That was a fun read.

I went to a couple social dances hosted by a local ballroom dance club. I like pretending I’m someone else, someone cool, since I don’t know anyone there.

Isolating variables like this is so cool!

Thanks for pointing out that it was Paul not Jesus who said that. I feel silly now. Corrected my comment.

Christ does Christians do say canonically that the church is like Christ’s wife.

Marriage—Christ and the Church

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

(Ephesians 5:22-24)

And bridal theology goes back to the Old Testament, in Song of Songs.

Watched Asteroid City recently for the first time. I thought the play within the movie (and the intertwining back and forth of storylines) was really interesting and entertaining.

Someone did my tarot recently, and I didn’t realize the second way existed. Paired with introspection after the fact, the experience was quite therapeutic.

Oh, thanks!

(Sorry, what game is this from? Pretty cool silhouette!)

Were you ever in marching band? I got relatively good at that after putting my all into marching band in high school.

Thanks, stole it myself!

So the desired response is, “What is “what is up dog?”?”?

That’s impressive. Is it still licensed under a libre copyleft license? Surely that’s too good to be true.

I’m honored!

My bad. Text rather than images.

Usually bots are created with minimal effort. They post porn or affiliate links or something, and then they spam like / follow people to get people to click on their username and view their blog. They get quickly banned, and then they come back with another username. Shitty little pornbots.

It’s a Q: a bunch of vowels are lined up behind it!

It’s fun! Tumblr has been basically singlehandedly supporting the textpost meme industry on Instagram for years. I like that Tumblr tends to tilt toward text rather than words images; here’s my favorite example of that:

https://www.tumblr.com/headspace-hotel/661331419218509824

If you’re thinking of joining, the #1 thing to remember is to reblog (and optionally tag) things you like, not just tap the heart icon. Tumblr is for curating a blog of things you like, and if you don’t reblog anything, you look like a bot and you will get blocked. Also, likes don’t actually do anything for the algorithm; likes are more like “save for later”.

You decide your own algorithm, to some extent, by hitting Follow on people whose blogs you like. I like that. I think it might resonate with Lemmy users too :)

I’m East Asian. My ex (also Asian) said I smelled bad sometimes after exercising, but my current partner (not Asian) says I don’t have any body odor. I do think that when we go to the gym together, their smell far outweighs mine. I can’t smell myself at all, but then again, people are usually habituated to their own scents.

Sometimes, though, when I was a child, my father would come home from the gym, and we could all smell him from a mile away. I don’t know if that’s because the gene skipped him or if it’s just because humans generally think their close family members are stinky.

It’s nice to talk about this when my armpits aren’t in danger of being sniffed by several drunk friends.

Apologies; it’s my first time posting here. I had just a link at first, but I thought it might be helpful to add a screenshot, like an overall preview of the post. Is it confusing to have something other than the link? I can take it out.

I think the image is grainy because of lemm.ee’s image uploading rules, but don’t quote me on that… I really just wanted to have the image as a fallback of sorts, completely secondary to the link.

Edit: I’ve updated the post to reflect that the image isn’t meant to be the main thing. Is that the best thing to do?