[lalainajanes]

I paid for Discovery Plus specifically to watch holiday baking shows and not only is Christmas Cookie Challenge cancelled, but Holiday Baking Challenge’s new format is hot garbage with mostly unlikeable contestants???

[heavensghost]

bus drivers are never neutral they are either heaven sent or deeply evil to their core

[wordyshit]

what is something you hate about the way that badass/strong women are usually written?

constant quipping

too overcompetant/perfect

too straight

too white

not allowed to form bonds/relationships with other women

"I grew up around 7 brothers"

wearing heels/anything that would be uncomfortable to fight in

" showing emotions make you weak"

the whole femme fatale thing

other (please put in tags)

Voting ended onDec 21, 2023

Just doing this bc I'm curious/research reasons

[television-overload]

Fic writers!!!

Is your fic with the most hits, in your opinion, your best work?

Yes

No

Not a fic writer / results

Voting ended onDec 19, 2023

Please reblog for sample size!

[1percentcharge]

hyperfixations are so embarrassing like nooo don’t look I have a crush. on this tv show

[bluesidedown]

Hey guys. Friends. Northern hemisphere pals. Only like 10 days until the days start getting longer again.

[dracoj]

what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this causes ur brain to try to kill you with knives and hammers.

[psikonauti]

Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975)

[karatam]

Fic writers, do you re-read your own fics?

yes, multiple times, just for fun

yes, just once, a while later, now that I've forgotten the agonies of writing

yes, just once, right away to find typos/mistakes

no, never

other (put it in the tags!)

Voting ended onDec 19, 2023

[goddamnshinyrock]

every so often I remember that whales molt

I’m not sure why I feel this way, but imo this is the most cursed marine mammal fact I have ever heard

[gallusrostromegalus]

THAT’S RIGHT AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME SO I CAN INFLICT THIS ON EVERYONE AT 1AM!

Mammals normally shed their skin in small flakes all the time when their skin cells die off, but because whales are living in the ocean -AKA, Bacteria Stew- flaking off like that would cause microabrasions (really tiny cuts) that would mean the whale is continually fighting off infections.  So, when a whale needs to replace it’s dead skin cells, it preps it’s new skin underneath, then sheds all it’s dead skin cells at once, like a lizard:

but not having hands makes it hard to remove this gross film, so molting brings many whales clsoe to shore where they can roll around on rocky/sandy coastal seabeds to scratch it off.  Here’s a bunch of Beluga coming in for a mass scratch:

And THIS is what a chunk of Sperm Whale Molt looks like, floating in the water before it’s devoured by pelagic microfauna, because you take what calories you can get in the open ocean:

Nature is Amazing!

[bogleech]

wish it still held in one big piece like a snake though. Wish you could be swimming in the ocean and you see a huge empty whale billowing like a balloon. like a latex glove a hundred feet long. imagine getting tangled in that. what if you died cause you got caught in an empty whale like it’s a big blanket

[moonbasetycho]

[ivynotpoisonous]

Bears are so right about hibernation

[blbearslove]

[fatsexybitch]

Largest self portrait in the world

[thetaoofbetty]

very sexy indeed

[anxietyproblem]

[anxietyproblem]

[lalainajanes]

I loved your exchange fic! It was so great and exciting to have your excellent writing again.

Thank you, I’m so glad!

I signed up for the exchange because I will always hit an external deadline, and I figured it would be a good push to get me back into writing more. So far it seems to be working, so I should have more stuff posted by the end of the year.