Incorrigible Nerd

30s, she/her. I am bi and I will defend pansexuals with my battleaxe. 😤 Watch out for hyperfixations both new and old to crop up!

[linguisticparadox]

Look idk what to tell you. I'm bisexual. I have ADHD. I obsess over stupid things. What's not to get.

[caprart1]

i DO believe that a good writer can make mischaracterization work. oh there's a character who doesn't normally cry? figure it out!! disect the character. make the situation cryable for them. make that character cry ugly tears even if it goes against their very nature. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK!!!

[amyrosedefensesquad]

A great piece of advice I've seen is "Don't fixate about what the character would never do. Think about the circumstances that would drive them to do this, even if they wouldn't normally."

[ficsinhistory]

Best advice ever!

[grungekitty-77]

It's happening again, so just to remind everyone:

TUMBLR ADS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO AUTO-PLAY AUDIO! THAT IS A BUG AND YOU SHOULD REPORT IT!

"This ad is auto-playing audio" is literally on the drop down menu for reporting an ad. Tumblr isn't trying to implement this! Don't protest this "new policy", cause it's not one.

Report the broken ads.

Thank you.

[un-monstre]

Bloopers are movie aftercare and it’s fucked up that we got rid of them

[hydro-homies]

[waxworm-moved]

[sepulchretide]

[rethmyc]

[behindnightmaresanddreams]

[splodey-goat]

[scp-threats-is-back]

[usernameichoseonawhim]

I love how tumblr users play with Jorge I mean jpegs not Jorge who the fuck is Jorge

[scp-threats-is-back]

[slaughterednsfw-wav]

Spiders jpg

[fawkesheart12]

Woah dude

[bludraws094]

[unyieldingsilence]

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[malicious-screaming-sentinel]

[evilfuckignskeleton]

[punkitt-is-here]

quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.

[totally-cis-offical]

Well currently they’re in a tumblr post but I see your point

[experiment41]

are bots making communities now??? some of the ones i get recommended feel like it

[experiment41]

like the admin of this one is deactivated and at least 95% of the members are bots

[lohboh]

can you imagine you wake up one day in a dark room chained to a radiator with your phone at 1% and you unlock it and find that you've been added to this community

[shin-zaibatsu]

The first thing you do in that situation is open Tumblr?

[lohboh]

Where the hell else would I post about being chained to a radiator, fucking Bluesky?

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[augustdementhe]

I kicked like a child when I realized what song this was!

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm being dragged in the group chat bc I accidentally wore two different pairs of shoes to the theater. I wasn't even in a hurry, I have no fucking excuse for not noticing this

[parkchanwoohoo]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[parkchanwoohoo]

I totally forgot about this oh my god

[parkchanwoohoo]

[stuck-in-jelly]

Masters and their Apprentices

Vs.

Qifrey and his Apprentices

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Trying for consistency on the drop spindle and every picture I see online shows much thinner singles than what I'm achieving.

Is it user error and I just need to draft thinner, or is it a lack of twist?

Maybe Tumblr just has a penchant for only sharing skinny singles and my plump little threads are just fine as they are?

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Since I managed to get the antique wheel (Blithe for the uninitiated) working, I am seeing if I can even out the uneven bits in this yarn.

Exercise in futility most likely but it seems to be kinda working so far.

[disgruntled-lifeform]

How we started vs how it's going

[proteusolm]

interesting simultaneous stretch + yawn technique

[facelessoldgargoyle]

Covered in Theory, Denied in Practice

My Five-Month Battle for Reimbursement of a Covered Expense

Hey! One of my partners wrote a really good blog about fighting with Cigna.

My insurance plan covers laser facial hair removal as a gender-affirming procedure for transgender people. My partner, a trans woman who is on my insurance, got this procedure done, and getting it reimbursed was like pulling teeth.

Representatives of my health insurance company, Cigna Healthcare, told me falsely that my plan didn't cover the procedure when I called them to ask about my claim. Even after I got my employer's Human Resources department involved, Cigna continued to lie to me and deny my claim despite the terms of my plan. It took me five months, 12 phone calls, 3 emails, and an HR ticket to get my claim reimbursed.

[facelessoldgargoyle]

Currently, most people get insurance through their employers, because it's much cheaper than buying insurance on the open market. The insurance company's revenue is determined by their relationships with employers, not patients. In other words, the employer, not the patient, is the customer.

This is why I had to contact HR in order to get any meaningful progress on my claim. When the employer is the customer, the employer must be involved in any claims process complicated enough to require human judgment. This means the patient must disclose private medical information to their employer, which can expose them to discrimination. I was lucky in this case, because I'm already out at work and the procedure wasn't for me, but I still had to pass personal medical information through a member of my employer's HR team. If I were a trans woman getting my own laser reimbursed, this process would have forced me to out myself to my employer.* Ideally, there would be no such thing as employer-sponsored health insurance at all.

*Applications of this dynamic to other types of claims, such as disability care and fertility treatments, are left as an exercise to the reader.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

girls who are in love with girls? *french kiss* that’s art

[everlastingcynda]

OP I think you forgot the difference between chef's kiss and French kiss

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

WAIT YES

[sar-kalu]

Honestly, I read this as OP celebrating girls who love girls with a kiss because OP is wlw

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH Y’ALL

[madphantom]

You know, there's this cliché that teenage boys always eat massive amounts, but teenage girls really aren't that different if they're not suppressed by diet culture and body shaming. Like, I was a teenage girl who frankly just stopped bothering to fit into mainstream beauty ideals at some point, and I would regularly make myself just one big massive pot of pasta and devour it completely. This wasn't even stress eating or anything, I just genuinely needed the energy because you know, I was a teenager and my body was developing. I feel like so many teenage girls think they need to eat as little as possible to be petite and pretty, but the truth is that your body is developing just as intensely as teenage boys' bodies. Eat more, please, your body needs it.

[distant-screaming]

there really is nothing better than getting asked an innocuous question and being like

[copperbadge]

I once inadvisably shared an interesting article about a romance novel lawsuit with a co-worker. About an hour later she appeared at my cubicle and said, "You can explain to me what they mean when they say 'omegaverse', right?" and I was forced to respond, "I can, but not during office hours, I'm not getting fired for being sexually inappropriate in the workplace."

I will say, when I started to explain it, her eyes got really wide and she said, "So that's at least six genders, right?" with the kind of mental acuity I'd never even thought to bring to bear on the subject.

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