u/Marissa_on_the_town

I'm not being wierd or anything, just genuinely wanted to ask and hear other's thoughts about that

Like the society we have now is very lacking in helping people who are neurodivergent so I wondered how neurodivergent people would structure the world if they could.

And also I was thinking of some worldbuilding for one of the countries in one of my stories and wanted to explore that but my brain is not braining to any degree so I didn't want to do this alone, if that makes some sense

Hello and thank you for reading

Introducing myself has always been tricky for me but I'll do my very best and hopefully a good job of it :

You can call me Annette; I'm 23, live in West Africa. I studied social work and sociology in uni and currently working an internship at the same university for a year before I decide what to do with the rest of my life ... 😓

I grew up painfully shy and still am and got lost in my head a lot, basically raised myself half the time and was a lot stricter on myself than my parents ever were. Rules were always touch and go but I managed pretty well

So more to what would draw people in: Interests!
I like to read - mostly kid's books I didn't have the access nor funds to have growing up -, and I do like painting and just any art material from coloured pencils to clay. I love learning about new, fascinating things, mostly because of my greatest passion: writing. Well ... as of now it's mostly convoluted worldbuilding and getting overwhelmed by it but I'm going to get there, honest 😅

I also love stuff about, cats, fantasy, Ireland, slice of life comics, comics in general, adore colours - not any specific colours, just colours in general - glass pebbles, seashells by the sea shore, and good food, even if I'm a picky gal

I would just love to meet new people and get to make a long-term friendships with someone just as wierd as I am - maybe wierder, we'll make a life of it!

PS: How could I forget. Gotta add that I love the music from most musicals and wigs. Ohh and animation.

Like if you wear glasses, it's able to at least shield you from some stuff flying into your eyes, so that might be a bit of an advantage. Ups your chances and whatnot.

I've been meaning to ask for a while; literally had asking in the drafts for months now cause the right words to not have this all blow up in my face were lacking.

But I feel too low to feel anxious so here goes:

Some time ago I saw a post from this writer lady about the type of male characters she wishes there were more of. Bad at sports, have more emotions, have weird hobbies, aren't all brooding...you get the picture

And I felt like there's more about male characters that I don't know below the surface. Especially after watching an Overly Sarcastic Production trope talk about them and about how male characters are either: in a relationship, looking for a relationship or getting over a relationship, and a whole lot of other things.

So I thought, who better to ask about this than the fellas!. The guys I know aren't particularly chatty and so I thought maybe I could...ask here and see what I learn from others.

And that is what I came here to ask: if you, any of you ever had a particular kind of male character you wish you could've seen more growing up or right now, or any men's issues you wish were brought up, made clearer to you and maybe younger guys, explored more?

So my gran is here for the funeral of her sister-in-law and I want to talk to her and spend more time with her cause I've been isolating myself if I'm not at work during the week and she's not always here ... but I never know what to ask her and I'm worried I'm running out of time cause she's getting on in years...

So what kind of questions do you ask your grandparents when they visit or you visit them?

Like I know communism is a movement that wants to replace private ownership of every facet of the economy with public communal ownership. And puritanism was a religious movement that wanted to purify the Protestant church from Catholic influences.... but what would a communist puritan be like?

And I know communism and puritanism aren't exactly Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants level of friends, but people can vary . And then when this phrase comes to mind...what would it mean?

Would it be a communist who's very puritanical about how communism should work out, or like a puritan who engages in communism?

For a while now, I've come across what are basically videos from EMTs, nurses and firefighters, mostly in America, and more than once they have stories of older men putting ... interesting things up their rectums. It gets stuck...and now it has to be removed...and apparently other medical personnel also have these stories.... like having a frequent flyer everyone knew

And I got to ask....whyyyyyy? Like I get people can't help being curious, but...whyyyyy? Especially gents in places where sex shops exist and especially gents who put non-cylindrical stuff up there...or things too big or too small...and don't feel comfortable explaining what's up there when they do need help getting it out.

Just... whyyyyy?

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People always say you should give yourself permission to do this and that...but theres never an explanation on how to do that. What to say to myself to give myself permission? How to stop myself from falling back to needing permission to live out my own life? Why people feel they need to ask for permission to live their lives and exist?

I read this book A Strange and Stubborn Endurance about a year or so ago and couldn't find anyone to talk about it with so I started a server to find people to do just that. It was after someone else had mentioned on Tumblr that there wasn't a fandom so I did and now there's like 30 people and we talk from time to time in bursts of interaction...but its generally uneventful

Mostly cause...I don't know what I'm doing. I'm barely in charge of my own life and I don't know which way is up with this. So what do you exactly do when you are in charge of a server...or of a book club? Or of a server about books? Tips for either should be fine really.

What kind of activities am I suppose to be running? How many times are we to meet in a year? Should there be contests or like Fanart Fridays or stuff like that? Anything at all would help a lot

Why hire people to cook for you if you don't trust them not to poison you? Or make sure you don't get poisoned?

It seems a lot easier to cook it yourself if you're that worried about that so you know someone's definitely not poisoning you.

He was there from Jesus birth to 12 years old, since he went to the Temple with Mary when young Jesus was speaking with the elders... but not at the wedding feast with Mary. Or at Jesus' execution. They did mention him as "the carpenter" who is Jesus' father when the people of his hometown were rejecting him...but nothing after that.

So like...what happened to him?

Did he die some time between Jesus: age 12 and Jesus: age 33?

Was he no longer important to include during the compilation of the Bible--or his parts of the passages were just lost to time?

Was he just not as involved in his Son's ministry as Mary so there was nothing to say about him?

Did people writing the Bible think he was 'some guy', unlike Jesus and Mary and the Apostles and just didn't decide to add his parts in the writing?

Cause with others, they're alive and named explicitly in the Bible, (Solomon's parents) or alive and part of their kid's life but unnamed or one is named (like Samson's parents--his dad is Manoah, his mum is just Manoah's wife) ... they're probably dead and mentioned as dead (like Esther's parents) or not mentioned.

Edit: ...Yikes, people...I was just askin'. I get the answer's either tricky or straightforward, and I thank those who have helped me so far to wrap my head around it, but there's really no need for some of these comments. But again thank you everyone who's given their input

Not Jacob's boy; I'm talking about Mary's husband.

Like...what happened to him? He was there around the time Jesus was 12, cause he went to the Temple with Mary when young Jesus was speaking with the elders... but not at the wedding feast with Mary. Or at Jesus' execution. They did mention him when the people of his hometown were rejecting him...but nothing after that.

So like...what happened to him?

Did he die some time between Jesus: age 12 and Jesus: age 33?

Was he no longer important to include during the compilation of the Bible--or his passages were just lost to time?

Was he just not as involved in his Son's ministry as Mary so there was nothing to say about him?

Did people writing the Bible think he was 'some guy', unlike Jesus and Mary and the Apostles and just didn't decide to add his parts in the writing?

Cause with others in the Bible if the parents aren't having roles in the Bible (Solomon's parents) or alive and part of their kid's life ( like Samson's parents) ... they're probably dead and mentioned as dead (like Esther's parents) or not mentioned

So what happened to Joseph, husband of Mary and father of Jesus?