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Hi I'm Tiffany, like the jewelry store. I hope you enjoy my little corner of the world.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

one of my kids broke his leg so his favorite recess activity now that kicking balls over the fence is off the table has been hangman, except we call it frankenstein because my teacher doesnt like calling it hangman, and its all good until he wants to take over and be the frankmaster, because a game of frankenstein (hangman) run by a kindergartner who cant spell and doesnt know all his letters is a crapshoot, except for the fact that every single time without fail his phrase is "dog eats," but he doesnt know how to spell "eats" so that part is different every time, but if he realizes youve caught on that the phrase is Dog Eats theres a 50% chance he will start improvising, and its in gods hands from there on out

[athelind]

Okay, "Frankenstein" is a MUCH cooler name for the game than "Hangman", and actually reflects the way it's played: you're assembling a body piece by piece, after all.

[eddycocaine]

"partner in crime" and the crime? sodomy

[damazcuz]

My new place doesnt have any overhead lighting outside of the kitchen and bathroom, so I'm going to have to get some more lamps when I move, and although I plan to hit up thrift stores for that I'm kind of idly browsing what's popular and available in stores these days. And I'm cataloging the really really silly ones.

Can you please get your immersion blender out of the living room.

This thing is so nosy. Hey everyone whats for dinner lol.

Toblerone.

And this one is my favorite bc its like a Project Hail Mary eridian fan character named Lamp.

[glavilio]

it's called a museum because me 'n' u see 'em

[homunculus-argument]

Autism diagnosis questionnaires are kind of like if the only way to diagnose blindness was by having someone list all the things they don't see. Like imagine being brought into a room where you can't see shit and being told "okay list all the things in this room that you can't see or perceive in any way. No you can't feel around that'd be cheating."

"Uhhh furniture?"

"No there's no furniture in this room. If you were truly blind you would have known that."

[yesmynameisbird]

As a blind person, you'd be amazed how many people act eerily similar to this post. Some people really struggle to understand that blindness is a spectrum and does not necessarily mean no sight at all.

[homunculus-argument]

Every time I make or see some sort of a "hey wouldn't it be fucked up and stupid if some physical disability was treated the same way a neurological/psychological health issue is", there's always someone who actually is physically disabled, who reminds me that actually, people absolutely do that to physically disabled people and it's just as fucked up and stupid as I'd have assumed it is. Like having a disability is probably already hard enough without also having to deal with idiots all day.

[actualtree]

ITS ONLY JULY FIRST

[coolsadtrash]

[1five1two]

'L'apres midi'. Olivier Neuray. 2026.

[guineapiggies]

Via mrs_larissa_domogalla

[anyablossom]

NOT hiding this

[skarchomp]

advertising lemonade is pointless. the human body already knows it needs it

[thestuffedalligator]

The urban fantasy show I actually want to see is a hospital drama with a dedicated wing for supernatural illnesses.

Vampirism. Lycanthropy. Cheap spells gone wrong. A woman brought in for her prenatal has to be told her baby is a lindworm. Someone is literally being followed by the anthropomorphic personification of the Black Death.

Someone somewhere out there is having their perception of the world irreparably shattered by the knowledge that magic is real, and at the other side is a team of doctors who have to roll their eyes and pull out Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales because some high school kid tried to go Carrie with a cheap spellbook and turn all the kids at prom into frogs, and the doctors have to wrangle a couple dozen teenagers into admitting if they have a true love who can break the spell.

[sindri42]

I want the hospital director to be some dark entity that feeds on human misery but figured out that if you successfully treat the source of the misery then instead of hunting you down as an abomination the humans start bringing more miserable people to your house en masse and things kinda got out of hand from there.

[omicronus-1326]

Grimm's Anatomy

[virtuallyinsane]

baby duck on a leaf boat 😍

[noname-human-being]

I suggest getting angrier about misogyny.

[noname-human-being]

"at least be nice about-" no. Girl. Kill him over it. We're done. It's been centuries of this bullshit since time immemorial and he hasn't learned. Obliterate him.

[elf-kid2]

Sokka was always like "I'm starving!" And "Where's the MEAT??" and "Yay! Free food! Grab as much as you can, guys!" But...

They never starved, you know? Sokka went hunting or fishing whenever they stopped long enough-- and even if the catch wasn't as much as he wanted to, I don't recall them ever going hungry.

When they were low on money and supplies, Sokka got a job on a fishing boat (Storm Episode). Or asked for food and money, as thanks for saving the village (Hei Bei Forest/spirit-kidnapping episode). Or something similar, the make sure that even if supplies were low, the pot was never entirely empty.

That's a skill.

Contrast that with Zuko and Iroh. Their first attempt at fishing caught barely a mouthful. They went hungry often-- even AFTER they began to resort to begging and stealing. They couldn't forage because they didn't know how to tell the edible from the poisonous.

It's easy to view Sokka as just the funny guy: he cultivated that part of his image, even. It's EASY to say that elite fighters with Royal tutors and private schools, etc, are better educated or more skilled than some teen from the Southern Water Tribe.

But when push came to shove? When it came to personally ensuring that nobody goes hungry while they're on this epic cross-country quest?

Sokka had them beat.

[gaylord-zuko]

And I think if Sokka ever couldn’t find or catch enough food for all of them, he would come back with what he had and say he already ate some of it.

“Ugh, you always think just because you’re the oldest you get to eat first,” Katara chides him. She rolls her eyes and grumbles under her breath about how boys are annoying and she wishes she had a sister.

Sokka just stretches casually and pats his stomach, hoping the rumbling will stay quiet enough that his sister can’t hear it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sokka’s constant insecurity with food and tendency to eat as much as he can at feasts etc. even though he’s perfectly capable of providing for the group indicates a past of food insecurity.

Remember in episode one, how desperate and invested he seemed out hunting with Katara? How uncertain it seemed that he’d catch anything, even though it’s made clear by the rest of the show he’s a competent provider? How angry he was when he blamed Katara’s “weird magic” for costing him the kill (he didn’t see the fish she’d caught with her bending)? The water tribe seem alright for food now (Katara’s just carrying around a fish to feed penguins later), but it’s likely that they were left hungry for awhile, during or after the Fire Nation attacks.

[proxima-bee]

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

[kitchen1]

I wish I took a better pic of this writing in a bar bathroom in toronto bc I think of it so often. Be So Completely Yourself That No One Is Attracted To You Or Wants To Employ You

[lightning-in-your-teeth]

[ID: blurry picture of marker on a wall in all caps that says, "be so completely yourself that no one is attracted to you or wants to employ you." end ID]

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Anyway that’s why you wear wool and a life jacket babeeeyyyy

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

The important thing about wool is that it continues to keep you warm even when it’s soaking wet.

Other natural fibers don’t do this. In fact, quite the opposite. Campers and boaters are usually familiar with the phrase, “cotton kills.” If you’re wet in cotton or linen, your clothes actually sap heat from your body.

If you sink in a lake in late October like I did today, staying warm is important. I was rescued long before I would’ve actually died, but cold makes your muscles seize up, which isn’t good if you have to swim to land.

Which brings me around to life jackets. If the water’s cold enough, you may only have five-ten minutes until your muscles seize (today I probably had 40-60, more than enough time to get to land if I hadn’t been picked up), and you’ll drown.

In a life jacket, even in extremely cold water, you can float semi-conscious for perhaps another 30 minutes or so before you actually freeze to death, which is usually when someone rescues you.

What’s more, you probably know that moving around on land warms you up. Jumping jacks, jogging in place, etc.

In water, moving actually makes you colder. You need to stay still curled up in a ball, which you can only do in a life jacket.

In wool AND life jacket, you’re warm, and your head’s above water, which is pretty much your only and entire goal.

If you’re allergic to wool, synthetics are available specifically for this purpose. I know I always say natural fibers are the way to go, but when it comes to safety, wear what protects you!

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Yep! A really simple “experiment” I learned as a kid and now use in my own courses is sticking your hand in ice water. Compare moving it around in the water to curling it up in a fist. The contrast is stark!

To increase your survival time in on cold water, you want to curl up! If you’re with others, you want to huddle!

Again, both are only possible when wearing a life jacket!

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I know a lot of people are reblogging this for writing reference, but I like to believe that 7,000 people on this site were actually continually living in fear about this specific situation and that when the time comes, I’ve prepared them with what they need to know to survive.

[headspace-hotel]

Okay FIIIIIIIIIIIINE Stucky is the ship of all time. I'm convinced now.

what if there were two boys and their world was at war, and they were doomed from the very beginning. what if their story starts with them saying goodbye to each other as one of them is sent to be consumed by the war that is devouring the face of the planet.

what if the other chooses to be transformed into a weapon to find his way back to his friend, but he still can't save him and has to watch him die anyway. What if he tries to follow his friend into death but he can't die anymore.

What if he is forced to live in a future more remote than he could have imagined, wielded as a weapon and a symbol of tyranny.

Okay, now what if his friend couldn't die either. What if he was sent instead to a fate worse than death, the body he once embraced disassembled and rebuilt with unfeeling metal, the soul he once loved relentlessly scraped out and burned away until he was a hollow void, a suffering undead creature who didn't know his own name. What if his friend's tortured undead body came back to him. What if he got a second chance to tell his friend he loved him in the worst way possible.

What if there were two boys who became war machines. What if they were doomed from the very beginning and they were supposed to die, but instead they came back wrong. What if they found each other again transformed beyond all recovery and there was nothing left of their original selves. What if they were trapped in a remote and alien future with nothing to cling onto except each other.

Okay, now what if in this future, they'd gotten rid of sodomy laws and being openly homosexual was broadly socially acceptable, and they're both in super-strong new bodies that still remember the fear and repression in the marrow of their bones but also have ultra superpowered libidos that don't fucking quit. And there are words and terminology for these things and for desires and feelings but neither of them fucking know any of it.

What if that. Do you see why I'm insane.

[headspace-hotel]

In Heaven, after i'm done asking god everything about plant evolution, I hope I get to just explain Stucky to ancient Sumerians.