there are corners of this website where the year is still 2013. and sometimes, on beautiful nights when the veil is thin, you can find them . if you know where to look
Can't believe we're up to 24 kitties in the Close Encounters Collection!
I can't choose a favorite, they're all my babies!
College age Adaine being hit on at a party by SOME GUY who won't back off and her getting really uncomfortable and then suddenly a huge half-orc guy comes up from behind her and puts an arm around her and asks you alright babe? Pointedly glaring at the other guy. Who pisses right off. Then they're silent while they watch him leave and as soon as he's out of ear shot Ragh's brows furrow and he lowers his voice and speaks to Adaine in the most meek almost scared tone you've ever heard. "Were you about to hit that guy? He's a commoner. You would've killed him immediately." "Well if he wants to fuck around he's gonna find out." "Adaine😨" Ragh and Adaine weird relationship where Ragh is not protecting her from SHIT he's protecting everyone who pisses her off from HER and he doesn't even wanna do it because most guys DO deserve to get punched in the dick. Just not so hard they DIE. I think Ragh knows how to pull his punches. Adaine does too she just doesn't want to. She's genuinely gonna start furious fisting people to death if you don't LEAVE HER ALONEEE.
I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either
Cutting something out of your life because you think you don’t need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let’s say public health and the social safety net and vaccines
I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”
every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid
Every person on earth needs to read this post. It will make people’s lives a lot better and lessen the crises everyone faces in day-to-day lives.
I reblog this every time I see it because I am not immune to the recency bias
i think this is the funniest ai search recommendation possible. i couldnt even have come up with it i genuinely do not think it gets more thematically appropriate than this
men make it absolutely impossible to practice humility
what you say: “I think this is the case”
what men hear: “I have no idea whatsoever, but here’s a totally random guess”
what you say: “I’m not an expert on this subject”
what men hear: “I don’t know anything about this subject and need its bare fundamentals explained to me”
what you say: “I could be better read in this area”
what men hear: “I have never read anything in this area”
like okay fuck it nevermind I’m actually an expert in every subject I’ve ever read or heard about. in fact I know everything.
If anyone's ever wondering why I come across as such an arrogant bitch on Tumblr it's because I used to work in science with a lot of men and never readjusted my communication style afterward.
This is one of my biggest seemingly low-stakes feminist soapboxes. Women are often encouraged to take hedging, consensus-seeking, and checking-in phrases out of their speech in order to seem "more confident". And listen, of course you do not need to say "I think" when you actually know for pretty damn sure, or double-check every little thing you say, or apologize for things that are out of your control.
But there are men in my life who I respect, who I think are generally good communicators, but who have admitted to me that if they do not know the answer to something they will just state their best guess in a confident tone of voice, with no hedging or clarification to warn the listener that what they just said was pulled from their ass.
I once asked my high school boyfriend what noise a platypus makes and he confidently told me "oh they quack" and I said "really? that seems like they'd have different noise-making structures than ducks since they're not birds" and he said "oh yeah you're probably right. I was just guessing." And had no idea why I was mad! I was like, so if I ask you a question you might just bullshit me?? What if I had believed you and gone and repeated that to other people? I could have looked like an idiot. I could have spread misinformation to a ton of people! But I have told that story to other men and had them say "oh yeah I totally do that."
This is so much worse communication than just saying "I don't know but I think..." There shouldn't be campaigns training professional women to sound "more confident," there should be campaigns training professional MEN to stop doing whatever THAT is!
[ID: Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place saying “okay, but that’s worse. You do see how that’s worse, right?” End ID.]
Scariest things your favorite white man horror Film™️ director can think of:
In complete honesty, my belief in copyright and piracy is that studios need to make media available 24/7 or else they lose rights to it.
You want to stop making DVDs? Cool put it on a streaming service. Want to take it off streaming services? Cool start making DVDs. You don’t want to do either? Cool you can’t take people to court for burning it onto CDs or sharing it. That’s just keeping the media alive.
And none of this “well you can go on eBay and get it for $80” nope. You need to be actively distributing it.
A collection of time travel humor text posts, not censored by me.
All of these really made me laugh, and laughter is a very good thing sometimes. All of the time, actually. Unless you're doing something that requires a still hand or silence I guess.
If I may add @sgt-cookie-2's masterpiece:
the pros of reading ao3 fics in public is that their layout is so clean and simple that people would think you’re reading some academic researches when you’re in fact reading a 50k fic. the cons is that you need to control your face all the fucking time
An additional feature: the layout is clean and simple BUT anyone familiar with AO3 will immediately recognize it. Pro or con? You decide.
If they know it enough to recognize it on sight, they probably aren’t going to be judging me about it.
they were also at the devil’s sacrament
If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.
