It’s true, just because a woman is your friend, that does not mean she owes you sex. But if you want more than friendship and she’s not open to more than that, you have every right in the world to express sadness and disappointment all over the fucking internet if that’s what you choose to do. Your feelings are valid no matter how much feminists try to shame you for having them. It is also fine to choose not to be friends with a woman for not giving you sex if sex is more important to you than friendship.
Totally acceptable human behavior: I am kind and friendly to someone both because I have feelings for them and because I value them as a person. I was honest with my hope that we would enter into a romantic and/or sexual relationship. However, this person is satisfied with being my friend and does not want to enter a romantic and/or sexual relationship with me. I am expectedly disappointed and outwardly sad, but I also understand that this is that person’s choice and I will respect that choice. I will also either continue being friends with that person because I value that relationship, or I will explain to them why I find it too painful to be just friends. If I value sex more than the friendship, it is okay because I would have made that very clear from the very beginning of the relationship.
Unacceptable “friend zone” behavior: I am kind and friendly to someone because I want them to enter a sexual and/or romantic relationship with me. I failed to convey those hopes/intentions, and lead this person to believe that I am a friend. However, this person is satisfied with being my friend and does not want to enter a romantic and/or sexual relationship with me. I am disappointed and therefore I will call my love interest demeaning names on the internet or to my friends simply for exercising their right to say no. I will lament the fact that I was so nice to this person and they still didn’t want to have sex with me and also stop being nice to them because they deserve it. If I value sex more than the friendship, I will likely have made this person very hurt because they legitimately thought I wanted to be their friend.
See the difference?
i’d watch it…
Yeah, you’d watch it
Except for
There’s no happy ending to that episode.
They don’t just pull the hood off the local real estate agent who curses them and then gets hauled away. They don’t get to narrowly escape and run as fast as they can from Zombie Island. No matter how far or fast they run, after that, even if it’s months down the road, the incident gone from their minds as they continue solving mysteries and hoaxes, no matter where they are, he’ll come back. And it’ll never stop.
That’d be a lost episode. A secret ending to the show stored away in one animator’s files, unknown, forgotten. Of course he hid it, there’s no way they could show it. The characters are too beloved. But that monster can not be stopped.
Just saying.
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This is something I would do.
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This is also the cover of ‘The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia’ an excellent book on the Ediacaran fossils.
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Lichens on a dead twig in my yard in Austin. We have had a lot of rain and the lichen fruiting bodies have sprouted.
(photo/text: Jim McCulloch | Flickr)
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At a quick glance these colorful photographs by Milwaukee-based photographed Jack Long might pass as some kind of strange exotic flowers, but a squint of the eyes later reveals they are actually high speed photographs of colored water, captured in a way to mimic the shape of blooms, leaves, and even pots.
Each photograph from Long’s Vessels and Blooms series is captured in a stunningly precise take that took months of trial and error to perfect. Like a mad scientist he creates cocktails of dyes, thickeners, and pigments for each component of the shot and then blasts them through a customized mechanism before snapping a perfectly timed capture. “This series was a culmination of months of planning and testing. Hundreds of captures are made in testing and then many more during the actual final capture stage. A very few stand out as being the best,” he says. You can see much more of his work on Flickr and 500px. (via oddity central) (by Christopher)
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