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[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 134 points 4 days ago

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R. Tolkien

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 3 days ago

Yes, I'd like a big tiddy sloth demon taking care of me, pretty please

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This implies your only worth as a human is what you produce or "accomplish" by other's standards. It's not for me personally, but there's very much validity in a life spent enjoying life, and not just for a future success.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

still if they are targeted they could derail human achievement, promising nasa worker? too bad you got slothed

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago

Explains my life tbh

[–] dumbass@quokk.au 83 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'll volunteer to keep y'all safe from this demon.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 45 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] dumbass@quokk.au 24 points 4 days ago

Yeah and the line starts behind me, friend.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are doing like a lottery selection or some time of raffle for this?

[–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

I'm going to work really hard to make something of myself to win the attention of the sloth demon.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago

Thanks doom guy.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd take a sluth demon. A succubus that doubles as a sloth demon. Monogamous, requires equal amount of cuddling and sex.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sorry, but when you say sluthdemon. The only thing i can think about is a demon that forces you to watch as it solves crime using deduction all the wile making you look too stupid to have solved it.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I feel like a sloth demon would take it a step further. You'd be enticed to napping, until one day you wake up from a nap, your face is wrinkled, every one of your friends has forgotten you, you're alone with only the sloth demon. Your life has been wasted away lying in bed.

Remember that time you said you were gonna travel? You were gonna go to Japan, you said. Too late now. You're too tired, you don't have any money. All you have is the Sloth Demon.

One day, your girlfriend calls you for your third nap of the day, and little do you know, you won't be awakening from that nap.

Your funeral has no attendees, at most you're a minor headline on a social media post about mental health. Your girlfriend? Gone, gone to find her next victim. Sloth Demons may not go through as many victims as their lustful cousins, but they get every last morsel out of them.

Remember that time you said you were gonna travel? You were gonna go to Japan, you said. Too late now. You're too tired, you don't have any money. All you have is the Sloth Demon.

That's the wombo combo of depression and poverty.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You write that as if it's abad thing but I'm sold already

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Demons are meant to be tempting!

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Now that is worth being scared of. Thank you

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[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My wife and I discussed something along these lines today. She said I would probably enjoy a nerdy gamer girl. I told her I'd end up pretty much like the sloth demon victim, completely unchallenged and lazy.

That's not to say a female gamer couldn't be a fulfilling, awesome girlfriend for anyone, but I know it wouldn't be ideal for me.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

I learned in my 20's that my ideal mix of interests with a significant other needs to include:

  • Shared interests that we already loved before we met, that we can connect and bond over for that initial spark.
  • Her interests that she introduces to me, and my interests that I introduce to her, so that we can build on something together and appreciate how the other has enriched our own lives.
  • Some new interests that we can both pick up and grow in together, and further reinforce our enjoyment of spending time together and growing together.
  • Our own individual interests that never really click with the other, so that we can each continue to do things that reinforce our individuality and self identity distinct from that particular relationship.

For me and my wife, we already loved food and dining and cooking before we met each other. Easy thing to build early dates around: "have you been to so and so restaurant, I've always wanted to check it out." We also loved a lot of the same TV shows (mostly single camera sitcoms like The Office, Arrested Development, etc.), and had easy couch time for quiet nights in.

She introduced me to style and fashion, and I appreciate a lot of the things about clothing and accessories and even makeup that I never bothered with before the age of 35.

I introduced her to football, and we enjoy going to games together.

We both introduced each other to a lot of musicians, TV shows, movies, and other entertainment we now both like.

We both picked up an interest in wine, whiskey, cocktails, and learned about this stuff together (and have planned memorable vacations centered on the places where people produce that kind of stuff). We also really learned to appreciate architecture and interior design, going as far as to go on tours and visits to specific places and cities and museums for these types of things. We became really particular about silverware and dishes at some point, too, which was a bit of an extension of our love of dining and our love of interior design.

And we still like our own stuff. She likes golf and tennis. I like basketball. I like all sorts of techy nerdy things that she has no interest in. She loves certain types of books and movies that I just do not care about. Our fitness routines have basically no overlap (yoga and spin versus powerlifting and Crossfit-style functional fitness workouts). She likes home improvement and garden stuff and I barely tolerate occasionally doing a few things around the house.

And it works. Having both distinct parts of your life and shared parts of your life seems to strengthen the bonds overall.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Can I get the man version of that? Kthnx

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 49 points 4 days ago

This is just a succubus with extra steps

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Demon? Dude this sounds like heaven.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Isn't that what the paradise supposed to be?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Kind of sounds like succubi.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Slaanesh's sixth circle of seduction: indolency.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

Not trying to play the virtuous superbeing here, just trying to get some perspective: am I the only one who finds such relationships... draining? I mean, I like being offered attention and affection, a lot! But this type of relationship feels like having helicopter parents, overbearing.

The occasional surprise meal, or doing the cleaning alone when I'm sick and melting are all fine and dandy in my book, as long as it's not a constant occurrence and reciprocation is involved - I like returning favours, almost more than I do receiving them.

Again, not trying to virtue signal, I want to understand if this is part of my avoidant bits, or if it's part of the usual spectrum. Childhood-long fuckery requires lifelong study, apparently.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, if we're making up a story about a kind of demon it probably shouldn't be a healthy relationship.

A succubus sucks your soul out through your crotch, which feels great until it doesn't. That's why its supposed to be a scary monster.

The post says, "until you die of natural causes", but for a counterpart to a succubus I think it would much more appropriate if it was able supernaturally influence you to reduce your worries and make you more and more dependent on it (just as a succubus can supernaturally charm its victims). Gradually you care about less and less as you lose all motivation, and at the end you don't even bother to struggle as your soul is ripped from your body.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Fair point and completely agree, but I was trying to divorce it a bit from the mythical/greentext framing (sorry if I left it ambiguous!) and referring to the more realistic version of such relationships, namely of the spouse/romantic partner/SO/you name it who plays a dutiful/doting parent for their partner.

In that case, I think outright malicious intent is seldom a direct driver for this type of relationship, usually has to do with either codependence, enforced Old Timey norms, or other such quasi-external/artificial sources. I do agree that the mythology around Succubi is a fine cautionary tale of what the result will be on the doted-upon partner's end, very hard to develop one's complexity when little to nothing is required of them in terms of effort in order to exist (not talking about poverty and such, just about normal everyday life stuff, like washing dishes, taking out the trash, cooking, paying bills, etc.).

And that's what generates the confusion and the need to clarify in me. I understand that the way I've been raised hasn't been necessarily conducive to objective reasoning in terms of interpersonal relationships and I'm trying to figure out if/where there are any lingering points of bias from this perspective within my processing.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's infantilizing. I would never treat a grown man that way, nor would I live with a guy who expected to be 'taken care of' to that extent. It implies a lack of trust in your ability to take care of yourself. I want a partner, not another child to take care of!

You are average in this, I would say.

Thank you! It genuinely is a load off my mind now that it's clear I'm not off the mark with this one!:))

And that's exactly it! Partnership, and that implies equal give and take on both sides (with compassionately compensating for one another when really needed)!

And very well said in terms of trusting one another to be capable of taking care of themselves! Worst case scenario, if it happens that the methods of approaching the same task vary greatly between the two parties (talking about how one washes the dishes, not how often, for example), these things can always be mitigated through clear and open discussion! This is also comes down to trust, as I see it.

Thanks so much once again! Sanity check complete with zero errors!❤️

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, people on here would find this hot/great for like a day, maybe a week max. If it goes on more than that, the negative side effects will kick in.

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

all this means is you're more well-adjusted than the average 4chan user.

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Don't threaten me with a good time!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

isn't the embodiement of the sin

So it's not actually a giant sloth with big titties like I was imagining? 😩

This sounds like a big win. I wasn't going to cure cancer or be president anyway. At least with the sloth demon, I don't have to worry about having a job to pay my bills. The demon's got it covered.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Thats called a Blerch.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/running

Eat the whole cake, eat the whole goddamn thing. You earned it somehow

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It's all I've ever wanted

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Ah the dream

[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

I'll take this one for the team, please send this demon to me.

[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is my life. Plus 2 cats.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

Try 3 cats, it's the shit.

My sloth demon wants me to play the new mario kart and eat curries. I have married her.

[–] Predalien@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Doesn't this imply that the world would progress as nornal, just with demons taking care of everything and all the humans just chilling at home? (Assuming the demon actually works and doesn't just conjure up whatever it needs to take care of you)

[–] thaddaevs@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Being the president isn't that a good thing these days... Just saying... 😬

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'm not seeing the problem here.....

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