studying blorbos like bugs

ria | 21 | she/lei | eng/ita | scientist, writer, disaster | ao3: alligator_writes

[riality-check]

welcome to hell, everyone

I figured it was time for a new intro post after nearly two years with the last one. That, and I've got some new people following me due to the interest switch. So, here we go!

Me: I'm Ria, I'm 21, I use she/her pronouns, and I'm your friendly neighborhood fanfiction author!

Languages: English and Italian. I desperately need to practice my Italian, so if any Italian speakers want to strike up a conversation, please do! And if people are interested, I can start attempting to make posts in Italian as well.

Other places you can find me: ao3 (I used to have a Twitter, but I deactivated it after the US election.)

What I'm currently writing for: Arcane. It's eating my brain.

Most recent fic: "tenacity and other pain-won lessons" (ao3, tumblr)

Navigation (bear with me, it needs updating):

#ria writes for ficlets, snippets & links

#ria recommends for art and fic i find cool

#ria recs a friend for art and fic by my mutuals

#ria life for personal posts

#i wanna answer shit for ask games (always open, no matter how old)

#asked and answered for responses to said ask games

#in case you need it for general positivity

#save for later for reference stuff, feel free to reblog

#in the tags if you’d like to see commentary

and i use character & fandom specific tags for most other things (mostly character tags)

[yesterdaysprint]

Harrisburg Telegraph, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1881

[riality-check]

In my Thunderbolts* era

Read on ao3

[wiiwheel]

Everyone is bloomscrolling in my beautiful internet garden

[bioniciguana]

[bobby-luv]

[helenekuragina]

you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"

[helenekuragina]

#and its like. 'what if ive decided its comfortable to be in the box' it is always going to be more comfortable to be in the box #they will reward you for staying in the box and punish you for trying to leave it #that doesnt mean the box is like. a good place to be — @butchfaith

[lumsel]

hitting the gym with my cuttlefishgirl buddy and she keeps saying "hey can you spot me?" and then when i turn to look she's camouflaged herself against the equipment again. like okay it was funny the first time but come on.

[jingerpi]

you know I'm not exactly equipped to adequately discuss the situation of trafficked labor in US military bases across the world but I do find it notable how despite all the concern for poor little soldiers who were tricked into joining the military I've not seen one person on this website or anywhere else for that matter talk about how the US relies on human trafficking for much of their reproductive labor

"Modern day slavery": Foreign workers at U.S. bases face brutal hours, low pay

“Our taxpayer dollars are being used potentially to support forced labor and human trafficking, and that’s just unacceptable,” a U.S. govern

Companies secure new US military contracts even after labor trafficking incidents - ICIJ

U.S. military bases are home to hundreds of thousands of troops around the globe. But behind the scenes, thousands of low-paid employees wor

[jingerpi]

joining the US military is never acceptable but if you really just have to talk about how people are tricked and deceived into work and then trapped by them how about you talk about the people who have their passports stolen and are forced into slave labor.

no? you only want to talk about the U.S. Citizens it affects? 🙄

[bisexualvalve]

"Foreign workers are crucial for the more than 700 military bases with U.S. service members around the world. They often do tasks such as serving food, cleaning the barracks and guarding the bases. In many cases, they are not from the countries where the bases are located. Instead, they are flown in from other countries with fewer job opportunities, including Bangladesh, Nepal, India and the Philippines."

[loveridden1999]

starting a collection

[mint-swirl]

My Amazing Digital Monkeys

[firefox-official]

DO NOT sleep during the day. Youll be like What the hell later

[firefox-official]

oh man i say that but then i lay down all cozy …

[firefox-official]

What the hell

[wizardarchetypes]

it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.

i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware

[carolinalaurel]

One summer I was running ferry rides across a lake so people could see the waterfalls without walking 6 miles when a guy snapped my bra strap as he was boarding the boat. So i immediately threw him off, he started yelling for my manager, my boss cheerfully informed him that, yeah, she’s the captain of the boat and she can kick off anyone she wants. He goes to storm off, looks expectantly at his girlfriend, and she just goes, “Well, I’M not walking six miles, Michael! I’ll meet you back at the car!” and sits right back down!!!!

The expression on his face when he was told that he couldn’t get on the boat, then immediately told that his girlfriend was ditching him? PRICELESS. he just blinked at her and then stormed off like a child. I gave her a free hat and was like maybe rethink this relationship…….

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

i once had this fucker come up to order a beer. while i pour it he shows me the wanky fucking chemical structure tattoo on his arm and he’s like “hey. you know what this is” i was like “nah sorry” (never cared abt chemistry in school, plus having to look at a some rando’s pretentious tattoo gives me the douche chills). he decides to respond with “heh. you must not read many books”

i immediately stop pouring his beer. i reply: “heh. you must not want this beer.” thirsty boy immediately starts groveling like a worm “please please no i do want the beer im sorry im sorry” believe me when i say it was one of the most pathetic things ive ever witnessed

[lezbadeez]

gotta love people immediately backpedaling when they realise that there are Consequences To Being Mean

[lastvalyrian]

I genuinely believe that part of why it has become so normalized to be openly callous and evil in politics is that customer service culture has trained affluent people that they can treat everyone they consider beneath them however they want and still be treated kindly.

[whitefangthefightingwolf]

It's also crazy how much more polite people are when they know they are talking to a government employee. Once a week I staff a state "wildlife support" phone line, and very rarely do I ever have a negative interaction, even though MOST of my job is telling people "no we don't perform that service, and there is no agency that does." "no, we can't help that animal, and neither can you, as that is illegal." I tell people "no" up to 30 times per day and I've only had a prickly customer about 3-4 times, and properly yelled at only once. (And if I get yelled at I am allowed to end the conversation.)

Meanwhile, when I worked at PetSmart grooming, I got yelled at MULTIPLE times EVERY day. Over a dog's haircut that I didn't even do.

[shamebats]

Oh come on lady, you can't deny a man his gaycation

[shamebats]

You must surrender yourself mind, body and soul to the gaycation or be destroyed

[shamebats]

Someone on reddit already suggested a sapphibbatical

[the-haiku-bot]

Someone on reddit

already suggested a

sapphibbatical

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mechanica1-hands]

how could you leave out the best part—the aquarium bit

[shamebats]

"become a fish" (gay)

[ladyananas]

men will jump through an entire circus' worth of hoops rather than admitting they're bi

[helpless--romantics]

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

The level of mental hoops that guy had to jump through to say to his wife, "No, honey! Of course I wouldn't be cheating on you! Sex during gaycations doesn't count!"

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Holy fucking shit! It gets trippier!

I mean, I feel horrible for the OP and her SIL...but "surrender to the gaycation" made me laugh way more than I should have.

[emilynyaaa]

this is an insane story

[flickering-leaves]

“Some men never return”

Helpppppp 😭

[brightlotusmoon]

[harperhug]

Um…here’s the reddit link? I’m speechless.

[handageddon]

Don't worry honey, all the other men on gaycation aren't real people and they stop existing after. Hey, where's all the homophoboa coming from suddenly?

[mananabuffins]

That's the beauty of the gaycation!

[authoratmidnight]

It get wilder. I only found out about this b/c of a youtube video reading the Gaycation post but, this isn't even the first one.

7 years ago someone posted this-

And 5 years a different user posted this-

What is happening with these people??? What weird ass cult did they find??

[catboy-artist]

I read the shithead guy’s rambling in Nagito Komaeda’s voice

[mlembug]

"some men never return because they're "totally feminized" into the state of permanent "pseudo-gayness"" is my favourite line out of the entire post

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[excitementshewrote]

[catchymemes]

[wereopossum]

The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

[inthefallofasparrow]

XXI. The World

[taboo-delusion]

This is what world peace looks like

[lyraisnotonfire]

favorite thing about tumblr is having a fandom in law. no i haven't watched this show and i'm not planning to. but my moot is having fun!! look how much they love it!!! i'm supportive from the sidelines!

[lyraisnotonfire]

it's like, i don't go here! but my friend does! so i know a bit about what's going on there even if i'm in a different school

[palis-delon]

I suddenly have feelings and opinions about a ship on a show I've never watched (I'm only 90% sure I have the names correct).