Alaska Native Manitou

Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford.  It describes the many contributions my people made to world culture.  Do you like chocolate, vanilla, strawberries, peanut butter, potato chips, soft drinks, gum, avocados, popcorn, pumpkin spice, chili peppers, most of the food you eat, most of the medicines you use, the movement to protect the environment & a democracy where women & poor people can vote (among many, many other things)?  You're welcome.

I heard a woman on a radio program say "If you don't have a child:  you are one."  So to her, anyone who happens to be infertle, both living Popes & the Dalai Lama are still children. 

My dad was married 3 times, but he sat me down & said he was worried about me not wanting to go on dates like the other teenagers. ?

My BFF said this song perfectly describes our friendship:  

The papa that means father is Spanish; papa as a name for the vegetable is borrowed from Quechua--the language of the Incas who discovered & cultivated the "potatoes" we eat today.

Actor Patrick McGoohan was likely demiromantic.  Those who knew him said he loved his wife dearly, but he refused any role that involved kissing or love scenes.  

Things are picking up on Arocalypse.

It's a lot more active now.  I'm getting notifications every time I come here, & there are almost always other members on the site.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/16-movies-that-shoehorned-in-romances-that-made-no-sense/ss-BB1g4tyQ?ocid=msedgdhp

That's why I prefer SGRM, which means Sexual, Gender & Romantic Minority.  It's more inclusive & less confusing than LGBT+ whatever other letters you want to add.

10 years ago I was diagnosed on the autism spectrum by a psychiatrist.  When I was in school I was sent to see a counselor every week starting in 3rd grade.  The teachers wondered why the one who was always considered the smartest in class couldn't make good grades or get along with other kids.  Of the many counselors I spoke to, not one ever figured it out.  They just seemed to agree with the teachers that I was stubborn & selfish.

As a Native Shamanist I often wish I could do flashy or dramatic spells like in a movie, novel or game.  Real magic is very subtle.

6 hours ago, Apathetic Echidna said:

I woke up yesterday with a song stuck in my head, so every free moment I have I listen to it and sing along. It is still stuck in my head. I'm still singing along to it. It may be the ultimate in songs-that-ship-people songs. 

 

Funny that this song is a parody of Jamaica Farewell which is actually about a man who left his girlfriend behind to travel.  Also The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson was definitely not a love story.  She only wanted to marry a human because she thought she could gain a soul that way.

17 hours ago, Apathetic Echidna said:

The general killing of humans is the basic premise to the opening introduction of the movie so when he talks about the lacking of love it seems like a big reveal moment. I guess he is declaring his love for her so it is a 'big movie moment'? but it just seems there was too much emphasis on not-loving = evil rather than 'I have switched sides because I love you'. Yeah, it is in it's own universe of bad. Twilight is like a Hitchcock classic compared to this. 

Actually, speaking of Hitchcock and terrible romance....

Spellbound (1945)

So the movie is classified as a psychological mystery thriller. It uses romance as the only justification for the female doctor to stay with and help the male lead. A situation that plays out like compliance bordering on mental instability on her part. I really hope people who watch it now are as creeped out as I am because it is so ....insulting? disturbing? lazy? unexplained? Basically he introduced an interesting character then to make the plot progress as he wanted he hammered her into a very two-dimensional character by making 'love at first sight' her motivation for everything. 

As far as I can tell, wanting to depict violence against women was Hitchcock's reason for making movies.

From Prelude to a Kiss:

Peter (Alec Baldwin):  The way you make me feel--it's like a drug.

Rita (Meg Ryan):  It is a drug.  To snare us into mating.

I remember an American stand-up comedian in the 80s complaining about the radio spewing out the same type of song over and over.  I don't remember exactly, but it was something like:  "This is WLUV where we play nothing but love songs.  Just an endless string of love songs until you single people kill yourselves."

On the other hand I thought this was just another love song, but when my BFF heard is she said it was a good description of our friendship:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGKiHAwr50&feature=youtu.be

On 1/14/2021 at 10:04 AM, DeltaV said:

For completeness* sake: FL4K from Borderlands 3, non-binary according to official lore

* FL4K is a robot so duh

I've always wondered why robots are assigned a gender.  To me the binary only matters in regards to who can have a baby together; if a robot can neither impregnate or give birth, it seems pointless.

A Korean woman author known as Wann explored this concept in the short story Automaton (from the collection 9 Faces of Love published in English by Netcomics).  In a world where robots are implanted with human brainwaves to let them easily move & talk like people, they all look like attractive women (because they're made by men).  2 who were part of the same batch are very attracted to each other & have a secret "lesbian" affair.