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They're not proud fascists. Like my dad is not afraid to say genocide is bad, and my mom usually doesn't side with fascism at all. Usually.
Seems like a really low bar. Yet, quite a few people do not reach it.
Not working
When I was a kid, they sorta did that on the local news from like March to July. Because they wanted to freak every 5th grader out about getting pinned and crushed by a loose mattress in tornado every morning... before they could even find out if school was canceled for the weather (it never was).
I hope that attractive people are aware of others well enough to know that not everyone wanna fuck everyone else.
I've never eaten paella. But I'd chuck the absolute shit out of Risotto over the rest.
Do you dress well?
No, because I will not be governed.
What traits do you associate with a person who prefers dark chocolate over milk chocolate?
Fans of cigarettes and black coffee.
Wow sounds too good to be true with absolutely zero downsides
How would you describe the color of your eyes? My daughter says mind are “cockroach brown”. 😅
Moldy citrus fruit blue
What was the largest animal that you have touched?
I don't know, I've touched a Clydesdale and a camel that were probably really close in height and weight. But I'm not sure which one was technically larger. I didn't touch them on the same day, though. My life will never be that interesting.
How are you feeling today? Don’t give me the “I’m fine” polite response. Give me the real deal.
I hate genocide and stuff so I've been crying every day.
They marry their 13-year-old cousin like Jerry Lee Lewis?
You are paired with 100 random humans, if you are better than all of them at something you win a billion dollars, what are you doing?
I don't want to win a billion dollars, so let me just sit and watch y'all have fun.
We’re you ever “parentified” as a child?
Yeh, kinda unceasingly. But besides feeling responsible and perhaps actually being largely responsible for my brother's well-being and care, I was responsible for my dad's as well. He used me as a therapist, a mediator, and a nurse and caregiver. When my parents split my dad, feeling obviously like between his two children I was most similar to our mother, put me in some of the roles she previously filled in his life. I was a proxy for his resentment towards her. If he was angry with me I was "just like" my mother. I was also responsible for his loneliness that he never made any attempt to better after their relationship ended. He made me his (only) friend, and that friendhip was deeply not a two-way street. He was a majorly depressed, untreated alcoholic, and I was responsible for his sadness, his happiness and all his emotional companionship. The other members of his family were at least somewhat aware of and encouraged that dynamic. I think my value to my dad's family was only connected to what sort of services I provided him. My grandmother "loved me" and praised me only in relation to me taking "good care" of my father when I was still a child. When my mother spoke to me, she truma dumped and told me things about their relationship that I was not old enough to know or process. Then I was also expected to keep these things from others/my brother.
I'm still very much not comfortable talking about any of this, and I still feel like I've "overreacted" to "normal" roles for the eldest child. I also get really anxious about certain kinds of cishet people having some of this information and going "oh, your dad made you the mom... I see" and using it in whatever "trauma = queerness" manifesto they are putting out. So it's just always felt like something I'm still not allowed to speak really very openly about, even with people I basically trust. I thought it would get easier to talk about as a I got older and people got wiser about other people, and in some ways it has. Buuut it definitely isn't what I'd hoped it be.
What is something that you have changed your mind about?
I used to think strawberries were ugly, but now I think they're just slightly below average attractiveness.
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