#won't you have a drink?

[yuwuta]

whenever you and satoru have an argument, he holds your hand and he won’t let go until he’s certain you’re not mad anymore. you’re telling him off because he forgot to unpack the dishwasher again, and he knows that’s his fault and you have a right to be mad but he hates when you’re mad and even worse when you’re mad at him, so he does the first thing that comes to mind and laces your hands together. now you can’t leave and be mad at him alone, you have to be mad at him while he’s connected to you and satoru has learned that that far reduces the amount of time you spend mad at him. getting upset because he led you two in the wrong direction? holding hands until you’ve cooled down. upset with him for being reckless mid-fight? he drops his infinity just to be close to you, holds your hand and tells you the curse can wait, he needs your forgiveness more. mad at him because he forgot something important on his way home? you’re holding hands until you forgive him—which could be all the way until you go to bed, or dragging you by your connected hands with him to the store to pick up what was forgotten. you get irritated with him in public? he’s quick to hold your hands and beg for kisses. sometimes the first years see you steaming and satoru following you like a lovesick puppy, his leash being your laced fingers and megumi just sighs and explain to yuuji and nobara that, “they’re fighting. this is their get along tactic, just leave them be.” 

[a-most-beloved-fool]

so... TOS characters were probably famous enough to have little kitschy souvenirs and such made of them & sold in starbases, yeah? novelty candies and the like?

because i'm imagining a crack-fic where spock (pining or feeling heartbroken) gets ahold of kirk-shaped chocolates and gets Very Drunk And Sad by eating them.

[mumblingsage]

Product Recommendation: Surviving the Respiratory Crud Edition

Various unpleasant viruses and stuff are going around, and I think I got the mild version - it's not COVID and in my case didn't even include a fever, just a ton of congestion and a nagging cough. It's been a week and I'm on the recovery upswing but still not there yet. The good news is I can forget, for hours at a time, that I'm ill, thanks to taking these products on the scheduled doses. And Robitussin wasn't lying when they said their raspberry is 'better tasting': it still tastes like cold medicine, but is strikingly palatable and minimally cloying (identical taste in both this and the longer-lasting nighttime formula). I can also attest it got me through my bought of COVID last year.

The Throat Coat sweet ginger fennel, meanwhile, is like candy. Naturally mentholated candy, which might feel a bit weird but in a very good way when it's simultaneous numbing your throat and cold-steaming open your sinuses (that's how it feels to me, anyway). Throat Coat does a tea that I'm enjoying, too, which doesn't taste like medicine at all but just a soothing, not-too-sweet but not-at-all-bitter herbal tea.

Anyway, this is a recommendation if you have the time and means to stock up before the crud gets you, and because it was a nice surprise to find cold medicine that's not only quickly effective but also tastes fine.

[mikami1992]

Bruce's Billionaire Cliche

You know what one of the clichés (real or from movies) about scandals of middle-aged or older millionaires is?

A spouse of the children's age…..

and you know who needs a story like that….

a Bruce Wayne of around 40 years old….

yep, think about it…

at that time Dick (the oldest son) must be between 25 and 30 years old…

but let's not write the classic story of love, action and saving the world of Bruce…

no, let's write about the reaction of the Batkids to discover the secret romance of their father with who they thought would be their new brother/sister…. yep, the chaos that would be if instead of an adoption certificate, they were shown a marriage certificate…

and of course let's not forget the reaction of the media about the new spouse….

[betweensaintsandmonsters]

okay okay vampire obi-wan and anemic human anakin who goes to be his meal at like a fancy vampire bistro that pays willing humans to "donate" blood (get bitten) and tastes like shit whomst obi-wan then tries to take care of (in all the ways he can from sunset to sunrise) first so his food tastes good (bc anakin keeps coming back) and then because he cares

sends cookbooks to his apartment, tries to get him to go to the doctor, sends him other little gifts when he sees thinks that make him think of anakin, obi-wan just like wants to take care of his boy because he's clearly not taking care of himself (he signed up to be vampire food so that much should have been obvious) and obi-wan just wants him well is that too much to ask?

they fight about this often. (first: "how did you get my address?" "It's on the form you filled out to be here" "invasion of privacy much?" then: "you could always just... choose someone else?" "and let another vampire suffer from your lack of self care? absolutely not."") ("i don't know why you're putting so much into this? "i must have nothing else to do.") ("if this bothers you so much... just let someone else feed off me." "no.")

anakin stops showing up to be dinner for a few weeks and obi-wan gets worried. but he's not sure how far he's allowed to go in his worry, they're technically just... predator and prey (though obi-wan wouldn't describe them like that) it's just that no one tastes like anakin (that's definitely it) and nobody sasses him like anakin, and nobody is anakin and anakin is missing and clearly if he's been gone this long he can't possibly be okay

(and obi-wan is right, anakin isn't okay. he's in the hospital with an arm that might need to be amputated (but it was obi-wan's favorite place to drink from since he won't touch anakin's neck for reasons he WON'T explain)

(if you asked obi-wan why he didn't bite anakin's neck to begin with, he'd heavily imply there's no reason, but when pressed, it would be that anakin let's out this breathy moan when he's bitten, and it's music to obi-wan's ears, a symphony to his soul, he doesn't think he'd survive it if that was right in his ear, he'd have to kiss the boy then and there, have to keep him, and he can't do that, so his neck is off limits. it is IMPERATIVE anakin does not know this)

and he's lost a lot of blood and he's suffering and not alone because ahsoka and padme keep visiting, but he doesn't know how much he misses obi-wan until he isn't seeing him)

so one night obi-wan goes to anakin's apartment to see he isn't there and hasn't been there in weeks based on sent, and panics because what if he drove his beautiful boy away, or what if someone went after him, and obi-wan can't go in bc vampire rules say he needs permission and also it's good manners.

eventually anakin comes back to him, sans one arm, apologetic because "i know that's where you liked to bite" as if that could possibly be the reason that obi-wan is as upset as he is when he comes in. "i'd understand if you need a different meal," he says, as if that's all he is when obi-wan refuses to bite him because for the first time, he looks fragile and that's heartbreaking

so anakin leaves and obi-wan is gobsmacked, flabberghasted, realized anakin waited to have this conversation as close to sunrise as possible so obi-wan couldn't follow him out of the bar, but he doesn't realize that his vampire would absolutely run into the sun for him (except quin and satine 1000% don't let him "that's not how you get your man, he doesn't want a pile of dust, where's that going to get you, man, think for just a fraction of a second")

so obi-wan send anakin more little gifts, things he can puzzle out one handed as he gets used to being an amputee, trinkets he might enjoy, notes that are meant to make him smile, or that say he'll find somewhere else to feed on the boy if that's going to get him to come back when nothing else has worked. all he wants is to let anakin know that he's he's appreciated, make him feel wanted and loved.

eventually anakin sends him a note back with his phone number and then texts him to come over. he makes obi-wan stand on his stoop for an excruciating amount of time and he gets a lecture about personal space, and respecting people's wishes and "it doesn't matter that you're 300 years old, some people just don't want anything to do with you!" and anakin tries to say all of this with a straight face, before he cracks because he misses obi-wan and it is an act, and he's been in love with this vampire since he decided it was his job to take care of one human that wasn't taking care of himself.

then anakin kisses him and gives him a goofy grin and asks "what are you doing just standing there?"

"are you inviting me in?"

"i guess i am. you're stuck with me though, i'm your problem now."

"darling, you've been my problem for a long time, and i wouldn't have it any other way."

and eventually they fuck, and obi-wan bites anakin's neck, and here's his symphony played out in the most desirable circumstances. and they live happily ever after

(until anakin pesters him about making him a vampire "so i can be your problem, permanently" and they argue about it, but agree that anakin gets a life first "you've gotta be at least 40 before i turn you, i'm not going around looking like i forever robbed the cradle!" "you're not even 40! 25." "nope." "fine, 30 then, final offer." "and if I say no?" obi-wan's grin is feral, like he knows he's lost but he's still willing to play the game. "i know you won't" so does obi-wan)

[lilliankillthisman]

The joke of this post is that England is roughly the size of Oregon and yet people treat regional differences as enormous. Which is funny!

But the difference in hardness of drinking water between the North and South-East of England is greater than you can get between any region of the continental USA, where the last poster seems to live.

For England, I'm using this water softening company's map of mains water hardness across England and Wales because it's easy to read, but other sources line up with some Northern (and Cornish) towns enjoying as low as 25ppm of calcium carbonate in their drinking water and towns in the South-East topping out at 300-350ppm.

For the US, they measure water hardness in grains per gallon; one grain per gallon is about 17ppm. This water softening company gives 20 grains per gallon as the hardest any city's water gets, or 340ppm, but it seems to bottom out at 3 grains, or 52ppm - above the bottom category in the English map. I'm not completely sure this is only measuring CaCO3, but they do talk about limestone as the source, so it's probably right. That map doesn't include Alaska, where water hardness ranges from 65-140ppm according to most sources but might get down to 56ppm if you trust the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility.

So you can get up to the same hardness as the south-east in some areas, but you can't get down to the soft water levels of the North. The three hour car journey between Swindon and Manchester will change your drinking water experience more than any 7-hour flight across the continental USA.

[utilitycaster]

you know, I am wondering with Candela and the Age of Umbra thing if Matt was looking for like, something lighter because Candela has been strong and hopefully Age of Umbra doesn't pull its punches with that premise, but it is like. shame you chose to do it in like, the epic conclusion of ten years of storytelling instead of doing a couple silly one-pager one shots, or running the a miniseries with the dungeon meshi campaign frame instead

[pushing500]

Mechi has come to the very intelligent conclusion that the best course of action he could take right now is to make the Void angrier so it sends more scary things to attack us.

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?), he got the plague before he could do anything stupid. Looks like he'll spend a few days curled up in bed living off coffee. Hopefully, that's the only bad thing in store for him in the near future–

Randy is so very cruel...

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[cookinguptales]

it seems like every time the internet decides to hunt a woman for sport, we end up with this laundry list of everything she's ever done wrong in her entire life to excuse the way that people have treated her.

and while I'm not here to excuse every thing those women have done, I do think it's important to remember that there is no such thing as a perfect victim. there is no person in this world who's never done something shitty that a tabloid can't dig up (or exaggerate or outright fabricate) and there is nothing that a person can do to make abuse, particularly abuse in a professional environment, "earned" or deserved.

I mean... as someone who dealt with both physical and sexual abuse as a kid, I remember being unwilling to tell people about what happened to me because I wasn't a perfect victim. all I could think about was all the ways I would be told that it was my fault, or that I'd walked into it, or should have known better, or overreacted, or "hit her back," or earned it by being a bitch or something.

I was a very normal teenager, to be clear, and the worst things I was getting up to were probably fighting with my parents or being insufferable on the internet. but we are so inundated with the message that victimized women must have done something to deserve their ill-treatment that it's easy to start examining your own life for what you must have done to deserve it. and then it's easy to let an abuser get away with hurting you because you're afraid of the secondary abuse that you'll get after coming forward.

so like... it does seem that every time it comes out that a woman was the victim of a smear campaign, people have to be like "well, I fucking hate her and she's still a bitch! I guess she didn't deserve to be sexually abused... but she should definitely meditate on why people were so quick to believe that she was the problem!"

every time you couch a statement about how abuse is unacceptable in a "but" you make it harder for other victims to come forward!

remember that!

[fairyroses]

requested by @lexkent: the scene in "Shattered" where Lana sees Lex on the ground in the stable sitting curled into himself, and she looks anguished to see him in such a state, and she's so kind and compassionate to him

+ bonus Lana, after literally almost dying:

[palettepainter]

I have a dentist appointment today, which sucks because this is the only person I'd ever trust my dental health with

[absolutelyzoned]

one awesome fact about me is that if i dont agree with a rule i simply dont follow it. i am so stubborn and my family hates me for it ❤️❤️

[daintydoilypon]

Can I have Dainty give some support for being depressed?

"GET YOUR 20 MINUTES OF VITAMIN D FROM THE SUN AND FLICK OFF YOUR BRAIN IN THE MIRROR. SAY YOU'RE NOT A LIL BITCH, IT'S A LIL BITCH! FAKE IT TIL YA MAKE, BB!!!"

((Not sure why you're asking me, I've had moderate to severe depression since '06. I will say, eating & drinking healthy stuff helps. It's not a cure, but it helps with symptoms. So, get some sun, drink some water, do a lil lie down, take a nice hot bath or shower, then eat something, & if you cannot eat something, drink an Ensure/Instant Carnation/Bolthouse/etc. Say it with me, kids, "You're gonna feel like poo, if you do not do, what is good for you, boo."))

[imwritesometimes]

So... Santino had to go to the vet today cause he was exhibiting strange behavior in the litter box. They were so nice and like bring him in in 30 mins we'll squeeze you in!

Luckily I caught his bladder issue early before he got blocked! But he is on pain meds and anti-inflammatory meds and I gotta try to get him to drink tons of water the next few days to make sure he doesn't end up with a bladder blockage.

Please send my baby good thoughts!!!!!!!💕💜💖🕊🫶

[rintinningvt]

Started watching the Bayverse movies with my besties and... Are we just too gay for these movies??? Admittedly we only finished the first two and got through a quarter of the third, but the second one was such a drag to sit through at times and it probably doesn't help that we do NOT care about Sam that much. I hope that there is a character arc for him in the rest of the third movie. Because so far he has not been fun to watch in that one. He just comes off as a slight manchild to me, like... I can see why he would be frustrated with where he is in life but the way he acts with others and lashes out does not help him in the slightest. I do have to admit though that seeing him go to Cybertronian Heaven in the second movie was the funniest part for me and my besties lol.

I'll just hope that the other guy in the next movies will be at least a bit more interesting. Doesn't even have to be a good guy, just an interesting guy for me lol

[awesomebutunpractical]

Before I forget it, Lloyd sneaking Marty into one of Emperor Awesome's party. (He's told he's not on the list, grabs the list, and scribbles his name down with a ballpoint pen. The bouncer lets him in because he's probably gonna get beaten up anyway.) He lists all the things he hates about the party as he leads Marty through, but says that Awesome has one thing Lord Hater doesn't.

Girls.

Lloyd is going to jail.