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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Just go and read/ask/listen to anyone who lived through a toxic relationship. Or an abusive one. In many cases the abuse goes both ways and this is exactly the type you’re asking about. It’s way more mundane than what you think.

    You seem to be framing relationships in a materially transactional way, which isn’t how humans typically operate. That exists (ie. sugarbabes & daddies, or some arranged marriages in very religious cultures), but usually what holds a relationship together is the emotional and psychological exchange between the two people.

    In cases where abuse goes both ways what holds them together isn’t that A is rich and B gives sex, but rather A uses their wealth to degrade B and B in turn gets revenge making A feel inferior in bed for example. Note it’s the emotional hook and not the action that matters. And it’s never just one thing, but lots of layers. So on top of that maybe B is also manipulative in a specific manner which makes A want to lash out in some specific passive aggressive way and so on. They get into a loop that gets more and more complex as the relationship progresses. And neither party wants to break up, even though threatening to do so might very well be part of the equation, because they’re hooked up on getting the next upper hand.


  • I don’t know, do they get along at all? What do you mean by “getting along” with each other? Have you got any examples?

    Psychos often prefer to do their things alone, although there are some exceptions, some even famous, like the Barbie and Ken killers whose real names escape me right now.

    But do these people really “get along”? I don’t think so. When you put someone toxic with a regular person, you get a toxic relationship. And when you put two toxics together, they don’t cancel each other out. They’re still toxic. They’re still fucked up.





  • The way the officers hold the people makes no sense. The hands are not bad overall but if you can do five pretty well then you wouldn’t suck at making the little kid’s hand- it’s wonky, if it were a person drawing you’d see a similar level of wonkiness on all hands not just that one. Also you would try to make things a bit more dramatic, if a person has this level of skill they probably can figure out gaze directions and enhance facial expressions a bit more to add to it.

    I wonder what the prompts were. It reminds me of Shaun Tan





  • I had to think a lot to remember then I saw someone mention their knee and I remembered I have have a scar on my own knee that is product of my own stupidity.

    I forget it exists for the most part, but if I had a chance I would absolutely avoid going through it. I fell off a skateboard and got a deep gush on my knee. It was stupid because I’ve never been much into skateboarding. I was just trying to pick it up hoping to “be cool” and impress someone. Stupid shit like that you know.






  • Okay so I don’t know if you’re into birdwatching at at all but that’s about the top speed of a peregrine falcon. Have you ever seen a bird of prey dive to attack?

    That’s also about the stalling speed of a passenger airplane, that is, the minimum speed it must fly at before losing lift.

    I couldn’t think of anything else that goes at around 300kmh but if I get new ideas I’ll let you know.