Aka: TheSoupDragon (and Ceceliajupe)

I’m multi-monikered. I’m also gaily Johnlocking, Mystrading, fanfic writing and doing a bit of scribbly stuff! And the promised podfic reading has finally started! Come and find me and everything mentioned here on AO3! I’m souper-doup on live journal and DreamWidth too...but I’m not really on those that much!

[chick-it-out]

🌱✨️

[recurring-polynya]

Me, writing the parts of my fanfic I want to write: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, trying to string those parts together into something that resembles a narrative: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

[totallysilvergirl]

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[totallysilvergirl]

Reblogging again because I am literally sitting in front of a woodstove with an evening to write and I am at the Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. stage of the proceedings and I am not aMused

[souper-doup]

If I were you I’d sit down to write and then I’d just start staring into that fire thinking about a film I watched ten years ago and wondering whether it’s on one of the streaming channels

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck

[shamebats]

My mother withheld learning basic life skills from me as a way to control me, in an attempt to keep me from being able to leave.

When I was 18 and told her I would be moving away for university, she started listing off all the household skills I lacked (because she never taught me) and then told me I'd come crawling back to her once I'd realize I can't live on my own.

Thankfully, I had access to the internet and hyperindependence as coping mechanism rather than learned helplessness, so I left anyway and figured it out on my own.

This was part of a larger pattern with her — she also wouldn't let me shower on my own until I was well into puberty and I was very uncomfortable with that.

Teaching kids how to take care of themselves can genuinely save their lives, and I'd even argue that withholding basic life skills from them at developmentally appropriate times is a form of neglect. Those kids who weren't allowed to do anything on their own until age 16 were abused.

[bleachandtea]

The flip side of this is expecting children to operate like RPG characters, automatically gaining life skills based on their age without ever having been taught, and then punishing them for this not having happened.

[shamebats]

That's part of the abuse pattern.

Don't teach them how to do anything themselves > still expect things to be done > shame them for lacking the skills they weren't taught > do things for them > make them feel guilty and like a burden > hold all the things you've done for them over their heads for the rest of their lives.

You'll usually end up with a child with basically no self-esteem, easy to abuse and not very likely to ever get away from you.

[souper-doup]

Honestly, what the f is happening to the world. People should encourage their children (younger than 11) to take an interest in the food they eat because they’ll be eating food for the rest of their life.

[moonywithatrafficcone]

guys what was the johnlock tumblr era like i wasn't on tumblr when it was coming out

i can only imagine it must have been epic

[souper-doup]

Babe - it was the best.

😌

[buxina]

[alienpapacy]

love is fucking dead. valentines day used to mean something

[ebonykain]

So for people who don’t know, Seattle Aquarium has a breeding program to try and help save the endangered Pacific Giant Octopus.

They take wild octos every year and put them in a conjoined tank that is separated only by a plexi glass wall full of holes big enough for them to put arms through but small enough that their beaks can’t fit through. Each octopus is given food, healthcare, and enrichment, and the opportunity to get to know each other.

As Valentine’s Day approaches the marine biologists that specialize in octos make assessments of their interactions and judge if the two are compatible for mating or if they are still aggressive toward each other.

If the octopuses have been witnessed being friendly and seem interested, the gate is lifted and they have their day of romance.

But octopuses engage in cannibalism in the wild and any smaller octopus is wary of getting eastern by a larger one… So yeah, if they haven’t been friendly the possibility of cannibalism is very high. And as a program designed to help save the species they aren’t going to risk it. So the octopuses are released (not together) back into the wild and the Aquarium sets about finding a new pair to play match-maker with.

As someone who walked by this aquarium to work for almost a decade, I can attest to how huge a Thing this is around here. We’re always sad when the octopus sex show gets cancelled.

[iamthelowercase]

Thank you for the explanation of the conservation program.

[silverskyy]

[ID: a screenshot of a news headline posted on 2/12/2016. It reads “Attention: the public octopus sex act has been cancelled.” In smaller text the sub-header reads “Seattle Aquarium cancels annual Valentine’s Day mating ritual, fearing cephalopods might turn to cannibalism.” /end ID]

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

„We’re always sad when an octopus sex show gets cancelled.”

[souper-doup]

🐙❤️

[fideliant]

[souper-doup]

He can do that line with just a look.

[solarsthoughts]

gentle reminder that you’re still a writer even if you haven’t written in days. or weeks. or months. or if you take a long break and don’t write in years.

[souper-doup]

❤️ ❤️❤️

[herainsorcia]

[murrphius]

the true AO3 curse

[souper-doup]

Hey - why didn’t someone tell me this before!!? 😆

[nondelphic]

being a writer is so embarrassing because sometimes i’ll read a hot scene and go "wow that verb choice is phenomenal" while also being like "i wanna bite someone"

[asterrwritess]

Non-writers never seem to understand the fact that characters have free will.

"you made them, just make them do what you want!"

I can't SUSAN.

[i-will-write]

Writing a long multichapter fic be like

[souper-doup]

So so so true……

[reishidreams]

Reishi farmin’

[localgothdiz-archive]

It’s the Mush Room

[botanyshitposts]

this is where u wake up to get judged when u die 

[cipheramnesia]

Interdimensional House of Pancakes

[emmi-kat]

fairy Ikea

[souper-doup]

Nothing to add except loving the answers above

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

what ao3 would look like with ads. no, you do not want this. support ao3 because it’s one of the last few places on the internet that is not tainted by capitalism bullshit. support ao3 because it’s one of the last few places on the internet that is genuinely about the connection between audiences, artists, their works and the love/passion artists have for what they do

[blignick]

[bunjywunjy]

this is actually HILARIOUS because both domestic rabbits and domestic cats practice dominance-related social grooming but for wildly different reasons.

if you're a rabbit, the boss rabbit is the one who gets groomed by its subordinate rabbits.

but if you're a cat... the boss cat is the one that grooms the other cats.

BOTH these idiots are going "aw yeah, it's good to be on top >:) "

[blignick]

[bunjywunjy]

this is actually HILARIOUS because both domestic rabbits and domestic cats practice dominance-related social grooming but for wildly different reasons.

if you're a rabbit, the boss rabbit is the one who gets groomed by its subordinate rabbits.

but if you're a cat... the boss cat is the one that grooms the other cats.

BOTH these idiots are going "aw yeah, it's good to be on top >:) "

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[deceasedcardinal]

[blupeeblep]

Like to charge, reblog to cast