I was brought into this world a weak flesh thing. Once I understood that weakness it disgusted me. I aspired to the strength of steel. I craved the blessed purity of the machine…
I need to know more about this apple orchard disco.
Regarding the title: I once made an “ACAB - Assigned Cute At Birth” t-shirt in non-binary pride colors for a friend of mine. Kind of reminded me of that.
That sounds like an awesome gift. I bet they have loads of people saying “awesome t-shirt, where did you get it?”, and then they get to say “thanks! My friend made it for me.” That’s the best feeling
What is an “Apple Orchard Disco”?
And, if someone would ask me such a question, I’d turn around immediately, even though I’m personally far from all this LGBTQ stuff.
Might be a disco that takes place in a literal orchard. People on the countryside get creative…
i live just on the edge of a city. one of our favorite local bars/concert venues is in a something orchard. i don’t know trees.
“i don’t know trees.”
That’s a shame. Trees are cool. However, I bet this means you know some cool stuff about things I don’t know about, so it’s swings and roundabouts.
My wife’s little brother who is disabled thought our baby would be 3 months old when born.
That’s dumb, the baby is obviously ~9 months old when born.
Isn’t this legitimately how Koreans count their age? Like, I think you pop out as a 1 year old according to their age system.
From what I understand, they’ve been using the ‘normal’ system for most legal things since the 60s, and that was just how they socially talked about age, until it was abandoned in 2023.
The old system also added a year on New years, not on your birthday. Meaning a baby born 2 days ago would be 2 years old if they were born on December 31. Apparently, laws do still keep that standard for some age based regulations, like school, drinking age, voting age, and draft. Which kind of makes sense; everyone born in X year gains those things at the same time. A less arbitrary cut off date for schools, no awkward math whe checking IDs, just born in ‘04, you’re good.’
Still seems confusing having 3 ages in different contexts though.
Fun fact: up until fairly recently, babies weren’t often named until at least their second birthday. Hence, headstones with “baby”, “junior”, etc. littering pioneer graveyards and similar.
That kinda makes sense. Giving a name before knowing how the childs behaviour, temperament or similar is rather unintuitive. Also probably makes the loss a bit less hard if the child dies before it’s at least a year old, which is probably the root cause for that costume.
It wasn’t because of a hesitance to misname them. It was purely because of mortality rates. I appreciate your optimism, though. 🥹
