Crustacean Contemplations

Extremely normal about Azula ● Agender lesbian, 30-something, so many cats and fish. ● Schizoaffective/PTSD/Autism/OSDD-1a ● Self-identified pornist ● They/them

[theoneandonlylobster]

I did a cool thing and wrote a book! You can buy it if you want to!

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If you want to read shit that I've written for free, my AO3 is here, but you need an account, because my works are archive locked

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Main fandoms of all time:

ATLA/TLOK

Hunger Games

Legend of Zelda

Animorphs

Those all qualify as special interests to varying degrees, here are a few more:

Linguistics

Astronomy

Nintendo

Cats

My disorders

I also have a Masters degree in linguistics which is pretty neat

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I've made a handful of zines which you can see here.

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Training my own service dog puppy now which I'm mostly blogging about on my sideblog @themadlobster

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Tags in my blog that I've heard are fun to look at:

#linguistics

#all the fictional women you hate

#pffffft

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Okay, bestie, that's all

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[lonelyroommp3]

and so javert you see it’s true this man bears no more guilt than you. who am i?

[junglejim4322]

Be so completely yourself that everyone wants to kill you

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[oneheadtoanother]

[tachyon-log]

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

[fishmech]

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

[bunniope]

can we focus on the gnome for a second

[bunniope]

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

[ladyofspoons]

these are the people i have to share a highway with

[fyterx]

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

[assaultmystic]

a quirk of sexting while british is switching from arse to ass. i would never fuck someone in the arse. its impolite.

[evilneo]

[klapollo]

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.

[triplehamburgerjack]

Their other brand is EARTHBOUND ORGANICS!!!

[memewhore]

[bananahomo]

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

[minakittengaming]

This is huge. Sharing for my US friendos.

[zillyblog]

Hospitals like to hide these policies under a lot of successive links in obscure places, so if you don't see anything right away, keep looking! Get friends to help! Make it a scavenger hunt. A game where you're assassins sent to slit capitalism's throat

[gaytanic-panic]

[gaytanic-panic]

#what do you mean harrison ford was a pot dealer in real life. you're kidding. is this real

What do you think actors do before making it big in show business?

[gaytanic-panic]

I was like damn these tags are too real until I remembered sw can also be used as an acronym for star wars

[theoneandonlylobster]

Happy second birthday to my little free library!

Pics of what are in the three boxes today.

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot

[vampire-loving-vampire]

hey white people . if u dont know how to pronounce an ethnic persons name *google it* or if its someone ur talking directly to *ask them*. dont fucking do that "erm i dont know how to pronounce but __" or "im gonna butcher this haha" or "im not even gonna bother trying" . ur not funny. do u know what poc think when they hear u saying that ? u sound like a loser asshole and we dont want to spend time with u . im so fucking tired of watching youtube videos about media from my country and hearing those phrases. im tired of people saying that to my face . i respect someone who clearly looked it up and is tryong but says my name wrong over someone who just goes with whatever bad first guess they had without trying. u have too many resources at ur disposal to keep doing this. for the love of god just Fucking Try. if ur confused Just Try.

[despair-tea]

I highly recommend Forvo.com, the website where native speakers of a language contribute their time and voices to read words and names in their own language. It is a fantastic way to expand your world, open up your ears, and it's way more likely to nab a hit than just googling.

[vampire-loving-vampire]

wow , I didn't know this existed, thanks so much for sharing the resource !! I will absolutely be using it now too 🖤

[clytemnestraaa]

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

[justdecadentcollectiondestiny]

and a cannon is a large mounted gun, usually on wheels, that uses explosives to fire projectiles.

[aniquotes]

“The two of us hemmed Ax in and herded him toward Radio Shack.

Then he drank the coffee.

‘Ahhh! Ohhh! Oh, oh, oh, what? What? What is that?!’

‘What?’ I asked, alarmed. I swiveled my head back and forth, looking for some danger.

'A new sense. It…I cannot explain it. It is…it comes from this mouth.’ He pointed at his mouth. 'It happened when I drank this liquid. It was pleasant. Very pleasant.’

It took a few seconds for Jake and I to realize what he was talking about. 'Oh. Taste! He’s tasting it,’ Jake said. 'He doesn’t normally have the sense of taste.’

'At least he stopped repeating sounds,’ I muttered.

'Taste,’ Ax said, contradicting me. 'Aste. Tuh-aste.'”

- Book #5: The Predator (Marco), pg. 33 (by K.A. Applegate)