I just got described as an “ad hating commie” by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff
“There are no female aliens in our game because we don’t know how to make a female version of this alien” You know that alien you just designed? That male alien? Give it a female voice actor and have characters refer to it as she. That’s it. That’s literally all you have to do
Make her shorter if you must
Make her BIGGER if you aren’t a coward
Take your male alien bodytype, make her like 4 feet taller, give her an extra set of arms and sharper teeth, and as muscular as shit.
my girlfriend’s phone expldoed and we need your help if you can offer such
ivy’s phone got ran over and while we’re able to get her a new one on our current plan that will be a big addition to our mobile bills that we could really use help with. if you are able to, please support my gf!
human-ish cotl wizarding school au but the lamb is a low performing student trying to keep up
ala salem-from-sabrina-the-witch levels of hijinks, Narinder has been trapped as a black cat for hundreds of years and acts as their patron and familiar, biding his time to regain his power and take revenge at the immortal board of council without fully revealing his true past to lamb as a once equally feared and loved pillar of that same board with his siblings
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🐑: Narinder… Can you please get off? I’m trying to concentrate here! ໒꒰ ´• ˕ •` ꒱ა 💦
🐈⬛: I’M the reason you could even hold a spell for more than a minute. I will use your hood as I please, mortal. /ᐠ ¬` ˕ ´¬マ
Yipeee! the wizarding university au now has a name! You may now call it Me and My Strange Familiar.
human-ish cotl wizarding school au but the lamb is a low performing student trying to keep up
ala salem-from-sabrina-the-witch levels of hijinks, Narinder has been trapped as a black cat for hundreds of years and acts as their patron and familiar, biding his time to regain his power and take revenge at the immortal board of council without fully revealing his true past to lamb as a once equally feared and loved pillar of that same board with his siblings
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🐑: Narinder… Can you please get off? I’m trying to concentrate here! ໒꒰ ´• ˕ •` ꒱ა 💦
🐈⬛: I’M the reason you could even hold a spell for more than a minute. I will use your hood as I please, mortal. /ᐠ ¬` ˕ ´¬マ
Yipeee! the wizarding university au now has a name! You may now call it Me and My Strange Familiar.
I’m sorry, but aren’t we collectively tired of all our clothes being made of polyester?
“microfiber. viscose. rayon blend. ripstop. fleece. jersey knit. pet. vegan leather. polyurethane vinyl. lycra. vegan shearling. acrylic yarn. dacron. performance velvet. organza. china silk. broadcloth. flannel. sateen. elastane. taffeta. moisture wicking. antimicrobial” - so pretentious. it’s plastic.
For the record, some of those can be real natural fiber fabrics. China silk, jersey knit, broadcloth, flannel, sateen, and taffeta are weaves of fabric, not fibers themselves. Fleece can be a form of wool, too. I have a skirt made out of wool flannel and evening gowns made out of silk taffeta. I lined my winter coat with 100% silk habotai a.k.a. china silk. My favorite sheets are made out of cotton sateen. Etc.
And I think part of the issue is that people are often just… Not taught about fabrics anymore. a lot of the terminology has completely gone by the wayside and we don’t know how to recognize different fibers (or, as seen above, know the difference between a term for a fiber and a weave). I research 19th century clothing and textiles as part of my job, and there are terms even I can’t fit to a certain weave or fiber in my mind. Just the number of different types of natural fiber textiles that used to be in people’s lives is absolutely mind-boggling considering that now it’s all just different forms of plastic 99% of the time
People don’t stand up and demand better because they simply don’t know another way, most of the time. And that’s so sad
Yep, pretty much.
“Microfiber” refers to a variety of different essentially plastic fabrics which all use a very fine thread.
“Viscose” is related to “rayon” and “acetate”. All are made from cellulose fibers, most often wood pulp, through a chemical process. They are not plastic, although they are heavily modified.
“Ripstop” is a kind of nylon used for rugged outerwear and luggage.
“Fleece” is a weave, not a fiber. It most often refers to sweatshirt knit, which can be anything from 100% cotton to 100% polyester.
“Jersey knit” is a weave, not a fiber. It’s the sort of plain knit fabric they make t-shirts out of. It can be made from any fiber.
“PET” is ethylene polyester fabric made from recycled plastic bottles. It’s sold as eco-friendly, but it really is not.
“Vegan leather” is most often pure plastic. There are plant-based imitation leathers but they generally have to be bonded with plastic for greater durability and thus are neither compostable nor recyclable.
“Polyurethane vinyl” is a kind of plastic.
“Lycra”, a.k.a. “Spandex” a.k.a. “Elastane” is a stretchy plastic fiber. In the US and Canada “Elastane” is called “Spandex”.
“Vegan shearling” – Uhh, I don’t know what this is, sorry. If it’s the combo of faux suede and fake fur that it sounds like, it will definitely be made from plastics.
“Acrylic yarn” is a form of plastic.
“Dacron” is a trade name of polyester (plastic) fiber.
“Performance velvet” is a polyester fabric chemically treated to be water-repellent and stain-resistant, used for upholstery.
“Organza” is a weave, not a fiber. It is stiffly-spun threads in an open weave and has a texture sort of a cross between a veil and a soft window screen. It’s very common in silk, although there are poly versions too.
“China silk” is silk. Of course. What the heck. It is a very fine, thin, plain weave lightweight silk. (The only thing called “silk” that is not silk is “art silk” which is short for “artificial silk” and means “rayon” (see above). It was big time illegal to call rayon “art silk” for a long time because of deliberately misleading advertisers, but I have seen the term creeping back in online discourse.)
“Broadcloth” is, again, a weave, not a fiber. It’s a densely-woven smooth medium-weight plain cloth mostly used for shirts. Historically it was always wool. More recently it was made from cotton. Nowadays poly-cotton blend broadcloths are most common, though you can still get pure cotton and wool broadcloths.
“Flannel” is a weave, not a fiber. It’s a soft fabric brushed to have a nap on one side. Flannels used to be all wool or cotton. Microfiber is depressingly common these days.
“Sateen” is a weave, not a fiber. It’s a satin weave, but not using silk, popular for bedsheets. Historically it was cotton. These days you can find it in polyester.
“Taffeta” is a weave, not a fiber. It’s a crisp, plain, lightweight, tightly-woven fabric. The nicest taffetas are silk. They also come in nylon and polyester, sometimes rayon if you’re lucky.
“Moisture-wicking” just means a fabric acts a certain way. It’s neither a weave nor a fiber. Wool is naturally moisture-wicking. The term is mostly used these days to describe artificial fibers.
“Antimicrobial” is a chemical finish. It’s not a kind of fiber.
What is mercerized cotton? I read in one source that its cotton with a polyester core, and in others its cotton treated with sodium hydroxide! I am very confused, and trying to avoid plastic for this baby blanket, but perhaps you know?
Not who you tagged, but it’s cotton that’s been treated with a sodium hydroxide solution and usually also stretched in the process.
The sodium hydroxide causes it to contract (reducing the amount it can shrink later) while also improving the strength and making it easier to dye. It’s not a new process by any means, and in fact turns 180 this year.
The stretching is just to make it shinier (more silk-like) and was a later addition to the process.
Thank you! I must have misread something somewhere and was very confused
Thank you! I must have
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was very confused
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
if you were assigned male at birth and are now a deeply alienated and frustrated adult with an intense reflexive dislike of being gendered or perceived in general, but you still possess a powerful, ill-defined appreciation of women beyond mere attraction and an acute affinity for yuri/wlw media, i have a proposition i’d like you to consider: with the right mindset you can have a great time in an antique store even if you don’t find anything you want to buy.
Rats are absolutely adorable and I’ll hear no words against them. Their little grabby hands are perfect: perfectly for holding your finger, perfectly for holding goldfish crackers, perfect for holding their sweet little tails.
Once upon a time I had two rats (Halcyon and Drusilla). They were such chill critters. My mom was a grade school teacher at the time and she had them in her class during the school year but during summers THEY WERE MINE.
They knew their names, would hang out on my shoulder, and were perfect little study buddies for high school me. They had the run of my room but not of the rest of the house as I didn’t trust my dogs. Sometimes, I’d shut the dogs outside and let the rats play in the living room.
For magic improvements on thing that is already perfect:
Use one spoon white sugar, and one spoon brown if you have it.
After microwave, before noms, add vanilla ice cream.
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salt is a flavour enhancer, add just a tiny dash, not enough to make it salty.
Because I love you all.
reblogging cause i need to save this
A note for those who have trouble measuring butter with a spoon as I do: one cup I am sixteen tablespoons. Butter/margarine bricks are usually a half a cup, so just cut one eighth of that amount
These are really good! And yes, for the love of god, if you have it use white sugar and brown sugar, add just a pinch of salt, and as many chocolate chips as you darn well please. Great with icecream, whipped cream on top, or a tall glass of milk (keep in mind you gotta eat it with a spoon, you can’t dip it in milk)
Super college friendly (trust me)
I made this and it’s super awesome! Bonus things you could add: butterscotch flavoring, cut up KitKats, torn apart Milkyways, and stolen ice cream!
Ohhhh boy kiddos have at it!
Reblogging so I remember to do this
Just made this but am out of chocolate chips so used hot chocolate powder a splash of milk and marshmallows. HEAVANLY
Reblog to save a life
i will pray to you
i burnt it
yeah okay, ill reblog that!
@taraljc i found it I found the sacred mug cookie recipe
Guys. I’m reblogging it with that handy dandy link I originally posted with it. STOP. REMOVING IT. It makes you look like an art thief, means future rebloggers don’t know where it’s from, and it steals the credit from Endling, the artist who made it in the first place. It never should have been removed in the first place.
GLAD I STAYED UP LATE CAUSE THEN I NEVER WOULD HAVE FOUND THIS POST
BLESSED BE THE OLD LADY YURI
This is pretty much what I see when my moms interact: a pair of 80-year old lesbians who are as deeply in love now as they were when they met nearly 50 years ago.
horrid little cat saved me from my devil’s nap by putting her paw directly into my mouth
pov your sleep paralysis demon is very cute
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oh this is not even CLOSE to the angriest chickpea looks. at any given moment she has the face of someone about to knife you for bread in the sewer. this is just how her face is! a selection of miss piss for your perusal:
here’s your regular reminder that if you consistently, regularly get headaches, you are almost certainly having migraines, not regular headaches.
MOST recurrent headaches are migraine headaches.
“migraine” does not mean “extremely painful headache.” it is a type and source of pain, not a degree of pain. migraines can also include some or all of the following: fatigue, sensitivity to light and sound, visual auras, nausea or vomiting, dizziness, cognitive impairment, etc. these symptoms can be mild or severe and it may actually be difficult to determine if you have them. (who wants a bright light in their eyes during a headache?? i thought that’s just how headaches were lmao.)
this is important because while aspirin, NSAIDs like ibuprofren, and other over-the-counter pain meds can effectively alleviate migraine pain, getting diagnosed with migraines allows for a wider range of treatments and preventatives.
it’s also important because, in my opinion, your average general practice doctor is not equipped to diagnose you with chronic migraine. don’t go to one expecting them to. a neurologist with migraine specialty is a better option, although a regular doctor can still be useful if they listen to you lol.
my life would be miserable and unmanageable without sumatriptan. and i never would have gotten a prescription for sumatriptan if i hadn’t gone to my GP and said, “i have migraines and want to try migraine medicine,” even though at the time i wasn’t 100% sure that was true.
if you have chronic headaches, they’re almost certainly migraines. if no one has said that to you before, let me be the first. start treating your migraines.
multiple times in my youth, i went to the doctor expecting them to figure out and tell me if i had migraines. each time, the doctor asked, “do you see an aura?” and when i said no, they determined i must not be getting migraines. no one ever told me that only 20% of migraine sufferers experience auras. that means 80% don’t, yet that is frequently used as important diagnostic criteria! what!
a book i recommend over and over is The Keeler Migraine Method by robert cowan. highly recommend if you’re trying to figure your migraine situation out.
Migraines don’t have to involve headaches! Turns out I’ve had migraines my whole life and I didn’t know, because it doesn’t cause headaches. Rather, I get
Extreme irritability
Photophobia
Sound sensitivity
Tingling and numbness
Inability to remember words
Trouble remembering
Trouble with basic arithmetic
Dizziness
Visual changes (stop being able to perceive depth)
Back and shoulder pain
Fatigue
I chalked a lot of this up to autism and overstimulation.
I saw a neurologist and now I have medicine to treat my migraines. What I have are called ocular migraines.
Please look into migraines without headaches. You may be totally unaware that you have migraines.
Migraines without headaches are called silent migraines, and they’re absolutely a thing. For me they’re even more frequent than painful ones.
Here’s a test which, while not infallible, has led to multiple of my friends realizing that they had migraines and didn’t know it: Do you feel nauseated? Confused? Like you pulled an all-night even though you didn’t? Or are you feeling just generally off in a way that’s hard to define? Go into a really dark room and shut the door behind you. If whatever weirdness you were experiencing gets suddenly better as soon as you’re sitting in the pitch-dark, you almost certainly are having a migraine.
I’ve mistaken migraines for food poisoning and car sickness. I’ve had friends who have mistaken them for everything from seizures, to covid, to a poor night of sleep, to even just having had too much alcohol to drink. The symptoms of migraines are extremely varied, and very few people have all of them - but light sensitivity is common and a bit of a dead giveaway. If you have light-sensitive anything, bring it up with a doctor as a possible migraine symptom.
For years I would get migraines. I had the nausea, the visual auras were so powerful that I was effectively blind, and I would get very hard-of-thinking. But there was never any headache. Eventually after a lot of trial and error the way I learned to deal with it was to drink some room-temperature Mexican Coke (the American stuff didn’t do the trick) and lay down in a dark room. One long nap later and I would be able to see again.
I didn’t know from migraines at the time and when I asked people about what was going on they would say, “No headache? Can’t be a migraine, then.”
Anyway. I don’t get them anymore and I’m very happy about that. I never knew what triggered them or why they stopped.
???????????????????????? is this true? because….she very much does thank him at the end of the movie
it’s in the gravity falls directors commentaries, and I trust his take
thank him while he’s busting his ass for you and you sit there complaining goddamnit
Well you shouldn’t, you should watch it for yourself before disparaging it because she literally does thank the wizard in the end.
The ONLY reason the wizard is traveling with the unicorn in the first place is because they escaped a witch together, and she asked what he wanted as a thank you for saving her and he requested to travel with her. She says she wishes he had asked for something else, but she lets him go with her. She literally thanks him the way he asked to be thanked.
And when the red bull is chasing her down, he turns her into a human (in the book, she was HORRIFIED to find out another wizard had done this to another unicorn, and he did it to her later anyway). She doesn’t want to be human. She didn’t ask him to turn her into a human. She doesn’t LIKE being a human, because it fundamentally changes who she is and she begins to lose her sense of self entirely because of it. All against her will. All of it without asking. And he acts the entire time as if he’s really outdone himself on how awesome he is for doing it.
And STILL at the end, when she has returned to being a unicorn, she thanks him AGAIN for saving her, and tells him that she’s still not who she was before, but she thanks him for that, too.
So whatever Alex Hirsch was watching wasn’t the same movie as what was on the screen, if he’s saying Amalthea didn’t thank Schmendrick. And even if she hadn’t, she’s not human. Her people don’t do anything the same as humans, including gratitude. It would show a real lack of understanding to judge an immortal, unfeeling creature by human standards, during the worst time of her very, very long life.
i havent seen anyone mention no nut november even as a joke or to mock the concept. its just out of question rn. no time for that. everyones like yeahh well at least i can still get a nut off nobody can take that away from me
Peanuts, almonds, and walnuts are a standard part of my daily fare. Why ever would I skip them for the entire month?
i havent seen anyone mention no nut november even as a joke or to mock the concept. its just out of question rn. no time for that. everyones like yeahh well at least i can still get a nut off nobody can take that away from me
I love that every year fire departments are like “hey. maybe DON’T fry your turkeys?”
and across the nation, patriots rise up and shout “FUCK YOU” bc surely it’ll be fine for THEM
and then start massive grease fires in their backyards
it is my most favorite thanksgiving tradition
for non-americans who have no idea what I’m talking about, a TON of fire departments and public health people will do annual presentation videos on how deep frying turkeys can go catastrophically bad
and every year, the american public goes “…anyway, where’s my propane tank-”
“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fry.”
“So, Mister…GRAAAAGH Underhill-by-Sackville, is it?” “Indeed.” “You’re an Orc, but you don’t mention any clan….” “Oh, I’m culturally Hobbitish, I was adopted at a very young age. And I’m very keen on this position you have open at your trading house.” “The guard position?” “Heavens, no. I barely know which end of a sword goes into the miscreant. I am a certified accountant, and eager to make my mark in respectable society.”
I want to read about the Halfling who was responsible for Recent Events, personally.
if you must know, her name is
Tabitha Smallburrow
and over a handful of years she adopted 3 orcs, 2 tieflings, 7 tabaxi (had mistaken them for a litter of kittens when they were put up for adoption in the neighboring city) and finally one very unwilling and fully grown dwarf
Can someone tell me where these feminine trans guys with massive tits who wear push-up bras and skimpy outfits that I keep seeing transphobes complain about are? I’d love to see massive tboy boobs.
Please can transphobes stop gatekeeping the tboys with massive breasts who wear glam makeup . Plsss tell me where you met these people . They sound awesome .
Transphobes trying to create a caricature of a trans person, every time: Okay so imagine this extremely hot cool person right-
if you’re worried about the new ToS for AO3, please remember that you are primed to distrust because of the way politics are intertwining with the internet right now. remember to look into definitions yourself, fact check, and look through the logic lense before jumping to conclusions.
AFAIK right now, the update clarifies terms that have already existed. it’s not changing as much as it is clarity-rewriting. i’m still looking through the legalese (law student, i’m learning as I go) and I will be checking in again later, but don’t despair.
however, don’t get lax. download fics, connect with the authors, build out your communities. comment and bookmark and save, and please don’t stop writing.
One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don’t think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.
Newborns can’t eat adult food. They can’t really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.
It doesn’t have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don’t explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. “The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year.” Nope. That baby is dead I’m sorry. “The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower” um quick question was the wizard lactating? “The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather” the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER “A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues” What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?
Like. It’s not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.
All wizards lactate naturally
That’s what Gandalf’s Big Naturals are for
I just love the idea of a cis male wizard finding a baby and thinking, “Oh man. I have been waiting for an excuse to try this spell.” and enchanting themselves to have functional and loaded breasts so they can feed their new charge.
I keep seeing this in my notifications and thinking, “What imbecile cursed me with the phrase ‘functional and loaded breasts’?” and then discovering that I am in fact the imbecile.
Just thought to myself “can’t women have a bad time in fiction without rape being involved” which really shows you how much you’re in the fucking trenches if you are both a horror fan and women fan
Anyway. There’s lot of places for these stories don’t get me wrong but HUGE shout out to women in horror stories that have terrible things happen that don’t involve: pregnancy, motherhood, and/or sexual assault. You too deserve to have a cronenburg eqsue body horror transformation because you trusted a glowing green liquid to solve your problems
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