strabery rat♠

hi welcome to my public diary😭 , my favorite anime character of all time is Violet Evergarden

[strawberryteddybear]

Hi! im river, im aroace and my pronouns are he/they/it and whatever neos you feel like using.

i sometimes post minecraft builds, art, food pics and sometimes fiber arts(specifically crochet and knitting), humans are space orcs fiction and i sometimes fanfiction. tho i mostly just reblog stuff;)

my ao3-> Link

original post tag-> #river's yapping

art tag-> #rivers and paintbrushes

fiber art tag-> #thhe fiibberss

rant tag-> #river's journaling

tag where i whine about being sick -> #im sickk

haso story-> #the adventures of bizu and lav

queue tag-> #from the queue:)

the price of a quirk(mha wip fic) -> #the price of a quirk

[hbbisenieks]

motorcycles, sewing machines, and printers are all types of horse

[cuprohastes]

About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

[alexaloraetheris]

OP did it hurt when Apollo's dodgeball hit you and made you write that story?

[strangehorse]

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-

[strangehorse]

like. female and male bodies are not different species. the traits you consider inherent and unique to Female or Male can often be changed by hormone therapy and other interventions, and many traits fall on a bimodal distribution, not a binary one. you can apply the findings of 'Invisible Women' without implying that female bodies are like, Startouched Special Moon-Tied Nature Creatures that are immune to all known scientific phenomena

[homunculus-argument]

"My first language has a perfect saying for this, but it doesn't make sense in english :("

Say it anyway! You don't owe them perfect clarity. Be profoundly cryptic, speak in riddles, make them ponder what the fuck you meant by that. The anglos, like porridge, must sometimes be stirred, so they don't burn stuck on the bottom of the pot.

[varahai]

Ihmisiä pitää hämmentää, muuten ne palavat pohjaan

[homunculus-argument]

@elfspectations close, but no cigar! It's my favourite expression, which in finnish is a cooking pun. The word "stir", as in stirring a soup/porridge/etc is also the word for "confuse", and "to burn to the bottom of the pan" is also used for a person experiencing burnout.

So "people must be stirred, or they'll burn to the bottom of the pot" can also be understood as "one must confuse people sometimes, so that they won't burn out (in life)."

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[animentality]

Link to the gay porn library of Alexandria.

Happy pride.

[rivers-thoughts]

This is actually super cool from a media preservation stand point!!

[interspadias]

fun fact: debates about if being transgender is a choice or not are irrelevant, because the fundamental truth is of bodily autonomy - a right that should never be seen as conditional or requiring a suitable, immutable condition.

people who are trans deserve the right to transition, not because it’s a medical treatment or because dysphoria can be classified as a mental illness but because we’re human beings who should be allowed to do whatever the fuck we want to our own bodies! this is a basic human right!

[symphony-of-gaia]

not our design, but we found it on Wikipedia of all places many years ago. can't seem to find the original page anymore though.

[youramradio-deactivated20240428]

i call this the headcanon chart. see my vision

[youramradio-deactivated20240428]

elaboration

[theroseunblown]

if I may:

[fandomsandfeminism]

This may be the best Pride merch I've seen from a major corporation.

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

And the assless chaps sold out on June 1.

[aetherograph]

They also specifically contacted members of the leather community, used them as models iirc, and donated $100k to Outright International. They talked the talk and walked the walk and put their money on it too. I don't really care that I can't afford and don't want this merch, I love to see my community getting the respect it deserves. Levi's said, "We make jeans which gays wear lots of jeans? Oh leather daddies? Let's call them."

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think Levi's donates to Outreach International every year too, as well as sponsoring pride events and other community support. They were offering Same Sex domestic partner benefits to employees in the 90s, and have been very public about their support for pro-lgbt legislation all through the 2000s.

So, you know, a giant corporation that walks the walk pretty consistently.

[subwaybug]

❎ "my current mental state can cause me to be anxious, irrational, and overly reactive at times"

✅ "some sort of evil shadow self lurks within me that can only be defeated via battle of the mind combat"

[my-dailydreams]

[goth-queen]

Goddess of Depression by Victor Nazarenko

[nyancrimew]

im so hungry i could eat a meal

[grudgez]

[podcastwizard]

i don’t know how many people on tumblr know about “verticals” - they’re cheaply made soap operas that are filmed vertically so you can watch them on your phone. they’re infamous in the acting world because of the poor writing and nonsensical plots - almost always has something to do with a mafia boss or a vampire or a werewolf - and they always have insane titles like “pregnant with the ceo’s baby” or “forced to marry the alpha king.” i come across tons of them on casting websites and they all have wild titles and descriptions but none of them, None of Them, have truly grabbed me like the title i saw today:

Dr. Fangs: He Prescribes Bites

[podcastwizard]

answering some questions i’ve seen:

1. yes, real people work on these

2. some of the scripts might be ai generated but a lot of them are poorly translated in to english from other languages (china and russia are really big in to verticals) or just written in like an afternoon by someone with no will to live

3. shockingly you get paid really well for these, like way more than nonunion standard, which is why a lot of actors flock to them

4. they’re typically hosted on tiktok or apps specifically designed for hosting verticals

5. as far as i am aware, dr. fangs does not prescribe mouse bites

[the-haiku-bot]

5. as far as i

am aware, dr. fangs does

not prescribe mouse bites

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[weirdplutoprince]

Those ABBA guys are pretty good. Does anyone else listen to them

[the-haiku-bot]

Those ABBA guys are

pretty good. Does anyone

else listen to them

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[officialpenisenvy]

the thing about getting out of the torment nexus is that you do start thinking "man if you ignore the torment i used to have a lot of fun in the torment nexus"

[rainydaydecaf]

By far my favorite part of Scott’s episode was when he looked Sausage dead in the eye and ate a clove of garlic and continued talking like nothing was wrong, and meanwhile in his POV his vision was reeling and his throat was burning the whole time, he was clinging to composure by the skin of his teeth and he probably collapsed and threw up as soon as the humans were out of sight.

[popoludniowekolory]

respect your elders or whatever