Writer? I hardly know 'er!

This is where I will be posting all sorts of writing, I'll do my best to keep any fiction grouped together via reblogs and whatnot. I will reblog anything I find even vaguely interesting, whether or not it is related to the writings on here.

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

A Response I Cannot Send.

What the fuck do you mean 'and my job'? I had to tell them to never tell my location to ANYONE who came to the front desk asking after me. If I find out you had so much as considered trying to meet me there, I will rain hellfire upon you the likes of which you cannot begin to fathom. Sir, it has been damn near two decades, you are a stranger. Anyone by my name you believe you knew has long since passed. I have spent the years constantly looking over my shoulder, but no more motherfucker, now it's your turn. I hope the paranoia kills you, it didn't get me.

[mshfar2a]

I don't like to admit it, but sometimes I actually miss John Green.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Sometimes I can almost hear him.

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

Careful, they might get better aim!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

after all the hype for project hail mary i was pretty bummed they immediately defaulted to male language for the alien character of unknown biology. sir that is not a he/him it is a SENTIENT ROCK

[youhqveamazingart]

im not woke enough for this app

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

Can’t believe wanting more context to this is how I learn Adrian is a woman’s name in Rocky. I thought Adrian was the other boxer…

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

I floss the same amount I did in middle school but it’s less dancing and more dental nowadays

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

Shit I was gonna post something but I forgor

[apolloendymion]

since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"

[apolloendymion]

some people think this is a shitpost so i want to clarify that i am dead fucking serious. make mage the official gender neutral honorific NOW. i want it on my passport. i want it on my bank account. i want doctors and judges to use it for me. i don't care if it sounds a little silly. people thought "missus" sounded crass at first. call me mg.

[apolloendymion]

benefits of mg:

easy to pronounce, even for children (though kids 4 & younger may pronounce it more like "mayd" or "maygh")

ONE SYLLABLE!!! ("individual" is too goddamn LONG.) you have to be able to say it quickly and casually

ends in a soft vowel sound, so it'll flow right into the next word ("ind" halts the whole sentence)

fits neatly into the existing structure as a relative of master/mistress that can be abbreviated down to an m and one other letter

distinct enough that it can't be mistaken for either gendered term (if you call me mix I'll kill you. it sounds like miss with extra steps)

wizard.

drawbacks:

there aren't any

yes, i know about milligrams and magnesium. i don't give a shit. ms can also mean microsoft. who cares.

[kapreday]

I had to find this from somewhere and reblog it again because I work at a high school summer camp and told the kids to call me Mg. Day during our first day programming today.

They went NUTS for it! Not only did they love it, but there was an immediate click in understanding about they/them pronouns *from the entire cohort* that I haven’t experienced in 3 years of programming.

And linking it back to the root words Mister and Missus as OP so wonderfully provided helped establish that using they/them or neopronouns isn’t just playing around or “Miss but different” the way it can be with Mx. I used to try to go by Teacher Day because I was still getting she/her’d all the time but that also came with the problems of the students only being able to see me in the role of Teacher and being intimidated by the educational institution and their grades (I don’t even work for the school I’m external staff I don’t even have WiFi access). And I’d still get she/her’d all the time.

As soon as I introduced Magister they saw that a nonbinary person could be an Adult with a *societal* role outside the binary. It was immediately visible in their ecstatic faces. And I didn’t get misgendered today.

The only downside is I’m gonna have to practice my card tricks because I did promise I could do magic!

[crabussy]

really fond of humans just from an appearance standpoint. the long legs. the manes of hair that can come in practically any colour and texture. those crazy high-contrast eyes with the white scleras and colourful irises. the fingers being so much longer than the toes. there's a lot to love. solid 10/10 animal species

[crabussy]

BAFFLINGLY SPOT ON COMPARISON.

[typhlonectes]

[enyafans4communism]

fuck, marry, kill: the wound that won’t heal, the past you can’t undo, the ghost that keeps returning

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

Fuck the past, Marry the ghost, Kill the wound

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

Kinda fucked up that the most SFW place ever was called Kinkos

[teaboot]

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

[sheilikhal]

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

[fresne999]

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

[cymbie]

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

[catgirlthecrazy]

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

[mikkeneko]

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

...

Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

I think I’ve told this story but I’ll tell it again.

The “Mysteries of the Ice Ages” exhibit came through my local museum that I had a membership to, so I got to attend the private opening of it the day before its actual opening.

There is a section on Neanderthals and part of it for the evening I was there included a volunteer with a few objects we could handle. One was a stone fashioned into a hand axe. As an aside for some perspective, I’ve got somewhat oddly proportioned hands to the rest of me and I struggled to pick up card magic and piano because of this. I add this because when I was passed the hand axe my palm and fingers naturally found their way into the carved grooves and they fit perfectly. Some ancient person made themselves a tool, but in doing so made a tool perfectly bespoke for me as well.

I long to feel that kind of connection to the past again.

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

This isn’t fiction. This might be therapy. I don’t know anymore. I just need to get it down on “paper”

My poem probably needs another stanza. Another door handle fell off, another room became a whirlwind. The mental health reflects those.

I remember being a smart kid. I know what intelligence felt like. It feels like I’m now only encountering what I never learned and what I’ve forgotten. I know I’ve forgotten a lot. I can’t confidently say what I know anymore.

When I moved I removed myself entirely from the last of my support network. I have met some people here, I think they might even be potential friends. I think I like the idea of people more than their realities. I lived in anxious fantasies for so many years.

I viewed the deconstruction of my last life and ultimately the move here as a sort of suicide, but very much with a rebirth. If there has been one, it was for the worse but frankly I think I’m still the same just far more self-sabotaged than I was, which was a pretty high bar to begin with

No tags on this one from me. I don’t know what this is

[rslashrats]

collection of some of my personal favorite deep leffen tweets

[frangipani-wanderlust]

So the creator titled this "Caveman Cooking," but I have decided that it is Grug the Orc making Peanut Butter Squares. Link to original post.

Sound on. Trust me.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[pukicho]

imagine being kind in 2026

[pukicho]

Never mind. We gotta kill that guy

[jabberding0]

Ancient technology

[spiralsketchbook]

Here are two sources i found for this.

https://wuxiawanderings.substack.com/p/flame-stick

https://yomkey.com/blogs/brife-of-chinese-culture/the-magic-bamboo-tube-unveiling-the-secret-of-china-s-ancient-instant-fire

[markrosewater]

Hi Mark!

On a plane like Ravnica, would the pizza vary by district?

Who would be best or worst of the ten guilds?

I brought up this question to The Pit. You are now responsible for some untold amount of lost R&D hours.

[writer-i-hardly-know-er]

Azorius - Just your honest, standard, by-the-book pizza. Would be average, 5/10

Selesnya - While I’m sure they CAN eat meat, it gets to be a bit of an awkward conversation; however, their margherita pizza is to die for ;) 8/10

Boros - While akin to Azorius in standardization, being only available in the barrack cafeteria and every slice having the exact same amount of every topping leaves you feeling uncomfortable, 4/10

Orzhov - It’s a really old family recipe being reconsidered in the form of an hors d’oeuvres for a gala. Palatable, but definitely one of the stranger pizzas you’ve encountered, 6/10

Gruul - Depends on which clan you encounter, some deeply anarchic serve calzones or even tacos as their “pizza” which honestly puts them at a solid 9/10

Rakdos - 10/10 or 0/10, it’s either positively orgasmic or lethal, no in between with these folk. Check for blades!

Izzet - In theory? 10/10 pizza. In practice though it ends up at best thoroughly burnt. 1/10, at least it won’t kill you

Golgari - Mushroom fans rejoice! One of the best toppings resides here. And if you’re a fan of the other sort they’ve got pizzas to sate you after as well! 9/10

Simic - The genetically engineered Perfect pizza. I think it grew from a pizza tree? It has appendages… The flavor is a 10/10 but the implications are a 0/10, so I’m giving this one a 5/10

Dimir -