Cookie Thread Act 4: katze thread

[CRichardFortressLies]

That probably has nothing to do with Hazard using that pfp for at least a month .

[May]

Nope we’re 20 questionsing it right now. Ask another question

[tutuu]

i was every variation of -ist and -phobic up until … i dont know. late teens to early 20s. everyone around me was. i adapted to my environment in real life. i mimicked everyone else, that was my survival strategy. i was under the impression that, if i do as everyone else, if i dont stand out, if they accept me for it => therefore that thing is good, correct. otherwise, its wrong, incorrect, because it would result in bad things for me. so it took me a while to realize my environment wasnt the whole world, there are multiple worlds out there all very different, operating on very different rules , and my little world was one of the few. and the rules of my little world didnt quite match with the rules of the worlds i wanted to be a part of, and that i could make a choice, once i gathered a little bit of strength to say “no” and reject people and refuse things and disagree with ideas

[notblackorwhite]

not to be too sappy or anything, but David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College (This is Water) is another one of those things where it changed my life for the better.

Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket’s checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have harder, more tedious and painful lives than I do.

the whole thing is worth the read, but i constantly remind myself of that line and it’s helped me just be more zen about shit that would otherwise be frustrating.

[Marshal]

haters cant stand to see me hold the reigning cookie title for too long

[Arctic]

@tutuu

i was every variation of -ist and -phobic up until … i dont know. late teens to early 20s.

you aren’t anymore??? okay we’re finished

[May]

Nobody is asking me questions how the frick am I supposed to finish this joke c’mon guys

[Arete]

what is their exact gender and sexuality

[May]

That’s not a yes or no question

[Arctic]

are they straight

[May]

You guys are making this joke difficult

[Marshal]

@Arete

quote this post to talk about a time when you (the person reading this) changed your mind about something important

I think I’ve very quickly come to have a principle of ~never changing how I speak, talk, act, etc. in different settings (beyond professional settings). I used to try and blend to whatever situation I am in, but kinda realized that there is genuinely just no reason to do that because I wouldnt want to hang out with people who didn’t actually like me for me.

basically the “be yourself to make friends” line but it’s more that I want to be myself so that I can get the right friends, not to make more friends.

idk just a fundamental shift of how I acted and thought. I think most people think I’m a lot weirder now, but also the ones who do talk to me are usually way likelier to be chill

[Arete]

are they your mom

[tutuu]

im wheezing LMAO

[Arctic]

i thought of some things which might get me canceled thinking about words ending in -ist

[Arete]

this was to May

[CRichardFortressLies]

If we host forum Dangaronpa there should be poker as well.

[May]

Not my mom

2/20

[Marshal]

part of this is also extrovert privelege b/c I am willing to talk to a bunch of ppl and that helps cast a wide net of potential friends, but i’m not gonna complain

[Arete]

are they straight