joshin' around

retired mousegirl est. ‘96

[mesothelihomo]

[mesothelihomo]

[tharannas]

I have a new favorite pokemon

[burr-ell]

YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN HANDLE CRITIQUE. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN EMBRACE BEING TOLD YOU WERE WRONG. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH UNPLEASANT TASKS. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN DELIVER DISAPPOINTING NEWS. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU KNOW HOW TO BE DISAGREED WITH. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN BE CORRECTED. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN BE TOLD YOU MESSED UP. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU ARE ABLE TO DO HARD THINGS.

[magical-kid-red]

Another bullshit shift with the Z-Team

[sadclowncentral]

2026

1. NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU.

2. AND YET, THE SUN RISES EACH MORNING.

3. MAYBE THAT IS ENOUGH.

[sandersstudies]

It’s crazy how often I see kids be self-motivated to be helpful. I say “hey would somebody like to help me move these boxes?” and especially kids ages about 8-12 jump up quickly.

One of the teenagers came up to me during rehearsal and asked for the keys to the costume shop so he could clean it — unprompted. When I came to find him he’d cleared a messy corner that had intimidated me for months.

Even really little kids ages 1-3 will pick up something you dropped, carry and transfer items with you, and offer relevant items to you.

[moniquill]

I would like to state this: The only reason that this 'goes away' in adults is severe overwork. This is the natural impulse of humans, it's just that kids haven't been a: Trained out of it or B: Ground down so they have no energy left.

[dilfosaur]

imagine a hallmark movie

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

if my journey into booktube is teaching me anything it's that much in the way that the mass-produce commercial object of the book is often fetishized as having innate cultural and intellectual value by virtue of Being A Book, many "bookish content creators" seem to fancy themselves as having something innately intelligent and interesting to say solely because they are Talking About Books

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I actually don't think that pearl clutching about romance novels and catering to people's generalized anxiety that tiktok is Definitely Uniquely Bad And Ruining Society, Somehow is the hard-hitting intelligentsia analysis you seem to think it is

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

normal stuff in the replies

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I don't say this lightly but if you're going to just unironically parrot 19th century gripes about the dangers reading for entertainment instead of intellectual improvement I do think you're a strong contender to be the next chairperson of the high council of clowns. furthermore the assertion that someone reading for fun is in any way a "harmful... to reading as a pastime" is frankly absurd and rooted in the exact thing I was describing in the original post re: people jacking themselves off to the illusion of intellectual superiority conferred by a mass market product.

[theonetheycallhannah]

Thank you for this post! Some of the smuttiest books I’ve ever read were actual stunning case studies in mental health, interpersonal dynamics, and social issues. Things can be more than one thing.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

it's also fine if they're just porn, for the record. writing or reading something to jack off about it is fine. they can actually just be that one thing without warranting the hysteria train.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I wouldn't trust anyone who thinks that doing something just for fun is bad, to be the next chairperson of the high council of clowns. I think the clown chairperson should be someone who likes fun. If we're trusting them with the clowns.

[punksvspreps]

Brian Yungen

[modmad]

[may-be-pixelated]

Poison Frog Patterns

A free to use pack of poison frog themed patterns for any craft that requires a grid. Reference pictures taken from dartfrogconnection.com

Also a version with a grid overlay!

I am actually planning another pack with six more poison frogs!

[yew--berries]

Hey me and a friend we've made a ttrpg!

First Day of the Rest of Your Life is a diceless, disco elysium inspired game about determining the entirety of your life based off of the results of the first day of highschool. Check it out!

First Day of the Rest of Your Life by Yew(Me) for One-Page RPG Jam 2025

A diceless, Disco Elysium-inspired TTRPG about high school determinism.

[calligraphy-creature]

Original post

Poem @chucktaylorupset

[historiaetal]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[stitchposts]

ive been embroidering for nearly half my life and it still blows my mind how cheap it is as a hobby tbh. it can be as expensive as you want to make it, sure. I've definitely invested in nicer tools when I had the finances to do so. But relatively compared to other hobbies it's kinda nuts that a splurge on materials is like. 9 bucks for a pack of some of the fanciest needles you can buy. Silk thread for 6 dollars. The industry gold standard thread is the stuff already available at every single craft store in the USA. If you follow exacting patterns that require a lot of color changes it can add up, but those are often projects that require weeks or months of work. Let's say you had 50 color changes and the project uses most of each skein. That's months of hobby-ing right there, for about 50 dollars plus the cost of base materials which is under 10 dollars.

[stitchposts]

#posts that singlehandedly make me want to take up embroidery

heyyyyyy buddy pspspspsppssppsspsp come over here, look at the pretty embroidery just laying there on the ground, you KNOW you wanna go look at it closer, dont worry about the box on the stick over it that part doesnt matter its irrelevant

[kittydesade]

The box is labeled “Fiber Arts Hobbies”

[stitchposts]

Tags to respond to here: #As a seasoned embroiderer I do have to call bullshit on the needle prices#mostly just cause I’ve had to buy special needles because I’m a sweaty guy and since starting T#I have been instantly tarnishing regular needles#tbh the difference in price here might just be exchange rates but that plus shipping (cause all the fibre arts stores here have closed)#means it works out to much more than $9 The specific needles I prefer are Tulip sharps in sizes 8, 9, and sometimes 10. They're my go-to needle and are extra polished. I can't say whether they'll help with your skin stuff because everyones body chemistry is different but they're some of the most expensive needles on the market and I pay about 9 usd a pack, vs the like. 2.49 usd for whatever the craft store has in stock. IDK if these are the ones you use but they are indeed some of the most expensive ones out there and make a big difference in my stitching, to the point I can tell them apart from my other needles by holding it in my hand.

[fakezircon]

I have heard absolutely wonderful things about Tulip needles but unfortunately I have also heard they tarnish just as bad if not worse than dmc ones, so they aren’t for me, alas.

[stitchposts]

I would say if you can afford it to try it out. Mine last me a decent bit and I have some pretty bad metal allergies/skin issues that also cause metal to fuck around. 9 bucks every 2 years or so still works out to be affordable for me, because this is again relative to other hobbies, and I find the benefits of the super sharp needle to be so helpful.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I don't think this should be the *sole* measure to judge the quality for a TTRPG, but I definitely think that between whether a mediocre newbie GM is able to run a fun session by following the rules and whether a "good" GM with 20 years of experience is able to construct a grand epic tearjerking experience by rule-zeroing half the mechanics to steer the narrative towards a conventional story that resolves everyone's character arcs, the former says a lot more than the latter about how good a game actually is.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

GMing is a skill but if your game requires a skilled GM for everyone at the table to have a good time something's definitely amiss on the game design front.

[singularity-dream]

These days I'm leaning away from 'fun' being a good measure of things like this. If my friends and I have fun watching a terrible movie, that doesn't mean the movie is good.

I do agree that if a group of friends can't have fun with a new game out of the box, the game isn't well designed. That means the game has managed to be negative fun given how easily a group of friends can enjoy spending time together. So some fun should be expected, but especially at first that fun comes from the friends and not the game while everybody is figuring things out. Also, and pretty sure you agree with me on this, having a great experience with the GM rule-zeroing half the mechanics says basically nothing about the game's design at all. Because you aren't playing the game anymore at that point.

[archpaladin]

To say nothing of the fact that expecting a "grand epic tearjerking experience" in the first place is...more than likely setting yourself up for at least a little disappointment in one aspect or another at the very least, regardless of game design.

Like, before we even get to "is this the right game to facilitate the experience you want?" I think more people (myself included) could stand to ask "is a ttrpg even the right MEDIUM to facilitate the experience you want?"

[remash]

ornitographies ~ xavi bou

[bluebeesknees]

To reduce my screen time, I have weaponised my overactive and entirely impractical levels of empathy for inanimate objects. Wym you’re picking it up again? While it was sleeping? You complete and utter monster, let it rest!!

And it works. It works like a CHARM. Silly problems require silly solutions!

[dogwoodbite]

[ID: a phone tucked in very cozy in a perfectly fitting wooden doll-size canopy bed with floral motifs. it has a little dishtowel as a blanket /End ID]

[avengerphobic]

sometimes you people will be calling things "Body Horror" when it's just how some people live

[avengerphobic]

i think everyone should be required to take a class and learn about ostomy care and catheters and dialysis and insulin pumps and see what aging does to the body and learn about disabling illnesses and normalize them because yall will be out here saying shit is horrifying when its just like a medical device