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Clearly I don't know what I'm doing. I write nonsense on AO3 as Arej

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[pomrania]

The Hypothetical Situations Genie declares an annual festival whereby everyone can freely swap their amount of breast tissue. (Because this is magic, the only potential risk is "your clothes no longer fit properly with a different chest shape".)

What do you want to do at the festival?

enjoy the festivities (no change)

try on different levels of tit-ness, but not commit this year (no change)

I would like to HAVE tits

I would like to NOT have tits

I would like LARGER tits

I would like SMALLER tits

Voting ended onJan 11

[leilakalomi]

Think of your worst therapist. What did they do to earn that designation?

Frequently canceled sessions

Missed 1 or more sessions (without telling you)

Were frequently late

Multitasked during your session

Laughed when you told them about a traumatic/upsetting experience

Told you that you weren't trying hard enough when you were feeling desperate

More than one of the above

Something else (add in notes if comfortable)

I have never had anything like this happen; my therapists were all great

Voting ended onJan 7

[cykelops]

I don’t want to hear any writing advice from Stephen king not because I think there would be no value in it but because whatever works for Stephen king is between him and god and that demon he made a pact with that lets him write 3000 words in one sitting daily.

[pomrania]

What's the best pet picture you took in 2025?

[lyra-nimloth]

Probably this one of Pixel sticking her leg out because she got too hot

[kitsparrow]

[pennie-dreadful]

They are lined up in order of oldest to youngest

[mythorael]

He likes to interrupt my work by being adorable.

[bisexual-nightmare]

I have probably a thousand photos of her napping like this and it always brings such joy

[hymnism]

making a collection

[putridghost]

Wait I have more

[acemingo]

[anonymisghosty]

[foldingfittedsheets]

Tomorrow I get to begin lifting the elimination diet! But I have to take a few days with each new thing I add back.

I’ve decided on Dairy, Gluten, then Eggs.

But I was curious how many people would go right for bread so here’s a poll:

Which order would you pick

Gluten, eggs, dairy

Gluten, dairy, eggs

Eggs, dairy, gluten

Egg, gluten, dairy

Dairy, gluten, eggs

Dairy, eggs, gluten

Voting ended onDec 31, 2025

I’m excited for cheese and butter. I’m gonna have a slice of gluten free pizza tomorrow and I’m stoked. Then I’ll be able to have toast with butter when I can finally have bread, and finally a fried egg on buttered toast, my favorite breakfast will finally be mine once more.

[starrynet]

this is a real published article

[ourdarling]

[ryebreadgf]

why is the hill silent. it's supposed to be alive with the sound of music

[ryebreadgf]

this is meant to be read in the tone of an exasperated gay theater director

[susiephone]

so frustrating to be a skeptic with a sense of whimsy because like. I want there to be cryptids. I want there to be magic. I want there to be evidence of something we don't fully understand and can't explain. but then 99% of the "proof" out there for that stuff is like. the most obvious scam you've ever seen in your life.

[gingersnapsvhs]

did your parents *"pre-screen" the media you interacted with when you were a kid/before legal adult age where you are?

yes, always AND they did parental guidance talks about it

yes, always but there was no parental guidance involved

sometimes, with parental guidance talks

sometimes, no parental guidance talks

not usually, but occasionally (WITH parental guidance)

not usually, but occasionally (WITHOUT parental guidance)

they never pre-screened but there were other rules (elaborate?)

my parents fully didn't give a shit about what media i engaged with

see results

Voting ended onDec 16, 2025

*by "pre-screening", i typically mean any sort of behavior that exists on a spectrum of "actually watching/playing/reading the thing before you played it" to "doing any sort of research on it before letting you watch it".

feel free to share your experiences in the tags or replies or whatever!

[gingersnapsvhs]

admittedly, i am a little obsessed with like 65% of the tags on this post so far basically saying "my parents didn't pre-screen things but they [describes behavior that DEFINITELY qualifies as pre-screening]". i kinda hope maybe this post and others like it wake some people up to the fact that yes, even YOUR parents were controlling what perspectives and ideas you were and were not being allowed to access.

[guerrillatech]

[anti-terf-posts]

that time of the year, folks

official anti salvation army post

[nealashitposts]

Everytime I pass the bucket I remember the several freezing nights I spent on the streets because SA turned me away for being queer and I instead donate to a local low barrier shelter.

[todaysbird]

it’s very scary to get older and realize that a lot of people thought giving pets vet care was optional

[todaysbird]

if you assume in good faith that most people DO take their pets to the vet as needed…you are definitely very wrong

[biggaybunny]

The inherent conflict of being alive is that your cells just love water. Great stuff for cells. Excellent for transporting things around in, really helps counteract gravity and make that 3rd dimension fully accessible. You as an organism however, want atmosphere. It's got all those awesome gases, like oxygen. Those gases are great! But they're not very good at getting in the water. Lots more of them outside the water.

Now some organisms went ahead and said "well, our cells want to be in the water, we're made of cells, we're staying in the water". And I respect that! Gotta respect that. Lots of 'em stick to the surface, get a little bit of the good gases, but keep themselves nice and watered up (wet) to keep their cells happy. Some make do with whatever cool gases have managed to dissolve into the water, thanks to a process known as "churning that shit up" that happens on the water's surface. Doesn't work out great for them, but you know, they made their decision and they committed to it. You gotta respect that.

Now some organisms, especially a lot of old ones, were afraid of commitment. They hung out at the water's edge, breathing all the gases and shit, but still needed to make sure they could stay wet. Like, their plan was to leave the water, but stay wet. Not a great move, if you ask me. Usually it works, but only until it doesn't. You ever seen dried up moss? Ask it how it's "stay wet but not in water" plan went. It can't answer you. It fucked up. That's what you get for not committing.

Now trees though, trees had the other idea. Trees and some other plants were like, no problem. I'm gonna take my water with me and never ever let it go. They developed specialized cells and shit. They got whole layers dedicated to keeping the water the fuck in. They got other cells dedicated to hunting down any water in a square fuckometer and taking it for themselves. That's hustle. That's a game plan. Some plants got so good at it they saw these dry-ass stretches of land that saw rain less often than you saw your mother smile as a child and were like "okay but is the amount of water not literally zero? Yeah? We're good."

The moving orgisms tried to copy trees, naturally. Making hard outer layers to trap the water in for their cells. But it was pretty weak. They kept going on about needing holes for the moisture to leave, and wet surfaces for their eyeballs. Then some of us got stupid and decided maybe we only needed like a half-decent layer protecting our water. "Semi-permeable" they marketed it as. Oh it's fine they said. We'll live somewhere wet, they said. Yeah how'd that work out for that moss again.

And now I get a headache if I go like 3 hours without drinking a glass of water. I should've been a pine tree.

[tahthetrickster]

it’s december 1 where’s the christmas tail kitten bring him to me

[tahthetrickster]

i have to do EVERYTHING around here

[glittercallisto19-deactivated20]

Never speak to me or my 452 unread books again

[marlynnofmany]

Black cat appreciation squad! Several of my friends have black shorthaired housecats, and when we share pictures of our pets, it looks like we all have the same cat on a timeshare.

Who else has This Same Cat? My version is named Mischief (and that's an accurate name).

[mostlycatsmostly]

[bisexual-nightmare]

This is Sen and when my phone started making its own albums because of whatever AI-style learning fuckery is going on in the backend, it thought I had four separate black cats. There is only one. There is only Sen.