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Your 20s are not about getting your life together they're about learning to escape the self imposed torture labyrinth you've built inside your own head

quietwingsinthesky

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

quietwingsinthesky

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

kaity--did

Tonight on My Husband Doesn’t Know How to Baby Talk

“Ma’am, are you aware that these, right here are your hands? They belong to you. And you get to decide what happens with them. So when you use these hands to pull your binky out of your mouth that is not necessarily a dad problem. I’ll fix it obviously i just want you to acknowledge it’s not my fault”

kaity--did

Husband: ma’am it has been reported lately that you do in fact have tiny little toes and a little button nose, do you care to comment?

Penny Rose: Babbles in Baby

Husband: RIVETING!

kaity--did

Penny Rose: Does that High Pitched Baby Yell ™️

Husband: Let it out friend! Feel your feelings!

kaity--did

Me: Hehehe silly husband doesn’t know how to do baby talk

All of tumblr collectively at my husband:

kaity--did

Penny Rose: does a sad baby scream

Husband: you don’t even have to understand taxes yet! I can explain them but you’ve got several years before that’s relevant!

Penny Rose: wide eyes, staring at her father, almost intrigued

Husband: I lied to you Penny your mother does our taxes. Do you want to know about arbitration? I know all about arbitration.

kaity--did

THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND

yes he just walks around the house and talks to her like this

kaity--did

Penny Rose: Cooing as twinkle twinkle little star plays

Husband: Now Penny there is a lot of misinformation out there in the world and I hate to tell you this but the moon is in fact not made of cheese. That is a conspiracy theory pushed by Big Dairy.

????

kaity--did

Husband: Holds Penny Rose up to her reflection in the microwave

Husband: you see Penny Rose! This was the M. Night Shyamalan twist! You were mirror baby all along!

kaity--did

FYI this is how you get a Deals Warlock if you were wondering

justplainsalty

I have follow up questions:

1) Did you participate in baby talk to make up for your husband's deficit, or did you also opt to speak to the Deals Warlock like a very tiny adult from babyhood?

1a) If you participated in baby talk with Penny, did she ever do any code switching with you while she was learning to talk (I mean, babyish talk back to you but fully formed adult like you share with us to Lawyer Dad)?

kaity--did

I didn't baby talk with her very much either! I think I squealed at her more than my husband did.

Something funny that has happened is that while she formally calls me Mama when she's answering me in passing she does call me "My Darling Love" and I don't know for sure but I think it's because I call her and her father "my loves" and her father calls me and her "darlings" and she's created a mash up 😂

So I'll say "okay penny it's time for bed" and I'll just hear "okay my darling love!" 😂

kaity--did

Everyone is always so so kind on this post but I do want to warn you all that this did in fact lead to an insanely verbal child, and if you choose that life you have to commit to that life.

Penny Rose is now 5 years old and she

1. Starts talking the moment she opens her eyes to the moment she passes out at night

2. Asks, and I am not exaggerating I counted, an average of 892 questions a day

3. Does not accept "I don't know" as an answer to said questions, will usually have a follow up question as to why you don't know OR a suggestion on how we can find out together

I pay for limitless data and have 709 Google tabs open on my phone at all times

amnesiaguy

you can experience life altering devastating emotion and then your cat will throw up next to you & look at you like does this help ?

fuckyeahchinesefashion

OP: Why couldn’t traditional Chinese Yinpiao银票/silver drafts be forged if they were merely slips of paper? (cr大明宝钞，渐越)

Traditional Chinese yinpiao/silver drafts were paper vouchers issued by private banks starting from the Song Dynasty(960–1279). People could exchange these slips for physical silver at bank branches across the country.

Silver drafts were made in multiple copies with matching serrated seal edges. One copy went to the customer and others stayed at the bank. All edges had to fit perfectly together to withdraw silver. The unique split edge marks were almost impossible to copy.

This mechanism is known as qifeng骑缝 (split-joint seal) in China. It first originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). The Rites of Zhou records that contracts were written on bamboo or wooden slips in duplicate. Notches and marks were carved in the middle before splitting the slips, with each party keeping one half. The two halves would be matched by their notches for verification.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 BC), this idea evolved into hufu虎符/tiger tally tokens. A military tally was split into two pieces with identical inscriptions carved along the split edge. Troops could only be deployed if the patterns and characters on both halves perfectly aligned, serving as a metal version of the split-joint anti-counterfeiting system.

The technology matured in the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Government documents and private contracts commonly used split-joint seals stamped across the dividing line. The Chinese character "hetong合同" (contract) was written across the middle before the paper was torn apart, so the complete characters would only appear when the two halves were put together. This split-coupon system was later adopted for Song Dynasty (960–1279) jiaozi paper money and yinpiao/silver drafts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912).

Official Song dynasty paper money (Jiaozi交子) was abolished in 1107. Private silver drafts issued by Qing-era piaohao票行 (ancient exchange banks) vanished completely in 1951, hit hard by modern banks and currency reforms. Nowadays silver drafts no longer circulate as currency. Their collectible value depends on their rarity and physical condition.

Split-joint seals (骑缝章qifengzhang)are still widely used on important paper documents in modern China, an anti-tampering technique passed down from ancient times. They are applied across the edge of multi-page contracts, bidding documents and official archives. If any page is removed or replaced, the broken seal pattern can prove the file has been altered.

blurds

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks

luxshine

The “Thunk” will always kill me.

falconratesbirds

14/10 doing his best

littleguysdaily

dragon-in-a-fez

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

dragon-in-a-fez

reblog this post to help a child break the law

0x5742

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

ralfmaximus

As of June 29, 2026 the law discussed here is a recently passed California state law (AB 1043) that requires age validation before using a computer connected to the internet. This is expected to happen at the operating system level, when you login to Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc.

Ageless Linux intends to force the issue before the California state supreme court, then ultimately (probably) the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). It's a stupid, dangerous law, voted into place by legislators who either don't understand the core issue OR knowingly voted for it because they're assholes.

California is an influential state in the US. Many laws & regulations passed there eventually trickle out to most states. That's why it's worrisome to see this kind of thing rammed through, and why it's important to fight it.

Also, it doesn't matter if you use Linux or not. Or whether you live in California or not. Visit their site, read the text, learn what's going on with access to computing in this hellscape timeline.

standwithdaanes

#ALSO reminder you can put Linux on a USB drive and use it on basically any machine you have unsecured physical access to

Justin McElroy actually just made a tutorial (part of his "Technically Competent" series of him fucking around with technology) on how to put Linux on a computer using a USB

transcyberism

so what I was referencing with those tags is actually even simpler and easier - once you have your live USB install media loaded like the video details, you can just run the OS right off the USB drive without actually installing it on the computer's hard drive. With most distros you can even save files and have persistent storage that way.

ndnbutch

sometimes i talk about how awful it was to feel trapped by my daily makeup routine and how i couldn’t leave the house without putting on a full face and it played a major role in the misery of my high school experience because i had to spend so much extra time getting ready in the mornings and that followed me into my early 20s as well and it was hell and it was so incredibly liberating to go through the slow and uncomfortable but ultimately essential process of getting my bare face back and having makeup be an optional accessory instead of a mandatory uniform. and the response always tends to be ah yes of course, because of your trans and your masculine. and it’s like aha so close! actually! I think if I ended up being a feminine cis woman I also still would not deserve even a second of that shit! I think trans women and nonbinary people and every human alive should have the option to leave the house without a single cosmetic product ever touching their face! but thanks for playing!

ndnbutch

and when I say people should have the option obviously I do not mean “yeah you can but everyone’s gonna treat you like you’re frumpy and weird.” I also kinda don’t even mean “you’re beautiful even without makeup!!” because like. well of course i think many people are. some of the most beautiful faces i have ever seen in my life have had not a drop of makeup on them. and that’s awesome or whatever. but it’s also kind of irrelevant to the overall point I’m actually making. really what im saying is it shouldn’t fucking matter if you are beautiful or even pleasant to look at at all! you should be able to just be, all the time no matter what. everyone around you should just treat you like a person who is worthy of respect and fair treatment regardless of what you look like. I am of course keenly aware that that is not presently actually how things work much of the time. but that end goal is what my stance on makeup is informed by. you should never ever ever fucking need it to be treated with decency.

imstillalexcomic

I’ve genuinely come a long way over the years, I really believe that.

I'm Still Alex - Webtoon | Tapas | Linktree | Patreon

As terrifying as it was the Thursday night I got to Detroit, I’m glad I felt that old fear again; it served as a reminder of where I used to be socially and just how far I still have to go.

The event also was a beautiful showcase on how we all work on bettering ourselves; we have to put in the individual effort, sure, but we also rely on the help of our friends.

Coming into Webcomicon, the only person I had met before and chatted with on the regular was Fran @crazygnomenclature . Despite not really knowing me at all, Hollering Elk @holleringelk and ZCAura instantly treated me like I was just one of the group, as if things had always been that way.

They introduced me to folks and as the con progressed, I myself started to feel like I was one of the regulars. Part of that was because I gave myself something familiar to do, shoot video. I offered to shoot b-roll ZCAura’s coverage of the event, and it seems like people started to know me as “that camera lady”, which is definitely something I’m happy to be!

Colossal shoutout to Nick Seluk (The Awkward Yeti), the event organizer. Upon meeting me Thursday night, he invited me to the Artist’s Roundtable the next day, which was an absolute honor. I’d also like to shout out in particular Heather who was moderating the panels, Nicholas Gurewitch (Perry Bible Fellowship) for gifting me a signed print after I lost my mind upon meeting him, Tom Savage (Ash & Raimi) for being a wonderful person and absolute dear to talk to, and all the con volunteers and organizers.

Allllllsssssooooooo Julia Kaye @upandoutcomic , I was so excited to meet her and she’s just as cool as I imagined.

Additional shoutout to Evelyn at Possum Punks. We did a rocking rendition of Sweet Transvestite at karaoke (if anyone took a video of that let me know!).

Also want to celebrate Elk’s roommate who was staying with us as well. You’re so wonderful and kind and sweet and I appreciate the conversation we had Sunday night.

Much love to all of you, <3

luna-azzurra

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

palezma

"As Rose she improved but... but... as Pink Diamond she was a bad person"

palezma

you thought you could hide this gem in the tags I WILLL NOT LET YOU

#steven universe

romanceyourdemons

so crazy that comedy media is widely considered lower-brow and therefore easier/less deserving of praise than dramatic media, because comedy writing is such a science and as someone who usually lives in drama world this comedy segment i’m working on is whipping my ass

romanceyourdemons

i’m doing what my friends who have studied comedy writing recommend, blocking out the scenes without any jokes then adding in jokes afterwards from my log i’ve been keeping of any jokes at all i can think of, and even though that makes it easier it’s still really tricky. now that i’ve selected “trying to have a serious conversation while sitting on rickety chairs that keep wobbling and breaking” for the high stakes cards game beat i have to get three different layers of pacing (chairs, game, wider plot) both rock solid on their own AND synced up each other AND i need to keep the dialogue in character while also being witty and appropriately homaging the casino royale genre and i’m losing my mind. o mighty spirits of stephen chow, mel brooks, and ben stiller, with dark magic i summon thee and charge thee to make this chairs gag work

sawed-on-shotgun

Im glad they made up romance for stories and music but can you imagine how scary it would be to deal with all that for real

sawed-on-shotgun

this is a certified AROMANTIC POST!!!!!!!!!!! NO yearning on my shit..... GO ON . GET

aromanticofficial

official aromantic post

kragehund-est

problematic rage gap. one partner tries to bring nuance and understanding to a tough situation. the other wants to blow up the earth about it.

egberts

"i ate too many cookies" is truly an ageless problem. an unlearnable lesson.

catboybiologist

"Getting into this hobby is actually super cheap and easy!!!! First, start with a section of land and a house that you own and can mess up at your discretion"

catboybiologist

The original inspiration for this is that I've looked up a lot of basic woodworking stuff multiple times to try and make better and better tortoise enclosures, and ended up in this trap every time lmao

catboybiologist

"It's much cheaper to just buy this size of wood and take it to your table saw" WHAT FUCKING TABLE SAW

kaiasky

the secret is that people who have a garage with a table saw are constantly looking for reasons to justify that use of space and money. so if you find somebody with a table saw and ask if you can use it, you're actually doing them a huge favor by justifying the saw continuing to take up space. "of course I need a table saw. what if somebody needs to upgrade a turtle enclosue."