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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

@jaredgoring.com

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I write, and more. No AI here. Many labels apply, including but not limited to: Canadian Ukrainian nonbinary bi/pansexual polyamorous anticapitalist autistic etcetera... Possible content:📖📷🐈🐕💩😂🏛⚧️🆒️🛠🔞 etc. DMs open, all feedback welcome! <3

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 15d

Updates!

I have a website now! There's some free writing there, and other things! Rants! Raves! Reviews! Free stories! jaredgoring.com

I have some stuff on itch now! (Only one for now but hey) jrade.itch.io

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 8h

The twist of "…and they're right!" only buys so much rope, really

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 8h

Damn. We appreciate your sacrifice and we will remember your name

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 8h

Worth it?

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 8h

This is such a bewildering and upsetting choice? I'm right there with you

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 9h

#Kinktober #IndieKinktober #NSFW

Another! Webcam, this time; excerpt from a fanfiction though that hardly matters. Two gals (who are pals, even if one of them thinks they're more and maybe they become as much) have fun on cam together!

Read more free here: jaredgoring.com/kinktober-da...

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"The realization hit Fareeha suddenly, sending her sitting upright in bed with a jolt, eyes flying wide and covers thrown free as her arm slapped out to the side to grab the phone. In bleary sleep reflex and not knowing how long the ringer had been going off already, Fareeha checked nothing at all – didn’t look at who was calling, at how, at whether it was through the phone’s base functions or an app or whatever else. She just hit the green circle without even seeing whether it was audio, video, or something else.

Video, as it turned out.

A choked snort of a noise flew from her nose as the phone’s screen lit up, showing something that was for a brief moment very confusing to Pharah’s wakening brain that still half-believed it was running through an emergency bug-out drill and was trying to mentally locate her boots before she ended up halfway across base without them again.

Legs?"

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 10h

Took me about thirty seconds to see anything but the skeleton. "Huh he looks pretty much like he was already just remains, eh?" XD

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

We also can't uninvent VX nerve toxin but that doesn't mean we need to put it in schools…

perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 13h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

A plastic doll owned by John Carpenter, or a movie - loosely speaking, based *on* a plastic doll - directed by John Carpenter?

Either way sounds pretty great.

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

Ooh holubchi! Ukrainian here, and I've converted all of my friends and partners into avid fans

Even soured a cabbage this year (well, 3 of them, we shop at Costco) so we could get the *really* good stuff - it was easier than I thought it would be to do myself on the back deck and turned out great!

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

I'd probably just delete my account and never look at the notification out of anxiety

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

~guilt, toward self-flagellation, toward not growing into something better but trying to violence something *bad* out of yourself, just maybe consider: that might be a knock-on from exactly what I was taking about.

And, then, consider letting it lie rather than taking it into yourself.
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

Be aware of what's affecting you, and try to be aware of why and how, and just… keep it in mind. Try to be healthy with yourself, and remember that that doesn't always mean the same thing - and remember too that you're not alone in these things.

If something seems to be pushing you toward~
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

~self-flagellation that can be carried out at any time in any place; it's worship.

As you're moving through places, through organizations, through hobbies and more, maybe keep this in mind. Keep Elliot's words in mind, and maybe mine too.

Be aware of your guilt, I think, is the important part.
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

~deserves to - or even needs to - be addressed, but just as importantly, should be noted. Should be something people are aware of.

Probably, a lot of the people who have defined the structure and culture of bodybuilding - and of *everything* - thought guilt was holy.

It's a suffering, a~
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

(Only took me 10+ posts. Trying not to feel guilty about that; failing)

Other people came up in the same religion as me. A lot of them. I was raised Roman Catholic. So were a lot of other people.

Probably, they have similar relationships with guilt to me.

This is something that probably~
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

I'm trying to deprogram this from myself. I think I am succeeding, but it will take time. I would never guess at - and do not know - Elliot's personal relationship with religion, but I think in a way it doesn't matter, because he's not alone in bodybuilding.

(Now we're getting to the point)
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

~heartbeat XD)

I only realized my personal relationship with guilt at nearly 30. GMing TTRPGs for my friends, and getting confused as to why the characters' guilt wasn't getting the reaction I was expecting.

It's because my friends don't think guilt is holy. They never did.
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

When that guilt is rooted only in us, though - only in our own lives, in this we ourselves have constructed for us alone, day to day - what does that do?

It's not healthy. Guilt every second of every day is not good. *Nothing* every second of every day is good! (Except maybe breathing and~
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

~makes me want to throw up and cry and scream. Feeling guilty over an insult I unknowingly hurled at a girl I considered a friend in kindergarten doesn't help anything. It makes me feel like those same, again.

Guilt can - maybe - be helpful in causing an aversion. In avoiding repeat mishaps.
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

There's a part of me - one I suspect did not come from *me* - that believes that guilt is good. An impression of holiness. Guilt is how we absolve ourselves, but here's the thing: it isn't.

Guilt doesn't make it better. Feeling guilty over not writing doesn't make me write more. It just~
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

Maybe say "oops" or "ah shoot, dang" but that's about the end of it. Should be, at least.

Should we feel guilt for it? Maybe. A little.

The level I feel, though, is much beyond a little. I think it's because I've been conditioned into accepting guilt, by religion. Into seeking it.
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

At the very least, things where the success doesn't align with anyone's well-being. Yes technically there is a point of skipping one's personal goals which could be bad for well-being, but that's not what we're talking about here.

Skipping one day? Maybe we should investigate. Note it.
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

~is a different thing, like he's saying: it's not about *actual* misstep or failure, it's about self-imposed and potentially arbitrary things.

For me, it might be things like "I'm gonna write on [X] today" or "work on [Y] project", etc. Things like that. Things that - in a sense - don't matter.
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

Guilt I feel over bad things I've done - times I acted like a jerk when it was uncalled for, for instance - are an example of healthy guilt I think.
(I do think I often feel said guilt to an unhealthy *extent* but that's a different issue. I think.)

This, however, that Elliot's talking about~
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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

It crops up in things exactly like this. I'm not into bodybuilding (although my sib was a pretty hardcore gym rat [not the same, but there's crossover] and several other friends are in one or both of those camps) but this is still a great distillate, I think, of "healthy guilt" vs "unhealthy".
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