Wen Ning is a Cinnamon Roll and a BAMF, and you can't change my mind; Proud member of Xue Yang's Freak Bitches Club; Dimples and Danger - Jin Guangyao is my jam.
Anyway, now Bunny is going out of his way to refer to me as Pumpkin's 'papa' and other such terms, so I am experiencing gender euphoria I didn't expect.
As a consequence of not having been firm enough with people about my gender, and then removing myself from other people, I never actually got to experience being referred to in masculine terms by people I know offline. My own mother won't do it. I haven't encountered my sister referring to me even in the neutral yet. Even my friends who later turned out to be trans were nothing but passive aggressive about my gender and presentation.
Also, also he's telling me about cute animals, and keeping me updated on the shit with his landlord so I know what the fuck is going on and how much danger/not he's in.
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
ANIMALS:
catenarwhal: #mandatory 'how cows produce milk' mention#i'll never recover from that one I fear
piromantic: #one time i saw someone fake their way through describing how spiders behave
pluto-lichen: horses
misskittypotter: #stardew valley faking its way through what fresh fish smell like
pa-pa-plasma: #saw someone faking their way through knowing what a seal is once #i still am fucked up over that one to this day. they just straight up did not know #& they were NOT good at guessing it either like it was clear they had never googled that animal ever #& was only just now realizing via answering questions from anons that seals are not!! what they assumed. initially
SEX:
dykevandyke: #what a prostate is #and where it is located #as in. external.
dreamyeyedrose: #I remember back in the ff.net days reading an Ichigo/Renji fic where the writer assumed the penises go inside each other #and I was like “I mean I don't know how it works for sure I don't have one but idk if that's how it works”
SOME OTHER FOOD STUFF:
thetrekkiehasthephonebox: #add another one to the list bloggers#this character is cooking a salad
shosta: #still baffled about the published work that didn't know food could freeze
sun-dari: #once i read a fic where the author didn't understand cinnamon
alto-tenure: #read something recently where the author was just. blatantly wrong about spices
dramatic-dolphin: #i saw someone try to fake their way through what ramen is once. like 14 years ago.#but i remember.#i was very confused about ramen for a few months. they were writing it so authoritatively.
the-celery-stalks-at-midnight: #i will never ever forget someone putting leftover fries in the microwave to reheat them and setting the timer for five minutes
typeghost: #this sparked a memory of a hannibal fic where the author had to fake their way through writing about gravy
draculin: #the one fanfic where the author knows about coffee only as a concept wrote a character as a coffee drinker#was very interesting#I don't remember the fandom or the plot but I was mesmerized by the coffee actions and choices
11235811235811: #there's a lot of faking their way thru congee in the svsss fandom i'll also note
fishali3n: #read one where the person clearly didnt know what tofu is
emmy-everafter: #in the aftermath of shadow and bone s2 i saw a lot of people pretending to know what stroopwafels are #babes they are more like cookies than breakfast waffles #like yes there is a waffle pattern but you're not gonna cut into a stack of them with syrup and sugar#🤣🤣🤣
NON-FOOD STUFF:
red-umbrella-811: Shoutout to Dame Agatha Christie for faking her way through what a wrench is in a very popular published work.
bluebeetle: #once saw someone have a character put an entire phone book in their pocket
nonametis: #- sex talk in languages other than english #<- or just the petnames in a different language other than English
sadisticpony: #the fanfiction i saw this week where op DIDNT KNOW HOW AUTOMATIC DOORS WORKED #and that they arent in peoples homes!!! of course. also opening the automatic door for someone is unironically very funny but its not #its not like. grabbing the door handle to let someone in. helpppp
danmeichael: #reminds me of the fic with the figure drawing class where the character started with the feet. #i love you feet first figure drawing author
meowmix1100blr: #me watching this one fic absolutely obliterate what the board of directors does
vexedhexes: #one time i read an architect character making a doorway bigger by building a bigger door #what a beautiful world. #OH. also gravity falls fic where they go 'oh piedmont is in california so its warm all year round'
leveragehunters: #characters going to a beer garden #And it's literally a garden outside the pub#It was a very cute mistake
fitofpique: #yes! #grown men do not get blind drunk off two beers #but i am possibly guilty of the hypothermia one #assuming it does not make you very horny?
dadvans-likes: #always thinking abt the soup kitchen fic #the entire setting of the fic was 'soup kitchen' #and i very quickly realized #the author did not know what a soup kitchen was #and they thought that soup kitchens only served soup #fic
msmargaretmurry: #i love fanfiction #once read a fic where the characters played 20 questions #but the author seemed to not know how to play 20 questions and was just kind of winging it........ #immaculate
shakespeareaddict: #Look I know not all of us are hockey experts #But it takes about ten seconds of research or any attention paid to the show to realize #That the Stanley cup playoffs are not in fucking September
baejax-the-great: #the funniest one i saw #was someone faking what church is like #like 1. they really didn't have to write an entire church experience for their fic #and 2. they had clearly never even watched a show where people went to church #it was bonkers weird
twosunson: #things ive seen authors faking #knowing how to unclog a drain #knowing. literally any history #knowing what ketamine looks like (apparently- oregano) #(you know who you are)
waterhorseyblues-ao3: #beltane being celebrated in winter #wales being portrayed as a completely separated land from england (i wish) #characters getting up after weeks of bedrest like that dosnt completely fuck you up
violetfairydust: #i once read a fic where the flight time from london to seattle was 3 hours
purekesseltrash: One time, in a fic set specifically in Des Moines, IA, two of the characters casually drove 20 minutes to the ocean. The memory continues to delight me. I want to know where that author thought that Iowa was.
His pom poms are two sessile invertebrates he holds in his hands and starves so he can punch stuff with anemones who are so desperate to eat that they’ll use maximum sting on anything that gets close to him. When they starve to death he just finds more
The crabs will force the anemones to clone themselves if one dies OR steal others’ anemones if both die
They haven’t found these anemones in their free-living form, so, as far as we know, this anemone species is these crabs’ slave species—it’s only known in association with pom pom crabs
Cool paper on this: Schnytzer, Y., Giman, Y., Karplus, I., & Achituv, Y. (2017). Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft. PeerJ, 5, e2954. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2954
Crabs of the genus Lybia have the remarkable habit of holding a sea anemone in each of their claws. This partnership appears to be obligate,
So if I understand this right, "slave species" is a biology term only used for this ONE SPECIFIC CREATURE OF ALL THE COUNTLESS LIVING ORGANISMS ON THIS ENTIRE PLANET?!
Oh, the slave species thing is outdated information from the original study in the 90’s. To be fair, that study is still very very respected, it was just wrong about this specific thing.
Their anemones aren’t a unique species, they are only visually distinct because the crab farms them in a very specific way - making a fragment of a larger hawaiian anemone, or finding a newly spawned one. When they carry it around, they force the anemone to adapt to an entire new lifestyle. The crab’s nocturnal behavior slowly kills the anemone’s photosynthetic symbionts, from which it gets its color. After that, the crab can control how much food the anemone actually gets by using it to mop up food off the sea floor, and take excess out of its mouth. Since it doesnt have to reach for sunlight, or reach to catch food, this encourages dense, but short tentacles.
The shortcoming of this study was just that its very hard to get the anemone away from the crab without killing both, and its equally hard to get an anemone to bounce back from this state.
Due to their introduction into home aquaria, we now know any anemone they take will end up in this state, (bubble tips, aipistasia, haitian anemones, the list goes on) and we also know they are not bound to carrying anemone’s specifically. They’ve been seen collecting zoanthids, palythoa, and euphyllia (though euphyllians usually don’t survive).
i was watching a video about how regional cheeses are made around the world, and was shown a type of mozzarella called zizzona (the z/zz pronounced like the 'zz' in 'pizza', with a 'tz' sound), which, yes, means "mother's breast".
so rest easy tonight knowing they have titty cheese in italy.
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Millions of Dark Pain Death Orbs Pour Into the Los Angeles Reservoir to Destroy even more Water Amidst Drought
On his cue of “balls away,” Mayor Eric Garcetti released the final 20,000 dark pain death orbs into the reservoir on Monday in the city’s effort to destroy even more water and ensure the pain and suffering of water drinkers amdist the city. Los Angeles is the first city in the country to use dark pain death orbs to destroy its water.
It was to block sunlight- partly for evaporation prevention, but also to interrupt a sunlight-triggered chemical reaction. Bromine, which is used for water treatment, can turn into (toxic) bromate when exposed to the sun for an extended period. The shade from these balls interrupts that process.
#trisha biggar really is the unsung hero of these films#that woman was given next to nothing and she made ART of it#really the whole costuming department deserves credit cause half of the fabrics had to be redone to match the cameras#also that one dude who accidentally glued himself to a belt two minutes before shooting and managed to cut himself free#took off a bit of skin but didn't even bleed. that's how precise these people were
Me: "Okay, well, actually, this outfit wasn't Trisha, this one was all Geor--wait WHAT WAS THAT LAST PART?"
The tight turnaround meant some final alterations were being done hours or mere minutes before filming. Costume props supervisor Ivo Coveney was supergluing an accent onto one of Padmé’s belts right before actor Natalie Portman was needed on set when he accidentally glued his finger to the garment. With not a moment to spare, Coveney sliced himself free with a sharp knife, losing a little skin but managing to avoid bleeding. “He was very good at being very delicate,” Biggar recalls.
Trisha Biggar, talking about her experience on Attack of the Clones
In order to eat a metric ton of oats, the problem is this:
-I could not do the deep clean I normally would when I moved in here for reasons, so the drains have been kind of shit since then, and I have been too preoccupied handling literally everything else and my hands not working to deal with it, I physically unclogged them with a snake once to some effect
-I have once again ended up in a state where I cannot use my hands very much or sometimes at all effectively
-I developed a system of leaving any dirty dishes I do make, not many, turned upside down in the sink so they stay dry and don't get water sitting in them so they don't get smelly or gross, I rinse and re-use the same things for a long time
-My hands got really bad again and nothing for the past while has been helping them much in particular, regardless of what the rest of my body is doing
-So my sink of nice dry dishes started collecting water that wouldn't drain very quickly at all due to aforementioned drain problems
-I ordered draino, instead of using something more natural, but my hands have been too fucked up to clear the sink and ect, washing soapy heavy dishes is really hard when you have no grip strength at all, scrubbing is hell.
-About 3 days ago the sink really started to smell but also my hands got really swollen
-So I have been waiting 3 days for the swelling to go down so I could clean my fucking sink and unclog my drains
-This was not happening
-Meanwhile I need to clean even the big metal bowl I have been baking things in
-Today I took 12 ibuprofen by now, spread out, and my hands still feel arthritic, but it was enough to wash the dishes in one sink, and get draino into 1, put the rest of the dishes in that one and get draino in the other. I also did the bathroom,
-I am going to finish the dishes now so that they are all clean because I don't have all that many and I was out of stuff to cook in
But like... I can not take 12 to 16 ibuprofen daily to stay functional, assuming I am even having a day where it impacts the swelling at all,
But like maybe, maybe, I have scheduled "good days" where I have more advil so I can fucking clean up and organize stuff and then go back to 2-4 advil on the other days to give all my organs a break?
Maybe at this point I just need to learn how to live with my whole body constantly freezing up from mystery swelling?
But either way, now I am going to get done all that I can while it's down, before the swelling can come back, and my kitchen will be clean and my drains clear. Then at least I can sit here and chill and cook for myself without having to worry about rushing to clean anything for any reason.
Unless something goes horribly wrong with the next two books, I will be buying the murderbot dairies as a hardbook cover set the moment that is advisable and all the books are out,
But until then I have to wait for the books to be available where I get most of my books in order to read it,
So it's released for everyone else, but not for me,
I have to wait and I don't even know for how long,
is incredible how The wolf of wall street and the big short are so starkly the obverse face of one another, the negative space, the polar opposites.
they are both an examination of the world of wall street, they are both a look at the kinds of people that inhabit that world, the kinds of people who handle millions and billions as a daily matter, about the gross excesses of this world, about how these people cause untold, unnacountable, reckless harm, and how vapid and cynical and empty their greed is.
they are, in short, these big criticisms of capitalism and of the capitalists that keep the system as rotten as it is.
and yet they are such incredibly different movies on almost every regard. its almost like a caricature of a personality test. "the chad X/the virgin Y"
the wolf of wall street is this big, loud, bold, boorish movie about outrageous people doing outrageous things. its about excess and decadence. its all about an evil man and how evil and morally bankrupt and degenerate he is. he does wild things like kinky sex and hardcore drugs and these are some of the indicators of how morally repugnant he is (along with his racism, sexism, exploitation of people, etc). its a movie that is grotesque and cartoonish and over the top and slimy, and its specifically about this one man, this one evil individual who works as the avatar of capitalism itself, the incarnation of the capital sin of greed. this guy is The Billionaire (tm) who commits all the sins of billionaring too hard. its about how this one evil guy got away with everything and ho the forces of good (represented by a humble, working class fbi agent) were ultimatly powerless to really stop him.
the big short on the other hand is an almost painfully dry, sardonic, unassuming, extremely academic work. often confusing, hard to keep track of what the hell is going on or what people are talking about. a lot more concerned with structures, with incentives and regulations. Is a thoroughly systemic critique. It allows itself to be much more dour and depressing. Whereas the wolf of wall street never lets go of the gas, the big short has many quiet somber moments that hit you like a splash of cold water. There is also no real good guys or bad guys in it. Well, there are some bad guys but the movie makes it clear that they are ultimatly as much a cog on the machine as the good guys. The protagonist themselves keep being hit over and over with how much their own hands are dirty and how powerless they are to stop any of it.
you can probably tell which work i think is the superior one.
I think what ultimatly cinches it for me is how they deal with the common man. The people who ultimatly get screwed in the proceedings.
In the wolf of wall street the victims are just disembodied voices on the other side of the phone. And they are suckers. Ultimatly they choose to give their money to a conman. They are naive and trustful and ignorant. The way in which they are presented leaves you with the reassuring idea that you would never fall for a conman as obvious and sleazy as belfort. Just say no.
In the big short we see their faces, we see them as people, with families, with jobs, struggling to pay rent. Trying to keep their home. And most heartbrealing of all we see one of the families having lost everything and presumably living in their car by the end of the movie. And there is nothing they could have done. There was no action, no knowledge, no wisdom they could have had that could have saved them. That is just how the system works.
I am someone who likes to think of systems, of institutions. I am someone who thinks that big systemic critiques and analises of giant sociological forces are the most effective lenses to understand the problems in societies.
So, yeah, the second movie flatters my intuitions a lot more
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