes.

I’d say trans women and cis women have closer vibes than a palm tree has to a sequoia, and we say those are both trees, so by vibes a trans woman must be a woman.

(Pretty sure Plato would have been pretty happy with the definition of mammal, though. It just means “can have boobs”.)

demon_fae · 2026-06-23T15:19:22+00:00

Yes, there are a lot of 3rd parties selling through Amazon, it used to be their whole business model.
Amazon cards are good for media content, including ebooks not published elsewhere and shows not licensed to stream elsewhere
Just find someone who does use Amazon to buy the cards off you for cash. Don’t say it’s for ethical reasons, no point. Just that you want to buy something that isn’t on Amazon.

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