#{ I'm allergic to queue }

[boobsneezevids]

a beautiful bouquet blooming between my bouncing bosoms 🍒

[sammy8d257]

*slaps cheese on your face*

C h e e s e

UH... CHEESED TO MEET YOU?

[ayoungeststark]

“You’re a king now.” It was the first thing Logan said when he saw his friend, as soon as he arrived with his family in Lupos. It was his first time visiting the place, and he was very excited to be there. “How’s that been going ?”

@luposcainus ❤'d for a starter !

[ginger-canary]

my body would rather consume an entire pepper than any fish and that's honestly so unfortunate for me

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Someone: What level of self loathing are you at? Me: Apparently, my own body is allergic to itself so like.....high I guess.

[floripire]

Floribeth is allergic to figs - dry or soaked.

[biitchcakes]

San Francisco is a city of hills, atop one of them is YARBRO COURT, a collection of classic, 19th century Queen Anne tower houses. It's a lovely neighbourhood, complete with a magnificent view of the city and the bay -- that is, until the fog rolls in, with it's very own GHOSTS.

You see, Yarbro Court is HAUNTED.

That was one of the things that endeared it to Jessica and her roommate, actress Lindsay McCabe, when they moved into the top floor flat and attic of No. 1 Yarbro.

[midnightmoonbeams]

I really did like my house all alone up on this cliff. But I also like the layout of my island, now, too.

April 19th, 2020

[z-the-outback-cryptid]

I think perhaps one of the most tragic elements of Chainsaw Man is that most of part one is essentially Denji's ascendance through Maslow's hierarchy of needs (pictured below), starting in the first few chapters literally at the bottom -- i'd even argue completely outside of the pyramid -- barely meeting the physical criteria of being alive.

He is malnourished and fatigued, lacking in meaningful human connection (his only friend a creature who can't talk, who relies on him and who he relies on in turn for survival), education, and basic life skills and experience. he has been abused by essentially every adult he's had contact with, not limited to but including an actual Yakuza.

I cannot stress enough the difference between "living" as a human being and "surviving" as an organism. It's clear what Denji has been doing for the grand total of sixteen years he's been on Earth.

Then, suddenly, some of these needs are being met in quick succession; essentially, he's being "love-bombed" by the fulfilment of basic requirements for the function of a human being, which he can't remember ever experiencing before. Compounded by these things being met by someone he seemingly likes and trusts (in of itself a need, making the manipulation that much more horrific).

Denji realises for the first time that he can -- and should -- strive for more. His needs being met is no longer this abstract notion he would dream about with Pochita. They are attainable. Realistic. Actual goals.

But not all of them are being met, though he can't possibly know it, and he finds himself strangely unfulfilled and listless. One of the only goals he's ever had in life has been rendered moot, realising they never brought him the happiness he thought they would, he is simply receiving the bare minimum.

He has no direction. He wonders if he even deserves to have had such needs met in the first place: "Am I the same? I wasn't satisfied with the happiness I had with Pochita."

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA/WIBTA* for donating packaged food that is obviously regifted?

*(I haven't donated anything yet, but because of the queue, I will have by the time this posts!)

For Christmas, I was given some prepackaged food that I am allergic to. I am planning to donate it to the local food bank. But. It was all in gift packaging. It's still sealed (I didn't unwrap the plastic itself) but between the weird shape of the bags and the clearly removed gift packaging, it's very obvious that this is an already unwrapped gift.

On the one hand, it seems wasteful to just throw away perfectly good food; on the other hand, the packaging/obvious regifting part feels analogous to those people who donate ripped and stained clothing because 'it can still keep people warm.'

Info/emotional background: this food was a gift from my mom, who decided to "give me the gift of health" this year by sending me food I am allergic to in order to "cure" me through exposure. (This post is NOT about whether she's an AH or I'm TA for regifting her gift in general; I'm looking for judgements on whether I'm being TA to the people who would receive it from the food bank, so please only vote regarding that part!)

The reason I'm sharing that part: I've had a lot of arguments with my family about saying I "can't" eat food when I can and am just choosing not to in order to avoid the health consequences, so I'm having Big Emotions right now about the prospect of wasting food. I really, really, don't want to just through away perfectly good food just because I'm allergic to it -- but I also don't want to make myself feel better about waste by making the people who go to the food bank feel worse because of the regifting. So. AITA?

What are these acronyms?

[sammy8d257]

Would you like a twix

OH HELL YEAH

[Hold the Twix]

I can't eat this

I'm allergic to milk

I just think it's neat

ALKSJLDGKLSDG

[ayoungeststark]

“You’re not…from here, are you ?” There’s a hint of uncertainty in his voice, as he looks at the man in front of him. One of his hands is still pointed forward, in a more cautious stance rather than an attack one. He was ready to defend himself if he needed to and that reaction was triggered because of the name he just heard, even tought that was still a bit confusing. “Because you’re supposed to be old.” The Magneto he knew, at least, was old. Or, older than that, anyway.

@magneticrage ❤'d for a starter !

[ltleflrt]

I'm mad about the Midjourney thing, but I'm also resigned. This is going to continue to spread throughout the internet until there's some kind of legislation about it, and by then it will be too late. Like, where else are we going to go? Sure, there are small sites like Dreamwidth or Pillowfort, but could they handle an entire Tumblr exodus? Are you going to support them with subscriptions so they don't go under, when you wouldn't do the same for Tumblr? Where are you going to put your thoughts and your drabbles? Your art? DeviantArt already flipped this switch a while ago. Other big sites are going to do the same, and smaller private sites can't afford the traffic of Tumblr.

"Well I just won't post anywhere."

Okay? If you're someone I follow I'll miss your stuff, but that's your choice. I can't imagine stopping posting altogether because capitalism is ruining the internet. I'd miss the socialization. And while Tumblr's communities are less active due to the porn ban exodus and the influx of people who are allergic to the reblog button, I still see more activity here than I get on AO3 or Discord servers.

If there ever is a Tumblr alternative, I'm all for moving, but the current alternatives aren't inspiring. And wherever fandom goes it's gotta have a queue or what's the point. In the meantime I'll go toggle the settings on all my blogs, and I'll pass around "Hi Newbies, here's how you should personalize your settings" posts that include info on how to toggle the settings. And I'll vote for politicians who believe in regulating businesses while preserving privacy, and hope they can regulate AI in time for it to make a difference.

[bomberqueen17]

what fresh hell

ugh so remember that post about my thumb and cellulitis

well i finished the ten-day course of antibiotics onnnnn July 27th, I've just counted it out now.

Yesterday, August 4th, I noticed a mosquito bite on my hand was exceptionally itchy. By the afternoon I had narrowed down that it was on the same thumb where I'd had the infected cut. By evening i was starting to suspect that it was not a mosquito bite, because the other bites I'd received that day had all calmed down and this one was only itching more.

This morning, August 5th, it is distinctly swollen, with a darker red patch at the center of the almost-blister. It is radiating pain out to the main joint of my thumb and around the back of my hand. This is not a mosquito bite. There was no reinjury. This is the infection recurring at the initial site, apropos of nothing as far as I can tell.

I am deeply unimpressed with the situation. I guess I'll try Urgent Care. Of course I'm 300 miles away from my primary care physician.

Upsettingly, when I went to google maps and typed in Urgent Care, it was clearly displaying me paid results-- only facilities from one particular company showed up, including closed sites. I was thinking of a specific one, so I scrolled manually on the map to the site where I know it was, and it showed me the neighboring businesses, so I zoomed in and zoomed in and zoomed in until finally it showed me the name of the urgent care where I'd been before-- which, I might add, had a name that contained the syllables "urgent care" spelled correctly, which the company it was preferentially showing does not-- and even then the name it showed me, that I had specifically zoomed in for, was not clickable and i had to go and manually type it into the search bar.

To discover that yes, that site does open today, in about an hour. So I think I'll go there, even though they get mixed reviews and didn't do a fantastic job on my stitches when I was there in April. (According to Google. You last visited in April. You don't think my search algorithm should show me places I've visited when I search for that thing again? *cough* Could it be any more transparently not an algorithm for my benefit?) They did fine, and that's all I care about really, and also if they say "this is outside our abilities" like the urgent care in Buffalo did when i showed up with the cellulitis streaking down my arm, the nearest hospital is much closer to that one than to the place Google wants me to go.

IDK I just feel like there shouldn't be manipulation of urgent healthcare results that make you travel farther. I honestly feel like there shouldn't be paid placement in maps at all, especially not ads that unsafely disrupt your use of a thing you're meant to use while driving, but obviously I do not make laws. But really, hiding the closest urgent care, to which I've been before, from me when I searched for it is a bit much, don't you think?

Anyway I'm throwing this into the queue and if I know anything more before it posts I'll update-- oh yes, update, the urgent care PA first wanted me to try allergy meds for a possible insect bite despite how large and swollen this was, but then i took off my watch and discovered that it is streaking down my wrist again, and she believed me then that it's a recurrence of the infection. she prescribed me the kind of antibiotic that makes you allergic to the sun, but if it gets any worse I have to go to the ER to get a culture from it to find out what kind of critter it is that's definitely haunting me.

Official diagnosis: Haunted Thumb

[cosmic-ships]

A scenario.

Phillip: Babe are you alright? You've been sneezing non-stop...are you getting a cold?

Kaden: No... It's spring and the spawns of satin are out ..

Phillip: I'm no following

Kaden: Dandelions... *Sniffs* I'm very allergic to dandelions- my soul is leaving my body if I sneeze one more time.

Phillip: Well looks like I have some assassinations to do!!

Queue Phillip ripping out all the dandelions by hand while muttering how they can't get me anymore no that he's there.

Kaden: Are you okay??

Phillip: DEATH TO THE YELLOW FIENDS THAT PLAGUE THE LAWN!!! \O/

[dani-luminae]

The Mariner, and why was he the "Helpful Spook"?

I have more to talk about with the Haunted Mansion 2023 movie, go figure. This time it's about our wonderful new friend, the Mariner!

Slight spoilers for the 2023 movie below.

So what's the deal with the Mariner in the movie?

In the 2023 movie, he is the ghost attached to Ben, haunting him until he returns to the Gracey Mansion. This becomes helpful as the Mariner travels with Ben, Travis, and Kent to Crump Mansion, and while there reveals some of Crump's plot. In return for this, Ben takes the Mariner to the sea and, released from the mansion, the Mariner happily takes a modern fishing boat and heads out to sea, presumably to emulate Deadliest Catch, which he seems fond of on TV.

So what's the deal with the Mariner in The Mansion Itself?

Well, to put it simply, the Mariner may be considered the final, lasting, singular reference to one of the earliest concepts for the Haunted Mansion.

Yale Gracey and Rolly Crump* seemed to have a rather solid plotline for one of the very first iterations of the Haunted Mansion: a wealthy Sea Captain, Bartholomew Gore, is set to marry his longtime love Priscilla (or in some cases, they already are married) before Priscilla uncovered a chest full of evidence revealing that Captain Gore was not merely a sea captain, but the infamous Pirate known as Black Bart. With his secret revealed and Priscilla horrified, Captain Gore disposed of her; varying methods include locked in a trunk and thrown down a well which was then sealed.

If any of you are familiar with the story of how Crump and Gracey were told they had to turn off their special effects at night as the cleaning crew were too frightened to clean their studio space, only to amp it up to scare out the crew entirely, the Gore and Priscilla story was still on the notes at that time. It's likely that the diorama they rigged up to scare the poor cleaners was that of Gore and Priscilla themselves!

So where's the Mariner in the mansion now?

Unfortunately? He isn't. The Sea Captain's plot was discarded in favor of a less structured approach to the Mansion, one more like we have today - not dedicated to any one ghost, but many. And the Mariner himself didn't actually make the cut. The Disneyland Mansion has no sign of him; the Disney World Mansion is a little different.

The Sea Captain, or the Mariner, appears in a painting in the loading area of the attraction, and in fact it's been suggested that the Mariner's appearance was lifted right from some of the earliest concept sketches of Captain Gore. With the addition of the interactive queue outside the WDW mansion, he's more accredited the name of "Captain Culpeper Clyne" (who's allergic to dirt so he's pickled in brine!) or the man in the crypt that's sprung a leak.

Oh, and Captain Gore's design might also have been the inspiration for the infamous Auctioneer in Pirates of the Caribbean (ride).

Prior to the 2006-2007 refurbishment, the Mariner was one of the paintings with eyes that would follow the Guests as they passed by in their Doombuggies; now, however, his portrait doesn't do anything, it just looms over the Guests as they board**. There were also rumors that his story could be found in the Columbia Harbor House across the street, but I have yet to find those rumors confirmed (and I've looked, believe me.)

And why did you make me read all this, Dani?

Because with all this in mind, at least for me, it's nice to see the Mariner in particular - as opposed to a different more marketable spirit, like one the Hitchhiking Ghosts who would seem more obvious - be the Helpful Spook who follows our protagonist. To me, it seems like a little nod that maybe, just maybe, the people who made this movie really knew their Mansion history!

Or it could be a coincidence.

Whatever the case, I'm just really thrilled to see that a spook arguably attached to one of the very first ideas of the Haunted Mansion, who gets no real appearance in the original HM and arguably less and less in the WDW HM, get a little bit of the spotlight in the 2023 movie.

*No relation to Alastair Crump or Edward/William Gracey; the "Master Gracey" character was named after Yale, and I strongly suspect that Alastair Crump was named so as a reference to Mr. Rolly Crump. That makes the Gracey Mansion and the Crump Mansions both direct references to two of the earliest brains on the inimitable Haunted Mansion!

**A similar portrait was April-December; she was recently restored to the Disneyland Mansion as a changing portrait, but in WDW her eyes would also follow guests. Like all the eye-following portraits, she was dismissed in the refurbishment, but she's a prominent painting in the movie; she is the hidden door to the seance room - in fact, the way to open the door is by using the eye-holes as a handle! Clever little referencing there, I think.

Also if you like Haunted Mansion history and just about any tangent you can think of, I encourage you to check out the Long-Forgotten Haunted Mansion blog a little bit more. They know their stuff over there!