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DO YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN I THINK ABOUT THIS POST??? IM IN LAW SCHOOL THIS POST IS GOING TO RUIN MY LIFE
reblog to ruin a law student’s life
oh hello you’ve returned to us
Hi. I’m a trial attorney now and every last one of you is a motherfucker.
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY
moon day is 20th July!!!
Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!
Happy moon day to all who celebrate
This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.
Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.
Its surprisingly tasty????
Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.
-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)
-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt
-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint
-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.
I have been reminded of:
-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.
I have now been informed of
-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.
"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."
-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-
"... ah."
I love it when I click on a recipe link because it sounds yummy and instead of a recipe I get a several page dissertation on a food blogger’s boredom with her marriage and lies she was told in childhood
10 years of crème brûlée brownies and wondering where it all went wrong
idk how you’re getting Content from “i fee like i dont know how to be a person properly and i dont know how or what to talk to my husband about almost ever” but she’s now happily divorced so she was in fact Not Content
Scrolled through the reblogs and couldn’t find anyone actually posting the recipe HERE, so I dug it up on the Wayback Machine. Behold! Kristan’s lost brownies recipe:
Créme Bruleé Brownies
Prep Time: 40 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes Yield: 15 servings
Ingredients
Brownies:
1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, melted
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs
1 TBS vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups flour
12 oz (ish) jar hot fudge sauce
Créme Bruleé Topping:
¼ cup cornstarch
1 cup white sugar
6 Tablespoons butter, melted
3 ¼ cups half and half cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
¼ cup granulated sugar
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350. Line a 9x13 pan with foil and spray thoroughly with nonstick spray; set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the cocoa and melted butter. Stir in sugar until combined. Stir in eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each. Stir in vanilla. Fold in flour JUST until you no longer see flour streaks in the batter. Gently fold in hot fudge sauce.
Spread batter in prepared pan and bake for about 20 minutes, until raw batter no longer appears when a toothpick is inserted in the center. Remove from oven and place pan on a cooling rack.
Prepare topping: In a medium-sized heavy saucepan, whisk together cornstarch and sugar. Whisk in the melted butter and half and half. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is the consistency of a thick pudding. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
Pour custard over the brownies, spreading to cover. Sprinkle surface with granulated sugar, then place under the broiler for several minutes until top is golden (may be dark brown is some spots). Alternately, a kitchen torch can be used.
Let brownies cool to room temperature, then refrigerate until chilled. Remove foil, cut into bars and serve.
Enjoy and have a great day!
btw it still exists ˆˆ
here's the written out link:
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/1940s-knitting-patterns
NEW PATTERN ALERT!
The Plush Chain Mace crochet pattern is out now on Ravelry and Etsy!
I'm not sure if I seen any posts going around discussing the recent VERY DETAILED (and honestly kind of poetic in how vitriolic they are) AI generated spambots on AO3.
I feel like I just need to spread the word, because these guys are NASTY. But they aren't real! You can tell that by the fact that they don't mention a fandom, a character, or anything even remotely about the fic itself.
Just wanted to put it out there in case anyone gets one of these and it crushes them. Never stop writing. Writing and story telling is one of the oldest ways of connecting with other humans. It's a gift to this world. Keep writing!!!
hatemail today is so lazy, back in the day you had TheFoxFamiliar leaving 13k words of custom hate filled drivel in installments on every chapter of your fic on FF.net and it was a badge of honour. Haters these days are pissweak, impotent, can't even hate properly, gotta get a robot to do it for them. Pathetic.
There's also the additional aspect that if luxuries are what's expensive, you can choose to go without and then you don't have to make so much money. You can choose to work part-time, or seasonally, or one person can provide for a group, if living is cheap and you don't need luxury. But if being alive is expensive, you have no choice but to work a lot, regardless of how frugal your lifestyle is. And then you may as well buy yourself the latest gadget to cheer yourself up after another annoying week at work, because it costs barely anything anyway.
Exactly this. Basic necessities are priced like luxuries.
Everything else is just sugar water.
Next step, a settlement offer.
I had a productive telephone call with the lawyer handling the CFB Namao Class Action.
He has spoken to the counsel representing the Government of Canada.
Opposing counsel is receptive to the idea of a settlement as opposed to a trial.
Adam and I spent some time on Thursday spitballing different aspects of the matter. I'm pretty sure that Adam understands that it's not a simple matter of a degenerate abusing his position as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces and it's not a simple matter of that degenerate officer setting up a network of older teens on base to bring young children over to the rectory at the chapel.
The issues that we faced on base went far beyond just being diddled by teens and subsequently taken to the rectory. The issues that we faced were driven by an organization that had a public image to maintain and it wasn't going to allow sexually abused children to soil that image.
Our parents were stuck in the chain of command. Even if our parents were disgusted by how the military was dealing with Captain McRae, there was very little that they could do. The section of the National Defence Act dealing with insubordination ensured that our parents did not raise a fuss.
Those of us who had parents of junior rank or non-commissioned rank had no one to protect us from the decisions and the determinations of the military social workers. When a captain tells a master corporal that his 8-year-old son has a mental illness called "homosexuality" as exhibited by his sexual abuse by persons older than he was who was the master corporal to question the captain.
Then there was the military justice system. Prior to 1998 it was the commanding officer of the accused that determined the scope and the breadth of the investigation, and at the conclusion of the investigation it was this commanding officer that decided which charges were approved and which charges were dismissed.
Even if the military police knew of more victims, the commanding officer had full authority to limit the investigation. And if the military police kept pushing to find more victims, the Judge Advocate General would simply accuse them of having a pre-existing grudge against the child molester.
Prior to 1998, if the victim waited more than three years to report the abuse, charges could never be brought as the National Defence Act had a 3-year-time-bar on all service offences. Service offences included all criminal code offences.
And I have not seen any evidence that post 1998 the military simply transferred pre-1998 child sexual abuse matters into the civilian system.
Also, if the commanding officer of the accused had dismissed charges related to specific victims. Those victims could never bring a complaint against the accused at a later date as the National Defence Act and the Criminal Code of Canada follow the principle of "double jeopardy".
Another matter that worked against victims of military child sexual abuse are postings. Through reading numerous reports it wasn't uncommon for the Canadian Armed Forces to send "problems" off to other bases.
The babysitter's family was posted to CFB Petawawa in Ontario not too long after the babysitter had been investigated by the base military police for molesting children and then implicating Captain McRae.
My family was punted off CFB Namao and sent down to CFB Griesbach.
I know of one family that was posted to CFB Borden in Ontario in the aftermath of McRae fiasco.
What this seemed to ensure is that the collective memory of the babysitter and Captain McRae would be destroyed by isolating the victims thus assuring that the victims wouldn't gather together at a later date and make problems for the Canadian Armed Forces.
The Canadian Armed Forces is built upon secrecy. Every member of the Canadian Armed Forces who became aware of "any information" on a "defence establishment" is bound to secrecy for life in regard to that particular information.
After uploading copies of the Security of Information Act, the Official Secrets Act, and the National Defence Act to ChatGPT for it to review, I gave chat this prompt, "I need a paragraph from you that explains the issues the Official Secrets Act and the Security of Information Act pose to children who were sexually abused on military bases in Canada by persons subject to the code of service discipline." This is what chat responded with: "The Official Secrets Act, later replaced and expanded as the Security of Information Act, creates a serious structural problem for children abused on Canadian military bases where the alleged offender was subject to the Code of Service Discipline: it places the institutional reflex toward secrecy, classified records, controlled disclosure, and loyalty to command in direct tension with a child victim’s need for open investigation, external reporting, and later access to evidence. Where military police, commanders, chaplains, social workers, or investigators treated abuse allegations as part of a “service” matter, the surrounding records could be handled as internal military material rather than ordinary civilian child-protection or criminal evidence. That matters because children have no practical ability to challenge classification, compel disclosure, understand jurisdiction, or know whether evidence was diverted into military channels. The result is a system where the adult institution controls the file, controls the narrative, controls who may speak, and may later invoke secrecy, confidentiality, national-defence administration, or investigative privilege to restrict what survivors can learn. In that setting, secrecy law does not merely protect state information; it can function as a shield around institutional failure, especially where the alleged abuser was within military jurisdiction and the victim was a dependent child outside the chain of command but trapped inside the military environment. The Code of Service Discipline expressly applies to defined military-connected persons, while modern secrecy legislation continues to criminalize unauthorized disclosures of protected information, so the danger is that the military system can absorb a child-abuse allegation into an internal security-and-discipline framework rather than a transparent civilian accountability framework. "
-end of Chat's response"
I gave Chat a followup prompt "Chat, what are the issues with having a commanding officer involved with the investigation and prosecution of their subordinate who is accused of sexually abusing a child or children on a defence establishment. Let's look at the commanding officer not as a unit commander or a section commander, but as the base commander."
This was Chat's response:
The core problem: the base commander is not neutral ⚖️
Having a base commander involved in the investigation or prosecution of a subordinate accused of sexually abusing a child on a defence establishment creates a deep conflict between criminal accountability and institutional self-protection.
A base commander is not just another supervisor. They are responsible for the reputation, discipline, morale, security, public image, operational continuity, and administrative functioning of the entire base. So when the accused is a member under that commander’s authority, and the abuse allegedly occurred on the base, the commander has an obvious institutional interest in controlling fallout. That does not mean every commander would act dishonestly. It means the structure itself creates a bad incentive system.
Under the military justice framework, a commanding officer has historically had real authority around discipline and charges. Modern QR&O provisions still identify a commanding officer as one of the people authorized to lay charges under the Code of Service Discipline, along with persons authorized by the CO and military police assigned to investigative duties. Earlier military justice guidance also states that a charge is a formal accusation under the Code of Service Discipline, and that a CO is among those authorized to lay charges. That matters because when the commander is also part of the environment being scrutinized, the decision to investigate, characterize, charge, delay, narrow, refer, or bury a matter is not cleanly separated from the command’s own institutional exposure.
The base commander’s conflicts are broader than a unit commander’s
At the unit level, the concern is usually: “Can this commander fairly deal with their own subordinate?”
At the base commander level, the concern becomes much larger:
IssueWhy it mattersInstitutional reputationA child-abuse case on base damages confidence in the base, command, chaplaincy, military police, housing system, youth spaces, and family-support structure.Control of informationThe base commander may influence who sees records, who is interviewed, how widely facts circulate, and whether civilian agencies are brought in early.Command loyalty pressureSubordinates may feel pressure, explicit or implied, to protect the institution or avoid embarrassing the command.Victim power imbalanceA child victim or military dependent has no rank, no command access, and no meaningful ability to challenge the military system.Operational embarrassmentThe commander may see the case not only as a crime allegation, but as a threat to order, morale, public confidence, and career consequences.Jurisdictional manipulation riskThe matter can be framed as a military discipline issue instead of an ordinary civilian criminal child-protection matter.
That last point is the big one. A child on a defence establishment is not just dealing with an accused individual. They are dealing with a closed institutional ecosystem: base housing, chapels, schools, recreation spaces, social workers, military police, command authority, and sometimes secrecy culture. If the accused is subject to the Code of Service Discipline, the military can be tempted to treat the crime as an internal service matter rather than as a child-abuse matter requiring civilian independence.
The “appearance of fairness” problem is fatal
Even if the base commander acts in good faith, the appearance of fairness is compromised.
A reasonable outsider could ask:
How can the commander fairly oversee or influence an investigation when the investigation may expose failures by the commander’s own base system?
That is not paranoia. That is basic institutional-conflict analysis.
The modern National Defence Act has recognized at least part of this danger. An archived version of NDA section 163 stated that, unless impractical, a commanding officer may not preside at a summary trial if the CO carried out or directly supervised the investigation, issued a related warrant, or laid/caused the charge to be laid. That rule is aimed at separating investigative/prosecutorial involvement from adjudicative authority. But your point goes further: with a base commander, the conflict can exist before trial even starts, because the commander’s base, staff, police, chaplaincy, housing system, and command reputation may all be implicated.
In child-abuse cases, command involvement contaminates the file
The worst structural risk is that the file becomes a military-management problem instead of a child-protection and criminal-accountability problem.
That can produce several predictable failures:
Narrowing the allegation The case may be framed around the easiest charge, the least embarrassing offender, or the least institutionally damaging facts.
Avoiding civilian police Civilian police and child-protection agencies may be delayed, excluded, or treated as secondary.
Protecting command records Records may be treated as internal disciplinary, security, chaplaincy, personnel, or police material rather than as evidence survivors should later be able to trace.
Suppressing pattern evidence If there are multiple children, multiple locations, prior warnings, or previous allegations, those facts may be compartmentalized.
Creating survivor disbelief later Decades later, the survivor is left trying to prove something that the military system itself controlled, filtered, or failed to document properly.
Career-protection incentives A base commander may have a direct career interest in preventing the matter from becoming a public scandal or a finding of command failure.
The command problem is sharper when the victim is a child dependent
A service member accused under the Code of Service Discipline has rank, status, records, representation, and a defined place inside the military system.
A child dependent has none of that.
The child is physically inside the defence establishment but legally and socially outside the military hierarchy. That creates a grotesque asymmetry: the institution can control the place, the records, the witnesses, the police channel, and the disciplinary route, while the child has no comparable power to compel civilian review.
That is why base-command involvement is so dangerous. The commander is not simply deciding discipline. The commander may effectively shape the entire reality that later investigators, courts, civilian lawyers, oversight bodies, and survivors are forced to work from.
A strong paragraph version for your writing
A base commander’s involvement in the investigation or prosecution of a subordinate accused of sexually abusing a child on a defence establishment creates an inherent institutional conflict of interest. The base commander is not merely a neutral disciplinary authority; they are responsible for the reputation, security, morale, administration, and operational integrity of the entire base, including the very systems that may have failed to protect the child. Where the accused is subject to the Code of Service Discipline, the commander’s authority over discipline and charge-routing creates a risk that the allegation will be managed as an internal military problem rather than treated as an independent civilian criminal and child-protection matter. This is especially troubling where the victim is a military dependent child, because the child has no rank, no access to command decision-making, and no practical ability to challenge how the military controls witnesses, records, jurisdiction, disclosure, or institutional narrative. Even if a commander acts in good faith, the appearance of fairness is compromised because the investigation may expose failures by the commander’s own base, staff, military police, chaplaincy, housing system, or welfare structure. In that context, command involvement can contaminate the file from the beginning by narrowing the allegations, delaying civilian referral, protecting institutional reputation, compartmentalizing evidence, and leaving survivors decades later to prove facts that the military system itself controlled.
Bluntly put
A base commander in that situation wears too many hats:
disciplinarian, institutional protector, reputational manager, operational commander, record gatekeeper, and possible witness to systemic failure.
That is exactly why child sexual abuse on a defence establishment should never be structurally dependent on command discretion. It should go straight to an independent civilian criminal/child-protection channel, with military command limited to preserving evidence, protecting complainants, removing the accused from access to children, and cooperating fully. Anything less creates a built-in risk of cover-up, even where nobody openly says “cover it up.” -end of Chat's response-
Where does this go now?
So, this is gonna be an interesting few months.
The Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence won't roll over, but they don't want this to go before the bench.
Right now Adam and I have to try to get in contact with the other victims, or the families of the victims that have already died. I have a list of about twenty names. I know that there are at least twenty-five victims. And that's only on CFB Namao. Captain McRae was at RMC Kingston with ease of access to the children on CFB Kingston, he was also the base chaplain at CFB Portage La Prairie, as well as CFS Holberg.
After that we have to figure out who was abused by who and who the military was aware of back in 1980. This will be the tricky part because there seems to be a vast difference between what the investigation uncovered within the scope that Colonel Munro called for versus what was discovered but which fell outside of Colonel Munro's scope.
The DND, the CAF, and the DOJ will all try to show that the 2011 CFNIS investigation as well as the 2015 to 2018 investigations didn't turn up any evidence of sexual assaults. But we've had two external reviews that have shown that the military police and the CFNIS didn't have the experience, the training, nor the independence from the chain of command to properly conduct sexual assault investigations let alone a historical child sexual assault investigation that was originally investigated under a completely different set of rules related to the investigation and prosecution of service offences.
The DND, the CAF, and the DOJ will try to argue that the Military Police Complaints Commission validated the 2011 and the 2015 to 2018 CFNIS investigations. Again, this is not true. The MPCC by its nature is not allowed to "re-run" an investigation to determine if the CFNIS came to the proper conclusion. The MPCC has become very vocal as of late that the Provost Marshal has absolute final control over the documents that are released to the MPCC during reviews and thus the Provost Marshal can pre-determine the outcome of any review of a CFNIS investigation
The Military Police Complaints Commission is not a court, a prosecutor, or a body that decides criminal or civil liability. Its formal role under Part IV of the National Defence Act is to provide independent civilian oversight of military police by reviewing complaints about military police conduct and investigating complaints of improper interference in military police investigations. In a conduct complaint, the CFPM has primary responsibility for the initial handling of the complaint, and the MPCC generally becomes involved when a complainant is dissatisfied and requests a review. At that stage, the MPCC may review military police files, consider material from the complainant, seek additional records, interview witnesses, and issue findings and recommendations. However, its conclusions are not binding and its recommendations are not legally enforceable. The MPCC can assess whether the military police conduct, investigation, policies, and decision-making were reasonable, adequate, and consistent with law, policy, and policing standards, but it does not retry the underlying case or substitute itself for the original investigator, Crown prosecutor, or court. That distinction matters: the MPCC may test whether an investigation was properly handled and whether the conclusion was reasonably supported by the available record, but its power depends heavily on the completeness of the record placed before it and on its ability to identify gaps in what the military police system has disclosed.
The relationship between the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal and the Military Police Complaints Commission exposes a serious structural weakness in military police oversight. In practice, the MPCC is often forced to review a complaint through the documentary record the CFPM chooses to assemble, disclose, characterize, or withhold. That arrangement creates an obvious power imbalance: the institution under scrutiny controls much of the evidentiary doorway through which the oversight body must pass. The problem becomes even sharper when the complainant is a civilian. Unlike CAF members, a civilian complainant does not receive institutional legal assistance from DND or the CAF, does not have command access, does not control military police files, and may not even know what records exist until after the review is complete. The result is a review process that can appear fair on paper while operating inside an information structure tilted heavily toward the very authority being reviewed. When the CFPM controls the documents and the MPCC lacks an independent, enforceable ability to compel and test the full record at the outset, the outcome of a complaint review may depend less on the truth of what happened than on what the military police system permits the Commission to see.
Source: Next step, a settlement offer.
god damn this is a QUILT (‘late day shadows’ by nancy messier)
THIS IS A QUILT?!?!?!?
If anyone would like to read a thorough take down of Sparta as a state not worth emulating, then ive got just the series of articles for you!
Reblogging because pissing on Sparta is one of my hobbies. And yes, totally check out the link above. Brett has a lot of great discussion and scholarship on why Sparta was proto-fascist garbage, and he presents it with both snark and accessibility.
Holy shit. That’s… that’s worse than I thought it would be. Yikes.
Reblogging because more people should read the ACOUP Sparta takedown and fewer people should get their concept of history from fucking 300.
No one should get their concept of history from 300, and I say that as someone who enjoyed 300. 300 is a comicbookification of a legend, and legends are already exaggerations.
A Great Divorce has also done an audio version of the ACOUP Spart takedown if audio is easier for you!
Hello itafushi nation...here is a silly comic for u
Martina McBride didn't win Country Music Association Song of the Year for a song about how burning your house down with your abusive husband still inside it is good, noble, and an allegory for the American Revolution for people to act like the genre belongs to bootlicking fucks
other things people didn't do for you to act like country music belongs to bootlicking fucks:
Garth Brooks winning video of the year at the ACMs for a song about how none of us are free as long as there's racism and homophobia
Reba McEntire charting with a gothic horror song about an innocent man being executed by an incompetent judge and a corrupt sheriff
Willie Nelson being, well, his entire self tbh
Dolly Parton recording the hating capitalism banger of all time
Kacey Musgraves telling everyone to ignore the haters, smoke weed, and be a bisexual slut
how the hell did I leave Morgan Wade off this list. wrote a song about being depressed, alcoholic, and suicidal and how mental illness stigma sucks, saw how much people connected with it, wrote a Part II of that song about how she's doing better now but you're never totally free of the risk of relapse. fucking icon.
I specifically curated this list so people couldn't be like "ah yes but you see here is my simple binary of good and bad country music which always works", I made sure to add different genders, eras, subgenres, etc and y'all are still pulling that shit in the tags!
listen. Alan Jackson, the archetypal mister big hat man sitting on a tractor singing about a pickup truck, wrote a shockingly normal song about 9/11 that was like "yeah I don't know jack shit about politics but my copy of the bible says we're supposed to love everyone" and then went on the radio and explained how he specifically wanted to write a song about that day that "wasn't vengeful". Miranda Lambert took the southern leftist slogan "y'all means all" and made it the title of a corny ass pop-country song for the Queer Eye soundtrack. Kenny Chesney stole a horse from a cop and Tim McGraw put the cop in a chokehold defending him, and I know that's not about their music but it is, and this is very important, fucking sick as hell
it's fine if you only listen to female country artists or pre-1990 country artists or whatever the fuck you want but stop acting like you've cracked the secret code to dividing a whole genre of art into good pure anti-establishment folk songs vs bad corrupted right-wing sellout pulp
updating this post for 2025:
Luke Combs covering Fast Car and keeping the line "I work in the market as a checkout girl" and doing an interview about how he couldn't change a single word because it's not his story. king shit
Morgan Wallen doing I Had Some Help, literally the first song that spoke to me as a male survivor of domestic abuse. also shoutout to the guy for getting caught saying a racial slur and responding by specifically telling his fans not to defend him and raising a bunch of money for the Black Music Action Coalition. bro had an engraved invitation to the culture war and said "nah I'd rather be normal"
Shaboozey just absolutely obliterating the drunk roadhouse anthem glass ceiling
Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne with a song that okay, released in 2019 but I didn't hear until recently, about how good friends mind their own business and let you love whoever you want and also get high with you when you're broke
Kimberley Perry! If I Die Young Part 2!! "actually I'm glad I lived, bitch" ass song that I bet is gonna mean a LOT to kids fighting depression
Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan with Cowboys Cry Too. okay it's shallow and corny but genuinely a shallow and corny song about how men shouldn't be afraid to have feelings is what a lot of men need
bringing the full version of this post back around because people are pissing me off today
For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.
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This page is so beautiful and honestly I hope it reaches and helps any new people that are just starting out on Ao3 because it's helping me and I’ve been using the site for 5+ years now
Chinese hanfu in water ink style
hey guys check it out I can do a frontside 180 with my stomach haha
hopital
just 4 u. I braved Phone Art while on Turbo Morphine (I think they called it dilaudid. it's Turbo Morphine 2 me)
oh ur super flexible? yeah well lmao can u do THIS??? (throws up and dies)
u know in retrospect my stomach shrimping wasn't even the worst part so far. it was the tube that went to third base with my floppy ass cardia. through my sinuses. just straight up cockwarmed a silly straw all the way thru my esophagus for 2 days
I'm a fool. a fucking fool. an absolute clown. do u know what happened minutes after I posted this.
I found out my body cannot handle opioids.
my muscles lock tf up and deliver the worst pain imaginable in every direction at once. I can't describe it. it's not just pain it's the sensation of every disgusting awful flu ache you've ever experienced in your life condensed into one square inch of your body, all over your body.
do u know what alternatives hospitals have to opioids? HA, HAHAHA
they don't
GUESS WHOSE HOSPITAL IS GETTING HIT BY A TORNADO
made the saving throw 😎 not today, Satan
Y'ALL WILL NOT FUCKING BELIEVE WHAT BIOLOGICAL PROCESS STARTED LITERALLY THE DAY BEFORE SURGERY
THERE'S ANOTHER FUCKING TORNADO
I'd love to say this has been an educational experience, but unfortunately I run on Spite and simply vow to torture my blorbos even more now
which is saying something while being in the Vivisect the Half Dead Child fandom
I LIVED BITCH!!
Stomach is back where it should be, I got some guts stapled and skin glued, and recited Dexter's Lab every time the nurses mixed powdered medicine in with my applesauce. I'm bored of drinking ramen and watching Resident Alien reruns so I'm gonna peruse the tags!
I cannot tell you how many times I unironically gazed into the middle distance and thought this
I've learned things can be true and also a shit post at the same time. unfortunately
starting to think maybe I've been saying this too much all my life and karmic justice just backed up in the pipes before exploding. still gonna obliterate those twinks tho. get back here Siffrin I'm not done with you yet
this guy is getting the true moral of this story
I HAVEN'T IN YEARS so either the AO3 curse has a disconcerting half-life, or it extends to discord servers and Google docs. both are horrifying and deserve a federal grant for further investigation
you and me both! isn't nature beautiful
you've made me realize my most recent fic in my gdocs is in fact the darkest thing I've written. so maybe all the ppl in the tags claiming AO3 curse aren't as wrong as I've been thinking they are
god's a bitch and I'm into omegaverse
I feel like I should get a medal for enduring something so fucked up that randos on the internet think I must be lying. yeah bro me too
did I stutter
honestly the worst part about all of this is the fact that I can't watch Murderbot. I want to so bad. but I refuse until I'm feeling halfway alive again
fuck life. I give myself lemons. AO3 on hospital Wi-Fi
you do not. like emphatically, I don't think that's a great idea
I'd say I'm sorry but tbh this seems very on theme for ISAT so
THANK you I need everyone to remember I'm a gamer first, god's favorite crusty sock in the bottom of the drawer second
the ARE a lot of people in the tags calling me Jesus Christ
I'll admit that one's on me. when I started being unable to eat anything, my first thought was not "stomach straight up saying the abdomen's haunted"
I hate that I was actually considering getting white haired anime boy haircut right before all this happened. could you fucking imagine
don't carbon date me like this
Rascal Flatts was right. life is a highway and it's riding me all night long
the abortion was a success! (/silly)
they snipped and stitched some things, yanked the whole sucker back down UNDER my diaphragm where it belongs, and did this thing called a fundoplication where they wrap and stitch the top of the stomach around the bottom of the esophagus. it’s supposed to help keep that little bastard in its assigned seating
what I had was a called a combination sliding hiatal hernia (stomach wants uppies) and paraesophageal hiatal hernia (stomach wants uppies but through a different hole in the diaphragm bc it’s not like other girls, making it look like it’s trying to phone home), along with combined organoaxial and mesenteroaxial gastric volvulus (stomach flops around like a dead fish and twists itself shut like a bread bag AND goes upside down). the former usually ends up cutting off blood flow and starts necrotizing the stomach (very dangerous), but I was extremely lucky that hadn’t happened yet!
the hernias are uncommon but not terribly rare. the stomach flopping around? that’s rare. the fact that I had both of these at the same time, where they both did ALL AVAILABLE BAD THINGS POSSIBLE?
to put it gently, according to one resident, I had surgeons fighting over me. pictures were taken. I had like six separate groups of medical professionals coming into my room regularly. my surgeon shook my hand like I was a celebrity. it was honest to god hilarious.
all in all, I spent 3 months thinking I was being a huge wimpy diaper baby, only to find out I narrowly evaded death bc my friend Moth told me to go to the ER right away, and it triggered a panic attack big enough to make me do just that. the poor ER doc came in sweating with the initial CT scans like “I’m gonna be real with you I’m not entirely sure I know what I’m looking at but it’s giving INCREDIBLE Emergency Surgery”
I’m upset I don’t get to birth an alien baby, but considering how it was Rapturing into my chest, it probably would have been a chest burster anyway. I want to kiss Miss Xenomorph as much as the next guy but I think I’ll just stick to sending prime numbers out into space until one returns my booty call
EDIT: btw I love the dog jokes lmao I had no idea volvulus was common in dogs! don't worry I'm not a werewolf (unfortunately), I simply have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos, which makes all my connective tissue soft and stretchy. So we're waaaay more prone to having organs (and joints) slip n slide around and do things they REALLY aren't supposed to. But I wish I was a werewolf even more now. when will it be my turn
haha that was a fun near-death experience glad it's over though GUESS WHO JUST GOT FIRED
ARE YOU KIDDING ME THERE'S ANOTHER FUCKING TORNADO
my clowns in hellsite, I have no idea how my house is intact when there are trees uprooted by my mailbox. if I had less staples in me I'd bend over and moon the sky
I'm not gonna keep dragging this post on I swear I'm just still on pain meds (I can handle higher doses of weaker opioids for some reason! yippee!) so I'm gonna look through the tags one more time and address a couple things I've seen often
- no, I wasn't doing anything in particular to fuck up my guts. sometimes our organs just Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 right through the polygons. don't worry about it, it's rare and you get a fun story to tell ur friends
- yes, I was fired because I missed too many days nearly dying and requested more to recover from nearly dying. what can I say I'm a needy unreasonable bitch
- yes it's pretty lame to do this to someone right as they stumble off the operating table and get dumped with expensive medical bills. yes this is legal. yes I'm filing for unemployment. yes I would leave mouse poops in the CEO's coco rice krispies if given the chance. love and peace ✌️
- it's cool my dudes I live in the Midwest, basements are an evolutionary aspect of natural selection here. we've also got Steve Templeton I'm pretty sure he fights the tornadoes off himself
- Murderbot TV series good :)
- don't worry guys I know the original artist for Life is a Highway. Lightning McQueen
- there are a LOT of you offering advice on how to avoid the torment nexus. while having a Siffrin pfp. just an observation
- who the fuck is Job
please laugh. every drop of joy I squeeze from this karmic fart parade is another finger shoved firmly up god's withered asshole
can everyone stop being funnier than me for 2 minutes
I only fucked someone once and it was bc they replied to my reply on their comment to the fic I filled for their kink meme prompt on Livejournal. it was vore. and my name's not Jesus
no I'm going I want to ask Joshua how he got that gay
can y'all stop comparing me to deities I'm already on thin ice here with one or possibly more of them
no this is Patrick
I'm sorry to disappoint but I only have 2 weed smoking girlfriends. if anyone lets me borrow one of theirs tho it would really help the Make A Wish Foundation. I beg them once a week and they keep telling me I'm "not a child" and "already got two wishes fulfilled"
take a ticket and get in line if you're gonna make an attempt on my life, you goddamn heathen
you can't give me this after I was just accused of being Dave Strider
DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE
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