Awooest Mawr @mawr@awoo.space

@talyxian aw! Are you watching the local timeline?

It's true there's not enough content for a full time distraction, but I've found there's enough to keep me occupied periodically throughout the day ^^

@IrisKalmia @Thaminga True, but it's important not to imply that as an option-- otherwise the ending of the friendship just becomes a more dramatic presentation of what is effectively an ultimatum.

@vahnj Consent is important! Don't just pick up a kobold. Then they get all flaily and grouchy. D:

Unless you mean like "ey bb how u doin" in which case oh hell yes, that right there is saving a life and also potentially broadening horizons. More power to you!!

@rowkey@mastodon.art FREN!!! :D

@IrisKalmia @Thaminga I hate this option because ultimately it comes down to "because you did this thing, our friendship is over." No alternate options provided.

I feel least bad about doing that because the alternative would be an ultimatum, and ultimatums carry inherent coercion... and we all know that coerced consent isn't really consent.

So the only option is not to offer a choice, and I hate it, but I see no other straight-forward solution.

@literorrery I can relate to this feeling so very much.

"I want to stop being a cog in the machine for just long enough to produce the art my soul yearns to make."

@IrisKalmia @Thaminga [continued]

If they're getting too friendly with them, I might step in and say "I don't think I can maintain a friendship with you when you're so close to people who might literally want me dead."

With that, I'm ending my friendship with them on my terms, not forcing them to change.

By making the move to end the friendship over those ties, I'm enforcing my boundaries under my own power, not making my problem theirs to fix.

Consent is important.

@Thaminga @IrisKalmia I have so many mixed feelings about this problem, and the answer I've come up with isn't one I'm happy with, but it's the one that leaves me feeling least bad.

When I see someone being friendly with pro-fash folks, I try to recognize that as privilege in play, and rationalize my upset in that context if for no other reason than to try to bare in mind that it's not reasonable of me to dictate to my friends what company they keep. [1/2]

@IrisKalmia Heh. I took DARE as a challenge? I started smoking cigarettes at age 12 and pot at age 14. ^^;;;;

@Fuego Whoa.

@IrisKalmia I remember that the people I was asking didn't have very good answers, and I took that as my answer instead of continuing to ask questions that were clearly annoying them.

I did not trust authority much as a kid. ^^;

@eidolon Oh no D:

Solidarity at least, I'm stuck in a long morning meeting, too

@Kentaro @Ratttz The Socialist uprising in Seattle is fixing some of that on a local scale. There will be a measure on the next election's ballot to institute a flat 2% income tax on all Seattle residents that make over 120k/year IIRC.

@IrisKalmia Yuuup. I remember asking about that when I was younger, too.
"But why do they need our fingerprints?"
"Because everyone has to do it!"
"That doesn't explain why. We've done nothing wrong."

The U.S. has always been a police state. I just grew up with it and assumed it was normal.

Like seriously. I watched this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG8o-9JgCpk
And I found myself thinking "that's what you get for not submitting to the will of the police"

Because that's how things have always been, y'know? "Here's your neighborhood police officer! He's (and always he) your friend! People who are mean to him should be thrown in jail!"

D: D: D: D: D:

@zetasyanthis It's definitely up there. :D

This video is probably among most expensive shitposts ever made.

(cw: musical, theatrical death, gore)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI
"Shia LaBeouf" Live - Rob Cantor [3:07]