I really don’t see a problem unless you equate being gay with being bad or undesirable in some way. Who’s reading an article about butt plugs and only feels shame in their interest when gay people are brought up?

I get plenty of news on TikTok, I don’t see a problem. If I hear something on there, I quickly look it up and verify it. The problem isn’t “these damn stupid kids and their social media”, the problem is media literacy combined with major journalistic outlets obliterating their own credibility.

Nothing. You can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to get to in the first place. There’s way more unmotivated and un-mobilized people out there that believe in human caused climate change that are more worth your time and energy.

Mine just says I like analog and vintage photography stuff and lacy and shiny clothes. Neither of which are very shocking.

I bounce around a few friends place and live in my car a bit. I have a full time job. I can park in their lot overnight and get water there during the day. So I’ve got most of the situation figured out. The address thing is gonna be an issue eventually. Actually, it’ll be a big one. Oh well.

My kinda homeless isn’t as bad as it gets. I got a decent car and a decent job, just no bed.

My boss is actually Latvian with a pretty strong accent. She struggles with some stuff, but we communicate fine.

Anyway, I guess I’ve got some strength to me. It’s not something I started with though. You just pick it up on your way through hard times. I’m sure you can find your own strength too.

I’m homeless because the US is… a mess and my family is the opposite of helpful.

I do post occasionally. There’s a couple posts on my old lemmy account, a few on my old reddit, and many more on my old instagram. I don’t want to link my instagram to this account because it’s semi-professional for when I do gigs and I don’t need what I write here associated with that.

Drawing is a good option. I’ve always struggled with it personally, but I am trying again recently.

As for the language barrier issue. Your written English isn’t perfect, but totally functional. I imagine your spoken english is similar although it’s probably slow. I’ve heard the best way to learn fluency is from talking with people though. So maybe you’ll get better quicker than you expect.

To your final point. “Inevitable” is a word only used in hubris. If predicting the future were that easy, we’d live in a better world. Obviously I don’t know your language, but the phrase you’ve given seems to have a dual meaning. On one hand it seems to express a kinda of hopeless futility, but it also reads to me in a more positive way too. If ever said “I can’t breathe enough before I die” I would only say that to express that there’s so much I want to do and so little time to do it.

I can’t promise things will get better. Things might get worse or just stay hard for a really long time. That’s certainly been my experience. Still I’m determined because there are things I want to experience. I want to be happy and have fun and make friends and Im not going to let the unfairness of this shitty world stop me.

I had to go through a seriously dark period to get to this mindset, but I did get through it. I wasn’t hopeful or optimistic while I was dealing with it, but I kept going anyway.

I can’t say things have ever been that bad for me, but I’m in a really rough place myself right now.

Focus on your next step. Survival is most important. Try your best to find stability and find a good outlet for all the stress you’re dealing with.

I’m homeless right now and my next step is to make enough money for rent somewhere. My outlet is my photography, I’d lose my mind without it.

Surely you’re dealing with a lot of trauma and you’re going to need help dealing with that. If you can get that help, then it’s worth pursuing. If not, it’s okay to put it off until you have higher priorities taken care of.

Your life isn’t ruined. You can rebuild and find stability. You just have to keep going and never give up.

You can be attracted to whoever you want to be. Once you accept an attraction to trans people, the labels get confusing. Worry less about your category and more about how you feel.

I don’t know the science, but I do know that seawater makes my hair a little stiff and super curly. I have naturally curly hair, but they’re big loose curls that hang. With seawater though, it becomes a big fluffy afro.

best I could think of are old school curlers. From looking it up they do work best with heat, but don’t require it. Maybe wetting your hair with saltwater would help too. Saltwater makes my hair much more curly. I remember reading it apparently strengthens the asymmetrical bonds that makes hair curly.

I’m 29 right now and people say I look 18

I hope Im so lucky

When I was 13, a 13 year old friend and I went to a convention where my friend got an under 12 child’s ticket and I got a 15+ chaperone ticket. Now both of us get carded at bars and we’re pushing 30. People aren’t good at guessing ages.

It’s not a memorial lol. I’m actively using it. I just know that it would be strange to find.

Why would I buy an actual sharps container? I gotta take weekly injections.

Uh oh, I didn’t realize I ordered one. My dom is gonna be pissed.

Aside from adult items, it would be my collection of 400 keys all on a bunch of different connected key rings or maybe my rum bottle full of used needles.

This is pizza like a frappuccino is coffee. I’d try it. Not totally gonna hate, but this is food made by someone who only has a vague concept of pizza.

I live kind of in the metro NY area and I go to the city a lot. I’ve only ever heard “I got on the line” or “Are you on the line?” otherwise it would be “get in line” or “I’m in line for …”

Overall though, that article feels really dated. The famous NYC accent has been fading in recent years. I haven’t heard many of the features listed in that article and more still I’ve only heard from old people.