#it's uncountable.

[swagging-back-to]

this reddit post sums up almost all of my thoughts.

the only people who adopt from places like the one nina's aunt was running is because they are not willing to go through the requirments to adopt a child legally (take a quick parenting class, show a social worker you have a safe home, take a background check) or that you FAILED to meet requirements to adopt legally.

and as someone who was wrongfully imprisoned in a psych ward and forcedfully drugged until i started accepting the act of being drugged, i can confidently say that the entire arch of nina being forcefully medicated was abuse. it was traumatic.

i found it weird how the redditor never mentions the slap scene. How nancy responds to Nina finally opening up about her trauma and her experience (after nancy has a meltdown in public about how nina's trauma has nothing to do with her and that she has no control in ninas life anymore) by physically assaulting a trauma survivor, a kidnapping survivor, an abuse survivor.

[secretdazedragon]

Fight together with a sorcerer be like

[artistmarchalius]

Happy Belated Pride Month! Like… super belated.

Blue Clematis - Loyalty

Blue/Purple Pansy - Platonic Love, Admiration and Affectionate Thoughts

Daffodil - New Beginnings

Eastern Bluestar - Steadfastness and Affection

Heliotrope - Devoted Affection

Orange Rose - Fascination and Deep Admiration

Orange Zinnia - Friendship and Affection

Periwinkle - Immortality

Purple Rose - “I look up to you and value your opinion”

White Rose - A Heart Unacquainted With Love

Yellow Rose - Friendship

————

Flowers have multiple meanings, but these meanings felt very true to my ace experience. As a bonus, periwinkles also mean “Flower of Death” which felt appropriate to mention because, you know, it’s Alastor.

[boytransmission]

little pout

$app + top surgery fund + wishlist

[will-bonna]

i think millipedes would be fun in hollow knight

no background version

[deadmaidclub]

doodles

[puzzlingphronistes]

On back to back seasons too. I think Jake may have changed dnd forever.

[shi0n]

MY FATHER DIED. could not have asked for a better ending for this week

[kyouka-supremacy]

I've never heard a Mitski in my life but if there's something that ao3 taught me is that sskk shippers like the song I Bet on Losing Dogs

[notbecauseofvictories]

It's interesting, because at my last job my boss was good---very good---about creating and fostering relationships. At the time I was horrified, because why are you texting our general counsel? Why are you calling someone up and asking them to opine on something that's just showed up on your radar?? This is business, we need to do business-y things in a business way!!!

It took me a long time to recognize what this approach bought him. He was terrible at data entry, yes. I don't think he once ever approved my vacation time, just said "sure, put your out of office message on." (He hated approving vacation time, so he just....didn't.) But he was looped in, hooked in, always consulted. Everyone picked up his calls, because if he was calling it wasn't going to be a haranguing, he wanted to work with you to achieve both your goals, and honestly? you could call him out of the blue too. It worked both ways. He was crystal clear when things were handed down from the top (usually because we'd get a beer and he'd complain about it) and when requests were coming from him/our team. And he was always, always very clear that we were his people, and it was Us against The Company; he was consistently, unequivocally and completely on our side.

(........this did not stop The Company from pulling its shenanigans, but it always felt like he was siding with Us when it did.)

I know this, because now I'm in an organization where my boss isn't on our side, where things aren't explained---even when explanations would make the boss' requests more reasonable. I'm aware of other situations too, where members of the team have been what seems like deliberately insulted or attacked by our boss, which is frankly unnecessary.

I don't have a conclusion to draw from all of this, and god knows that bad bosses are ten a penny, each terrible in their own way. Still, I do think about it more and more, particularly as I stare down 1 year with the company.

[waugh-bao]

[crassussativum]

@turianspeedjunkie

Siska had bought down all the blankets and pillows he could find. He wanted Cato to be able to build a proper nest, it had seemed important to the boy. So he put them all on the bed and went into the shower. Only stopping long enough to pull Cato into his arms on the way there, and give him a long kiss. He couldn't get those tones out of his head and Siska did a deep dive among his memories as he stood in the shower, cleaning off today's mishap.

He found it in a box he'd stashed away, labeled private, secret, dreams. The first time he told Dius he loved him.

Siska came out of the shower a few minutes later, got into the soft clothes Cato had put out for him. Face deep in thought, he padded on soft feet out to see what the boy had built.

......

Siska had more blankets and pillows than Cato would have thought and at some point, he promised himself, he'd go see what other neat things were in the attic. But not now. Now, he was busy arranging said pillows and blankets.

He fluffed the pillows to make them softer and made sure that only the softest blankets were near the center of the nest where they would lay. Cato purred to himself as he worked, making everything perfect and comfortable and just right. He'd never made a nest to share before, not in the same context. He'd made them with friends and family, little places to curl up and nap or just snuggle and talk.

This nest was different though. It was to show Siska that he loved him.

[lukas-broken-bow]

this is the face of a man facing the consequences of his actions

[janmisali]

Number Tournament: THIRTEEN vs BETH-ONE

13 (thirteen)

seed: 12 (40 nominations)

class: prime number

definition: a number so unlucky it just barely missed out on being its own seed value

beth-one (the cardinality of the continuum)

seed: 53 (8 nominations)

class: infinite cardinal

definition: "infinity" in the sense of "the number of real numbers", the most famous form of uncountable infinity

[sincerely-sofie]

You're scared you'll never care about someone. You're scared you never have. You don't know how much love is held in your chest. You never will.

[isa-ah]

what are the idiots going turbo racist going to do if it turns out this election was fucked on the back end and all of these numbers are bullshit?