Ha! I love that joke at the end.

It is tough being AMAB and loving the caring aspects of life. It’s as if the world sees you as a predator, and inside you’re just wanting to protect and love and care. It’s sad :(

God, it’s remarkable how similar that is to me. I’m not ace, and I’m only NB in secret, but holy shit. Same. My dad’s reaction was less awful, though

Cupping the water against my chest and then throwing it at the shower curtain pretending I am a water bender.

I’m so fucking impressed, and simultaneously I feel like a dumbass for never getting it

I’d be down to try that cough syrup

Oh my God

Dang, was hoping there was a similar enough sound in your native language to help. It appears from my search that there really just isn’t anything similar to English W.

Here’s my best attempt:

The sound in Turkish represented by U, if you make that sound with a slight vibration at the beginning, you’d get something like “woo” in English. The beginning part of that is the W sound.

With V, the sound you said you couldn’t really distinguish from W, the tooth touch the lip in the same position as F, but you vibrate slightly to the V. The W sound isn’t really made that way at all, and the sound itself isn’t really similar. It looks like two Vs for historical reasons, but in English it represents an entirely different sound.

That’s probably a terrible description, but I suck at explaining things. Lol. I do know that when learning another language there are some sounds that you just cannot pick up on if you didn’t learn it as a child. I’m not sure if this is one of those, or if you can train yourself to hear it.

What is your native language?

I always knew there was a reason God didn’t make me a rich man.

In a lot of states you can make too little to have assistance. For instance, in mine. If I don’t make enough per year, I get no help, and just don’t have insurance.

But what about the crazy German dungeon porn and the sex clubs‽

Y’all laugh, but that’s literally how my mom met her first husband.

I’ve found that crisis does it, too. I him (cat friend, we’ll call him lol) while in a city a few hours from home, because my mom was helicoptered there for emergency surgery, and was in ICU for over a month. It was a horrible, terrible time, and the state I was in when I met cat friend definitely contributed to the friendship. He didn’t know me from Adam, but he was there for me when I needed someone

Once met a dude in Walmart who had a cat with him. Talked in Walmart, and now he’s one of my best friends.

I searched and I’m not finding one, but my search function often misses smaller communities. I’d love it if there was one

RAF was the entirety of my teen years. I loved that place

It is always so weird to me to see an animorphs fan in the wild. I know we’re not super uncommon, but I was super active on Richard’s Animorphs Forum back in the day, and associate the two. I always have to remind myself animorphs fan≠equal RAFian, and calm myself down lol

I genuinely wonder what the evidence required to prove that would be…

Clearly not in the US.

Down here we have the right to bear arms.

… I’ll see myself out…

Thank you! I’ll be going and checking it all out! :D