#jabberwockypie

[sroloc--elbisivni]

In the Mushroomverse, do you think Ratbat tries to visit Spike again?

ooh! EXCELLENT question, excuse me while I dig through my brain for the thoughts I was having during ratbat fic. i think not at home--soundwave gave him a pretty stern lecture on the topic and kept a VERY close eye on him afterwards. the thought I do remember having about soundwave and ratbat and spike was that in some vaguely cooperative future soundwave finds daniel wandering alone and brings him back to spike and goes 'we're even now.' i think ratbat would visit spike of his own volition if he could get away with it but there would have to be a pretty big paradigm shift for soundwave to let him get away with it. he doesn't even know WHY he likes spike, he just does.

[pendragyn]

bit of dash serendipity I had to share

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

There is a little fly percolating in the air. He wants to land on a shitty croissant and stick his proboscis in it and liquefy it and eat it make a billion fly babies.

God!

God, please, save us from these creatures!

[the-haiku-bot]

“When I’m in pain, I

think about how badly I

want the pain to stop”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Do any of my chronic illness peeps know what the "right" answers are on the "Pain Catastrophizing Scale", so that they take you seriously but don't recommend you Do Meditation About It?

I hadn't encountered this one before doing the pre-check-in for my back appointment tomorrow, but the name feels kind of dismissive.

Because - if you're in more pain than usual, especially from something that hasn't been properly diagnosed or treated - I think it's pretty reasonable to be like "I'm worried my pain is going to continue being worse on average in ways that impact my life and and limit my ability to function".

Also the person who wrote this question:

"When I'm in pain, I think about how badly I want the pain to stop"

should feel bad and perhaps have a comically large cartoon safe dropped on them from a great height.

[arinrowan]

I was getting groceries when I saw this and the authorities ( @jabberwockypie ) told me I had to share it with the internet. Yes, those are hand prints in the second photo; stylistic choice or not, the paint looked chalky and clumpy. Not sure why someone who spent that much money on a cybertruck wouldn't pay for it to be painted professionally. Or buy a car that came pre-painted.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Honestly it's INSANELY funny that a post is going around rn about the Life of Faith dolls cause I remember when they were being sold. My conservative Christian mom even said "Hmm. That might be a bit culty for us. Also the Elsie Dinsmore books are racist trash," bought me a pretty journal from the local Christian bookstore, and that was that. Me and my friend Annie did a deep-dive on them a few months back just in our own DMs so for those curious about how bad this gets, here's some fun facts:

The company was started by Christian Homeschoolers™ (not "homeschoolers who are christian." Christian Homeschoolers and all the stereotypes that entails) in the mid-90s but went bankrupt in 2010. They based them around the old Elsie Dinsmore books, starring a girl who was so pious she would rather die than not pray to God or smth like that. The dolls hands can be clasped in prayer and they all came with mini Bibles

The dolls were Elsie Dinsmore, the daughter of a fucking plantation owner; Millie Keith, her cousin whose doll was a clear ripoff of Kirsten Larson; Violet Travilla, Elsie's daughter; Laylie Colbert, a fucking slave doll (but it's ok because the white girls converted her to Christianity); and Kathleen McKenzie, a Great Depression bitch.

This is a screencap from the defunct official site. Note how only Laylie looks like she could be from pre-90s LMAO.

Elsie Dinsmore books were originally published between 1867-1905. They are generally considered so bad that even hardcore Evangelicals consider them boring at best. The doll line EDITED the books to be less racist actually. Yes, the doll line that calls the slaves "Plantation-Dwellers" actually edited racist shit out of the books. I recall a bit where Elsie told a slave girl that she would be white in Heaven. They also cut out a bit where her Dad beats her with a riding crop.

Yes, she does marry her Dad's Friend. They did not cut this part out.

DINSMORE, YOU BRUTE

Millie's books were somehow both more and less racist. Millie and her family were abolitionists who helped runaway slaves but also one of her brothers marries a Mexican girl after the two of them were, and I quote, "captured by Indians and presumed dead."

IIRC, Elsie and Violet happen to be in Europe when the Civil War happens and they just kinda stay there to avoid the consequences of their actions. When they come back they are threatened by the KKK but I don't remember why. I DO remember that they spent Elsie's money on rebuilding plantations, because clearly THAT is where our priorities have to lie

The Violet and Laylie books are fanfiction. I don't think Kathleen's have anything to do with Elsie at all.

Oh, did I say books? Laylie only got one book, one nightgown, and some accessories for her collection. Kathleen, who was released a year later, got a shitton of stuff. Like, a mountain of stuff. I wonder what the difference between them is

I'm pretty sure Laylie's book does involve her escaping slavery but I never read it so idk. I do know that it plays heavily into Millie as her White Savior™ teaching her about God and how to read or whatever. I think Millie also teaches her about abolition which is fucking wild. Imagine a white girl explaining abolition to a slave

It's like they took everything American Girl did right when making Addy and said "we need to do the opposite of all of this"

Kathleen is both a ripoff of American Girl's Kit Kittredge and Girls of Many Lands's Kathleen (yep, same name and appearance).

The reason this line exists is the original Christian Homeschoolers considered American Girl to be pro-lesbian and pro-abortion. No American Girl didnt have any references to homosexuality or abortion at the time. Their first canon queer characters were in 2021 (Kira's gay aunts). As @jabberwockypie put it, everyone flipped out because AG partnered with Girls Inc "to fund after-school science programs and stuff" and god forbid, amirite?

And, yes, the red eye defect persists. It is SO funny

Here's an archived site about the collection, and another post about it by @dollysattictreasures. Anyway if anyone was given a Laylie doll as a child by your overly-religious parents, go give her a hug for me. And a gun

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

American Girl Doll Catalogue featuring Addy Walker

1993-1994 (thank you @jabberwockypie for the info!!!)

found on ebay, user cityontherock

[lynati]

I HAVE BEEN PUNK'D IN MY OWN HOME WITH A HIDDEN CRITTER! OH HOW THE TURN-TABLES!!!

@jabberwockypie how dare. How daaaaaare!!!!!!!1!?!!!

*continues to squee over the TOH King plushie I just found under my pillow*

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

https://www.tumblr.com/bigboysdrinkmilk/751215316166688768/they-are-in-fact-in-the-room-with-us-right

https://www.tumblr.com/jabberwockypie/754833015865212928/struggling-with-how-to-word-this-but-putting-it

It’s not “gargling his cock and balls” to say that the administration has actually done good things and to say it’s disingenuous to pretend they’ve done absolutely nothing. I fucking hate bidens ass, that doesn’t mean the people that work for him have done nothing. I would much rather someone like Bernie Sanders or AOC be running. I wish third parties were at all viable (it happening 80 years ago doesnt matter). Hell, at this point i wish this shitty government itself would collapse but that cant happen without it leading to countless preventable deaths because infrastructure, including making sure hospitals and pharmacies are well supplied, is so important.

“it’s a lie to say he hasn’t done good things! He’s done good things! I can name none of them but he’s done good things!!”

[thebisexualmandalorian]

@jabberwockypie reblogged Blackadder Goes Forth and now I'm crying on my couch

[carriesthewind]

Continuing to feel grumpy due to moving (and re-reading terrible, infuriating caselaw), so Flamethrower snark below the cut, feel free to skip.

So let's open up google in a new private window (to avoid biasing my search results toward legal sources). Search "allegation".

First result: Google's default on-page answer, sourced from Oxford Languages.

I'm going to skip this one in my final count b/c you shouldn't trust google's default answers, kids. It's just here for completeness.

Second result: the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Third result: the Cambridge Dictionary.

[Due to the page formatting, the different definitions won't fit into a single screenshot, so I am putting them in separate screenshots below and skipping the examples]

Fourth Result: Dictionary.com

Fifth result: Vocabulary.com

Sixth result: Cornell's Legal Information Institute

SEVENTH RESULT, WE FOUND IT: Collin's Dictionary

...hey wait that's not what her screenshot says.

hmmm.

Let's scroll down...

...past the examples...

...past the multiple video pronunciations...

...past the "You May Also Like"....

oh hey there it is!

...wait except where did that fourth definition go in her screenshot.

Just. My god. Even assuming that she already had Collin's definition bookmarked or her google search was different and she didn't scroll past five separate entries to find a definition that she could crop, she still had to scroll past another definition and several screens of videos and ads to crop this screenshot, which again, she literally had to crop to prevent even the suggestion that an allegation doesn't mean "a fake statement no one can prove."

P.S. It's especially funny b/c she keeps putting on this veil of legal authority and she specifically crops out the legal definition. Also, where's my citation to the U.S. Code to tell me what "FEDERAL CRIMES" she alleges have been committed.

P.S.S. the reason people use "allegations" is because many of us are referring to incidents we did not personally observe and that have not been proven to a legal standard. This is partially out of habit of concerns about legal threats, but mostly (at least in my case), out of a concern for precision of language: I believe that she abused jabberwockypie. I say these are allegations, however, because I do not feel comfortable claiming personal knowledge of their veracity. For example, I do not allege that she is currently behaving in an abusive way toward her followers (e.g. the way she is engaging with and presenting anon hate): I assert it because it is a claim I have the personal knowledge and experience to back up. Furthermore, even by the highest legal standard (in the american legal system), no more proof is needed to "prove" an allegation than the testimony of a single witness. Jabberwockypie's word is the "proof" of her own allegations - whether you choose to believe that proof is up to you.

[obaewankenope]

@jabberwockypie!!!

[arinrowan]

Stars Sun and Moon Blanket

So, @jabberwockypie is a very skilled crafter who has made me several lovely things, including yugioh amigurumi. However, while she CAN crochet, it brings her little joy. So when she kept mentioning a sun moon and stars granny square blanket, I told her to send me the pattern and see what I could do.

The blanket had three colours we picked out together, a sparkly teal, a dark yellow, and a gold. For the stars, which were going to be the dominant square, went with 8 yellow, 4 gold.

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

American Girl Doll Molly McIntire's Radio

mid 1990s-early 2000s (does anyone know the year this was released?) EDIT: @jabberwockypie THANK YOU! They provided the information that this was introduced in 1994, retired in 2005.

Found on Ebay, user Rhartman86-1

[lynati]

Placing the whiteboard so that it was covering the bathroom sink was certainly an effective way of ensuring I'd see it, @jabberwockypie . Deeply confusing to encounter at 6:30am when my brain didn't want to parse what letters are, but effective nonetheless.

And wow, that *was* a lot of ants. >:P

[fruit-kick]

[Image description: set of screenshots of posts from multiple platforms. the first one in the set is a tweet by @/catbakewell, display name "Cat Bakewell", it reads "How the author sees the book vs. How the reader sees the book" and it's followed by two photos of an embroidery's back and front. The back is messy while the front shows a neat, heart-shaped floral pattern.

The second one in the set is a tweet by @/eliciadonze, display name "elicia donze". It reads "People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art."

The third one in the set is a tumblr post by goldhornsandblackwool. it reads "pretty awful how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviours

so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives'."

sonateharder reblogs with "I know I've posted this before, but it bears repeating.

This is a thing humans do; you don't have to be good at it to enjoy it."

The fourth one in the set is from a facebook page called "Writing About Writing". It posts a screenshot of a tweet by @/MaryRobinette, display name "Mary Robinette Kowal". It reads

"Me, talking a writer down from impostor syndrome: How long have you been writing?

Them: Three years.

Me: And how old are you?

Them: 28.

Me: Okay. So you're a level 28 human and a level 3 writer.

How good were you as a level 3 human?

Them: Ooooooooh.

The fifth one in the set is a tumblr post by brainstatic. It reads "The key to getting over impostor syndrome is to know everyone else is an imposter too. Tell yourself you deserve a stake in the scam they're all running."

smitethepatriarchy reblogs with "Ummmm excuse me but this is fucking brilliant."

drst responds "Did you just cure imposter syndrome with... spite?"

finally, jabberwockypie ends with "You can cure a LOT with spite."

The sixth one in the set is a tumblr post by write-on-world. It's a screenshot of a tweet by @/dangerouswco, display name "Dangerous Woman ®" It reads "Whatever you think you can't do, just know that there is someone who is confidently doing it wrong right now. They have no plans at doing it better either and people are paying them to do it. Please believe in your own excellence as much as they believe in their mediocrity."

It's caption reads "Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)"

12b6 reblogs with "as a lawyer who's been practicing for six years now I can say with certainty that this 100% applies to lawyers"

johanna-swann ends with "Me: My writing is so bad. :(

Meanwhile at Disney: Somehow, Palpatine has returned."

The seventh one in the set is a tumblr post by stuffman. It shows a 2 panel digital comic, the first panel is called "THE ARTIST" and it shows a frowning stick figure putting a cake on a table with another cake and saying, "aw man that guy's cake is way better than mine" The second panel is called "THE AUDIENCE" and it shows another stick figure holding a knife and fork with a grin, saying "HOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!" the caption reads "People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I'd get right to the heart of the matter"

pervocracy reblogs with "This is 1000% more motivating than every preachy 'real writers write every day' post on all of Tumblr."

The eighth one in the set is a comic by DARTHALINE. someone makes a post labelled "og (original) post" saying "i made a cake!" followed by a picture of a 2 layered cake. a comment labelled "comment 1" reads "omg i love how elaborate the frosting on this is, your decorating skills are off the charts!" while another person labelled "comment 2" simply reads "<3 (heart emoticon)". the second commenter then says "Aw man / That guy's comment is much more thoughtful than mine" with a worried expression. The original poster only grins and says "Holy shit! Two comments!"

The ninth one in the set is a tumblr post by thesnadger. It reads "When I was in school, one of my art teachers used to say 'this world needs more creators. There's more than enough destroyers in the world today.'

Just a reminder, if you create anything-art, writing, food, machines, ideas, equations, knits, tools, gardens-the world needs you." sylviawitch reblogs with "This makes me happy.

Happy creating, everyone" /end id]

a collection of motivational insights regarding content creation and creative hobbies

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