The Mercurial Turnip

Greetings! I am an aspiring novelist, an artist, and a spoonie living with CFS/ME. This is my main blog for rambling and rebloging the many and sundry things I think are cool. Secondary blogs for my own art here: https://paintedriver.tumblr.com/ and my writing here: https://thestorycrab.tumblr.com/

[mercurialturnip]

As a person living with a debilitating chronic illness, I take personal issue with the whole concept of 'manifesting'. It's just a vaguely new agey iteration on the old idea that if bad things are happening to you it's because you're Not Doing Things Right (unlike me, a person that stuff could never happen to because of my faith/clean living/positive can-do attitude). I get it, reality is scary. But this is not my fault, actually. A person can try their absolute best and have things turn out kind of shitty. That's just how it goes. That's why having both systems and the freeform will to support one another through the hard shit is so important. Needing that support absolutely can happen to anyone, and happens to most of us at some point in our lives.

[feather-bone]

Coral Snake King Snake

Which one has a spicy bite and which is a faker - do you know? :3c

[deadpowol]

[leahberman]

rise; zion national park, utah

instagram - twitter - website

[thecapturedspy]

Junicorn Day 2: Hippocampus A Koi variant! 🧡🖤

[audioexorcisms]

Lets dissect uncle to find his wish gland

[designerpets]

this is why commas are so

important 🤓

[audioexorcisms]

Where do you think the comma goes

[stickandthorn]

I’d die on the hill that “stranger danger” is a deeply unhelpful mentality to have. “Ooooh everyone is out to get me they’re all gonna perpetrate harm that’s actually more likely to come from someone I already know. I better never talk to anyone in my community who I don’t already know, just to be safe. I’m sure there are no other biases interwoven with this mentality” like oh my god human traffickers do not just randomly spawn in every parking lot. You don’t have to go solo hitchhiking across the country but you also don’t have to live in fear that every guy on the street is the knife man who’s gonna get you. Like have situational awareness, yeah. But most of the time the guy on the street is not knife man he’s actually just a guy on the street and he’s probably pretty chill, and you’re driving yourself crazy by living in a constant state of unnecessary fear.

[prokopetz]

I want a video game with realistic dick and balls physics not for any prurient reason, but... okay, so you know how in some games with boob physics, there's a palpable delay after a character model is instantiated before physics start to apply to the boobs, so it's like *pop* ... *FWOMP*? I want to see the cock version of that. Penis-having character spawns in, there's a beat, then the physics engine tries to play catch-up and applies a full second of gravitational acceleration to their junk all at once and they just randomly start helicoptering.

[midnightvoyager]

[prokopetz]

#wasnt that conan game basically this #idk i never played it (via @piedbirb)

Nah, Conan: Exiles saves on development costs there by applying the same physics simulation it uses for clothing to penises. It's basically treating the cock and balls as a bit of cloth hanging off your character's groin, which produces a totally different (albeit no less entertaining) set of failure modes.

[prokopetz]

(For those saying this is making them picture a character's penis flapping in the breeze like a flag on a pole or laundry on a line, that was actually, literally happening at launch. I'm not sure if they ever fixed it.)

[wisdomofanemptyheart]

Once, playing Conan Exiles with friends, we watched in wonder and horror as one guy's dong went zooming across the map. While still attached. The rest of the model remained in place at spawn while his camera followed the tip of an impossibly long weiner, racing across the desert.

[prokopetz]

As I understand it, there was a specific recurring bug where the tip of a character's penis (and only the tip) could become locked to world origin (i.e, coordinates 0,0,0) without affecting the rest of the model, and it took them a surprisingly long time to figure out why that was happening.

[fullcravings]

Lemon Cheesecake Cookies

[ethanmaldridge]

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

[drchucktingle]

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN

[zay4ik]

emerald moth

[tinybro]

so we have a conversational safeword in my group of friends and it’s great, idk why more people don’t do this. whenever someone wants a subject to be dropped immediately no questions asked we just say “spleen” and we stop immediately and it’s a really good way to avoid crossing the line between teasing friends and genuinely upsetting them by accident, or stopping debates from turning into actual arguments

[the-hopeful-lark]

Wait but no this is actually a brilliant idea. 

[imakegoodlifechoices]

When I was a little baby high school student, I used to do the Living Chessboard at our local Renaissance Faire. We always used “forsooth” to indicate if someone was actually injured and needed to quickly end a choreographed fight. It was also very useful when doing little street improvisations because if someone tried to stop you, you could say “forsooth good sir, I must leave.” and they knew you couldn’t do a scene right then. We all used it in real life too, to say “no really” and it was amazing because there was a word used in a casual setting that meant “I’m not playing, I need you do listen to me.” So if someone tried to pick me up or tickle me, I could say “forsooth stop.” And I was instantly obeyed. I had “forsooth” long before I learned what a safeword was, and having a non-sexual safeword for everyday use amongst a circle of friends was the best thing ever. It made me feel very safe and listened to, even as a tiny 14 year old. Because let’s be honest, 14 year old me was teeny tiny and adorable and it’s easy to coo at kids when they say “no don’t pick me up!” but to have a word that every single person respected to mean “whatever I say after this MUST be listened to” was amazing. It gave me a definitive voice when it would have been easy to dismiss me.

So basically having platonic safewords is awesome and I’m all for it.

[memewhore]

[chibisquirt]

#i'm losing my SHIT#would you like to not see a dog?#it's brown Thank you, @dreamwaffles, that's it EXACTLY 😂

[rip13y]

[iamoutofideas]

looks thru a glory hole & sees a train coming straight towards me

[maureen2musings]

Postcards from Yellowstone

peekinourjournal

[hbmmaster]

we need to periodically remind everyone that a headline not including a person's name isn't an attempt to erase their identity from the narrative, it's just not good practice to put someone's name in a headline unless the reader can be expected to already know who they are

[hbmmaster]

"if you can say the name in the article why can't you say the name in the headline?" what do you think a headline is for