Toolbench Time

20 | he/him | gay as shit. I post mostly House of Leaves content and art, but also sometimes miscellaneous bullshit. Enjoy :) PfP icon by @ ageblue-aka-varnah-g

[dragonwysper]

No longer shadowbanned !!!

Gonna make a brief intro post here.

I'm Cole (or Dragonwysper or Toolbench or Squonch)! I'm 20, he/him, and gay n' trans.

If you're confused on why I followed you, I may have done it for one of my side-blogs. Feel free to DM if you want reasons/links (or if you just want to chat)!

Sideblogs:

@onanothingsback - system sideblog (alter sideblogs in that account's pinned)

[OLD] @squoze-and-squonchy - OC and project posting

[OLD] @not-safe-for-truant - was gonna be an NSFT HOL blog, but I don't actually post on there, so. Idk rip in piss ig

DNI:

Bigots (racist, homophobic, transphobic, abelist, etc)

DNF:

Abelism includes people who discriminate against cluster Bs, jsyk. We have ASPD. We don't want to see that.

Transphobia includes people who hate and invalidate trans men, jsyk x2. We're a trans man. We will block you for calling trans men "transandrobros", "transandrocunts, "birthday boys", "theyfabs", or any other transphobic, misogynistic bullshit.

Pro-contact pedos / MAPs, zoos, and other harmful paraphiles.

Any of the above

Under 15yo (sorry, just uncomfy interacting with kids. Trauma thing.)

I'll also block anybody else who skeeves me out for any reason or another.

Fandoms I interact with:

House of Leaves - #house of leaves, #hol, #mark z danielewski

Flight Rising (Dragonwyspr #476215)- #flight rising, #flightrising

....yeah that's about it rn. There's some smaller fandoms I also interact with on occasion, but these are my two mains!

I also interact with:

Art - #not my art

Art tips/theory/lore (especially color theory) - tags depend on subject

Memes - #meme (if tagged)

Some queer discourse posts - #discourse

Animal facts (especially mites and snakes) - tags depend on subject

Definitely not everything, but this is the most common stuff you'll see on my blog haha.

As for original content, I post:

Art - #my art

Loredumps for my OCs - #my ocs, #oc lore

Photos I take - #my photos

SOMETIMES venting - #vent

Other tags of mine:

#save - things I wanna remember and come back to

#fav - favorite posts. Typically really inspirational art

#mildred - my snake (Dasypeltis bazi, Egyptian egg eater)

#velkurpeni - my best dragon on Flight Rising

#zane rayford - an oc of mine

#hamatus - posts more befitting my alternate blog (not giving out the username. Iykyk. I just don't log in there as often. Nothing explicit will be reblogged to this account (unless it's to a sideblog)).

Will add more as they come 😤

Some of my other social media accounts are in this post!

[ciphers-fr]

🥄 hungryhungrysnappers Follow

aye can i get uh………ingredients on my crepe

🌿 canopychefoffical Follow

jellyfish?

🌿 canopychefoffical Follow

you want jellyfish?

🌿 canopychefoffical Follow

you want fucking jelly fish?

🥄 hungryhungrysnappers Follow

ingredience

[blackberryvulpine]

Is anyone else constantly bothered by the fact that all of a child's medical care is required to go through their parents? That they must rely on these people to decide when they do or don't need medical care?

No matter how injured. If a parent doesn't deem it necessary to see a doctor, it doesn't happen. Teachers can suggest a doctor visit, but unless it's a very acute injury (and even then), it's ultimately up to the parents.

You can be 13. Twisted, maybe broken ankle. You teacher lets you sit out in PE. She's concerned, and tells you to rest when you go home, and see a doctor. You get home, ur parents fill a bath and add some Epsom salts, and then laugh at you for using it moms old colorguard stick as a cane. Take some ibuprofen they say. It's just a little sprain, ur a kid.

You go to school the next day, go to ur office assistant time. Office calls ur mom to come get you, because you're clearly in too much pain for school. Your mom laughs when she gets you, says you just were so determined not to miss school. Scolds you for making the office ladies worry.

You never see a doctor for the injury.

Your parents come into the exam room at every visit. This does not stop with age, except for gynecologist. But your parents are on the medical release forms. They fill them out for you, with you. You do not get to take them off.

You never get to tell s doctor about the ankle. Even though it never quote healed right, and it hurts every day.

Then your 18. In college. Still on your parents insurance, and have no car. The on campus clinic only does std testing. You fall down some stairs. Same injury. You call your parents, crying from the pain. You are using a mop as a cane. They console you and say to have a bath, take some meds, and let them know how it feels in a few days. You end up borrowing your roommates rolling chair to get around for the weekend.

By Monday, you can walk again. You walk miles to class every day. You ask to see a doctor, but your parents won't drive the hour to come take you, and you don't have the insurance card. You are still at their mercy for medical care. The ankle tries to heal again. This time worse than before. The tendons click with every step.

Now you're in your twenties. Finally have your own healthcare. You see a doctor. You get to mention the ankle! They say it's been too long to really even know what was damaged. That you have arthritis now. It healed wrong but it can no longer be fixed.

I'm 32 now. My ankle tells me the weather. I wear boots to keep it stable. What could have been a funny story about a fall and a cast has become a lifetime injury. Because children do not have access to medical care without a parents approval.

[once-a-polecat]

Local restaurant having trouble with whores apparently.

[sunshinepets]

I'm obsessed with all these lil guys. Idk who they got to write the blurbs but they're great. A gym chad bro named Scruffles are you kidding me???

[pollsforadults]

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

Remaining time: 4 days 5 hours

Picker Wheel - Spin the Wheel to Decide a Random Choice

Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r

(anon submission)

[captain-price-returns]

Slowly entering the “finding out” part of the war.

[solarifle]

"we have to accept the fact that the r word is coming back" NO WE DONTTTT NO WE DONT

[xenogears]

Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that

[the-lincyclopedia]

Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go on the Odyssey?

Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.

[marisatomay]

To quote what a friend of mine said after she watched Jerry Maguire (1996) for the first time, having thought she knew what it was about because of its cultural ubiquity: “you miss a lot of a movie when you don’t watch it”

[parkchanwoohoo]

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue

[possumsarenice]

Shout everyone else taking the vow of silence today

[voxdiscs]

Poe - Haunted

purchased secondhand by me. I never expected to be able to find it on CD and i'm very glad I did

[perplexingly]

Don't be shackled by the idea that going out can only be done with a group of friends, learn to feel comfortable going alone [remembers that encouraging consumerism isn't progressive] into the deep dark woods

[bumblebeebats]

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

[spectralhauntings]

I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3

Explore Pet Poison Helpline®s vast knowledge on poisons by reviewing our pet poison list. Explore our top 10 poison and holiday poison lists

[littlemousling]

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

[life-in-toontown]

Me too, man 😞