In the Comfort of My Own Mind

Call me KZ for short. Basically, expect to see a mix of everything that matters to me. Header: MDZS audio drama S3E10 by changyang. 💫🐹🪽

[the-social-recluse]

MDZS link masterpost

Novel: JJWXC (official release) | Luoxia - CN raws (revised edition, complete) | CN paperback, vol. 1 currently sold out/TW paperback, special edition reprint (uncensored, 4 volumes - up to ch.122), TW paperback of the extra volume containing the rest of the chapters: book only/Collector’s Edition | Official English release

Audio drama: MissEvan - S1, S2, S3 (buying guide) | English translation by SuibianSubs (main story and extras complete, apart from some S2 and S3 FTs)/Revision by Treasure Chest Subs Audio drama, JP version (joint production by MaoEr FM and its new branch for JP localisations, MiMi FM): MiMi FM smartphone app (install guide)/MissEvan - S1 (first cour, second cour), S2 (first cour, second cour), S3 (first cour, second cour) | English translation by 3PASubs (S1 and S2 complete, currently translated to S3E2)

Audiobook: Ximalaya - CN edition (complete). Note: if you are on mobile, after installing the app please revoke location access to avoid geo-block.

Manhua: Taobao - paperback, limited edition vol.1 (TW reprint of vol.1) | Kuaikanmanhua [interactive edition on Tencent Film - open through the mobile app] | WeComics [expect WeTV’s quality] | Official English release Manga: CMOA

Donghua: Tencent Video | WeTV English (S1: E1-15, S2: E16-23, S3: E24-35) [Subs’ quality is questionable] | S1 and S2 fansubs done by GuodongSubs, S3 fansubs done by Treasure Chest Subs JP dubbing of the donghua: Tencent Video (S1 and S2 only) | Blu-rays Chibi shorts aka Q version: Tencent Video | WeTV English | English fansubs by Rabbit Mantou Subs (complete)

Live action: Tencent Video | WeTV English (WeTV’s exclusive - CQL Special Edition)/Rakuten VIKI [subs are not ideal either way]/Netflix (depends on your region) | English fansubs by SuibianSubs (complete)/Detailed episode comparisons between original CQL and Special Edition by 3PASubs CQL movies: iQiyi - The Living Dead, Fatal Journey | iQiyi International (only through the smartphone app). Note: both versions come with decent subs

All streaming platforms require subscriptions for full access at best quality available (although most CQL and donghua content has also been uploaded to Tencent’s YouTube for free), while everything translated by the SuibianSubs, Treasure Chest Subs and 3PASubs groups is only accessible through their respective Discord channels. Please support the official channels first!

[captain-price-returns]

Re: sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln on half rations.

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[notemily]

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

[nuffnotsaid]

World's most dysfunctional polycule

[haruki-stars]

them

[dvandom]

(For those not familiar with it, the middle logo is for DownDetector.)

[freegiftjones]

one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.

[chicknparm]

[fauxtasm]

they should invent a term for shipping were I don't think they should be in a romantic relationship however I believe they are each others parasite and separating them is not an option

[orpheuslament]

the way some people talk about their supposed favourite fictional characters is like. well youve stripped them of every single aspect that made them interesting. youve created a brand new guy & theyre boring as hell. now what

[wordsforyoungmen]

[rockshitty]

Nothing reminds me what a goddamn miracle modern medicine is more so than hearing stories about people who contracted the black plague in the 21st century and were prescribed antibiotics for it.

Like yeah man you got the disease that wiped out half of Europe, like, a couple separate times within written history, and we have no clue how many times before that. To cure it you have to take 14 pills and drink lots of juice. You’re gonna feel kind of crummy for a while. It’s vitally important you take all 14 pills.

[sapphoandvanzetti]

the thing that blows my mind is blood transfusions. for literally all of human history up until about 100 years ago if you lost enough blood that was it, you were dead, and then people just figured out how to take blood from other people and successfully give it to you and now you can come in to the hospital with a blood pressure of ohfuck/nope, the same color as the linens and they just pop a tube in your arm and casually give you some stuff that another person donated on their lunch break, and you live long enough for the doctors to find and treat your gastric bleed. Insanely cool.

[findingfeather]

Honestly even more, just . . . IV fluids.

The fact that we can put fluids into people via IV saves more lives than I can actually communicate. There are so, so many more ways to die when we can't do that. You can go from literally at death's door from an illness you have no other cure for, to Basically Fine, You'll Feel Icky A Bit Longer But You're Otherwise Fine and Your Own Immune System Will Work Now, from sterile saline into a vein.

Or even fucking subcutaneous, under your skin. It still gets into your system faster and bypasses any fuckery going on in your gi-tract.

But you want the other end?

I recently got the answer to a crapload of symptoms of mine and it turned out to be Crohn's. Ileal crohn's.

For most of human history there was literally nothing to do about this but hope and pray that your immune system didn't decide to rip ulcers and lesions in your digestive tract to the point where you bled out, or the point where parts of it died and killed you with sepsis, or enough to build up stricture bands of scar tissue sufficiently to cause impactions or any other really gnarly and unpleasant ways you can die because for some reason your body decides the walls of your digestive tract are the enemy and need to be dismantled cell by cell. (Including a fuckload of cancers caused by the constant damage to the cell wall.)

Even as recently as when most of the younger people reading this were small children, mostly all you could do about it was take corticosteroids when you were in a flare. And that was better than Nothing. But at the same time, corticosteroids have a potential laundry list of side effects and you want to take them as little as possible and for as brief a period as possible. And there wasn't a lot else.

I am on a medication with the proprietary name "Skyrizi" and the generic name risankizumab. It's made from taking antibodies from a non-human source and then modifying their protein sequences to be more similar to human antibodies, after which they modify them further in order to make it so that the literal only thing they do is go into my body and bind to something called "tumour necrosis factor" so that this will stop flagging my own goddamn digestive system walls for destruction by the rest of the immune system.

Please feel free to read that paragraph over again.

Modern medicine isn't perfect; there are many things we're just as helpless against as we were in the Days of Eld, and there are many ways its practitioners fail us. But also we can make a thing that goes into my body and says "hey stop self destructing you MORON!" and I have a much better chance than at any other time of not dying young of bowel cancer or bowl impaction! This is fucking insane.

[incendavery]

DONT ask why corvid isnt wearing a shirt bc the answer is embarrassing. (i forgor to draw it)

[bugmuscle]

beautiful, sexy, powerful and smart women named SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING are attempting to contact me

[julianbashir]

looking at pictures of characters on my phone at night feels like this sometimes

[elucubrare]

there's a lot of reasons why people perceive the state of literature as worse than it ever has been but they all boil down to this:

we are experiencing the literary landscape now and we did not experience the literary landscape of the past.

[madlori]

this actually applies to a LOT of things that we currently think are the worst they've ever been.

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

The Buff-Tip Moth: this moth's unique resting position all0ws it to mimic a broken birch twig, and the buff-colored patches on its head and forewings even resemble freshly-snapped wood

Phalera bucephala, otherwise known as the buff-tip moth, is a remarkable mimic that can easily disguise itself as a twig. This moth has a unique resting position that makes its body seem narrower and more cylindrical, and its wings are covered in silver patterns that resemble tree bark, while the buff-colored patches on its head and forewings mimic the appearance of freshly-snapped wood.

Above: three actual twigs and one buff-tip moth

This type of camouflage is also known as a "protective resemblance" -- a form of mimesis in which an animal can avoid being preyed upon by mimicking an unremarkable or inedible aspect of its environment. Many other moths are able to disguise themselves in similar ways, often mimicking dead leaves, twigs, moss, and/or tree bark.

Above: more photos of Phalera bucephala

The buff-tip moth is particularly adept at disguising itself, however, and the fact that it so strongly resembles such a specific object (not just a dead leaf or a piece of foliage, but a broken twig from a silver birch tree, in particular) makes this disguise seem even more impressive and unique.

Above: the photo at the top shows a buff-tip moth in its resting position, while the photo at the bottom shows the same species with its wings unfurled

It also tends to look like there's a weird little smiley face in the setae surrounding the moth's head, which is arguably even more striking, but for some reason none of my sources seem to mention that weirdness.

Above: the weird little smiley face on the back of the moth's head

This species is distributed throughout the British Isles, mainland Europe, and parts of Asia, with its range extending into Eastern Siberia.

Sources & More Info:

Wildlife Insights: Buff-Tip Moth Identification Guide

Butterfly Conservation: Buff-Tip

Wildlife Insights: Phalera bucephala

The Wildlife Trusts: The Buff-Tip Moth

Moth Identification: Phalera busephala

Encyclopedia of Life: Global Map of Known Occurrences for Phalera busephala

Insecta: Phalera bucephala

Lepidoptera and their Ecology: Phalera busephaloides and Phalera busephala

Journal of Ecology and Evolution: Strong Foraging Preferences for Ribes alpinum in the Polyphagous Caterpillars of the Buff-Tip Moth

Dickinson County Conservation Board: Protective Resemblance and Other Forms of Mimesis and Mimicry

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Everybody STOP having a crisis, it’s now tea time

☕️☕️☕️🫖🍵🍵🍪

Pause all dread and catastrophe to have a cuppa and some cookies for the next 15-30 minutes

This is a wizard spell

[babeyknife]

heat waves will have you say off-base things like "schon bisschen frisch, oder" when it's 26 degrees instead of 30

[babeyknife]

sorry i meant to say heat waves will have you say off-base things like "schon bisschen frisch, oder" when it's 30 degrees instead of 38