Can I interest you in everything, all of the time?

Miri ♥ old enough to have seen some shit ♥ she/her/hers ♥ aroace. English. Teacher. Degree in over-analysing fiction. Emotions over characters a lot. Currently living in Japan. I have a queue running from about 3-12pm GMT, so if you see me posting around then you can probably assume it's that. This is a multifandom blog, whose main focus depends heavily on what my dash is reblogging today and/or what shows are currently airing. A complete list of fandoms you'll find on here would take forever, so just rest assured that I always tag stuff with the fandom for your TS needs. (Also included on this blog are random nonfandom things that make me feel things or I think look cool, and a fair bit of posting about social justice issues.) I'm something of a multishipper. Even if I don't ship it, my policy is ship and let ship, so I won't judge you for yours if you don't judge me for mine.

[transfemininomenon]

the phrase really should be "eat your cake and have it too" im with the unabomber on this one

[markovchaingang]

americans are a saudi oil baron's idea of classy. brits are an american's idea of classy. the french are a brit's idea of classy. unfortunately the chain ends here since the french's idea of classy is also the french

[lordsausage]

shoutout to the words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday". english losing these words was stupid. "the day after tomorrow" "the day before yesterday" clunky-ass constructions. revolting. i'm bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it

[rosettyller]

Behind the scenes of PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[klappersacks]

(via File Photo)

[mudwerks]

WTF are those obelisks on the right?…

[pricklylegs-deactivated20250727]

Tasty obelisk fries..

[memewhore]

“It’s digestible” has got to be the laziest goal I’ve ever seen achieved by a food product.

[gingerhaze]

“It’s digestible”

[rhea314]

“It’s digestible” is pertinent!! Okay, for those of you who haven’t researched Crisco for writing fic about gay sex in the mid-late 60s:

The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.”  Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index.  Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5]  In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s.  Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco.  Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.

from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html

The more you know! :D

[nianeyna]

I have learned a new thing today.

[soupwife]

Love this post for so many reasons but most especially because this is from all the way back in 2012 and and yet not a single blog in this thread is deactivated

[nianeyna]

I enjoy that not only does this have a link to an actual source, but the link still fucking works.

[dancinbutterfly]

but @rhea314 you didnt include a picture of the crisco disco! AND MY GOD THE DJ BOOTH WAS A GIANT CRISCO CAN!

Go dance and get fisted. Fucking iconic.

[mr-elementle]

Love the gay history, but i just wanna correct that the “it’s digestible” in the gay stuff was a reference to crisco’s tagline it had been using since 1911, the actual meaning of its digestible is because it’s main competition came from “enhanced” lards which were rendered pig fat mixed with non food thickeners that literally did not digest and caused people to basically just shit out pig cream, since crisco was veggie based the body digested it along with the food

[papapastoral]

And in case you were still wondering, @mudwerks.. Tuna Croquettes

[elf7knight]

This post is the opposite of net zero information. Not only did I learn several new facts about gay history but also we rounded our way back to the original question of the tag line and the mini obelisks.

It’s a net profit of information. 12/10 post

[cowardsexual]

the thing about "eridian worldbuilding" is that you need to make 3 in-depth, separate cultures MINIMUM. then you need to give them all separate reasons to think the other is ridiculous. this is necessary so you can triangulate how most people on erid felt about first contact being established by someone like rocky, the same way i look at grace's white americanisms and want to bash my head against a wall

[cowardsexual]

#do the eridians even know the rest of planet earth is not That into burgers... #actually tags cancelled i just made myself cough-laugh imagining myself in grace's position #trying to get the eridians to use my cloned lab meat to recreate the humble bunnings sausage sizzle. #okay more seriously how much interplanetary diplomatic awkwardness was caused #by grace and rocky both confidently going 'humans are like this' and 'eridians are like this' #and they both just mean their respective cultures. theres nuance.

(tags via @grimark)

first of all lmfao, second of all YEAH!!! Hang on I need to yap about this, I have so many opinions.

To make an example: one of the details in the book I keep returning to is Rocky's attitude around eating. Weir mentioned in various interviews that the idea came to him as a subversion of how aggressively social the act of eating is for humans compared to other biological needs. Which is a fair enough place to start with, but this kind of social taboo is usually tied to reasons like sanitation and avoiding risk of infection. Which fits, since as monostomes the process of nutrition and waste disposal are inextricably tied for an Eridian (not to mention the whole Making An Open Wound Per Meal deal).

Thing is, that wouldn't necessarily extend to the preparation of food, but Rocky is still uncomfortable and asks Grace not to comment while preparing his meal. Meat on Erid requires butchering to separate the viable parts from the nonviable. The Eridians doc describes the act of manually tearing food to pieces as pleasurable, "similar to chewing good food for humans"... except butchering larger prey is something that would require collaboration, and (shared) pleasure is just as much of a biological incentive towards social behaviour as fear.

I think it would be interesting if this was a peculiarity of Rocky's specific culture! Or if there was another Eridian clan who, due to climatic or migratory reasons, had to deal with recurring food scarcity and was used to curing and preserving large quantities of food to stock up as a consequence. This would decouple food preparation from the (gross) act of eating itself, making it more positive and commensal.

Imagine Grace striking up conversation with the nutrition technician that organises his taste tests like, "hey thank you for all you're doing, I know dealing with food is super gross for Eridians. just want you to know i appreciate it a lot" and the technician is like "??? huh? oh—OH. saviour grace misunderstands. preserving food and making it edible very fun where I'm from."

"Seriously? Rocky always said it was embarrassing"

"Not surprising, Saviour Rocky ♩♪♫ Eridian. ♩♪♫ Eridians ridiculous about food."

In the end Grace gets invited to join the seasonal butchering (ie spectate from his xenonite enclosure and try to pay back the cultural exchange by badly recounting how to prepare a thanksgiving turkey). Rocky also insists on being there (he's jealous) except he just lurks near the periphery while visibly uncomfortable and not talking to anyone LMAOO

[ouroborosorder]

at the JRPG cafe, and the drink sizes are sod, soda, and sodaga

[bidoof]

Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them

[mycatisnamedfrank]

It’s still gonna shoot… And they’re gonna lose a finger

[bidoof]

No. The finger blocks the bullet. We can do this

[domozillla-deactivated20181216]

This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.

[bidoof]

The finger blocks it

[dildomuncher3000]

The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.

[bidoof]

The bullet would go forward a little and then hit the finger and stop it’s not that hard to understand

[fifty-percent-possessed-deactiv]

People are going to lose their hands. Go watch Mythbusters. They did an episode on this, the hand fucking exploded.

[hungwy]

No, the bullet would start to go but stop at the finger. Thats basic physics. Also hands dont explode normally they did something wrong.

[blipblerp]

Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.

[gorps]

No the finger would stop it

[joryboi]

I’m loving the idiocy of this post.

Ppl with brains: ummm finger go boom…

Others: no bullet stop. U no kno fisics >:V

[foulserpent]

no the finger would stop it

[indianworiorprincess-blog]

You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses

[foulserpent]

the finger would stop it

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 28th of december, 2015.

[petalsbleedingbeak]

These fuckwits are back again? How’s it going, Nine Finger Nasty? About to turn into an Eight Finger Egghead?

@meatswitch @raptorific this is a US based site. US Americans are known for two things- obsession with guns and incredible stupidity. Had this been anyone else, I’d say they’re trying to fuck with us. But with US Americans, about 70% of them are dead serious about mangling their hands trying to stop a bullet.

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

I’ve had four years to think about it and now I think the finger would stop it

[gorps]

I just tested it with my buddy. It stops the bullet

[several-large-churros]

….Mythbusters WELDED A METAL SPIKE into the barrel of a gun to obstruct it, something heaps stronger than a human finger (and sealed the barrel better with the filler metal used to fuse the metal spike into place and prevent the explosive gases from escaping) but even that didn’t stop the bullet from doing damage.

[gorps]

It’s because they didn’t use a finger like I did

[notquiteaghost]

ryland grace aroace realisation moment but it's not grace driving it at all... grace is in his forties and now thinks of himself as a guy with a very low sex drive (which does Just Happen, he's a biologist he knows these things vary. maybe his mother didn't drink enough milk while pregnant with him, maybe it's a genetic mutation, mostly it doesn't matter that much) who doesn't want someone in his house. he IS an incredibly lonely person but that's because he doesn't have FRIENDS because he has the autism cptsd where you would rather peel off your own skin than let other people See You. like he is a bit fucked up about not having a spouse but it's cuz a spouse is supposed to be someone who understands you and is on your side anyway. he wants a best friend. he started writing this off as impossible while still in high school and oh boy is he in way too deep now to start interrogating how he's maybe made a self-fulfilling prophecy

enter rocky!!!!!!!

rocky who has never met a human and who has been alone for forty-six years and who is thinking about four different things at once always. rocky who has a best friend he had to leave behind, a best friend he's been missing like a limb. rocky who has absolutely no cultural frame of reference for living Alone, apart from the four and a half decades he just spent living alone that have made him just a little bit (very very very) insane. grace live alone on PURPOSE question? no one watch grace sleep ON PURPOSE, QUESTION??? earth not have psychology, question?????

like. rocky learns grace doesn't have a mate and is like, yeah not everyone has One Person who ticks all the boxes i can get that i have a frame of reference for that. personally i did meet My Person while young enough i can't really comprehend being an adult without them but that is notably lucky at home too. but he learns grace doesn't have close friends and is concerned. he is very concerned!!!! grace you are a pack animal!!!!

and grace has to be like, look my specific subset of human culture works in this specific way. where there isn't actually a lot of social pressure to form long-lasting friendships because-- well, okay, so i am not a social sciences guy but when we invented advertising, companies realised they can sell more things if everyone has to have their own individual thing so then they started going all in on reasons to have Your Own Individual Thing, and if all households only have two adults-- that's a gross oversimplification, there are a lot of factors. you have a society you know how it works. my point is the focus is on finding one person to fill all your pack animal needs, and i tried that once and it didn't work and, y'know, it just seemed like more effort than it was worth. and anyway i DID have friends, okay, we were all grown adults with jobs, MOST people don't see their friends that often!

and rocky says. wow earth sound terrible. and grace says well maybe a bit yeah. and rocky says need word, like mate but friend. grace says friend??? rocky says no i know friend, friend But More. friend meaning-intensifier deepest-affection-indicator legal-obligation-indicator. grace says well partner i guess but that's not exclusively platonic and you aren't usually. married? eridians marry friends???

rocky says SOME friends. best friends. most best friends. rocky marry grace question?

and grace says What.

rocky says grace stuck with rocky forever ever ever statement. grace know this. rocky marry grace statement

grace says What.

rocky says grace willing DIE for rocky but not marry rocky??? grace many psychological problems.

grace says typically you wait longer. on earth. before proposing.

(they're like two months into the journey to erid)

rocky says yes yes wait until sure. grace willing die for rocky. how much more sure does grace think can rocky get, statement. grace rocky save stars.

and grace is like okay. right. i need to, uh. i'm gonna lay on the floor for a bit. and rocky says okay have fun i look for better word

and then rocky goes on an internet deep dive so he can find 'queerplatonic' (rocky's language is like german with compound words and he's fascinated that english doesn't do this more and he's been reading the dictionary for fun), and then when grace returns from floor time rocky's like new words! queerplatonic! amanormativity! aromantic! asexual! and grace says. no you reproduce asexually, humans definitely do not do that. rocky says yes english confusing. same word mean something else. asexual: english word for human with notably low desire for sex. grace: human with notably low desire for sex. grace aware thinking machine has information beyond serialised visual fiction songs question?

and grace says, i didn't NEED a word, rock, there does not have to be a word for absolutely everything. rocky says miscommunication major plot point of all serialised visual fiction songs because humans never miscommunicate question? strange novel experience for humans question? grace says having a million specific words does NOT prevent miscommunication. rocky says yes because humans can't do enough tones. rocky grace queerplatonic question? grace leaking, grace full of shit, rocky find grace good important words grace be GRATEFUL. command.

[gunsandfireandshit]

[xinyuehui]

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ 敖尹 VALKO: CHASING NIGHT ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆

[roarrzilla]

[ospreyonthemoon]

Pick up trash in someone’s garden

[big-condiments-official]

go deliver mail

[thesylverlining]

Hang up on the boss

[chatty-protagonist]

Repair some old jewelry

[queen-mihai]

Drive around randomly

[godmodebeginswithlesbians]

be an unpaid unliscensed therapist

[illegiblehandwriting1]

Make bad guacamole

[biblicallyinaccuratespoons]

complete agricultural tasks

[kissmyfloppydisc]

go through courtroom proceedings

[ot3]

common misconception but ultimately untrue. what edgeworth has going on is an incredibly straightforward combination of daddy issues, autism, strict upbringing, and poorly repressed homosexuality. robust, yes, but not complicated. whatever the fuck makes phoenix act like that is an issue that the subject's top scholars are still debating today. nothing so easily summarized.

[phantomarine]

the new goal of online fandoms seems to be getting the creator to stop loving their work

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

imagine youre a fat horse and your new neighbour is a personal trainer

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

horse that reads Marcus Aurelius

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

I was wrong. they didnt rock lee him. this horse is literally Gai. and i wish he was my dad

[theterribletenno]

I'm not going to fuck my computer