Im A Bit Of A Mess

You can call me Bram/Broam, I'm fully in my mid 20's. My pronouns are they/them. Due to brain worms I have no tagging system, but if anything I post triggers or squicks you out, let me know and I'll see if I can wrangle some brain worms in your favor Also I am on/mod most of the cosmere discord servers out there, so let me know if you want a link!

[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[kigoh-neko]

[lightweightkate]

I’ve been cackling about this for like five minutes now

[uncharacter-istically]

[Video caption:

O-okay, let’s get into this, shall we?

*grumbling* Would you rather work for Lex Luthor or the Joker- *shouting* Lex Luthor, by like, a fucking mile!

Yes, yes, working for Lex Luthor is basically like being an Amazon employee that makes weapons of mass destruction, which is bad. Lex is like Donald Trump mixed with Mark Zuckerberg mixed with Jeffrey fucking Bezos, it’s not a great mix. He does not treat his henchmen well. Their lives still suck, and they are probably monitored on how long they take piss breaks for.

But let’s analyze what working for Lex Luthor is like versus the fucking Joker. With Lex you probably get a dental plan, a health plan, a paycheck, and the guy that you’re fighting really cares about human life. Superman will hit you just long enough to knock you out, so you’re not a treat, so he can stop the problem.

If you work for the Joker, your payment is you’re not fucking dead. You say one wrong thing? Bang. You don’t laugh at his jokes? Bang! You do laugh at his jokes? Bang! You think Joker gives a fuck about a henchman?

Who’s Lex Luthor’s right-hand-man? It’s a woman, you sexist, her name is Mercy, she’s awesome. Who’s Joker’s right-hand-man? Bob? Nah, he’s dead. Harley? Tried to kill her multiple times. Slappy? Who the fuck is Slappy?

The best case scenario of working for the Joker is that you fight the fucking Batman! And that presents its own fucking list of problems. If you stop Superman as a Lex Luthor henchman, Lex’ll be pissed, but he’ll be at least happy that Superman was caught. If you stop Batman as a Joker henchman, you better have a fucking coffin picked out yesterday.

This isn’t a fun hypothetical question, this is a screening technique that the doctors at Arkham use to determine your mental health! There is a right and a wrong answer to this question, and the correct one is Lex fucking Luthor. Thank you for coming to my fucking Ted Talk, have a nice day.

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[loveitorreblogit]

Bitch neither I work for Wayne Industries, they got better offers than work these clowns:

[gandalfsbignaturals]

batmans secret special attack is offering all of his enemys henchmen a living wage and guaranteed healthcare

[lightweightkate]

I’ve been cackling about this for like five minutes now

[uncharacter-istically]

[Video caption:

O-okay, let’s get into this, shall we?

*grumbling* Would you rather work for Lex Luthor or the Joker- *shouting* Lex Luthor, by like, a fucking mile!

Yes, yes, working for Lex Luthor is basically like being an Amazon employee that makes weapons of mass destruction, which is bad. Lex is like Donald Trump mixed with Mark Zuckerberg mixed with Jeffrey fucking Bezos, it’s not a great mix. He does not treat his henchmen well. Their lives still suck, and they are probably monitored on how long they take piss breaks for.

But let’s analyze what working for Lex Luthor is like versus the fucking Joker. With Lex you probably get a dental plan, a health plan, a paycheck, and the guy that you’re fighting really cares about human life. Superman will hit you just long enough to knock you out, so you’re not a treat, so he can stop the problem.

If you work for the Joker, your payment is you’re not fucking dead. You say one wrong thing? Bang. You don’t laugh at his jokes? Bang! You do laugh at his jokes? Bang! You think Joker gives a fuck about a henchman?

Who’s Lex Luthor’s right-hand-man? It’s a woman, you sexist, her name is Mercy, she’s awesome. Who’s Joker’s right-hand-man? Bob? Nah, he’s dead. Harley? Tried to kill her multiple times. Slappy? Who the fuck is Slappy?

The best case scenario of working for the Joker is that you fight the fucking Batman! And that presents its own fucking list of problems. If you stop Superman as a Lex Luthor henchman, Lex’ll be pissed, but he’ll be at least happy that Superman was caught. If you stop Batman as a Joker henchman, you better have a fucking coffin picked out yesterday.

This isn’t a fun hypothetical question, this is a screening technique that the doctors at Arkham use to determine your mental health! There is a right and a wrong answer to this question, and the correct one is Lex fucking Luthor. Thank you for coming to my fucking Ted Talk, have a nice day.

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[loveitorreblogit]

Bitch neither I work for Wayne Industries, they got better offers than work these clowns:

[gandalfsbignaturals]

batmans secret special attack is offering all of his enemys henchmen a living wage and guaranteed healthcare

[freakoutgirl]

"all you ever do is complain" that's not true. I also resent.

[freakoutgirl]

and love..........

[emptyjunior]

I think having a baby niece is great cause my brother will send me just a constant stream of messages that sound indistinguishable from how someone at Jurassic park would text if they were being hunted by the raptor

[goldensunset]

can’t eat green vegetables and can’t go outside for fresh air i always knew i wanted to live like a mistreated studio apartment dog

[thoughtportal]

the things that are reported matters. the language used matters. what is left out of the story matters.

[gamebird]

This is very important. Systemic problems trump individual action all the time.

[thebibliosphere]

Every so often I catch a glimpse of the book drama going on over on the Insta/Threads sphere of the Internet, and it makes me so glad I’m considered too Tumblrina to sit at their tables.

What do you mean an author is railing against people using libraries/the Libby app because it’s “free” (it’s not. you as the author get money from the library purchasing the digital lending license) and meanwhile their book is on Amazon for free to try and get readers??? Hello????

[thebibliosphere]

“But if people read it for free they might like it want to buy the rest of my work!”

You mean like how people read books at libraries, and end up buying them if they like them?

“That’s not the same 😡”

Correct! Because again, libraries pay us. You putting your books up on Amazon for free means you get nothing.

[thebookewyrme]

I am staring directly into the camera like I’m on the Office in Librarian. Libraries are literally an author’s best friend. We get books to people they never would have known about otherwise, & create Fans out of disinterested bystanders. And! Libraries are often paying MORE for a book than the average user, at least for digital editions, because it is expected that the library will lend it to more people, so theoretically we need to pay more to compensate the authors! (This is not I think how it works in practice, it more often just benefits the digital lending company instead of the actual author but. Greed is ever thus). Also, in some countries (sadly not the US, boo hiss) authors get paid for every checkout of a book. So, you can literally get royalties on those “free” books. (Also, they’re not free, they’re paid for with tax dollars for the good of everyone). How some fool can think temporary freeness on Amazon Kindle is superior to libraries I cannot fathom. Like, how does this person even manage to function in the real world?

Anyway. Authors. Love your librarians. We love you and seek only to help you get more readers so you can write more books. We have a symbiotic relationship, each needs the other.

[thebibliosphere]

#I thought if you were self pubed#you basically couldn't get into the library#sounds like being mad at a club#that won't let them in

Just saw this in my notes and thought I'd reply. You can't get into libraries if you only use Amazon, but platforms like Draft2Digital, Ingram and Kobo Writing Life make it possible for self-pub authors to have their work made available to libraries across the global network.

You're sometimes more likely to get picked up by libraries if you list yourself as having a publisher, but as a self-pub author you can do that by registering as an LLC (which for me was $250 back in 2020, I don't know what it is now) and then listing the name you used as the publisher. But even that's becoming an unnecessary step with how prominent self-pub has become.

Really at this stage, this person is shooting themselves in the foot by opting to remain an Amazon exclusive author and being a twit about it on main, but that's their hill. They can die on it.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

A Horse power being only 735 watt is honestly so weird like that's not even enough to run a modern game on decent seatings

[pseudomasochist]

You wanna know what's fucked?

Your brain is a 25-watt computer.

Brain is 25% of your energy consumption, you burn about 100 watts of power (about 100 joules per second). You're a 25-watt computer.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

I don't like that fact

[pseudomasochist]

No but for real. Your brain is one of the most advanced machines known to exist. It's a computer capable of running a sapient intelligence on - and I cannot stress this enough - 25 watts of broccoli and stew. What the fuck.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

It's a cool fact it just makes me uncomfortable

[lovelyone-500]

probably why overthinking and mental health issues do, in fact, make u very tired physically. ur brain probably feels like an overheating laptop thats sitting on ur bed with that whirring fan that sounds like a jet taking off. now the whole computer is running slow. too many tabs open but you cant seem to close them fast enough. something something the body is all connected 🤖

[kaity--did]

No one - and I mean no one- could have prepared me just how much of my adult life would consist of keeping the dumbest dog ever created alive against his will

[kaity--did]

It's 103 degrees out and your brain is the size of pea dude I can't let you lay out there and bake all day you'll literally LITERALLY fry your little pea brain please stop screaming at me

[kaity--did]

Am I putting the mop bucket up high to keep it from my child? Now I am not. This dummy thinks Lysol is just flavoring even though it made him vomit.

[kaity--did]

He's sobbing uncontrollably, borderline howling because I'm cooking and I won't give him the ENTIRE ONION I HAVE ON THE COUNTER

If he was 10% more intelligent I'd think he wants to die but look at this face. This is not the face of a man with a singular thought in his head:

[kaity--did]

what is the secret to staying actually HAPPILY married for so long?

you gotta marry a weird little freak that commits to you and the bit and that's IT

Like my husband doesn't not ever EVER text me "on my way" or "headed home"

He made a sticker of that one cat meme and he just sends that every

single

time

And I laugh every single day.

That's it that's that secret.

[kaity--did]

It's this one

[kaity--did]

yes yes blah blah blah Kait is cringe and forcing her interests on her child WHATEVER but I need you all to pause and just imagine the tiniest voice you can possibly imagine trying to make her voice as deep as possible and singing

🎶tell rock and roll I'm alone again, I wanna put the midwest home again 🎶

do that and try not to fucking lose it I DARE you

[kaity--did]

It's so funny to me like girl you don't know what a megalomaniac is, you don't even know what the Midwest is

But she be singing like rock and roll wronged her personally 🤣

[kaity--did]

I know people give you shit for letting your child scream, but I just want to let you know how much you've helped me and my son. My son is 8 now, he's got some behavioural issues, energy problems and just all around ADHD. Since he was 4, it's been a battle and I honestly did not handle it well, I just didn't know what to do or how to help him. He was screaming a lot and disturbing everyone constantly and just being loud and angry and contrary, and I felt like I needed to control him and I was failing. I started following your blog because of your funny stories, but I've learned a LOT about dealing with my young wildling, mainly that I dont have to control him, but I can just guide him towards being wild in more appropriate ways. We've been doing "the big scream", and its helping SO MUCH. Sometimes he now lets me know he "needs a scream", and we can just excuse ourselves from the grocery store, or the restaurant, and not disturb everyone, and have a little private screaming party. I feel like I went from fighting against my child to fighting with my child. Thank you, so so much.

This made me cry and also "being wild in more appropriate ways" is such an amazing way of saying it!! Like yes we are feral and unhinged but also a part of society baybeee

[invaderxan]

[teaboot]

I love "gender bending" characters but HATE HATE HATE designs where canon buff dudes are wispy little fairy ladies and canon tiny women are beefy ass male linebackers. If you're not in it for JACKED WOMEN and TWINKS then what's what's FUCKING point

[teaboot]

you understand my vision

[teaboot]

I was gonna make a bunch of these to prove a point but realized halfway through that Lady Bane is my ultimate butch fantasy so now I have to go lay down

[teaboot]

Anyhow I've been thinking about this cpncept lately so I have some additional thoughts on Acceptable Male Characters Who Would Be Legendary Female Character Design

If it pleases the counsel to consider:

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

The idea of Anton Chigurh as a woman is making me Experience Feelings

[thundergrace]

If you live in Detroit, it is strongly recommended that you don't breathe.

[missanniewhimsy]

As someone in WI, this whole region is awful so please be careful friends! (7/16/2026)

[nyantara]

Please put on your N95s. The same ones used for covid will filter particulate pollution. I lived in a city with yearly winter pollution levels like this. If you can pay for it, you might as well get an indoor air filter to sleep in.

[garbage-empress]

If you can't afford a proper air purifier or can't find one in stock, these are sometimes cheaper to build:

Corsi–Rosenthal Box - Wikipedia

Make sure you get the best rated furnace filters you can. If getting all those is too expensive, even one of those furnace filters taped tightly to a box fan (to force the air through the filters so it doesn't come in through the cracks) can help pretty substantially in a small room.