LadyLikesSpiders

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[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (12 children)

My best drinking story is one told to me by my parents, because I don't even remember it. See, it was actually my birthday party in which I got very drunk. Also, I was 2

So apparently these old boomers thought "Oh it's only one tiny sip, she'll be fine. doesn't matter that she's 2", but they all had that same idea, and after a few "one tiny sips" I was one tiny drink toddler. Thanks mom and dad. Probably didn't help my brain develop very well :/

Anyway, that's the best drinking story I have because I don't drink. Not even because of this; I just don't much care for the taste or the feeling, so yeah

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I just think the poly relationship has more places where things can go wrong. In a monogamous one, you need to two people who like each other and are compatible. In a poly, even with only 3 people, you need A and B to be compatible, A and C, and C and B. Adding one extra person into the mix complicates the relationship 3-fold depending on the nature of those relationships. They don't all have to be in a relationship with one another, but you're still adding more avenues for drama and collapse in one relationship, not to mention how one relationship could impact the other. If A is having drama with C, the frustration of that failing connection could also impact their relationship with B. I think it's easier to fail not by any sort of moral failing of polyamorous people, only that the nature of those relationships is inherently less stable through its myriad of moving parts

But there is for sure an element of bias, where heteronormativity gets a pass for being the standard

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'm monogamous myself, but personally know two different polyamorous relationships. 1 is pretty damn good, and the other is rife with drama. Besides that, I tangentially know of others, and all of those are rough, though since I'm hearing of these from mutual friends and acquaintances, I could just be getting the juicy drama and none of the good parts. Could very well be that my info on those are bad

It does seem to mirror the general expectation, though, that most are unstable, and I wouldn't call it surprising. Relationships are complicated, and anything that has more moving parts is going to be more complicated. I'm not trying to suggest here that monogamy is the way to go by any means--different people have different wants and needs, and some people are just good for polyamory. I just think that a working arrangement like this is tough to pull off

Besides, this gets asked a lot about polyamorous relationships, but there are so many fucked heteronormative relationships, and you never see the argument that monogamy is wrong, so yeah. Just whatever makes you happy

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I'll agree to that for sure. A marked improvement

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I didn't know the versions would be so different, but it makes sense. There's no way they'd get away with selling Mt. Dew in Europe without getting rid of at least some of the alien blood and nuclear waste. I swear, if you put it next to a geiger counter, it makes a droning sound

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UYgORr5Qhg

Probably this one, tbh. The drummer is fucking wild

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Would love a world without rickrolling tbh. One of the jokes I never really got

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Erl Koenig is basically a black metal song 200 years early, and I love it

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I'm a lover of the romantics. I don't have any one favorite, but I like me my Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, Mussorgsky, Schubert. Not that I don't like others. Mozart, though not a romantic, is one of my favorites

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 years ago

It's never about states' rights. It isn't about religious freedom, or the children, or whatever they want to claim as their moral stand point; It's only about control, and believing that they alone are the sole arbiters of the correct way to be. It's about control, and it's about the justification needed to suppress, oppress, and harm

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

I am far more eloquent over text than I am in real life. If I were to speak the way I write, I'd be tripping all over my own words

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, I just chose Dr. Pepper for something anticlimactic. I do like Dr. Pepper, but it's not my favorite beverage or anything. Still could be a genetic thing, though. My dad hates Pepsi because to him it just tastes like soap

If I'm gonna hate a soda, it's gonna be Mountain Dew. That shit tastes and looks like it was harvested from the fertile grounds of Chernobyl

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