i hear you. in context, the insult was well-deserved, represented the silent majority opinion and the clearing of a specific resentment that’s built under the surface for longer than i’ve lived in pgh. conflict is a gift. i loved reading all that, i felt high

anyway taking applications ....R U strong enough 2 b my handler ?

in the past 3 years i've had v cool romances, romantic friendships, fwb w power dynamics, solitude. but i have not had that, + what i've learned is: the process of establishing that has to be slow + careful + a two-way street + by the time u achieve it, itll prob just look like regular love

my hill to die on is that gay marriage was a mistake but where i'm at with couple-form is that when @rencerebral.bsky.social or maybe their cohost asked "what do you desire most of all, without anyone else's feelings in mind?" i thought: BDSM with someone i wake up with

...of absent others. We cannot see each other plain. A horrible kind of predestination hovers over each new attachment we form." 'Only connect,' E.M. Forster proposed. 'Only we can't,' the psychoanalyst knows."

--janet malcolm, psychoanalysis: the impossible profession (1981)