Tori_Artemis

[twoplayer-game]

maker and maître

[existenceisanillusion]

[broadwaybooksandbagels-deactiva]

Actually Potatoes were originally grown in Peru

[neogale]

As a kid who lives in Peru I can confirm that potatoes are from here and that we have over 1200 varieties of potatoes

[captainlordauditor]

only corn

[teaboot]

Natives had corn before us. U gonna be a white supremacist u gonna eat white food. Sheep guts and boiled bread my dudes

[harperhug]

Haggis is from Scotland. If we’re being fair with no immigrant food whatsoever, they can’t eat that either.

[vanshira]

We’re getting down to “if you hate immigrants you can’t eat” and I’m 100% okay with that

[xmagnet-o]

Even the white immigrants are stanning this post. Keep the solidarity going.

[ufco]

[snack-rat]

Who knew color-inverted molten glass could inspire some headcanons about a vore OC’s guts

[ufco]

this is the worst thing anyone’s put on any of my posts.

[paxamericana]

my life is literally indistinguishable from guts’ life

[apersnicketylemon]

Remember kids! NEVER save left-over antibiotics! You should never have leftover antibiotics, because you have to finish the whole course! Not doing so, or giving your antibiotics to someone else who hasn’t been prescribed them is how we got superbugs, that are resistant to antibiotics! 

ALWAYS finish your antibiotics, even if you don’t think you’re sick anymore! NEVER give your antibiotics to other people, there is no guaruntee they will have any effect, or the same effect, and without a full course, will not help them even if it is the right medicine for the job. 

BOTH cases result in resistant superbugs, which are dangerous to everyone, and hurt everyone. You might think you’re helping your poorer friends who cannot afford an antibiotic/to be seen by a doctor, but you’re not. You’re just hurting everyone. 

[apersnicketylemon]

Medicine that treats symptoms and painkillers are not antibiotics! Please stop bringing these up! 

I am talking ONLY ABOUT ANTIBIOTICS ON THIS POST, please, please stop adding in about drugs that are not antibiotics on a post about specifically antibiotics! ONLY antibiotics cause super-bugs when taken incorrectly, medicine that alleviates symptoms, pain, or other things do not create super bugs, and I am not talking about them! Thanks!

[caitas-cooing]

Take antibiotics until they’re gone or your doctor tells you to stop.

[jeza-red]

If you stop taking antibiotics because you figured they’re making you feel like shit - you are not crazy. Some antibiotics will make you feel like shit or cause stomach ache. A lot of antibiotics will decimate the bacterial balance in your gut and that will lead to feeling like shit and stomach ache.

However, don’t stop taking the antibiotics!

This is what you do instead - start eating a lot of stuff with probiotic properties. Plain yoghurt, greek yoghurt, Actimel, yakult, whatever brand your probiotic yoghurt comes with, kefir, diary, pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi, tempeh, kombucha, fibre-rich fruit and veg, cottage cheese, etc. Google what you have available in your area.

If you don’t like the options in your area, take probiotic supplements with your antibiotics, and then for a couple weeks after the antibiotics have run their course. Just don’t go insane with these, keep to the dozing advice on the label!! That’s the reason I prefer food in this case - it’s really hard to overdose on cabbage, but overdosing on supplements can happen. But if you’re smart about it, both options are good.

The above will help the bacteria in your gut recover and keep you feeling good, while the antibiotics are fighting for your health.

*obviously if you feel something is really wrong and you’re getting very bad reactions after taking the antibiotics, hit up your pharmacy/gp/prescriber/doctor to see if something else isn’t happening, like an allergy or sensitivity to an ingredient. Sometimes a different prescription is the answer.

However, still make an effort to help your gut bacteria to avoid at least that problem down the line.

[weaselle]

here’s the important thing you need to know.

if you take antibiotics (bacteria poison) until you feel better and then stop before you finish the full course, you have killed maybe 80% of the bacteria. Maybe even more, let’s say 90%

the only bacteria left are the bacteria that could survive a big blast of bacteria poison. So when they multiply, ALL the resulting bacteria will have a strong resistance to bacteria poison. So you are sick again/still, but now the bacteria poison that could cure you doesn’t work. And this poison immune illness likely can spread to other people.

the reason you haven’t noticed this happen to you is that how much bacteria is left is a roll of the dice until you finish the course of antibiotics. If you are given two weeks of antibiotics that is the amount we KNOW will kill all of them. If you feel better and stop after ten days, then MAYBE all of the bacteria ARE dead. But maybe it hasn’t killed them all yet. Maybe 0.01% survived. Maybe there’s just 25 little individual poison resistant bacteria left. And it takes a lot of individual bacteria for your body to even really notice they are there, so you feel fine, but 25 turns into 50 turns into 100 turns into 200 turns into 400 turns into 800 turns into 1,600 … turns into a million pretty quick. And now the poison doesn’t work on any of them

Don’t roll those dice. Finish your antibacterial medication.

[pyrebomb]

Every year, around Christmas, I hope I’ll discover fanworks that deal with the fact that so many of our winter traditions descend from Norse paganism.

Every year, around Christmas, what I get instead are fanworks where Christmas has to be explained in detail to Thor and/or Loki because it’s so completely foreign to them and I guess Asgardians don’t have holidays and are super fucking dense about everything.

[dorkmatter]

Thor walking around a mall looking at all of the Xmas decorations with an eyebrow raised. Finally when they see the mall Santa, he leans over and says, “To say it true, my father despises the red suit, but it was a gift from Frigga so he wears it every year, to this day.”

[pyrebomb]

Christmas really is Thor’s favorite holiday. Not because he’s awestruck by bits of tinsel, but because nothing makes him merrier than Odin’s misery.

[calamity-cain]

Thor liked malls, or used to. Around the ninth visit to the ninth identical tinsel-decked location, he had begun to lose his taste for them. On the tenth, they had a disastrous encounter involving two very loud, very unattended children and a candy store. Around the twelfth, he found himself developing a real loathing for jingles (Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer would be stuck in his head until January).

This was their thirteenth.

Thor hated malls.

“Which colour do you think suits me best?” piped Loki from two shelves away. A disinterested glance showed him two expensive silk scarves being held up for his judgment.

“They’re too flimsy for this weather. You should get wool. Or at least cashmere.”

Loki was one of those few rare beings who could pout audibly, and Thor heard him quite clear.

One of the few consolations of such shopping trips was capturing many versions of his father dressed as the popular icon Saint Nicholas on his iPhone. There was one such effigy posing proudly next to a rack of handbags; Thor made sure to take this one from two angles, one of it highlighting the seams of the red felt shirt bursting at the gut. That would sting; his father was on one of several half-successful dieting attempts in a row, battling the love of roast boar (specifically, the parts crunching and dripping with fat) that ran through the family. 

Evidently his few appearances on Earth that were responsible for this gaudy pageantry had taken place before any such attempts.

He sent the picture to Frigga. #NoFilter.

The reply came soon enough. “Your father says he only ever wore the suit That One Time, and if it wasn’t for that damned lithographer making copies, he would be immortalised in other more dignified ways ;)”

“Tell him to lay off the magic boar.”

“Thor,” Loki called, “what about these?” Two grass-green cashmeres, one of them embroidered with silver leaf motifs.

“Sæhrímnir was your gift; was it not?”

“The gift that keeps on giving, it would seem.”

“You’re not paying attention!” went the great audible pouter.

Thor pointed in the vague direction of the silver-leaved one. 

“Does this mean we  can leave this Norn-forsaken place after this?” he asked as they headed to the payment counter. “They’re playing Deck The Halls for the sixth time since we came.” They passed a giant, impressively terrible papier mache Santa on the way, and Thor whipped out his phone again.

“Seventh. And I need new shoes, actuall–” “No you don’t. You haven’t even started wearing the last pair.”

Loki narrowed his eyes. “Fine. But you’re paying.”

Thor got out his wallet without complaint.

[pyrebomb]

Oh my goodness, bless you! I never thought anyone would actually write fic because of my whining. Actual tech-savvy Thor using his iPhone to troll his father. Amazing!

Look, @fluffmugger. It has boar (Sæhrímnir even) and sadistically festive Loki, too!

[crabussy]

"you have to chose one person. ONE. who you are supposed to care about more than anyone else in your life, and if you don't want that, there must be something fundamentally wrong with you and you'll eventually realise you were meant to spend your whole life with this one person who you will inevitably have sex and children with" sounds like the premise to a gut twisting psychological horror movie but nooo. it's a real life mindset shared by a frankly terrifying proportion of earth's human population

[perennial-lee]

Anti-revenge narrative this, anti-revenge narrative that, I personally think that Inigo Montoya had the right idea when he stabbed Count Rugen in the gut and said "I want my father back, you son of a bitch"

[galwednesday]

A lot of revenge arcs end with the hero saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so me seeking revenge is pointless." The Princess Bride's revenge arc ends with Inigo Montoya saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so there's nothing that can save you."

[6irlpet]

i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life

[xochihuacoyotl]

so. not to doxx myself (i've talked about this here before though) but i live in Kansas. and my license was just revoked very suddenly and immediately because i'm trans and had changed my gender marker.

so now i cannot legally drive or vote until/unless i let them force me to carry around a card that misgenders me and outs me as trans, because i certainly don't look female anymore.

[xochihuacoyotl]

so hey if you have the means and want to help with any of this, please consider donating to the ACLU of Kansas because they are at least going to try to do something to push back against this, and i'm such a panicky wreck that the only thing i can do to get through my immediate gut reaction to having my license revoked tonight (i cannot stress enough that i received the letter today saying that my license is no longer valid tomorrow) is focus on the fact that there's at least one entity trying to protect me and my fellow trans kansans.

Support the ACLU of Kansas Foundation

[faggotfungus]

More info on what's been happening in Kansas:

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

[thelaurenshippen]

[headspace-hotel]

The Wikipedia community has been heavily opposed to AI generated content for a while, it's just that there's been months of debate on how to articulate the new rule (and whether a specific rule is necessary since arguably AI-generated content unavoidably violates several existing rules)

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Masterpost: How to write a story?

Compilation of writing advice for some aspects of the writing process.

How to motivate myself to write more

How to get rid of writer’s block

Basic Overview: How to write a story

How to outline a story

How to come up with plot

How to create a character

How to make a character unique

How to name your characters (Masterpost)

How to start a story

How to write a prologue

How to write conversation

How to write witty banter

How to write the last line

How to write a summary

How to write a book description

How to write romance

How to write friendships

How to write emotions (Masterpost)

How to write an argument

How to write yelling

How to write anger

How to write betrayal

How to title fanfiction

How to write an unreliable narrator

First Person vs. Third Person POV

How to write character deaths

How to leave a strong first impression

How to use songs in a fanfiction

How to name fictional things

How to write self-insert fics

How to write multiple points of view

Introducing a group of characters

Large cast of characters interacting in one scene

How to write dual timelines

How to slow down time

Redemption arc

Plot twists

Fatal Character Flaws

good traits gone bad (Masterpost)

Slow burn

Explanation posts about writing terms

What is…

AU ideas

Favourite tropes

Tropes of the day

List of Genres

Drabble vs. One-Shot

Advice for writing relationships

Masterpost: how to write relationships + romance

More specific scenarios

How to write a bilingual character

How to write a character with glasses

How to write heterochromia

How to write a girldad

How to write taking care of a tired partner

How to create a villain

Reasons for becoming a villain

How to write a morally grey character

How to write an inferiority complex

How to write a road trip

How to write a small town (jobs & businesses)

High paying jobs in the city

How to create and write a cult

How to write amnesia

How to write being stabbed

How to write a stratocracy

How to write a heist

How to write the mafia

Criminal past comes to light

Ideas for traumatic experiences

How to create an atmosphere (Masterpost)

How to write a college party

How to write royalty (Masterpost)

Paramilitary Forces/ Militia

Superpowers Masterpost (Hero x Villain)

Inconvenient things a ghost could do

A Queen’s Assassination Plot

Reasons for leaving their land

Crime Story - Detective’s POV

Evil organization of assassins

Evil wins in the end

Causes for the apocalypse

Last day on earth

Liminal Spaces

Workplace AUs

Signs of co-dependency

What to wear in a desert

What to wear in the arctic

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[ziyuanyuan1113]

Ser Duncan the Tall and Egg over the years. Aegon's telling Dunk about some cool dreams he's been having in the second pic

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[demadogs]

There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death.

SINNERS (2025)

[iwtv-outfit-tournament]

Which outfit is better?

San Fran crashout

Running fit + versace shades

Voting ended onMar 28

Ok so this is the semi-final, round 5. We own dominion is going to go against the winner of this poll in three days :-]

[patricia-taxxon]

i love explaining the etymology of the word "rickroll" because the story starts with "ok, so at one point 4chan applied a filter to everyone's posts that changed the word egg to duck"

[maple-cloak]

[wrenanigans]

[croaksac]

grandfather....

[totallysilvergirl]

I will not pretend I haven't been wondering for years where this term came from

[iamanartichoke]

Source, for anyone wondering.