I'm black and I like fire, though aside from a fireplace visiting family once, I haven't had much opportunities to tend an open flame. I did enjoy keeping it going that one time though.

Legendary fire guys don't use gloves. They have built years and years of scars, burns, and callouses on their hands. To the legends, they don't feel the heat from a burning log.

It's also the smell of smoke. The crackling. The heat. How the poking stick feels in your hand. Poke poke

I too feel very seen right now.

I grew up in the woods and chopped wood and did all the back-country stuff, but it wasn't until looking back way later in life that I realized that we lived in what was basically rural, racist, white America. The segregation that still exists is unfair in what it denies to children growing up. I feel like if were a black parent I might have serious reservations about taking my family out to most of rural America.

The legacy of homesteading being a "white settler" thing has left indelible marks on many places.

The OP's observation is that there is at least one white guy that fucks with keeping the fire going. There can be as many others as you wish!

Oh man.
One = chill small little fire.
Two = big fire, no one's getting cold.
Three = call the fire department cause we're about to start throwing big shit on this flame.

from the name??

this is going to mess with me when i make my next account

I love when I get back home and even after a shower and laundry, my hair and clothes still smell smokey.

they are talking about making fire without using lighter or matches or a fire starter, just wood on wood friction the way people had to make fire before any of those things existed. An oily rag won't help you with the difficult part; making a small coal to light your tinder.

fuck yeah that's good shit

Right, I missed that.

Even better are some welding gloves. That way you’re protected up to your elbows. I can grab a burning log with mine.

Hah jokes on you i kept the fire going with an autistic filipinx lesbian butch! Tho i am a straight white male... also i have no idea if filipinx is the correct term, how do you use it in a gender neutral way?

The x endings are generally regarded as white saviorism.

Why is it always the guy who looks like that though? The two main friend groups I've been part of in the past decade had that one guy and they both looked very similar to the guy in the image.

My experience is very anecdotal, but a friend of mine who is nonbinary and Mexican American uses and prefers e endings. So novie instead of novia/novio, amige instead of Amiga/amigo, et cetera. Pronounced Ay, like "no-vee-ay" instead of "no-vee-ah/oh"

I have adopted that generally when it's come up, but for the most part of I just stress over my sentence structure to avoid gendered terms at all costs. Like when it took my several tries to avoid the terms Latina/Latino/Latine in the first sentence of this comment.

Filipino is the gender neutral way I'm a half filipino raised in america though so take it with a grain of salt, but I honestly have never seen anyone use filipinx before