They Are NOT Beating The Old Man Yaoi Allegations

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I had an interesting night last night

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

the idea of public restrooms as "women's spaces" continues to confound me. you know who I hope is in a public bathroom when I go in?? no one. I would prefer no one else be in the bathroom. and if someone else is in the bathroom I am going to ignore them as much as possible. I did not go into the bathroom to connect with other women. I went into the bathroom to piss and/or shit. it's a toilet's space, not a women's space. shut the fuck up and let trans people piss and shit in peace. let's all continue to avoid eye contact with each other and any and all interaction in the toilet's space.

tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

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I have experienced what it is like to scream into the void and I'm never going back.

This is amazing, you just say the wierd thing that's on your mind??? And you don't have to keep it all in your head for the future-when-I'm-famous-that-will-never-acually-happen-so-I-just-keep-it-in-my-head???

And noone sees it because there are too many posts and noone acually cares about what I have to think, but not in a bad way, in like a I'm invisible and I can say stuff out loud without the invisible audience jugeing me because technically the audience is real, it's just not where I am.

Does that make sense? Probably not but who cares because noone will see it.

Posting on here feels like when you impulsively text a friend, but they don't reply right away, so now you're overthinking everithing and debating wether deleting the text is better but before you can they see it.

Or you just forget you ever sent anything and go on with your life untill your friend asks why the fuck you texted them about how 'Voldemort would look if he had a runny nose since he doesn't have one. Like would snot just be running down his face?' at 3 am.

okay but can you imagine—