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I had the opportunity to go to a concert of his recently and enjoyed his part of the show exceedingly. The opening act, Puddles Pity Party, was very much not my thing, alas, but Mr. Yankovic is exuberantly himself, the costume changes are lolarious, and the music is inimitably Weird. If you like his work, you'll almost certainly like his concert. Extra points awarded for the songs (not all of them, alas) that had text videos, effectively functioning as closed captioning with a sense of humor.

Also, the audience was full of people wearing extremely cheerful shirts, and made great viewing.

I have not seen the most recent Murderbot yet, but I did spot David Dastmalchian as John Deacon in a clip of Weird-the-biopic which was played at the concert, so that's almost the same thing, right? I was very proud of my facial recognition software for picking up on that. I would like to belatedly award points to the casting department for finding a way to get another MENA-descended person into Queen, which is a great joke I didn't get at the time.

I loved the new Murderbot short story, which I read aloud to my SO.

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Current Music: Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

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like where did it come from i was literally doing a silly little art and craft

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madame-helen:
secundus-cinaedus:
cure of ra
Now its blessing of Ra
“Sunburn will give you skin cancer”
Ra, God of the Sun
Fungus has done so much for humanity. Penicillin. Radiation cleanup. Delicious mushrooms. Deadly mushrooms. Psychadelic mushrooms. And now my boy RA has chosen the humble mold spores as his vessel through which to cure cancer.

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eggsforkillie:
What is this blog?
So, back in March 2025, @elodieunderglass ran a little event where, if you completed a creative project of some description by the end of the month, Killie would get one whole egg!
This surpassed all expectations, and Killie ended up getting over one hundred and fifty eggs by the time March ended, and we got some very good artwork indeed, and also spent a not-insignificant amount of time considering how Killie would use that many eggs.
So, now, it’s back, in the form of a dedicated blog, so that Elodie’s followers don’t get bombarded by eggs. It’s not ran by @elodieunderglass, but, it is done with official permission, and even with official art for the profile picture and banner!
So far, we have given Killie fourteen eggs, and counting!
Who is Killie?
Killie is @elodieunderglass’s original character.
He’s an angry little racehorse jockey with an unfortunate psychic connection to his rancid racehorse frenemy (O Holy Thunder), a redemption-arc relationship with his nice nerdy boyfriend (Derek), an elusive twin brother (Charlie) and a messy, rambling family of horse-obsessed weirdos who are overly-invested in the fascinating, complex, dirty, problematic and unhinged world of horse racing.
He is a short athletic ginger jock like an angry little wet cat, who is always getting injured, and we love him for this.
How do I get Killie an egg?
You send an ask, containing a description of the creative work you are embarking on. If you’re on anon, you must also include your url, so we can make sure you see it when your ask is posted.
That ask then gets to replied to, thirty days later, and you reblog that with the results of your creative project, which we in turn reblog!
What counts for Killie to get an egg?
Strictly speaking, art, however, we make no attempt to define what “art” actually is, drawing, painting, writing, music, calligraphy, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Basically, anything goes.
Why should I do any of this?
For two reasons, first, accountability, some people work better with a deadline, and, if you are one of those people, want said deadline to be exactly thirty days, and also themed around a fictional jockey getting an egg, then, you’ve come to the right place.
Second, recognition, no matter what, you know that your art is seen by, at the very least, me, and also some portion of this blog’s followers.
Anything else I should know?
Tags, we have two common ones, #egg reminder, which is responding to asks, and, #egg result!, which is reblogging the finished works.
Mod Posts, these come around now and then, under the #modpost tag.
Hall of Fame, the very very very best works people have done in order to get Killie another egg, and are under the #parade ring tag.
Timezone, this blog runs off UK time, so, if you need to be precise, make sure to take that into account.
Hey, if you submit today, your deadline will be July 20. Can you overcome the Curse of Knitting the Other Sock? Add 5000 words to your WIP? Hey, if you accept this OC drawing challenge I will send you an ask. Can you do it by July 20th? Sounds like a proper goal.
If you do, I will grip you sincerely by the hand and congratulate you. Every piece of work we do moves the world.

@kayarenwick just because you said that it was an effective motivator - reminder that your due date is 20th July!

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cloudmancy:
unreasonably charmed by Pendant in the shape of a ram’s head, Eastern Mediterranean, 5th–4th century BC, made of glass
I never thought about this… you’re right, that’s awesome
A shocking amount of skill went into this. The twisted, bicoloured horns, the little ears, the eyes, the nose and mouth details. This pendant took probably an hour to make, but a lot of practice and planning went into it as well.

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femininefreyanyctophile:
wicker-and-scrap:
prokopetz:
Spurious Latin plurals are great fun if you’re a specific flavour of nerd, but improperly constructed verb tenses are a game anyone can play. The past tense of “screenshot” is “screenshat”.
In an argument about D&D rules, I proposed that the past tense of “crit” is “crat”. This was judged to be ‘disgusting’.
crit crat crote
thank you to this post for making me look up irregular verbs because i discovered a word i never even realized was a verb: wit, as in the phrase “to wit,” which before this moment i absolutely thought was some odd metaphorical construct like “to[ward] wit (n.)” and not just . an infinitive?
wikipedia discusses it like we’re all perfectly aware that wit is a unique english verb. it reads like a native english speaker is supposed to read this and go “huh, i guess wit is pretty weird, isn’t it?” and not “i have never heard this word in my life”:
ALT
i wot?? i did not wit this (“wit” means “know,” which ig makes sense)
…also, what is the third person conjugation if it doesn’t have an -s?
ALT
you wost??? you wistest?????
every other english verb needs to pick up the slack, no one is doing it like wit, we need some more of these
The set phrase “to wit” isn’t the only place this verb survives in modern English, mind; it’s also fossilised in adjective “unwitting”.
(As for the past tense, literally the only place I’ve ever heard it is in a couple of traditional ballads whose lyrics come to us via Middle English, which contain the phrase “[to go] where no-one wist” – which is of course a fancy way of saying “where the fuck did they go?”)

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carbomcoco:
“these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄” ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it’s a good thing that they’re amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence
they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

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So um.
A really weird embarrassing question.
I was watching this video on Facebook that was making fun of straight men for not being hygienic, which I know is a problem sometimes—men who for example think wiping their butt is “gay” so they don’t do it. Etc.
And the guy says “straight men don’t know that they need to be sitting when they wipe.”
I’m AFAB and very much not straight.
How in the FUCK do you reach back to wipe your butt without getting off the pot? Whose arms are long enough to pull this off?
Why would you need to?
I’m so confused. I’m fastidious about cleaning my butt! So much so that I can clog toilets with paper if I’m not careful.
But I’m standing when I do it, so apparently I’m unclean.
H u h
???
Because if you’re on the pot, the back of the pot is in the way. I tied to do it just now and I’m not sure how I’m supposed to get to my asshole with the pot in the way.
Do people mean something like *squatting,* where your butt is off the pot but you’re not fully standing up?
That I do, but I don’t consider that sitting. Sitting is your butt being on something that’s taking your weight.
And why would doing it standing be particularly unhygienic? I’m not understanding that bit either.
No matter what position you’re in, you just have to use enough paper that it comes up clean, right?
Im so confused.
Again, do you mean sitting or squatting? If you’re sitting, your asshole is under you. So you’d have to reach past the edge of the toilet to get to your asshole, which seems like a cool party trick but weirdly elaborate if you’re just wiping
Where if you put your feet down and lift up (standing but not fully upright), then your butt is off the ground so you can reach back.
…just realized something trying to figure this out
Maybe I’m just short? My feet don’t reach the floor when I’m on the pot, so attempting to twist around without my weight on my feet doesn’t work very well.
Or maybe that’s my disability? I dunno.
But I have to put my feet on the floor and lift up so I don’t slip.
(I mean, I just tested it out that I COULD put my non dominant arm on the sink for balance and THEN turn, but that seems elaborate too. And the sink has to be on my left.)
Which to me is standing.
Hm. Maybe these folks just think I’m unhygienic cos I’m too short?
Not an improvement, but. Hmm.
Yeah, I had to train myself out of doing that, which is likely part of why it’s really disheartening to see people making fun of what I figured out instead.
But I’m still kind of confused. You’re saying that by remaining sitting, the cheeks stay spread, but the only way I could make it work to not need my weight on my feet was to twist while holding onto a handhold on my left, which meant my butt isn’t really spread much.
I’m kind of… leaning with one side of my butt sticking out further than the other? While worrying vaguely about my sink, as putting too much weight on it is a BAD time.
Doesn’t seem like an improvement? But maybe other people have either longer legs or better balance?
I dunno, I just feel upset that people are mocking what I do but then not providing instructions, ESPECIALLY if my disability might be a complicating factor here.
Like, when a doctor tells you to wipe front to back (as mine did when I was having an issue, and they were explaining to me the importance of keeping things clean.) they TELL YOU. They don’t assume you know without saying anything and laugh at you.
I dunno, the splash damage of the way some people hate men is WIDE.
Yep my feet are definitely not on the floor. ESPECIALLY if I don’t have shoes on, which is pretty much always the case for the first poop of the day, which I do before I shower specifically because cleaning yourself with falling water helps with those bits.
Oh so you’re like, up close to the edge? I think that sounds reasonable though I’m not somewhere I could try it right now. But it sounds like it makes sense, as from what I hear the best pooping position is actually more like a squat (and not exactly the easiest position to use on a US toilet), so I guess you’re already like that and then… not sure I’m envisioning the twist correctly but it sounds possible. I’ll have to see if it’s something I can do without a grab bar if I’m near the edge.
If I do need a grab bar to do it that MIGHT be a problem since my grab bar happens to be on my right and that’s my dominant hand and I might not quite be able to get in there with my left.
Which makes the whole idea I’m straight up unclean kind of weird to me?
Like… would I not notice in 46 years? Would my docs not tell me?
During a period of time I had runny poop and skid marks I was recommended to also use a washcloth when I shower and look at the cloth to be sure I got all the effluvia, but beyond that no one ever told me there are more or less efficient ways to wipe generally.
The only thing I’ve ever heard about is wipe front to back, because your butt always has a little bit of stuff on it no matter how well you clean it, which carries enough bacteria to make your pussy or urethra sad.
Also that going to the bathroom and cleaning yourself after sex is a good idea too.
But never “you’re unhygenic if you’re standing.” Like someone commented “if I stand the poop gets everywhere” and I’m having trouble imagining this.
Like I guess the idea is if you have a very fleshy butt it closes too much to really get in there? Or maybe it’s runny enough to literally go everywhere?
I dunno. I rarely get utis, at least, so I can’t imagine I’m that crusty.
Thank you very much for telling me I’m not alone in this and that you’ve also experienced people being weirdly yelly about it.
I am now REALLY wondering what my parents taught me when they potty trained me, and whether they’re DISGUSTANG too or whether they just were happy when the disabled kid did it and thus let their offspring be DISGUSTANG.
Heh! That’s what my therapist said too, that people do different stuff and that the idea one is unclean and the other isn’t makes no sense to her. But as I haven’t done both yet I’ll have to see if I can figure this out and notice a clear cleanliness difference.
Yeah, the public toilets at work are a lot lower than what’s in my apartment and I could keep my feet on the ground. I THINK based on that I have a guess what the movement is, though I wound up standing by habit before I could figure out how exactly getting into that position AND wiping would both work.
“Aha now I can solve this mystery! But I’ve just peed and feel gross as I’ve not wiped, so *stands up* … … …WAIT.”
Thinking about this more and observing my own habits, and wondering how people can say this method is clearly less hygienic than what seems to involve a lot of twisting around:
Poop.
While on the pot, take some toilet paper.
Get off the pot. Stand near it.
Bend over so your butt is sticking out. I have a grab bar, so I usually use it with my nondominant hand for balance but I don’t need it in a pinch.
Reach back with the paper in your dominant hand. You’ll feel a slight difference when you get to your butthole. Press the paper in a bit to really make sure it’s up against the surface of your butthole, as that thing’s crinkly and poop is gooey.
Pull back so you’re not going in a pussy direction.
Look at the paper. If it’s got brown spots, get more paper and repeat. No one likes skid marks.
Pay attention if you do need to repeat this process. Many toilets only tolerate so much paper at once, so you may need to flush twice.
Flush for the first or final time.
Pull up your underwear and pants and etc.
Wash your hands.
I’m at a loss for how it would be more hygienic to remain sitting and twist around, though maybe I misunderstand because I’ve only tried to figure out the motion twice in my life now.
Why would your asshole be easier to clean if you’re sitting and twisty than if you’re standing and bent over? You don’t have two hands to hold yourself open the way you might for sex or something, but you don’t have that twisty sitting either as you’ve got the paper in one hand, right?
So how are you not spreading em enough?
That’s the bit I’m struggling to envision here.
Like is the idea that the few seconds it took you to stand up straight is enough to smear poop, where you wouldn’t smear it if you twisty sit? Is that what they mean?
Or are they assuming because they don’t stand up and they’re mocking insecure straight men that these men are like, standing at attention and barely tapping the paper vaguely sort of in their crack?

Thanks. Yeah. I’ve been kind of obsessively (my mental health has OCD like features and fear of contamination is part of that) trying to figure out just how clean someone who does it differently than me is, why they’re cleaner, how much more clean I need to be, and how precisely I do that without rubbing the area so much I irritate it ever since I saw that post and the comments all unanimously agreed.

Rationally I know that if I had a hygiene issue some doctor would have told me so by now but without pictures of what the paper looks like when THEY toss it in it’s easy to go off spiraling.

It’s especially weird because everything I’ve ever heard about anal sex (and I was an enthusiastic pegging top before i decided I like women more) has said that small amounts of poop in that area are normal, recommended against people having lots of enemas, etc. it’s why the Official Recommendations for touching or licking or whatevering that area all say use barriers (though not everyone does and most people are fine.)

If it’s normal for a bit of poop to linger, what in the world could all this mean

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anadiilua:
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anadiilua:
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jewishvitya:
I know “you’re thinking like a fascist” isn’t the best way to reach people but sometimes that’s the only thing I have on my mind after hearing someone speak
“Okay, I see why you hate eugenics from a moral standpoint, but doesn’t it have merit from a biological perspective?”
How am I supposed to respond other than screaming.
As a geneticist I can confidently say that eugenics is the dumbest shit from a biological perspective. That’s how you get the entire population whipped out by an epidemic
I don’t need to be convinced but I’m curious about how that last part. Do you mean like what we saw with covid, where people thought “I’ll be fine, only weak people like elderly and disabled people will die” and ended up spreading covid and harming more of the population? Or is it what was added in the notes, about the harm of avoiding genetic diversity?
Basically what eugenicists want is a shallowing of genetic diversity/variability by pinning one or a very select few attributes as “positive” or “desirable” but by getting rid of diversity, you get rid of nature’s natural defense against plagues or changes in the environment.
Imagine a Petri dish full of different colonies of bacteria. If you use an antibiotic, some of those colonies will probably survive and keep the population of bacteria alive (that’s how you get super resident bacteria btw) but if you clone 1 strand of bacteria, to the point that every one of the organisms there is identical, even if they’re the best of the best for one specific task you want them to perform, if you find an antibiotic that works for them, ALL of the bacteria will die. You NEED genetic variability to allow for adaptation, and sometimes this variability comes in the form of different skin color, neurodivergency, or other things that can be considered a disability in today’s society.
For example, sickle cell anemia is a disease in which your red blood cells are shaped in the wrong way and it’s very disabling, but it can also be beneficial against the most severe forms of malaria.
And it’s not just for disabilities, but any trait. Dark skin? Protection against skin cancer. Light skin? Better vitamin D production with less sun exposure.
Sometimes a trait will show up and it might seem useless but if there’s a shift in our environment that trait can be the key to our species’s survival so it’s best not to risk it by prematurely getting rid of it in our population just because it may be strange or “inconvenient” to some.
So friends in the replies got it right. Thank you for the extended explanation.

This sort of thing is why when I see fash say “diversity is not our strength” I’m at a loss completely for how to even begin to respond.

You… think that… by making communities more homogenous you’re making them stronger?

By every measure I can think of, that renders them more brittle.

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Class and Ability Changes:
Due to increased popularity of the “Pup” subclass in Petplay builds, for balance reasons we are nerfing their low level abilities including “being leashed” and “wearing a puphood.” to keep things fair, though, we’re also rewarding those who heavily invest in late-game abilities by buffing “sleeping in a cage” and “clicker training.”
Findoms abilities have been nerfed across the board in an effort to give Paypig players a better chance to continue playing. We’re monitoring the situation.
Daddy players have lost their buffs from the Father’s Day event
We are aware of the disparity between Top players and Bottom players, so we’re removing the “Can Host” ability as a requirement for Top players in an effort to rally numbers up.
Drastically lowered the requirements to spec into Furry class
Added character “Oath Breaker Knight” for some players to restore their previous classes for a small fee (Gold Star Lesbian class should be a bit easier to spec into now)
Item Changes:
As mentioned above, items “Puphood” and “Collar & Leash” have been nerfed
Rebalanced “Chastity Cage” item effectiveness depending on player stats
Food items have been buffed to increased effectiveness
Fixed a broken interaction with the “Gag” class of items pertaining to the “Safeword” ability
Added new item combo interactions with other items, abilities, fetishes, and/or kinks. (Try out using the “Blindfold” and “Bondage Rope” items with the Piss fetish for the Urinal interaction.)
Fetish Changes:
Piss has been nerfed from Very Rare to Uncommon
Armpit has been nerfed from Rare to Common
Bondage has been nerfed from Uncommon to Common
Hypnosis has been nerfed from Legendary to Rare
Cuckolding has been nerfed from Uncommon to Common
Eye Contact has been buffed from Common to Rare
Condom Usage has been buffed from Common to Rare
Added new Very Rare fetish: Tongue Soaking
Added new Legendary fetish: Ghost Penis
Misc. Changes:
Fixed a glitch that low level players get the “Freak” banner usually granted at a much higher level
Further fixes to keeping servers seperated
Temporarily added more PVP options for Pride Month event

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cloudmancy:
unreasonably charmed by Pendant in the shape of a ram’s head, Eastern Mediterranean, 5th–4th century BC, made of glass
I never thought about this… you’re right, that’s awesome

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boomer-mythology-destroyer:
The fortune teller machine is called The Mystic Seer and the man asking it questions is William Shatner. =) The Twilight Zone has quite a few episodes that are relevant even today, Chat GPT being only one relatable thing here.

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"i know you're nonbinary but which of these two arbitrarily constructed gender categories do you fit into" genuinely are you having a laugh

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theothin:
ALT
Referring to the distinction between those who are and aren’t affected by transmisogyny as “arbitrarily constructed gender categories” tells me exactly which of the two you fall into lmao
evergreen lmaooo

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So um.
A really weird embarrassing question.
I was watching this video on Facebook that was making fun of straight men for not being hygienic, which I know is a problem sometimes—men who for example think wiping their butt is “gay” so they don’t do it. Etc.
And the guy says “straight men don’t know that they need to be sitting when they wipe.”
I’m AFAB and very much not straight.
How in the FUCK do you reach back to wipe your butt without getting off the pot? Whose arms are long enough to pull this off?
Why would you need to?
I’m so confused. I’m fastidious about cleaning my butt! So much so that I can clog toilets with paper if I’m not careful.
But I’m standing when I do it, so apparently I’m unclean.
H u h
???
Because if you’re on the pot, the back of the pot is in the way. I tied to do it just now and I’m not sure how I’m supposed to get to my asshole with the pot in the way.
Do people mean something like *squatting,* where your butt is off the pot but you’re not fully standing up?
That I do, but I don’t consider that sitting. Sitting is your butt being on something that’s taking your weight.
And why would doing it standing be particularly unhygienic? I’m not understanding that bit either.
No matter what position you’re in, you just have to use enough paper that it comes up clean, right?
Im so confused.
Again, do you mean sitting or squatting? If you’re sitting, your asshole is under you. So you’d have to reach past the edge of the toilet to get to your asshole, which seems like a cool party trick but weirdly elaborate if you’re just wiping
Where if you put your feet down and lift up (standing but not fully upright), then your butt is off the ground so you can reach back.
…just realized something trying to figure this out
Maybe I’m just short? My feet don’t reach the floor when I’m on the pot, so attempting to twist around without my weight on my feet doesn’t work very well.
Or maybe that’s my disability? I dunno.
But I have to put my feet on the floor and lift up so I don’t slip.
(I mean, I just tested it out that I COULD put my non dominant arm on the sink for balance and THEN turn, but that seems elaborate too. And the sink has to be on my left.)
Which to me is standing.
Hm. Maybe these folks just think I’m unhygienic cos I’m too short?
Not an improvement, but. Hmm.
Yeah, I had to train myself out of doing that, which is likely part of why it’s really disheartening to see people making fun of what I figured out instead.
But I’m still kind of confused. You’re saying that by remaining sitting, the cheeks stay spread, but the only way I could make it work to not need my weight on my feet was to twist while holding onto a handhold on my left, which meant my butt isn’t really spread much.
I’m kind of… leaning with one side of my butt sticking out further than the other? While worrying vaguely about my sink, as putting too much weight on it is a BAD time.
Doesn’t seem like an improvement? But maybe other people have either longer legs or better balance?
I dunno, I just feel upset that people are mocking what I do but then not providing instructions, ESPECIALLY if my disability might be a complicating factor here.
Like, when a doctor tells you to wipe front to back (as mine did when I was having an issue, and they were explaining to me the importance of keeping things clean.) they TELL YOU. They don’t assume you know without saying anything and laugh at you.
I dunno, the splash damage of the way some people hate men is WIDE.
Yep my feet are definitely not on the floor. ESPECIALLY if I don’t have shoes on, which is pretty much always the case for the first poop of the day, which I do before I shower specifically because cleaning yourself with falling water helps with those bits.
Oh so you’re like, up close to the edge? I think that sounds reasonable though I’m not somewhere I could try it right now. But it sounds like it makes sense, as from what I hear the best pooping position is actually more like a squat (and not exactly the easiest position to use on a US toilet), so I guess you’re already like that and then… not sure I’m envisioning the twist correctly but it sounds possible. I’ll have to see if it’s something I can do without a grab bar if I’m near the edge.
If I do need a grab bar to do it that MIGHT be a problem since my grab bar happens to be on my right and that’s my dominant hand and I might not quite be able to get in there with my left.
Which makes the whole idea I’m straight up unclean kind of weird to me?
Like… would I not notice in 46 years? Would my docs not tell me?
During a period of time I had runny poop and skid marks I was recommended to also use a washcloth when I shower and look at the cloth to be sure I got all the effluvia, but beyond that no one ever told me there are more or less efficient ways to wipe generally.
The only thing I’ve ever heard about is wipe front to back, because your butt always has a little bit of stuff on it no matter how well you clean it, which carries enough bacteria to make your pussy or urethra sad.
Also that going to the bathroom and cleaning yourself after sex is a good idea too.
But never “you’re unhygenic if you’re standing.” Like someone commented “if I stand the poop gets everywhere” and I’m having trouble imagining this.
Like I guess the idea is if you have a very fleshy butt it closes too much to really get in there? Or maybe it’s runny enough to literally go everywhere?
I dunno. I rarely get utis, at least, so I can’t imagine I’m that crusty.
Thank you very much for telling me I’m not alone in this and that you’ve also experienced people being weirdly yelly about it.
I am now REALLY wondering what my parents taught me when they potty trained me, and whether they’re DISGUSTANG too or whether they just were happy when the disabled kid did it and thus let their offspring be DISGUSTANG.
Heh! That’s what my therapist said too, that people do different stuff and that the idea one is unclean and the other isn’t makes no sense to her. But as I haven’t done both yet I’ll have to see if I can figure this out and notice a clear cleanliness difference.
Yeah, the public toilets at work are a lot lower than what’s in my apartment and I could keep my feet on the ground. I THINK based on that I have a guess what the movement is, though I wound up standing by habit before I could figure out how exactly getting into that position AND wiping would both work.
“Aha now I can solve this mystery! But I’ve just peed and feel gross as I’ve not wiped, so *stands up* … … …WAIT.”
Thinking about this more and observing my own habits, and wondering how people can say this method is clearly less hygienic than what seems to involve a lot of twisting around:
Poop.
While on the pot, take some toilet paper.
Get off the pot. Stand near it.
Bend over so your butt is sticking out. I have a grab bar, so I usually use it with my nondominant hand for balance but I don’t need it in a pinch.
Reach back with the paper in your dominant hand. You’ll feel a slight difference when you get to your butthole. Press the paper in a bit to really make sure it’s up against the surface of your butthole, as that thing’s crinkly and poop is gooey.
Pull back so you’re not going in a pussy direction.
Look at the paper. If it’s got brown spots, get more paper and repeat. No one likes skid marks.
Pay attention if you do need to repeat this process. Many toilets only tolerate so much paper at once, so you may need to flush twice.
Flush for the first or final time.
Pull up your underwear and pants and etc.
Wash your hands.
I’m at a loss for how it would be more hygienic to remain sitting and twist around, though maybe I misunderstand because I’ve only tried to figure out the motion twice in my life now.
Why would your asshole be easier to clean if you’re sitting and twisty than if you’re standing and bent over? You don’t have two hands to hold yourself open the way you might for sex or something, but you don’t have that twisty sitting either as you’ve got the paper in one hand, right?
So how are you not spreading em enough?
That’s the bit I’m struggling to envision here.

Like is the idea that the few seconds it took you to stand up straight is enough to smear poop, where you wouldn’t smear it if you twisty sit? Is that what they mean?

Or are they assuming because they don’t stand up and they’re mocking insecure straight men that these men are like, standing at attention and barely tapping the paper vaguely sort of in their crack?

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So um.
A really weird embarrassing question.
I was watching this video on Facebook that was making fun of straight men for not being hygienic, which I know is a problem sometimes—men who for example think wiping their butt is “gay” so they don’t do it. Etc.
And the guy says “straight men don’t know that they need to be sitting when they wipe.”
I’m AFAB and very much not straight.
How in the FUCK do you reach back to wipe your butt without getting off the pot? Whose arms are long enough to pull this off?
Why would you need to?
I’m so confused. I’m fastidious about cleaning my butt! So much so that I can clog toilets with paper if I’m not careful.
But I’m standing when I do it, so apparently I’m unclean.
H u h
???
Because if you’re on the pot, the back of the pot is in the way. I tied to do it just now and I’m not sure how I’m supposed to get to my asshole with the pot in the way.
Do people mean something like *squatting,* where your butt is off the pot but you’re not fully standing up?
That I do, but I don’t consider that sitting. Sitting is your butt being on something that’s taking your weight.
And why would doing it standing be particularly unhygienic? I’m not understanding that bit either.
No matter what position you’re in, you just have to use enough paper that it comes up clean, right?
Im so confused.
Again, do you mean sitting or squatting? If you’re sitting, your asshole is under you. So you’d have to reach past the edge of the toilet to get to your asshole, which seems like a cool party trick but weirdly elaborate if you’re just wiping
Where if you put your feet down and lift up (standing but not fully upright), then your butt is off the ground so you can reach back.
…just realized something trying to figure this out
Maybe I’m just short? My feet don’t reach the floor when I’m on the pot, so attempting to twist around without my weight on my feet doesn’t work very well.
Or maybe that’s my disability? I dunno.
But I have to put my feet on the floor and lift up so I don’t slip.
(I mean, I just tested it out that I COULD put my non dominant arm on the sink for balance and THEN turn, but that seems elaborate too. And the sink has to be on my left.)
Which to me is standing.
Hm. Maybe these folks just think I’m unhygienic cos I’m too short?
Not an improvement, but. Hmm.
Yeah, I had to train myself out of doing that, which is likely part of why it’s really disheartening to see people making fun of what I figured out instead.
But I’m still kind of confused. You’re saying that by remaining sitting, the cheeks stay spread, but the only way I could make it work to not need my weight on my feet was to twist while holding onto a handhold on my left, which meant my butt isn’t really spread much.
I’m kind of… leaning with one side of my butt sticking out further than the other? While worrying vaguely about my sink, as putting too much weight on it is a BAD time.
Doesn’t seem like an improvement? But maybe other people have either longer legs or better balance?
I dunno, I just feel upset that people are mocking what I do but then not providing instructions, ESPECIALLY if my disability might be a complicating factor here.
Like, when a doctor tells you to wipe front to back (as mine did when I was having an issue, and they were explaining to me the importance of keeping things clean.) they TELL YOU. They don’t assume you know without saying anything and laugh at you.
I dunno, the splash damage of the way some people hate men is WIDE.
Yep my feet are definitely not on the floor. ESPECIALLY if I don’t have shoes on, which is pretty much always the case for the first poop of the day, which I do before I shower specifically because cleaning yourself with falling water helps with those bits.
Oh so you’re like, up close to the edge? I think that sounds reasonable though I’m not somewhere I could try it right now. But it sounds like it makes sense, as from what I hear the best pooping position is actually more like a squat (and not exactly the easiest position to use on a US toilet), so I guess you’re already like that and then… not sure I’m envisioning the twist correctly but it sounds possible. I’ll have to see if it’s something I can do without a grab bar if I’m near the edge.
If I do need a grab bar to do it that MIGHT be a problem since my grab bar happens to be on my right and that’s my dominant hand and I might not quite be able to get in there with my left.
Which makes the whole idea I’m straight up unclean kind of weird to me?
Like… would I not notice in 46 years? Would my docs not tell me?
During a period of time I had runny poop and skid marks I was recommended to also use a washcloth when I shower and look at the cloth to be sure I got all the effluvia, but beyond that no one ever told me there are more or less efficient ways to wipe generally.
The only thing I’ve ever heard about is wipe front to back, because your butt always has a little bit of stuff on it no matter how well you clean it, which carries enough bacteria to make your pussy or urethra sad.
Also that going to the bathroom and cleaning yourself after sex is a good idea too.
But never “you’re unhygenic if you’re standing.” Like someone commented “if I stand the poop gets everywhere” and I’m having trouble imagining this.
Like I guess the idea is if you have a very fleshy butt it closes too much to really get in there? Or maybe it’s runny enough to literally go everywhere?
I dunno. I rarely get utis, at least, so I can’t imagine I’m that crusty.
Thank you very much for telling me I’m not alone in this and that you’ve also experienced people being weirdly yelly about it.
I am now REALLY wondering what my parents taught me when they potty trained me, and whether they’re DISGUSTANG too or whether they just were happy when the disabled kid did it and thus let their offspring be DISGUSTANG.
Heh! That’s what my therapist said too, that people do different stuff and that the idea one is unclean and the other isn’t makes no sense to her. But as I haven’t done both yet I’ll have to see if I can figure this out and notice a clear cleanliness difference.
Yeah, the public toilets at work are a lot lower than what’s in my apartment and I could keep my feet on the ground. I THINK based on that I have a guess what the movement is, though I wound up standing by habit before I could figure out how exactly getting into that position AND wiping would both work.
“Aha now I can solve this mystery! But I’ve just peed and feel gross as I’ve not wiped, so *stands up* … … …WAIT.”

Thinking about this more and observing my own habits, and wondering how people can say this method is clearly less hygienic than what seems to involve a lot of twisting around:

Poop.
While on the pot, take some toilet paper.
Get off the pot. Stand near it.
Bend over so your butt is sticking out. I have a grab bar, so I usually use it with my nondominant hand for balance but I don’t need it in a pinch.
Reach back with the paper in your dominant hand. You’ll feel a slight difference when you get to your butthole. Press the paper in a bit to really make sure it’s up against the surface of your butthole, as that thing’s crinkly and poop is gooey.
Pull back so you’re not going in a pussy direction.
Look at the paper. If it’s got brown spots, get more paper and repeat. No one likes skid marks.
Pay attention if you do need to repeat this process. Many toilets only tolerate so much paper at once, so you may need to flush twice.
Flush for the first or final time.
Pull up your underwear and pants and etc.
Wash your hands.

I’m at a loss for how it would be more hygienic to remain sitting and twist around, though maybe I misunderstand because I’ve only tried to figure out the motion twice in my life now.

Why would your asshole be easier to clean if you’re sitting and twisty than if you’re standing and bent over? You don’t have two hands to hold yourself open the way you might for sex or something, but you don’t have that twisty sitting either as you’ve got the paper in one hand, right?

So how are you not spreading em enough?

That’s the bit I’m struggling to envision here.

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Colleen died four years ago, at 04:30 Pacific time, so probably around the time I finish this post. It seems like a long time ago, or maybe just a few days. Or two moves. I'm surrounded by memories. Memorabilia. Every so often I'm struck by how many of my things have stories attached to them; many of them involving Colleen. To be expected -- we were together for half a century.

The world is very different from what it was four years ago, mostly not for the better; there are many things that I miss. And of course people. Too many people.

It's 1pm; we lit a candle for Colleen an hour ago, and toasted her memory, and talked for a bit. N found some purple flowers in the front planter to set in a bowl next to the candle. A candle makes a good focus for giving her a silent update. It's been a nice, quiet remembrance.

I'm going to post this, and sing a couple of songs. See whether I get through Eyes Like the Morning without falling apart.

Colleen, I will always love you.

Current Mood: quietly grieving
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at dinner people were talking about how much they cried during their weddings and my one cousin said she was SO determined not to cry, made it through the entire ceremony, but then during the reception her husband leaned over and asked ‘hey, do you want me to get together a plate of roast beef and hide it in our room so we can have Night Meats?’ and she went ’night meats?’ and started sobbing because that was so romantic to her

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Oh that’s an odd one. The other My eye can’t get away from seeing a Gray Gull, but depending on your location that could be tremendously rare!

Juvenile gulls tend to have remnants of their baby pattern, and baby gull patterns have a brownish mottled effect that conceals them in rocky settings. Here’s a juvenile Black Headed Gull.

Here’s a Gray Gull. You can see where I’m coming from right?

But given the usual geographic distribution of Gray Gulls, it would be an odd - not impossible, but odd - sighting.

The black headed gull doesn’t really overlap.

“If you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras” so I’m sure it’s a really obvious ID that just isn’t coming to mind. Thank you so much!!!

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