Ace/Bi with ADHD, chronic illness, and anxiety. Mostly posting random things with some focus on disability and LGBTQIA changed name from DancingPieces on 8/26/25
amnesiac Giles calling him and Anya owning a magic shop "progressive" is very funny in the context of magic being frequently (although not exclusively) associated with queerness on the show, especially in Tara's confrontation with her family inside the shop, because it's like them waking up in a gay bar together without memories and going "oh well at least we're cool with that kinda stuff"
The pathologization of anger needs to be talked about. What do you mean my therapist is telling me that there’s something “chemically wrong” with me because I am still angry about my mom DYING OF COVID.
of course I’m still angry? My mom and 1.3 million other Americans are dead and you want me to shoot sunshine out of my ass about it?
“But It’s been 3 years since she died, you have complex grief” yeah and she was on a ventilator for 11 days and she kept writing “I am scared” and “I don’t want to die” on a notepad over and over again. While you were still going out unmasked and unvaccinated and coughing all over each other, I was living a nightmare I couldn’t fucking wake up from. And every single day I’m reminded of it in the form of “haha wasn’t the pandemic such a wacky time haha” and “I’m not getting a booster you can’t make me 🤪 (nobody asked)” and “it’s not real they made the numbers up!!!”
“You’re not coping” Ok here’s the deal; I’ll stop feeling this anger when we have a national memorial (we don’t) or a cdc equipped to stop it from happening again (we don’t) or a population that takes a deadly disease seriously BEFORE it effects them personally (WE DON’T!)
until then, I’m pretty sure my anger is A COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN REACTION given the facts at hand
using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me
my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it's a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil's sacrament
I tested this theory in the wild the other day at work. I was on a call with my department lead and a few other folks and I replied to an email the DL had sent me, thinking that, because he was on this call, he wouldn't notice when I sent it and would not catch me multitasking.
However, he replied to said email within five minutes, asking a question that required an answer. So I answered and was like "Also, I was going to apologize for answering emails during this call, but I see we're both here at the Devil's Sacrament, so I don't think an apology is necessary."
I watched him read that on screen and try not to laugh. And then at the end of the call as everyone started saying goodbye, he goes, "Hey, MJ, I meant to tell you. I like your shoelaces."
And I looked straight into my camera, stone cold serious, and said, "Thanks. I stole them from the president."
And the rest of the team was like, "What...the fuck...?" before he abruptly ended the call for everyone.
So now my DL and I know this about each other. He could be any one of us.
Sugar cravings aren't usually addiction. Discover how restriction and the binge-restrict cycle may be driving your eating patterns.
Feel like some people may need to read this. Basically when you under eat you crave sugar a lot more because it's an easy source of energy for your body
Some people saying "uhh shouldn't this be obvious" but there is genuinely such a push right now to paint normal human body functions as outdated nonsense that should be ignored for better health. Like cravings for sugar and carbs will always have a reason for existing, it's not some sort of evil trick to sabotage your diet, just probably means you're lacking something
Literally been saying this for years AND I am SO fucking glad there are studies and shit now so I can actually show people the truth without them going "oh I'm glad you don't get sugar cravings but for me if I buy any candy I just eat it all immediately so I have to avoid it completely" or "yeah I can't let myself have sugar so I just vape with sugar cookie juice bcs it's healthier" like that's normal and not a major sign that your relationship with food is beyond fucked and needs serious attention before you kill yourself.
No one ever believes me that I don't really get sugar cravings or binge candy because I never ever make candy into a special thing I can only have sometimes. If I want sugar I eat sugar and I honestly fail to finish candy off more often than I eat all of it, and the days when I do I was clearly extremely stressed and I immediately feel better and, crucially, STOP CRAVING SUGAR.
This is the opening of the aricle: "Have you ever felt a loss of control while eating sweets? Does it feel hard to stop eating? Do you feel ashamed of how much you’re eating? Has this caused you to wonder if you’re addicted to sugar?"
And I have never once restricted sugar, and I promise all of you, I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE FELT LIKE THIS. I grew up food insecure, have several mental illnesses that make me prone to addiction, and my parents were addicts which means I'm genetically predisposed to addiction AND EVEN THEN I have never had trouble controlling myself around sweets EVER even when I was a kid!! The only food I get like this about legit is fresh fruit bcs I was too poor to afford it regularly as a kid, and gee, I wonder why being denied this type of food made me fixate on it like crazy, maybe there's something to think about there, yeah??????? The ONLY time I have ever felt even a little like this was when doctors were trying to get me to lose weight and the second I stopped restricting the cravings went away. And again, the cravings I do have are when I'm stressed, about to have a migraine, or when my doctors were trying to give me an eating disorder, and they go away when I let myself eat some gummy worms or make brownies. Every time. Every single time.
Constantly craving sugar is a sign something is wrong with your body. It's not normal to feel that way 24/7. You should be able to have candy in your house without stressing about it or eating all of it in a day. You're not a bad person or a failure, your relationship with food is broken and it can be fixed so you don't have to live like this. You should not have to live like this.
Being skinny or "healthy" cannot be worth living like this.
I find it very offensive that the more unwell you are, the more things you have to do to maintain your health. Things like following special diets, going to medical appointments, making big and important decisions about what treatments to use. At the same time, the more unwell you are the less energy you have to do all of these extra things. It seems grossly unfair.
it's just really apparent that people think it's okay to want pain but morally abhorrent to want to give it. sorry but the sadist gets to have fun too. it's actually pretty crucial to the process.
Image ID: A screenshot of a tumblr comment that says "yeah, its only abhorrent imo, when the recipient is non consenting, i've" the screenshot cuts off.
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
After a certain point Maomao is so funny to me. "I shouldn't do xyz it might piss someone off and get me killed" girl the emperor likes you. His wives like you; you give them explicit porn and save their babies. His mom likes you. They let you practice medicine illegally. His secret son wants you down crazy. You could kill a bitch and they'd probably cover it up
being extremely out of the loop especially regarding social media trends and discourse means you often end up learning things only after they've been turned into memes like ten times removed from the original context. for example the first time I ever read the term "girl dinner" it was on a gif of the T-Rex from Jurassic Park eating people so you can imagine the confusion when some time later I stumbled upon posts where people were hating on it and calling it gender essentialist
something i actually just realized on call w some friends recently is how crazey it is that your online friends are as many as thousands of feet above or below u right now. like if you teleported to their location without changing your height above sea level, well your fucked in some way basically
Y'know, I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen Jack Chains more in fantasy tbh, like it's a really interesting and low budget armor style, I'm legit surprised I've almost never seen it in media
Actually kind of! It's built with a very interesting principle behind it and I'm gonna explain it below because it's neat
So, say you've got a sword or axe or something and are fighting some guy who can't afford a full suit of armor, and like someone who thinks it's a good idea to protect their brain from harm, they go into battle with a real good helmet, but don't have enough money for a full breastplate
So, obviously, this guy's helmet is solid, well-built, and strong. You're absolutely not getting through that with anything short of a mace or warhammer, which you forgot at home or something. So, you want to instead throw some cuts at their torso and arms, since if you can't get at their brain or throat, the entire torso is a pretty good target, and without arms your opponent will have a much harder time both hitting you with their weapons and shielding that torso of theirs
So you start throwing cuts, probably like so, since these are usually the most common, instinctive, and usually efficient cuts to throw (or a rough MS Paint approximation of them lol)
Normally, on someone unarmored, those'd do a lot of damage! You'd probably even win the fight!
However, with even something as small as these weird little guys on, it just sort of...
Obviously these things are like, clearly less effective than most styles of armor, doing little to protect against things like thrusts or trebuchets, but even with as minimal as they are, the humble Jack Chains are bizarrely more effective than one would think just by looking at them!
They work because they close off the most common angles of attack, essentially trying to get the maximum value out of minimum materials. Despite their rarity in media they were pretty common, mostly because of their low cost, but also because they did their jobs surprisingly adequately
In a weird way, it kind of reminds me about that one post about army planes, actually
[First 4 images show a string of armour down people's arms. There's a shoulder plate, an elbow plate, and a strip on both upper are and forearm, all linked together with loops. They're over top padded tunics.
The next image is tags saying, "#this is like bikini mail for arms #i love it".
The next three images show a silhouette with a fancy helmet but no other armour. The second one has red lines through his arms into his torso. The third shows how the thin strips of metal are blocking those lines, with a fourth image that shows a close up of the tiny bit of metal stopping a sword and labeled, "blocked lol".
The final image shows a diagram of a plane with a whole bunch of red spots. These mark places where a plane was shot and was still able to limp back to base. The original post with this image talked about how people originally wanted to strengthen the areas of the plane with the most red marks, until someone pointed out that the areas with NO marks are the spots that meant the plane DIDN'T come home.
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