#BUT ITS JUST A VERY FUNNY SENTENCE

[corvidcall]

truly i love when people feel the need to performatively announce every societal privilege and marginalizion they experience. i think its bad practice and bordering on unethical and wrong, but it is also deeply, DEEPLY funny when you catch someone unironically confessing to experiencing "pretty privilege"

[bitchfitch]

I've been seeing a new shrink for like. a month ish now. ok. and the thing about this new round of talk therapy is that I've been in and out of therapy for uhhhh 13? years at this point. More than half my life. so I know Exactly what is wrong with my skull and what to do to mitigate it, but in order to stay on my meds I have to keep going to talk therapy.

And this combined with the ADHD/autism thing of 'if I'm not interested in a topic there is not a power in heaven or hell that will make me stay on it instead of switching to a topic I do like', has been a challenge for my new shrink.

She will be trying to like, help me emotionally cope with the cruelty of the American healthcare system, and I'll be "Yeah I'm forced to stay in poverty to maintain access to healthcare but big whoop, cant do anything about it and I'm at peace with it, Anyways So there's this character called Miquella Elden Ring and I think people didn't really understand his vibes until the dlc- yeah no this has nothing to do with that I'm just thinking miqy thoughts"

[min0uet]

if there's mind control in fiction and it's not a kids' cartoon then it better be fucked the hell up. i want to be made to reckon with the horror of taking away someone's autonomy and free will ! MAKE MY SKIN CRAWL, GOD DAMN IT

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

okay wait laughingstock concept Incoming: so im imagining some of the neighbors (maybe Julie & Frank) noticing that Barnaby & Howdy are a lil fruity, yk yk. and Julie's like damn, i guess we have to play matchmaker here.

so naturally they wind up getting the whole neighborhood involved. everybody's a wingman here. Poppy's dropping hints when Howdy drops off groceries, Wally is constantly asking Barnaby to go get him things from the bodega, etc etc. Howdy and Barnaby are facing this sudden change in town-wide behavior with slight concern and bemusement

eventually - lets say Julie, Sally, and Wally - get Barnaby into the bodega and then abruptly leave like "don't have too much fun without us you two *wink wink nudge nudge*". once they're gone (read: very obviously hiding outside & watching through the window) Barnaby & Howdy turn to each other like:

Barnaby: you think we should tell them we're already married?

Howdy: let them have their fun - they'll figure it out eventually

[coquelicoq]

i do love when i'm reading a book in french (written for people fluent in french) and there's a footnote defining some uncommon/dialectal word but the synonym given in the footnote is also a word i don't know. net zero information 👍

[sophfandoms53]

I’m thinking about how this flip on Americory transpired and it was bc of what happened during the veto comp right?

The fact that Blue was fighting for her life and crying during the comp bc she was on the block and the initial target, meanwhile Cory and America were enjoying each other’s company bc they were told several times by Jag they were safe and wouldn’t be put up?

Like i know in Big Brother you should never be too comfortable but this is such a funny thing to set Jag off that his nominee was behaving like a nominee and his allies were behaving like his allies.

He’s so bad at this game it’s comical

[toelessbastard]

finished mashle. finished mashle. finished mashle. the fanfic authors LIED TO MY GOOD FACe

[pagesofkenna]

(context: my day job is editing city and town ordinances before they're put into code books)

I was editing this ordinance from this town I'll call the Town of Alpha, it was about 20 pages long and clearly a pre-written law they had just pasted their name onto and adopted without editing, because every single reference to 'town' had been changed to 'TOWN OF ALPHA', leading to such delightful passages as 'paid to the TOWN OF ALPHA clerk' and 'by resolution of the TOWN OF ALPHA council' and 'upon the streets of the TOWN OF ALPHA of TOWN OF ALPHA'

It was twenty pages of this

So clearly this was a search/replace of every instance of 'town' and 'townname' in the original document with their own phrase. Normally if I was editing this digitally I'd do a search/replace of my own, but they're having me practice editing by hand (using a tablet pen on scanned documents) so I put a note in for the word processing department to do that when they get my marked copy

Twenty pages, right?

On the LAST PAGE. There is a single instance of 'within the boundaries of the TOWN OF ALPA'

A TYPO

which means they DIDN'T SEARCH/REPLACE THIS

which means SOMEONE meticulously went through the pre-written law and wrote in 'TOWN OF ALPHA' on their own! ONE BY ONE!! INCLUDING 'the streets of the TOWN OF ALPHA of TOWN OF ALPHA'!!!

[jennypigalle]

thought it would be a fun idea to translates fob's rolling stones japan interview and also get some reading practise at the same time and. i'm not sure what exactly i thought my definition of a fun idea was, but so far i've gotten through (""gotten through""), like, the first 3 paragraphs, and well...

[lovsome]

i think im gonna ask my therapist to get me an appointment with the private psychiatrist she suggested

[monstrous-woof]

✧ on repeat tag ✧

rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist & post the first ten tracks, then tag people

The Fire by Griffinilla

The Vampire by Solace and Fury

Pierce by 6XT7

Fight Fire with Gasoline by Self Deception

The Devil Inside by Des Rocs

A Villain's Monologue by Blood Command

God Complex by VIOLENT VIRA

Deathless by Lord of the Lost

Auf Wiedersehen Boy by Zeromancer

House of Wolves by SadSongsOnly (cover)

tagged by @famewolf

idk who to tag so if you see this then tag youre it!

[castielsparkle]

im trying to teach myself a little bit of stuff in a language ive never practiced before and 💀💀💀 i keep pronouncing it like its. supposed to be. latin or french . sometimes russian also . but only with like specific parts of specific words .... and i get caught in like a verbal feedback loop where im just. repeating. the same part of the sentence for ten minutes because . i cannot pronounce it the LIKE...Proper Way . and dont get me started on . when i throw in. my name in a sentence. entire thing. other beast

[ghostin]

Girl im fuckifn. freaked out

[htub]

99% of my OC development consists of me going "hey you know what would be so fucking funny" and tbh I wouldn't want it any other way

[mornyavie]

By the way! BBC Merlin, in its ongoing quest to achieve ren faire levels of historical accuracy, used Actual Old English as the magic spell language. They got a professor to do a lot of the translations, though they didn't spend much effort on the pronunciation.

There are two ways that this is very funny if you watch the show while knowing OE. One is that usually when they do the "wave your hands to smash your enemies around" type spells they're literally saying very simple stuff like "jump back" and "fall." The other is that whenever they have a long incantation to read, they say vaguely related stuff for a sentence or so and then just transition into reciting Beowulf.

[pygmi-says-hi]

STOP DOING THIS IN INJURY FICS!!

Bleeding:

Blood is warm. if blood is cold, you’re really fucking feverish or the person is dead. it’s only sticky after it coagulates.

It smells! like iron, obv, but very metallic. heavy blood loss has a really potent smell, someone will notice.

Unless in a state of shock or fight-flight mode, a character will know they’re bleeding. stop with the ‘i didn’t even feel it’ yeah you did. drowsiness, confusion, pale complexion, nausea, clumsiness, and memory loss are symptoms to include.

blood flow ebbs. sometimes it’s really gushin’, other times it’s a trickle. could be the same wound at different points.

it’s slow. use this to your advantage! more sad writer times hehehe.

Stab wounds:

I have been mildly impaled with rebar on an occasion, so let me explain from experience. being stabbed is bizarre af. your body is soft. you can squish it, feel it jiggle when you move. whatever just stabbed you? not jiggly. it feels stiff and numb after the pain fades. often, stab wounds lead to nerve damage. hands, arms, feet, neck, all have more motor nerve clusters than the torso. fingers may go numb or useless if a tendon is nicked.

also, bleeding takes FOREVER to stop, as mentioned above.

if the wound has an exit wound, like a bullet clean through or a spear through the whole limb, DONT REMOVE THE OBJECT. character will die. leave it, bandage around it. could be a good opportunity for some touchy touchy :)

whump writers - good opportunity for caretaker angst and fluff w/ trying to manhandle whumpee into a good position to access both sites

Concussion:

despite the amnesia and confusion, people ain’t that articulate. even if they’re mumbling about how much they love (person) - if that’s ur trope - or a secret, it’s gonna make no sense. garbled nonsense, no full sentences, just a coupla words here and there.

if the concussion is mild, they’re gonna feel fine. until….bam! out like a light. kinda funny to witness, but also a good time for some caretaking fluff.

Fever:

you die at 110F. no 'oh no his fever is 120F!! ahhh!“ no his fever is 0F because he’s fucking dead. you lose consciousness around 103, sometimes less if it’s a child. brain damage occurs at over 104.

ACTUAL SYMPTOMS:

sluggishness

seizures (severe)

inability to speak clearly

feeling chilly/shivering

nausea

pain

delirium

symptoms increase as fever rises. slow build that secret sickness! feverish people can be irritable, maybe a bit of sass followed by some hurt/comfort. never hurt anybody.

ALSO about fevers - they absolutely can cause hallucinations. Sometimes these alter memory and future memory processing. they're scary shit guys.

fevers are a big deal! bad shit can happen! milk that till its dry (chill out) and get some good hurt/comfort whumpee shit.

keep writing u sadistic nerds xox love you

ALSO I FORGOT LEMME ADD ON:

YOU DIE AT 85F

sorry I forgot. at that point for a sustained period of time you're too cold to survive.

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