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Several years ago, when my bbs were still actually babies, we rented a cabin for a week with my parents, my baby brother, and my sister in the Appalachian mountains.
It's late at night, and I head upstairs to pop my head in to make sure all the pocket-sized ones are still asleep and don't need anything.
1st step - Oh hey, a shadow
2nd step - Kinda weird that on this entire stair case only one riser has a shadow
3rd step - Also too, based on light directionality, that shadow is totally wrong
4th step - Is that a sock stuck there through static cling?
5th step - Is that a face?
6th step - Are those WINGS???
7th step - Is that a motherfucking BAT staring directly at me???
6th step - That is very definitely a motherfucking BAT staring directly at me
5th step - oh god
4th step - oh shit
3rd step - oh fuck
2nd step - oh god oh shit oh fuck
1st step - ohgodohshitohfuckohgodohshitohfuckohgodohshitohfuck
At the bottom of the stairs, I'm trying to regroup and figure out what the hell to do, the most basic, rudimentary, non-standard life skills I knew at this point in my life came from my girl scout years lost in the mists of time, and very most definitely included no knowledge on what to do if confronted by a motherfucking BAT.
Things I vaguely knew about bats*, gleaned by osmosis through pop culture a) bats hate bright light b) they prefer to avoid people c) bats hate loud noises d) bats carry rabies 5) bats are probably definitely nocturnal supernatural creatures from Transylvania
Conclusion: This bat has been hanging out in this brightly lit stairwell, just chilling while the constant bedlam only small children can produce rages around him. This bat is not WELL, he is not RIGHT, he is going to give us all the rabies and grin while doing so.
I'm trying to alert my mom and brother to the situation unfolding without startling the bat and setting it off, so I'm emphatically whispering it at them. My mom has had a couple of glasses of wine at this point though, so she isn't picking up what I'm putting down, and I keep repeating myself to the point I'm whisper screaming at her and and whisper hysterically laughing, because at this point my emotional responses have done what I already should have, which is to say, fucked right off.
I grab her arm in exasperation to lead her to the stairs and point at it and she just. doesn't. see. it. I have to lead her up to the 5th step before she finally sees it at which point she yells "Hey it's a bat!" And I whisper scream "What are you doing? Are you trying to get us rabies-bat-murdered?!?!?"
I go to the kitchen to look up Animal Control, and I hear her and my brother discussing strategies for getting rid of it. I'm trying to tell them to let Animal Control deal with it, but for whatever reason they've decided to stand their ground against the bat (the reason is wine).
Their weapons of choice? A WICKER BREAD BASKET AND A COAT HANGER.
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So once I've realized how committed they are to this terribly stupid course, I just ask them to wait long enough for me to barricade my kids in their rooms, because unlike their grandmother and uncle***, I am not here for toddlers getting rabies-bat-murdered.
We're locked away, and I hear crashing, thumping, and shouting going on, and after eons later my brother came to tell me they got it. Evidently they managed to get it in the basket and sling it out an open window, at which point they heard a tiny plop from the driveway. However, the next morning the driveway was empty. No doubt that to this day that bat is planning his rabies-bat-murdery revenge.
This is also the trip where the moment I got home, I had to immediately turn around and go back, because my daughter left her special teddy bear there, a 5 hour round trip.
*This is in no way scientific or accurate, and I'm pretty sure I Mandela effected most of it.
**Not the actual items in question, just a reference.
***Their grandmother was probably not there for toddlers getting rabies-bat-murdered. She was there for getting back to her very first ever episode of Criminal Minds. Their poor beleaguered uncle was there for minimizing the absolute fuckery that inevitably ensues when Oma gets an idea.
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#my art#fan art#what we do in the shadows#wwdits#nandor the relentless#monster high#draculaura#mh g3#redrew an oldie#bc I didn't like it the first time and now I love it#she's older than him by like 900 years#but she's NICER and also not afraid to break societal norms that would prevent her from dating a certain group of ppl#and also they're friends#they probably wouldn't be friends#but i think they could talk about how lonely it can get. living for so long. until you meet the right group of people#i think they would tell anecdotes to each other. once Nandor got past the silly relentless warrior act. and she finally got to talk to-#someone closer to her age that didn't look down on her#idk man I just think about characters so much. I want them all to be buddies#AND ALSO THEYRE BOTH ASIAN YAY
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here's an update for all the "tOuRiSm iS fOr ThE pEoPlE" fucks. always remember that the second anyone steps foot on that land in the name of "tourism" or any other haole institution, that is colonizing&that person is a fucking explicit modern colonizer who made the conscious decision to be one and has spent a lot of fucking money on that trip to get their title. only that kine want more of their kin there-- don't pretend that shit is for anyone else.
drop dead of spontaneous combustion specifically, not even the sharks would want that pīlau fucking meat.
#video footage of haole families already in burnt wasteland is so fucking dystopic its almost funny#'funny' in the way of 'i might have rabies bc im foaming at the mouth lol'. bc fuck if i wouldnt literally#rip these ppl to fucking shreds. god bless whoever took the pics&vids bc i couldnt havd held my tongue.#you know we're all fucked when the governor is holding private back-chamber business-only meetings#to decide to open a fire wasteland two months after 1000+ ppl were killed&where ppl are still looking for remains to tourism#&it honestly seems so much less disgusting bc theres literally footage of haole families already disregarding any form of boundaries.#like this is what we've come to lmao.#i have so. much. violence. in me&no where to put it lmao. i want to go home. i miss home so bad. i am so fucking homesick.#i think the next person who responds to finding out im from hawaii w anecdotes of their trip there will probably get knocked out.#like i dont actually think i should be held responsible for that first hit. anything after is fair game tho i guess.#undescribed
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Your resume should include any relevant work experience and skills you have and it's good to include your volunteer work and internships (ideally four of them) as well as your multiple graduate degrees and the certifications you've earned during the process, and also your resume can only be one page in a font that's easy to read. This field is hard to break into because we have a lot of applicants for not a lot of openings and we'll keep them open for years until we find the perfect candidate. A great way to distinguish yourself is by taking any adjacent job you can find even if it means you have to work two or three part time jobs to make ends meet until a new opening is made. It's also good to tailor your resume to the companies and jobs you're applying for so that they know you researched the role and didn't send out mass applications, and oh, I highly, highly recommend that you keep your resume updated and a digital copy on hand so that you can email it to people at a moment's notice because it's good to keep an eye out for opportunities as they come up. Everyone around you has a master's degree and it's basically the new bachelor's and a PhD is the new master's and we really like seeing several years of work experience because there's a lot of stuff you can't learn in a classroom setting. It's a great field and I love working in it and you should pursue it if you're passionate about it!
#anecdotes by peachdoxie#i just came from a career seminar and i am feeling very cynical#this is about a specific field i won't mention for privacy ig but I'm sure it's widely applicable#some of this advice felt very contradictory#like how can a resume be so short and yet there's about eight gazillion things you can do to strengthen it#where is it all supposed to go???#no shade meant to the presenter btw she was very nice and informative about how to get jobs in this particular industry#but tee bee aech it is depressing
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I'm gonna be REAL honest right now: is there like. ANY proof that websites are censoring "naughty words" and thus you NEED to use the childish tiktok censored replacements, or is it all anecdotal?
I constantly see people claim that they've gotten shadowbanned for not self censoring and people claiming that it's not true and that the posts just flopped and the topic is just a whole mess.
Like, I am clearly of the mind that self censorship like this is bad. End of story. I'm not going to censor the words I say with childish sound-alikes to potentially "make the algorithm happy" and I'm sure as fuck not saying those words in real life because that would just make me look like a fool. I can prove the position of "this self-censorship of difficult topics is harmful", but I constantly see the claims of "shadow bans" being tossed around with very little proof on if shadow bans are happening at all, much less that it specifically happens to people who didn't self-censor suicide to "sewerslide".
#simon says#i have so much more to say about the topic#like specifically about youtube#because half the time it's like 'there's no fucking way you're getting demonitized for that'#and the other half of the time it's like 'there's no fucking way you thought this topic would be monitized whatsoever.'#sometimes i was a video about overconsumption in the modern age and they self censor when there is no fucking reason to#and othertimes I see a video about a topic that simply will not be advertiser friendly that people will self censor in an attempt to appease#to appease the advertisers#like the self-censorship of difficult topics is bad hands down#but I see the terms shadow banned being thrown around randomly and I have no fucking proof for that#shadow banned can mean anything from being banned from using certain features on the site to just having your videos flopping#and I like#need a consistent definition and PROOF that it is happening#like outside of anecdotal where we can't decide on what shadowbanned even means
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idk if i think gender is "a choice" or not (thinking abt it just gives me a headache) but i do think the idea of it being a choice would be less of a problem if culturally we had any respect for people's choices. like no i shouldn't need to justify anything. maybe it is true that i couldn't change this if i tried (have tried before). but that shouldn't matter. i chose this and that should be enough.
#POST#if you don't 'get it' that's cool but hinging all your respect on things that can be proven is just inhumane#especially when 'proof' as it's treated these days is so nebulous and generally opinionated#it's not about biological facts or statistical facts or anecdotes or anything it's about meeting some arbitrary#cultural standard of 'thing i can't argue with anymore' which doesn't mean anything wrt objectivity at all#you shouldn't feel compelled to argue it in the first place. whatever
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what’s there not to understand about hypomania? you know when you get overtired, and like a toddler, you get all hyperactive and also want to cry or do Every Fun Thing you can think of and it actually becomes harder to sleep? like as a result of too much overwhelm or being so emotionally exhausted that’s how your body makes you able to cope, the aftereffects of too much adrenaline? just imagine being stuck like that. and every day it triggers itself more, overload of emotional whiplash and energy and you’ve lost all ability to think rationally and you can do anything at this point, because why not? you’ve got nothing left in you to hold back on any idea that could be exciting and stop you from falling into the void where the wiredness you feel has nothing to latch onto to burn off that nervous energy in a positive way, emotionally. for days or weeks or months on end. you don’t need to have ever experienced this fully to extrapolate and be like. yeah. I can see how it would suck eventually to get stuck like that
#at this point I’m begging people to see the overlap with adhd too bc anecdotally it seems like everyone I know also has that#and the overlap with bpd and hpd but I think the main difference is. being stuck in that high energy state. even when the energy turns sad#and bitter and hopeless. it’s essentially just overstimulation from your own brain. gets stuck overstimulating itself to cope maybe?#like i know people say it’s not triggered by life events but they sometimes can trigger it. but imho depression is gonna trigger it too#eventually. anything where everything is Too Much can start the positive feedback loop that’s almost impossible to turn off#which if you don’t know what a positive feedback loop is. means smth triggers smth which goes back and triggers its original trigger#thus getting bigger and bigger in magnitude. it’s like the chicken and the egg. egg makes chicken and chicken makes egg. more egg more#chicken and more chicken more egg. as opposed to a negative feedback loop which by the time there gets enough of smth it stops triggering#making more of it. your body relies on negative feedback loops for smth called homeostasis which is basically keeping everything stable#so obv positive feedback loops are gonna do the opposite of stable. in this case for your energy and your mood#most people are able to sleep better when they’re tired. my hypothesis of hypomania is when being tired makes you less able to rest#and that obviously spirals in on itself. mania would just be an extension of that I guess? but in some people it does happen really fast so#I get the narrative that it’s a chemical imbalance bc it is. but the specific imbalance being the tendency to a positive feedback loop make#more sense to me too. and can be why predictability and external cycles to ground yourself to are so important#there’s also never a 0% chance of you ever having a manic episode btw. anyones brain can theoretically get into this loop it’s just that if#you’re genetically predisposed to bipolar you’re much more likely to! and that’s okay. you can manage it with meds and lifestyle#but it makes sense why lowering stress (which can trigger this cycle) is such an important part of treatment and management#anyway. hopefully I’m not like. horribly horribly wrong or smth. in the end I can only speak for my experience so lmk if I’m missing smth#bipolar awareness#bipolar 2#hypomania#personal mental health tag#neurodivergence#would you believe I was reminiscing about a concert I went to once. and it made me think of all this
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Holy fucking shit dude. I just finished reading your phobophobia fic series and it was absolutely jaw dropping. The way you write in general is amazing, but your usage of words, the way you write reader, the way this reads like a whole fucking book, the foreshadowing (get it.), the plot twists... everything, it was perfect. This like- genuinely changed my life and is now in my top five favorite works of written creative media. This also hit so hard because I've also recently went through something traumatic where I started doubting my mind and memory and I felt reader when she was upset about that, I was having the same thoughts. This story was absolutely phenomenal. Im planning on going thru all the chapters and reblogging them all, I was too busy craving the next chapter to interact 😭 but this seriously deserve SO MUCH MORE ATTENTION. SO MUCH. I've been craving and an angsty, lengthy, logan x reader fic since August, when I got into his character. This was everything I wanted and more. You slayed the fucking boots down.
sorry for yapping so much girl i just needed to get it out I texted all my fic reading friends about this fic 😭💗
YOU ARE THE SWEETEST <33333
im so embarrassed to say how long it took me to get the foreshadowing joke i feel like the unfunny court jester ;–;
BUT, thank you so much!!!!! i did some research after reading this ask and found out that Phobophobia is longer than the original ACOTAR books (each book, not altogether) which is WILD to think about, it did not feel that long when i was writing it. so congrats those who stuck with it and read the whole thing, you've just read the equivalent of an over-average wordcount novel 👏 average novel wordcount is between 70k to 100k and Phobophobia, not including the oneshot, was 146k... GOOD JOB TEAM <3
i think one of the most gratifying parts of writing fics and posting them is to almost keep a chronological log of how writers have improved over time. comparing Phobophobia to like, my first ever fic (on a different blog) is so crazy. im so blown away by the reception to the fic as well, and so honoured to be in your top five, FIVE, favourite pieces of written creative media. i. am. CRYING. five is a very small number and im there? me? little can-barely-keep-herself-together-and-cries-when-she-has-to-go-to-work me???? deceased. on the floor. ascended.
as thrilled as i am you were able to find kinship with Firefly, and relate to her character, i sincerely hope you're doing okay now, and i'm so sorry you went through something traumatic that had you doubting your memory. whilst i haven't personally experienced doubting my own mind and memories, i can only imagine how terrifying it must be to lose faith in something so integral to our lives, and whilst i'm over the moon i could accurately portray a person's reaction to such a thing and that i could perhaps provide some companionship in feeling such a way, i truly hope you're alright <3
i have another just as angsty, actually probably more angsty long-fic in the works at the moment, which i think will be just as long, perhaps longer than Phobophobia (oopsies) and im so excited to start sharing that with everyone as well :D
PLEASE DO NOT APOLOGISE FOR YAPPING!!!!! i might have to put it in my rules that nobody is allowed to apologise for yapping. yapping apology rights REVOKED. i am a certified yapper. fluent in Yappanese, some may say, if you couldn't tell from the length of my own response :') in fact, you slayed the boots down with your yapping. Graduated with distinction from the University of Yapford, congratulations <3
#essa's inbox#the lovelies#lovely anon<3#pls i am incapable of giving short responses to literally anything#ask me a yes or no question and you better buckle up#cuz i'll have an anecdote or story to tell ya#ask for my opinion?#prepared to receive a powerpoint presentation#want me to write up a performance review?#get ready for this 8k word dissertation#i can yap for hours#days even#so fret not#there is kinship in yapping
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god i miss when the internet wasn't garbage. you can't google anything these days without whatever answer you're looking for getting lost under a deluge of seo ai bullshit. cannot wait until the bubble pops and we might get useable search engines again.
#and yes. reddit is OFTEN a decent place to find those sorts of answers#but not always#like i just wanted to find out if theres any data on animals cracking their joints#and if not. why are humans so special in doing that?#i can get anecdotal evidence from reddit but nothing from actual experts#all the articles i got online were so obviously ai#they never named sources just 'a behavioral expert said this' and 'a vet said that'#which. if you wont even tell me those supposed experts' names i am SUSPICIOUS
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pick three teams you absolutely do not fuck with.
give them new captains, must be someone who is actually on that team.
go!
This was a genuinely hard question because I do Not know these people.
I am making Trevor the ducks' captain. I am not sure if he is captain material but I do think 1) he thrives in the spotlight 2) it would add drama to the situation and while I wish him the best, from my seat on the trenches it would be interesting to see unravel
I am removing Connor from his seat and giving it to Jeff Skinner. This would probably be a poisoned apple situation but I think k that team might benefit from listening to HSM in the locker room.
Make stamkos the preds captain, just because. I was going to say my mortal enemy (RoR) but I think stamkos deserves the captaincy after being booted so terribly fuck the lightning
#icymi: RoR is my mortal enemy because I got him on fantasy because I liked him and the he flipped every time I played him#notable anecdote: if I seat RoR do you think he'll get a hat trick? HE GOT A FUCKING HAT TRICK. HE WAS ON THE BENCH#so yeah that's it#asks#really fun thank you!
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I just finished watching mina le's new video on sportswear and WAG culture and aesthetics and I think it was a really good look into those subcultures... AND there's a lexi lafleur mention :)
#it doesn't focus too much on hockey WAGs but honestly I'm kind of grateful for that#nor does it get too into women who are actually into sports but instead focuses on people who just use sports as an aesthetic#and why that may be#also I found her anecdote about learning a lot of blondes aren't actually naturally blonde to be really interesting haha#I feel like it's pretty easy to tell a natural blonde tone from a bleached one especially with how light a lot of women like to go#compared to their skin tone you know?#but also maybe that's just. from growing up in the midwest lol#so many blondes
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Workforce Tuvok is my cringefail babygirl
#why are you a Vulcan suffering from dysphoria syndrome?? So you can get held down by other men???#I really want to know what 'humorous anecdotes' he had to share.....I love him so much#I love that without his Vulcan discipline he becomes even more clearly annoying <3<3 explaining a joke TO the guy who TOLD IT to him#+ laughing SUPER hard at someone else being 'humiliated'#Also Janeway looooves being romantically quirky in an old romance movie way and idk how else to describe it#Neelix: If I had a tarynian nickle for everytime I had to rehabilitate a friend who'd lost all their memories I'd have two nickles#which isn't a lot but-#st voyager memes#bea art tag#OH! Janeway seems like she's two seconds away from swinging herself around a lamp post in the rain with a dazzling smile on her face#Workforce Tuvok (and thus normal Tuvok) contains so many multitudes...he is SO friendly he is VERY annoying he is SCARED of needles#he is OFF putting and PUSHY and he is KIND <3#He seems like if I made a mistake he'd VERY loudly laugh and point it out but also help me correct it while telling a story about himself#Literally a CRIME that Tuvok and Neelix didn't interact in this ep they would've become buds#another crime is that Tuvok does nothing in the second half of the episode v_v not even a little 'ribbon scene' at the end#Janeway: Thank you so much Chakotay and only Chakotay for helping get us all out of there <3#Tuvok in the background: ..........................................................................................#the 'ribbon scene' would have been between him and Seven - she completed the research he started v_v
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jonathan byers . boy oh boy now THAT is a Character
#the kind of character tht makes u slap ur hand against ur forehead irl and sigh deeply bc he's just so Character#i saw a meme abt the kinds of pics tht parents tag u in (aka they're always ur worst ones ever) nd thought abt how will would never have tht#problem bc well . the thing abt having blorbo in my brain disease is tht there are blorbos in ur brain. whether u want them there or not#so tht is my aneceote for today you are so welcome 🤝#also would anyone like to get me a bag of family size takis btw. is that a thing anyone can do 😁#wait wtf is an aneceote 😭😭😭😭😭 anecdote. dear god mobile typing will be the death of me
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Like I was expecting the graphic novel to be somewhere between "cute fun ghost of the week story with no lasting consequences" and "pretty good ngl" but instead we got "MY CROPS ARE WATERED MY SKIN IS CLEAR THIS HEALED ME" and I'm still astounded at that
#anecdotes by peachdoxie#agit#agit spoilers#a glitch in time#danny phantom#im not really sure how to express how much i love it without using memes and all caps so that's what you get right now
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So, Caroline isn't a mom that cooks which is its own, whole point of discussion (hello summer of competative EDs) but, keeping with the rigid expectations of their respective genders, I would argue:
Logan was not a dad who drives.
And I shit you not, I got thinking about this after catching an old How I Met Your Mother episode on TV, where they go on this side tangent about feeling safe as a child when your father was driving at night. I get that feeling still (though it is with my other parent), so it might be relatable to quite a few other people as well.
BUT anytime Logan Roy is in a car he is
a) next to his children on the backseat, because they are "being driven" aka the safety is outsourced to someone doing it for money and
b) inspiring mostly terror: making Kendall come to the waiter's family with him and giving him that whole speech, confronting Roman about the punch that didn't happen without giving him a chance to leave the situation, dragging Shiv deeper into Waystar and away from herself (an image that is paralleled by Tom in the end)
Also, I'm trying to come up with times the Roys are in the literal drivers seat and the three that stand out are obviously Kendall's accident as the very opposite of safety and responsibility, Kendall asking for a motorcycle and being given one with a driver (lol), AND Roman picking up Kendall in Austerlitz which might actually be the only positive example, because it is motivated by wanting to help out despite it possibly fucking with a business call + it happens at night (which accidentally aligns perfectly with the himym thing)
#weirdest overlap of media to date imo#succession driving motif? idk#is connor ever in a car? stuff to think about i guess#i also feel the need to tell you i really really have come to hate how i met your mother so please don't doubt my taste okay#but that one anecdote really gets me everytime#succession#kendall roy#logan roy#roman roy#shiv roy
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There is something genuinely precious to appreciate in someone looking at a post with over 30,000 notes and thinking that they MUST tell me that fall damage caps in 5e, and that no one else but special them in those 30,000 notes has mentioned this before.
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