#...i can't turn it back on to test it

[t0xicp0sitivity]

electrophobia suuure is fun /s

#venting #i tried to fix my fucking turntable and now my problem is!! guess what!! #...i can't turn it back on to test it #'cause i think of every possible thing that could go wrong #i kinda wanna chuck this thing in a closet n forget about it rn #but i love my records too much :(

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

almost done with my first ever sock!

This was supposed to be just a fun on-the-go project with not a lot of expectations and very cheap yarn, because my main project rn is a bulky cardigan and also just endless stockinette that looks nice but does not provide adequate enrichment. And this pattern is doing all of those things! I thought they were going to be too loose at first, but they're doing surprisingly alright.

However, I noped out of the reinforced heel and did a very simple one instead, and, uh... I think these socks might wear through if I look at them too hard, let alone walk on them for a while. Which is a shame, because I'm actually starting to really like them. Alas, I refuse to unravel half this sock at this point. Am vaguely tempted to make the other heel stronger - but then I'd just have two mismatched socks, which probably doesn't make them any more practical. Whelp, I guess these are gonna become strictly couch-and-bed socks...

#i feel like this was the oldest mistake in the book lol #oh well #can't wait to show these off to my mum #actually i was considering giving them to her but idk it seems like a bad gift for someone who gifts PERFECT socks #still #not showing them off to her just yet in case i do decide to make them a gift #(this isn't *actually* my first sock i did a test sock a few years back but it turned out terrible and never got a mate) #knitting #the pattern is cool it's free on ravelry! it's called 'ariose socks' #but i can't super recommend it if you like a really snug fit on your socks #because it's really not very adjustable (at least not if you do the leg completely in pattern instead of half stockinette) #textile crafts

[meimi-haneoka]

Braids - Akiho/Kaito ficlet

I have watched way too many videos of book repairing, and this is the immediate result.

A small fragment of daily life. Akiho: 16-17 years old Kaito: they haven't found a cure for him yet.

Akiho had been sitting at her desk for about 5 hours, pausing only for 15 minutes for a quick snack. This book was due for tomorrow, and she couldn’t wait to see the reaction of her customer once he saw how successful the repair had been.

Kaito was sitting on an armchair of her studio, checking a magic book. Looking up, he couldn’t help but notice how the girl’s blonde locks were dangerously close to get dirty with the PVA glue she was generously spreading over the spine of the text block. Carelessness while working generally meant Akiho was tired.

“Akiho-san...may I?” Akiho felt Kaito approaching, his gentle hands carefully taking a hold of her locks from behind, bringing them on her back and away from the dangerous glue. Then, she realized he started to braid her hair. Her cheeks colored slightly, while her eyes stayed fixed on the brush she was holding, hovering over the book. By now, she was used to have Kaito at various degrees of proximity, but every time his hands brushed on her nape, the tingle they sent through her entire body made it impossible to focus on the task at hand. “Thank you...” she said when she realized he finished, feeling the braid with her fingers, her voice quivering almost unnoticeably. “Did you take interest into hair braiding, lately?”, turning around, amused.

His back was promptly turned on her, walking to the bookcase to put his book away. “Not particularly”.

#akiho shinomoto #yuna d. kaito #yunaaki #cosmos & crystals #ficlet #look I knew all those videos would turn my brain on #now let's hope this will prompt my hand to go back to drawing too #I realized it's impossible for me to write a drabble #I can't explain myself in 100 words #so take this -whatever it is- #look I vomited words again #at least this is romantic and not painful!!! #lol #canon made me more confident #if you understand his reaction at the end -> congrats you passed the Kaito test #spilled words #<- my designated tag for ficlets & drabbles

[mattodore]

scrapped pose from theo's birthday edit

little koala 🐨

#river dipping #theodore doe #matthias evanoff #echthroi #a burning house to live in #ts4 #blender #...that's just my general tag for pics of their sims but this is them in blender so it feels weird to use that... oh well lmfao #i'm waiting for sim ripper to load one of the outfits i need for this pose i wanna make so. i'm just in blender spinning mattodore around #i could start working on the pose now and apply the armature later but i'll just wait #ignore theo's weird knees btw........... it's just blender the pose looked fine in game when i tested it originally #do NOT ignore matthias's pancake ass tho! for some reason these slacks just do that to his ass. it's sooo criminal!! he has a bubble butt!! #anyway... theo is like. openly sobbing but his face is literally buried in matthias's shoulder so you can't see his expression #he's so wounded here... i mean obviously since this was originally gonna be in the edit but........ :/ #yk that bit from the caption on the edit where theo gets flashbacks and describes the breeze and the looming darkness..... #and then to have matthias see it all... like that recognition of a part of theo's self that he doesn't even turn his own face toward... ugh #he needed that comfort yk... and he needed to be held. at every age. #UGHHHHH okay okay i'm letting myself get emotional here let's go back to thinking abt matthias's pancake ass in these pics haha funny #insert that screenshot of roman texting ''i am going to kill myself'' to gerri

[miodiodavinci]

good news: we have water again ! ! ! a pipe had burst somewhere up the street so the city came out and fixed it today (we still need to run the tap to get rid of the air and muddy water but. it's something.)

bad news: i had to go to my partner's to do laundry and shower so i missed out on work time today (bad) (anxiety inducing) (i don't need this right now)

worst news: i have a killer headache and my throat is suspiciously stiff 👁 👁

#please please please for the love of god ; ; ; #i am begging and pleading do Not let this be a repeat of last semester ; ; ; ; #this is exactly how i felt last time i got sick with covid and i Cannot afford another late start ; ; ; ; #i am. suddenly stuck by The Unwelcome Guest last week cryptically asking me when you're supposed to test for covid #and then saying 'hmm. okay. good to know.' and then refusing to elaborate #i swear. to god if she got me sick i'm #i. can't even say. i'm suddenly struck by such helpless grief thinking about how little i can do to keep her from being in my life ; ; ; ; #we literally Evicted her she all but threatened my older sibling into letting her visit weekly to take care of her potted plants #and then in october last year she was like 'my roommate has covid and i don't have money for a hotel i have nowhere to go :'(' #so the agreement was she could stay for One Week #and basically she has been. on and off our couch since then. #like. only going back to her apartment for 1 to 3 days at a time before spending another two weeks in our house. #with new excuses every time. #and literally Every Time I Say No And Put My Foot Down older sibling begs on her behalf because she's busy hounding and guilt-tripping them #so like. what can i even do if it turns out she infected me with covid because she didn't care to disclose that she was feeling sick #(and decided to come over anyway) #i'm just. overwhelmed ; ; ; #i feel like crying ; ; ; #i'm already busy pre-mourning the loss of my mental health and down time with my internship starting back next week #i don't need to worry about whether or not i'm going to be bed ridden for 2 weeks #and suffer Even More lasting lung and brain and blood and fatigue issues on top of that ; ; ; ; #a a a a a i just. feel like crying a lot ; ; ; ; #i'm already behind ; ; ; #i should ; ; ; try to work more tonight before the inevitability of it all hits me tomorrow ; ; ; ; ;

[legionofpotatoes]

man post-andor star wars feels so embarrassing

#I know I'm like fifteen years removed from the mandalorian's TA but watching that show has truly become a test of mettle #I don't want them to turn brow-furrowing serious with their politicking either. I get the camp it is GOING for. but there's no engine #there's less deep lessons to learn from andor than all that. simple story mechanics and letting drama drive your story instead of like #nothing burger plotlines that push meaningful moments aside instead of inviting them in. and badgering us with endless cameos #this is the golden goose outward-facing star war poster boy now I get it. has to be this way. but even THIS can be done better I feel #it is so lost up its own sauce I can't even comment on specific issues anymore. it's a stew of bad decisions and lack of clarity in #just about everything. even stagecraft feels stunted at this point. they felt like they were pushing the tool when they had frasier ADing. #now it's all so sickeningly stagnant. we are right back into 'no one feels like they live in the space they inhabit' except we learned #how to achieve that with in-camera CG. baller! #negativity #text #*DPing I think is what frasier was actually doing. and I do love the baby still so I am stuck in this sisyphean loop for the long haul #cant help myself the puppetry really is the one true standout in this whole shebang

[thelastspeecher]

Looks like red bell peppers are off the menu, boys.

#I am. in pain. #reintroduction is going. uhhhhhhhhh. #of the five things I've tried onions and red bell peppers are a No #(well. onion powder is okay. hopefully red bell pepper spices will be okay. testing that tonight.) #garlic turned out okay but I'm genuinely devastated to lose onion and red bell pepper #I'll be revisiting later to see if there are specific amounts I can tolerate #but right now I need to move on and get more stuff back in my diet. #anyways everyone help me manifest that tomato sauce will be okay #if I can't have tomato sauce I will actually cry #I don't like alfreo and I miss pizza and ketchup SO MUCH #speechie sucks at health #speecher speaks

[quietwingsinthesky]

🌹:O

:3c

Lucifer doesn't care how the labcoats say it works; he knows there's no such thing as a clean break from a drift the minute the plug is pulled. Instead, Michael goes from a second consciousness beside his own to being dragged out of Lucifer the further Lucifer gets from him, both of them gripping tight to the connection until it slips, until it snaps, with a violent recoil that knocks Lucifer's brain out of alignment and reminds his legs that they don't work. His next step falls too fast, too heavily, and refuses to take his weight. It's only Michael, now only a voice outside of Lucifer's head yelling his name, catching him from behind that allows Lucifer to collapse to the floor with his dignity intact.

#is this more than one sentence? yes. yes it is. because tumblr deleted this post once and pissed me off. #i had so many tags about lucifer already and boom. gone. #anyway. tfw you see your boyfriend get severely injured during a battle and this makes you panic so bad you manage to make it a few meters #which is a lot for a guy who can't actually walk. #lucifer's got a whole Situation. turns out plugging a guy's brain up to a giant robot is not without its bugs. #especially when said guy was one of the first to be stuck inside the giant robot with his brother. and testing was a lower priority due to #everyone wanting a faster solution to the Giant Fucking Monsters. so lucifer's brain got overloaded and can't send signals to his legs #anymore to move right unless he's hooked up to a mech. technically when this first happened the doctor told him 'well if you stop doing mec #shit you can walk again.' but 1) he's not doing that. and 2) that was years ago. just because that recommendation is still on a file #somewhere doesn't mean it would actually work for him. or even that it would have back then. it's still the official answer for 'fixing' hi #because that's better optics than the truth. which is that he can't walk.* #(technically. technically. if he was left disconnected from the mech for a week he could walk. it would also be exhausting. and painful. #and slow. this is not something lucifer considers to be helpful information when he moves faster and with more ease in his chair. #this is something other people like to point out about him that makes him want to start hitting them. and it's not even really true anymore #the 'a week disconnected' thing. again. was a long time ago. it would take over a month for him to stand nowadays.) #(v few people Get all of this but like. michael is one of them. he's in lucifer's head enough that it would be weirder for him not to get i #add to that him being one of the few people who has seen lucifer walk nowadays and focused more on 'hey he looks like he hates that' #than praising it. and he gets it. and is also the requisite amount of annoyed when lucifer *runs off* before michael can help him into his #chair!! not the first time this has happened and will not be the last. michael's used to catching him.) #ask #oh my god that was so much rambling. this isnt even the point of the fic btw. this is just. backstory. worldbuilding.

[unusualshrimp]

hm i do not like how my brain works

#just came up with something horrible. ok so i was on wikipedia reading about mimicry in animals #and how animal A tries to look like animal B‚ and it can be of 2 types. either it wants to fool other animal B members #or it wants to fool a third animal C. like how some butterflies try to look like the monarch butterfly #so that birds that don't eat the monarch won't touch them either #and what struck me is like. the animal being fooled is really the only one that matters here. #monarch butterflies can tell who's who but they don't matter because its the *BIRDS* that need to be deceived #i can look at a wasp shaped flower and immediately go ''oh nice try. you are a flower'' but that doesn't matter because THE WASP IS FOOLED! #so now im. thinking. if there is a creature trying to mimic humans. then we're really all it needs to convince #like. it might be GLARINGLY obvious to your dog or cat or fuck‚ even your houseplants. and they might even try to tell you but they can't #so like. idk mb mosquitoes won't sit on them & gut bacteria won't grow in their gut & they never get lice & dogs don't try to please them #but that won't be noticeable because really all that matters is that they pass to humans. dna tests turn out fine they seem ok in autopsies #say yay! now i have to unplug my phone from the charger to sit with my back to the wall but. at least i have story ideas #um. #unreality

[bonyato]

i Showed you my examen hecho con la cola PLEASE Respond.

#My freedom for the rest of the day depends Entirely on world's most negligent teacher's assessment on this last test i had to turn in .. #🤞🏼🤞🏼 keep'n my fingers crossed everypony ‚ let us hope that she sees that shit Today cuz she sure is taking her sweet time!! #sorry Impatient behavior:^( im just rly on edge & want to get this over with asap HWJKFGJF #It's the LAST assignment that was left to do which is like sayi;g it's the last of my chains holding me back ok please understand...... #im like holding back the Biggest sigh of relief rn.I can't waittt 2 finish getting all remaining assignments off my back ('､3_ヽ)＿ #wondertext #needed to get allat off my chest apawlogies Stressed Student levels are particularly off the charts today but im habging in there ♡

[malkavsub]

'use your words, puppy'

what if I was so empty-minded I just giggled and whined and stammered for a while instead

it's basically the same thing, right?

#woof #uhh #puppy/ #skel speaks #yeah I go somewhat nonverbal when I'm needy and/or in subspace #like #I can tell people if I need to stop or safeword if I have to* #it has been Proven through extremely Scientific Testing #that I can't reliably count or keep track of numbers #sorry going back a sec #*I can also respond to check-ins and. I'm trained to say 'yes sir/no sir/thank you sir' and such #but if you want me to THINK? #lol. #lmao even #I can BARELY repeat things if someone else is telling me to #it's literally not my fault that I turn into a stupid puppy! I can't help it!!!!! #anyways people should be mean to me about it

[limbicottage]

Hello! I am Frientist. I would like to ask you something; why do you not like us here at K Corp? We are simply trying our best and researching how to make happy homes for limbis. I personally have a Gregor that i stole from Samjo and he is my best friend! I don't understand why you are so hateful towards us. Would you be so kind to explain? I am very curious as to why people dislike our company.

-Frientist

hi! your corporation spreads harmful misinformation on limbi (trust me- i know people who have followed k corp advice and ended up with their limbi unhappy, sick, or worse) usually just to sell their crappy products that do nothing. there's also reason to believe k corp does unethical tests on limbi, which are y'know, LIVING CREATURES that can FEEL PAIN. not to mention just any big company usually doesn't have the best intentions.

i hope you are taking care of your gregor and not in the k corp way dear lord

#there's more but i can't go look for it right now (fatigue) #really really hope you're just misguided and young because.... k corp sucks #they almost forced (very insistently pressured) me into turning my soupclair in for “”“testing”“” back when i thought they were ethical #held onto him with an iron grip thank GOD. because im pretty sure sometimes k corp just #doesn't return your limbi #emil asks

[wowowwild]

idk can't get the image of Apollo ska phase out of my head

#plot twist: apollo has legendary genetic musical talent and only uses it for ska #i just think it would be funny #klav like 'i can't believe you don't like my music but tou made yourself a ska mixtape' #he's an exclusively first and second wave kind of guy i think #ace attorney #apollo justice #i like to imagine everytime he has a crisis he pulls out the mixtape. it's not thematically appropriate for his emotions #but it makes him feel better. foster family put you back? ska. fail your test? ska. boss turns out to be a creep? ska. #best friend dead? ska. move to a country where doing your job might get you dead? ska. #like he doesn't listen to it at any other time so if you hear the trombone you know he needs a hug #1 am brain took this farther than necessary

[rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl]

sucks to suck sometimes

#that is to say i'm going to vent here in the tags i would apologize but this is my blog so #but i won a sonnet contest yay congrats go me if there's one thing i can do it is write pretty weird sonnets that people like for some reas #i even got prize money for it again all good here #however yesterday i was driving because you know i was planning to go try and take my driving test and get a license #for you know government id and also so i can. drive a car and whatever useful skill in this car-centric hellscape amiright #and i did passably all hour i just drove around the city practicing like passing and stopping smoothly and all those good things #and then i drove onto my street which i cannot stress enough is a one way residential street #and it was the middle of the day so like. there were a total of five cars parked along the block #and my mom picked up a call with her girlfriend which like good for her right but it's very distracting because she's right next to me #and i'm trying not to listen because she doesn't like to be eavesdropped on when she's talking to her gf #and the apartment has paper thin walls so i basically have to try and turn my attention off so as to give her privacy #so anyways i turn half my attention off and manage to tap one of the cars parked on one of this nearly-empty street #because to quote olivia rodrigo i'm not cool and i'm not smart and i can't even parallel park #and they test u on that so i was trying to parallel park right which i can't #so now i am refusing to go take my driving test because i hate myself and my abilities #and to get back to the setup i can't even be happy about prize money or anything because obvs i have to pay back my mom #because cars are expensive even if it's just small dents in them #and like. there's been a whole thing about me being promised a job and then not getting it so i don't even have a job right now #i'm applying to all the places i can think of that i can get to on public trans and who might wanna hire a teenager with v little experienc #so anyway until someone decides to take pity on me and hire me i don't even have a job to help pay her back with #which it could be worse! we have enough money that it's not going to be a disaster until i can properly pay her back #and my sweet twin is even begging me to let them pay half because we generally split expenses and pool our money and whatever #even if it's usually like. buying coffee for both of us or getting lunch someplace not me managing to fuck up driving on an empty street #so like it could be way way worse however it really sucks #anyways i feel terrible about the whole thing obviously and needed to vent someplace #so hi strangers on the internet it was probably not worth it at all to read all of that #rio remarks

[leyswhumpdump]

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#this weekend was supposed to be my writing weekend #and i've spent the last 3 days feeling like crappp #like #sickness and stuff #did a test and it's not covid but #still kind of peeved i can't work on hidden ink #since that's turned into a bit of a weekends-only project #so i ended up writing two instalments of a new series instead #but obviously ILL so #can't gauge quality levels at all #and i kind of miss posting as i go because it helps encourage me #but it also stops me going back and editing #anyway this ramble isn't going anywhere #i'm just tired of not being able to write in the time i specifically set aside for it

[h-i-raeth]

Maybe I should re-read The Simulation by XeroXiiva & maybe I'll calm down.

#think about this fic constantly #do you want to read a 300k+ word fic about K/S in a post-apocalyptic earth? trick question: you absolutely fucking do #it is also simultaneously a very fucking good activism intrigue plot about whether it's okay to retraumatize/traumatize star fleet members #in the name of routing out corruption (it takes place after Into Darkness & fucking delivers about it) #(disproportionately affecting non-human members & it fucking delivers on That too) #the simulation storyline is a masterpiece in it's own right & is only elevated by the pre-&-post-sim plotline/s #do you want to read the fallout of Kirk & Spock going into a simulation together #where they don't have any knowledge of the legal/beaurocratuc reasons why them being in a relationship would be complicated #and falling in love & getting married & surviving & dying together? #AND THEN THEY WAKE UP? And they remember all of this but worse—other people were fucking. watching along & grading them on it? #and they have to come to terms with a large chunk of thier life & people that they cared for not being real in the literal sense #and the public is Also realizing how deeply fucked up making people go through simulated stress tests informed by their own minds is? #& there's a public movement to get star fleet to turn the policy back off and kirk & spock get involved in seperate capacities #while they're still reeling from their sims? #oh & also there's a really fucking good tarsus IV element & the themes are fucking immaculate #of course you want to read this fic. I want to reread it. I can't believe it's been almost five years #since I last so much as saw a sign of life from the author