Made a chart for sorting fantheories

Got reminded again of my old coworker who was a massive misogynist but also trans inclusive. Told me he believed trans women are indeed women because "only women would be stupid enough to want to be women"

I wonder what he's doing now

He also aggressively corrected himself whenever he accidentally misgendered a trans guy we knew because "there's already more women than men in the world, the more numbers we steal from them, the better." Did that even when the trans guy wasn't around.

I need to point out that he was completely serious btw. This man had no sense of humor if he tried.

He was a cook at the restaurant/bar I was a bartender at, and almost punched a costumer once because he overheard him talking about how women belong in the kitchen. Told me he thought women should stay out of kitchens, that cooking is a man's job and when I asked him what he thinks women should be doing, he went quiet for a moment, then proceeded to explain to me the following

"I trust a bitch to run a kitchen as much as she can run a country, they should do shit like plumbing. Or electricity. Something you can just learn to do and don't need to lead, you know?"

Apparently women are good at "fixing shit". He claimed that he doesn't trust male plumbers or electricians except if they're gay because "something most be wrong with you if you want to go fix other people's houses, that's that maternal instinct"

Love that you guys seem to like the stories about my Guy, here's another. (also for context i need to say that english is not the language he spoke, and when i say 'fag', i'm using it for our version of the slur. Our Guy insisted that that's just how you call gay people in our language (it isn't))

We had an openly gay coworker who looked like it (crop tops, dyed hair, make-up) and he was often harassed by the waiters from the football bar next door. The gay dude had the same name as the Guy, who insisted that we would specify the he isn't gay, so they just became "Name" and "Not Gay Name". He was fine with that.

Oh he also once went on a rant about how he respects our gay coworker more than "those other fags" because "at least he has the balls to look like a fag, yknow? None of that sneaky shit where you can't tell if they're trying to fuck you or your girlfriend." When I then told him I was bi, he looked me over and called me some slurs before telling me that I don't need to rub it in that I can get both. Then he asked me if I think he's hot and when I told him no, he informed me I should stick with women because I clearly have shit taste.

He once accidentally bullied one of our younger waitresses out of an early eating disorder she was developing before working there (she told me about it after)

Boss gave us one meal from the menu a day as a job bonus, and we had this very shy seventeen year old working with us who was already nervous around men, but Our Guy was a 6'3 dude who only stopped yelling and cursing when he was not speaking at all. If he was the one cooking that day, he'd peek out of the kitchen an hour before he'd start closing it up, and would shout at you if you haven't ordered your meal yet because he hated cooking once he already cleaned. The waitress was scared shitless of him, and so whenever he would yell at her to "fucking order already", she'd panic and just pick something.

She didn't eat much but the first time she tried to throw out almost the whole plate, he got so personally insulted that he berated her for not picking something she'd like, and demanded to know what he did wrong. He got really upset about apparently not being able to cook something that this kid would like and I'm pretty sure he started putting in extra effort to make sure she would eat it this time? It lead to him quite literally standing over her like a hawk when she ate to "see her reaction" and demand an immediate review to see what he can improve.

She later told me that it she was so scared and awkward around him back then that it kind of overrode her fear of food, and that she still sometimes pretends she's back there, when she feels a bad episode coming on, so. He did do something good for the world i guess

Our Guy met a nonbinary person once when my friend came to visit me at work. He was just on a smoke break so I had to introduce them and when I said "They're visiting" he got confused and asked us how many people are there (and then threatened murder if they dare order something while he's on a break). I had to explain this man what a nonbinary person is, he thought about it for a second, called the whole thing "fucking stupid, there ain't that shit in nature" and then proceeded to very mockingly refer to them as (our language equivalent of) "your majesty" and use the pronouns you use for people you're supposed to respect (which is genderless and very formal)

My friend thought he was really funny before I explained to them that I'm pretty sure he thought he was being mean (but hey he it wasn't misgendering so yay)

Then (after his break) they ordered a vegan sandwich and we heard him cussing them out about how "they should pick a fucking struggle". Later I asked him about it and got told that "how much shit can you deny yourself? Cheese, gender, the fuck's next?"

"Cheese, gender, what the fuck's next?"

I like how his issue isn't with the "that shit ain't in nature" thing he mentioned, but the idea that being nonbinary is some form of self-deprivation and that they deserve a gender like everyone else.

More notes for The Study

This post made it to TikTok.

What a FASCINATING person

Adding OP's final addition so we can get it all in one reblog chain.

so.....is there anything with which the lion does concern himself ?

the four children who wandered into His world through the back of a wardrobe

I need you to tell me how you feel about me in very specific detail without me ever asking

I love fanfiction because sometimes The Character needs to be held gently and sometimes they need to be beaten to death with a club. and you 🫵 can make both of those happen. for free

i think theres something deeply and horribly wrong with me *remembers im a tumblr user* i know theres something deeply and horribly wrong with me

a cruel uncaring god for a cruel uncaring world lmao

Sometimes at work when I'm on Scarecrow Duty [standing still for hours] I write little awful poems in my head to describe movies I've seen

. First name Ryland, last name Grace Sacrificed to save my race Shot my ass to outer space Make friend in unexpected place Good friend Rocky, he is best Hear when organ thump in chest Friend with Human, watch when rest Invent foods he can digest

this was so beautiful i paused mid sandwich to write

Maybe I should make a fictional monarchy that always passes its secession to an opposite gendered child. Just to create new forms of court drama you understand.

Like the crown passes from father to daughter to son to daughter to son and so on.

Is there any irl society that would do this? No. Would it add an extra layer to who’s trying to kill which sibling and why? Yes.

"Look, it's really not that complicated. We just had a king. If we had another king right away, the people would get confused. And when the people get confused, bad things happen."

Woman murders man in broad daylight

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beautiful like to reblog ratio on this

That's because people are reblogging it every time they see it. Like I'm doing right now lmao

I think i’m my own dead wife

i know this has been discussed ad nauseam here but the way being elevated to sainthood is a dehumanizing process and the way extreme trauma alienates you from others are… similar. and my boy rocky gets both simultaneously. you saved us all! you’re so high above us! you’re so so high above us

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⚠️ Spoiler alert ⚠️ : he eventually becomes the Venerable's most specialestest little boy (who deserves a little murder as a treat)

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW. 

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in. 

*A couple of months later* 

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit. 

Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure. 

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family. 

Cassandra: Penelope, I’ve had another vision.

Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.

the original? on my dash?

and really i think the most perfect way to explore rocky's abandonment trauma and struggles with reintegration on erid is to make him chronically unable to thrum.

not just academic thrumming (because there's no way that a species would evolve gestalt intelligence without it bleeding into every cultural and interpersonal aspect of their society) but even on a smaller, purely social or familial level. he just... can't. maybe it's the kind of cognitive skill you need to keep using so it doesn't atrophy, and rocky had to survive alone without another member of his species for 50 years, maybe it's a complication of his PTSD from the blip-a days, where his brain shuts down any attempt to connect his consciousness to others to protect the rest of the group from his traumatic memories.

but just imagine being part of an intelligent species so hypersocial and tight-knit that you habitually blend your own sense of consciousness and self together as a form of problem solving, spending half a century in space in complete isolation with only the corpses of your crew for company, returning home by a miracle and you just.

you can't. you can't do it anymore. they thrum, and they call for you, and you try but it feels like there's a soundproof wall between you and everyone else, or you thrum back and the second the contact lands it feels like they're trying to crack your carapace in half.

oh, by the way, your alien best friend is starving to death. he's just about to run out of his food supplies and everything organic on your planet is deadly toxic to him. the only hope for him is synthesizing the nutrients he needs from scratch, so your people assembled the second biggest science thrum in history to do just that as a sign of gratitude and they would really appreciate the input from the human expert who spent next to 4 years in direct proximity with said alien. too bad the stupid crystals in your brain can't get their shit together even for two seconds to save your best friend's life.

I'm sure rocky only feels normal emotions about this.

little miss normal didn't hear what the group was talking about because she hasn't stopped reminiscing internally about how good it felt when she successfully managed to say her joke at the right time to make everyone laugh 30 minutes ago