diner cook, professionally nosey

Side blog: @sourfacedlemon, @henricus-danger-rex AO3: TheAceApples, SourFacedLemon. Extremely queer. AroAce but in an Evil™ way. Previously @thefreelancercollaboration, previously @thefreelancerdivision. Appropriately nicknamed "Salty McEnthusiasm".

[aces-to-apples]

Active AO3 account: SourFacedLemon (Fic Masterlist Tumblr Post)

Inactive AO3 account (primarily Star Wars): TheAceApples

[dragon-age-tournament]

Dragon Age Fight Club — Group #10 / Match 6 of 6

The Formless One

No propaganda submitted.

vs. Carroll

No propaganda submitted.

Who would win in a fight?

The Formless One

Carroll

Remaining time: 2 days 5 hours

[starridge]

an unmatched feeling actually

[rottingtrouble-child]

I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.

Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…

[rottingtrouble-child]

“This 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad use”

Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.

[rottingtrouble-child]

“Children don’t have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.”

Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.

When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they can’t hold a pencil properly?

[rottingtrouble-child]

People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say it’s the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.

It’s like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.

[cock-holliday]

“Ugh this prominent women in the Lesbian movement turned out to be a bisexual” “ugh this famous lesbian transitioned into a man” “ugh this queer romance writer turns out to be ace” “ugh this cis feminist author ended up being nonbinary” “ugh this writer on masculinity transitioned into a woman”

Oh no! We might have to recognize liberation as an interconnected intersectional struggle! Ahhh!!! >.<

[kuttithevangu]

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

[kuttithevangu]

People in my notes who think I’m repressed or dissociating: you will feel better when you learn emotions are not a binary of Not Feeling It vs Being Overwhelmed By It

[vir-adahlen]

uh Morrigan

[jack-of-blades]

I’m reblogging this with the same care someone would have when holding a priceless artefact btw

[jingerpi]

reductions in socially necessary labor time are actually a wonderful thing and the only reason we seem them so critically is because of the inherent contradictory nature of capitalism where progress is turned into harm

[pathetic-floretic]

What people think BDSM is like:

Dom: lets try this new kink called i will shoot you with a gun. Here we go

Sub: what

What BDSM is actually like

Sub: lets try this new kink called you will shoot me with a gun. Here we go

Dom: what

Sub: please

[feminist-space]

[hawthornsword]

I have officially sewn an entire garment without having to rip seams out and start over three times.

[aces-to-apples]

Fuck yeah!!

[todaysbird]

very cool but also kind of a dick move

[todaysbird]

Stop making Hannibal furry headcanons unless it’s this bird

[reggiemess]

It's apparently only ONE population of this species that does this. Everyone else hunts and caches normally. The other falcons probably talk shit about this fucked up torture family.

[skwerlly-squirrel]

Ooooh that’s even more fascinating. That means it’s a learned behavior they TAUGHT one another.

[righteousgrace]

[redstonedust]

they're not super common but i really do appreciate characters who are introduced as one gender and later revealed to be closeted trans. i like that it challenges the audience to really think about how they perceive trans people because realistically not every trans person you meet is going to be out to you at first. yes we introduced this character as a man and now we're asking you to reframe her as a woman after you've already gotten to know her. can you be normal about that? can you be normal when it happens to people you know in real life? i hope you can.

[gayvampyr]

shoutout to boring queer people who don’t do shit. just go to work or school and then come home to watch shows. while gay

[kalatannya]

"Age in bio or i'll kill you"

You better pay close attention to the first one, and read it very carefully. I will quiz you on it later.

[kalatannya]

So much good tags

[tapir-boy]

hello people on the computer

very genuine question - how hard is it to switch from windows to linux? my major concerns are mostly game compatability & scrivener - scrivener doesnt offer a linux version but i use it to log fanfic & OC writing notes, thoughts about games im playing, etc, and i really dont want to lose that or have to switch to something else. is there a way for me to get scrivener compatible with a linux OS? or would i basically HAVE to have windows & linux dual booted, and then boot into windows whenever i want to use scrivener? (editing to say: apparently there is a whole forum thread about how to do this with linux and the most recent consensus seems to be lutris? thoughts?)

as far as games, i skimmed through protonDB and threw in my steamID and everything, everything i play is either gold or platinum (so minor tweaking at best), so that gives me hope at least. how bad is modding, though? i dont use a lot of mod managers (vortex burned me when i was in my early days of game modding so now i mostly just rawdog it, but i still use bg3mm for baldurs gate & mod organizer 2 for fallout & stardew valley & a few other things.) im used to being able to just download stuff, unzip it, drag & drop or cut & paste it in the file location i need it to be in, and then run the game. my understanding of linux is mostly seeing people work directly in the console, but theres a file manager that can be used to do the same thing on windows right? am i going to have Issues modding games if i switch to linux?

also... what version of linux do ppl recommend for ex-windows users? i see bazzite recommended for gaming / steam gaming especially, i assume it works for like. More than just gaming? again, i dont intend to do a lot else, i mostly just use my laptop for watching videos, gaming, and writing. i know basically everything else i need that Isnt steam or scrivener is available through flathub, so i think beyond that im set, right??

advice and thoughts would be appreciated - im not a tech expert & a lot of linux setup is going over my head, but im kind of getting tired of microsoft & the way things keep getting worse.

[lokh1]

‘how would other people describe you’ why would i know this