[thenatsdorf]

Papa, where did you go?! (via)

[brightlotusmoon]

Luna uses the same call for me and husband. It’s the same kind of call that mother cats use to look for kittens.

[witcharyllia]

So what you’re saying is, it’s less “Papa, where did you go?!” and more “Where the heck is my large child? I heard them call for me?? Large child are you stuck in the bathtub??? Oh you were lost behind the door, silly baby.”

[brightlotusmoon]

Yeah! For Luna, at least, because we’ve had her for all her 15 years - she called to me from her cage as a kitten, etc. But she’s always kept up that specific rolling cry. She was pregnant at six months before the shelter took her and I don’t think it’s connected to her vocal behaviors, but you never know.

It’s also a colony call, looking for friends and aunts to hang out with.

[witcharyllia]

Update, played the video while my cat was chilling nearby and now she's sniffing around the monitor looking for the cat that's obviously calling for company. I'm gonna save this for whenever I need her attention in the future.

[asneakyfox]

one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts

[witcharyllia]

Guess who's back on her bullshit?

No me, I'm still busy with some IRL things, but I need to vent and everyone it's too late in the evening to call someone.

I was trying to look up properties for epsom salt online, as one does, and tearing my hair at only getting DeTox scam sites in my results. The least offensive of them was suggesting that I should use two parts of epsom salt (magnesium sulfate, very much not a table salt) and one part bicarbonate mixed in a single glass of water as a laxative. Hint: this is a huge red flag.

Fortunately, I currently have access to some scientific journal databses! Hooray for University Libraries!

I'm 20 articles deep and still haven't verified the home remedy properties that I was looking for, but I have found several articles along the lines of: "Severe hypermagnesemia after enteral administration of Epsom salts" "Hypermagnesemia-induced fatality following Epsom salt gargles" "Fatal hypermagnesemia caused by an epsom salt enema"

"Severe liver injury due to Epsom salt naturopathy" was probably the one most closely resembling the salty shitmaker I found while googling epsom salts. From the abstract: "A 38-year-old non-alcoholic, non-diabetic man with gallstone disease was prescribed three tablespoons of Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate crystals) with lukewarm water for 15 days for 'stone dissolution' by a naturopathy practitioner. Percutaneous liver biopsy revealed submassive necrosis with dense portal-based fibrosis, mixed portal inflammation, extensive perivenular canalicular and hepatocellular cholestasis with macrovesicular steatosis and perisinusoidal fibrosis (suggestive of steatohepatitis) without evidence of granulomas, inclusion bodies or vascular changes suggestive of acute drug-induced liver injury ( figure 1 ). Common adverse effects of Epsom salt overuse include diarrhoea, dyselectrolytaemia, renal injury and cardiac arrhythmias."

The moral of this story is to always check if the "natural health" article on "things you can do with our product" contains scientifically verified ways to kill people.

[witcharyllia]

[retroactivebakeries]

[nebulous-apocrypha]

bag a legend? maybe you should bag some bitches 🤨

[tessellated-sunl1ght]

Fallen London is so fun

[light-lost-logs]

Current activity: buying honey to go to the dream world to stick bones in the ground to get oranges to give to a lady to get bones to put on a fish to make the fish into an insect to sell to a tourist to get more money to use the money to buy things to trade for a house to upgrade into a different house to get a guy to play cards with me to get to the next round of a card game.

[house-of-mirrors]

It is a wonderful day in the Neath, and you are a horrible player character

[suinicide]

At long last, I am prepared to steal the sun

[dawn-machine-official]

I'm being kidnapped here

[suinicide]

And you'll never see the su-

You'll never...um. You'll never escape.

[dawn-machine-official]

The navy will save me

[suinicide]

Could you at least choose a threatening group like hell or something? I'm kind of insulted

[dawn-machine-official]

The navy at the grand geode is the only faction that likes the new sequence. Because it is the new sequence. And I am the new sequence.

[suinicide]

I will put a lampshade over you and they won't know where to look

[dawn-machine-official]

I can scream really loud

[suinicide]

No different from the rest of London then!

[dawn-machine-official]

I have like twelve night whispers in my pocket, if I release them every child in London will be trying to steal me along with the whispers

[suinicide]

I have over 400. Try it

[dawn-machine-official]

They'll steal those too

[suinicide]

I will require a plan

[dawn-machine-official]

I'll eat it

[allegedly-human]

Man I love Sunless Sea it lets you live the everyday life of a Londoner. I'm shipping crates of human souls to sell them in a colony while I'm helping a rat civilisation to prosper

[cautionary-tale]

Going back to playing Fallen London after taking a couple week’s break is an experience.

What am I doing? How did I get here? Why am I knee-deep in rat corpses?

[autisticsupervillain]

Fallen London zig-zags between being the most horrifying cosmic horror video game ever made to being absolutely fucking hilarious at conplete random and I love it.

[cowperviolet]

Goals

[retroactivebakeries]

[anyboli]

Very rude of Fallen London to give me a character who looks like this:

And says lines like this:

“You're terribly responsible, aren't you? We'll have to do something about that," says the Youthful Naturalist with a grin.

And not let me romance him! (unless he becomes a terrible Zee beastie)

(Tbh, even if he does become a terrible Zee beastie)

[anyboli]

“The Youthful Naturalist bashes a mercenary with an especially thick encyclopedia”

The ideal man

[retroactivebakeries]