Queer as in Really Very Peculiar

they/ she

[girl-trying-to-escape-reality]

ⓘ This user just wanna sit in front of the ocean and listen to the waves.

[stormsbourne]

usually when you have a stomach bug your body is like yes sir we'll get this punk out of here, 48 hours tops. then you get a cold and your body is like I dunno ... between a few hours and eleven months ... maybe a week minimum .... you gotta understand we're short staffed

[tibli]

tbf to the body, stomach bugs are easier to flush out since they are already in The System That Flushes Things Out From The Body, and that includes BOTH ends.

with a cold you gotta wait for the macrophages in your blood to start Eating Everything, and they are. not big. it takes them a while. please be more considerate of your macrophages in the future, theyre doing their best

[marlinspirkhall]

I've got to find myself more macrophage

[acesexualspock]

Now Hiring: macrophages

[daughter-of-sapph0]

immunesystem.com/careers/macrophage

[immortalbeingz]

[athelind]

If you search "Keyhole Gardening" on StartPage or any other search engine that isn't AI-corrupted, you'll get a bumper crop of information.

The Wikipedia page is very detailed.

[victusinveritas]

Also adding some book recommendations on Permaculture from the fine folks at Lithub.

[rubysapphrald]

i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people

[rubysapphrald]

people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

this has been done before probably

[homunculus-argument]

Literally no reason for a guy to be over 5'7". That's just wasteful use of biomass. You had enough material to make four dudes and instead you made three. That thing is blocking an entire isle in the grocery store.

[homunculus-argument]

I know it's pronounced ayol but you're not making me make a third guess about how you're supposed to spell that shit.

[materassassino]

An isle is an island.

An aisle is a walkway between seats or shelves in a church, shop or on a mode of transport.

They're pronounced the same but spelt differently, meaning they're homophones.

[homunculus-argument]

[lizluzz]

normal family entertainment show

[pumpkin-in-a-pear-tree]

Oh this is an interesting concept, the wigs are a fun- ALEX HORNE???

[pumpkin-in-a-pear-tree]

I got too sleepy half way through the episode and had to watch the rest the next day, and I Still got jump scared every single time he popped up

[nagdabbit]

i got a little TOO high and got absolutely jumpscared by the little alex horne cameo like theres an alex in my game changer how did he get there

[doctorbeth]

A Puppy's Turtle

I know I owe you a bunch of stories, and I’ve got them all lined up to tell, including Kouku and Girlgirl and Leika. I just finished with the hardest patients I’ve ever had. One was literally shredding, so needed two different stuffed animals of my own to act as models, and the other pair had fabric that was disintegrating in a way that made it sticky, so every time the needle went in and came out, I needed to clean it off! They were stuffing inside, and the top layer of their fabric was coming apart, but the backing of their fabric was sticky. It was new. :-/

But, today I am going to share the story of a turtle named Turtle, and for a rare special treat, you get to see part of the patient’s family. I don’t usually show families for privacy reasons, but, well, this is Turtle’s warm blooded being, Murphy:

They’d been together for six years, since Murphy was a puppy. Here’s their baby picture:

As you can see, Murphy has grown and Turtle has, well been worn a bit. Here are a couple of his diagnosis photos:

We agreed that Turtle needed transplants for his balding, and wounds sewn up. Usually, I don’t clean patients belonging to animals, as scent is so important, but in this case, the humans decided a spa was in order too. So Turtle flew down to the Bay Area and started his treatment with a spa:

You can already see him getting cleaner!

Once dry and restuffed, he got a heart with a bit of original stuffing:

And then the humans chose a fabric for his transplants from two options:

Soon his surgery was done and he was ready to head back north:

Normally I’d stop here, with a quote from the humans “He looks great!” But that’s not the end of the story. You see, once Turtle got home, Murphy sent some photos to make everyone smile:

Happy as a puppy that they’re together once more!

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[beguilingcorpse]

game changer season 8 does have occasional faults but it also understands that for every high concept, You Can Only Get The Experience Of Watching This For The First Time Once episode (i.e., count the rice, noise some makes) there should also be more low stakes, We Made Up A Fun Game For Comedians To Play So You Can Have Fun Watching Them episode (don’t wake s&p, earwigs). season 7 was a slam dunk in terms of high budget twisty personalized torture chambers of unscripted television but that’s just not sustainable for the show in the long run and arguably antithetical to game changer’s first principles. fuck, man, sometimes you put a couple improvisers in silly wigs so that you can name the episode after a pun and that’s like half of the charm. sometimes you just have to let zach reino go whole hog on a fop bit and let that be the show. get back to the basics and leave some room for the insaneo heavy hitters. they can’t all be one year later!!!

[dismemberment-on-a-tuesday-night]

I hate that anti-ship means what it does. We need a term for the aromantic experience of wishing fandom weren't 99.99% shipping rather than anything meaningful and the ostracization that comes with such opinions. I don't care if you ship incest. I just wish you were capable of appreciating characters outside of relationships and your need to pair the spares.

[homunculus-argument]

Starting to understand that some people really genuinely can't "just eat" the same way I can't "just sleep". Yeah you need the stars and planets to be aligned just the right way and be in the right mood and have the right music on and have the room in the right temperature and the air moisture must be just right so you can chew and swallow one (1) single green bean, just the same as I need to lay in bed for two hours playing magic the gathering before my eyes force themselves shut. There are things people recommend that would be better to do if they worked, but they don't so I can't just fucking do that instead. Can't just go horizontal and wait 30 seconds like my boyfriend does.

[sawed-on-shotgun]

need a hat that says I WONT SPEAK UNLESS SPOKEN TO AND ITS NOT BECAUSE IM DISINTERESTED AND DONT LIKE YOU I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND SOCIAL INTERACTION AS WELL AS MOST PEOPLE AND ASSUME BY DEFAULT MY PRESENCE IS UNWELCOME AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE SO I KEEP TO MYSELF BUT I DONT MIND IF YOU INITIATE so i can wear it to work

[wrenhavenriver]

the cat was sleeping cutely so i took a picture and went to show it to my mom and she burst out laughing and pulled out her phone and showed me a near identical one she'd taken a few minutes before

[wrenhavenriver]

self-proclaimed free thinkers when the cat is doing a snooze:

[pumpkin-in-a-pear-tree]

Oh this is an interesting concept, the wigs are a fun- ALEX HORNE???

[tempus-fuckit]

Here's my meta-game: I identified Alex Horne as the scorekeeper in round 4.

Beat that.