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edit: hey guys can i have 1 post celebrating being poly without random people implying horrible things about me :) thanks! if you hate the idea of poly just don’t engage. it’s simple!

genuinely one of the most enriching things in my life.

i used to see a lot of unnecessary snarky comments about polyamory on twitter when i was still on there, and sure, it’s not for everyone, and it never has to be for everyone, and some people try it out and have horrible experiences, but GOD if it isn’t the most intuitive and fun way to experience relationships TO ME

like, why would i have to limit myself to a single partner sexually and emotionally in a world where we figured out birth control and STI prevention? why is it supposed to be bad to have a crush on someone else if you have a partner? why would i kiss 1 hot person when i could kiss 2? maybe this is the autism talking but i just really don’t understand the social norms around monogamy as the default.

polyamory pros:
- you’re getting more relationship xp if you’re dating multiple people
- if you’re dating multiple people and you break up with one of them, you’re not alone
- it’s easier to realize that there’s a problem in a relationship if you have another one to compare with, and then you get to talk about it and solve it!
- you and your partner(s) make your own rules. define your own reality

polyamory cons:
- you have to communicate (i love talking to my boyfriend either way!)
- your wife might get fucked by another guy (which is a good thing to some)
- jealousy??? (i’m more jealous of my boyfriend’s cats than potential partners) (they get to cuddle with him everyday but i cant)

i love rainbows. i love clothes and accessories with rainbows on them, and i love making my own accessories with a rainbow color scheme. i love organizing random things in rainbow order. but there’s two things i HATE:

1- when the color purple is excluded from the rainbow. WHY??? why would you put a stripe of every other color on a sock but stop at blue??? the amount of things that are guilty of this are truly astounding. i can forgive cyan exclusion. i can forgive orange exclusion. i can forgive replacing red with pink. but purple exclusion? NO! it’s objectively the best color too :/

2- when something has a rainbow shape on it but then it’s like, 3 colors on there and they’re brown, depressed yellow and sad blue. or when it’s a rainbow shape but the colors aren’t in rainbow order at all. are people stupid??? oh yeah let me draw a rose but make the petals vomit color. let’s make clouds stripey. and women? they’re blue now. LIKE THATS NOT HOW THE WORLD WORKS. if you make art of a rainbow, you should be legally obligated to use colors that make sense and put them in an order that makes sense. if i see one more rainbow that’s a gradient from brown to beige i’m gonna kill someone with a gun. in minecraft. and it will be their fault.

now another thing, unrelated to rainbows. i understand if people want to wear black and neutral colors exclusively. it can be cool, even. but what i hate with a passion is when stores expect ME to buy colorless depressing things. I DONT WANT TO!!! WHERES MY COLOR OPTIONS? i was looking for 4 color pens with colors other than the standard blue, green, red and black, and i couldnt find any. in the largest store in my city. i get that those are the classics and school is starting soon here but guess what i was using to write when i was in school? purple. pink. yellow. light blue. apple green. i couldn’t imagine something more depressing than having to go to school and writing everything in black or dark blue. taking all my tests with a purple pen was probably the only thing stopping me from killing myself during my high school years. oh and i need to add a little color accent to my notes? let me look at all my color options and pick which one would be best 😋 but no. Big Pen has made its stance clear. it would rather see my lifeless body and my mother crying at my funeral than sell pens with fun colors. i should go to their headquarters and do something they’d never forget

everything ive said in this should be taken as a joke. for legal reasons

edit: please stop recommending me pens… i’m sorry but i really despise unsolicited advice. everyone so far has recommended individual color pens which i have an abundance of and not what i was looking for at all. and even if you find the thing i was looking for, there’s very high chances that id never be able to find it in person because we live in completely different countries. i’m not in the us

i’m from morocco and i think it’s a shame that moroccan people and government are more interested in european cultures than cultures from our continent, so if you’re from an african country i’d love to learn anything that you think is unexpected or interesting about your country or culture!

i’ll start with a fun fact!

many people think that the most common language in morocco is arabic, but it’s actually very different from the arabic that “true” arabic countries speak. i used to have a friend from qatar that could only pick up on a few words here and there when they heard me speak my language.

the most common language in morocco is darija, also known as moroccan arabic, and it’s pretty different from classical arabic! most of us learn classical arabic in school, but i struggled a lot with it despite being fluent in darija. it’s sadly not recognized by the government as an official language, and classical arabic or french are often used in formal settings instead of darija.

when texting became commonplace, and before smartphones made arabic keyboards more accessible to moroccan people, we all had devices with a latin alphabet keyboard, so we started writing darija with the latin alphabet, but also using numbers for sounds that aren’t represented by the latin alphabet! here’s what it looks like:

chof 7ta mamie b7alek kadra9a3 hhhh (this is a text i recently received from my mom!)

this way of writing is rarely ever used outside of texting and posting on social media, but recently i’ve been seeing it in ads more frequently! nowadays, some people choose to text using the arabic alphabet, while others retain this way of texting!

darija does have a lot in common with arabic, but it also draws influences from amazigh languages, which existed in morocco before the arabs invaded, and more recently from spanish and french, due to colonization. often, when it comes to newer, tech related terms, we’ll take a french verb and conjugate it using darija rules.

i’m really bad at arabic, but i’ll try to give an example to show how different the two languages are! this is how you would say “i went to school” in both languages:

classical arabic: ذهبت إلى المدرسة / dahabtu ila lmadrasa

darija (tetouan dialect): مشيت ن المدرسة / mchit n lmdrasa

the word for school is similar, although slightly different in pronunciation, but every other word is different! the sentence structure is also similar.

here’s another comparison: “the lion ate the rabbit”

classical arabic: أكل الأسد الأرنبَ / akala l’asadu l’arnab (i’m using an apostrophe to represent glottal stops)

darija (tetouan dialect): السباع كلى القلينة / ssbaa kla lqlayna

here, the only similarity between the two sentences is the verb “eat” (akala in arabic, kla in darija) but even then, the word order is different. i’m not sure if you can choose to use a SVO word order in arabic in this case, in an effort to make it more similar to the darija sentence, or if that would make the sentence less coherent, so if someone is actually good at arabic please tell me! (and tell me if you’d be able to understand the darija sentences if you only speak arabic!)

i believe i heard it often on 2016-2018 stan twitter, and it was often over a sped up video of something weird happening. the sample that was commonly used would start with the singer making those noises, then it would progress to the singer saying/singing something but i could never tell what it was. she might not be, but the singer sounded black.

the vibe of the song (or at least, of the snippet im familiar with) was strange but also kind of dread inducing? it was basically just vocals and drums.

i usually get paper tickets bc i don’t use the bus/metro that often, but when i take the T5 they only have those black machines you tap your card on. is there something i’m missing? how do i validate my ticket??

he said more people need to find out about it

my mom told me she used to bind her chest with tape as a teen because she didn’t like it. like girl that’s gender dysphoria

and when i was a preteen and didn’t understand my gender identity yet, i said something to my mom like “i feel like my feminine side and my masculine side are fighting each other” and she said “that’s just puberty” like girl… no it’s not… unless you’re not cis…

i’m transmasc and nonbinary, and i currently live in europe, but whenever i go back i always get more gender dysphoria. during my last years living in morocco i was super masc and i often got “mistaken” for a boy (which always made me sooo happy) and was convinced i would fully medically transition as soon as i could. but when i moved to france i slowly became more comfortable with being a little more feminine.

when i go visit my parents, i often start feeling the way i used to when i was more masc, and i start really wishing i could just pass as a man

i got a suncatcher and i absolutely love it. when it’s sunny it makes little rainbows and specks of colored light all over my room

but the problem is that this is only when it’s sunny, and even then, i only get about 2 hours where my suncatcher can catch the sun. it does make it more special, but sometimes i’d just really like to look at little rainbows on my walls T-T

i can’t seem to find any products that would achieve a similar effect without requiring sunlight. i’d love any suggestions!

IM BORN AND RAISED IN MOROCCO AND IM TRANSGENDER NONBINARY WITH PRONOUNS AND BLUE HAIR AND I KISS BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS !!!!!

I HAD LOUBIYA WITH BREAD FOR LUNCH AND DINNER 5 TIMES IN A ROW THIS WEEK AND I HAVE SEX WITH MY BOYFRIEND SO KINKY THAT IT WOULD GIVE YOUR GRANDMA A HEART ATTACK AND A HUGE BONER!!!!!

I GREW UP PLAYING 7ABA AND 7ADIDA AND IM GOING TO PRIDE THIS MONTH LOOKING LIKE A FREAK THEY SHOULD PUT IN ZOOS!!!!!

WE EXIST!!!!! AND IM AUTISTIC!!!! EVERYONE GET WOKER N O W !!!!!!!

i feel like i’ve been lacking in oxytocin and i generally feel a little lonely. i don’t really have any friends or family near where i live, so i can’t just go hang out with someone

i thought getting a haircut might be a good way to get a little bit of human touch, but ive been cutting my own hair and i need my bangs to be a very specific length and ive had too many experiences with hairdressers that didnt know how to deal with my curly wavy bangs 😭

any similar ideas that don’t involve someone messing with my bangs?

hello, ive been diagnosed with moderate asthma a few days ago, and got prescribed a daily inhaler and ventolin for asthma attacks, but i didn’t get the chance to ask my doctor what exactly that entails.

the way i’ve seen people describe their asthma attacks sounds way worse than anything i’ve ever had. i’m always able to breathe, and if i do start coughing after exercise or after i get exposed to something that triggers it, it goes away on its own after a few minutes at most.

should i still be using ventolin in that case? or is it better to avoid it?