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Oh, I'm mostly alert today! I forgot what that felt like. So it turns out that forgetting to wear a mask to the doctors will not be fine. And it seems I can't have flavoured milk. I love flavoured milk. :(

So as long as I stop experimenting with borderline foods for a bit, and get more diligent about doctor visits, I'll be fine for a little while? That would be pretty nice.

And then I can look into less painful foods! I was looking at broths at the supermarket today, and I expected nothing and was still let down. I never realised how vital it was to include onion in your meat juice. Maybe there's some overpriced FODMAPs stuff I can try at the health food shop.

#My wonderful health problems #I really doubt it's the fructans in the onions making me sicker but low FODMAPs stuff is still a good way to avoid them

crabussy

when you eat a Normal Sandwich (bread meat greens cheese relish) and your body goes ooohhh fuck! oh fuck! what have you done! heartbeat GO! sweating GO! temperature GO! like sorry man I'm just trying to keep you WORKING!!!!!!!! ASS HOLE!

crabussy

it’s normal for sandwich to make you feel like you’re dying. this is a normal sandwich experience

hexabeast

#They should invent a body that doesn't freak out when given essential nutrients you're feeding it in order to live

A few weeks ago I had a dream where at one point I tried to recite the whole Steamed Hams sketch from memory, and I couldn't get more than two sentences in. I could not remember whether Chalmers grunted, mumbled, or said nothing after "I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon!"

So confirmed: I may have Steamed Hams memorised word for word (I checked after I woke up), but I could NOT recite it in my sleep. Information on whether or not I know it backwards pending.

#The Simpsons #dreams #Steamed Hams #I have no idea what the context of trying to do that was #I'm just impressed that I remembered the first two lines accurately despite being asleep

ur-favorite-fishgirl

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

#Campaign speeches made in 12‚700 BC

stardust-seeker

Me when a fellow FF7R player says they hate Chadley:

#Final Fantasy 7 #Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy #Chadley #Chadley is a sheltered teenager who in in Rebirth is experiencing freedom for the first time in his life #He is allowed to be annoying it comes with his being a person (in universe)#Out of universe he's kind of a magnet for Rebirth's design issues as a AAA game because he's so prominent that one's gameplay mechanics #Not being in the original game doesn't help with player attitudes either #Do not be mean to him he's my favourite and Cloud does actually like him (Chadley has emotion reading powers and would be able to tell)#and he's not evil (He talks a lot about saving the environment and almost always acts sincere and encouraging)#and he is NOT going to die (Because I don't want him to die :( :( :( )

I ate scrambled eggs with chives on Sunday, partly because I hadn't thought to ask for them without chives at the cafe I was at, and partly because I wanted to see how I currently deal with onion and onion relatives with the cromoglycate the doctor prescribed me. Also, I... don't like wasting food.

So it turns out I deal with it differently than before, but it's still incapacitating. There was less brain fog, so I could feel all the pain, nausea and exhaustion really well!

It probably wasn't the best time for an experiment, because I'd just got finished with the monthly uterus-induced flareup. Before that, I was breathing in too much dust (which I'm mildly allergic to) at night because I hadn't changed the filter on my CPAP machine for a while. I tried to wash the tube before I thought to check the filter, and used the bathtub instead of the laundry sink because the laundry hot water tap was stuck. Later the tube started smelling like something had died in there until I rinsed it with vinegar and kitchen tapwater the other night. I have some concerns about the quality of the water that comes out of the bathtub tap.

Before that, we had no hot water for a week because the hot water breaker tripped (unrelated to the laundry tap). The plumber we called responded to seeing the breaker board with shocked profanity. Which I think is a good sign that means that there's nothing dangerous or extremely outdated going with regards to your plumbing and electricity?

But! At least it's not too hot anymore! Hopefully I will be able to keep the delicate balance going for a little while so I can try to actually progress at like, anything other than whatever's currently fascinating me.

#My wonderful health problems #I think I'll put the food experiments back on pause for a bit #The scrambled eggs were pretty good if you discount most of the following week #Alliums are good flavour enhancers #I just wish the menu had been more specific #There's so little I can eat when I go out

dragon-in-a-fez

I'm a sucker for a good "you think you're in one horror subgenre but it's actually a different horror subgenre". character struggling to accept that maybe demons are tormenting them suddenly finds out it's actually aliens. trope of all time tbh

#I like when they die still believing they're in a different subgenre #Maybe because of that #I recently played #Type Help #So that's on my mind #Oswald...#Also John right at the end

a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay

have you ever got hate in anon asks

yes

results

Voting ended onMay 5

#Just once I think #Technically twice #I got an anon yelling at me for harassing people or something #And when I replied to it like ???#They sent another mentioning the username of someone who'd been spiralling about... ship drama or something?#I think it started out as being about ships #So it's only technically anon because it's pretty obvious who it was #I'd probably never interacted with them and I don't think I'd given an opinion on the situation ever but I was keeping up #I think they either had some IP tracking thing on their blog and jumped to conclusions when they saw an Australian one #Or they saw me interacting with people who were involved and jumped to conclusions #Usually I feel terrible for the next twenty-four hours or so from angry messages but this one was mostly funny and only a little upsetting

godlessondheimite

A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

headspace-hotel

"Alaska is a place known to the public, so setting a novel in a Alaska is not copyrightable."

shwoo

The writer who sued hadn't even published; she just had the same agent for a while. It looks like she thinks the agent was stringing her along about publishing her book (Blue Moon Rising/Masqued), and I don't know if that's true or not, but it's also not what she sued over. And it does seem it was the agent who suggested Alaska as a setting for the later series (Crave and its first three sequels), but I even if she was inspired by Blue Moon Rising/Masqued, that doesn't seem specific enough to count as copyright infringement. Especially since the settings are nowhere near each other.

It is weird that the heroine is originally from San Diego in both stories, though I can see coming up with that independently as a contrast thing. But some of the other similarities in the plantiff complaint include:

The heroine thinks she's a normal human, but she's really an extra special kind of supernatural being

They go somewhere where it's summer

The character who killed the heroine's parents wants to use the heroine to bring back their dead love interest

The heroine is 17 or close to 17, and spends time at a school in Alaska

Some of her immediate family are dead and some are alive

The heroine sees something weird on her neck before bed. As a separate similarity, she can't sleep afterwards. As another separate similarity to the other two, she wants answers. Not necessarily for the neck thing.

There's an aurora at some point.

There are vampires, witches and werewolves

The heroine and the love interest kiss for the first time and the love interest loses control of his secret powers

There's a character called the Bloodletter.

The love interest repeatedly saves the heroine, and she also feels protective towards him

They discuss if they want to have a relationship, and then kiss.

There are two stereotypical goons who aren't dressed for the weather show up and they attack the heroine until the love interest saves her.

Frankenstein, Harry Potter, Tom Cruise, Star Wars, Peter Pan, Superman, fairy tales, Dante's Inferno, Humpty Dumpty, the Hulk, Superman again, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, "All for one and one for all..." "Et tu, Brute?", "that old TV show", and a variation on the phrase "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" are mentioned.

And that's (I hope) not counting the stuff that's not in any of the manuscripts and notes, and were just ideas the author had for later books. Or most of the repeated phrases, like "mouth [opens and closes/opening and closing] like a fish out of water" or "[I/You] owe [you/me] a life debt" or "there's no time like the present". And my favourite, "Okaaay" vs "Okaaaaaay".

Also a fan of the judgement repeatedly referring to the Blue Moon Rising/Masqued love interest as sun-kissed and a Viking, as well as the main summary in section IV always referring to "Mean Girl Taylor" and never just "Taylor".

#Crave lawsuit #I guess that's how I'm tagging this #I read the whole plantiff complaint and the judgement a while ago #For some reason #I now know the plot of the first four Crave books #I'm a little curious about whether she stays with the second guy or gets a third love interest #That's the kind of thing that happens as these kinds of books go on right?

Come oooooon, Speed Square, Aerith needs a new umbrella! As a "sorry about your upcoming death, here's an umbrella" present. Stop giving me replicas of the sword that's going to kill her!

#Final Fantasy 7 #ff7 #I'm replaying it with RetroAcheivements and I don't think you need the Umbrella for any achievements but why take the risk?.#And there is an achievement for getting either weapon you can get from it so I might as well do it now #Right before my romantic? night with Barret (Also an achievement)#My best score so far is about 4800 so hopefully I'll get it soon

I'm on the verge of Kevin in, I run back through the dark Now I'm Kevin Charisma, Fuckin' Kevin Escobar My friends are saying "Shut up Kevin, just Kev in the car" (Ke-vin!) Kevin makes me feel like Dracula

#Tame Impala #Dracula (song)#I'm aware I'm mixing verses #The final line of that verse is harder to squeeze the singer's name into

hugsohugs

ok i did it. image for people who like defending caine but also want to make it clear that they Understand that He Did Bad Things. feel free to use, no credit required. enjoy

hugsohugs

@forestlich LOL ok sure, evil version just for you

#The Amazing Digital Circus #Caine (Amazing Digital Circus)#I'm not saying torture is good but #If I constantly had people saying how tragic it was that I'm inherently incapable of fitting in with others due to my origin #I'd get a little frustrated too

I would be so good at this game if I was good at it.

#The specific game I was playing is Diddy Kong Racing #TT are you actively trying to miss every single zipper or am I just bad at controlling you?#(It's the second one)#But there's a lot of games I'd be great at if I was any good at them

The Bugsnax April Fools game had a lot of interesting Lore about Bugsnax and vibrations!

(On waking up) A static pulse runs through your body like a booming bass playing in the distance, but you aren't in any pain.

(After being jabbed with Floofty's in-progress Snaktivator) It doesn't hurt, but suddenly the subtle vibrations in your body become not-so-subtle.

(While turning into a monster from the above) Your body is still pulsating, an internal swirl of chaos taking over.

(While meditating) You feel a low-level hum throughout your entire body. The harmony of a thousand voices in a chorus just outside the range of hearing. All the things you shouldn't know but somehow do, whispered through you from far below. You shut all of it out, and for the first time since you woke up here, you feel stillness.

(In a dark tunnel) It strikes you that maybe your googly eyes could never see to begin with. That you've so far been experiencing scent and vibrations in ways that a human mind couldn't possibly comprehend.

(In the Undersnax) Every crevice of this place sings to you!

(In ????'s chamber) You are in a chamber of magnificent scale. A slow pulse travels through the floor. Up ahead you witness what has the world around you so afraid.

Also the endings where you get eaten don't mention vibrations, but All things considered, this is not a bad end for a Bunger. You're distantly aware that it is your purpose to be eaten! Now your Snakmatter will suffuse Grumpuskind, and slowly but surely bring about the next generation of Bugsnax.

The text gives the impression that dire consequences are eventually guaranteed from just eating one Bugsnak. That's concerning!

#Bugsnax #Rebungered #The googly eyes are even more unsettling if they don't actually do anything #They're just part of the 'animal you can and should eat' disguise