#but some things are only available there

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

alright, just going to throw this out there for anyone else who, like me, has been waiting 10,000 years for it to go on sale:

Guild Wars: Eye of the North is currently $4.99 on Steam. I repeat, Guild Wars: Eye of the North is currently $4.99 on Steam.

#my posts #Guild Wars 2 #GW2 #tagging it there since i'm pretty sure this is the expansion #that lets you earn achieves for GW2 as well #so yeah if you've been waiting too. there it is folks #i just snagged it a minute ago because I've been waiting SO long and I wanted it before I started actually Doing Things #since i think it unlocks some stuff in the story??? idk #i'm not very knowledgeable on GW1 sadly #note that I don't think the sale is available on their main website tho since I was looking there and everything was full price #so this might be a Steam-only sale but idk for sure

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

fauci saying “vulnerable people will fall by the wayside” and that some will die but that’s ok because we’re not going to see the “tsunami of cases” we’ve seen before is so dehumanising. so babies with no immune system, elderly people, disabled people, and people without adequate access to healthcare can all die of covid. but it’s ok guys because actually they’re just falling to the wayside and everyone else will go back to normal and be fine (sarcasm).

my death or the deaths of my family or friends wouldn’t be us “falling by the wayside”, it would be us being failed by our government, healthcare systems, and communities who have refused to take coronavirus seriously despite mounting anecdotal and scientific evidence of the harm this virus does. fact that people can accept the deaths of vulnerable groups just because they want to eat in a restaurant or don’t want to wear a mask is horrifying

#yall can reblog this #for those of you touting community care or progressive values or allyship to marginalised communities #i better see y’all masking #it goes without saying that if you can’t mask then my saying mask up does not apply to you #but for the people who can mask please do so to protect yourself and others #masking up also protects people who aren’t able to mask #I’m just so tired of being told that death to a virus that is preventable via masking and air filtration and proper testing availability to #prevent spread by allowing people to stop their chain of transmission #is just. fine. like all these people will die and apparently that’s fine and actually a great thing #also. with one or two covid infections formerly healthy people enter vulnerable groups. because the studies coming out right now and #what we know about long term sars1 effects (because covid is not a cold or flu. it’s sars2. it’s severe accuse respiratory syndrome) #are showing that the long term effects on the bodies of people who have had covid will be disasterous #and if covid had been properly felt with then maybe only some people would be facing that reality. but the amount of people who have been #infected not just once but multiple times. with some people having close to double digit numbers of infections. means that the amount of #people looking at sars2 long term symptoms could be quite a large group #coronavirus #my post

[irenespring]

Me: I'm going to get back into writing fanfiction for a fun creative writing outlet, while I work on other humanities and social sciences in classwork :) Also me: Has now read at least one official medical study, multiple interest/support group and government reports, and several online testimonials re: House's possible amputation vs. non-narcotic pain treatments sans amputation, and now has a pretty good mental chart going of decidedly STEM things.

I have been tricked into researching STEM. Creative writing has betrayed me.

#house md #gregory house #fanfiction #hatecrimes md #if anyone is interested my research so far: it seems like while phantom limb pain is likely #it is manageable using the same things he would otherwise use + other things not otherwise available #and is more likely to go away and/or be less severe #the study conducted using data from people who suffered multiple kinds of chronic pain shows 81% were glad they amputated #not to mention that the House TV show “we create medical fact” ethos suggests House has a random cure for phantom limb pain #based on that one s6 episode #I now know many weird medical things that I only sort of understand but could possibly be used in writing #Is this what being a House screenwriter feels like? #This explains why some episodes are medically dubious: a bunch of humanities majors with loose grasps of medicine just rolling with it #Anyway I'm still unlikely to write a longer fic about this specific issue unless I do more research over time

[just-a-creep-babe]

THE ENDING OF PART 19??? HELLO???

Now, I am REALLY curious (esp as I thought Jackie boy marking her would just have her be naturally more drawn to her) as to her hot and cold personality bc one moment she is sleeping with him then the next she is ignoring him and sleeping with Masky and Hoodie 😭(Still on the fence bout Jeff tho 😭)

I am honestly SO HYPED for the re-write in Y/N's POV bc theres gotta be something and ngl I am looking forward to it!

YESSSSS IM mAD HYPED TO WRITE (Y/N)s POV!!!

I’m also planning on drawing one of the scenes in the part & making it like,, that part’s “banner” or wtv for (y/n)’s pov 🥹🥹

So I’m v V excited & it gets me excited all over again to hear someone looking forward to it!!!!!

#truly just excited to draw more shirtless ej #^ ^ hehe #the only thing is #I’m considering putting it up on patreon #and only having some tidbits & like a chapter here & there available for everyone #because as much as I love doing it #it’s a lot of work #and having some mometary compensation also means I can put more time & effort into making it better #im thinking maybe redoing the patreon but just for longer stories or smthg idk #lmk what you think!! #anywho waaaaah tyyyyyy!!!!! #💓💗💖💗💓💖 #a demon’s ask #creepanswers #creepypasta

[teplejtrouba]

i have managed to actually do a hobby for the first time in months. yippee

#executive dysfunction and depression are kicking my ass #like severely. i am apathetic about everything and so so tired. things that brought me the most joy are no longer available to me #like. i love you so much you are so important to me but i no longer have the ability to care or do anything about it #things i love the most are behind a glass door that i can't unlock. or break. #sewing and embroidery especially are like. things i very much love and aspire to do but they are SO time and energy consuming #i don't have the patience #i stayed up till 4 am listening to lenka králová's interviews with trans people and it made me a little hopeful #currently transition doesn't really feel possible and i kind of just want to die so. hearing from others who made it was important #i also appreciated the comments #because a lot of them are from cis people. who didn't really know things about trans people but are learning thanks to lenkas channel #and after hearing a bit about our lifes their reaction is usually to applaud the strength we have. to be ourselves #and it's heartwarming to read. that there are people who learn. and can empathise in some way. that not everyone hates us #'you only have one life and no one else is going to live it for you. so you better be yourself' or something along that was in one of them #most of the comments under every video are just people saying how beautiful Lenka looks and yeah. true #i love her

[wutheringmights]

i just put like 10 books on hold at the library because i need motivation to finish reading this book I've been stuck on since January and none of the books in my TBR stack are enticing enough

#i really badly wanted to check out the captive prince by cs pascal (sp?) but it's only available for ebook #i put a request in for a physical copy but alas. who knows if they'll get it #me rambling #all the books i bought last year are very.... intellectual??? very stuffy. i just want some fun things right now #me reading

[gorgynei]

Do you have any werewolf media recommendations? Books, shows, movies, anything regardless of age. I really need something to sink my teeth into, and you know your werewolf stuff.

oh YES i definitely do. here's a list of stuff i enjoy and recommend, grouped by type for ease, with my personal favorites starred ^_^ these range from very very good to mediocre but fun to watch anyway

SHOWS: teen wolf (2011-2017), wolfblood (2012-2017)

MOVIES: an american werewolf in london (1981)* , werewolves within (2021), wolfwalkers (2020)*, viking wolf/vikingulven (2022), silver bullet (1985), ginger snaps (2000)*, wolf children (2012)*, dog soldiers (2002)

BOOKS: lycanthropy and other chronic illnesses by kristen o'neal*, rules for werewolves by kirk lynn*

also worth noting are the werewolf pride movement by caitlyn b. giacopasi and the werewolf: past and future by maegan a. stebbins which are much more like theses than media, but great reads if you want really awesome historical analysis of werewolves

#teen wolf is prob the worst thing on this list. the first season is the only good part really #i super recommend reading the werewolf pride movement if u are at all interested in trans werewolves its super super awesome and #very about that concept. u can just google it and its available online bc its just a university thesis and not a published book #anyway. yeah :-) #im probably forgetting some things tbh #askbox of inquiry #werewolf

[protoformx]

my boyfriend made a shit ass fruit tier list so i, who am seriously allergic to nearly every fruit that exists, am making a correct one!

#kass speaks #i can legitimately only eat about like uhh #10 things off this list without processing them heavily in some way but i used to be able to eat anything!!!! so i know what they taste lik #and all fruit is gifts #a lot of what i haven't eaten isn't often available where i live but also it's very hard to try new things cause im allergic to everything #so like its very scary to have to see how badly I'll be allergic

[ohsalome]

Using pics of children crying/"crybaby" as a form of insult is a very conservative and nasty spirited bully sort of thing to do. Just deeply strange seeing it from someone on the left. I've followed your blog and had a lot of respect for a long time but really?

You've followed me for a long time but don't know I'm a toxic insufferable bitch?

#response #since this needs to be adressed: i am willing to talk things through #but some people are unreasonable #I've been in too many pointless arguments when two people are just talking to themselves to no avail #it is a waste of time and emotion. i am attuned to the signs that a conversation can turn that pointless way #and in such case choose either to walk away or make fun of the person #in the case you're talking about the person in question was not only acting unreasonable but also barking up my friend #and also the persons politics are determined by their beliefs and actions not the memes they use

[fictionadventurer]

Good news! The channel that plays only old History Channel documentaries had a day entirely devoted to American presidents, so I have a lot more president facts to share with you!

(Important note that I have fact-checked nothing. I am only spouting off trivia the way I would if you were here for me to info-dump at).

Andrew Jackson's wife died soon after he was elected president, and he believed her death was caused by the vicious attacks against her during the election. Because he apparently lived his life as though he were a Shakespeare character, he said something along the lines of, "On the grave of this saint, I forgive all my political and personal enemies, but as for those who slandered her, they must look to God for mercy."

When William Jennings Bryan ran against William McKinley in 1896, he went on an epic nationwide whistle-stop campaign. Though he never drank alcohol, he reeked of liquor throughout his tour--because he was using gin as a deodorant! Instead of stopping to bathe, he would wipe himself down with gin to mask his body odor.

After Harry Truman, it became the practice for both presidential nominees to get security briefings months before the election, so when they came into office they'd be up-to-date on world events--with the understanding that all this info was strictly confidential. When Richard Nixon heard that LBJ's administration was putting together peace talks to end the Vietnam War, he went to the South Vietnamese and told them to refuse to go to the table, because if they waited until he was in office, they'd get a better deal. LBJ found out and told the head of the Republican Party to tell Nixon to stop it, because this was treason. Nixon called LBJ back and said this story was untrue and he had nothing to do with any such actions. LBJ knew he was lying, but only because he'd been secretly recording sessions with the South Vietnamese, so he couldn't do anything without exposing his own actions. Because of this, South Vietnam never came to the bargaining table, and the war dragged on more than five years longer.

When Ronald Reagan was shot by an assassin, Soviet submarine activity increased near US shores, and people thought this might be part of a Soviet attack. George Bush, the vice president, was (I think) in Texas at the time, and immediately started flying back to Washington, but his plane didn't have a secure phone line, so he couldn't be in charge of the country, and people weren't sure who was next in line. Both the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense believed that they should be in charge. The press also wanted to know who was in charge, but the press secretary was doing a terrible job at the press briefing, essentially saying that they didn't know who was in command. The Secretary of State then sprinted into the briefing room, took the microphone, and assured everyone that there was a clear chain of command, and he was in charge. The only problem was that he was wrong--he'd completely forgotten that both the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate ranked ahead of him.

At the time this documentary was made (2016), Dick Cheney held the record for the shortest presidency. The president is allowed to temporarily hand over power to the vice president if he's going to be incapacitated. George W. Bush made use of this rule twice when he was going in for colonoscopies, so Dick Cheney served as president for a total of four hours.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #i was babysitting the nephew who was very very fussy #so i was stuck in one room for hours with tv on in the background #this happy coincidence made it rather enjoyable and nephew now has a good grounding in american history #only trouble was that once i finally got a reprieve from babysitting i wanted to keep watching the documentary about elections #they were just about to start lincoln! #i watched through lincoln and mckinley's elections and then even i'd had enough #the lincoln stuff lined up well with what i've read #and i was very glad to have read it because i wouldn't have followed their telling if i didn't have background #i had a minor issue with a line about 'a series of weak presidents had appeased the south for years with compromises' #when zachary taylor's face showed up in that line-up i yelled at the tv 'zachary taylor never compromised on anything in his life!' #the slander! #it's also interesting to see old documentaries and how history changes #the one about early presidents was from 1996 and pushed the 'harrison died of pneumonia after his long inaugural address' narrative #jefferson's slave mistress story was only 'many historians believe this to be true' and not 'tear-down-his-statues settled fact' #among other things this experience made me more appreciative of the merits of broadcast tv #even if these things were available on streaming i'd never pick '1996 presidential elections documentary' on my own #i need some guy desperate to fill airtime to curate this for me

[stim-burrow]

Never sent a request to a stimboard, but I'm curious...

Stimboard for knitting and 1960s computers?

Knitting and 1960's (I think?) Computers stimboard for anon! 🌱

I hope this is good! Sorry I took a while ^^,

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#stimboard #stim blog #hand stim #white stim #black stim #visual stim #knitting #knitting stim #brown stim #grey stim #gray stim #computer stim #typing stim #had to make some of these gifs myself because there was only like 2 gifs available of these things #or at least what i assume was being reffered to #i really hope i got it right #request

[panharmonium]

“it would be meaningless if the citizens of the hidden leaf are dead” 

WHO is this root operative???  i need to know more

danzo is listening to this like ‘god no not another one who’s ready to have a life-changing chance encounter forcing them to re-examine their ideology and reject their misguided beliefs in favor of joining hatake kakashi’s found family; not again’

#naruto #pan watches naruto (again) #* #padmerrie and i got to this point in our rewatch last night and we both looked at each other like WHO IS THIS #in all seriousness though this is so interesting #in that it shows that there are other root members who are starting to ask Questions #like yamato did years ago #and like sai did more recently #i spend a lot of time thinking about post-4th war root #and about the enormous challenge of reaching them/connecting with them and rehabilitating/reintegrating them into society #and this makes me wonder if pain's attack had a similar effect on them that (in my own mind) sakumo's suicide had on the general population #in that it's a bit of a wake-up call #and even though it doesn't revolutionize society overnight it does make people start questioning certain things #and maybe make them more receptive to potential changes in the future #(and unrelatedly it's also really interesting to see how few agents there are here. only 16 in this scene) #(i'm sure danzo has some others scattered around doing his dark bidding in other lands) #(but i also assume that he's currently speaking to all the agents available in the village right now) #(and that makes sense bc if the foundation was officially 'disbanded' it would have been much harder for danzo to acquire new recruits) #(it's just interesting to think of the foundation as kind of a dwindling force) #(and danzo's bid for hokage as a kind of last-ditch desperate power grab) #(because his ideology IS losing and being pushed out in favor of changemakers like kakashi and naruto and tsunade etc) #(and popular opinion is changing with them)

[savetheghost]

IM THE LEGAL OWNER OF A QUEST 3 NOW

#quest 1 got deprecated and i was tellin my dad about trying to find some way to use it with the shit i want to use thats not available #and he just. #got it. #and was like lol have fun #AAIT FUCK I CAN PLAY AMONG US VR #i only had the quest 1 cause a dude was like hey this things broke i got a new one i bet you can fix it #and i fixed it #and its mine #still probably can use it for pcvr its not a total hunk of junk #but its kind of a hunk of junk #the visual glitches are kind of fucking intense on it #real unreality moments

[killjoy-prince]

Merch and Manga haul from yesterday

#prince's talk tag #ok so the kaeya keychain and white rabbit!len were gifts from my friend i was with yesterday #the len was a from a blind box so they got lucky with that one #but the rest of it i bought yesterday #i saw wxs!miku and my friend was like 'You're getting her. you have to get her!' and so i did #niigo!miku wasnt available only wxs and vbs and this was the last one there #kino currently has these 10th anniversary pins in two styles and you can see both with the kanji and naoto pins #i like the style of kanji's more but they didnt have that style for naoto so I had to get the other one #next time i go ill see if they have the other style #the other three charms in the pic i got at a secondhand bookshop that also has anime merch #i dont do a3 but i do know some things bc of my mutual (LC if you see this hi hi! o/ ) #but i thought the charm was cute and it was cheap so i bought it #the rin one was really nice im happy i found it #bc all these charms were mixed in the many rows of hooks they were hanging on. theres no order you just gotta dig for what you want #and lisa was one of my faves when i played bang dream so i got her too #ok now the manga!! im continuing my gekkan shoujo collection bc i will own this whole series its my favorite series ever im so serious #i had hirano and kagiura and twilight out of focus on my wishlist but they came out too close to xmas and my bday to get for it #and then i forgot they came out already until i saw them and decided to get them #i didn't know spy fam got a novel and since thats another series i wanna own everything of bc thats my second fav series ever #i bought it and im interested in seeing whats the story #bottom right im really enjoying that manga and theyre skinny so i can fit a bunch of them :D #bottom middle with the sticker on it my friend knew about it and recommended it and i wasnt gonna buy it #but kino were giving out stickers if you bought the first volume and i love bonus merch sooooo i got it #the two in the bottom left i got at the secondhand bookstore. theyre both yuri anthologies that ive read about in other yuri series #and i hadnt seen them at the other bookstores so i got them at the secondhand one #and bc i bought so much stuff i needed a bag and i saw that cute one of miku baking cookies with her friends faces on them so i got it #it was a fun day!! :D

[quietwingsinthesky]

I mean rn I wish you would write a fic w a description of 11089 so I can draw them 👉👈 :lookingaway:

bold of you to assume i even know what they look like alsjfjgljdksk

things i know about 11089’s appearance (revealed to me as if receiving prophecy):

1) You know those posts about how the ultimate image of androgyny in our society ends up being people who are skinny and hairless and sexless? so there’s our starting point, the horror story of that being forced upon you because it’s more useful for you to be as similar to the rest of the crew as possible because then you can simply be quantified by the amount of resources you can provide versus those you take. because every single time i think about this spaceship, it becomes an even more dystopian situation because how else would they survive when they were underprepared and have no way of getting help.

1a) what i’m saying is there’s a very good reason they’re instantly fascinated by visual modes of self-expression like dyeing hair. (similarly fascinated by other bodily changes, whether natural, like when Donna gets a burst of freckles across her face when she’s been out in the sun, or unnatural, absolutely transfixed by piercings and good for them.)

1b) they are going to be so much better off once they’re living on the TARDIS and can put on some weight and some muscle from running around with aliens and let their hair grow out all fluffy and uneven (and eventually accidentally turn it orange through hair bleach mishaps and keep it that way)

2) related, but they tend to prefer bright colors on other people rather then themself, for the most part. fun sometimes but attention-grabbing in a way that layered shades of gray are less so. so however they dress, it’s with a trend towards darker colors with little splashes of brightness from accessories or such.

3) set in stone for me now is the idea that where this story ends up going is ‘Someone Has To Keep An Eye On Donna And Her Completely Human Friend, John Smith’. If a Donna can’t survive being a human metacrisis or whatever with all the Doctor’s memories in her little human brain, why should Ten 2.0 be any different. Donna gets mindwiped, but Ten Again goes voluntarily to keep living, to stay near her, a measure that will mean if her memory starts itching her about some ‘Doctor’, she’ll associate his face with John instead and stop digging.

Which wraps back around to 11089 because I’m now very attached to Another Ten getting FOB watched and 11089 wearing it on a chain at all times. It’s definitely a totally normal and reasonable burden for them to carry their friends’ lives around their neck. this is very healthy behavior and does NOT show a lack of ability to set boundaries in situations that will end up hurting them or a need to prove that they can be useful that overrides everything else. they’re fine. this will not end up going horribly wrong as the guilt of hiding these things from people they love gnaws at them, and they start looking for any other solution only to find dead end after dead end and get desperate enough to start thinking ‘well, if the doctor couldn’t figure it out, maybe if we had another timelord-’

3a) but that’s not important. what’s important is watch on a chain that they can never ever open.

#PART FOUR) in the super secret self-indulgent third act of this story that only exists in my brain. they end up getting injured a lot. #you know because of the [REDACTED] after jumping into the [REDACTED] to avoid the consequences of their actions. #fun thing about not being at the future seasons of doctor who yet is that i can just make shit up with the information i have available #does later seasons contradict it? probably. but im not there yet so its my town babyyy. the entirety of the secret third act that is only #canon to this OC on tuesdays and thursdays is that i don’t know so im making shit up. #which means until im proven otherwise i can imagine that 11089 gets to spend a decade in [REDACTED] with [REDACTED] learning basic #boundary setting. because they hate him. and also becoming a worse person to survive. and getting some fun scars along the way. #we are so far from the basic premise of ‘oc who falls in love with rose’ its so funny to me. that is still a thing that happens its just. #theres More here now #ask #dw oc

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Princess and the Fangirl

YA contemporary prince & the pauper set at a convention

follows a fan who wants to save her fave character from being killed off, and the actress playing her who’s desperate to be free of the intense franchise

when they’re mistaken for each other they instantly hate each other - but after a script is leaked, they swap places to try solve each of their problems - and start to see the fandom from the each other’s perspective

light (since they know each other for like 2 days) f/f & m/f

this is so deeply mid-2010s fandom tumblr. lmao.

#a little cringe yet nostalgically entertaining.... #The Princess and the Fangirl #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i read this bc i was looking for available audiobooks and this was vaguely on my backlist of aspec books #bc the sapphic girl is supposedly demi-coded - tbqh there’s like maybe one and a half lines that vaguely implies it #I don’t feel like it’s worth recommending on this basis (and since the thing is set over a weekend I would call her greyspec not demi) #it definitely has the silly drama that i praised the last 2 ya contemporaries i read for not having skdjgkjf #the fangirl mc is. a little bit of an insufferable tumblr fangirl. also her parents are con parents so maybe it's inevitable #there’s a ‘my makeup is my armour’ moment….lmao #it kinda talks about misogyny directed at female stars but not about racism which. felt like a bit of a gap #FAR too many HP references. #‘this only happens in kdramas or YA novels’ beloved. this is a ya novel #would have loved more of the artist alley content LMAO #i will say the artist gets an 'ugh too expensive I'll just print it' comment and just shrugs it off without bitching about it. unrealistic #one thing about the AA is ppl love to bitch about things privately LMAO #there's no way you could spend a weekend with someone you've known for years online and not realise it's a different person... #there’s definitely some stuff about fandom and fan culture that’s still relevant #anyway. I think this is more entertaining to read Now than it would have been when it came out (which was only 2019 tbf but..) #and I wouldn’t have read it not on audio. #the thing is people are like ‘wahh pop culture references will age your book!!!!’ but everything ages every book. #and having a book be such an encapsulation of a certain time can be fun and interesting actually……. #obviously sometimes it can be an uncomfortable way (the hp refs in here were a bit) but like. #you know what i mean. nostalgia. that WAS how things were. still are in some cases. why not have books reflect that #will say im so glad i spent those tumblr fangirl years mostly with 0 local conventions LMAO #by the time i started doing cons regularly (not long before i started selling in AA) i was a bit more mature #have to say when it references TAZ i had to pause and laugh for a second akjfhjkds