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Simon, Jeweler, Bird enthusiast. Not doing much, trying to be optimistic. He/Him, They/Them. My writing can be found under #my writing .I'm Leiazher at Ao3 as well!

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[unpretty]

"hurts because i need to move more" and "hurts because i need to not move it at all" should really be different sensations. i should be able to troubleshoot my own body without just picking one and seeing if that makes it worse.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Something really violent about eating a burrito. Biting a hole in that thing. A sandwich or a taco is different, it's already open, but a well-wrapped burrito is like a complete living thing in your hand, the taut skin protecting a complex network if internal organs. And you put a hole in it, maul it for sustenance, like a wolf on the open plain tearing the throat from a living gazelle. Or perhaps like a guy living in an infested apartment catching a white rat in his hands and just biting into it.

[slightylightly]

maybe this is why when it fall apart early it's more irritating than I expect.

What is the skin for if not to keep all of the viscera inside?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Slurping out some of the viscera can help with this

[dovand]

one time an ibis stole a burrito right out of my hands before i got a chance to eat it at all

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Kangaroo stole my biscuit from my hand when I was six years old and I've never forgiven the species for it

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

... just now realising that it could have been a wallaby. I was very small and my visual memory is pretty bad.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#a monkey stole a banana from me when i was younger#like a cartoon#few years before that different monkey stole my icecream from me

I see that everyone on this site has been traumatised by some kind of thieving bastard animal.

[yournewfriendshouse]

omg yeah on a camping trip on a visit to the us as a little kid a racoon stole my twinkie that I was saving for the morning, and I also have never forgiven the species

[sleepymccoy]

Kookaburra stole a chicken wing from my hand at a picnic once, fucker hit me in the face with its wing too. Thoroughly shocking moment

[leiazher]

I was robbed by an ELEPHANT. Zoo rules weren't as strict when I was little, and you could go right up to the fence to pet their trunks... we were right up by the fence having a picnic, I was about to bite into my banana when a whole ass trunk just nabbed it from my little toddler hand. The elephant was very smug by its success. I forgave it immediately.

It sparked in me a lifelong love for elephants. It's one of my greatest memories.

[mossistyping]

You are never letting a WIP rot. You are doing it a service. Your WIP is a sourdough starter and the five words you wrote that one day were all it needed to sustain itself. It will bubble and be ready when you are.

[antoniabishop]

a great blue heron at dawn and dusk

[spacefinch]

I found this website where you can make medieval-style memes.

[madenthusiasms]

I have never slammed the reblog button faster.

[3liza]

99% of "mysterious disappearances" esp of people in their 20s who start acting weird for 48 hours and then vanish are not mysterious, thats just when a lot of reality-obliterating mental illness tends to kick in and it's pretty easy to get a short circuit in your brain that makes you go family guy death pose in joshua tree national park. it's not any less tragic, it's just a documented phenomenon and not particularly predictable. its a big reason the medical advice is for people with a family history of schizophrenia to completely avoid weed and psychedelics. "people just go crazy sometimes" is a principle of human health that used to be a lot more accepted prior to the american midcentury and to a certain extent thats a healthier way to conceptualize and prepare for the risk, as opposed to the modern assertion that anyone acting weird is dangerous and broken forever.

[3liza]

you should have a rough outline of a plan for if any of your loved ones experiences psychosis, it really does happen a lot. UTIs can cause psychosis. taking drugs, even safe drugs, or prescription drugs, can cause psychosis. i was once prescribed a heavy regimen of vitamin D because i was deficient, but the doctor never told me to stop taking it, so i moved to california, stopped being deficient, and developed vitamin d toxicity with downstream hyperparathyroidism which triggered significant hypomania that was undetected and uncontrolled for yeeeeeeears. i just slowly got Weird and started making impulsive decisions based on slightly out-of-gamut beliefs. i drove cross country by myself to have a love affair. the love affair was real, the series of decisions leading to burning down my life in pursuit of it were based on not great brain function however. etc. you see what i mean. churchill mentioned depression being the "black dog who stalks us" (one reason for Churchgrim's multi-referential name) but theres another, stealthier dog called Insanity and it's closer to some people than others but man it sneaks up on you. every time i see one of those "guy gets weird and drives into the wilderness forever" missing persons stories i think "yeah i could totally pull that off"

[oarfjsh]

"van gogh cut off his ear what a lunatic" you are 3 nights of bad sleep, getting unexpected upsetting news and taking a substance as benign as coffee at the wrong time away from doing the same hope this helps

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

liking angels in an atheist kinda way. they’re just pigeons to me

[leiazher]

(Unrecognized) Swedish word of the day:

"Villhöver" When you really, really, really want something that isn't necessary, but you Need it because you Want it. (Composed of the words "Vill" (Want) and "Behöver" (Need)

"I villhöver this expensive ingredient." "I villhöver this new pillow, I know I already have one, but..."

It is a word that admits you know you don't need something, but by the gods, you want it.

[shisabun]

So I watched Kpop Demon Hunters and that stupid tiger is my son now. That is my child and I love him.

[talons-and-stucco]

Lets go All Over The Fucking Place with mama

[stackofturtles]

I have come into possession of an ornithology book from the 1930's and they had such a way of describing birds back then, modern publishers of birding booking should take note! Here are some of the bangers.

yes, this book refers to the anhinga as a water-turkey

[and-fishing-equipment]

daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

[monstrousproductions]

It's Father's Day here in the UK (and maybe other places too?) and despite being a fake made-up day created to sell greetings cards, it can stir up some feelings - especially if your dad is uhhh not so great.

So, if your dad sucks or you don't have one or you just want another, don't worry! I'm your dad now!

Services offered include:

Falling asleep on the sofa

Never heard of the celebrities you like

Watching TV with my eyes closed

Bruce Springsteen enjoyer

Proud of you

Sneezing loud enough to wake God

Mildly awkward physical affection

Proud of you

Cannot find my glasses

Am wearing my glasses

Proud of you

Proud of you

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Do you like this song? #644

Yes I like it, I already know it

Yes I like it, first time listening

No I don't like it, I already know it

No I don't like it, first time listening

Voting ended onJun 21, 2025

✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖

✨ Artists and titles will be revealed with the full song after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update!

⚠️➡️ Yes, spoilers includes posting the lyrics. Please don't spoil. There are other ways to have fun with the post if you reblog it, maybe be sneaky/witty about it with obscure references. Have fun while following the rules! 😄💖 Fandom blogs/communities are welcome to reblog, but please keep that as far as it goes with spoilers!

[waitingforthet]

[teaboot]

I’m so glad that things like survivorship bias and statistical outliers became memes I wish more critical thinking skills would become widely-understood this way, I’m not kidding let’s get on this

[teaboot]

”Turtles are showing up full of straws” “Nobody was trans when I was your age” “Why does everyone have allergies now” “Our ancestors survived without vaccines” “My grandma never had an income or driver’s license and THEY were married for decades” “I’m saving the rest of my medication for later cause I feel better now”

Look at the plane until you understand

[teaboot]

My momma used to tell us not to fear the noises we heard in the woods at night because if something designed to kill us wanted to kill us then we wouldn’t hear it coming and at the time it was horrifying and unsettling but now I wish we all had heard that at least once growing up