amy's not dead yet

she/they, aro/ace/genderqueer/meh, artist, writer, and 50yo cryptid. I'm swtalmnd on ao3. I post fic, art, cat pics, and reblog whatever the fuck I want. Minors fuck off. https://www.patreon.com/amysnotdeadyet

[amysnotdeadyet]

I'm amysnotdeadyet on bluesky.

I'm amysnotdeadyet on pillowfort.

I'm amysnotdeadyet on Patreon.

I'm swtalmnd on AO3. I bet you weren't expecting that.

This is my website, antemortemarts.com, where you can sign up for my newsletter that I rarely remember to send.

I'm not active anywhere except Patreon and Tumblr, really, but I swear I'm trying to learn to bluesky. I just. It's hard, okay, I can't just reblog 117 things in 20min and then move on with life. I probably won't post AO3 links anywhere but pillowfort and here, as long as there's a here here.

[haughtyraban]

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

[ladyprydian]

Little Miss No I Will Not Mind My Business.

[meret118]

How to Make Your Smart TV ‘Dumber’ (and Why You Should)

So-called smart TVs are a privacy nightmare, but you can improve them with a little patience and some poking about in the settings.

The “dumb” TV pivot: why your next screen shouldn’t be smart

Modern smart TVs have a fatal flaw: the software ages significantly faster than the hardware. A beautiful 4K panel can easily last a decade,

4 Top Dumb TVs of 2026 Ranked

If you're after the best dumb TVs, it's likely because you crave simplicity in your viewing experience or want to keep your privacy intact,

[insomniac-arrest]

I wish AI would stop making so many animal story posts. I LOVE animals and they are ruining the loving-animals ecosystem. And also the real ecosystem

[insomniac-arrest]

The truffle hunting cat is AI, I’m so sorry guys

[gingerkingfisher]

Fuck AI, look at my handsomest boy instead, he helps me in the garden by digging holes next to where I am digging. He is not helping at all, but I appreciate his spirit, we are bonding.

[dragontamer05]

[tiredcrownoises]

He is sadly not with us anymore, but I felt the need to go back and add my handsome baby Richard to the sharing of real kitties.

[tokidokifish]

ari being so chill

[dryadgurrl]

Please enjoy my Orange named Thomas, he got so zonked on nip the first time he blepped and passed out, and he also likes to do a corgi sploot when he lays down, IDK why

[amysnotdeadyet]

This is my lovely Mal (short for Formaldehyde), she's beautiful and she knows it. She knows you know it. It's fine.

[themakeupbrush]

Sam Smith at the 2026 Met Gala

[amarguerite]

[melyzard]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

dump his ass. move to a walkable city. start hormones. get into fiber crafts. dye your hair weird. grow an herb garden. foster a distrustful cat. take a welding class. invite your friends over for tea and cake. get way too into obscure media. explore a new cuisine. lie to the police. protest in the streets. life has so many possibilities don't it?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

make out with a frenemy. buy noise cancelling headphones. wear office inappropriate attire. quit a toxic workplace. improve your apartment. start a dog walking sidegig. get on first name basis with your local librarians. bully politicians at town hall meetings. get an unexpected piercing. cultivate farmer's market connections. trade recipes with a gossipy old neighbor. unionize your apartment complex. move to the countryside. let a friend take you larping. keep a sword on your mantleplace

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

get a tattoo on your 40th birthday. be tempted to buy a loom. do a charity drag show. sue your landlord. buy a really nice kitchen appliance. volunteer at an anarchist soup kitchen. rediscover a tv show you watched when you were 8. spam your state senators. shop at asian grocery stores. do cosplay. buy trans flags in bulk and mount them along the highway. go viral for unexpected reasons. move in with your best friend. make lemoncello with leftover lemon rinds. run for school board membership. explore pegging.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

update: i'm delighted to report this post has been responsible for at least one person dumping his ass

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

update: three four people

[wearesorcerer]

Succumb to the amulet?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Succumb to the amulet!!!

[jabberding0]

it's just a little bit of wind

[ailithnight]

Walking tents are always fun, but the pants are what killed me. Then, fresh off that death, GIRAFFE.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

© _ADwills

be kind to yourself and your creations ♡

[godtrauma]

the man who owns and runs the thai restaurant in my town knows me by name. he is one of the kindest and most thoughtful men i know. i started ordering from his place back in january, which was when i got my fibromyalgia diagnosis. back then i was using a walker, had limited mobility in my entire body but especially my hands, and was very visibly in pain. i always ordered the same thing: yellow curry with no meat, potatoes and carrots only (i have texture and other dietary issues). he always made it a point to make sure i could get out the door and carry the food safely. he had his workers package the food so that it was easier for me to open. as i kept coming back and i told him a little bit about my health status, he would always encourage me to keep going. he told me about how the spices he used were good for inflammation and began to edit the recipe just for me so that spices that were even better for fighting inflammation were used. he’d give me extra portions and despite the fact that i would tip every time, i realized later that he never charged my card for them. as time went on and my condition began to get better, especially with the help of a physical therapist, he would make encouraging remarks and tell me how happy he was for me. the day i came in without my walker, he practically jumped for joy, and despite my insistence, he gave me my meal for free that day. i continue to make progress with my conditions and i continue to go to the thai place. this man who does not know me personally and who i hardly know anything about is one of my favorite people. it’s interactions with humans like these that make loving life easier. and his curry really does help my chronic condition. it’s comfort food taken to the next level.

[amovingmess]

This is what I think about when people ask what the meaning of life is

[puncertainty]

a leap of faith !

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

[infertilityidol]

[sapropel]

Sometimes your bad coworker will be like "I can't do anything right & I ruin everything I touch :(" and you can't even comfort them because like damn. Yeah. You really can't do anything right and you do ruin everything you touch☝️

[sapropel]

HE'S GETTING FIRED. NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!!!!!

[most-precious-garbage]

[cristalplanetheart]

[bigbigtruck]

sucking at something is the first step to getting good at it

[sunthoon]

Project Hail Mary fans after finishing the book and the movie

[taro-jpg]

[ID: four panel project hail mary comic.

1: a panicked man points at the giant screen on the wall where there are three intersecting red lines and cries, "Ms. Stratt, MULTIPLE petrova lines have been found in our solar system!"

2: Eva stratt says, "impossible. get me a better view." Someone replies, "zooming out scope for full visibility!"

3: same view of Stratt but with a cast of red light.

4: zoomed out view of stratt standing in front of the screen, showing the AO3 logo glowing in the stars. Strat says, "good god."

end ID.]