#in case you hate bugs

[scoobydoodean]

You’re so strong re: the roaches I would have screamed cried and threw up until I passed away. Bad enough I had to chase ONE across my bedroom floor, naked, with a wadded up piece of toilet paper a few weeks ago but FORTY?! I have so little tolerance for bugs I moved out of my college dorm early cause a roach fell on me in my sleep 😭 I hope the exterminator gets them All and you don’t have to deal with another roach for at least the next year

♥️ Okay so I do think part of the reason I’m not losing my fucking mind is that these are a small breed that only get half an inch long as adults. That makes them significantly less horrific to see around. Most of the ones I’ve seen are juveniles and babies so it’s kind of like seeing a lot of house flies around. If I had encountered 40 1 1/2 to 2 inch roaches over this weekend I would probably be losing my mind and would just have to leave lol.

The bad part of these being a small breed though is that they. can. fit. in. anything. the kind infesting my apartment are called german cockroaches. They are known to destroy electronics and they can squeeze into a space the thickness of a dime. They can be so difficult to get rid of that there is an entire subreddit dedicated to battling this singular breed. Apparently, they don’t nest, they fuck like rabbits, and a single egg case contains about 40 babies so an infestation can quickly get completely out of control. They don’t even seem interested in my food (though I don’t usually leave food out and especially not rn) but they LOVE water sources and I think they were coming in from other apartments on the pipes.

So this past weekend, I bought caulk, expanding foam, and wall spackle and filled every single crack and crevice in the kitchen and bathroom that I could reach. This almost completely eliminated the problem in the bathroom. The kitchen is a lot tricker, but I also laid down boric acid under and behind the fridge, oven, and dish washer which poisons and kills them if they run through it. (And THEN if other roaches eat their dead bodies, they also die). Then yesterday I laid out 18 poison food bait stations. They keep getting in my dishwasher when I open the door so today I filled it with baking soda because if they eat that their stomachs will explode. So I’m basically poisoning the dish washer water. THEY WILL DIE!!!!

DIE!!!!!! 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

[dizzybizz]

some star rail, some penacony story fuckers specifically... y'know how it is (it's bad the brainrot is so bad help me help)

[sugaredoleander]

i say this with love. house fanfic writers, if you ever want me to beta something for medical accuracy, i'll fucking do it no questions asked

[loveandlegacy]

one thing i hope we in the united states get over like. sooner rather than later is the specter of "chinese censorship". i occasionally encounter people saying that riot, a famously regressive company in a famously regressive industry, won't just say viktor and jayce are in love because of censors in china and it's just like ok. i just don't think that's true. i think the call is coming from inside the house

[hacksawboy]

some of us r sane and the rest of us spend 5 hours drawing their tf2 ocs

i was gonna do more but um. no. not right now. another day mayhaps.

anyways i finally finished vampire medic and i also designed scene scout which was an idea i never talked about but ive had in mind for a bit xD yeah i hope u enjoy :)

[keithbutgay]

the silly guys (and yes, they're gay :P)

(much info under cut)

okay so main worldbuilding--- i havent actually really thought this through but the idea is that basically its this really unoriginal kinda dystopian-ish world where there was this government created robotic spore, something that would go into your bloodstream through open wounds. the spore would then corrupt your body, and there was no way to stop it.

the idea was to keep it among the higher-ups of the country, using it as a sort of punishment for criminals but after all these victims inevitably re-entered society, questions started getting asked. eventually someone anonymous hacked into the blueprints, the information was released and the spore began spreading, infecting hundreds and hundreds of people.

(and yes, i realised after creating all this that its basically just the plot of wilder girls. do i care enough to change it? not really)

ghost (he/she/they)

-actually the silliest of guys

-gay disaster

-trans guy, would only like to be referred to with masc terminology despite their pronouns

-eye and entire arm had to be amputated after a car accident

-eye was filled with an amber-like substance that hardened over time as a result--- while it was still soft a bug flew inside and became trapped

-shoulder blades and arm became much more veiny and translucent, which is why he always covers his arm

-has a lot of scars on his arm, they show up more on the translucent skin

-constantly changing hair color. because she can

-adhd be upon ye

-asexuality be upon ye

-demiromanticism be upon ye

-is really energetic most of the time, gesticulates a lot while talking, but will sometimes forget about their arm and be confused about why its not moving

-experiences phantom pains in their missing arm, and also experiences chronic pain in their wrist and neck because they got really fucked up in the accident

-really normal about the ocean /lie

-struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and severe bipolar 1 disorder, and experiences hallucinations and other symptoms of psychosis because of that

-dont really like people standing on their blind side, which is partially because of their paranoia and partially because they're self-conscious about their arm (and because holding hands)

alright moving on cause i said a fuck ton about them so now its time for smoke

i dont have that much for them sadly

i designed him second which means that he doesnt have that information on him but its okay because i love him

smoke (they/he)

-they're SUCH a guy. like. the most guy. in an agender way

-autism be upon ye

-also a disaster gay

-got into a lot of fights because of where he was brought up and the people they interacted with. this ended in their face getting cut up a bit at a really unfortunate time, and they were infected

-he cant actually fully zip or unzip his face--- instead they can feel their skin being stretched apart constantly

-its because of this that he doesnt talk or smile often because it often hurts to move his face. he will sometimes use asl, but doesnt know that much beyond finger-spelling and they prefer to just listen to other people

-if they do talk, its really quietly and slowly. they really only talk to ghost because they know he wont judge

-anxious boi

-definitely has bpd but no he will not be unpacking that today, thanks, that is getting shoved deep down along with his probable autism, depression, and panic disorder

-also getting shoved down along with his sexuality, he does not have the time or energy to think about that right now

-never really had many friends ever, and its historically been really hard for them to really get along and get close with others so they dont approach people very often

-really normal about space /lie

[dusk-the-cat]

I actually chase Pilby around and pelt them with rocks when Mach isn’t looking

[sugahyeon]

No but the implications of this bug?

Tilín and Juanaflippa's survival

Tallulah's second life

Pomme's nightmare

Tallulah and Chayanne's nightmare

Dapper's nightmare

Maybe Bobby's death?? If the mobs have the same bug? And they apparently do

Might also be the case for Richarlyson in that cave on the first day, even tho it got reversed

Genuinely, this changes SO MUCH

And for the lore? What do we do for Gegg's arc? And his importance in current lore?

And about Quackity? Most of his lore is based around the loneliness resulting from Tilín's death

Even Eggxile???? The school??? El Quackity and Tilín??

This is a crazy discovery and the admins might have a tough decision to make-

[yennens]

trying to play spirit of justice for my inner completionist’s sake but the entire PREMISE of this game is already pissing me off

[kyonite]

man does it ever strike you how fucking useless 90% of the AI shit companies are trying to peddle is? like especially for creatives it's just so functionally fucking useless.

"oh but I can use it to write the manual for using this tool" is genuinely something my boss said to me earlier today and I was like. do you know how AI works? do you know that in order to effectively write the manual for that thing, it needs to reference another manual that was already written for the thing? another manual for the thing which was,,,, wait for it,,, written by a human.

it's just so many of the use cases that people try to point out for creatives are just like. functionally fucking useless for many reasons but esp because it's referencing something SOMEONE ALREADY DID. why do I want a robot to regurgitate some shit that a serbian man already wrote on a website in 2009. he already did a fine job. why is the robot here.

[doodlebug-aboo]

if i had a nickel for every time i enjoyed a 3rd case in an ace attorney game only to then learn everyone else hates it i’d have at least 4 nickels, which isn’t a lot but it is weird that it’s happened this many times.

[gifti3]

If solomon asked me to be a defender of humanity, i dont think i could look him in the eye and say yes

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok's Nightmare about Getting Cancelled by Janeway [Transcript under the cut]

He felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned to see Admiral Kathryn Janeway. She smiled at him sweetly. "Even if you didn't complete your training, I thought you had learned your lesson, Tuvok." "which lesson?" he asked her. His head felt as if it were splitting open, and sweat ran down his face.

"You engineered the melding of the Maquis with the Starfleet crew aboard Voyager," Janeway said. "Despite all logic, despite the conflicts between two groups that had every reason never to work together, you managed to bring them into accord. Just like Ambassador Spock is doing on Romulus." Tuvok wiped the sweat away with the tattered sleeve of a robe he hadn't recalled ever having worn before. "I no longer oppose Spock's unification movement," he said. "That is why I volunteered for the mission to Romulus." Now he knew where the robe had come from. "You don't oppose Unification?" Janeway asked, looking peevish. "Then why aren't you helping Spock now?" Tuvok was about to answer when he felt his stomach buckle with immense pain. He cried out and fell, sprawling onto a hard surface. Janeway was gone. The blowing sand was gone. Only the random pattern of rough-hewn stones and bricks of his cell floor remained. Source: Taking Wing - Novel

His bug-poison/fever-induced-nightmare wife is ROASTING his ass!!!

[sansevierias]

i saw this post on r/cyberpunkgame asking if there's any m/m or f/f npc couples in the game, and the replies are saying that yes there are. but i swear to god, i haven't seen any. and i have really paid attention to it, there are only straight couples in my game. is it bcs i'm on ps4? bcs my game def has some problems loading the npc models sometimes, for example i may get the same character a lot in a small area and even in specific npc groups. but the couples are always m/f.

[phoenixkaptain]

Worst part of modernity is the idea that I should want my beloved chaotic characters to stop winning.

No!! >:( I want Bugs Bunny to win!!! I want Puck to be utterly unflappable and a dick who only answers to one (1) person!!! I want Hermes to be a massive asshole who steals people’s cattle just because it’s said to be impossible!!!

I don’t want chaos incarnate characters to start being “more relatable” or whatever! They already are relatable! They’re relatable in to our most base parts, the parts of us that some of us wish didn’t exist! Watching Bugs and Puck fuck around with people appeals to that part within us that impulsively wants to push people when they’re standing somewhere they shouldn’t. Hermes is a messenger god, yes, but he is as far from serious as it is possible to be and is actually a great representation of how we should view the Greek Gods, as they were presented, just in general (since they got angry at the slightest provocation and were petty and yet found the most joy in fucking with each other because, at their core, every single Greek God was just a toddler).

Bugs is the type of character who I don’t want to see face punishment. He was written in a way that his fucking with people was charming because, for the most part, these people wronged him in some way. Bugs was less an asshole and more a representation of the idea of Karma, “what goes around comes around,” the idea that your bad deeds will come back to bite you. Bugs is the very embodiment of karma, and I don’t want to see him fail or face consequence or punishment because that defeats the whole purpose, he’s a chaotic, unstoppable force.

Puck is just… a fairy. He’s a fae. He’s supposed to be kind of an asshole, because the fae in English, Irish, Scottish, etc mythology were just kind of assholes. Puck is a dick who fucks up fucking with people, yes, but my enjoyment is found in the fact that the only person who can punish him is the Fairy King. It’s immensely funny to me. I don’t want Puck to be punished by anyone else, I just want him to pout and sulk and be forced to apologize and solve problems because the Fairy King is tired of his bullshit, I love it.

Hermes is generally represented pretty fairly in modern media as the type of person who pulls pranks and ties people’s shoelaces together, but modern media seems to believe I want to watch the consequences of his actions. I do not. Hermes appears with a letter, ties your shoelaces together, and vanishes. He’s too fast to catch. He’s harder to catch than a fish coated in soap and butter. He’s harder to catch than Luke Skywalker-

Basically, my enjoyment of chaotic characters is not based in seeing them be punished for their transgressions. Even if it was, I would like it to be one character solely who holds the leash, because it adds the comedic effect of having the Fairy King realize that the guy he sent to mess with the Fairy Queen perhaps went too far, which means that everything is Puck’s fault, not the Fairy King’s, would the Fairy King do that? Does he seem the type? (Yes) Puck is an exception, not a rule, and it’s because he is just a conduit through which the chaos energy of the Fairy King operates, which is immensely funny because, honestly, the only character who wins in a Midsummer Night’s Dream is the Fairy King, who is absolutely the cause of every single problem and everything that went astray went that way directly because of him, but he never gets punished and, in fact, would like to say that everything is Puck’s fault.

Which is, I would say, the funniest part of the entire story.

Which is, I say, the exact behaviour I want to see in chaotic characters. I don’t want them to be punished. I want them to somehow succeed despite everything and I want them to have the last laugh. This only really applies to the truly Chaotic Neutral characters, who would fuck with someone for the sin of leaving gum on the underside of a table. But it applies, and I don’t wish to see these characters change. I don’t think the idea of a force of chaos being chaotic is archaic or outdated and I don’t think these characters need to be “updated” for a modern audience, and I honestly despise the way people try to take recognizable characters, drain them of the traits that made them so fun in the first place, but try to milk us for all we own over them anyway because we foolish mortals hold the slender hope that, if we support the character, maybe one day they’ll act the way they should.

Updating characters for the modern era is not a bad idea or an impossible one. The Addams Family practically begs to be updated for a modern audience, just because it represented the opposite of a perfect nuclear household, despite outwardly appearing to be perfectly in line with the archaic and sexist standards of the time, and it shows that the people who are having the most fun are the ones who don’t listen to what they’re “supposed” to do, but instead listen to what they would like to do and are happier because of it.

But it’s a case-by-case basis and some characters and their actions are timeless. Stop trying to change the way these characters act. You can make new interpretations without removing the heart, you can create stories without changing the moral of the characters, and I would even go so far as to say you should put these characters in modern media, but I beg and plead for you to not destroy them.

[4ga1n5t-4ll-4uth0r1ty]

no but like PLEASE tell me its normal to when accidentally stepping on a piece of plastic in the middle of the night, to then have a panic attack because your mum didn't wake up from the noise, like she didn't even bother opening her eyes, so now all you can think about is how if someone actually broke in and wanted to hurt us, she wouldn't of known because she wouldn't have looked to see where the noise had come from