Ivia Relle

Just a pal trying to get by.

[iviarelleblr]

A pinned Get To Know Me post?

Since I guess you can pin posts now, hi! I'm Ivia Relle, iviarelle in most places but someone stole the username after I deleted in the debacle at the end of 2018 and parked on it, so iviarelle everywhere else that I exist and iviarelleblr here. (I also have a chapter by chapter reading blog, @iviarellereads which covers things spoiler-free unless otherwise advertised.)

I'm a Canadian hurtling toward middle age, and queer as heck in most of the dimensions the spectrums cover. I'm okay with any pronoun being used to describe me, especially if you use different ones every time you need to pick. Double points for switching mid sentence.

My favourite colour is yellow and that basically describes my entire personality: sometimes I'm a cheerful person, and sometimes I'm a ball of hydrogen fusion ready to burn it all down. I have very long hair and the bottom half of it is greens of various shades, I like feeling like a dryad in a mixed deciduous and coniferous forest. I have one extremely fluffy black and white cat, and I knit but... not using the cat hair.

I was a daily Tumblr user from about 2011 until 2018, so I was there for much of the writing of the Old Magics, and the establishment of the outlines for the social norms still used today!

I have many varied fandom interests! An extremely non-comprehensive list:

Favourite authors include Roshani Chokshi, N. K. Jemisin, Seanan McGuire, Tamsyn Muir, Tamora Pierce, Tracy Deonn, Alexis Henderson, Kit Rocha, Jessie Mihalik, and Katee Robert

Favourite films include Legally Blonde, The Mummy (1999), Jupiter Ascending, the Lord of the Rings extended trilogy, The Matrix quartet, Into the Spider-Verse, and Everything Everywhere All at Once

Favourite games include Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Age, The Longest Journey, and Stardew Valley

Basically I'm here for stories, particularly stories that involve Not CisHet Men in primary positions of importance. (LotR is one of the main exceptions and that's more "I watched the movies a hundred times and have a Rohan tattoo" and less "I've read the whole Legendarium" if you feel me. The Wheel of Time isn't an exception because the women make up very close to half the overall word count.)

If you know me, you probably don't have many more questions. If you don't know me, you have a choice: stay and be respectful, or go in peace. Choose wisely, and be sure.

(I will try never to be obnoxious about it but if you like what I do here, I have a ko-fi.)

[tinytimism]

imagine it’s 1985 and you’re in love with someone but haven’t told them yet and it’s killing you inside and you’re so horny you’re practically in heat. and then bruce springsteen drops i’m on fire

[huffylemon]

[captain-price-returns]

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't understand how this is even a defence in the age of drone warfare.

[graham-folger]

Or even like... Cannon warfare.

[quasi-normalcy]

Yeah, the Ottomans could have taken this in the fourteenth century.

[the-haiku-bot]

Yeah, the Ottomans

could have taken this in the

fourteenth century.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#ok but this wouldve popped off in the age of zombie doomsday prepping

ngl it would be a fantastic larp location.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#why do people think shipping containers are the cure to every issue????#unless youre filling them with sand theyre not bulletproof#and theres no fucken roof

Fill the shipping containers with concrete to make Giant Bricks

[darkenedyeastextract]

shipping containers are also not that strong and also only cheap/relatively accessible to use if you live somewhere where shipping containers just end up

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Fun fact about shipping container houses is that because so many shipping containers are used to transport hazardous materials and are unsuitable to live in for contamination reasons, it's often easier to make them out of entirely new, unused shipping containers than to source appropriate second hand ones. Which destroys the entire purpose of shipping container houses. Because we already know how to make rooms that are cheaper, better insulated, and more spacious and easy to acquire and transport than brand new shipping containers.

[kbkarma]

One of the things is that... you live in the middle of nature. And you can't see any of it. You have this beautiful house surrounded by steel walls. And all those watch towers. Like... how many people can even live there?

I don't think this place exists. I think the same kind of person who thinks the Cybertruck is the ultimate vehicle because it has no crumple zones and is indestructible designed this with Gen AI and can't stop thinking about how impenetrable their modern day attempt at a castle is without thinking about how impractical, indefensible, and insane that actually is.

If it's a real place, I will, depressingly, not be very surprised.

[thefloralmenace]

I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

[the-real-seebs]

cats are so very unclear on what is wrong with us but they want to help

[electricpentacle]

Last time I had a really bad migraine my cat curled herself round my head and purred sympathetically, and actually stayed there through two of her normal mealtimes. It wasn't until I was able to stagger to the kitchen and grab a protein bar for myself that she gave a very small, polite miaow to the effect of "while you're up... could you get something for me too?"

[luxshine]

I once broke my arm falling down from a bunkbed.

Ever since then, my kitties make a POINT of sleeping in the border of my bed, to create a "bump" so If I EVER rolled over? I wouldn't fall. They even taught the ones that came after to do the same.

Sure, I have never slept in a bunkbed again, but they don't care. "Mom fell from bed, Mom got hurt, so we make sure Mom doesn't fall from bed again"

[valentineish]

I adopted my cat as my ESA, and I'm proud to say she's well-suited for the job. Besides the usual stuff, like helping with grounding and seeking me out during big emotional events, I found out early on she was amenable to some at-home service tasks. Small things, like being a medication reminder and hanging out with me when I've fainted.

What I (foolishly) didn't expect is that she would keep teaching herself tasks to caretake me. She aggressively guards me when I catch an infection. If it's been too long since I've eaten, she will pester me until she watches me put food in my mouth. I had to train her out of trying to drag me to safety after fainting. Just wild things for a cat to choose to do.

So imagine my confusion this year when during the height of one of my scariest health episodes, this same cat is constantly acting up. It felt like she timed it to me finally being well enough to get out of bed. No matter what I was doing, this little grey cat would be right there: pacing, pestering, and absolutely demanding that I lie down to cuddle her. Cuddling isn't even her thing.

Amid trying to settle her, my symptoms would inevitably catch back up to me. So I'd just drag myself back to bed – and suddenly, she was an absolute angel again. And this cycle just kept repeating, seemingly without rhyme or reason. The only time my cat didn't start doing this was when my wifey was around.

Fast forward a couple months. I find out my migraine disorder has progressed (a thing untreated migraine can apparently do) to a rare form that sometimes mimic stroke (a collection of symptoms that can apparently happen outside of stroke). It's a huge relief, but one with big health considerations. Key among them, it means my migraines needed to urgently be detected, prevented, and treated due to the possibility of hemiplegia. So, I start the arduous process of logging my migraines, and aggressively treating any first signs of them.

My cat has continued bugging me during all of this. And while I'm venting about that and going over my migraine logging with my wifey, they suddenly stop me, point at a day I'd marked, and say, "Hey. Wasn't that one of the days she was really acting up?"

It was like a light bulb moment. We went over all our shared messages, cross referenced them with my logs, and yeah. Yeah, my cat had been bullying me for getting out of bed every fucking day I had a migraine. The only days she hadn't were when I'd spent the entire day with my wifey... the person that takes care of me and gets me to bed when my health gets bad.

TL,DR: my cat figured out what was making me sick before the doctors did, made it her job to alert me and enstate bedrest, and only takes a vacation when she knows somebody else can do the work.

Cats are fucking wild, man.

[supericelight]

[Image description: A grey cat with green eyes sitting with its tail curled around its legs and looking at the camera with a very polite expression. End description.]

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[spicyvampire]

On top of all of this, fucking everything needs a goddamn subscription and you have to hit it 20 times with a hammer for it to stop spying on you. Genuinely, where are we going with this? I'm one (1) AI update away from becoming an hermit technology wise

[nostalgicfun]

Looking through a Toyfare magazine from 2004 and found what might be my favorite ad ever

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[reticent-vampire]

The Vampire Lestat 3.05 "New York"

[reticent-vampire]

literally

[clubcrosby]

when the one mutual you indirectly posted for interacts

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

dump his ass. move to a walkable city. start hormones. get into fiber crafts. dye your hair weird. grow an herb garden. foster a distrustful cat. take a welding class. invite your friends over for tea and cake. get way too into obscure media. explore a new cuisine. lie to the police. protest in the streets. life has so many possibilities don't it?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

make out with a frenemy. buy noise cancelling headphones. wear office inappropriate attire. quit a toxic workplace. improve your apartment. start a dog walking sidegig. get on first name basis with your local librarians. bully politicians at town hall meetings. get an unexpected piercing. cultivate farmer's market connections. trade recipes with a gossipy old neighbor. unionize your apartment complex. move to the countryside. let a friend take you larping. keep a sword on your mantleplace

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

get a tattoo on your 40th birthday. be tempted to buy a loom. do a charity drag show. sue your landlord. buy a really nice kitchen appliance. volunteer at an anarchist soup kitchen. rediscover a tv show you watched when you were 8. spam your state senators. shop at asian grocery stores. do cosplay. buy trans flags in bulk and mount them along the highway. go viral for unexpected reasons. move in with your best friend. make lemoncello with leftover lemon rinds. run for school board membership. explore pegging.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

update: i'm delighted to report this post has been responsible for at least one person dumping his ass

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

update: three four people

[thisisalovestry]

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

[insomniparty]

[valtsv]

i refused to stay buried because i love you why are you running

[valtsv]

babe it's me i'm just covered in dirt and blood because i had to claw my way up into the light and crawl on my hands and knees back home to you stop screaming

[fleshdyke]

???

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

you have to call someone now

[inqilabi]

Um this woman is living the dream

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID/ Reddit post from u/impressive-jaguar titled: AITA for putting my single best friends before my married ones all the time? The body text reads: 

I am 45F and I live next door to my two best friends. We deliberately bought land adjacent to each other 10 years ago because we were sick of being chronically single and being lonely. (our properties are in a triangle) 

We’ve since knocked down the fences on our properties so it’s 3 houses with a huge garden in the middle which has a vegetable patch and a garden. We even have a small greenhouse and chickens, 2 dogs and a cat who wander around. 

I consider my friends to be my family basically and it’s been really nice over the last few years to have my own house but also have people to do activities with, buy stuff in bulk, go travelling etc and just have a good time. We also help each other out a lot eg if I’m working from home, I can handle the repair man or sign for parcels, have someone to drive me to the doctor and bring me food when I’m sick and vice verse but also have my own space in my house. 

There are memes out there about how you need 1 person with a Netflix account, 1 person with Hulu and another with Amazon Prime but that’s basically my life. 

My married friend got annoyed at me the other day though because if she wants to make plans, ask a favor etc I always tell her “let me check I’m not doing anything with Alice & Claire” or “I need to check with Alice & Claire, I think we had plans for that”. 

However I don’t see what the problem with that is because she’s always telling me “let me check with Bob” (her husband) or she’ll only meet me if Bob is free. 

If she’s expected to put her husband first before her friends, then what’s wrong with me saying I need to put my friends who I essentially live with and share most of my life with? /End ID]