#and i'm just.

[flagellant]

Hey, iHeart Network? Yeah, I already fucking hated your guts for other unrelated reasons, and I just gotta say, I wasn't expecting to add that you're hosting a podcast which advertises itself, as, quote verbatim: "What would you do if a secret cabal of the nation's most powerful people asked you to overthrow the government?" and like, yeah, don't worry, I get that it's actually about the 1930s FDR thing, but I really feel like doing this post-January 6th in this political climate, and by "this" I mean saying that there is an ACTUAL, VERBATIM, "SECRET CABAL" MADE UP OF "THE NATION'S MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE" WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO "OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT"

is just maybe the slightest bit questionable. perhaps you might want to consider this as a polite suggestion to maybe not advertise a podcast which sounds like it's about to fucking tell me about the Secrets of the Council of the Elders of Zion is actually based in historical accuracy

[anti-ao3]

[ID in alt text]

good god. i don't have to say how victim-blamey this whole fucking trainwreck is, right.

the bonus:

[ID: a screenshot of the same post above in which the OP takes note of certain tags: #this is mayhaps 75% true #and i am sincerely begging ppl to stop calling this purity culture bc i promise you it's not 😭. The OP, however, states that "Yeah it is purity culture." /End ID]

NO IT'S NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(if you find this post please don't engage, just block OP.)

[euclydya]

sometimes curly just grabs me (or like. as best as it can without hands) and starts telling me about how much people he's going to kill or that he needs to kill people Immediately and I'm just like. ok man. are you good

[the-everqueen]

so i watched "get out" over halloween, and yes, it's brilliant, yes, Jordan Peele is a horror genius, yes, i'm glad it got so many accolades but also...i still like "us" better and i feel like "us" flew under the radar compared to "get out" and "nope," and it feels very much like (white) audiences need to be spoon-fed metaphors about race and its points of intersection or else they don't engage.

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[robyn-i-guess]

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

[housederiva]

My housemate's cat came into my room while my dictation was on...

(here's the fic btw)

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[beaft]

do genuinely find it fascinating how indeed.com is like the biggest job-hunting website out there and yet manages to be profoundly useless in every possible way

[teaboot]

Sometimes I think a lot about my mom's cat

My mom's cat is a common domestic shorthair we found on the side of the road as a kitten

Regular cat, not a maine coon or one of those massive breeds. His mom was smaller than a loaf of bread

But in a sort of a Clifford The Big Red Dog situation, he grew super fast, and really really big, and took a super long time to stop growing

Worried that she was overfeeding him, she eased back his portions, but he stayed a massive round baby

When he started having kidney problems, she took him to the vet.

The vet took a look at him and said, "holy fuck, what are you feeding him", checked the nutritional listings on his chow, and told her "Yeah, maybe he's reacting badly to the amount of grain in this, try a meatier diet"

So my mom wound up special-ordering this specific high-protein prescription cat food made of like. Kangaroo meat or some shit that cost like sixty bucks a bag

And, as typical act two in an episode of House, he somehow got worse on the fancy specialized stuff that was supposed to be Primo Athlete Olympic Feline Blend

Like. WAY worse. His guts were inflamed and his kidneys were shutting down and he was all sore and HE WAS STILL HUGE, just miserable and sad

So shetook him back to the vet, where they had to help him pee (he was apparently close to bursting and had some kind of blockage too) and went "Yeah no this is NOT normal and we don't know what's going on, we're gonna do some tests but in the meantime you should go back to what he was eating before, at least that wasn't actively killing him" so she did

And he still wasn't great, but he also improved

And so they take his blood and do an ultrasound and a couple g's later she gets a call back like "this is gonna sound crazy, but we want you to put him on a low-meat diet. Just the least amount of protein and iron and shit. We need you to find the grainiest, filler-iest dollar tree kibble available and give him some of that bad bad shit"

And my mother is a woman of science. So she did

And he GOT BETTER

His energy picked back up, inflammation went down, he started drinking normally again, got back to pissing like a fuckin champion

And so it turns out that out of all the random ass freeway bonus cats we possibly could have scooped out of a ditch, WE got the one-in-a-million freak of nature with a SPECIFIC genetic defect that means a paleo protein free range diet is essentially poison and he THRIVES on cheap ass garbage

Like. He medically NEEDS junk food

I dont really understand how that works, but i cant argue with results.

If we had four of him, they'd outweigh my mom. And he's FINE

Also blind, but that's unrelated

Im not using him as a symbol or a metaphor or anything. I just keep catching myself thinking about my mom's Big Fucking Cat

[longsightmyth]

People are so stupid about snakes. If there's a little black racer chilling outside just leave it alone, you don't have to kill it, it's probably dealing with all your pests for you, jesus christ

[ionomycin]

temple at the end of the road

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

[donnovien]

Do you block people in the same fandom as you just because you don't like their takes?

[shiyorin]

Two moods