RuBecSo

Fiction editor / slushpile reader. They/she. Autistic. Queer / Lesbian. Jewish. Sometimes I draw stuff. I flit between different fixations and go on reblogging sprees about whatever has my attention right now. Topics include: Rusty Quill Gaming, Disco Elysium, Elder Scrolls, Boardwalk Empire, Lackadaisy, Dragon Age, The Magnus Archives, HTTYD, Gentleman Jack, World Mythology and Goblincore. I queue stuff when I'm not too lazy.

[rubecso]

Me: *getting ready to throw out an empty jar*

Goblin brain: "No!!! *Keep*."

Me: "What?"

Goblin brain: "kEeP tHe JaR."

Me: "...what for?"

Goblin brain: "mmmmmmmfff... its purpose... shall be revealed to us... IN TIME!"

[dogpuppy]

[21st-century-minutiae]

The above is a picture of toilet paper rolls. Toilet paper, in the early twenty-first century, is used to wipe away excrement. Physically the rolls consist of a (usually) soft tissue wrapped around a cardboard base. The cardboard exists to provide structure to the product, which is unwrapped and torn from the roll before use, providing an axis that the roll had spin on as a user pulls the sheets off. It is not strictly necessary, and some toilet paper rolls omit it entirely.

When a roll is complete, it is useless and can be recycled.

In the above picture, each of the rolls depicted have been depleted beyond general use. The small bits of toilet paper visible would not be considered sufficient in quantity to serve on their own. It is common to toss the roll away at this point. However, an individual who is especially frugal might feel compelled to use even these last scraps, potentially in combination with the start of another roll.

"There is still meat on them bones" is used to humorously convey this frugal response, likening it to food that is going to waste. By analogy, the cardboard tube is the inedible bone, while the toilet paper represents the last scraps of still edible meat that would be going to waste.

People in the early twenty-first century who use toilet paper (as opposed to bidet) would not be confused by the image, the commentary, the analogy, or the sense of frugality displayed.

[the1920sinpictures]

1920 c. "Nocturnal Party" by Francois Flameng. From Fernanda Trigueiro, Pint.

[infiniteoreos]

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

[thundercrackfic]

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human

[toothpaste-footlocker]

[yet-another-autistic-blog]

Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.

[panpteryx]

[teaboot]

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[teaboot]

Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko

[sufficientlylargen]

One of these days the horse is gonna come out of pinko with opposable thumbs, and then we're all in trouble.

[vastwinterskies]

reasons your first lieutenant might be hovering / inconspicuously seeking proximity:

someone did something they shouldn't have

someone did someone they shouldn't have

separation anxiety

needs attention

you said "stay close" 16 hours ago, you just forgot

[vastwinterskies]

If none of these can suffiently explain why your first lieutenant appears particularly glued to you, seek the nearest mirror and check:

have I slept in the last 24 hours?

have I eaten in the last 8 hours?

have I fought a battle in the last 8 hours and do I still look like it? In fact, are all my limbs where they ought to be?

If the answer to any of these is "no", address these issues first. Your first lieutenant's behavior may change almost immediately!

[lordofseagulls]

Lil Nas X should not be allowed to be this funny

[neosatsuma]

[neosatsuma]

[rain-droplet]

who turned them german mid tag ?

[dastardlywlw]

how do you know they were transformed midday?

[frogandtoadpdf]

the best way i can think to describe the experience of reading moby dick is you’re in line at the dmv and this guy behind you very loudly says “well who HASN’T had a gay experience” and then proceeds to tell you every detail about his life in between anecdotes about how great sperm is and how ropes work and sometimes he’ll say the most poetic shit you’ve ever heard in your life and them jump RIGHT back into explaining how a whale is a fish because 1) it swims in water and you’re still only like halfway through the dmv line

[lakevida]

[brennan-lee-mother]

Simply cannot stop thinking about the fact that HJ and LaVonte are Sire and Childe and yet seem to have no hierarchy between them at all. HJ unquestionably treats LaVonte as his equal and LaVonte feels perfectly comfortable yelling at and physically assaulting HJ, both of which are kind of unthinkable under the social rules of the Camarilla. It’s LaVonte’s name first in Worthy and Wingstreet Industries. They are Sire and Childe but more importantly they are partners.

[warren-keplers-funk-band]

i'm so enthralled by him. you could say... i'm in his thrall... HAH. vampires

[spideredwebbing]

Honestly, I think City Council of Darkness works so well comedically because Madelaine and LaVonte (until he gave up in the finale in favor of embracing the madness) are the only two members of the Coterie that are actually attempting to play VTM.

Vesper is playing DnD 5e, Darkness Man is playing a hyperviolent version of Masks: The Next Generation, Zaeth is doing all the sidequests in a video game out of order, and HJ is just vamping during a standup set while actively getting tomatoes pelted at him.

[lumisabel]

another emily axford all-timer from ccod finale

[quantummoonjune]

hot new reaction image just dropped

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[44prop]

one normal day in british politics that’s all i ask for . will never happen

[handbagman]

how do you draw wet hair

[b0nkcreat]

okkay. i was going to make an actual tutorial thing to help u but i frogot what i was doing so i drew the most pathetic little wet cat beast imaginable. on accident. so sorry

they pourt wader on him

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

PHRASE ADDED!

"they pourt warder on him"