Habren Writes

Hello. I post fanfic on AO3 as Habren. I like skulls and cats, and yes, Halloween is my favorite holiday, though I don't like candy. Only chocolate. Because chocolate makes everything better.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[thelovelycaptainjaneway]

Oh Captain, My Captain <3

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[o-lanterns]

cmon child safety lid you know it's me

[sparrow-va]

[autismandstuff]

Honestly, probably the best social tip I could ever give you guys is literally just ask. Need to make a doctor's appointment but don't know how? Call the doctor's office and ask. Don't know the meaning of what someone said? Ask them. Don't understand the instructions you were given? Ask them to repeat or clarify. This has literally never failed me, no one's gotten angry, no one's refused to answer.

Even in situations where you think it might not work, I once accidentally missed a deadline to accept a job offer, so I called and asked if they could reset it and they did. Just today I called a doctor and asked how to schedule an appointment, the lady told me how, and then I did it. Didn't know if someone was being sarcastic or not, so I asked and they told me. Just ask.

[whatbigotspost]

This might be my 4th reblog of this at this point, but it’s such good advice. Like I remember in school as a kid that people may laugh at you if you asked a question but that mentality couldn’t be less relevant in adulthood. I ask a lottttt of fucking questions and I genuinely can’t remember the last time I was in an experience where that was seen as bad or someone else got shamed for it.

[yupthatexists]

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

[hopeful-weirdo]

Wow I don’t understand math at all

[freinhardt56]

‘if you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%’ is a line I hear alot.

It goes up from .5% to 1%

[fandomlockedfan]

I think my brain just stopped working

[authorgirl1111]

100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic

[what-even-is-thiss]

This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.

[bogleech]

I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.

[hexmaniacmareen]

just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.

[bogleech]

Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick. If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.

[silly-jellyghoty]

Reblogging again for that last addition.

[dimitrescutie]

This is a callout post

[moovingonup]

Captain Janeway by GrayscaleArt. http://grayscaleart.deviantart.com/art/Katherine-Janeway-494330089

[rosalie-starfall]

My Dream Crew

Captain Kathryn Janeway

First Officer Commander Una Chin-Riley

Chief Medical Officer Doctor Beverly Crusher

Chief Engineer Lieutenant B’Elanna Torres

Science Officer Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax

Communications Officer Lieutenant Commander Nyota Uhura

Chief of Security Agent Philippa Georgiou

Operations Officer Commander Raffi Musiker

Tactical Officer Seven Of Nine

Counselor Commander Deanna Troi 

[paramoregf]

whats more special than a romance between two women who both have something deeply deeply deeply deeply deeply wrong with them

[the-revisionist]

[caroldanversenthusiast]

Anne Hathaway dressing like Andy from The Devil Wears Prada and sitting next to Anna Wintour for NYFW 2022 is so cunt

[queeranarchism]

#my wife is on the SOR for being gay #no joke #she hit on a girl in a straight bar once #in 1997 #and while the girl was into it #the off duty cop sitting nearby was not #and so he arrested her for ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ #which in our state was still a felony #in 1997 (and would remain so until Lawrence v Texas in 2003) #and since ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ was a felony and a sex crime #she got put on The List #she is still on there to this day #because it costs MONEY to ask a judge to take you off #and she has tried four times#since 2003 #to get taken off the SOR #but every time the judge has said something like ‘no you pled guilty to the crime i can’t possibly take you off the sex offender registry’ #with no acknowledgement of what the actual crime was #(the crime of being a butch lesbian hitting on a cute girl who was into it) #(in 1997)

Reposting these tags with consent from the person that wrote them. The post about the Sex Offenders Registry is locked, but these tags are too important to go unnoticed.

Younger queer people need to realize that the SOR being used against queer people simply for being queer isn’t some ancient history thing. It still impacts queer people today. And it can quite easily be used that way again.

[habrenwrites]

It is so difficult for me to read anything right now. There are so many stories I want to read, but currently, my brain shreds them all. I am in a total edit/revise mode as I am preparing to release another novel next month, and so that’s all I am doing, reading through the MS and trying to find errors, to improve sentence structure, and so on. And this mind set is killing me when I try to read for entertainment. I really hope this will settle once I publish it and then go back to writing. 🙈

[robotappreciator]

you DEACTIVATE doctor? you deactivate his program like the holonovel? oh! oh! jail for captain! jail for captain for One Thousand Years!!!!

[therollingstonys]

I don’t know if this is a fear that many people have as commenters, but for those who are worried that they shouldn’t leave a comment in their native language because the author might not understand—please do it!!

Getting comments in another language is, for me, a bonus because now I’m copying and pasting it into google translate like a kid opening a mysteriously shaped present on Christmas to find when they open it that it’s exactly what they were hoping for!!

The suspense! 🤩🤩 The payoff! 🤩🤩🤩

But in addition to that, it means so much to me because it shows that something I’ve written has sort of transcended language and reached across world borders and cultures and has found a home with someone! It’s brought them joy, and I might never know that person, but to see that joy expressed in a language I don’t speak—there’s just something special about that.

[whetstonefires]

this is very true, but also if you wind up commenting in a language the fic writer kind of knows, you may get the entertainment bonus of seeing the person whose prose you recently appreciated reply to you in your own language with the grace and style of a seal attempting a 50-meter sprint.

[cryptonature]

I have to assume that in the fullness of time, at least once, a mouse has used a mushroom as an umbrella.

That’s enough to keep me going.

[phantomchick]

@cryptonature​​ Man do I have good news for you!

Also! Bonus frog!

[kawaii-pigeon]

@amber-acrylic

[amber-acrylic]