#i have so many stories

[maybeinanotherworld]

physics professors are really going through it- every day, I think about my quantum physics professor who once went on a rant about how there's too many types of mustard these days followed by the words "well, at least quantum physics is less complicated than the mustard aisle" followed by one of the most cursed derivations I have ever seen

[bellaxgiornata]

Should I share the banner and title of the darker angsty Matt story I've been writing for myself for a bit tomorrow? I know some of y'all have been curious but it's not ready to share any parts of just yet because I'm taking my time on it. But do y'all still want to know a little more?

(The kind of Matt energy I think of when I think of this fic. No I will not explain further...)

[celestialseawitch-ff]

Polling the People

Okay, genuine question here, how do we feel about writers with a million WIPs? Like, I felt as a writer a lot of disgruntlement from the masses and have scaled back to the point that I just... rarely post? new? things?

As a reader, I don't care. I love finding a writer with a million stories, even if majority of them are only four chapters. I'm going to read it.

But like, how about you?? My readers et al.?? I would like to know if people would genuinely like me to just post a finished first two chapters of a fic, even if the next one doesn't come for another six or seven months or even longer??

(I know that I should just post whatever I want regardless, but I do also want to know how my readers feel since this is, afterall, a community)

[grossillygirl]

when i was younger I wasn't used to swimming costumes and literally walked out of the changing stall with my boobs out😭 snd my best friend thankfully only she saw and she was like uhh nice boobs and i was liek AAAHHHHHH OMGGGGG and i put it on and pretended nothing happened LMAO

[drugbinges]

My grandmother told me a story about her Aunt Orphia whose man went out to get cigarettes and never came back for her,

My cousin’s inbred cat slinked around on its three good paws, hopping when the clubbed one was supposed to step,

And I thought about my distant cousin who had a baby girl with an extra finger attached to her thumb.

[missjanjie]

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[kimbapisnotsushi]

here's a list of things that i have done or have happened to me as a tutor who primarily works with small kids that i think would have also happened in some equivalent manner in suga's elementary school classroom:

one of my eight-year-olds, during a writing/spelling exercise: "i'm going to write 'I f'ed the dog' because I don't want to write 'I will feed the dog'!" me, trying not to lose it: "we are definitely NOT going to do that, let me help you change it"

my coworker who was teaching the soft 'g' to a pair of twins: "right, so we have 'g' like in giraffe! . . . but i don't know what sound a giraffe makes, sorry kids" me, who was sitting at the next table over and had been completely silent up until that point: [suddenly 'ERRROOOOOS' like an elephant] "yeah sorry that wasn't it i don't know what i was doing"

and then my coworker started laughing so hard she couldn't breathe

my boss: "the next person we're going to hire is going to be based off whether or not we can matchmake them with you"

all jokes obviously but i bet this happens to suga by the main office people

a seven-year-old of mine was trying to write "brian tried all kinds of airplanes" but i cut him off at "brian tried all kinds" bc he had spelled 'kinds' as 'kicks' and i was trying to redirect him like "think carefully - ki-NDS, how would we spell that?"

and he thought for a moment, erased the 'c', and replaced it with 'n' and left it like that

what do we get when we replace 'c' with 'n' in kicks. you tell me.

the "i f'ed the dog" eight-year-old had a project where we had to do a bit of research and i was trying to get him to read the sentence "he was born in canaan" and he squinted at it and then yelled really loudly "CANADA!!"

i was doing some context clue exercises with that same eight-year-old where we read a short passage that used a silly word in place of a real one and we had to figure out what that silly word meant, so the passage was about this girl named liselle who was a good friend except friend was replaced with "gringle" so it was all sentences like "she's a good gringle because she's nice and plays fun things" "we've been gringles since we were two years old" "liselle is one of my favorite gringles" and it went something like

him: "she's married?" me: "not quite! they play together and they know each other well, so what do you think liselle is to this person?" him, enthusiastically: "A GRINGLE!"

(yeah i was having the hardest time trying to keep it together then)

me: "sort of! when you've known someone for that long, what do you become?" him, suddenly very serious: " . . . a man."

and THEN i lost my shit

sometimes that eight-year-old has a session at the same time with another eight-year-old and they get along like a house on fire. i give them spelling tests where they have to write a sentence for each word and when i gave them the word "where" one of them yelled "WHERE DID YOU COME FROM" and without missing a beat the other one immediately yelled "WHERE DID YOU GO" and normally i'd have them write longer ones but that was so fucking funny i let it slide

this was funny bc right before that i gave them an example of "where" by singing the only two lines from "cotton-eyed joe" that i knew

"i f'ed the dog" eight-year-old, during another writing exercise: "i'm going to write 'the clothes are stained with cheese'!" me: "oh like melted cheese, right?" him: "no, dry cheese! because i rubbed it all over my clothes!" me: "this sounds like a personal experience, did this happen to you?" him: " . . . noooooo"

sometimes when i have to teach analog time to the kids i just take the clock my boss got from IKEA off the wall (bc we don't have any fake models LMAO) and bring it over to the table and the first time i did that the kid looked at me like i'd just committed the most heinous crime in the world

[captaindibbzy]

My mum was at Art School in the 70's, which is entirely as weird as it sounds and she has many interesting stories. But one of them is how she lived in this Massive House at one point with a bunch of people who were ALSO at art school in the 70's (and one American who was dodging the draft who lived in a cupboard). One of these guys was Very Colourblind but by god that wasn't going to stop him and he painted a giant silver surfer on the front door except cause he was colour blind the surfer was green and he couldn't tell.

And for AGES afterwards they'd get Fucking Weirdos coming up and knocking on the front door like "Hey, we just wanted to see who lived in the house with the green Silver Surfer on the front door. 👀"

And nobody liked that.

[thebananaiscold]

My father is the most confidently incorrect person I know, just listened to him talking to someone about politics and refer to Kamala as “Carmel” like 5 times.

[petalburg-pokemon-husbandry]

WAIT HAVE I *NEVER* TALKED ABOUT THE CHANSEY AND BLISSEY I WORK WITH BEFORE???????

[meat-wentz]

meat I know you love indie sleaze and I have a question about it! crystal castles is kinda lumped in with this genre and to me is has an “edgier” appeal (when I listen to it I feel like a vampire) and I was wondering if this had a specific name within the genre. and if I’m being honest I see indie sleaze thrown around for a lot of things (from early lady gaga to skins the tv show) so does it even count with that? if it is do you have any recs for music like cc/ crim3s/sidewalks and skeletons? hehe thank youuu <3

yes!! so one of the issues with the label "indie sleaze" is that it's being retroactively applied to encapsulate an entire era/scene/aesthetic vs. an actual genre. back in the day we just referred to basically any indie label music as "indie" which could span from folk to twee to underground rock to electro to club pop to hip-hop. much of indie sleaze was based in having wide-ranging eclectic tastes and sensibility for the underground, so hopefully that clears up a little bit why the indie sleaze label gets so messy when it comes to defining a sound and look and attitude!

in regards to crystal castles and their sound, they really super stood out as a very dark version of the more electronic fueled projects at the time, which tended to go for more dance-oriented beats, and crystal castles was super influential in having this specific kind of wild chaotic energy but also these dark droning tones and sounds. their genre kind of formed around them and their sound later as we moved into a more dubsteppy era around 2009-2010 and continuing into 2012-late 2013 (at least at the height of the genre from my perspective on the scene) and was given the name "witch house." weirdly, crystal castles have always carried that "indie" genre for me even after the witch house subgenre became popular, i think just because of that early exposure to them in tandem with other artists like justice, ladytron, boys noize, sebastiAn, etc, where they all sort of kind of had that dark thread throughout their music (i def recommend all of them), and i still don't entirely characterize crystal castles as having all the characteristics of witch house, even though they were a huge influence. witch house was easy to identify due to the way their musicians and titles were stylized, lots of v's in place of u's (CHVRN) or used as an inverted A, all caps, usage of crosses like literally everywhere †††. usually marked by a dark droning sound and high pitched or deep gravelly gothy vocals, as well as darker ideas present, song titles like SACRIFICE, RITUAL, BURIAL. it should be noted a bunch of early witch house was also influenced by remixes, so some of the earlier examples of witch house songs are one off remixes of other electronic songs. you can also see the influence of witch house on a lot of later and current artists like purity ring and polica and laura les, etc.

here's some super cool artists to check out that have that same dark, droning sound or whiplash chaotic feeling or both! (a bunch of these are straight from tumblr mixes i downloaded in 2011-2012):

[theindescribable1]

daaamn, that sounds gnarly. i haven’t been that brutal in a fight, though i did accidentally take out one dude’s eye

anyway, best way i know to dislocate a forearm is simple; one hand at the back of their elbow, other hand on the wrist on the opposite side, push both quick and dirty and bend that sucker backwards. if you’re fast enough you can do this to retaliate against someone’s punch but otherwise just keep it in mind

and as a bonus, dislocating someone’s shin is simple; just kick their knee really hard

You took out a guys e- Ok cool..

That sounds great. . .OnLy For Self Defense!

I'm just saying, in public school.. people are jerks. I've been in fights. Some fights were completely random.

Example A:

I asked a girl for a pencil and her bf though she was cheating on him with me so he punched my really hard in the eye right after class! And uhhh... +1 black eye +1 knocked out tooth +1 ruined reputation +1 nose bleed +1 ruined relationship over me for literally no reason. I didn't do anything- I just took it.

[whydoifeelthisquiet]

I saw my former best friend walking the dog with her mom from afar today & it activated my fight or flight. 😍😍

[lydiarquayle]

anybody know if the cartel is hiring cos god being a cop fucking sucked

[uncxntrxllable]

random slice of life facts about living with and needing a service dog:

you literally pack like you're bringing a child with you EVERYWHERE. And it doesn't matter where. The grocery store? The movies? Bare minimum you gotta have all their gear, treats or a toy as reward for good work, poop bags, and a collapsible bowl for water. Too hot? Ice melt on the ground? You gotta bring their shoes so the skin between their toe beans don't get infected / so their toe beans don't burn. Too cold and your pal has short hair? Gotta bring a coat!

and dear lord if you forget something that you need... ya'll know how many times I forget the LEASH? oof. and then the highlight of your day is being chased by children who wanna grab your dog's butt or face while the parents laugh. or even better, trying to eat a sandwich in the food court and some random mom with a stroller rolls up to your table and just stares and points.

listen bud, my dog doesn't bite but I do 👏

[sleepysnk]

i rmb when i used to be a server and i’d get so mad that people would come in 8 hours before we closed 😐