imagine you are a freight train bringing me the cargo of love

rowan! 22, white, they/she/he

[naturesgender]

rowanberry-marmalade -> naturesgender

hey gang it's ro! working on making a caard and maybe a pronouny! in the meantime, check my blog header for an updated description! mutuals please like if you read this so i know you know who i am! <3

[zeroperks]

what if a shrimp was a baby..........................

[seatrench]

New Zealand Longfin Eel

(source)

[hydemind]

I really felt this tag

[droptheguillotineplease]

@ra-assputin

[thedreadvampy]

I have never. Seen this specific typesetting mistake before. I've seen editing mistakes I've seen writing mistakes I've seen typos aplenty I have never seen someone accidentally paste the file version details into the text while typesetting.

that's the first page of the book as well like. I'm assuming this got missed because it obviously happened after the copy was finalised. that's an InDesign file (and not the first InDesign file of the project (clock the 'V2')) so idk much about the publishing process but this is presumably final final steps before committing to print.

but like. idk. this is delightful to me. this is such a specific error. wow.

[queenanthai]

...I would've caught it

[thedreadvampy]

Idk if you've ever done a final proof after also personally doing 50+ rounds of minor edits in a 200+ page document but let me be the first to say No The Fuck You Wouldn't.

this post is not about how someone made a lazy mistake this post is if anything about how publishers don't invest in a separate proofreader to do a final pass after locking in the document.

(but mostly it's about how this is an unusual flavour of edit error that's largely funny to me but also has unlocked a New Fear for my work. I hope the typesetters for this book have lovely days. it's also a really good book so far. publishers invest in proofing challenge.)

[retroject]

I found a lovely snail at work who was dried out so I let him have a shower and he seemed to enjoy it!! 🐌🚿

[scififantasystuff]

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This snower (snail shower) is joyful and whimsical! 🐌🚿

[forestgreenandgray]

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

[00000066]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

[lizzorasaurus]

The new live laugh love

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

[battletoads]

sega had me terminated for these

[naturesgender]

almost got fooled by the girl i am in this man's bed song but it's ai generated!! you will not catch me!!!!!!!!!

[itshype]

Quick question. When someone asks what age you were in a certain year do you give the age that you were before or after your birthday that year?

Do you give the younger or older of the two ages you were that year?

I give the younger (age before your birthday in a given calendar year)

I give the older (age after your birthday in a given calendar year)

Voting ended onMay 15

[memorycycle]

driving my wild boar and i feel a slight bump and i look in the rearview mirror and see a squashed honda civic

[rottencore]

This post keeps making me cry laughingg

[natalieironside]

Due to my weird childhood and my weird brain, I have this very unhelpful compulsion to conceal Everything I do from Everyone. I Cannot be observed performing any action, no matter how mundane. My nervous system is convinced I'm gonna, like, Get In Trouble for eating food at dinnertime or sleeping in my bed at bedtime.

I've taken to asking myself, "Okay does this task actually require subterfuge or am I stealing a balloon on Free Balloon Day"

[kittiescatlover]

What if kitties had a festival called kitties festival

[kittiescatlover]

And all of the kitties had to go so you had to help them pack a little bag with coins a toy and lunch if they are not going to buy it at the kitties festival

[sobcat]

kitten waiting for the kitties festival bus to pick it up

[monster2003]

I’m putting in my too weak notice.

[starlitbeetle]

Hey all, while we're busy normalizing women with hairy legs, hairy armpits and bushy pubes, let's also normalize women with hairy upper lips, hairy chins, hairy side burns, hairy chests, and all the other places where women are supposedly magically hair-free.