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[teathattast]

[auguris]

Has anyone warned @copperbadge yet

[copperbadge]

What a lot of people outside of Chicago may not realize is that The Beans are a native species to this region and right now is baby season! What you're seeing there is probably just an instance of a young mature The Bean being kept in a secure enclosure, probably due to some kind of injury that's being rehabbed.

In urban Chicago around this time of year if you want to go The Bean spotting you mostly just need to keep an eye out around downtown drugstores for formations like this.

I took this picture myself in a Walgreens. As you can see we have a nice healthy-looking family group consisting of a parent The Bean, several juveniles who will often stay with the parent for several years, and some newborns this year who naturally group up protectively near any large sign reading "Chicago".

The Beans are usually extremely docile and can even be kept as pets once the juveniles separate from their family group, since they are low-maintenance and require only a small flat area such as a desk or bookshelf on which to recline. Fun fact, a group of The Beans such as pictured above is known as a Tchochki!

[copperbadge]

One of the reasons I structured NaClYoHo they way I did, using podcasts to time how long I spent working, was the permission it gives you to stop.

It feels as though yesterday and today I didn't get much done. I started yesterday with an episode of Lunchbox Envy (mushrooms) and mostly did a very peremptory cleaning of the floors -- swept then vacuumed, and picked up a few things. Nothing that won't need to be done again in a week or two. Today, I took out a bunch of trash while I listened to the latest episode of Criminal, about "reality" media hoaxes, using the infamous 1992 Ghost Watch special as a framework.

(Ghost Watch as a piece of media fascinates me and as a horror film is extremely effective; that said, the content has not aged especially well, between the transphobia and ableism. It's a real shame because neither is even necessary to tell the story.)

Anyway, while I listened I emptied every trash can in the unit, kitchen and living room, bathroom, litterbox trash, bedroom trash. Most needed it and it was nice to get rid of it all, including some recycling in the front hallway.

I picked up a package from the office downstairs, packed most of my bag for Milwaukee at the end of the week (I'm visiting Hodag for our one year anniversary) and did a little clean out of the fridge, nothing more than emptying a few containers and setting them aside to be washed. I also discovered that I had no fresh cat litter since the sitter had refilled the box but left the container next to it and I didn't realize the container was empty, so a fresh box is winging its way to me now.

It didn't feel like much. But the point is that you're not supposed to do much at once. And I did do plenty; I worked at various cleaning tasks for a solid hour, because that's how long the Criminal episode was. And I now have permission, which my brain sometimes needs, to stop cleaning even though the coffee table is still cluttered and the kitchen floor is kinda gross. I can steam clean the floor tomorrow. I have all month to figure out the rest.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[copperbadge]

The sandwich gender spectrum post has escaped containment again and reading the responses at this point is almost as fascinating as the original field work that provided the data. It's very hard for some people to grasp, even on Tumblr, that sandwiches have no inherent gender.

Liking a specific sandwich does not gender you in any meaningful way. Loudly rejecting a sandwich because it would portray you as too effeminate or masculine, or demanding a sandwich as a way of asserting your gender identity -- that is the what I'm discussing, not the sandwich itself. A man eating a veggie wrap doesn't impact my data because that's actually very normal; men performatively rejecting a veggie wrap as too feminine is what the post is about.

Don't get dysphoria because you like a sandwich that the patriarchy has assigned to another gender, my beloved trans readers. That's the tox-cis-ity talking.

[copperbadge]

You know, that's fair.

[knitmeapony]

I was thinking about your sandwich science earlier because I'm thinking of giving bottled water and those little single serving drink sticks out to parents along with the candy this year. I drink a lot of crystal light, because hey it's what I'm used to, and I had a weird thought that maybe I should get a second brand like Gatorade because Crystal Light is very feminine coded.

I have since decided that I am going to give packets of instant coffee and tea out so people can have a hot drink when they get home, since it fits in a pocket, produces less waste, and doesn't have that weird gender issue associated with it. But still, I couldn't believe I was having that little argument with myself about whether or not someone would reject a lemonade because it was the girly kind.

[copperbadge]

Oh,what a cool idea! Especially in Chicago where it's so cold usually. Not to ignore the Gendered Beverage self-debate, but that's a really kind thing to do!

[knitmeapony]

I even managed to squeeze in some fancy cookies.

[copperbadge]

The Great Porcine Potentilla Heist

Title: The Great Porcine Potentilla Heist Fandom: Good Omens Rating: Explicit; Aziraphale/Crowley Summary: Having accidentally posed as Aziraphale's boyfriend to the whole entire world and brought a plague of hipsters down upon the bookshop, Crowley flees with Aziraphale to Tadfield, where they hatch a plan to steal a flower. Notes: When going through my WIP folder I discovered there was actually a reasonably completed work in there, so I thought I'd post it up. This was written after the first season of Good Omens and doesn't take into account the contents of Season Two.

Read it on AO3 here!

[nonyalv]

Oh, hello. Fancy meeting you here.

[moiradvinskaya]

I just finished "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and immediately went on tmbr to look for some metas, as one does, but for some reason almost no one mentions my favorite part of Buffy/Spike dynamic. This quote:

I feel like this is the most important part of Spike's character. Everyone knows that he's a loverboy, but damn! Usually loverboys want her to be theirs, but not Spike! He's a knight, a poet.

William is shown as not particularly masculine person. He's sensitive, he has some deep mommy issues, but

Anyway, his wish to be hers, not the over way around, is, I think, the reason Spike is such a fan favorite. Sadly, it's rare to see characters written like this

[schistcity]

gotham is exactly the right amounts of wet and socioeconomically unstable to have spawned an INSANE grunge scene you just know their local shit is like the sonic equivalent of getting hit over the head with a car battery

[schistcity]

bruce wayne has his finger on the pulse of gotham's underground music scene he's like "listen to this" and he puts on a cassette he bought for $10 from a guy under a bridge and its like 90 minutes of some guy crooning in a flooded warehouse with a guitar amp they found in the river and there's active gunfire in the background of half the songs

[schistcity]

gotham grunge band "arkham fire" debut album "DYING ALL THE TIME" becomes the world's first snuff record because their guitarist is killed by the joker in the middle of the fifth track and it is unequivocally considered their best song

[elizabeth-freaking-bennet]

Lizzie Bennet before she started liking Darcy

[zipadeea]

One of my favorite things about Pride and Prejudice is the Bennet family’s complete cluelessness about Darcy and Elizabeth. Like, if this were a tv show about the Bennets, Darcy and Elizabeth are like, the D storyline. The whole family is trying to get Jane and Bingley together, the regiment is stationed in Meryton, Mr. Collins is taking the house, Lydia and Wickham are obviously the climax, these people have a lot going on. And then, once the regiment has left and Jane and Lydia and Mr. Collins are married and everything seems resolved: plot twist! They’ve got random nobility at the door in the middle of the night telling the know-it-all sister who has been home on and off through the year not to marry the rando rich guy they all hate simply because they’re family and loyal to each other damnit and he called the know-it-all sister ugly once. 

And then, of course, they all find out Lizzy and Darcy are actually very in love and literally all of the good things that have happened to them this year are a direct consequence of Darcy loving Lizzy lolol. 

[charminglygrouped]

Mr. Darcy is so irrelevant to all of their lives that Kitty forgets his name:

Her daughters were eagerly called to partake of her joy. Jane resolutely kept her place at the table; but Elizabeth, to satisfy her mother, went to the window—she looked—she saw Mr. Darcy with him, and sat down again by her sister. “There is a gentleman with him, mamma,” said Kitty; “who can it be?” “Some acquaintance or other, my dear, I suppose; I am sure I do not know.” “La!” replied Kitty, “it looks just like that man that used to be with him before. Mr. what’s his name—that tall, proud man.” “Good gracious! Mr. Darcy!—and so it does, I vow. Well, any friend of Mr. Bingley’s will always be welcome here, to be sure; but else I must say that I hate the very sight of him.”

[sugarcube-stillabookworm]

nothing will ever live up to the moment when after devouring over 250 pages deeply immersed in the characters and story and after the emotions of the proposal I reached the very end of the letter that turns everything on its head only to find out that Mr Darcy's name is Fitzwilliam

[sugarcube-stillabookworm]

how could i forget to mention that this also comes shortly after meeting his cousin whose surname is also fitzwilliam

[sugarcube-stillabookworm]

thank you so much for telling me this precious piece of information which i have now permanently integrated into my p&p belief system

[thestuffedalligator]

Cooking horror game where you play as a cook working in the galley of a ship in the 1800s. There’s some kind of supernatural nautical horror story going on in the background but you barely notice this because you spend all day cooking in the galley.

[muffinlance]

As the game goes on you have to cook for fewer and fewer people but their orders--and the ingredients they bring you--become increasingly unhinged

[wizardnuke]

"i had straight As in high school i don't understand why college is so hard" get tested for adhd. if you were tested as a kid and they didn't diagnose you it was cause your grades were good then but you've since lost the routine and structure in hs that kept you on top of everything so go get retested. go get tested for adhd. go

[wizardnuke]

coworker was telling me he did great in high school until his covid/senior year and it went to shit and now it's been several years and he wants to apply for college but he's on his own and frozen up with all the paperwork and doesn't wanna keep working retail but it's so easy (routine. structure) and i said. you need to try speed. and then you need to go get retested

[wizardnuke]

"all my brothers were diagnosed with adhd but i wasn't" because they struggled with classwork and you didn't and that's all that child psychologists give a shit about because they don't understand that children can have good grades and still have adhd. k-12 and college are different worlds go get tested

[wizardnuke]

i also don't really believe that tidiness = no adhd especially if you follow up "i'm really neat" with "i'll start fuckin tweaking if i think there's any dirt anywhere in my room" now. brother i'm not going to try to unpack that on you today but i think you should tell a psychologist that in those exact words

[copperbadge]

Relevant to that last one, "My options are either rigid tidiness and obsessive organization or devolving into complete chaos" is a sign.

Additionally if you were not getting grades in high school that "lived up to your potential" but thrived in college, consider that in college you get to choose almost everything you study which...makes it a lot easier to focus on classes. And also living away from family can allow you to build your own structures if you happened to be raised by people who were not great at providing you structure (or really great at disrupting any attempts at it) previously. Get tested!

[unpretty]

growing up the rule was we were allowed to be openly disrespectful and rude to dad, but only if it was funny. if it flopped then we would have to endure a lecture about where we went wrong and what might have made it funnier. or, alternately, he would just say, "oh yeah? well i fucked your mom" which there aren't a lot of comebacks for.

[unpretty]

😔

[thebibliosphere]

Do you think "Riddle me this, Batman?" has become a common lexicon among Gothamnites for when they don't understand something?

I like to think it has. I like to think they've heard The Riddler say it one too many times, and now it's just ingrained into their collective psyches in much the same way as "No shit, Sherlock" is.

I also like to imagine Bruce Wayne making a rare appearance at a corporate meeting, and the latest Gen Z hire, a generation that infamously doesn't fuck with formal office corporate speak, just leans over the table and says, "Okay, I hear what you're saying, but riddle me this, Batman," and Bruce tries not to choke on his coffee.

[kleefkruid]

My cats have this meow that means "please come with me to fix this" after which they'll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or 'empty') food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem', they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.' I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. "Please fix this" they say. "Please get rid of the wet"

"Silly kitty," I say, "I can't control the rain." I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.

[kppigpen]

I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that.

But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he's fairly certain I'm just not applying myself properly here.

[abisalli]

A Robin lineup of sorts :) (sorry for no Carrie, Maps or Matthew... I was tired)