I started a sideblog for a kind of cursed project that amuses me. Basically, it’s intentionally bad forced masculinization captions in the style of unintentionally bad forced feminization captions, with what I think are some very good choices of pop culture characters. Check it out if that sounds appealing to you.
Today’s home quality advance was sorting a bunch of records, cutting the stub of a trunk lower in hopes it sprouts shoots below and forced wider by last year’s in pursuit of support when the trunk stub serves as mount for a table, and getting a double-stick incense burner and starting to figure good scents for the front room – from when I got into cologne I realized I’d been underappreciating smell as a sense to accessorize into. (So far I’m favoring frankincense)
not going to keep replying on that long thread because i love all my followers. but it is so funny to be like ‘well a poem could be totally apolitical. it could be about love’. the famously apolitical topic of love. courtship & sex? not an iota of politics in that, nuh-uh.
I wish I knew a synonym for normies that didn’t sound so internet-poisoned–“people aligned with mainstream culture in an unexamined way” is a useful concept, but I can’t describe it without sounding like I’m sneering.
We used to say “mundanes,” or, less freqently, “MORs” (from Middle Of the Road). But “mundanes” also sounds like you’re sneering, and “MORs” is obscure, so probably neither will do for what you want.