Under Bun's Couch

Finding all your lost change. Please donate to my ko-fi! Anything would help out!

[snowshayla-deactivated20250722]

Mc being a sailor guardian and protecting Rafayel😂

[candicornart]

If MC randomly flashed the Lis

[momochanners]

Sometimes you’re just minding your own business on a regular day, and then it SMACKS you out of nowhere 😭

And it doesn’t just stop at Varric too, I’ve got a whole dang list over at patreon… ;3;

[teaboot]

“Do you ship...” Buddy I will ship almost anything if I think about it too long. I love love and situations

[marzipanandminutiae]

me: oh man, Joann Fabrics is closing. That's going to really suck for a lot of people

Sophia, the Victorian ghost who haunts a lamp I bought at Brimfield: not the least among them Joanne. though I suppose her business acumen must have been wanting if she gave the shop her Christian name- it just seems undignified. was that what drove her customers to other establishments?

me: well, nothing- it's a chain, and in most places, there weren't any other fabric stores.

Sophia:

Sophia: there weren't. any other dry goods stores. selling fabric.

me: not usually, no.

Sophia: in a whole town

me: no.

Sophia: and now there will be nowhere to purchase fabric at all in those towns

me: not in person. I guess people can buy it online

Sophia: what if they don't know what different weaves feel like? how will they learn if they never get to handle them?

me: some places have free swatch service on their websites-

Sophia: so they'll wait a week or more for a swatch, decide if they like it, then send away for the full amount of goods they need and wait even longer for that? what if they want something finished sooner?

me: they'll just be frustrated, I guess

Sophia: wait, why did Joanne's shops close? if she had such a monopoly, surely she'd have made quite a profit regardless of the name

me: an even bigger company bought them and couldn't use them to make billions of dollars, so they're forcing them to close

Sophia:

me: wait- PUT MY SNOW SHOVEL DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM YOUR LAMP

[theprofessional-amateur]

I made this about a different business that was the victim of private equity and I hate that news stories keep coming up where I can use it.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[cacodaemonia]

I know folks have been sharing this link on other posts, but &udm=14 works well:

[fangeek-girl]

You can add it as an extension to Firefox now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/udm14/reviews/

[cinnabunhun]

Oof

[aidashakur]

forgive your younger self. believe in your current self. create your future self.

[smoldragonborn]

"we need to stop the stigma towards drug users and addicts" and "we need to challenge the idea that being sober makes you boring" and "we need to stop acting like binge drinking to the extent you're doing medical damage is fun and normal for young people" are all ideas that can and should coexist.

[fatfemmefreaquency]

just so we’re clear, the threshold for “binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage” is waaaay lower than you think.

I work in an obstetrician and gynaecologist’s office. we have to tell patients on a regular basis that they are binge drinking weekly when they think they are simply consuming a normal amount of alcohol on the weekends.

having more than 3 drinks in a single sitting if you have an estrogen based endocrine system is a binge that is medically significant.

having more than 5 in a sitting is a medically significant binge for someone with a testosterone based endocrine system.

every time you do this, it significantly impacts your risk of getting breast cancer, and damages your liver. it takes time to recover from that liver damage. if you’re having a 3-5 or more drink binge on a weekly basis, you are an alcoholic, medically speaking, and your liver is not recovering.

again: the bar for what binge drinking is, medically, is so much lower than what you think it is.

alcohol is a really toxic substance and not something you should fuck around with.

again: if you have an estrogenized hormone system (common for most women), then 3 drinks is a binge. if you have a testosteronized hormone system (common for most men), then 5 drinks is a binge.

anything above that number, consumed as frequently as weekly or more, and you’re medically a binge drinking alcoholic.

also, if you’re drinking any quantity of alcohol 6 days a week or more, that’s another threshold at which, medically speaking, you meet the definition of alcoholism. your liver needs more days without alcohol in your system than just one a week to recover and be healthy.

I don’t say any of this to shame anyone—to me, alcoholism or substance use disorders aren’t a sign of weakness or moral failing. and most of us genuinely don’t know this stuff.

rather—I point this out because it’s important to reduce harm, and find ways to live healthier, happier lives. there is a life outside of constant binge drinking. it’s not always easy to find it. but it’s out there. you deserve a life where your emotional needs are met by something other than alcohol, and a life in which your liver is healthy, and the ways you cope and celebrate and find joy don’t put you at increased risk of cancer.

[3scythes]

I feel like adhd bored is different than neurotypical bored because like. You don’t understand. I have a billion things I could be doing. I turn on the tv. I stare at the Netflix screen for five minutes. Flip through shows and movies for the next thirty minutes. Nothing looks good. I put in a video game. Play for two minutes. Not feeling it. I load up YouTube. Watch half a video before closing the app. Maybe I’ll read a book? I stare at my giant bookshelf. The thought of starting a new book seems too hard. I lay in bed and play phone games for six hours. Nothing has gotten done. Still bored.

[tlbodine]

I feel like a better term for this experience is “restless.” 

Sometimes nothing sounds good; I have a specific experiential craving or itch that needs to be scratched but I don’t know what it is or how to placate it so I will rapidly cycle through activities in search of something that will provide the level/type of stimulation I crave. Like a tiger pacing in the zoo. 

[headspace-hotel]

It’s a really bad, unbearably vibratey itchy feeling. A craving for relief that takes too great a mental effort to overcome.

It can be physical too…sometimes if I don’t walk/pace it feels like my bones are squiggly and it’s as unpleasant as it sounds

[write-on-world]

Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

[12b6]

as a lawyer who’s been practicing for six years now I can say with certainty that this 100% applies to lawyers

[johanna-swann]

Me: My writing is so bad. :(

Meanwhile at Disney: Somehow, Palpatine has returned.

[lavenderek]

hey guys, fyi if you do online shopping - highly recommend fakespot.com

you paste the direct link to the product into the search bar and it analyzes the reviews to determine whether reviews are accurate and how many positive vs negative reviews there are

i found a thing that had a lot of reviews and a 4 star rating and fakespot caught me before i bought it

Image is screenshot of fakespot's analysis:

Overview

How are reviewers describing this item?

easy, great, counter, organized and sturdy.

Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 213.

Previous analysis of this listing was an D grade.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.

Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 37.7% of the reviews are reliable.

This product had a total of 1,884 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 23 2020.

you can review things on amazon, walmart, best buy, yelp, steam, sephora, and tripadvisor.

[polargeist-deactivated20251013]

while i do sometimes use fakespot in conjunction, i highly recommend using reviewmeta instead

no matter what algorithms used, its bound to make mistakes and flag ordinary things as suspicous, so being able to look at these things helps give the user a better idea of whats going on

fakespot doesnt really give you that information, whereas reviewmeta is completely transparent and lays out the data to let you determine whether somethings really suspicious or not. this blog post goes more into detail on that

and this one describes more features that can be helpful

[sandmandaddy69]

[ottermatopoeia]

baja blast

[ariadneproserpina]

That dolphin pussy stuff

[thyrell]

the what

[cvberitual]

it's nothing, go back to bed

[albertsalo]

[the-real-skeletor]

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

[my-court-jester-courted-me]

[theryanproject]

[unbotheredmuse]

[monsterbi]

[theperksofbeingaperk]

[notemily]

Actual faith vs performative religion.

[sockdrawerdemon]

To shave your beard is a huge sacrifice for a devout Sikh. It is a sacrifice for the greater good, that many people will scoff at without understanding the amount of love it took, to give up part of your faith to serve the greater purpose of that faith. Bless them all.

[nyxelestia]

I’m an Atheist now, but I was raised in a Hindu household and I’d probably cry if I had to cut my hair.

I’d still do it, though, because my own feelings are not more important than other people’s literal, actual lives.

Hair can grow back; a life cannot.

God(s) proscribe certain standards and conduct, which is important…but saving god(s)’ children always takes precedence. Always.

[cowpokeprose]

There’s a reason a sewing kit includes scissors, a wood shop has a saw, and a kitchen is full of knives. In order to build something, to create something on purpose, you have to be prepared to cut away what’s extra. A bolt of cloth does not a blanket make, a piece of wood a shelf, nor a loaf of bread a sandwich. When you snip off frayed bits of string, cut the wood into shape, or slice the end off a loaf of bread you are creating, with the act of removal, something closer to what you desire. 

Now let’s say you’re not sewing a blanket, you’re not building a shelf, not making a sandwich. Let’s say you’re crafting a life in which you are happy. You will end up removing things. You’ll leave partners, stop talking to family members, let go of friends. You’ll move apartments, lose jobs, change wardrobes. And you will feel their absence. You’ll look at the scraps of cloth, the odd angles of wood, the stale end of the loaf. But that cloth couldn’t keep you warm and that tiny corner of wood can’t store books. You wouldn’t be full from that little bit of bread or happy with that person. In the art of creating there is the act of removal and it is essential. 

[nonetoon]