Is Lady Gay?

Call me Rue Kids & Teens Librarian She/Her I’ve never acted my age and I’m not about to start now Biromantic Asexual . Currently hyperfixating on Leverage: Redemption, Steddie/Stranger Things (don’t ask), and Our Flag Means Death. Forever into Star Trek, The Mummy, historical fashion, and rats. . (I’m an adult and I try not to follow minors. If I have followed you by accident, please let me know and I will fix that. Or feel free to block me, I won’t be offended by you curating your experience)

[movingscastles-deactivated20210]

we're found family sluts first and humans second

[roycohn]

fortunata decided she NEEDED to sleep on my chest/in my armpit last night and then i woke up with a little sore throat and runny nose this morning which can mean one of 2 things: either i'm getting sick and she knew it or this is psychosomatic stress about having to spend time around tradcathy manifesting physically as it often does and she knew it. either way, AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH

[roycohn]

well. i'm sick. at least it's just a head cold.

[raisedbylibrarians]

Your temperature usually rises at the beginning of fighting an infection, for various interesting reasons, so you likely were warmer than usual causing your pet to be like “oooo natural heating pad, better take advantage”

Also cats (I’m assuming, but could also be a small dog I suppose) comfort colony-mates with proximity when sick. Purring and grooming are also methods of comforting so if she does those she is trying to help.

[lengthy-artery]

tshirt concept

[philcollinsenjoyer]

Thank you divorce for all you've done for music

[plumslices]

If we don’t microdose delusion we won’t make it through this reality babe….

[leebrontide]

So I remember reading about this study in grad school where they have a bunch of clinically depressed people and a bunch of non-clinically-depressed people a game that was partially chance and partially skill, and asked them to estimate how much control they had over the outcome.

The depressed people were far more accurate in estimating how much influence their actions had on the outcome of the game compared to their nondepressed counterparts, who consistently overestimated the effects of their own choices on their chances of winning.

Then I remember this other study (CW animal testing) where they put rats in a bucket of water that they couldn’t get out of, so they’d have to swim. There was a fairly consistent point at which the swimming rat would falter, and stop swimming, fated to drown.

Except that that’s when the researchers would pull the rat out of the bucket, give it a nice rest warmth and a meal.

When those SAME rats who had been rescued before were put in the same situation again, they swam much LONGER than they had before.

Why? The risk was the same either way- drowning. You’d have thought that the fear of drowning would keep them swimming to their maximum length no matter what.

The researchers conclusion was that the rescued rats had something they hadn’t had the first time- they had more hope. A miraculous rescue could come, and that let them swim for longer, just in case.

I think we do microdose delusion because sometimes that little overestimation of our chances, of our luck, keeps us swimming that little bit longer, just in case something good happens. And sometimes, that little margin really does make the difference. 

[vanwolffen]

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

-Terry Pratchett, Hogfather.

[syn0vial]

hey, don't just leave the quote there! the last line is what MAKES it!

"YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE.  HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?"

[gameraboy]

“He seems to have his hand in a lot of things around here”

– Kermit the Frog discussing Jim Henson

[cedarwool]

being an everything crafter is great but also sucks. like i want to get my watercolors out but i need to put away my microcrochet first. i want to do some leatherwork but my oil paints are on the table. i want to whittle but i'm using the bucket i catch wood shavings in to hold my papermaking mush. i want to write my book but my hands are too busy knitting a sweater. i want to code another video game but i'm too busy studying nalebinding. do you see my problem. the problem is that i need more hands

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

I guess I just can't find it in myself to care all that much about the annual summertime leg shaving discourse this year. We've got bigger fish to fry, you know?

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

Can we start talking about reproductive rights again? Or the wage gap? Remember when we used to talk about the wage gap on this website? Menstrual supply costs and availability? Pink tax? Glass ceiling? Glass cliff? Literally anything else besides leg hair?

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

When it comes to decisions strangers make about their bodies, I'm honestly a lot more concerned by the people coughing, sneezing, and sniffling without a mask.

[ciricearts]

my bi queen for pride month<3

[parkchanwoohoo]

[therealbeachfox]

I also enjoy video of this man’s dead wife

[clara-the-cat]

The glare from the sun occasionally obscuring her face does kinda make me think that the viewer is struggling to remember her

[unfunny-trans-girl]

The immediate cut to the most dead wife video ever took me out lmao

[bellamynochillblake]

we’re going to have to call smut ‘lemons’ again, aren’t we? 

[im-reddie]

LEMONS!? WHEN THE FUCK WAS THIS?!

[bellamynochillblake]

oh you sweet summer child 

[fool-errant]

I actually made this a button last convention

[smooththegoofyshark]

Gaud I remember when it was lemons, I feel old now

[butteryswimmingthing]

explain pls

[smooththegoofyshark]

No

[smol-bean-meme-machine]

What are lemons??

[phylix]

I don’t own the copyright to this, others own the show. All I have is this saaaad little computer and a sketch pad. ^-^ Please don’t sue! I don’t need anymore stress!

Please R&R!!!!!!!

No flames. >///<

[lotrlocked]

lol this story contains slash! Don’t like don’t read. Rated M. AragornxLegolas. lemon. Lololol ^-^ NO FLAMES OR I WILL KILL YOU WITH MY STABBITY SPORK OF Death! -__-

[dayoldhakarl-deactivated2021011]

#this post made me age ten thousand years.

[tangolove]

CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM ONLY PLZ THNX

[geekandmisandry]

Are literally any of you speaking English???

[hayloumac-deactivated20220427]

Limes too tho

[somath-cegem]

O.o no, I can’t relive this! NO!

[rhube]

I’m old enough to have not been sure what ‘lemon’ meant the first time around.

You guys, I know you’re just torturing the n00bs, but I thought I was gonna finally find out!

[moniquill]

10k citrus pure fluff, Gundam, 1x2, 1xR, 3x4, 5x13 Rated E unless you think all slash should be M because you’re a butt. Plans for M rating and lemons in future chaps. Don’t Like Don’t Read Concrit only Flames will be deleted.

[perictione]

I still immediately understood this

[stephanisoejono]

happy new year -------------_--------------------

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

bringing a sort of "slavery is still alive and well in US prisons" vibe to the office Juneteenth post that my higher ups don't really like

[hunter-gratzner]

From what I understand slavery was never actually abolished in the us. It is still legal and all.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the amendment that "ended" slavery specifically left permission for slave labor as punishment for convinced criminals and our inmates have been legally exploited ever since, yes

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

not a bummer, say it louder

[trannydurden]

happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

[kino-ani]

Bound (1996) Dir. Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski

[dogzcats]

inside the actors' studio with Colin Firth

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.