I did the best I could to get the credits for these and I should have done it much sooner, I got many of these years ago and was unable to find everyone.
fucking hate it when fruit flies come at your face like “I pray I won’t be killed 🥺🥺 for the crime of being small 🥺🥺🥺” like motherfucker if you think I’d hesitate to kill something twice my size if it tried to get into my nostril
my cat was elected “the next charlie kirk” and he became a right wing mouthpiece even though he’s a regular cat and can’t talk. i watched him on TV (he was dressed up in a little suit and tie) & he was at some rally, and i felt really disappointed that my son grew up to become a grifter.
something I haven’t seen mentioned much is Dolly being childfree. We have so few lauded childfree women in positions of power. The connotation of childless women as selfish, cold, and cruel…and Dolly was the complete opposite and gave so much to underprivileged youth…she was and will always be a beacon for independent women, who live and love on their own terms. And she never had children…she said we were all her kids instead…
obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.
obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.
obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.
one thing abt me is that I can’t recognize veneers and I can’t tell when someone’s hair is a wig and I can’t clock fake accents even when they’re done pretty badly and I’m also bad with faces. all that to say I would be insanely vulnerable to hijinks/capers
TRANS PEOPLE CONSIDERING SURGERY- READ THIS PLEASE GENUINELY I AM BEGGING YOU IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE
If you are getting gender affirming surgery, especially if it’s your first major surgery, PLEASE be aware that you can become SEVERELY depressed afterwards ESPECIALLY if you have a history of depression or suicidal ideation.
Post op depression is a natural reaction to the crazy mix of hormones your body goes through after major surgery as well as the stress and anxiety of recovery. Think of it like an adrenaline crash, but dragged out longer.
For me it kicked in about 6 weeks after top surgery and the worst of it lasted until about 10 weeks post op. EVERYTHING felt IMPOSSIBLE. None of the skills I’d been practicing worked. I thought everything was going to be bad forever. I didn’t attempt, but I was in the hospital. If it wasn’t for my support system I probably would have attempted.
This is not regret, but it can feel like it. I remain happy about my results to this day (going on six years later).
This is not you failing to maintain your mental health, but it can make you feel like a failure.
Things are not hopeless, but through the haze of this depression they can feel hopeless.
It can be terrifyingly sudden or it can sneak up on you. I didn’t even realize what was going on until after the depression finally passed and my mental health went back to normal.
I am writing this post because nobody told me about this before my top surgery. I was caught completely off guard. For my subsequent surgeries being aware has made all the difference. Being able to treat those symptoms as an expected and normal part of the healing journey has made them far easier to deal with. Because even when my emotions go to dark places I *know* they will pass. I have been able to tell the bad thoughts to take a bad seat and focus on healing.
PLEASE have a plan in place for if this happens. I know that this topic is taboo because of how often our mental health is weaponized against us, but I desperately want every single person getting gender affirming surgery to be aware of, and have a plan for post operative depression.
many of you just. genuinely don’t believe that people can grow and change.
this is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were.
Action movie that takes a hardline “murder is always wrong” stance, but still has the protagonist kill a ton of dudes, taking great care to establish that each killing adheres to the specific legal definition of self-defence in the particular jurisdiction in which it notionally occurs. There’s caselaw citations in the subtitles.
“Huh, I have been nerdsniped by the nutrient breakdowns of all the meals so far and the dwarf talking about nutrition. Fuck. Guess this is my life now.”
Stop, stop, I already love you.
Hey in case you’ve been reading the manga and you’re not someone who cooks, I want you to know that so far (up to chapter five) Senshi’s cooking info is all totally solid.
Like. At one point he compares using the gelatin from a carnivorous plant with the pectin from a different plant and points out that the gelatin sets better. Gelatin *does* set and bind better than pectin in most cases.
I just read the chapter with frying mandrakes and everything from testing the temperature of the oil with a chopstick to whisking the egg/water/flour batter with a pair of chopsticks (after sifting the flour to make sure it doesn’t clump) to talking about when to flip fried foods and at what temperature to fry them is. Just. It’s more attention to cooking than I’ve seen in most media.
(Also if you’re not from a culture that uses chopsticks regularly, try whisking with a pair of chopsticks sometime. I make my fried mushroom fritters with the same technique that Senshi makes his mandrake tempura and it’s great - chopsticks act like a combination of whisk and tongs and are really handy when whisking batter and transferring battered food to hot oil and flipping frying food, you get so much more control than you would by, like, using a slotted spoon to move the food around in the oil).
I had been under the impression that cooking was a big part of the story but I didn’t expect that it would be a big part of the story in a “here’s a half-page panel that shows an efficient technique for mincing root vegetables” way.
oh no he’s hot
The interfaith holy water. Incredible.
The logic that you can use a jar of holy water as a melee weapon against ghosts because they can pass through matter so it doesn’t matter if the holy water isn’t out in the open they’re going to come into contact with it if you swing a jar through them is flawless.
Because the jar is swinging around it goes through a bunch of ghosts and the fluid inside gets mixed up and stirred around; because ghosts are cold, this gets you sorbet.
Buds this is a really good story with a genuinely weird amount of forethought put into it and I love it.
Hi my name is Laios and I love monsters and I named my monster sword Swordboy because I am great at naming things.
I know it’s not cast iron but it’s cast iron and Senshi is on that good cast iron shit.
Look I just cannot explain to you how much a manga that discusses the danger of water intoxication and is considerate about nutrient absorption is my extremely specific catnip.
I knew it was good from the conversations around it but I didn’t know it was “giving lessons about parasite safety and talking about water intoxication” good.
Sexy human fighter gets fucked by a kraken. A+.
Good news for the horny about gore crew in the worldbuilding here.
the orc is making the warg wave goodbye. THE ORC IS MAKING THE WARG WAVE GOODBYE.
my teammate accused my other teammate of having a bought account and then said “ive sent romanian report bots after you” and the accused was like wait romanian? and started speaking romanian and then the accuser was like wait lol we’re both romanian. now they just keep talking romanian nicely to each other. beautiful world
they are literally talking about buying hacks and avoiding vac bans
ok literally hacking in comp just bhopping instant headshotting
ok literally
hacking in comp just bhopping
instant headshotting
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
