#addy rants

[jeffersonianintern]

Angela: HYDRATE OR DIE-DRATE!


Angela: *aggressively throws water bottles*


Booth: Uh... what's up with her? 


Zack: she’s trying to yell mental health and wellbeing into us.


Angela: I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU! 


Sweets, crying: It's working.

[did-sm1-say-catfish]

Cam: You're smiling. What happened?

Booth: What? Can't I smile just because I feel like it?

Angela: Zack tripped and fell down the stairs today.

[glitch1997]

I MADE A DRAGON PUPPET

IT'S SNEO:D

oughhhmygah

This is my first ever dragon puppet, so it's not the best, but I tried, y'know?^^,

I printed the digital design out instead of drawing it on paper, cuz I suck at symmetry😭😭

Though it is a bit smaller than intended, which makes the base stick out a little...

And my printer sucks, just look at those lines-

Anyways I'll stop rambling nowCOUGH-

he smells kromer

[mazzystar24]

Saying racism is TEASING or immaturity isn’t the same thing as flat out repeating multiple times that Gerrard is the worst version of a human and saying that he MADE FUN OF the minorities

Teasing means to PLAYFULLY make fun of

Make fun of by itself is to RIDICULE OR MOCK ANOTHER PERSON TO MAKE THEM THE BUTT OF THE JOKE

That’s why racists make fun of people they don’t “tease” because teasing implies playfulness while make fun of implies ridicule or mockery

Do I need to give you an English lesson????

So yes Ryan saying that captain Gerrard made fun of Tommy and buck and chimney isn’t the same thing as Lou plain downplaying what Tommy did in the flashback eps

Certain white people in this fandom are actually gonna drive me insane everytime the racism topic gets bought up (they said butters my biscuit yes Ik theyre white🤭🤭)

For real tho in all seriousness like where is the sense

Also saying that Lou said it in a cameo which you emphasised in all caps vs Ryan saying it in an interview is really proving the opposite of the point you wanna make cos in an interview you can get caught off guard or stumble over words and it’s on the record (not that Ryan did because he again said MADE FUN OF HE DIDNT SAY TEASING OR DOWNPLAY IT IN ANY WAY) but in a cameo that you don’t have to do but are choosing to do and that you can reshoot as many times and prepare your words however you want beforehand? Yeah exactly you are proving the opposite of what you want which is that you can pull ten million excuses but fact of the matter is a white actor addressing his characters past participation in racism shouldve considered his words more

Anyways I’m not even tagging this past discourse tags cos I legit just wanted to rant at the stupidity of some posts I come across

[ultratangerine]

Decidedly hot take for this day & age, but I 100%, with no exageration believe that people who keep making petitions to retire Addy Walker & keep referring to her as "the slave doll" should be slapped. Petiotion for me to go door to door and personally slap each and every one of them.

"B-but slavery is vile! And it makes me uncomfy!"

Exactly, genius.

[makeyouminemp3]

since i'm usually indecisive about mainly and basically everything in life, my sexuality headcanons for my fave female characters change every other day. so I decided that she's bisexual in one universe and a lesbian in another. it's much more simpler for me in that way

[never-ending-fanfic]

Being paranoid because of mental state is fucking awful because I can fucking trust a person with literally everything and yet I could not leave my tea next to them, because my mind will write up some fucked up scenario about them putting something in it, I cannot trust the closest friend to make food for me, I will not use any cosmetics or food I get as a gift, I constantly feel like someone's out to get me, it's so fucking exhausting and I know it's stupid and irrational and not true but guess what that doesn't help

[missperfectlyfinewrites]

I don’t know why sometimes the worst open starters get all the notes, and the good ones get nothing.

And no I’m not just talking about me.

[addsalwayssick]

SMALL RANT BELOW THE CUT XOXO

so my first class of the day for A days is math, so i’m sitting in math and i feel like absolute dog crap. i’m coughing, my nose is running etc etc. and my friends and my table KNOW this, they can see it. and so our teacher makes us do group work, he assigns a problem sheet to do with the group. i tell them ‘wait, i’m going to go to the bathroom’ and so i go, come back, and they’re on the third problem? so i’m like wtv and i start to do number 1. i get done with it and i get stuck on two and i’m like ‘how do i do this???’ and they’re like ‘you just solve it ig’ like really? and then i ask my teacher, and he explains it but i didn’t really understand it and my friends were on the last questions and were ignoring me so i started crying. and it was only then when one of my friends was like ‘addie do u need help?’ and i was like ‘ no😡’ bc i was mad so period

[blazethecheeto]

sometimes i'm fine and then i remember sylvie is addie larue coded.

OKAY HEAR ME OUT.

she's grown up in apocalypses- places where no one can remember her. where she can't make a mark on the world or the timeline. sylvie has never had a lasting relationship or friendship with anyone since she has to keep jumping to a new timeline. if she is spotted and makes a mark on someone or a place, the tva will find her.

it's genuinely so sad, and so justified on why she hates the tva so much and 'selfishly' just wants to live. like addie, she is invisible to the world and had to spend years, centuries even, growing up in the destruction and death of countless people.

all they both want to do is experience the joys of life, and have true relationships. to make a mark on this world (in sylvie's case, causing chaos and burning the tva to the ground). even if that's just working at mcdonald's and listening to records, she savours those moments. the bartender who knows her usual, the record store manager who calls her by her name, the boy working at the mcdonald's who admires her.

she finally has a timeline to enjoy, and she's not being hunted by an organization that wants to kill her for what? her crimes? for being who she is? her nexus event was (in my opinion, i strongly believe this) becoming a girl. they would prune her for 'crimes against the sacred timeline' because the timeline decrees her to stay male for the rest of her life.

(this also explains the lack of genderfluid lokis in this universe because hwr really said- nah make the lokis all male-presenting)

when a version, a young 8-year-old sylvie, decides she is a girl and shapeshifts into one, the tva takes her and destroys her entire life just because another universe has people with unique thoughts and feelings. she grows up without any lasting relationships, in apocalypses, invisible and wanting to live.

just like addie.

this is spiralling into a sylvie rant and i didn't even mention addie that much but you get what i'm saying. they're also both bisexual and when they meet a certain dark-haired person who is a twin soul that's had a terrible deal as well, they lean on each other and form a bond.

tl;dr sylvie and addie are both invisible, can't make any lasting relationships, and just want to live when they were screwed over at a young age.

[invece-sto-sdraiato]

Okay. Um so. Finally I got the selection letter for that college I’ve been wanting to get in. But i got a seat for civil engineering. Which was my third option. Are there seriously THAT many people who got mechanical before me?? How?? My second option was ECE which is totally out of the question since almost 70% of all the people came for that one.

Help why are my hands trembling :(

[tunguszka20]

Soo I realized that probably the only book I'll ever reread is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

Don't get me wrong there are tons of other books I like, but this one just has an extra special place in my heart.

Most of my books get me out of reality for a while, and I love them for that, but Addie LaRue was different. I remember reading it last summer, and I was just... At the end, it literally made me rethink my life (and like without any exaggeration). It had so many important messages for me, the most important one to me being that I don't have infinite time. Like it or not, my time is limited and I have to do something with it while I still have it.

So yeah, this book meant a lot to me, it's definitely one of the books that affected me the most.

[dutybcrne]

The first night Kaeya had been brought to the Ragnvindr house, he could not sleep. He lay awake in bed, half expecting to be thrown out once morning came, so he wanted to be ready to face that. The second night, and the very night he realized he might actually be there to stay, he had followed an old Khaenri’ahn tradition his father had mentioned to him to cement that fact.

He had waited for all to sleep then snuck to the great fireplace he’d spotted while being shown around the place, and, after clumsily murmuring what he remembered to be the proper rites, walked through the still spot-stained place.

He had been caught by Adelinde during this process, and in spite of his fears at the time that she would hurt or scold him, she in fact not only heard him out to find out why he had done this, but also had helped him complete the final step of the process, letting him walk into her arms to show her acceptance of him in this new place. This new home.

It is for this reason, that Kaeya is quite attached to Adelinde, and had warmed up to her the fastest out of everyone else in the Ragnvindr household. From that moment on, she was now his safe place, when he wouldn’t trust most any other with his deepest, most painful emotions. For that moment on, no matter what happened or what may happen to him, wherever Adelinde would be, that to him, would certainly above all else truly be Home.

[glitch1997]

Had a bit of fun with a glitch app:D

[just-about-nothing]

“I’M GETTING A DEGREE IN FORESIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND ANOTHER IN ENGINEERING WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID I’LL DO BUILD A RACE OF CRIMINAL ROBOTS WHO’LL DESTROY THE EARTH?”

MY GUY YOURE THE ONE WHO GOT CONVICTED ON A FALSE CHARGE FOR DESECRATION OF A CORPSE AND MURDER. A FALSE CHARGE YOU SET UP YOU DIPSHIT MOTHERFUCKER

[adaginy]

It is baffling* and slightly horrifying to me how many people see a Weird Plant and assume it's GMO.

well not super baffling, people are very disconnected from their food and plants in general

Now, in defense of the person commenting "GMO" about this pink pineapple, yeah, there are GMO pink pineapples. But you'd see them at a grocery store; except for their $30-50 price tag they look like "normal" pineapples until you cut them open. No-one is going to go to the expensive multi-year effort of bioengineering to try to produce this tiny danger fruit. (And i mean fruit in a botanical sense, not an edible sense, because I can tell you just by looking at it that this pineapple does not have much fruit for the effort it'll take to get it. Worse than a pomegranate or a walnut.)

This is not GMO. This is probably Ananas bracteatus, red pineapple, and then some specific cultivar. Cultivars are like dog breeds, basically. So it'll be called "Ananas bracteatus striatus" or something, roughly equivalent to "Canis familiaris chihuahua" though I'm pretty sure dog breeds don't get marked like that. ;)

And humans made chihuahuas and huskies and so on well before we knew what a gene is! Dogs are a little bit of a special case because their genome is doing some weird things, BUT other domesticated critters have breeds, too. Look at horses. We made Clydesdales and Arabians without knowing what genes are. Holstein and Angus. Rhode Island Red and Silkie. Siamese and Maine Coon. Rabbits, ducks, pigs, goats, pigeons, goldfish! They all have breeds and they all have wild counterparts!

Aside: This isn't how you grow pineapples. This person was asking the internet how to grow her own of this adorable ornamental pineapple that she yoinked from a wedding floral display; she has gotten advice to twist the top out and put it in water until it grows roots.

If humans are breeding plants for a purpose, the result is a cultivar. That's how you get cherry tomatoes and beefsteak, the little dark round watermelons and the great big long stripey ones, bell peppers and jalapenos, kale and broccoli (Brassica oleracea is the dog of the plant world, in terms of unhinged customization). Wanna see something cool? Here's a wild carrot i pulled out of my yard. My handspan is 8 inches almost exactly.

Another plant that I've seen people claim GMO on: grafted plants.

You may have heard that apples don't grow true to seed, that you "can't" plant apple seeds, etc. Apple genetics are a mess, a constant dice roll, you'd think that planting a honeycrisp seed would get you a tree that's at least half honeycrisp but you might not??? It's complicated, I don't understand, I don't need to, because there is a workaround: You take your one original honeycrisp tree and you snip off twigs and you stick 'em in slits in the bark of a different apple tree (probably a crab apple because they're really sturdy). Or you just cut the top off a young crab apple tree and replace it entirely with a honeycrisp branch. And once those trees are established, you can snip honeycrisp twigs off them and do it again.

And some genius people sell apple trees that have multiple different types of apple in them. You can do that! They're fine with it! This is also how you get citrus trees (and multiple-varieties-citrus-trees); a lot of citrus fruits don't grow true to seed either (some do, some do sometimes, plant reproduction in general is wild, Mendel was lucky he grew peas). AND this is how you get some artist person creating a tree that grew ~40 different Prunus fruits (peaches, cherries, almonds*, all the fruits that look sortof like butts) and having people freak out about GMO. Not what GMO does, not how it works!

*Almonds look like butts if you get them with their entire hull on, but you almost never do. What you think of as an almond shell is basically a peach pit, and the almond "nut" is the seed inside. Don't eat other prunus seeds though.

ADDITIONALLY: for the most part GMOs themselves do not concern me. Adding a gene to corn that makes it resist weed-killer is not going to affect the cows that eat the corn or the humans that eat the cows. What could affect the cows/humans, and the entire fucking ecosystem, is that they're enforcing a monoculture by dousing millions of acres in powerful industrial herbicides. Farmed salmon that grows faster? Cool, we don't pick up genes from what we eat, nothing to worry about -- but if it's producing twice as much poop or something then I want to be sure they're handling the pollution right. These are capitalism problems, not GMO problems.