i'm not a real doctor (but i am a real worm)

bridget / bee !! [they/she/he/any] [22] [aroace] cartoon enthusiast & ttrpg gremlin ur friendly local internet court jester also i write stuff sometimes: ao3

[mell0bee]

o hi! blog nav below!

my bio got too long and idk how to make a carrd also this probably helps me keep track of my stuff more than anyone who’s following me used

u all should follow me i am very funny and cool (this is a true fact)

this is a multifandom blog so sorry in advance (mostly ace attorney & uma musume lately)

not spoiler-free, but i tag spoilers frequently + for a long time (see linked post for specifics)

oh also here’s my silly little persona sideblog @ryujiforrealcompilation

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[oleskyfm]

[oleskyfm]

[t4trout]

not sure if it is autism or inaturalist (and in this circumstance these two things may be equivalent). but i CAN now identify any species of horseshoe crab with confidence. excited for this to be of no significance to my life even remotely

[t4trout]

if you, too, wish to achieve this power you can go here for free*. or i put the slides under a read more in case you don't want to click a mystery link 👍

*i am not an expert nor a horseshoe crab researcher. i only regularly interact with atlantic horseshoe crabs. many people know more things than i do and there are entire papers on this you may consult for further information. if you would like a link to any pls ask !!! ^_^

[offtherpg]

@mell0bee

[peach-pot]

being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and they’re crying and swearing they’re never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didn’t have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.

[oswednesday]

discord has turned people into wild animals

[oswednesday]

[maniatown]

Girl whose most frequent mistake is inaction voice: wow I keep making mistakes I better not do anything

[b0nkcreat]

i'm your only friend (realizes that's statistically unlikely) i'm not your only friend (considers my positive qualities) but i'm a little glowing friend (suddenly gets cold feet) but really i'm not actually your friend (remembers to be confident in relationships) but i am

[robinstome]

there's no fucking way

[mell0bee]

@offtherpg

[creepymutelilbugger]

[pikkington]

Just gonna slap a source link of this.

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

Wait… Isn’t Ed Balls day coming up? ED BALLS DAY, I HAVE TO GET READY TO CELEBRATE 

[thewalrusfrompingu]

What’s Ed Balls day?

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

Omg, okay explanation time. 

On the 28th of April, 2011, Ed Balls got a Twitter account. He decided (as most people under the spotlight do) to attempted to look up his own name. However, all he did was tweet “Ed Balls”. This, for some reason, got retweeted by THOUSANDS of people. On a global scale. And because he didn’t know you could delete a tweet it stayed. Every year since then,the 28th of April is Ed Balls day. 

This is the infamous tweet

and here are some gems to celebrate that have followed the years, including last year where they framed the tweet and got him to sign it for charity

There are also LOADS MORE in this article from the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11566593/Ed-Balls-Day-fourth-anniversary-of-that-tweet.html 

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2017 WOOOP

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

Now that the clock has struck midnight…

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2018 WOOOOOOOOOOP

[lavender-and-red]

IT’S HERE

[flapjacques]

[enchantingruinscandy]

I MISSED ED BALLS DAY AND IM MAD ABOUT IT SO THIS IS GOING INTO MY QUEUE FOR ED BALLS DAY 2023

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY FROM THE PAST MOTHERFUCKERS

[enchantingruinscandy]

Happy Ed Balls day 2024!

[natequarter]

[ID: 1. A picture of Ed Balls on a london underground ad. Text below reads, “Never forget. 28th April #EdBallsDay.”

2. A tweet from edballs, written on 28th april 2011. it reads, “ed balls.”

3. A tweet from nick_clegg: “Ed Balls.” this was followed by a tweet from edballs: “I agree with Nick… RT @nick_clegg: Ed Balls.”

4. Ed Balls’ Wikipedia page edited to have every single word replaced with the phrase, “Ed Balls.”

5. A photo of a selection of birthday cards marked as celebrating the event, “Ed Balls Day.” A tweet from Carousel_Lights remarks: “#EdBallsDay has become so commercialised. Shame really.”

6. A series of Coke bottles. The label on each reads, “Share a Coke with Ed Balls.”

7. A framed and signed version of the original Ed Balls tweet.

8. A photo of two Tesco’s Scotch eggs. A tweet from Tesco describes them as, “Egg Balls.”

9. A tweet from edballs, which reads: “Ed Balls #10LongYears.” Attached is a photo of Ed Balls holding a birthday cake with a “10” candle. /end ID]

[french-horn-offical]

omg I forgot about ed balls day

[vulpinesaint]

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

[ministarfruit]

HAPPY CANON APOLLO JUSTICE ACE ATTORNEY STARTS TODAY DAY

apollo was in fact not ready for what was about to occur

[cowinf]

Shoutout to the ace attorney localization team for making me laugh every 5 seconds

[andmaybegayer]

it still makes me go insane that somehow no social media site bothers to implement interleaved text and images. Fediverse cannot support it broadly, Bluesky can't handle it, Facebook can't do it, Twitter can't do it, fucking, LinkedIn doesn't do this, somehow only Tumblr has this, and it barely even counts as a popular social media site.

[palant1r]

well you see we're the new pdf

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.

"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"

2020:

[edgebug]

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

@joe-spookyy Ben and Socrates

@gooseontheinternet Chamomile and Beefy

@runawayy-rat Bartholomäus and Emo

@theunholystromboli Macrogryphosaurus, Xenoceratops, and Graciliraptor

@techlecticwtch Solas and Dorian

@merlyn-bane Roslyn and Rizzoli

@logictoinsanity Luna and Buttercup

@hagsthehag Orphie, Psyche, Calypso, Ariadne, and Eury

my sweet ladies Bonnie, Mira, An, and Tula

and of course, the irreplaceable

Neil,

who banged out the tunes