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@thetruesaint

queer Latine.

disabled people deserve more than the bare minimum to live tbh. and i don't mean in the "oh we have extra costs that makes being disabled more expensive" - which is true, but i'm counting those in the budget to live. disabled people also deserve enough money to buy treats, nice clothes, fund their hobbies, take a trip away, and so on. being disabled shouldn't force you into a life of frugality and poverty

i wish you could download mods for movies. i want to watch the thing (1982) but with kurt russel in a baby slut t shirt and camo capris

[id: unfortunately, its kurt russel in the thing (1982) wearing a baby slut tshirt and camo capris.]

noone in this house appreciates anything i do

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Well I could give you the serious answer or I could tell you that being called cis doesn't make my dick hard

there’ve been a few throwaway jokes in various episodes about klingons not bathing that are obviously meant to be derogatory but of course me being the way that i am i immediately thought hey how can i turn this into a worldbuilding thing. and i thought yk i heard that chinchillas cant get wet cause its bad for their health, which i looked up and is apparently bc theyve evolved super dense fur to live at high elevations in the andes. and it turns out Qo'noS is largely mountainous and prone to high winds.

so my hc is that klingon hair is super dense and thick and takes forever to dry once its wet (which tracks bc look at it), plus the typical high winds and arid heat on the continents interior would crack wet skin as it dried, so getting wet is typically something best avoided. funnily enough chinchillas clean themselves by dust bathing in fine volcanic ash, and Qo'noS is an extremely volcanic planet so i think the whole thing works out pretty neatly and im incorporating klingon dust baths into my belief system from here on

Behold! A Klingon!

But honestly, I love this. It’s good world building and an interesting idea. Many animals dust bath and some of them do it in groups. I can definitely see a group of Klingons dust bathing together and talking about their day

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People do this too (kind of)!

Not everywhere has plentiful clean water, so culture adapts!

One method for skin is a smoke bath: This is most famously done by women in Sudanese regions and is considered traditional medicine in Southern Sudan

You basically burn specific herbs and tree bark/roots, cover the contained material and your limbs/body (but not ur head) in a specific blanket. The material being burned it antibacterial and kills odor too. Do this with an oil bath (rubbing oil on ur skin until it lifts the dirt out and wipe it all off) and you get pretty clean!

As for hair, specific ash is used as well (like dry shampoo but more thorough) or a mix of minerals and fats to form and protect hair (Otjize is the name of the product Himbwe women use, the Himbwe people also use smoke baths!

So not only would a hairy Klingon probably just tussle around in some bougie sand, but make quite a big deal about how long they could last in a smoke bath, or something like a smoke room for communal bathing

thank you so much for this addition this is fucking fascinating!!!

society's infantilization of decorated objects is honestly one of the greatest recent crimes against humans' innate desire for beauty

"the toothbrush/hairbrush/bike/vanity desk with flowers on it is For Kids! this plain beige one is For Adults!"

I am literally throwing you into a volcano