We *need* more stories where friendship is portrayed as important and equal, ones *without* making it a competition between friendship and romance where one has to win.
It's sad that TNG is the only example I can think of.
if ur ever worried that u don't respond to messages fast enough, know this:
i just got an email from a job i applied to three months ago. saying they're looking to hire me. there had been no contact from them before this, and they took so long to respond they had to offer me a different version of the job (since it was scheduled to begin roughly two months ago). idek how to respond to this, it's Three Months late and they're still trying to hire me
sometimes i hate-read papers about translation efforts because anthropocentrism can't conceive of xenodiplomatic methodologies that aren't fucking terrible
aba
this is worth a read, if you can stomach an entire article on how aba treats human children worse than the legally mandated treatment of dogs. and no, that's not an exaggeration—aba is sometimes compared to dog training, and this is an actual dog trainer pointing out that no, they're nothing alike. dog training is Humane
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own