A collection of Xan's ramblings

🇺🇦🇯🇴 34. She/her. Massive lesbian. NOT A SPOILER FREE BLOG. (I do try to tag spoilers for new media though.) Currently obsessed with KPop Demon Hunters. Contains 18+ content. Art and writing tags are "xan draws" and "xan writes". I post my most polished fics on AO3 under the same name. Icon by tumblr user doodlesofwhimsy

[tongue-twists]

btw dating sucks as a concept.

[tongue-twists]

meeting up with someone with the explicit goal of figuring out whether or not you want a relationship with them spoils the dynamic. it sucks. it's terrible. fall in love with your friends like normal people.

[tongue-twists]

as expected this one is a hit with the autism website

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[hylianengineer]

I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.

[mechgirlie]

if this tweet doesn’t make perfect sense to u immediately then u weren’t meant to understand it

[velteris]

【にゃんこと移転応援】逆境を乗り越えアットホーム猫カフェを守りたい！！

老朽化し浸水被害があったビルから移転し、これからも可愛いにゃんずとお客様の癒しの時間を守り続けたいです。

So this is gonna be a REALLY weird post from me, but there's this cat cafe I frequent that's on the ropes and has set up a crowdfunder, because otherwise they'll have to close at the end of the year :')

Of the many many animal cafes in Tokyo, I have loved Nyankoto Cat Cafe for a long time because of how much they genuinely care for their animals, not just as moneymakers. They have multiple cats with health conditions, including one who sadly passed away just months ago from cancer. The older cats who are too aged or unwell have retired to the owner's house where she continues to post pics of them for fans who miss them.

But between the vet costs and multiple sewage backups in their building, they either close, or if they get funding they can move - otherwise it's unlikely the owner can afford to keep all the cats and they'll have to split up and go to different people after living together all their lives :(

The smallest donation is just 1000 yen, or about $6 USD. They'll take paypal and credit card incl from overseas. In total they're asking for about $20k USD to relocate the store, and they're halfway to their goal!

I cannot overstate how much I love these cats (especially Chachamaru) so I will lovepost about my favs under the cut:

CHACHAMARU MY BELOVED MY BEST BOY!!! he looooves sitting on people's laps and is the most athletic of all the cats, loves to stalk the others. Also tries to jump on your back to use it as a springboard to get up to the top of tall cabinets.

Kinta, an old man, who's been with the shop since they opened! If you kneel on the floor he Will crawl between your knees and settle in for butt slaps. He also loves his shrimp :3 and if he catches a toy, he'll prance around the store with it, calling loudly to make sure everyone can see how good he did.

Fuku, who looks like some kind of stuffed animal... likes to put his paws up neatly to lounge on your leg, and also taking rides on your back.

The most recent arrival, Ame, a rescue kitten in 2023 or so! She's full-grown now but still soooo itty bitty. Loves to Yell. The professional Yeller of the store.

Ai, a sweet sweet lady with the softest fur you ever did touch. Purrs like an engine when you groom her and flips over so you can get to her belly. Cat that likes belly rubs.

And many many more beloved kitties!!! Since I can't have cats of my own these guys really are the anchor of my mental health and I dread to think if they really were to close :( So if you're able to give, please! Please! Thank you!!

[plumbewb]

hear me out…

[punkrock-bottom]

“Hear me out” and it’s the most conventionally attractive alien father figure you’ve ever seen

[lazydelusions]

[peachdoxie]

[kingscrown666]

I mean? Yeah? Gantu is obviously conventionally attractive

Deep voice, big muscles, Tall

Like. What am i missing here?

[get-thee-to-a-shrubbery]

honey he has a fish for a head

[kingscrown666]

So what, all of a sudden mermaids aren't hot?

[creatingblackcharacters]

#Make Racists Scared Again 2026

[creatingblackcharacters]

Share if you want people to know they should be scared to be racist around you 👊🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

"making them afraid will make them more racist" that's wild to me, because we live in a whole culture of social consequences for antiracism anyway. It is literally safer to be a racist than it is to speak up against it, socially.

Idk about you, but "I'm afraid no one will want to be my friend if I'm a white supremacist" seems like a pretty logical thought process to have, and I wish THAT were the normal and not "I'm afraid my friends will hate me if I tell them they made racist jokes".

[gyrovagi]

the problem with employment is it gives you money to purchase video games but it takes away your time to play video games. Mao spoke of this

[wheelie-sick]

"oh, I live in a desert and-"

"wow that must be so terrible" "deserts are so ugly" "I would never want to live in a wasteland like that" "it's just empty nothingness"

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

[wheelie-sick]

this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.

right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)

here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)

The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.

[cozy2000]

time to post my favorite far side comic of all time

[json-derulo]

it sucks that the overwhelming majority of medical messaging around salt/sodium is "evil poisonous substance that you're definitely already eating way too much of," because like. you do still need it. (trust me, as a POTS-haver, I've had to completely rewire my own brain about salt.) and you need more salt when the entire northern hemisphere is hot enough to fry an egg on. ever tried sucking down the recommended 64oz of hydration per day entirely as water, only to find you're peeing constantly without any of the purported benefits of being "hydrated"? assuming you don't have another medical condition that causes frequent urination, your body probably needed more salt/electrolytes to be able to hold onto that water and make use of it. if there was ever a time to keep a sports drink/pedialyte/etc within constant reach, it's when the heat index is 110°F/43°C.

[covid-safer-hotties]

How effective are face masks at stopping the spread of flu?

They could stop you catching and spreading the serious flu that's rampaging through the country.

Also preserved in our archive

The clearest example of how even the worst masks help to mitigate disease

[wizardarchetypes]

i wish mosquitos didn't make you itchy and give you horribly infectious diseases. i wouldn't begrudge them a humble nibble were it not so

[catmask]

ive had trans men ask me before how to overcome the insecurity/fear that they are transitioning just to escape misogynist treatment and wondering about the validity of their identity. the simple solution is that u must continue to engage and fight misogyny even when you are not a woman. prove your fear wrong

[catmask]

u really cannot out-validate an insecurity that u do not do the work to fight against the structure that supports it u know. i am the gender i am simply because it looked fucking yummy. the reason i dont experience doubts w it in this way is because any time i do i turn around to face the thing im 'running from' and punch it

[catmask]

💯💯💯

[rederiswrites]

Look, I realize that the whole Schrodinger's Mitch thing has real political consequences on a national level, but since I'm not from Kentucky and have no say whatsoever in the outcome of the situation, I'm honestly just finding the entire thing grimly hilarious. Has Horrible Turtle Man died? We don't fucking know! Turns out senators can just not show up to work indefinitely and there are no consequences! What fun!

[rederiswrites]

Cannot believe this post is still relevant completely unedited. This timeline is utterly off the rails.

[vanillish-deactivated20211102]

[riannafinch]

somebody put this in a time capsule because it is so important that future generations see this

[imaginarylands4000]

[queerofthedagger]

okay let's actually do this properly

Where do you write your fics/stories

Word

Google Docs

Scrivener

LibreOffice

Obsidian/Notion

ProtonDocs

Notes App

Directly into AO3

Ellipsus

Handwriting

Other (explain in tags?)

Remaining time: 3 days 2 hours

[ellipsus-writes]

Uh WOWOWOW we're at #2?! (guys we can't let Google win 😬)

[breadbut3d]

Docs because I’m used to it. I wanted to switch to Elipsus but I just couldn’t get the hang of it, especially after using docs for all my WIPS so it’s easier to just finish them there.

[solo-walker]

In my... my e-mail drafts...