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bittorrent ratio never below 3. this is definitely an automatically generated username, but i am a real person. they | normal amount old | spouse and parent my tags are mostly garbage or me fixating, eventually i'll write a pinned about the tags i reuse

[angelwithwings23]

this is my pinned post about tags.

if you want me to tag something: maybe. i guess message or ask but like, consider your approach, yeah? I'm a person. you're also gonna have better luck with tags i already intend to apply, I'm super unreliable with them.

[this post meta: I'm just gonna change it any time i like without notice or documentation]

tags i try to use

#alcohol - i admit to being mediocre at this one, feel free to remind me

#creature tag - it's more specific than "Animalia" but in a way that's more vibes than phylogeny. you get it. anyway they aren't all real

#bookmark - because tumblr doesn't have tabs

#bookmark for shrink - my resonance with this post is connected with something or indicates something i have or should discuss with someone.

#brain sprinkle - little mental poots that would annoy bystanders

#cannabis - in case anyone is looking for or trying to avoid, I'm no great resource on the subject

#fuck - something that simply gobsmacks me, something regarding intercourse, use or discussion of the swear or swears in general. like the word, the tag is a many splendored thing

#gender tag - a tag about gender. being a gender, not being a gender, being genders, being cis, being trans, not all about me but all things that touch me

#haha tag - this literally caused me to laugh with my actual voice in my physical body. i may have been intoxicated, no promises on quality, and i definitely don't always tag

#language tag - natural languages, conlangs, grammar, etymology, stuff like that

#mh - mental health. sometimes #mh- (negative, worsening, poor outlook) or #mh+ (positive, improvement, good outlook)

#new kind of guy - for when i observe or learn about a new kind of guy. guys are not (explicitly) identified

#this is literally how magic works - I'm not explaining. that's literally how magic works* (ok one serious thing: posts are about A way, not THE way. I'm not defining or describing any dogma or existing tradition per se, nor even a coherent set)

#tumblr meta - things about this accursed beloved hellsite, it's operation, or my usage of it.

#wizard things - y'know, wizard stuff. things by, to, for, at, from, or in wizards!

#words words words - as said by Prince Hamlet. words are funny little things, and i like to play with them.

#worldbuilding - you know one day I'm gonna make that game/write that novel. not the details, but the kind of details that a world might have, if a story demanded.

#​writing resources - as above, some of the things to consider, know, try, avoid, subvert

#yep - i'm under the influence, or post is about a time when i was under the influence

*magic varies. see tag.

[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

Not really a fan of Bridgerton, but I am a fan of Nicola Coughlan's response to everyone shitting on her for being "too big" to play a love interest

[senatortedcruz]

Listening to songs and thinking about something the songs aren’t about

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

[several-thousand-bees]

oh yeah we remember doing that

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

[foone]

Good news everyone! Our long nightmare is over. I'm cute again!

(I had to wear my backup glasses for two weeks as my main pair had the prescription changed)

[foone]

I'm now cute and blonde!

[foone]

SURPRISE it was always on the way to being RED and cute

[waddei]

fucking sucks when an au idea is SO OBVIOUS to you like surely everyone agrees w me forever and then u go on ao3 theres NOTHINGGG

[teaboot]

My problem is that I have a deep admiration and respect for ingenuity, dedication, and commitment to the bit.

Which is ultimately benign, until I am placed in the role of a caregiver or general authority over a person or animal

Because I can't just catch someone in the midst of pulling off a ridiculous, clever, determined and absurd little scheme and just act like I'm not impressed

It wouldn't be honest or fair

And so, it appears that if anything with free will is placed in my care long enough, they invariably learn that if they can get me to laugh without hurting anybody or risking their health then they can pretty much get away with almost anything

Which has resulted in some very funny events

[teaboot]

He tore open a bag of cheetos and hid them all over the apartment so even after I cleaned it up and put the bag in the fridge every couple hours I hear a crunching sound and follow it to find him hunched defensively in a corner eating a cheeto

[angelwithwings23]

lol photograph matthew in his finding out era once again. Bro is doing all he can for the beatings to continue.

[bipolyjack]

babys first gay fiction podcast my beloved

[c3rvida3]

The last time I played Puck, the director was a huge freak about not letting us wear shoes on stage because it would "ruin the look", but we all kept eating shit, and instead of just letting us wear skintone dance shoes or something with grip, motherfucker poured Pepsi on the floor so it'd be sticky and we had to schlorp around. I fucking hate you, David.

[saltykingsalty]

Why couldn't this have been a one time I dreamt

[c3rvida3]

Coking the stage (mopping it with diluted soda so it's a little sticky) is a legitimate low-budget tactic for slick floors, but he just poured so much Pepsi on the floors that for about a whole week, it was audible.

Maybe the course of true love would run a little fucking smoother if we didn't have to ford your Pepsi river, DAVID.

[spontaneous-avocado]

I would just quit. Fuck people like that. It's easy to walk away

[c3rvida3]

No it's not. Didn't you read the post? There was dried Pepsi everywhere.

[angelwithwings23]

nobody is a man at age 23. that's guy territory. you're in the guy zone.

[raingardening]

i think there is a phenomenon where sometimes a trans person will go “hmm. i am treated as a man when it is convenient for others, and a woman when it is convenient for others, and often as a freakish third thing excluded from the advantages of both. surely, because of the gender binary, the Other Type of trans person experiences the opposite: they reap the benefits of maleness and femaleness at once.” like babes no they can do it twice

[elodieunderglass]

You know when you start seeing something everywhere? Well, I’ve been noticing references to people buttering their bread before toasting it - with accompanying commentary about it being really really good toast. Hard to see how this is an improvement, at first glance - you’re not doing that with a toaster. Well, not more than once.

But the references were never weighty enough to bother investigating how it was done, what made it practical or why you’d bother.

Then I read this:

“I was very close to my grandfather right up until his death in 1991. I remember him as a really kind, quiet man. When I was a small boy, he used to make thick toast for me that he would butter before he toasted it and then again afterwards. It was simply gorgeous, the softest toast I ever ate...”

— Ruby: The Autobiography by Ruby Walsh

The scene was clear. A racehorse training yard, the 1980s, Kill, Ireland: Ruby and his three siblings all lining up for toast from a man with 50 horses to feed. His grandfather was making the toast for them using the grill (broiler) of the cooker (stove).

Once I got that, it was so obvious. This clearly is a very effective habit that takes longer than a toaster, but not that much longer if you’re doing it for a lot of people at once, and cuts down on kids waiting to be served. And it probably makes dreamy toast.

I gave it a shot in an air fryer, and it is definitely different in consistency than toaster-toast, soft in the middle and crunchy on top. Definitely feels more luxurious!

But more importantly, if you have 4 kids wanting toast, this probably does move along faster.

Anyway that’s today’s Reading Revelation.

[elodieunderglass]

@inkoflethe provided this in the notes:

We now make this occasionally and it’s peak!

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Like "X is a universal human right. (This doesn't include Y people though)"

Either you think X isn't actually a human right, or you think Y aren't people.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Some folks really did go straight to the replies to prove me right.

[hyperlexichypatia]

It's wild to me that people in the notes are all arguing about rapists and murderers and people deserving to get their human rights taken away for doing Bad Things, and...

Yeah, sure, serial killers deserve human rights too, but isn't there a more obvious demographic you're sliding right by? Isn't there a demographic of people so thoroughly erased by human rights discourse that their rights aren't even debated, it's just taken for granted that human rights don't apply to these people?

(It's minors. I'm talking about minors. Also disabled/neurodivergent adults under institutionalization/guardianship who have been reduced to the legal status of minors.)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I literally do this as a first-day activity in my childhood studies courses.

I take a poll: "how many of you would agree that 'everyone deserves the right to privacy' is a pretty uncontroversial statement?"

when 95% of them have put their hands up, I say "now, what if I clarify that 'everyone' includes children?"

and as everyone lowers their hands slowly and gives me a confused look like a deer in headlights, I tell them "okay. this class is about what it means to not be part of 'everyone'."

[blastdamage]

the paris catacombs are 1000x more fucked up than i imagined

[blastdamage]

did you know the cops once found a fully functioning movie theater with a well-stocked bar inside the catacombs and they when they tried to go back later to formally investigate it was completely emptied out save for a note that read "don't search for us"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Underground french cinema

[npd-vriska]

my little bro is part of the catacombs community and yeah, it's basically a fully autonomous society! enough that when my bro goes in on a friday night, they don't come out until monday for work- sometimes longer if they took days off.

some of the rooms have fully stocked pantries with cooking equipment, some have movies like the one described above, some have books you're allowed to just take but people always put back- every day people bring things from the outside. artists often set up galleries there. there are rooms with mattresses and hammocks set up for people to sleep. one of the room is just a place where people leave shoes for the fun of it.

this is Known, it's not a secret by any means. the catacombs are as big as paris itself, and people live there just as people live above. it's wonderful when you think about it.

[npd-vriska]

A little update! My little bro is now my little sister. Please don't misgender her :)

[enbylesbie]

[b-0-ngripper]