Meg, not Margaret @scrambledmegsandbacon - Tumblr Blog

Welcome to my blog! I’m Meg, and I use she/they pronouns. You might know me from elsewhere on the internet (Meg, not Margaret everywhere else). For a while I posted tiktoks about D&D and cooking videos! Classic.

You might also know me from my work! I’m a professional podcast editor and sound designer, having worked on a handful of passion projects and professional stuff too! I currently work at Rusty Quill as a sound designer and masterer :) I love my job!

I love a lot of things and I love talking about those things— since it’s MY blog, I post what I want and it’s a hodgepodge of everything with little rhyme or reason.

I frequently post about birds, podcasts, book reviews (I also work at a library), media that I like, music I like, stuff about ttrpgs and my various characters from them, and lots of other stuff.

Here are the big frequent tags if you don’t care about any of the things and don’t want to see ‘em, you can block:

[#/scrambledmeg speaks] are original posts

[#/scrambledmeg works] are for my podcast and music work

[#/scrambledmeg recommends music] is self explanatory

[#/scrambledmeg reads] for book reviews

[#/birds #/yay birds #/I love birds] for birdposting, it gets three tags bc I love birds

#scrambledmeg speaks #scrambledmeg works #scrambledmeg reads #scrambledmeg recommends music

batmanisagatewaydrug

nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

quorpiest

no mi circo no mis feratus

wifehaver103947

birds-in-posts

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

(Photo source [x])

urie

i haven't seen anything about this on my dashboard, so i wanted to share. ICE gestapo killed another human being on tuesday. he leaves behind three sons and his wife, who he has spent the last 35 years building a life with

there is a gofundme supported by the league of united latin american citizens set up to help with funeral costs, legal fees, and supporting his family moving forward.

please give if you can and share if you can't

prokopetz

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

calloutnevvegas

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

revretch

….. Didn’t know most of that

iamthekaijuking

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

revretch

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

bogleech

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

assuming-dinosaur

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

#birds #yay birds #i love birds

doubleca5t

The other day my wife told me about this influencer who said she needed to go on ozempic so she could go from 130 lbs down to 115 and I really cannot stress the degree to which we have so COMPLETELY lost the plot with this glp1 shit. Like not only are people are going on this shit for purely cosmetic purposes, the cosmetic purposes are delusional. This is the kind of mindset that gives people eating disorders but now because you can get a prescription instead of having to starve yourself or enduce vomiting a big swath of the general public seems eager to go along with it. Body Positivity did not go fucking far enough because I am being so real when I say that fatphobia is more of a public health crisis than obesity has ever been

doubleca5t

People making a choice feminism argument for Ariana Grande looking skeletal have me feeling like this

wretchedwomenblorbos

Holding my blorbo up by the scruff of her neck to show her to you

monstrous-femme

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

mortalityplays

here's a secret: whatever you're doing, you have to root for your peers with all your heart because it forces you to root for yourself too. I've seen people in various spheres of my life (workplaces, education, art, activism) fall into the trap of envy and resentment when they see others succeed while they struggle, and it always always goes hand in hand with them pulling back and giving up and stagnating.

when you let yourself get sour grapes about shit, you tacitly give up on yourself. when you sit around hoping other people will flop and fail so you can catch up to them, you stop trying. it's a fantasy of mediocrity, the vain wish that other people would walk so you could take the gold medal at a jog. wouldn't you rather come last place at 27mph?

lord-pretzel

We’ve all heard of masculinity in a peacock way, but I’d like to pose a new idea: femininity in an anglerfish way

blemgoid

crossfaded off a block of cheese and an apple waylaying every traveller on the road

wcvconsensus

in cow world, green onions are cigarettes

creekfiend

many women are excited to get old and weird, but i have great news that it's fully possible to become weird now, before you get old. just imagine the heights of weirdness you will be able to reach in fifty years if you get started now. that's what I think

pathogenflock

"he would not fucking say that" but about injuries. he would not fucking recover that quickly. those scars would not fucking heal like that. he would not be fucking able bodied after that. he would not be fully lucid after that.