Kinda stuck me cause I almost never hear men talk that way. In 30 years I don't think I've told my best friend I love him more then twice. Hell I even have anxiety using heart emojis. It's honestly really encouraging to hear men talk this way, maybe some day I'll be able to be one of them.
:meow-hug: I sometimes wish I could be as expressive with my emotions like I am drunk tbh one day I hope I can shake of the stoic mask without alcohol.
I hear ya, unless I'm drunk I seem to stay between stoic and angry.
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Thank you Maurice :meow-hug: love you too.
Love you too Wmill :meow-hug:
Om really glad it's normal in my group of friends. We're crusty punks and at least in this town the dirty punks can be tuff disrockers and still say they love a homie. Plus like, everyone is at least kinda bi. And we're the crasher crust 1000 stud count spiky hair dudes. The more explicitly queer punks are pretty much a citywide polycule. It's a small city with a strong DIY scene so being open about living the homies is normal. Basically anything that would get you banned here would lose you a lot of friends with the crowds I hang with, unless you have drugs or play in a cool band.
Even with my irl friend group it was only me who was emotionally constipated tbh one day I'll get there I think.
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Most larger towns have what a friend described as "Too PC for the drunk punks, too drunk for the PC punks. I'm pretty sure they used to call them punks". How much of the local scene they occupy can vary greatly but the punks that actually do stuff like putnshows together, bring in touring bands and work with the general network of things are good people on the whole. You have to be able to handle some of the most aggressive and violent assholes ever on occassion but the good kids are some of the kindest people you'll ever meet.
Oh, well aware. The last scene I was involved in was super small.
Currently it's a lot of being lost in the crowd and age-wise, on the older side so all I know where shows are is bars, which is a bummer at times
We have a DIY multi purpose space down. It's pretty fantastic and it's owned outright by a radical org. Most punks are still late 20s or older here though. There's been a little uptick in new kids but it's still an older crowd.
Yeah, most punks I've met lately are in that ballpark. Me in my mid-30s always feels like the old guy at shows lol
All I want is to do is play basement shows and hang out with rad people
I'm 30 and that's about median age around here. Kids will come check out shows at random here and there. We try to bring people in, but I totally get with the age difference it seeming weird to some. Also it's like, are we gonna ask kids if they wanna come hang out in a park and do drugs? I'm just trying to be a normal level bad influence not a creep right.