If anything I think paying close attention to a lawn is classic heterosexual male behaviour

Anything I’ve bought at a sports stadium. The FootyScran twitter account catalogues some similar examples -

Fake: Anon goes outside

Gay: Gardening (? idk this one is a struggle)

trust your gut bro

Are you sure this person is who they say they are?

I remember back when reddit was edgier there was an /r/opiates sub where users would share cheery thoughts like, “I’m sure we all have a part of us fantasising about dying when we hit the plunger on the syringe.”

It was so bleak that it stuck with me.

I also say in the next sentence I only made it 50 pages in. Not really a fanfic person so hard to judge the quality of it (my prejudice would be that most of it is shite).

Phew thought we’d have to settle our dispute by vogue-ing!

Yeah that’s the one - thanks!

There’s a good fanfic series that tries to apply science to the HP universe. I made it like 50 pages into the 300+ page book which is longer than I’d usually read a fanfic for.

Fake: anon has gf

Gay: anon buys colourful kitchenware and posts about it online in order to start a discussion

Oh yeah, sorry that was a bad joke. Those films couldn’t be more different!

Really enjoyed learning about NY queer culture by watching Paris is Burning so thought I’d check out Mississippi Burning to see how marginalised communities express themselves in the South… oh

I’m not from the states so not really qualified to comment but I would have thought low taxes and large population (including diverse cities like Housten and true blue areas like Austin) would work in its favour.

Other places in the South seem to have all the downsides you mention but none of the positives.

I remember hanging out with a friend who was telling me about his decaying relationship with this song playing in the background.

shudders

They did not sound like what I was expecting first time I listened to one of their records. Maybe I was wrong to expect a psychedelic jam band, maybe starting with American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead did not give me a representative view.

The way people talking about them I was expecting something really out there like Gong or Acid Mothers Temple!

Check out MC Solaar if you’d like to hear some French rap.

Or Nujabes - DJ who collabed with a lot of conscious rappers in the 00s - for some “light” rap. I’m underselling him but imagine a Dave Brubeck for rap instead of jazz; technically amazing but easy listening / quite poppy.

Psytrance. I had a bad experience at a psytrance club night as a student where I’d uh consumed my entertainment from the evening at halls of residence, but then my mate gave me another for free at the night. Wasn’t feeling too intoxicated before that so thought, “ah fuck it.” This, dear reader, was a mistake.

I made it about 2.5 hours before begging my gf (now wife) to leave because I thought the whooshing effects they use on the tracks was repeatedly saying my name.

After leaving the nightclub I instantly felt better and the rest of the evening was ok. Just psytrance has never sounded the same.

As an aside, weird crowd there, like lots of millenials like myself who seemed to be neurodiverse or emotionally troubled in some way - including the scantily clad young women. But then there were also older men there who were a mixture of drug dealers and losers who appeared to be out for drugged up teen genitalia of some one kind or the other. This was 13-14 years ago and I noticed a similar phenomenon at house music clubs jn the intervening years (don’t go clubbing much these days lol).

This is why I’m adopting if I ever decide with my wife to be parents. Can’t imagine the guilt of my DNA looking me in the eye and asking why “did you make me?”

Fake: Anon’s dad returned to the family home after “going out for some smokes”

Gay: Anon shares repressed feelings with another man