rolly polly mammal

he/him, adult, white. just a weird little freak. bnha has re-hijacked my brain. this will not last. you should probably not follow me for bnha. please steal my image descriptions and transcripts. don't @ me about it, just take them! icon by in-bituin-the-stars (thank you!!!!) it's art of a pangolin wearing bunny ears!

[beetroot-merchant]

im not a girl Unless ☝️ im being told to go piss

[courtesycalling]

[shencomix]

My Fitness Coach is a Dark Wizard [Complete]

[funnier-as-a-feedist]

The survey is here!

How Feedism is Viewed: Non Feedist Survey

A survey to determine how feedism is viewed by those not in the feedist community. A feedist can be defined as: a feedee, feeder, gainer, e

Who is this survey for?

Non feedists. If you are in a feedist relationship but don't identify as a feedist, feel free to answer. (Feedists please don't answer because obviously your answers would all be positive. Reblogging to encourage others to answer is encouraged. If you're in the feedist closet and you want to recommend it to friends, you could try saying "I just learned about this kink through this survey, maybe you would like to take it and learn about it?" If you have the type of relationship for it) There are options for asexuals throughout.

All questions are optional, so if something isn't applicable/you don't want to answer it, you don't have to. There is an "other" option for each question, but please try to use the preselected multiple choice unless you really don't feel like any apply. If I get a ton of responses it will be easier to look at the responses if they're preselected.

There's 35-40 questions, I expect it should take around 20 minutes to take.

When does it close/when will the results be published?

I will keep it open indefinitely. I'll publish the results when I get a big enough response. I'm aiming for 500 but I have no idea if that's realistic (that's why it would be so difficult if people use a custom answer for every question). I'm doing this by myself so I'll have results posted in a tidy manner as soon as I can. I also haven't done anything like this before so it'll be a learning curve for me to present the information in a legible way. I'm not a trained professional in the field of study and research in any way. I tried to phrase the questions in the least biased manner possible, but I'm sure it's not perfect. Your feedback/criticism is welcome, but I most likely won't edit the survey after it's posted to make data collection more accurate. Emails are not collected and the results are completely anonymous!

[funnier-as-a-feedist]

353/500 responses!!!!

[demonboyhalo]

collection of useful things tumblr has taught me:

even if you can't fall asleep, laying down with your eyes closed will still rest your body

you don't have to brush your teeth standing up

you don't have to do any chore standing up, from dishes to showering

you don't have to shower with the lights on

if you can't brush your teeth, flossing and a tongue scraper gets rid of plaque and bad breath

if you can't do that, mouthwash kills a lot of bacteria

eating "unhealthy" food is better than eating no food

you can make the same meal everyday for however long you still want it

some pills come in syrups or chewables if you can't swallow them

kids nutritional shakes can be a quick way to get fuel if you can't eat/don't have time

if walking hurts/exhausts you on a regular basis, canes and rollers are for you, no matter how young you are

we have free will—if doing something "out of the ordinary" makes life easier for you, do it

[i-have-n0-idea-what-im-d0ing]

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing halfway. If you can't eat a whole sandwich, eating just some of it (or anything, really) is better than nothing. If you can't brush your teeth, swishing water around your mouth helps more than doing nothing. If you can't drink plain water, drinking seltzer or tea or anything is better than drinking absolutely nothing.

Incomplete tasks are better than no tasks at all.

[prokopetz]

It's practically cliché for tabletop RPGs with detailed mechanics for tactical positioning in combat to shoehorn every other condition that could befall a character into that framework, so you end up with stuff like an infected wound being modelled as a very complicated edge case of falling down. I want to see a game do it the other way 'round. I want to play a game where detailed mechanics for modelling infectious diseases are the starting point, then combat is built atop that, so getting knocked prone is modelled in the rules as a disease with a very rapid progression. I want to play a game where you can get infected with "being on fire".

[seat-safety-switch]

Every kid has to go through that "picking up everything on the ground" phase. You can't really blame them. At that age, the world is full of so many wonderful mysteries, and some of them are just left on the ground for you to pick up. Rocks you can put in your mouth. Sticks you can swing at an unprotected eye. Bugs you can put in your mouth. Grass you can put in your mouth. And so on.

By the time we're adults, we've experienced most of the things that can be on the ground. We'll only take time out of our busy days to pick up things that are really valuable, like money, or important, like a kitten. A few weeks ago, I picked up an earthworm off the sidewalk to put him (her? them? Probably them.) back on the lawn where they could enjoy the rest of their life in opulent, dirty comfort. A baby would not be able to prioritize such a task, being busy picking shattered glass out of the gutter before trying to roll into rush hour traffic.

The dangers are obvious to us, having survived all the way to adulthood, possibly with the assistance of a loving parent or guardian who took a bottle cap or two out of our mouths. They're much more abstract to a toddler, who scientists are only now theorizing may be related to our species. That's why you gotta protect kids, but not get too strict with them, because when they grow up, those posh little shits will suddenly sneer at you for grabbing a rusty pair of pliers off the neighbour's lawn. Handyman forgot it! Score.

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 4 days 14 hours

[maxknightley]

the etymology of "piano" is so fucking dumb I love it. yeah this is my cool new harpsichord. it has more volume control than a standard harpsichord so we call it a "loudsoft" for short. or a "softloud" if you prefer. but that's still a bit of a mouthful so I've been thinking of just calling it a soft.

[visit-ba-sing-se]

I am running a marathon with a twisted ankle and it hurts but some pain is normal, right? Everyone says it's supposed to be hard. It is a marathon after all. I am running a marathon with a twisted ankle but honestly it could be worse, right? I heard someone once finished with a broken leg. The ankle is nothing compared to that. I am running a marathon with a twisted ankle but you can get used to pain, right? The body can endure almost anything. The problem is always the mind. I am running a marathon with a twisted ankle but I made it this far, that means I can keep going, right? Everyone says it's supposed to be hard. It is a marathon after all.

[moooooorning]

I know intellectually the point OP is trying to make, but I lowkey do still resonate with this kind of thought process. I know it isn’t healthy for longevity, but if I want to do a really hard thing, I’ll suffer through whatever I need to in order to say that I did it. Like, some people will finish the marathon and have a much easier time than me, but I still want to do it too. And I don’t want to feel like a hard thing is too easy; that’s the whole point of doing a hard thing.

[visit-ba-sing-se]

Up front: I don't think that I was trying to make one precise point. It's a deeply emotional poem, not a think piece, and I deliberately left things open for interpretation. What I would like to say to this specific point now, however: The marathon already is the "hard thing" without a twisted ankle. Even if you run a marathon uninjured, you are going to have sore muscles; you can get cramps, side stitches, wounds from chafing, lose a toenail, etc. It will always be hard, and some people will have it harder than others, e.g., based on genetics, how well their training went, what pace they aim for, how much sleep they got, and how well they ate. Regardless, it can absolutely be worth it to push through (and suffer until the finish line). That's why it can be so easy to ignore the ankle at first. The ankle will, however, get worse. And it will come to a point where you won't be able to push through simply with the power of will. Even with all the grit in the world, and no matter how much you are willing to suffer, the injury ultimately will at least slow you down (if not worse). You always can keep going unless you can't. I do not deny that there is some triumph in the pain after all; it feels like you are defying the odds (and if there is something we love to glorify, it is exactly that). But there is a reason people start breaking down at 36 km in. It's not because they are weak or not willing to suffer (if that was the case, they would not be at 36 km). It's because there is a point where the power of will is not enough anymore. Maybe that point never comes for you. In fact, I wish it won't. This is just a small warning. The fact that you made it this far on an injury does not mean you can and should keep going, and it does not make you exceptional. It just makes you lucky for now. Please get that ankle checked; please take care.

[decompose1]

There is an aspect to disability that feels very under-represented and under-spoken about, which is struggling to wash and dress yourself. It's one of those things that feels.... embarrassing. Wrong and icky, like you're supposed to know how to do it, like you've failed, in some way, if you can't do it right- so much so that I think some severely disabled people pretend they can do it better than they can, dismissing their incapability as having been too lazy to do it. "Sure, I haven't showered in weeks, but I'm just being lazy" and such.

I was forced to understand that I cannot wash myself- i have "high support needs" or "level 3" autism, physical disabilities, and i am chronically ill. i get too overwhelmed, my motor functions and muscle development are really bad, there are too many steps, it hurts me to move like that, my mobility and balance are very poor, i can't reach everything, bending certain ways dislocates my limbs, and i'm so fatigued all the time that I don't have the energy to make it through a shower alone. I really vividly remember once in the middle of a shower getting so exhausted and overwhelmed that i curled up on the floor in the stream of the water. Dressing is hard, too- for similar reasons. It's painful, it takes me forever, i don't have much energy, i hate a lot of textures and smells, and my mobility and motor skills suck. I can't really do buttons, i struggle to tie things, and zippers without pulls are my enemy. Moving the way i have to is difficult. I need help with these things- but that's the thing. The big hush-hush embarrassing subject we don't talk about- needing help washing and dressing. Because that's what old people do, or that's what stupid people do, you can't be like that, you have to be normal, you have to function the way you're supposed to. You can be disabled, but you must be disabled in the pretty, acceptable way. You can't need help with embarrassing things like that. "I'm [autistic] [neurodivergent] [disabled] [sick] and I can do those things, so why shouldn't you?"

It's important to me that i work to destigmatize this. It's alright to need help with these things. You can need help with these things. I promise it's okay if you need someone to bathe you, take care of your skin and hair, dress you, or whatever else it is you may need. We have helped each other from the very beginning of our species, and you are no different.

[spiribia]

I genuinely love when a story makes up its own fable and then has current events within the story explicitly parallel the in-universe fable. The story I made up is just like the story I made up 🤯

[seirxi]

quirk incident

[polari]

grounding tips for the stressed aspiring tyrant: acknowledge 5 people you can sway to your cause, 4 methods you can use to persuade them (2 violent, 2 nonviolent), 3 people in positions of moderate power you can manipulate and usurp in order to gain access to 2 powerful institutions to destroy, and 1 foundational lie

[wizardarchetypes]

when i was a little kid (age 8 and on) i had 3 veryyy intense special interests i constantly infodumped about to anyone who gave me the time of day. these were:

The Bubonic Plague

Vampire Folklore

Tree frogs.

So as you can imagine my mom spent many years prepping me for social outings by doing a call-and-response litany with me that went "let's focus on tree frogs tonight. let's tell people about tree frogs."

[cuppydogshane]

My Name is 8 PM. and I am always arriving when you atrent Looking

[prokopetz]

It's often frustrating when folks who don't know what player-hostile game design is and think "player hostile" simply means "difficult" blunder into discussions of the topic thinking they have any opinion worth listening to, but occasionally it does lead to very entertaining claims about which games are and are not player-hostile in character. I just saw someone cite Portal as an example of player-hostile game design. Like, Portal is extraordinarily player friendly in its design, to the extent of implementing alternative solutions for many puzzles if you somehow manage to render the developer-intended solution impossible, which is much further than even the most accommodating puzzle games typically go. The fact that a mean lesbian makes fun of you if you actually need to use one of those alternative solutions does not make the game player hostile – in fact, for certain audiences I'd argue it does rather the opposite!