#and is extraordinarily helpful

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

I love it when my mom proof reads my stuff because it's like being a little kid and saying "well my mom says I'm talented so there!"

[sergeifyodorov]

Best across the board...Simone Biles?

Biles has 5 gymnastics elements named after her; only one of them (Biles I on floor) has been competed by other gymnasts on floor.

Is this good

I would say Simone counts as

[X] GOAT

[X] GRETZKY

[urlocalwhumper]

OK LAST ONE FOR NOW. MAYBE. DEFINITELY NOT FOR GOOD THO LOL I WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY WRITE MORE EVENTUALLY

as always, rayan belongs to @sowhumpshaped

rayan felt horrible.

nana had only been with him for a few days when he noticed that her tail was bothering her. a little glint of pain in her eye whenever it wagged, she way she took great care not to sit or lay on it, and, most recently, how she yelped and flinched away when he, idly fidgeting with her tail while sitting on the couch, brushed his fingers over the unnatural bend near the middle.

he'd wanted to give her at least a week to settle in before taking her to the vet for a check-up, but he also wasn't just going to sit there and let her suffer when she was clearly in pain.

so, off to the vet they went. nana really didn't like it there, she shook like a leaf and stayed glued to his leg for their entire time in the waiting room, and once she was up on the examination table, he had to be at least holding her hand for her to stay somewhat calm.

even the vet winced once her x-rays appeared onscreen.

"oh yeah, no wonder she's in pain." the vet grimaced. "this is a really bad break, the bone is completely shattered around where that bend is." he said, pointing on the screen to what he was talking about.

"this kind of injury... the most likely cause is crushing." the vet glanced at nana's papers and pursed his lips. "repeated impacts. like being stomped on, perhaps."

rayan felt sick. he could tell, from the look in nana's eye and the way she curled further into herself, that the vet's assumption was correct. he trailed a comforting hand across her scalp and pressed a little kiss to the crown of her head.

the vet continued. "either way, for a break this severe, there really isn't much we can do to fix it. your best option is to amputate."

nana went stiff as a board. rayan felt her breathing quicken as she started to whimper under her breath. her loose grip on his shirt turned into an iron vice and she looked up at him with a fearful, pleading gaze.

he continued to scratch at her scalp and behind her ears, soothing and gentle, but internally he was just as frazzled as she was. he was expecting the worst case scenario to be needing to re-break a badly healed bone, not amputating most of her tail.

"can... can we have some time to think about it, please?" he said, wanting to at least get nana out of the examination room and hopefully calm her down.

the vet nodded. "of course. you know how to make an appointment, once your decision has been made."

it took hours for nana to calm down fully. once they returned home, she immediately retreated to her bed, curling up under the blanket like it would hide her from the world. rayan sat beside her, nearly lost for words.

"... i'm so sorry, nana." he said, resting his hand, palm-up, on the edge of her bed. her shaking hand reached out from under the blanket and gripped it tight. "this isn't fair, you shouldn't have to deal with this at all."

he sighed. "... but... your tail's just gonna hurt forever if we don't do anything. and it might even get worse." he squeezed her hand. "getting it amputated is scary, but it's the only option we have."

he felt horrible, trying to convince her like this. he knew that if he was in her position, he'd be just as terrified and reluctant to have a part of him cut off. but, he also knew that, for her health, it needed to be done.

and when he looked over and saw her peering out at him from under the blanket, her eye hesitant but trusting, he knew that she understood too.

nana was a nervous wreck on the day of her surgery. even though he could tell she was trying to be brave, the vet informed him that she wet herself out of fear the moment she was in the prep room, completely separated from him.

but it was finally over. the amputation had been performed with no complications, and now nana was at home - short half a tail and loopy from the meds they'd given her, but no longer suffering from a painful shattered bone.

she was napping at the moment, her head in his lap as he absently pet her hair. he frowned at the bandaged end of her newly shortened tail. it was the right decision, he knew that, but... it was just so unfair. for her to lose most of her tail just because some jackass decided it'd be funny to stomp on it... it made him angry.

angry that such a monster could get a pet license, angry that they'd been so cruel to a pet as sweet and loving as nana, angry that they even existed. it made him so angry that he felt like he could just- !

nana stirred in his lap, mumbling something unintelligible and snuggling further into him. right, he needed to calm down. all of that was in the past now. right now, she was safe and comfortable and happy with him, and that was all that mattered.

[magnetic-dogz]

Making out with whoever invented live code editors sloppy style

[leguin]

have written two songs in the last few weeks! slowly emerging from the haze of a year of bad poetry...

[m3rcuryxd2763]

HELP I WAS TRYING TO MAKE FEATHER FROM EXCELLENT ENTITIES WITH A FEATHER I FOUND OUTSIDE

This was the first attempt

Welcome to the crew, I guess??

[wizardnuke]

this is the first semester that ive gotten B's and A's across the board and honestly the best i have ever done in any school environment at all. high school was rough. my first two semesters at college were so rough that i need to retake a few classes. i have adhd and also depression was a major issue in my first semester. it has been so fucking much. i got A's yall. i got an A in the class that's going towards my major. waaah

[bongwater-supreme]

Had forgotten how humiliating it is to have a crush on someone. What do you MEAN it could change the course of my entire day if I get a single text from them? What do you MEAN I think about them more frequently than food, sleep, weed or any of my special interests?? It should be illegal for the universe to give crushes to people over the age of 20. That being said I am giggling and kicking my feet whenever we talk, naturally

[supercantaloupe]

technically the contract for my new internship (signed & submitted, but i haven't actually started yet or turned in my payment info or anything) states that i'm supposed to start on monday. so strictly speaking i haven't lost hours on the job due to being sick this week, i guess. but in communication it was agreed that i would start this past monday for a lighter possibly part-time week of mostly onboarding and getting-to-know-the-office type work. which obviously i've missed due to hacking my lungs out in my house for the past eight days...it's not the end of the world for me to start next week, my boss is totally fine with it and wants me to be okay before starting, and it's not like i will have missed anything terribly important like a performance or something. and missing one week's worth of a paycheck is not going to ruin me financially, thankfully. but still, y'know, disappointed to have lost a week of productivity, especially in such a lucrative (job experience wise not necessarily money wise. but the money isn't terrible either.) internship i'm super lucky to have gotten in the first place. very much looking forward to finally starting on monday and putting this shit behind me

[max1461]

basically the shit is that there's a computer lab but I'm not hashtag mentally health enough or whatever to get up and go to it. so I need otsoft to run on my frigging mac. tried wine + rosetta, they're both working but when I open the .exe it just doesn't work. tried windows vm and at least the program opens, but it refuses to open up text files and I think this is (maybe?) related to the text files not opening in general thing. anyway. it is so hard to use the computer.

[amara-laz]

My ultimate tactic to keeping parts of the Secret Project secret is not knowing what the actual fuck is happening in it

[gloopdimension]

omg . there are some comms ive done for people in the past that id KILL to redo

[schoenht]

I hate when schools rebuild except for when they don’t but need to. My sister is also going to my old middle school except the building is over 100 years old so its literally hell. No air conditioning except for in the library, and most of the school is still some of the original stuff from 100+ years ago. I get to rub it in her face though when she starts complaining on the first day so that makes me feel better. And she isn’t even in the worst area of that building this year so rip to her in the future. -🌺

YIKES. wow that sucks jfc i can't believe they aren't doing anything to that school bc as i keep saying, it should be illegal to make kids go to school without ac in their classrooms come on now. as a previous middle school student i would NOT be paying attention whatsoever. LMAO I DID THAT WITH MY SISTERS ON THEIR FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL except. i had to go along so i could drop my youngest sister off.

[analleykat]

YOU GUYS GOTTA HELP ME, HE’S MAKING ME PROMISE TO GET A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP. WE TALKED ABOUT BUGS, PLAY FOUGHT. AND HE’S TALL AND NICE AND RESPECTFUL AND WHY IS THERE NOTHING WRONG WITH HIM. HE’S SO SWEET AND SHOWS ME MEMES AND I REALLY LIKE HIM AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

[ybcpatrick]

I read a fic once based on 16 candles. Pete was already a vampire and Patrick was pining to be one so they could be together. Patrick was from a family of vampire hunters that sniped and eventually becomes an alpha vampire. I forgot to bookmark it and I cant remember who it was by! do you know?

eeee i'm sorry anon, i don't know 🥲💕 but i'll post and see if anyone else can help you!!

[justslowdown]

I am deeply deeply grateful for this reblog.

I've never even heard the phrase "high control group" and have always felt so needlessly dramatic describing what I left as a cult.

Even though there's BITE criteria there in spades. And someone who also left an eco-cult immediately described this as that, after maybe 1/3rd of the details. say it's unequivocally a cult

I guess that's another thing they do to you. You end up worried you'll sound crazy or making a mountain out of a molehill.

I thankfully didn't have to stay long, not even a year. But if I hadn't gotten lucky with my housing I would have had to dig in deeper and find ways to justify how people were treated there, I think. I've felt trapped and helpless before in my life. Having root physical safety dependency adds such a layer to all of this.