trichloroethylene queen

Cal, he/him, late 20s // sybaritick on ao3 // math guy, horny writer, newjerseyan -> torontonian, furry

[sybaritick]

new pinned post for your convenience!

^one of my mice, Xylem. she's just here to look cute

SIDEBLOGS

@bretton-woods for anything political-- development economics, effective altruism, 1970s US foreign policy (I have like. A decade-long fascination with the Nixon era), Cold War stuff, etc. Both reblogs and original posts

@snakefeast for weight gain kink material, feedism, and other NSFW images - all reblogs

ME ELSEWHERE

my ao3 at this same username (sybaritick): fandoms I've written the most for are Baldur's Gate 3 and Detroit: Become Human but I have a few originals and a few other fandoms too

and @sorceringing is my Real Life Husband you should follow them too :)

ORGANIZATIONAL TAGS

#cal txt: originals or posts i've added to

#furry: furry

#home?: reminds me of my hometown (usually just aesthetically) or of New Jersey

#kinkposting: kink textposts (mostly originals but some reblogs!)

#laugh rule: just means that the post made me laugh

#my mice: photos of my mice

#new home: reminds me of Toronto

#prmh: about my OC universe

#wg tag: feedism posts (originals and reblogs)

[sybaritick]

i truly have no sense of how much the average math undergraduate knows so I simultaneously feel like "it's going to be so embarrassing when i get there and everyone is talking about abstract algebra while I barely have a sense of what groups are" and "I really need to go back and get a bachelor's degree? I probably already know all that stuff "

[sybaritick]

I like folding modular origami, but I don't actually want to keep the things I make, I just like having something to do with my hands. thankfully, there's an excellent solution: give it to the mice, and they will play with it, tear it up for nesting material, or use it as a place to hide.

[fravery]

Roland Ruocco (United States) Sunburst

[urgetocreate]

Oil on canvas, 36"x48"

[krasnoarmeyets]

tshirt that says “i love abusing my authority” is raising a lot of questions that are not your place to ask

[algorithmist]

technology is politics by other means

[antiqueanimals]

"Foxes Fighting"

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 1 - Part 2. 1925. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Internet Archive

[queeranarchism]

Let me settle the 'is it fetishism and is it bad?' debate once and for all:

Being attracted to any kind of body is normal. Fat bodies. Trans bodies. Disabled bodies. All normal. Being extra attracted to a specific kind of body is normal too. Totally normal to have a type.

Not unlearning the societal stigma attached to those kinds of bodies, the people who inhabit those bodies, and the people who fuck them, to the point where you do any of the following:

Only want to date/fuck the person in secret.

Reduce the person to the feature that you desire and ignore the rest of who they are as a person.

Expect the person to be a walking porn fantasy instead of a real person with their own sexual preferences and boundaries.

Would no longer love the person if the stigmatized aspect of their body changed.

Consider yourself superior to the person, think the person should be 'grateful' that you love their body, etc.

See the person as a temporary adventure while planning to eventually settle down with someone whose body isn't stigmatized.

Is bad and harmful and you shouldn't be dating anyone until you've worked on your shit, because this makes you a very terrible partner. This doesn't mean you are a bad person with bad-fetishist-desires who can only desire people badly, it means you need to unlearn societal stigma so you can be a better partner to the people you desire.

Thank you for coming to me ted talk.

[victusinveritas]

[sybaritick]

miscellaneous items in my bag that i end up using

regularly (at least once a month): tissues, hand sanitizer, pen and small notepad

at least a few times over the years: anti-nausea medication, band-aids, earplugs, cough drops, tweezers, little swiss army knife (for the knife or the screwdriver), little flashlight, rubber band

once, but it was useful: small length of duct tape

never but i still have them in there in case it comes up i guess: lighter, small length of nylon thread, 4 small zip ties, chunk of hot glue

[prokopetz]

The secret to always having things go according to plan is to have multiple mutually exclusive plans which between them encompass the entire space of possible outcomes. That way, no matter what happens, it will be according to a plan.

[slowlikehoney1996]

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

[machine-unlearning]

Which are better?

Concepts

Details

Voting ended onMar 3

No nuance button because I gave up nuance for Lent

[machine-unlearning]

CONCEPT FANS DECLARE TOTAL VICTORY! “The votes are in, and the big picture to celebrate is that Concepts are more popular than Details.”

DETAILS FANS REFLECT ON CLOSE RACE! “While we lost, the important thing is their margin is small, only 4.8%. Details are still plenty popular.”

[maidling-deactivated20260401]

[filmphotofranz]

source

[deep-state-partisan]

[sybaritick]

and while you shouldn't choose a partner solely because they would be a great person to have around during the apocalypse or some catastrophic disaster, because most of the time you will be doing things like folding laundry together or taking a walk in the park rather than being in some survival scenario, it's still true that among their many great features Omii is the person I would most want to have around during the apocalypse.

not because they are some survivalist prepper or ultra-wealthy but because they are practical, smart, and level-headed regardless of circumstances. RIP to people who went insane from seeing some Lovecraftian horror but Omii is built different. and better

this is not to say that omii, or anyone, is perfectly infallible and immune to emotion. (that would be its own problem). but that they have a genuinely admirable stability in adverse circumstances. that's different from day-to-day stoicism (omii is not a stoic, they are a mouseguy, like me. i love them.) and i say that as someone who has been admired for that myself. anyway, this is literally just a post about how great omii is but i'm right

[sybaritick]

where's that post about relationships and birth order. we are both oldest siblings. 🥰🫶