Paine

What's happening today? I don't know either! (30s, queer, amalgam of whatever catches my interest. Avatar art by @angstyastro!)

[dddreamscape]

Mutuals do this

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

You've heard of parallel play, now get ready for perpendicular play.

[amuseoffyre]

Hot cross buns?

[dr-paine]

So i just got off work & my brother's visiting and we were going to pick up a pizza order and after we get our order the clerk at the counter asks, quote, 'do you want more pizza?'

My brother: 'don't threaten me with a good time' & I'm just like '? Yeah!'

Apparently she made a bunch of mediums that were supposed to be larges.

So we got four extra pizzas.

[astorythatwritesitself]

I feel like I need one more character to round out this little OC set lol

Like, Hekka & Ardent have been around forever as a duo who keep some crappy little bar on the Citadel going, and that (still technically in progress!) little fic idea has now brought about Crush the krogan, who's in the group & apprenticing in the tattoo shop next door...

It just feels like there's someone missing and I can't figure out who 😂

[dr-paine]

....

Maybe Crush should share shop space with a quarian florist. What do we think.

[i-can-kazoo]

your daily reminder that kafka was a jew watching in real-time as jews became society's ungeziefers and were relegated to ghettos. Your daily reminder that ungeziefer is not just a bug, but vermin.

[solitairians]

whenever I confess to people that i feel like I am just roleplaying as a normal person they're always like noooo you don't strike me as someone who's roleplaying as a normal person at all!!! :) and every time internally im like well yes that's because I am excellent at it

[larkandkatydid]

One thing I’ve become a real extremist about is little girl’s clothing and hair styles because if your kid can’t get her hair wet, hang upside down, climb over a fence or run full out in the outfit/hair she is currently wearing then why not? And the answer better be both extremely fucking good and describe something temporary.

[poodletrain]

Hope you don't mind a story that also made me extremist about this issue.

Took my friends daughter (2.5yrs) to the park. Dressed her in practical clothing that's ok to get stained, brought an extra change of clothing. She sat in the mud at the water bank and played with rocks and mud. A little girl came over, couldn't be more than 3yrs. She was looking longingly at my friend's daughter. She has her hair in a perfect style and she's wearing a pretty dress with white socks and dressy shoes. The parents say "Sweetie don't go into the mud, you'll get your dress dirty" and pull her away, while giving me a judgmental look as they see the kid in my charge covered in mud and throwing rocks into the water. It felt really weird, like we saw eachother as aliens with completely different ideas on how to raise children. When my friends daughter was done playing, changed her into clean clothing and went back home. She had a lot of fun at the park and a day full of nature and play. The other little girl kept her dress clean.

[maybeasunflower]

There's a Tumblr post about someone finding out that "girls" toddler clothes are more restrictive than "boys" toddler clothes to the point that it made it harder for them to crawl, at a stage where they were learning to crawl.

[impulsivelycontentious]

I made one about how my toddler child couldn't climb in girl's TODDLER PANTS.

We are not a house who cares much about gendering a baby's clothes. It's a BABY. It doesn't care. So we'd take the kid to yard sales and let them pick out whatever baby clothes caught their fancy and would fit. Some were 'boy' and some were 'girl'. Kiddo loved floral prints because they're a baby (yeah my kid has always picked their own clothes).

Anyway, my kid LOVED TO CLIMB. Sometimes.

It was weird. Sometimes they were all over the sofa and the playground equipment and MY LEGS and sometimes they just. Weren't. Couldn't figure out what was going on.

Until I caught them trying to climb on rhe sofa in one of their pretty flowered pants.

They COULDN'T LIFT THEIR LEGS PROPERLY. And gave up, and did something else.

So I tested this out and... Yeah. The kid COULDN'T climb in ANY of their girl pants. Any. Put them in boy clothes and suddenly the kid is on everything again.

We stopped buying girl pants completely until they were old enough to test them and my kid is a TEENAGER now and i still make them lift their legs individually and jump if it's a girl fit.

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO MEAN TO DO IT.

Whoever designed these clothes literally did not care if the baby could MOVE. But only if girl.

[caintooth]

you have to love trans women more than you hate transmisogyny, you have to love jews more than you hate antisemitism, you have to love Black people more than you hate white supremacy, you have to love Indigenous people more than you hate colonialism, you have to love the disabled and mentally ill more than you hate ableism, you have to love. you have to love.

[vamptits]

it's just really apparent that people think it's okay to want pain but morally abhorrent to want to give it. sorry but the sadist gets to have fun too. it's actually pretty crucial to the process.

[vamptits]

if I said I was going to a taekwondo class would you feel the need to tell me kicking people on the street is bad or.

[whoopsie-collective]

Image ID: A screenshot of a tumblr comment that says "yeah, its only abhorrent imo, when the recipient is non consenting, i've" the screenshot cuts off.

[dogspouse]

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.

[yesornopolls]

do you know a song that includes your name in the lyrics?

Do you know a song that includes your name in the lyrics?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 3 hours

[magnetothemagnificent]

Yes, but not as a name but rather an adjective.

....כל אחד הוא אור קטן וכולנו אור איתן.....

Lol.

[apolladay]

On what part of your body is your biggest scar?

head

torso

arms/hands

legs/feet

a different part of my body

I have 0 scars

Remaining time: 4 days 10 hours

[no-chill-at-all]

[wildlyannoyingdoofus]

These kinds of responses are my FAVORITE. Some examples to answers to this question I have heard:

1.

“Okay, and who’s the president?”

“Obama, no wait, shit *vehemently* fuck, I hate him… what’s his name…”

“It’s okay, you know who he is.”

2.

“Who’s the president?”

“*drunkenly angry and confused* ..uhhhhhhh…Orange… damn it what’s the fuck’s name….

“Yup, good enough.”

3.

“And who’s the president,”

“Not fuckin’ Obama!”

“I feel ya.”

4.

“Who’s the president- wait, nevermind you’re from Korea you said, right? So who’s-“

“Everybody knows that Trump-bitch.”

“Oh, well, alright then.”

5. (My personal favorite)

“Who’s the president?”

“Ew.”

“Good enough.”

[epaulettes]

My roommate is a neurologist and has to do this check all the time. Her all-time favorite so far has been “ay dios mio” during which the woman was vigorously crossing herself.

[moodyehudi-deactivated20180519]

lol me too , lady

[emi--rose]

One time I got “that orange fuck” from a very cute little old lady with urosepsis

[nezumipi]

I have - quite unintentionally - contributed to this phenomenon.

I was waking up from surgery in the post-op observation room, where they kept people before sending them off to the ICU. The nurse was talking to me as I was semi-awake, telling me that as soon as it was ready, I would be sent to room 2008.

I did not hear the word “room”.

I started trying to sit up and get out of bed (entirely unsuccessfully), shouting (mumbling forcefully), “He’s not president yet! I have to warn everyone!”

[magimerlyn]

That’s awesome. Thank you for trying to warn us

[euphoria-my-love]

i’ve been looking for this post for ages and it finally crossed my dash again

[whatsgoodmentalhealth]

(( *smiles* the post is back))

[stackcats]

Paramedics had to stop asking “who’s the prime minister?” in Australia because it changed so often that not knowing the answer wasn’t really all that indicative of anything.

One paramedic reported receiving the answer “I haven’t watched the news today”.

[placeofwonder]

Meanwhile in Germany, the joke goes that a teenager is waking up in a hospital bed, the nurse asks them who the chancellor is and they say, “hang on are you telling me that can change?”

[carnetimaginaire]

Anna Pugh, Moon run

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[dr-paine]

Alutegra for the ship opinion bingo game?

Relationship where both parties are on a barbed-wire leash the other one's holding & I love it

[versegm]

Figured I'd make my own ship bingo for my specific ship opinions. (Feel free to steal!)

[dr-paine]

Anyway I'm about to start BaS part 2 so prepare for more!

[dr-paine]

The funny thing is, the intro is actually extremely good...

[dr-paine]

BaS 2 is SO frustrating because the first few minutes are so close to what I was saying before, that Infinite's ending fits so much better if it involved Elizabeth accepting that to end Comstock also means to end herself - and I guess this does also parallel (or repeat?) Booker's arc -

... honestly actually yeah this whole thing does just... completely repeat Booker's arc, now that I'm thinking about it a little more...

[dr-paine]

'Just because your father did things one way does mean you have to' yeah except she sold out the safety of a child for her own selfish purposes, regretted it, is trying to make amends, and is now getting caught up in a civil war in the process and ultimately realizes the way to save said child is to die in the process. The only difference here, I guess, is that technically she saves more bc this canonizes the Good End of Bioshock -

Oh you mean about the gameplay element that you can actually beat this... 'non-leathally'. (Which is a lie. You can beat it without firing a gun but the bastards you whack with the hook are still very much dead.)

[dr-paine]

I am still deeply amused by the canon Andrew Ryan fursona though.

Look at that. Wearing a tie. Lifting weights while smoking. Even has the little mustache. Peak performance right there.