#also speaking of nerd shit

[max--phillips]

I parked next to a car today that was covered in bumper stickers and each one made me laugh harder and harder. Thought you might like some of them too 😆

Also hiiiiiiiiii! It’s been a minute since we last talked, I hope you’re doing good!

DJFBDJDKSK omg I need that pro-possum one immediately . But these are all extremely good tbh. There’s at least one cool person in Ohio fjdbfjdbdjsk

And hello !!!!! Same to you!

[ganondoodle]

kind of expected that the ability breakdown wouldnt get that much traction (especially on twitter bc if it doesnt do well in the first few hours it might as well be dead) but what i didnt need to wake up to was looking at my twitter notifications and thinking there was a long comment on it at first but then i read it and it turned out to be some guy having dug up one of my old totk tweets where i talked about how zelda was treated-

and if a quote retweet with a thread attached already starts with "this entitled brat didnt understand that zelda was being a history nerd by being in the past and getting to experience it herself" with two screenshots attached of the end of totk with zelda staring at the cam all uwu (which has ??? to do with their point??) i dont even want to know what else was in that thread

if thats how the majority of the fandom is then im even less surprised that nintendy doesnt even have to try to write anything good :I

ah yes, i am a game nerd, and by putting me in a game where i stand around doing puppy dog eyes while being shoved around by NPCs is me being a game nerd OBVIOSULY

[lucabyte]

transfem loop + siffrin... you agree

i does agree.... i does in fact ... write a 7k word essay on the subject..... if you would like to perhaps click that link and read it if you were not already aware...... kisses u on the forehead......... sorry its that long but i had to cover all of my bases you know how it is with textual analysis when you're trying to draw a distinction between "headcanon" and "reading of the text" because those are different things.... to meeeeeeee.......

[ferlost]

this episode brought to you by my 61 day streak on duolingo.

[sergeantjessi]

my partner & i started ironically watching a german telenovela & then just... never stopped. And anyway my two fave characters are:

- silly gay background/side character (bc your typical grandma can't handle more gayness i guess)

- guy who's traumatised bc he accidentally killed his gf in a car crash

And I think it's funny how my fave type of character is obvious, no matter the media. i like my fictional characters traumatised and/or gay thank you very much

[silverselfshippingchaos]

his love for comics is adorable!!

[im-still-a-robot]

I've given up on cringe and decided to talk endlessly about whatever the fuck I want at all hours of the day

[astranauticus]

Hi! I saw your response to the songs that starts with the letters in your username post. We have pretty similar tastes! I’m trying to listen to more Chinese music and was wondering if you have any recs you’d be willing to share? Thank you so much!💖

sorry for taking so long to get to this haha, i had to stare at my playlist for a bit because my music taste is a bit all over the place nowadays (and also, a lot of jpop orz)

well there's always the classic cpop singer rec, Zhou Shen who's particularly fun to recommend to international listeners cuz like. you don't need to know what he's saying to realise his voice is goddamn incredible. also, if you watch cdramas at all you've probably heard him at least once because he is somehow in every cdrama ost (may i interest you in my translation of the three body problem theme song he did). everyone's first Zhou Shen song is big fish but i'd also shout out mirage, my favourite on (the first half of) his new album which is a much more electronic kinda sound than what he usually does

if you're into hip hop at all there's ice paper, the top artist in my spotify wrapped last year (somehow). i tend to enjoy music that sounds weird as hell and.. yeah on naihe bridge is my go to example of 'yknow rap music can sound real wild sometimes'. also, all the music that Fanka made for the show Link Click, particularly the season 1 ed

on the topic of music that sounds weird as hell, floruitshow's album is all bangers (set me free (translation here!) is my personal top rec it really sounds so unique)

finally, lightning round of artists off the top of my head: Mayday is kind of a chinese rock music all time classic. Mao Buyi is a personal fav but his sound is more... quiet low key quarter life crisis music so idk if that's your thing lol. Liu Yuning is a singer i was deeply obsessed with a few years back (also another guy who's somehow on every cdrama ost), his stuff tends towards more pop (especially the ost songs) but he's part of a rock band and some of his original music does reflect that

also, unrelated to music recs exactly but if you want a quick way to find cpop songs/singers to fall into a hole about you enjoy, i highly recommend looking up music variety shows since a lot of them are english subbed on youtube! Singer is a classic and Singing with Legends is a personal fav but that's probably a separate post lol

[quietwingsinthesky]

im just saying that benny is stuck out of time and out of place with everyone around him and was in monster jail for half a century, and i think that he and lucifer could bond about this

[ladysophiebeckett]

booktok drama made it to twitter bc someone uploaded a video of young woman who complained about s*x of c*row*s bc her followers rec'd it to her and yes, she only reads romance. and she found this particular book difficult to read bc of the font size but everyone took it to mean shes stupid. no, she doesn't like fantasy. let alone YA fantasy. and now everyone on twitter is like 'i cant believe she dnf'd this book'. so what. she only likes romance. that's her account and her business. ppl taking it so personally she didnt like or finish a YA fantasy. get a life.

[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.

pt 2

also please stop traumadumping in the notes/tags, that's not the point of this post. it's really upsetting to see on my feed, so i'm muting the notifs for this post. if you have a question about this post, dm me, but i don't want a constant influx of traumatic stories. xox

[thedreadvampy]

I mean sure, I can understand this perspective, but I'm not sure whether most people feel less shaken to be thrust into conversations about "self-unaliving" than conversations about "suicide"

and I for one as a survivor would much rather unexpectedly encounter somebody talking about "rape" than somebody talking about how funny it is to have sex with somebody when they don't want to, a normal thing that doesn't need to be named because it's So Normal.

which is to say. this is a post about words. the words are not the distressing thing about the discussion. the distressing thing is the distressing thing about the discussion. sugarcoating, dodging or renaming the distressing thing doesn't make it less distressing but it DOES often make it harder to have a frank discussion about it or address it in serious terms.

[pinch of salt: solid probability from their blog that this person is a Literal 14 Year Old and the perspective from 30 and 14 are very different. I do stand by all the points I'm making but I think this conversation lands a lot different for people at different life stages - there is something to be said for the general issue that the internet has flattened social groups to the degree that I as a 30 year old can make a post to my audience of largely adult millennials that immediately enters the same conversational space as people half my age and still in school. that seems. ungreat. as the primary way we engage in conversation. but I don't have solutions to offer.]

you gotta be able to say "die"

you gotta be able to say "suicide"

you gotta be able to talk about "sex"

they're uncomfortable topics, YEAH for SURE

because LIFE is uncomfortable. Death and suicide and sex and pain are straight up going to happen. not having words for the way it discomforts you doesn't make it more comfortable, it just makes you less able to reach out about it.

even more vital, you gotta be able to say words like "rape", "abuse", "queer" or "racist". cause we fought fucking hard to name those experiences. to identify "rape" as distinct from "sex" and "racism" as distinct from "acceptable behaviour" and "queer" as distinct from "invert"

like the function of communication is not to minimise immediate discomfort. we gotta be able to talk about stuff that's hard or sucks or causes difficult conversations.

[smolgayartnerd]

It's always fun watching others come to my blog and like and reblog stuff when I'm clearly active and in my insomnia hell. Are you also in insomnia hell, or do you just live in another time zone? Or both? Either way, you've come to see me go wild bc I was not blessed w a neurotypical brain that would let me properly sleep when I'm supposed to. And somehow that feels special

[unofficially-joann-fabric]

the struggle of wanting to post my cosplay wip on this blog bc its in character but also wanting to post it on my main but also i dont want people to fine my main via my cosplay

[silverselfshippingchaos]

r.une is so awesome! he's the kindest guy ever and I always drop by the thieves guild whenever I'm not doing anything just to hear his pretty voice

[libidinous-weeb]

ya’ll NEED TO KNOW…eyes do not COMPLETELY dialate when you’re turned on. they do a little bit, but if they were completely “blown” and fully dialated your boyfrie would not be able to experience light without wincing from the sensitivity.

you also have to consider sunlight. if there is a light source very nearby then eyes won’t dialate as much as they do in the dark. if it’s the middle of the day and you’re fucking outside his pupils will NOT BE COMPLETELY BLOWN. if you’ve ever had your eyes dialated at the eye doctor, you know what that’s like.

humans do not have the ability to control when their pupils expand or contract or by how much. it’s based on a number of factors. your pupils will not naturally contract so much it’s hard to see in the sunlight unless you’ve just come from an area that’s darker. humans are visual animals—our physiology reflects that.

fun fact: birds actually can control this ability though! that’s why when they’re looking at you their pupils seem to fluctuate in size. it takes them longer to adjust to changes in light than it does for us because it’s not automatic for them. helps if you ever need to get the jump on one.

anyways yeah no hard feelings if y’all don’t give a shit about this one i just wanted to talk about it cause i find physiology fascinating in all aspects lol