Catering is a Lie

Ao3 || Fanfiction.net || Kofi

[inber]

Say you break your ankle. You could know everything there is to know intellectually about the injury. Even with this vast knowledge, you will still experience physical pain.

Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.

That is to say: you are not a bad, lazy, or selfish person for struggling, even if you know why you are struggling.

[thepolymorphexperience]

Genuinely, thank you so much for this.

[penny-anna]

The thing is every step of the situation does actually make perfect sense if you follow it more closely. Why is Farage stepping down and immediately re-running? Well he's trying to delay the investigation into his finances and also pull a PR stunt. Why is no-one else running? Well they don't actually want him out of parliament yet because they want the investigation to continue. Why is his main competitor a man with a bin on his head? Oh that's just Count Binface, he runs every time there's a high profile by-election. Why is he Count Binface? Well he used to be Lord Buckethead but he had to drop the character due to a copyright dispute. Why was he Lord Buckethead? Well in 1977, Star Wars was released in cinemas,

[confuzing]

Hey just stating for the record that if I die and you feed my writing into an AI so it can mimic my style I will claw my way out of my grave and then zombie me will literally rip your limbs off and eat your brain. In that order.

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[charlesoberonn]

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

but only once.

[akilah12902]

Some Yu-Gi-Oh! bullshit right there

[jjgg-art]

Deltarune tomorrow

[rubyvroom]

[rubyvroom]

Yeah, it's time to get this post out again

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Farm cat presiding over the baby alpacas.

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[anarchistmemedistro]

Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact

To attenuate microplastics pollution, we first must quantify the number and types of microplastics found in the natural environment and iden

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

[thatgirlwiththeflower]

The gloves leave stearate particles, a kind of soapy thing, but it *looks* like microplastic, hence the contaminated data! Gloves are NOT shedding microplastics. (Adding this bc this was a misconception I had from the headlines! Glad I read one of the articles in full! Yay learning!)

[sonicskullsalt]

This very much reminds me of the case of The Phantom of Heilbronn

Phantom of Heilbronn - Wikipedia

The Phantom of Heilbronn, often alternatively referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a hypothesized unknown female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at numerous crime scenes in Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009. The six murders among these included that of police officer Michèle Kiesewetter in Heilbronn, Germany, on 25 April 2007.

The only connection between the crimes was the presence of DNA from a single female, which had been recovered from 40 crime scenes, ranging from murders to burglaries. In late March 2009, investigators concluded that there was no “phantom criminal”, and the DNA had already been present on the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples; it belonged to a woman who worked at the factory where they were made.

[sol-rust]

Colored sketch.. excited for the new chapter!!

[cateringisalie]

2. Do you plan chapters ahead or write as you go? 24. Worst writing advice you've gotten? 55. Of the characters you write for, who's your favorite? Has that been swayed by reader reactions?

Do you plan chapters ahead or write as you go?

I've never actually run into the situation where a fic just keeps going, so if its multi-chapter, I usually plan ahead of time. The few times I didn't… didn't go too far all things considered.

Worst writing advice you've gotten?

Use epithets and avoid said! I think this might be a factor of timing and that I got this from a fanfic site archive (back when there were a variety and we avoided fanfiction.net for reasons (or at least when I started engaging with fandom, the site was looked on with great suspicion)). Anyway, a variety of tumblr posts have amended that impulse.

Of the characters you write for, who's your favorite? Has that been swayed by reader reactions?

Aeris Gainsborough by a mile. The rest of Avalanche file in pretty quickly after too.

Never been swayed by reader reaction… though that's mostly due to a lack of it so…

[hannahp0calypse]

witch in the alps game should be the deltarune to disco elysiums undertale where all the characters are back in reshuffled roles. just like with papyrus, we dont get an appearance from (but consistent hints to the existence of) kim

[funnytwittertweets]

[reblogabyssvoidhole]

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

IMAGE DESCRITPION: A tweet by Twitter user @RawBeanCoal reads, “hug other women slightly off center so our boobs fit together like puzzle pieces.”

This is followed by a series of replies and tags which read as follows…

#i hug them straight on so my boobs can establish dominance

#i prefer head on like a car crash. make the boobies kiss

we could be doing this with balls, no homo even

#i’m usually taller so I press mine above and get a tiddie shelf

My wife calls it “Titris”

it’s called titrus thanks

#titrus

[villainessbian]

RESTORING LOST MEDIA

[mortalityplays]

here's a secret: whatever you're doing, you have to root for your peers with all your heart because it forces you to root for yourself too. I've seen people in various spheres of my life (workplaces, education, art, activism) fall into the trap of envy and resentment when they see others succeed while they struggle, and it always always goes hand in hand with them pulling back and giving up and stagnating.

when you let yourself get sour grapes about shit, you tacitly give up on yourself. when you sit around hoping other people will flop and fail so you can catch up to them, you stop trying. it's a fantasy of mediocrity, the vain wish that other people would walk so you could take the gold medal at a jog. wouldn't you rather come last place at 27mph?

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[oilpalette]

Monsieur Noir in the Yellow Room, 2026 by Elena Polishchuk (Russian, b. 1978); Oil on canvas, 60×60cm

[demilypyro]

it's funny how "press F to pay respects" was such a gigantic meme that it seems to have permanently affected the way we talk online. people use it completely genuinely and unironically. had a bad day? F. died in a videogame? F. I see it constantly in Discord, Twitch and ingame chats. like it's actually being used as common shorthand. when it only gained prominence because of how hilariously stupid this screenshot is