• WhyEssEff [she/her]
    hexagon
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    2 months ago

    waiting in your polycule performance review zoom call and a representative from Polycule Relations hops on out of the blue like this layoff-stare and you realize you're getting caught in the polyoffs

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      2 months ago

      polycule standup where everyone sits in a circle and has to say who they had their tongue in yesterday and who they’re having their tongue in today

      • WhyEssEff [she/her]
        hexagon
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        2 months ago
        we just, um, dumped the 
          person that tops in 
           that way, but now 
        you have been promoted! 
            you are now one 
         of my elite switches!
        

        mystery-emote speech-r
        bottom-speak mystery-emote you-have-been-promoted

    • VHS [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      is that Anne Hathaway

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 months ago

      haven't clinched a polyoff berth but am in the running for wild card

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    after a very mid-tier first date, I offered to make afternoon tea and dumplings at mine for a second date. they countered with a meet-the-entire-polycule / panel interview at theirs, complete with an outline of who would be hostile and who I needed to win over.

    I withdrew my application, so to speak.

    I don't even want to know why people are like this anymore.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      The "Job Interview-ification" of dates has really turned me off of dating. At least those sorts of people who show up with a clipboard and checklist are easy enough to spot.

      • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        The "Job Interview-ification" of dates has really turned me off of dating.

        doomer I just want someone I can stay late up night with watching silly things and having snacks

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      god yes.

      how the fuck are the most insufferable people basically driving this "counter-cultural movement" that both is and isn't one

      • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Less counter culture, so much as anti culture. They’re actively trying to devalue and replace culture (see ai) and replace human interaction and culture forming behaviour at every step with internet services and automated systems. It’s disgusting and alienating and they seem to like it?!

        • Des [she/her, they/them]
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          2 months ago

          anti-culture.

          i like it. i mean i hate it but i like the term it fits well

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Oh

    Ah

    Ugh

    Just wanna live in a big house with people I find cool and attractive who'll play an entire Pathfinder adventure path with me

      • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        I need to get BG3 out of the way before I get into WotR; because I'm a Pathfinder > DnD type overall-- if I pick up Wrath now, I am never finishing Baldur's Gate.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    this is something i so actively don't want to think about that i'm preferring to experience the pain in the hangnail on my thumb. do you understand how fucked up someone's post has to be to make me prefer to feel acute pain?

  • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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    2 months ago

    The husband who had to go to therapy and start taking antidepressants to deal with his wife's love life is really not making a good case for polyamory.

  • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    agile scrum pol-- please stop. please stop oh my god keep workplace dynamics away from home dynamics

  • NewLeaf
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    2 months ago

    B

    O

    B

    O

    D

    Y

    We're making acronyms!

  • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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    2 months ago

    To be fair to the hosts of Multiamory, it was a stupid source of inspiration but they renamed it to RADAR pretty quickly (I forget the acronym lol). A big part of the idea is scheduling regular check-ins with people so that you can discuss anything you need to in a format that's comfortable, instead of "hey, can we talk?" whenever something is wrong, or worse - bottling it up and holding grudges or bringing it out as ammo in an unrelated argument.

    Their politics really aren't that bad - generally a vague libby anti-capitalist.

  • Prometheus [they/them, undecided]
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    2 months ago

    Fixed link: https://archive.is/20240417043647/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/15/magazine/polycule-polyamory-boston.html

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      A lot of people are married and have primary partnerships. They’re coming to it from the opening of a monogamous relationship.

      Oh boy this won't end well.