if life's a circus, I'm the biggest clown

my name is c, or you can call me Ellie. the age thing is really weird 2 me & a product of the "censor the Internet to save the children" thing. I was born in the 1900's and that's all you're getting unless you ask me like we're both people

[seaiswright]

human for now, try again later.

me, myself, and I have unionized & therefore typically prefer plural pronouns (they/them/their/you/youse/y'all/we/us/our).

everything is queued, because I take life at my own pace. typically between 2-3 months (109 days in 2026/04) but I hit random so it'll come out whenever. unless it's timely or we run outta queue

icon by @menaechmi

tag list under the cut

I guess the thing to do nowadays on this here fancy "pinned post" is to list your tags:

posts about English people (im part of the Welsh diaspora): #kill the English

posts by me: #my posts

posts that have new stuff from the first time it was on the blog: #updated

things that remind me of my cat: #friday

tik toks/short video content: #tiktok fhtagn

bad awful things: #I had to see this and now so do you

ferrets, business of (mustelid supremacy): #fursnakes

ferrets, singular: #fursnake

otters: #wet fursnakes

cows: #love is stored in the cow

anything my for my biffle: #incherresting

posts that may or may not be about someone in particular: #if you think this is about you it probably is

to show I'm cool and not just seeing a post for the first time: #a classic

[tahthetrickster]

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

[6mayhem]

bro lemme show u how sex REALLY works *picks up large rock from forest ground*

[writingraccoon]

Love the word "also". I have more things to say

[necromancelena]

Now that im so far into my transition one of my favourite things to do is to roleplay being the protagonist of a genderbend manga. like I'll pretend I didn't do all that and it's all coming as a big shock to me and i'll act out the awkward dialogue and even throw in an "I have to find a way to swap back!" or two

[necromancelena]

^like this

[that-lego-frog]

banger post ngl

[free-my-mindd]

[shiningother]

leaving this on someones parked car after i ram into it

[lillie-garden]

the potion seller discourse is insane. cop walks into a chemist's lab and demands pure undiluted morphine. chemist says hey i don't make this for human consumption. cop insists repeatedly, crying, shitting himself. in no way is the potion seller in the wrong here.

[lillie-garden]

"the potion seller is an asshole who should have just given the knight the potion!"

you would not last 1 day in customer service

[redwaltz]

No, see, he's an asshole for not giving the cop the potion to kill himself with.

[lillie-garden]

See i would absolutely agree with this take but being directly responsible for killing the Knight would tarnish the Potion Seller's name across the kingdom. + the Knight is insisting he's going to die in battle anyways.

[lillie-garden]

clearly this is why your url is pretend-wizard 🙄 we don't know that the potion seller can't make potions that let knights handle stronger potions, all we know is that the potions that the potion seller does have are too strong. if he is effectively a pharmaceutical supplier, he probably would be supplying to other potion sellers lower down on the chain to sell distilled & diluted versions of his potions. but this, like everything, is simply an inference. with our limited facts at hand, i choose to side with the worker rather than the landed gentry.

[helpeverythingiscats]

I once made a potion that kills you but the undying one drank it and lived and it ruined my reptutation so now i'm forced to weave small coats for beetle grubs. i cant complain the beetles have good money but now whenever im spotted on the street the peasants mock me and call me beetleboy

[lillie-garden]

hi beetleboy LOL hows your beetles. loser

[helpeverythingiscats]

[deanwinchesterapologist]

just found out you can do more than one thing each day. i was just doing the one

[tuckyourshirt]

this literally isn't true please stop spreading lies

[cryptotheism]

I always wanted to be the guard that tells only lies

[cryptotheism]

I mean I've actually never wanted to be that.

[cryptotheism]

Stupid stupid stupid. C'mon. At this rate I'll never be a lie guard.

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

[chungledown-bimothy]

i genuinely don't think there's much, if anything, hotter than someone clearly having a blast doing something they're really good at. doesn't really matter what it is. the combo of competence and joy is absolutely lethal to me

[kitnapz]

she lets me hit because she hasnt memorized my attack patterns

[sulidaesy-deactivated20190123]

Please watch this 3 second clip from an actual George Washington documentary.

[the-quasar-hero]

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.

[the-quasar-hero]

Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats

[the-quasar-hero]

This ain’t about him, this is about Black/Asian solidarity. Focus.

[writingraccoon]

Love the word "also". I have more things to say

[klaasje]

really good text from my sister in law