Born Wednesday

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[wastrelwoods]

his frog was getting nasty from chewing and I had to put it in the laundry. happy reunion after 90 sad and lonely minutes without #myfrog

[stone-stars]

[ID: A black cat laying contentedly on a frog plush]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

new favourite business slogan comes from this company that makes bolts, screws, nuts, washers, etc

[dragon-in-a-fez]

hang on. sequel to Eats, Shoots, and Leaves called Screws, Nuts, and Bolts

[marinella-ela]

[shiverandqueeef]

if you aren't best friends with your lover and a little bit in love with all your friends than what's the fucking point

[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[liminalweirdo]

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

[mckitterick]

the notes on this are toxic - to help clear up any misunderstanding, here’s the actual science paper:

Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three dec

in short: brains are brains

[everythingfox]

Most unserious animal

[bonesbeetle]

compilation of my all-time favorite tweets

[olderthannetfic]

Tagging/plotngenre question. Fic concept involves an established couple (A+B) who have a past with character C that only just reappeared after a long period of going missing, like after several years. There is a fraught history and Character C was briefly an antagonist before A and B helped them out of a bad situation along with other characters.

A and B both start to independently realize they also have feelings for character C. Character C is also catching feelings but it’s uneven at first and only thinks they’re attracted to one, not realizing they have an attraction to both until a little later. Drama comes from A and B having mutual anxiety about cheating on one another while C has anxiety about being a homewrecker. There’s some miscommunication stuff and issues from sources both internal and external because everyone is traumatized and extremely messy but eventually they work it out.

There is sex between A/B, A/C, B/C and A/B/C at various points but occasionally the A/C and B/C could be classified as cheating since either A or B doesn’t know about the other partner fooling around with C at the time and they’re not in an open relationship. Making it more complicated is that C might experience periods of time where they dissociate/memory is hazy so they might not remember that time they slept with A when they go to sleep with B etc

Endgame is an OT3 between all three of them

What to tag this sort of plot? I feel like it’s love triangle adjacent but I don’t know exactly

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This is sufficiently complicated that I would probably use relatively few tags but a summary that suggests it's messy and cheating-adjacent.

If there's a ton of A/B focus at the beginning, I would use A/B in addition to A/B/C, but otherwise, I would probably only tag A/B/C since the overall concept here is lots of messiness leading to endgame OT3. I would probably not tag A/C or B/C unless I wanted to really emphasize those sections of the fic. From this description, they just sound like part of the overall mess, not a focus in their own right.

I might use some tags like 'poor communication' over ones about cheating. Regardless of what's "really" happening, genre-wise, cheating is like consent in fiction: the real litmus test is whether anyone is like "How dare you cheat on me?" rather than "Oh thank god, I thought I was the only one feeling this way!" I wouldn't tag the piña colada song as cheating, you know?

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[the-punforgiven]

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

[the-punforgiven]

Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it

[the-punforgiven]

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

[rathayibacter]

group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.

[thatquietkid108]

When a species becomes extinct humans have to figure out what kind of magic they were doing to keep the ecosystem from becoming out of balance

[pedro-friedeberg]

LMAO

[bdalak]

what gets me is that even if this WERE true what the fuck does hunter biden have to do with any of it. i don't think being the son of the united states of america has anything to do with both america's foreign policy decisions and a foreign nation's conduct during war. is there some HOG (hunter occupied government) conspiracy that i dont know about???

[pusheenthenerdcat]

is it lefty to cancel ppl for the actions of their parents because i think there are some queer folk with homophobic parents who may not be chuffed about that idea

[alkatyn]

Like how his "millennial rebrand" is just him going, "I may have smoked crack. Of course I did. You've all seen the pictures. I didn't smoke meth though get it right." "I never snorted coke,that would be a waste I smoked it" "I wasn't on billionaire pedo island I was having sex with adult sex workers in a motel of the I-95" and people find that level of specificity and honesty charming

[rslashrats]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

[mothman-etd]

[ghostintheclawmachine]

As someone who collects a LOT of physical media but doesn’t make a lot of money, I want to share the rule that keeps my wallet from crying out in despair every time I enter a store. I don’t remember who I got this from, but thank you whoever you are because it has been a game-changer when it comes to building a large collection without breaking the bank.

The $1 per hour rule. It’s exactly what it says on the tin. If I’m purchasing physical media, I consider it good value if I can expect to get at least one hour of enjoyment for every dollar I spend on it.

I don’t remember what I spent on BG3, but I know it was a good deal because I’ve logged 600 hours in it. Hades II costs $30, and I was more than happy to pay that because I know I’ll play it for at least 30 hours. When I add books to my library, I almost exclusively buy used books that cost under $5 because 5 hours is a good average estimate for how long it takes me to finish a novel.

Will there be a treat you splurge on every now and then? Of course, but $1 per hour is a good standard to stick to if you want to responsibly build a dragon's hoard of physical media.

[bitchesgetriches]

This is a way better way of expressing it than I've seen before. It's mathy, it's clear, it's easy to remember.

Anyway we took way longer to say something similar in this one: Ask the Bitches: How Can I Absolve Myself of Financial Guilt Over My Pricey PS4? 

[spiffiesttea]

strong bad would call the LGBT the L-Gibbity

[omnybus]

They later go the theater to see a performance by "The Drag Queen of Town"

[omnybus]

Bringing this back from last year

[gentlyevilvt]

the problem with hypnosis porn games made by straight people is that no matter how interesting they make the premise, a few hours in you realize that they genuinely think the hottest thing you could possibly do with hypnosis powers is have penetrative heterosexual sex with somebody who would otherwise not be interested

[self-winding]

The gay (or at least m/m) examples I've come across are mostly pretty similar. Lots of kink stuff still treats penetrative sex as the end goal. And for a lot of people that's fine because for them the kink stuff is sort of just elaborate foreplay, but it's an annoyance for those who are mostly or exclusively turned on by the mind control elements rather than the actual sex. They have to keep skimming through the repetitive sex scenes to get to the sexy parts.

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[brainrockets]

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!

[foone]

2008, and I'm getting ready for my government job fresh out of college. There's a suddenly bright light as a tear in space appears, and a bright haired female version of myself steps through it.

"Foone! I have an important message, from your future self!"

"oh wow, is it that I'm a girl and need to transition immediately?"

"no, you'll figure that out yourself. This is more important"

She steps closer and takes my face into her hands.

"never read homestuck for a boy you have a crush on. Farewell!"

There's another flash and a momentary smell of ozone, and I'm alone in my apartment again, more confused than ever.

[foone]

A couple people have reblogged this with tags like "what about for a girl?" so let me be clear by quoting my beloved grandpa, may he rest in peace:

Always do what a cute girl tells you to do.

[vintage-tigre]

Revolting