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it breathes thru those things that are like flowers from its butt
gj team skippy
an XXL shirt strangled my father
i agree exactly. i don't think it's particularly fair when modern marriage is indicted for what it was 2000 or even 200 years ago.
that derpy slug too kawaii
had to bump beyonce and the water furry surfboardt guy out
well, then that's something we have in common
Ah, I see. Yeah.
I will agree with all of this with the caveat that just because poly relationships appear to be more complicated to manage w/r/t the issues of trust and camaraderie (as you mentioned), I wouldn't necessarily say these things make those relationships inherently impossible.
Also, separate from that, some people do not prioritize those things to the same levels you might assume most people would, I imagine.
So I was just reading about those 50,000 volt stun belts some US courts use...
it's also hard to replicate the sort of long-term existential ennui that you get in a monotamous marriage
oh, did i typo? *giggle* silly me
You should have gone all the way to Charlton Heston at the end of the planet of the apes level.
i didnt know that you were mormon feral
My marriage certainly isn't very patriarchal, if that's any consolation.
Even discounting my trans status, our gender roles are pretty blurred, and we expect very similar things from each other -- none of it due to either one of our gender assignments or identities.
That no had a degree of acceptance to it. It was the last rejection before his mind reached acceptance. There was no trace of acceptance in my no.
Well, I do wear magical undies.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
yussss
twitch.tv/tehsloth
That dont make no sense
I get it.
Is this code for self harm?
right. yeah. i mean i think that is fine. my arrangement with frankie has been maybe more traditionally-gender-roled than some people's but in general we have settled into roles that aligned with our abilities and characters and preferences. she likes to drive and i like to cook. she tends to be negative and i tend to be positive. otoh she is a lot more emotional and i am more responsible, which is i guess more traditional maybe?
i guess i mean to say that pretty much everyone seems to find their own balance.
i have talked a little to some mormons, who really try to fit their marriages into traditional structures. it was kind of interesting because they acknowledge that it doesn't necessarily fit all that well, but that it's their conscious responsibility to try to fit the roles. the husbands need to learn to be responsible and decisive, even though it might not come naturally. the wives need to strive to be sensitive and supporting, though it might cut across their impulses.
which, you know, maybe traditional gender roles are sneered at by the broad left, but the general sense that we have a responsibility to our loved ones and our society to be better than our natures and impulses is i think a noble and lovely sentiment.
no
but interestingly enough i found him while doing a gis for "fat pikachu"
which is one of my hobbies
Serious response: i'm kind of going through a Thing(tm) right now so it's hard for me to say "I have an excellent long-term partnership!" But the things that are introducing stress in my life are the sorts of things that introduce stress into a lot of thirtysomethings' relationships - jobs, rent, ticking biological clocks. And I don't think that things would be significantly better if we were monogamous - just the flavor of suckage would be a little different.
It's not really an issue of trust, though. I mean, when you get to know somebody, and you get to know how they operate, that includes how they operate in other relationships, and from that familiarity and from shared experiences and mutual love and respect you (ideally) glean trust.
Meanwhile, part of the appeal of being nonmonogamous is that not every relationship has to be forever. Sometimes you want to have a relationship with somebody that only lasts a few months, and there's no pressure to progress on this timetable from dating to cohabitation to marriage to kids to retirement. That doesn't mean that those relationships weren't meaningful; it just means that you accept that they were finite. Just because a relationship doesn't have a long term doesn't make it a failure.
Kind of reminds me of this
Or any basketball game between Team USA against a fivesome from one of the lesser nations.
i guess that is where the infidelity and betrayal come in.
i mean since it's inevitable anyways we might as well institutionalize it amirite?
will true story i was gising fat pikachu also and i saw that
is this where we sing "endless love"