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Changing my pinned post because I uploaded a new glitter batch and some new pixel dolls too!
edit: I have a ko-fi up and running now, and I'm currently taking calligraphy commissions!
Ko-fi Commissions Open! Click to see Lamarie's commission menu.
The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.
I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:
We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.
Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?
It ain’t Kermit
Or, stick with me because I know this breaks Muppets convention, but Gonzo is Odysseus and Camilla as Penelope.
Kermit is Homer reciting the epic (à la Gonzo as Dickens in Muppet Christmas Carol). Miss Piggy? She can have her pick of literal Goddesses, Queens, Helen? Miss Piggy would love to be the face that launched a thousand ships.
I see this works in two additional ways: it brings back Kermit as a reporter, reporting magical stories where the people he’s reporting on keep falling in love with him
AND it allows for the suitors to be salivating over eating Camilla, raising the stakes considerably. It also, I believe, appropriately conveys the concept of homosphryne, the deep and abiding connection between Odysseus and Penelope.
Bonus third: watching a chicken weave would be incredibly hilarious.
Bonus fourth: Rizzo as Telemachus
I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory
I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know
I Successfully Overthrew The Demon Lord And Instituted Demon Democracy But They Voted For A Commie So The CIA Not Some Fantasy Equivalent The Actual CIA Who Have Known About Magic And Alternate Realms The Whole Damn Time But Won't Just Unisekai Me Launched A Counter Coup And That's When Things Really Went To Shit
Had to nope out and DNF this book of sewing tips I tried reading. One of the contributors advised that if you burn yourself with an iron, you should cover the fresh burn in undiluted lavender essential oil.
Do not do that unless you'd like an infection, contact dermatitis, and/or a full-blown allergic reaction. Fuck's sake.
If you're worried about iron burns, get a goddamn tube of burn cream. That should be in your household first aid kit anyway, if you can afford to put one together. And you really ought to if you can. I have had to deal with so, so many burns in my household over the years, including one that resulted in an emergency room visit. Don't fuck around with burns.
A tube of brand-name Neosporin burn cream is like $6 at the drugstore I use, and there are off-brand alternatives for even less. I compared prices, and burn cream is literally cheaper than the snake oil bullshit. That price obviously isn't universal, but, y'all, please, use proper first aid instead of made-up bullshit pushed by pyramid schemes.
Essential oil "first aid" is a damn scam.
I read Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman which I really enjoyed but nobody warned me that the plot of the book was about as related to the movie as The Haunting of Hill House book is related to the tv show
The difference was insanely interesting and for the first time in my life I'd advise people to watch the movie first and THEN the book
Bookman Italic Swash Heavy 8 (circa 1967) [Fonts In Use]
One of the many competing versions of Bookman that were popular in the 1960s and 70s.
This one was requested by @beautyisdisaster a while ago but I only just got around to it.
my eeveelution as wild cat series !!
vaporeon - tiger
jolteon - cheetah
flareon - lion
espeon - eurasian lynx
umbreon - melanated jaguar (black panther)
leafeon - clouded leopard
glaceon - snow leopard
sylveon - serval
eevee - house cat (maine coon)
I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .vbs file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck.
For reference (heh)
At a glance, file name checks out. But!! Do not open a .vbs file!!!
I was 12 when the first of my siblings was born, so I have very vivid memories of the way my mother was excluded from a lot of spaces because people find children annoying.
If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.
My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.
"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.
"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.
"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.
"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.
"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.
What the fuck was our family supposed to do? Never go to the grocery store? Starve because strangers couldn't handle a toddler existing in public?
Yeah okay Ill reblog that!
Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.
The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.
(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)
This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it
The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t
L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)
The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a
In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.
“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”
Hi, I'm a writer on ao3, and I have a question. I think this question might have been asked already, but I couldn't find it, so sorry if it's double.
I wrote a fic, and I'm almost finished and I hope to upload it soon. It's pretty long, and I've been working on it for over two years. I love it, it's one of my babies.
Now, as you might guess, comments are incredibly precious to me. I've written other stories, and there are comments that are several years old that I still go back to. Sometimes because I need inspiration, sometimes just because I need some positivity in my life. I'm so incredibly thankful for every single one.
The thing is, with my new fic, I feel like it would be better to post it in a couple, maybe three or four, pretty long chapters, so in big chunks. It feels better to me. But on the other hand, I'm pretty sure people react only once a chapter. And I think I'll find out more about what they think about specific parts if I split the chapters up. Also, if it's just finished within a couple weeks, no one is going to read it after that.
It kinda feels wrong to only do that for the comments, but on the other hand, there's so much work in it. I've been working on it for years, and I feel like I want it to be seen as much as possible. I don't know if there's a (ethical) right answer, I was just curious about your thoughts, I guess.
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You have no way of knowing this, anon, but I write adult education courses for a living and I've recently been working on one related to Ethics as a practical skill and regulatory requirement.
So I looked through your stated issue here, and I ran it through the ethical decision-making framework that is the basis for the course I've been writing, and you're actually fine.
The reason why I say that is because no matter which choice you provide, you are still giving your readers the story in its entirety. You are not tricking or fooling them into clicking something that will steal their data or their money. You are not feeding them the first three chapters and holding the fourth one hostage until you receive enough comments to release it.
All you are suggesting doing is separating the story into more chapters than you, as the author, think it actually needs. That's your prerogative as the author. Part of your job is determining chapter breaks, and how you make that determination is entirely up to you.
People who prefer longer chapters can read your work in Entire Work mode. People who prefer shorter chapters have a better chance of reading it at all. (I say this as someone who has had an 85K oneshot in my Marked for Later for 6 years now and has never actually opened it because ohmygodthat'ssolong)
You've written a story. You're proud of it. Go and show it off. 💗
Oh my gosh after all that hard work break it up and release it one chapter at a time! People LOVE having a new chapter to look forward to!! Even better if you can put it out on a schedule! That's what the subscribe button is for.
I also recommend like, one chapter a week tbh--not just for the comments, but because posting one chapter a week allows people to read at an easier pace for themselves!
People love schedules. They love knowing what to expect and love looking forward to things. It's up to you if you want to post multiple chapters at once, but don't be ashamed for doing a schedule of one chapter a week either.
I love when a poster tries to convince people they know what they're talking about by presenting bare-minimum academic credentials and nothing else. It's giving nothing.
my favourite was on the other hellsite
Post on my dash about medical debt reminded me of the time tumblr saved me two grand. I don't think I told y'all about it because I am out of the habit of posting everything I do on tumblr lol
So. Last December, I had a bad cavity filled, and about a week later, I woke up with half of my face paralyzed. Which, as I'm sure you can imagine, freaked me the fuck out. Fortunately I had some level-headed Discord friends who a) told me what Bell's palsy was so I could look it up and b) reminded me to call my dentist for an emergency appointment. Dentist was also pretty sure it was Bell's palsy, but urged me to go to the emergency room to get checked out, because one-sided facial paralysis is also a possible indicator of a stroke. And you don't fuck around with strokes.
Bell's palsy, if you, like me of 6 months ago, don't know, is a harmless paralysis/muscle weakness on one side of the face that can be caused by a variety of things. It usually goes away on its own after a few weeks but also you can speed up the process with steroids.
I was pretty sure I was not having a stroke, because I'm Red Cross first aid certified and I know the symptoms of a stroke, and while one-sided facial paralysis is one of them, I didn't have any of the others. Also, I had quit my shitty job in October, which meant I had a shiny new marketplace health insurance plan and hadn't even touched my deductible. But I called my parents from the car and they urged me to get checked out and promised to help me pay off the emergency room bill if I needed it, because they're good people and they love me even if they drive me crazy sometimes. So off I went to the nearest emergency room.
Emergency room staff also didn't think I was having a stroke, because I waited ALL AFTERNOON, periodically having a new person come up to me and ask me to smile, hold both arms out to the side, press down on their hands, and tell them what month and year it was. (They don't ask who the president is anymore. Hmm, I wonder why.) One guy had me drink a cup of water while he watched. I cannot stress enough that I did not have any medical tests other than a physical examination: no CT scans or MRIs, no IV drugs or blood draws, nothing.
I get diagnosed with Bell's palsy and given a prescription for Prednisone. And then they give me a phone number and tell me to talk to this person about administrative stuff. So I call, and the dude on the phone verifies my name and date of birth and insurance information, and then he says, "It looks like your copay today is going to be $2400. How would you like to pay?"
I am, to this day, kind of impressed that he didn't even stutter over that number, but I assume working in a medical call center drains your entire soul. At this point, it's about 7pm, and I've been in the hospital since 2pm, and I'm stressed because half my face doesn't work, and I know that I can't afford $2400 because I quit my shitty job with nothing lined up back in October. But, I still remember every tumblr post I've ever read about health insurance and the medical system and how you can negotiate down a bill. I am not looking forward to this process, it sounds like a pain in the ass, but the alternative is paying $2400, so I say the magic words: "Send me an itemized bill."
I kinda expected the guy to try and get me to pay up front, but he just says "Ok" and finishes up the process. I get discharged, go to the only open pharmacy at that time of night to get my Prednisone, have the pharmacist tell me the prescription isn't written right and he can't fill it, go home, and have a screaming sobbing meltdown because I have used up every single milligram of cope in my entire body. (I got my steroids eventually, and the Bell's palsy cleared up in a couple weeks.)
A few weeks later, I get the bill in the mail. I brace myself and open it...
$300.
Turns out, after going through insurance and processing and everything, they couldn't actually find $2400 worth of stuff to charge me for. Shocking! Who could have predicted!
I might have been able to argue it down even more, but I was fed up with entire thing, so I paid the $300 just to be fucking done with it. Sometimes the cheapest way to pay is with money.
What if I had paid that $2400 up front? Do I think they would have been like, "Oh, oops!" and refunded me $2k? Well, possibly, but I am not optimistic.
So, thank you to everyone who has ever posted about navigating the US healthcare system on tumblr. Because of you, I knew how to handle this situation even when I was tired and stressed.
Don't forget to ask for an itemized bill, folks.
has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive
times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks
they should make you taller
I hit my head on doorframes enough as it is.
(You'd think being scarcely over six feet tall wouldn't make that a major concern, but it turns out that a surprising number of houses constructed prior to 1980 were made for hobbits.)
The worst are the surprisingly common houses where the doorframes in the basements are exactly six feet high. I don't even properly bonk my head there – if I forget to duck, the top of my scalp just sort scrrraaapes the trim and it's actually the worst sensation in the world.
1.8 metres!? Who the fuck builds their doors this short
A lot of shitty contractors back before basement doors were subject to the same mandatory minimum dimensions as doors on main floors, and also Frank Lloyd Wright for some reason.
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