when the jackboot needs to jump

My moniker is AC. He/him or ze/hir, adult butch. It's all transformers, all the time, here. I 🩵 G1 canon soup and votescolding and #DARKWOKE. "Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there." (This user is a pescetarian and his water use as a consumer is probably lower than yours.)

[cupigthebread]

No sane thoughts

[captainjonnitkessler]

I'm gonna need people who eat meat to stop coping and just say that you like eating meat and you're not going to stop because you don't want to. It's literally fine and it's way less embarrassing than the hoops some of you are trying to jump through to act like eating meat is the moral high ground

[sock-has-rock]

Jazz week day 5!!!! Today's themes are Telephone game// Ballard, I was so boring with this, I just wanted to draw him being cutesy and happy!

[arseniccattails]

My favorite part of welding is when the instructor goes it's stainless time and then stainlesses all over the place

[arseniccattails]

Oh, handsome. you lived a really long time for a cat so I know it wasn't tragic. I became at peace with it this morning, I think you told me it was fine. You were at peace all day, you gave me one last good day just like I wanted. You helped raise me like an older brother even though I'm technically older. Although you made it to 19 which makes you of course a very distinguished old man. You were always you. You were the perfect cat. I'm glad you passed at home and that the vet was so good. You'll sleep in your yard forever. One day far away I'll meet you there.

This is him a few hours before. He has one black dot on his perfect pink nose and all his feet have a different mix of black and pink.

[ilywtf]

>settings

>world settings

>set to "your oyster"

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[bumpscosity]

[arseniccattails]

Stream of consciousness about my cat below, to get it down somewhere. CW impending pet death.

I think we're getting in home euthanasia for the cat tomorrow. We got him in 2006 so he's either about 19 or 20. Younger than me obviously but I was little enough when we got him I don't really remember not having him. His name is Milo. All my mom's cats have had m names. I'm living at my parents' home for easy commute to my summer job right now, and I guess I just feel so lucky to have been with him in his final months. He's been super clingy for the last year, year and a half but he started hiding on Thursday. I got home from a 9 hour workday and I thought he'd be gone within the hour when I found him but he lived two nights now. He doesn't seem to be in any great distress but I don't know how lucid he is. He still likes being pet, and he was refusing food on Wednesday but started eating just wet food again on Thursday night and has since eaten everything we've given him. He tries to drink water but he can't seem to get much. He is still peeing but hasn't defecated since Wednesday, and that was outside the litter box. We got him out a smaller litter box within easy walking distance for where he prefers to be right now, and he will use that for urinating. He is such a good cat. He is having mechanical problems, including seemingly with his mouth. But last night he had such a bounce in his step for all of three minutes as he walked around. He has always been an extremely loud cat but he hasn't made more than a little startled noise (last night) since, maybe Tuesday? Or was that Monday? Sometimes he is all hunched up and sometimes he is stretched out and sometimes he is loafing loosely. The last two are normal for him. I miss his meow. I slept on the floor next to him for both nights. He keeps taking the dog's beds. She just walks over and sniffs him so gently. I know she loves him even though he has not been totally friendly to her. We think we're going to bury him in the yard, no cremation. We don't think he should leave the property. We have to make sure the other animals know he is dead first. I took off work yesterday and I was supposed to go to Maryland with people from work but stayed home from that too. It still feels sort of like Thursday but also Sunday. Welding training cancelled for the AQI anyways. If we euthanize him tomorrow I don't know how I'm supposed to go into work Monday. But I can't miss welding like that. He loves his yard so much. We would go out with him and watch him. He had several bed spots by big windows. Loved to watch out the windows. We knew it was coming but this felt so sudden. He was so happy and normal just the beginning of this week. Now he seems sort of lethargic but at least calm. I thought he was having an arthritis flare because he started sitting weirdly so we set up a heated bed for him and he loved that. I think that was Tuesday? Or Wednesday.

I hope he feels all our love and knows it is okay to go whenever he needs to. I hope he's not scared or too confused. Recent photo below, from last two days. This is when he was looking particularly okay.

He's never really been an object loving cat. I don't know if we should just bury him with the blanket he's loved the last few months? Somewhere there is a stuffed kitten he used to cart around by the scruff when he was younger and then just sit down and lick it. I don't know where it is. Wish I could bury him with it. I don't think we can take the beds because the younger cat will need them. When I would come home during the semester or from trips he would meow so loudly to see me. Marshal is almost entirely silent. I don't know what I'll do when I come home and there is no Milo. He used to wander around during house parties because he had no fear of strangers. Just liked to be admired and pet. I knew it would be this year but I didn't think it'd be this week. I'm glad I'm here with him.

[decepticonsensual]

Not to be all "the children have forgotten the sacred texts!" but I just saw someone refer to a ship between two people who are good friends in canon as a crackship.

Hon. No. Crackship doesn't just mean "not canon". It's difficult to imagine two people who spend significant canon time together as a crackship. Crackship is when you write Galactus getting fucked by Tony the Tiger.

[decepticonsensual]

The notes are starting to be all, "Yeah, crackship means there's no chemistry! Even canon ships can be crackships!" and I must STRENUOUSLY disagree.

A crackship isn't just any ship that makes you go, "Eh, I don't see it." A crackship is absolutely WILD in concept. A crackship is the one that makes your friends look at you with the beginnings of existential horror. It's the one where they wave a circle round you thrice and close their eyes in holy dread, for you on honeydew hath fed and drunk the milk of paradise.

anyway I said it as a joke but if anyone wants to join my Tony the Tiger/Galactus Discord -

[snailworldonline]

Coastal Drinking Glass & Coastal Acrylic Pitcher via at home

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I know this sounds like the deranged ramblings of a senile old man but I swear it used to be possible to look up information on the internet

[andmaybegayer]

thinking about gender and getting pissed off

[arseniccattails]

To the surprise of no one: welding is hard.

[arseniccattails]

Suspiciously cropped okay-ish portion on my first lap joint

[arseniccattails]

To the surprise of no one: welding is hard.

[arseniccattails]

My mom thinks the Russians got him lol

[nihilisticlinguistics]

adulthood notes:

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.