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27 || amateur human person || peaked at age 7 || funny sometimes || stay around and fuck out

[doomdoomofdoom]

hehe.

[homunculus-argument]

The finnish language doesn't make a distinction between modern formal "mister", some forms of the title "master", and is also used in some contexts where the english language would say "lord". The guy who runs our local game store has a habit of referring to me and my boyfriend in this way - I don't know if that's what he does to all customers, or if it's just us two specifically - and while I perfectly understand that in context it's simply "gentlemen", it does have a mildly renaissance feel to it.

Like oh yes, we have returned once again to gracefully offer our patronage to your business. Today we are seeking to purchase more warhammer.

[doomdoomofdoom]

Doctor Who must be really confusing in finnish

[creekfiend]

I'm so glad that that truncated fucking ran-into-a-wall-at-speed tadpole-ass looking squirrel only lives in high altitude forests in Borneo bc this means I am extremely unlikely to encounter one in my day to day life. thank god

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

Hello.

[creekfiend]

DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG SIMPLY TO TORMENT ME

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

I can go upside down.

[creekfiend]

WHERE IS THE REST OF YOU

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

Here I am eating some delicious moss.

[cranberry-branflakes]

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[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[doomdoomofdoom]

trying to explain grocery store to an american: okay so imagine a cowboy-

[infiniteoreos]

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

[thundercrackfic]

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human

[toothpaste-footlocker]

[yet-another-autistic-blog]

Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.

[panpteryx]

[doomdoomofdoom]

When I was at a mental health clinic, one of the first exercises my group did was to each pick a rock from a collection the therapist brought. We had some time to just look at it, and then we'd have some time to pick them up and try how they feel. Also whoever picked a rock first got it.

I knew which rock I wanted pretty early on into the looking phase, but was worried someone else would take it first. So I spent the 5 minutes looking at every other rock and finding something nice about it, in case the one I liked was taken and also the other one I liked was taken and also-

There were maybe 200 rocks.

When I explained my process, I was told that sounded pretty exhausting.

And it fucking was.

[doomdoomofdoom]

"Bedtime is repealed" is sending me

[aropride]

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

[doomdoomofdoom]

tried it out, it works!

[doomdoomofdoom]

Rise of a Mighty Pirate™ Process and less blurry pictures below

Spent the last couple days on this. Many a black tea bag was sacrificed.

I traced the images digitally from screenshots/game files (the compass rose is from the Sea of Thieves thing), lettering is my own.

Printed those and aged them in a ziplock bag of highly concentrated black tea. (fun fact: red ink fully dissolves, blue mostly dissolves, and black does not dissolve whatsoever) Probably should've documented the exact process, but it was 2 teabags for about a cup of water for Melee, 3 for Monkey Island. Dial-a-Pirate and Ingredient list were in both. About 20-30 minutes although duration doesn't seem to do much beyond a certain point. Stan's and Docks were in a re-used tea mix so they didnt age as much (intentional). Lost track of the other additions.

Then painted them with water colors (shoutout to my mom for getting me fancy ones with gold and shit) and retraced most lines with a black pencil for that handwritten feeling and/or because they were too faint. Used colored pencils (and a white one, that thing was a godsend) for precise areas or slight hue corrections.

Notable: The Docks and Stan's were aged after painting. Water colors are surprisingly resistant to dissolving in liquid. Unless they're glitter apparently, because the moon outline dyed my tea greenish brown and spread glitter particles all over the piece. Decided to leave it for flair.

Also traced a couple of outlines with a black fineliner, I think that couldve gone better with a different pen and/or steadier hand.

I did consider touching up Guybrush's face so he doesn't look that pasty white, but ultimately decided it was more accurate like this. (Also his hair drove me insane and I didn't want to risk redoing that)

For some finishing touches, I used brown watercolor on the edges again and especially to darken the tears. It was either that or stealing Even More of my roommates' black tea.

I also played through the first four games (Escape does not count and was replaced with Tales) while waiting for stuff to dry.

Whole thing had a huge trial and error phase. Most things I've printed several times. Some would rip too much while intentionally ripping them or removing them from the tea ziplock bag. Some I fucked up at coloring. Some just didn't turn out right.

None had it harder than Monkey Island. Here's all attempts.

First Attempt: learning that colored ink dissolves and that the lines need to be way darker to show up in the first place. Unusable but proof of ageing concept.

Second attempt: Lines still too light. Can't see the quadrants or compass rose. Redrew the border with fineliner. Paint turned out too realistic for a sea map.

Third attempt: tried lighter ageing, didn't like it. Also tears ended up too big so I didnt risk ageing again. Traced all lines (still too light) with fineliner. Aesthetically very nice but felt unfitting

Fourth attempt: Too damaged. Frontrunner for a long time, finally got the lines right. Corner ripped off when getting it out of the bag, tried to run with it. After making Melee island, it seemed too damaged but not aged enough in comparison. Tried ageing it more with the tea grounds, which gave it cool stains but also water damage.

Fifth time's the charm, apparently.

The whole thing now rests inside a dark wood painted picture frame, which I am apparently incapable of taking a proper picture of.

[doomdoomofdoom]

If you want to make your own, here's the stuff I printed. These are 300dpi (assuming tumblr lets that happen) formatted for A4 paper.

Print in black, not in color.

If you want any of these without weathering/greyscale/white background, let me know and I'll see if it's still in my files somewhere.

[doomdoomofdoom]

Rise of a Mighty Pirate™ Process and less blurry pictures below

Spent the last couple days on this. Many a black tea bag was sacrificed.

I traced the images digitally from screenshots/game files (the compass rose is from the Sea of Thieves thing), lettering is my own.

Printed those and aged them in a ziplock bag of highly concentrated black tea. (fun fact: red ink fully dissolves, blue mostly dissolves, and black does not dissolve whatsoever) Probably should've documented the exact process, but it was 2 teabags for about a cup of water for Melee, 3 for Monkey Island. Dial-a-Pirate and Ingredient list were in both. About 20-30 minutes although duration doesn't seem to do much beyond a certain point. Stan's and Docks were in a re-used tea mix so they didnt age as much (intentional). Lost track of the other additions.

Then painted them with water colors (shoutout to my mom for getting me fancy ones with gold and shit) and retraced most lines with a black pencil for that handwritten feeling and/or because they were too faint. Used colored pencils (and a white one, that thing was a godsend) for precise areas or slight hue corrections.

Notable: The Docks and Stan's were aged after painting. Water colors are surprisingly resistant to dissolving in liquid. Unless they're glitter apparently, because the moon outline dyed my tea greenish brown and spread glitter particles all over the piece. Decided to leave it for flair.

Also traced a couple of outlines with a black fineliner, I think that couldve gone better with a different pen and/or steadier hand.

I did consider touching up Guybrush's face so he doesn't look that pasty white, but ultimately decided it was more accurate like this. (Also his hair drove me insane and I didn't want to risk redoing that)

For some finishing touches, I used brown watercolor on the edges again and especially to darken the tears. It was either that or stealing Even More of my roommates' black tea.

I also played through the first four games (Escape does not count and was replaced with Tales) while waiting for stuff to dry.

Whole thing had a huge trial and error phase. Most things I've printed several times. Some would rip too much while intentionally ripping them or removing them from the tea ziplock bag. Some I fucked up at coloring. Some just didn't turn out right.

None had it harder than Monkey Island. Here's all attempts.

First Attempt: learning that colored ink dissolves and that the lines need to be way darker to show up in the first place. Unusable but proof of ageing concept.

Second attempt: Lines still too light. Can't see the quadrants or compass rose. Redrew the border with fineliner. Paint turned out too realistic for a sea map.

Third attempt: tried lighter ageing, didn't like it. Also tears ended up too big so I didnt risk ageing again. Traced all lines (still too light) with fineliner. Aesthetically very nice but felt unfitting

Fourth attempt: Too damaged. Frontrunner for a long time, finally got the lines right. Corner ripped off when getting it out of the bag, tried to run with it. After making Melee island, it seemed too damaged but not aged enough in comparison. Tried ageing it more with the tea grounds, which gave it cool stains but also water damage.

Fifth time's the charm, apparently.

The whole thing now rests inside a dark wood painted picture frame, which I am apparently incapable of taking a proper picture of.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I wonder if people in the fallout universe are still using 200 year old tampons or if some crazy chemist named fuckass atomic Becky or whatever has figured out how to mass manufacture them

[sword-saintisshin]

Come to think of it, I wonder what ancients did about their monthlies

[what-even-is-thiss]

Didn’t have them because of malnutrition, just bled all over the place, or used some rags

[assortedinsanities]

You... you are kidding right? You really think that in the tens of thousands (conservative estimate) of years of people wearing clothes (for the longest time an extremely valuable item) they never figured out anything better than rags or bleeding into their (sometimes irreplacable) clothing, or that literally everyone was constantly malnourished up until a hundret years ago? This is a joke right? I'm pretty sure people were smart enough to manufacture something disposable out of dried plant materials to solve an issue half of humanity has had for much of their lives. Ancient people figured out contraception through inserting vinegar soaked sponges, I'm pretty sure they had better solutions for menstruation than just going "Eh, whatever."

We also know from archeological evidence that the majority of people in most times where not malnutritioned. This should also be obvious by how we don't see constant malnutrition in other animal either, it is simply because malnutritioned individuals tend to die through injury or illness much more often, which means that a population of mostly manutrinioned individuals is bound to collapse.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Where did I say that everyone had malnutrition? Also using plants to absorb the blood is pretty similar to rags if you ask me.

There’s plenty of evidence that people used rags and sometimes people did have malnutrition. Like nothing you’ve said has disproven anything that I said in my short little explanation there.

[doomdoomofdoom]

OP is correct, but also my meds have kicked in so it's learning time.

Menstruation happens when the uterus built up some nice tissue for an egg but then there is no egg, so the tissue is flushed out with blood. Building up/removing tissue is a resource intensive process for your body. If it doesn't have resources, it can't do that.

While people throughout history weren't necessarily malnourished, humanity spent a lot of its time min-maxing calorie intake and physical labor. The massive conveniences we have in getting food today is, historically speaking, a super new development.

So. Limited Food + Hard Work = Very Few Resources To Spare For Reproduction = Less Periods (both in frequency and volume)

Back in the day, we also breastfed for much longer than we do today, which takes up more resources (we can group this under "hard work") and of course there were more pregnancies than we have today.

Su Hepburn of the Brighton Museum suggests that during the Stone Age, about 50 periods throughout life were typical. Today, that number is around 450.

Sidenote: "tens of thousands of years" is indeed a conservative estimate. We started wearing clothing sometime between 83,000 and 170,000 years ago, which makes them a pretty new invention in human history. The Stone Age lasted about 3.4 million years. (It only ended between 6000 and 4000 years ago) and Homo Sapiens hit the scene about 300,000 years ago.

So yeah, we did just kinda freebleed (assuming we did bleed) for possibly most of human history. We were also naked for a good bit of it (estimated 90,000 years between hairlessness and clothing).

Later in history, when we did have periods, we had a couple of ways of dealing with it, depending on environment and culture.

If you did have something soft around like (animal) hair, plant fiber, possibly moss, leftovers from making clothing (rags), etc., you could turn that into some sort of soaking device, either to be worn or to clean yourself off. These would most likely be made and used as needed, so there's a lot variety across human history.

I think theres a bit of a modern standard applied in the rant above because we treat menstruation very differently today, with our secret disposable pads and tampons that can stay there for hours and soak up soooo much liquid that you can wear them for hours without staining your clothes. If you were freebleeding in very early times, you could just wipe that shit off. Depending on your culture that would've been a super normal thing to do, or, if there was stigma around menstruation, you may have been isolated, so nobody was looking anyway. But also. Back in the olden times, you did stain your clothes. You'd clean them if possible but they definitely get dirty when you live a hunter gatherer lifestyle instead of an office job. Blood on your clothes didn't make them non-functional. You clean as best you can and put them back on. They're valuable for their functionality, first and foremost.

As we developed new technologies, our options expanded. Ancient Egypt saw the use of papyrus, in Ancient China they may have used absorbent paper, and in Ancient Greece they apparently wrapped lint around a small stick to fashion a tampon. When cloth became somewhat widely available, that was a popular and reusable choice. Specifically made pads if you could afford it (you couldnt) or, ykno, rags you scraped together.

I assume we know the developments from here and I need to get some breakfast so I'm sparing you the modern religious angle on menstruation stigma

[nonexistent-triangle]

asexual cuck who shows up to you fucking their wife with a big foam finger that says SEX and a eastern european football fan style flag scarf with the ace flag on it

[doomdoomofdoom]

[teaboot]

Huh. That actually makes me wonder how much the "oh cats are such picky eaters" thing is from offering cats food that has something actually wrong with it that's perceptible to cats but not humans. Although even if the food is fine and they just don't like it, that seems... worth respecting and not treating like they're being dumb and annoying? Like, we don't make OURSELVES eat food we don't like all the time if we have a choice, we know it's unpleasant... why inflict that on a little creature who loves you and depends on you...

Yeah I've never really understood the 'oh cats are so picky lol they refuse perfectly good food' deal.

Like damn, the little guy who is fully reliant on you for every aspect of their survival and eats basically the same damn thing every single day doesn't like it anymore because the recipe changed? Should we call the press?

Honestly IME it's been pretty straightforward- new brand makes them puke? Not useful for sustenance, throw it out. The brand he's always fine with it suddenly unacceptable? Either somethings wrong with it or the formula is different and he doesn't feel safe. Not useful, throw it out. Recall announcement? Company revealed to be unsafe? Dangerous ingredients? That' not NUTRITION, why would I buy it?

What's the alternative, anyways? STARVE him until he eats it?? He's my SON

Anyhow Fuck "Meow Mix" SPECIFICALLY, I have seen no other brand that has made so many different cats puke so frequently and consistently, I wouldn't feed that shit to a worm

[lorddeathofmurdermountain]

Also a lot of people really just. Raw dog taking care of a cat. So they'll tell me "my cat never wants to eat or drink >:/" sir you are putting their food immediately next to their water and they are hardwired to avoid that because of cross-contamination. You will literally solve this if you put the water and the food on the opposite sides of the room or the house in worst case and it takes like thirty seconds to Google.

[teaboot]

^^^^^^^ I had this problem with Ollie and I'd never had a cat do that before!!! SUCH an easy fix

[despazito]

I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter

[despazito]

good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week

[doublism]

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

[wizardarchetypes]

when I was a kid I had an old tv in my room that would always turn to unwatchable static in the middle of shows but one night my sister and I were watching Naruto & every time Kakashi was on-screen the static cleared so we were like “hahaha the tv looooves Kakashi.”

I had a Kakashi bookmark so we held it up against the screen as a joke but the static actually cleared up. Mystified, we tried different bookmarks and objects with the same plastic material but nothing else worked, only the Kakashi bookmark.

We ended up taping it to the corner of the screen and it stayed there for 11 years until we moved out. When I was older people would be like “can you move the bookmark off the screen” bc it did sort of block a bit of the view but I would demonstrate the static issue and everyone was always just like “huh. what the hell?? well…alright.”

No explanation, but thanks Kakashi.

[scarletjedi]

I had a similar tv! It was a tv with a built in dvd and vcr because it was in college and I’m apparently old now. But! The dvd player never wanted to play- unless it was Chicago (2002). First, we would put that dvd in, let it start, and then swap it for the movie we really wanted to watch. It got to the point where we would put in the dvd we wanted and sing “he had it coming!!!” At the screen at volume. Fucking worked *every time*

Bizarre.

[inkcurlsandknives]

I miss when technology had real personality, instead of fake ones designed to generate lies and nonsense and spy on you.

[doomdoomofdoom]

A friend of mine told me about this nun who was going on 90 in early 2010s. Not the cloister type of nun, but one living with some of her sisters in a regular apartment in a regular city and worked regular jobs to help others in the name of the lord and such.

So naturally a regular apartment for regular jobs in the 2010s has a computer. Said Computer had broken. Technicians were called. They tried all day, but couldn't fix it. They'd come back the next day.

In the middle of the night, my friend goes to the bathroom and passes the computer room. The 80-something year old nun, who barely knows what a computer even is, is in there.

She stands before the monitor (which, to her, is the computer), sprinkling holy water and declaring that the power of the lord shall compel it. Repeatedly and with the unwavering faith only a very elderly nun could have. The power of the lord shall compel it, as that is what the power of the lord does.

The next day it was fixed.

She has passed away by now, but was privately elevated to 'Elisabeth, patron of technical difficulties'.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve started using chewing sticks to brush my teeth and tbh I’m surprised that zero waste people aren’t all over these things.

Chewing sticks are basically sticks from specific trees that you strip some of the bark off, chew to loosen up the inner fibers, and then brush your teeth with said fibers. You cut off the fibers every other day and strip off more bark so the sticks also force you to keep replacing your toothbrush a bit better than normal ones do because you’re literally whittling them down to nothing over time.

No toothpaste required because the sticks naturally have fluoride in them and being, you know, sticks, they’re biodegradable by nature. So no plastic from the toothpaste because there is no toothpaste and no plastic from the stick because it’s a stick.

Some brands sell them wrapped in plastic but you know, not all of them do that. And you can get a reusable container to put them in when you’re not using them.

But because zero waste people are super into finding complicated ways to reduce plastic usage I was surprised I’ve never heard of these things being discussed in the zero waste YouTube channels I’ve watched. They talk about like bamboo toothbrushes and refillable toothpaste and whatnot. Not chewing sticks.

I’m using them because I can just keep one in my pocket in its little container and they’re super stiff and my gums need strengthening according to my hygienist. (Note if you decide to use these things your gums might bleed the first few times because the fibers are so stiff)

I’m not really using them for environmental reasons but they seem like the sort of thing that extreme tree huggers would like. But no, the only people using chewing sticks seem to be me and people trying to make sure they don’t accidentally swallow toothpaste during Ramadan.

[doomdoomofdoom]

I was gonna guess 'worse results' as the reason, but from what I can find, they're as effective as a regular toothbrush/toothpaste combo (possibly more). Effectiveness depends on correct usage, same as any toothbrush. Also unsure how they compare to electric toothbrushes, which are more effective than manual.

Only real downside I can find is the bristles pointing forward, not sideways, so it's probably difficult to reach all areas properly, especially if you've never done it before.

So my next guess unfortunately has to be the capitalism+racism combo

[unfug-bilder]

Die Krosse Krabbe (im Hintergrund) hat sich aber massiv verändert

[doomdoomofdoom]

Buuuh, unfug-bilder, buuuhhh