#input welcome

[plaguedocboi]

I’ve been working on new species for my scifi project and I was considering an advanced species that’s blind and relies on chemical communication and echolocation, but like. How would a species like that navigate space? I assume ground-based vehicles would rely on sonar but would that work for a spaceship? There’s no sound in space.

And furthermore, would a totally blind species even be able to conceptualize “space”? If they can’t look up and see stars and planets, would they even know that stuff is up there? I guess if they built some kind of radio telescope they would figure it out, but would they ever think to do that? If “up” is just an endless void from their perspective, why would they think to build technology capable of looking through their atmosphere in the first place?

I’m probably overthinking this but that’s what I do.

[ansitru]

Question: if I were to make a floriography piece with "Your body, my choice", but with poisonous plants, a stylized bottle of aqua tofana and other poisons around it…

Would that be clear enough that the intent is subversive, or would it get picked up by shitheads thinking I'm agreeing with them?

Additionally, is there maybe an alternative phrase that communicates the sentiment of "put your hands on me and I'll cut off your hands", in the same way a subverted "Your body, my choice" would?

[bbyteach]

Seriously can’t find a reliable ref anywhere but…. There’s a very elaborate tattoo of a ship on his chest??

[thecatinthepurplepants]

Stupid but possibly maybe probably not genius idea I just had: stuffed animal version of a balloon animal.

I've seen a crotched/knitted version of it around where they make, like, the sausage link looking string of little tubes stuffed with batting connected with narrow sections, make the tubes correspond with how long you need each "body part" to be, and then twist it together like a real balloon animal

BUT

Sewed instead.

Again, this is probably a terrible idea and I'd have no idea how to feasibly pull it off in reality (would I be able to make the thin connecting bits fabric sewed into a tight tube connected to the main bigger tube structure or would it have to be a different material like string or yarn attached to the end of the main tube? How to structure the pattern to begin with and would I be able to pull off maybe making it one long ass piece sewed into a tube of varying thicknesses? What fuckin fabric do I even use for this??? etc etc, you get the picture)

If anyone has any input it would be appreciated otherwise it's the very time consuming and expensive option of trial and error, I'm gonna do some searching myself and see if someone else has come up with a version of this that doesn't suck

[system-of-a-feather]

Not to sound PD on main (/hj) but it came up in therapy that "people are - in general - not malicious, they might be ignorant and stupid, but most don't mean harm"

And like yeah, I agree, however that hardly consoles me much because a good portion of our abusers honestly didn't have malice. Most were stupid. Stupidity and ignorance has hurt us more than malice and so that line really doesn't reassure us much at all.

Everyone is stupid and incompetent and that's why I don't intend to ask people for help, duh. (/hj /saying the internalized core belief from trauma loudly)

[autumnbell32]

Has anyone ever had an interaction with a psychiatrist that had a very very bad effect (affect? Idfk, I never know) on you? Please, if you feel comfortable I’d welcome input.

I feel like such a garbage human, guys. Been crying since yesterday. Apathy is rampant in this health care system. I feel like a burden, pathetic, and really don’t know what to do. Overly emotional (there’s been a lot of pain in this 38 year life)? Probably. Subhuman because I have a mental illness? I didn’t think so.

[aesethewitch]

Okay. [steeples fingertips]

My friend flies in tomorrow to stay with us until Monday. I won't be doing tarot on Friday since we have Plans, so we have three options:

1. Nix free tarot this week completely and do two sessions next week;

2. Do free tarot tonight, leaving cleaning for tomorrow morning before she gets here; or

3. Do free tarot tomorrow while she and my partner are out playing MTG.

I'm undecided. I'll say tentatively we may do a stream later tonight. Most likely either that or waiting til next week and just doing two sessions. I've also still got a ton of work to do on these recipe cards, especially if I want to have the Spring Equinox ones ready for March 1. Plus a couple commissions. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[performing-personhood]

Okay, autistic buckaroos, it's Sharing Time so fins a comfy place and way to sit, grab your favorite stim toy, and let's talk about full-time employment

Your ol' pal here just landed a full-time job as a manufacturing assistant for CBD products. The company is great, the people are friendly, the job is straightforward and simple and meets all my needs. I'm relieved that my spouse is finally relieved that we will finally have extra money, so we can start to pay down debt, replenish savings, and do some necessary extracurriculars that we've not been able to afford. I have worked 3 days so far.

I am so goddamn fried and exhausted.

Maybe it's just because of the sudden dramatic change in my routines - I went from 1 year of continued unemployment to an unexpected full-time job hire in four days, which was not enough time to fully assimilate the idea. I am enjoying the job so far, but I'm struggling to figure out how to fit it around my routines at home.

I spent my first Saturday in an anxious haze of overstimulated overwhelm, at a complete loss as to what i ought to be doing or how to care for myself and also ensure I had clean clothes for the week ahead and was maintaining a caloric intake. By the end of the day, even my spouse's nightly beer-soaked infodumping - usually a tolerable event my attention can wander in and out of until he feels sufficiently validated - was so much like being waterboarded with language that I basically went into semiverbal shutdown. That's pretty unsustainable, fam.

HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS????

What are your secrets to unwinding and recentering at the end of the day?

How do you all at once get enough sleep, make sure you and/or your household have something to eat, take care of your sensory and emotional needs, and feel a sense of personal pastime fulfillment?

[apnourry]

20:03 AND I JUST REALIZED I HAVE A WHOLE ICED LATTE IN THE FRIDGE DO I DRINK IT NOW

[izhunny]

I have a serious case of 'I don't want to write the ending because it's the end and I've enjoyed writing this fic so much'-itis. 🙄

Anyway, there's a preliminary summary below the cut for my current Frostiron WIP I haven't finished.

💚💚💚

Tony might be losing his mind. He finally caved and agreed to take a vacation. From everything. For the entire summer.

A derelict family property in the Adirondack Mountains in need of some TLC is just what the doctor prescribed to escape things he can't explain since having the reactor removed almost a year ago. Will what's haunting Tony follow him on his Upstate New York sabbatical?

Of course it will, this is a ghost story after all.

~♡~

[satansemployee]

question for my fellow fanfic writers: how do YOU differentiate between a Mature Rating and an Explicit one?

Does the mention of sex immediately bump a fic to explicit? Is the description of a sexual act the thing that makes it explicit even if it's not with the intent of being porn, or the fic doesn't primarily centre around it?

[hex-craft-art]

So, I’ve had this character idea for a while but I don’t think I ever posted her 

So, this is a Pokemon trainer OC I made, her name is Coral (after her eye colour). She is 11 years old, nonverbal autistic, girly, and has a service pokemon (An arcanine)

Problem is, despite me having pretty much her whole Pokemon team figured out, I can’t figure out what her main design should be…so, if someone could add some input, that’d be great. These are just kinda rush jobs so they will improve

Her colour palette is pretty much set in stone though, with a lot of pastel pinks and yellows with a bit of dark colours. The palettes were actually pulled from Sylveon and Mimikyu (2 of my favourite pokemon and they will be in her party)

Anyway, if you could give some input, that’d be great! Thanks!

[thelanguageofbirdsrp]

Question of the Day

What are your favorite stie-wide-event types, prompts, locations, or themes?

[dragonscursestory]

Series Idea I have an idea for a book series and so I'm making this to hopefully get others input on it. here's the basic Idea:

there is a dark dragon who terrorized the kingdom of Camelot, after many years an enchantress by the name of Morgana was able to kill the dragon, however the dragon used powerful curse to bind his soul to Morgana's The soul of the dragon began to twist Morgana's soul this is how she became the villain in the legends of king Arthur.

Morgana pulls strings in the background in both her world and ours in order to reach it you have to first have to travel through 4 layers of defense's (which would also be the names of the books)

The maze

The deadlands

The mirror rooms

The shadow dreams

morgana draws power from adventurers that get lost in these defenses.

a group of friends (who are descendants of the people in the king Arthur legend) get trapped/tricked into the other world where they have to work through their differences in order to survive, and find a way they can return home.

some of the character's:

Alex and Aaron are brothers Alex is 18 and Aaron is 22 at the start of the story. They have enjoyed learning wilderness survival skills since Alex was 14, and (with much resistance from their mother) they were able to convince their parents to let them test their skills. Throughout Aarons high school years they continued to test their skills, this becomes less frequent when Aaron graduates as he joins the military.

[stranger-phenomena]

There is some symbolism to Mike confronting Max in the boys' changing room that my brain has not quite been able to articulate. Something about him being upset to find a girl in a place just for boys? Or perhaps it's expressing some anxiety about his own masculinity if she's more comfortable being there than he is? There's something here, but I just can't quite put my finger on it.

MIKE WHEELER IN EVERY EPISODE [11/42] 2.03 The Pollywog

[izzyspussy]

the way i have instantly regretted having a side blog