#caffeinated ramblings

[captainspiggbo]

Caffeinated ramblings #?

I always feel weird when I don't post content for the things I actually care about, like I am supposed to just constantly babble. . . For who and what lol? Like there's no eyes on my personal projects (not a complaint to be clear - I prefer it that way? It's weird I know, it's a whole other thing XD), but I know when I do post stuff fandom related stuff it gets pretty good traction (not a brag by any means, just for a small ass blog like mine, 100+ notes is wonderful). . That comes to my next point though, I'm very bad with consistency in all things sooo when I do post something that does okay I immediately feel guilty, like I'm selling a false image. . There's no demand though and I'm placing all these expectations on myself. . I'm just really slow. . I love when people like what I post, just like any other artfully inclined person, but I can't seem to be motivated by likes anymore (gods I sound ungrateful, I swear I am so thankful for any and all interactions with what I post, please don't think I'm not 🛐). . I'm too much of a perfectionist for a consistently mid artist, I'd post a lot more if I could just get it through my thick skull that it will never be "good". . And that's okay? The only rats on this track are in my head and they're all in the shape of a different insecurity, I love them all, but gods the scratching drives me nuts. . I want to be untethered, but for that I'd have to detach my own brain stem and well. . That's dreadfully grim even in hypotheticals, eh? ಠಿ⁠ヮ⁠ಠ

#someone take this french press from me #caffeinated ramblings #am i ok? probably not #thanks for the read if you did but probably not lol

[roseinshadows]

I'm extremely high on caffeine so I decided to write a blogpost. (Probably the worst idea ever.)

Anyway. Language. Once again, upon visiting YouTube, I heard from various sources that somewhere, somehow, the right-wing people are screaming about Pronouns again. ...yadda yadda, if they knew Adverbs were a thing, their minds would blow, old joke, old joke. ...Joking aside, I' m quite worried that after this particular attack on Pronouns fails once again, they'll launch and all-out attack on Numerals eventually. They are anti-science, after all.

But I digress. This got me thinking of politically correct language in general. The right-wing folks keep saying that all this pronoun stuff and other PC language leads to weakening of expression.

Allow me to offer one counter-example.

Now, in Finnish language, we don't actually have gendered pronouns. There's no grammatical gender as such. Any notion gender exists only in purely descriptive nouns and adjectives.

One thing the people striving for politically correct language are trying to fix are gendered job titles. Which actually hasn't really been a huge problem in ages; even if there are job titles that end in -mies 'man' such as puhemies 'speaker of the Parliament' or postimies 'mailman' or lakimies 'lawyer', that's understood to be gender-neutral and nobody wants to bring back postinainen. It'd just make everyday life more complicated, no?

But the job titles are being phased out and there are plenty of good alternatives for them. Postimies already sounds mildly old-fashioned, too, as the term postinjakaja 'mail deliverer' became commonplace.

In fact, this dang soy-drinkin' commie PC term is actually a good example of flexibility of Finnish language. Ok, so posti doesn't change, but jakaja is an interesting word - derived from jakaa 'to split, share, deal, distribute', with the -ja suffix turning that into a description of a person. So jakaja is '(generally) delivery person, (in card games) dealer'.

See? This is a rich form of expression, contrary to the claims.

It can even be made epic. As said, lakimies (lit. "law-man") is still in use, but there are better words, like asianajaja 'advocate'. This can be broken down to asia 'matter, cause, case' and ajaja 'driver, handler' - which is derived from ajaa 'to drive, to steer'. I picked 'advocate' as the translation earlier because it's closest to The One Who Speaks For Your Case.

See, even boring everyday terms can have really complicated shit behind them. And I'm not even a pro linguist, they'll probably babble more about this shit.

Holy shit I wish I could afford something else to drink than instant coffee because this shit is making me trip balls creatively speaking aaaaaaaargh

#caffeinated ramblings #finnish language #political correctness #language

[mblue-art]

once again i was fueled with coffee (did not sleep the whole night) but this time i doodled college au to cope bc ofc i did (also did not feel like sleeping wooo)

#self insert #cross!sans #epic!sans #mblue art #cm #m rambles #(that tag is needed bc hoo boy u can tell i did not get sleep and is fueled by caffeine) #(do not be like me!!!!!!!!! do not deprive urself of sleep 💀💀💀) #(get a good 6-7hrs a day if u can. if 4-5hr works better for u then im not forcing u to sleep more 😤😤😤 as long as u rest well 😁👍) #(AND HYDRATE... if ur reading this try to take a sip rn 🥤) #campus au #(college au scenarios will be tagged that heehoo) #not colored just lines bby 😎😎😎 #idiots to lovers type shit where they both confide in epic n he's just chillin #waiting for the time when these dummies will finally confess to eachother themselves #(look i think it's rlly funny seeing cross be all cool calm collected in public but when he talks to epic abt his crush) #(he goes insane with a million different flustered/blushing emojis) #( 'they told me good luck on my test and gave me the nicest smile ever how was i gonna live after that' goofy ass. idiot /aff) #( 'DUDE THEY GAVE ME A MOTIVATIONAL NOTE. IN /PINK/ PAPER. ON CHOCOLATE. DOES THIS...... 😳' guys i love silly dorky cross to bits so much) #(man fucking explodes w his simping n epic just goes LMAO but he's v supportive for his bruh 💪😤) #(on the other hand my sona thinks he's sooo cool and awesome and smart and honestly fucking charming HHELLO THE TIMES WHEN HE LAUGHS AND) #(AND SMILES HELLOOO MR HANDSOME I MEAN WHATT) #( 'stars if he likes me back i wouldn't know what to do with myself. fucking EXPLODE? YIPPEE CONFETTI??' lots of flushge ) #(going ueueue at big bro epic bc they got a super massive crush on his bestie but) #(but the head is entertaining 'what-if's BUT i think kuya epic knows how to steer the thoughts away from those and smack em w teasing 😎✨) #(ultimately distracting and successfully reassuring them 😎😎😎) #(tsundere mblue no way not in here im down bad astronomically full on simping my guys) #(he might be a dumbass sometimes but he's my dumbass) (ok i'll shut up now fr) #anywayz campus au is the my highschool au but we're all adults and more tired yippeee

[takami-takami]

THE HAWKS COFFEE IS FUCKING REAL?!?!?!?!?!

#I FUCKIMG CANT DRINK IT CUZ I CANT HAVE CAFFEINE BUT. #I SCREAMED #🐇 rambles

[lazylittledragon]

hey quick serious question. how do you deal with what might be a genuine caffeine addiction and not in the fun quirky way but the "my brain doesn't feel like life is worth living until the coffee kicks in" way

#ramble #i've had coffee consistently every day for so long that i do not feel right if i don't have it anymore and i don't think that's good???? #as soon as i'm caffeinated my brain goes 'OH i want to do all the things and i love everyone and life is beautiful!!!!' #also i went one day without it a week ago and i had the most THROBBING headache the next day #is that bad

[nikoisme]

My personal take on Patrochilles is that they are both lovers AND friends. You know how a relationship often starts with a friendship first??? Well they never grew out of the friendship part of their relationship. But their relationship is neither romantic nor platonic. They just,,, are. There was never strictly a time where they stopped being platonic and started being romantic - the lines of the nature of their relationship are really blurry - as they grew older they just started displaying affection in different ways. There was never a need to put a label on their relationship. Because like,, why have Achilles lose just a friend or just a lover - when he could lose a lover, a friend, a best friend, a brother, a comrade, a partner-in-crime ALL in one??? Really drives home the idea of Achilles' grief and rage - he literally lost the man who was everything to him.

Long story short: qpp patrochilles (in a way)

#today on me not being able to grasp the concept of romantic love. #but do you know how much more fun this dynamic is. #“that's my friend achilles” “but you just made out??” “yeah. so?” #their dynamic is also a caffeinated owner and a rabid dog on a leash. good luck on figuring out who's who. #this is slightly incomprehensible i'm tired as fuck and i'm about to leave for school but i needed this out #hope i got the point across though #niko rambles

[post-it-notes7]

huh, so mir falspar wasn't sleeping due to Nightmares? we know he'd already been working himself ragged, but how closely did this latest version of insomnia match up with mir arthur's offer? (if so is it also safe to guess that timing lined up with his latest 'breakup' as well then..?)

Spot on anon, Mir Arthur's offer was about a week old when Mir Falspar finally hit his limit and found himself passing out and waking up in the infirmary (he's still not quite sure how he got there).

Mir Falspar wasn't necessarily sleeping well before that (the dreams aren't exactly a... new problem) but that was one of the worst bouts he's had in recent times. Mir Dragato thinks he only gets the occasional nightmare, just on the rough nights.

Mir Falspar would rather keep the true extent of it to himself.

#post's rambles #mir falspar #post's doodle bin #he's several layers of sleep deprived #probably a good time to mention that caffeine (unless in large quantities) has little effect on him (he'll drink it anyways)

[chaotic-warbler]

Robotgirl whose tits have been redesigned to lactate Monster because her engineer gf is too exhausted to just grab a can from the fridge after several hours of maintenance work.

#I dunno where the idea came from #I just miss the taste of battery acid after having switched to coffee for financial reasons #robot girl #lesbian #caffeine induced ramblings

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion

#in some ways it IS the move to go to grad school right out of undergrad #because your body can still sort of operate like a college kid #i’m on about 3ish hours of sleep rn and this morning it felt SO over but now i’ve eaten something and we’re so back #i also don’t really do caffeine. except sometimes i’ll go get one of those panera death lemonades #i might be able to snag a short nap before work #but anyway about seventeen year old emilie. i was thinking abt how she was in that movie solitude and adrien said she was seventeen #WAIT. NO. HE SAID SHE WAS SEVENTEEN IN THAT PHOTO ON HIS DESKTOP NOT IN THE MOVIE #well. okay whatever i’m gonna tell you what i was thinking about anyway #OKAY i’m back i just checked the wikipedia page and then i watched the end of gorizilla. to make sure i’m not lying. because i’m normal. #anyway i was thinking about the solitude film and how it’s super rare and old and obscure and whatever. and how apparently #emilie wrote it herself and andre produced it #and i’m thinking about how gabe was discovered by audrey and that’s how he got his start in the fashion industry #so now i’m like?? did gabe and emilie first meet on the set of solitude? because gabe was designing costumes or whatever? #and that’s how audrey found him? have people already thought about this?? #also i just checked and it doesn’t say emilie’s last name in the credits and also it’s ‘graham films’ with the twin rings logo m #so i’m assuming she’s still emilie graham de vanily at that point #anyway it comes back to seventeen year old emilie because i started imagining seventeen year old runaway emilie having her new life in pari #after escaping her british nobility life #and the first thing she does is write and star in an original movie. of course. #and she meets this repressed bisexual punk upstart costume designer who is so the opposite of everyone she’s ever known #and he’s immediately so unhealthily obsessed with her. which she appreciates. #and then they proceed to have the most toxic doomed evil relationship of all time #also she gets cheated because once gabe gets money he represses himself SO hard that he is now exactly like all the people emilie grew up w #but at least he’s still obsessed with her #this is what i was thinking about during class today. i don’t know how i get anything done either. #ml #anna rambles #asks

[s0fars0perfect]

look, i don't know how to tell y'all that it is SO beyond panera's "charged" lemonades just how badly we, as a society, have gotten about acting like caffeine just isn't that big of a deal

do you how much caffeine is in a celsius? or an alani? or a prime or a ghost or literally any other "healthy" energy drink that's on the market. yeah, they're all marketed as "healthy, clean caffeine" but you know how much caffeine is in just ONE of those cans?

200 mg. 200 mg, MINIMUM, in almost every single one of those drinks. some of them climb as high as 300 mg in ONE can of energy drink.

and that's not even taking into account how prolific the idea of pre-workouts have become in fitness circles. i used to work at a place that sold fitness powders like protein and creatine and pre-workouts. pre-workouts is a fancy term for caffeine powder that gets you really, really stimulated and is supposed to help you work out. which would be fine, if these powders didn't have up to 400 MILLIGRAMS of caffeine in two servings. sometimes even ONE SERVING. are you seeing what i'm getting at?

caffeine is fine, in low doses, everyone once in a while, but as a society, it is getting so out of hand just how easy it is for people to come across these drinks and not even GLANCE at how much caffeine they're about to drink. panera is just the most recent perpetrator of a problem that has been going on for quite some time.

#panera charged lemonade lawsuit #caffeine #caffeine addiction #ramblings #i just feel really strongly about this after having spent just #THREE MONTHS #seeing people mindlessly drink all these stuff #like it's no big deal

[harpieisthecarpie]

Harp rants about Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang AGAIN

The dichotomy of Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang in Link Click is, to me, a painful one that I understand both sides of. That I think is so meaningful, and wherever you fall within that dichotomy will tell you a lot about yourself.

The dichotomy

Lu Guang: I love you so much it makes me selfish Cheng Xiaoshi: I love you so much I can be selfless

Both matter. Both are perfectly okay to feel, to accept, to fall into. And what's wonderful about Link Click is that these mindsets both hurt them and heal them, but from what I can tell are never demonized or shown as wrong.

They see each other, even if they don't know all of the other's secrets. They don't need the answer to everything to love their best friend, their partner.

Not to be lame, but it's very much "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world" (Probably a Song of Achilles quote).

They orbit each other and I truly believe in any universe, any timeline Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang would find each other, not by fate but by sheer force of will. They have been irrevocably changed by each other's presence. There is something found in the other that nothing and no one else could provide.

It's why hands and their clapping is so important throughout the show, why there is so much focus on it. They reach out to each other, a show of vulnerability and trust. Fate isn't grabbing a hand. No, that's choice. That's real love. Through adversity I am with you. Every time I choose you. You are my choice. You are my choice. You are my choice.

I was talking to @fluffy-rulos and I ended up rambling something I think is neat. The vulnerability they show each other is truly "I give you the pieces of me that have been broken, the shards that cut into my hands. You could hurt me, stab me in the back, carve into my heart with them. But I hope you won't. I'll give you my faith and my trust. Know neither are blind." (All from me, baybeee)

Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang show love in different ways, feel it and know it differently, but ultimately it is the intersection of their devotion, their trust, and their dichotomies.

They are juxtaposed, oxymoronic, irrevocably interconnected ideas.

And they are both so, so, so human.

#link click #link click spoilers #shiguang daili ren #shiguang #guangshi #cheng xiaoshi #lu guang #sorry for the very long rant i am mad caffeinated #and i spent like an hour and a half rambling about lc with rulos #thanks rulos ily #also does any of this make sense????

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

so I've decided that maybe I shouldn't try to work through mental emotional and spiritual issues while on my period

#feelings get all whacky and also I'm vaguely lightheaded and crampy so like #maybe not the best time to try and work through things #also I'm having such a time today I'm genuinely considering buying a root beer for the sugar and caffeine to soothe The Horrors #and I like NEVER drink pop #EVER #I don't like it. root beer is the only kind I can really stand and I'm like. seriously considering it #my shift is only halfway done AND I have to go to someone's house immediately after work augh pray for me please #Lu rambles #adulthood woes

[soullessjack]

6am exhaustion posting but it’s very funny to me that jack is compared to so many serpents, the biblical serpent in the garden. the ouroboros. the black snake. and then he loves fantasy movies with heroes that crush villains. he reads fairy tales like sleeping beauty, fairy tales that predominantly have knights in shining armor slaying the dragon or the serpent. obviously with him wanting to be a hero he’d follow the KISH archetype, but also look. serpents are medievally satanic symbols. fairy tales are majority stemmed in European Christianity. He’s literally a dragon that wants to be a knight . A satanic if not Thee Satanic Serpent wanting to be a hero and a Knight In Shining Armor and actively partaking in slaying other beasts for acceptance. this vision came to me with caffeine and zero sleep but do you see it .do you see how this is insane and also funny. Do you understand it …..

#cal.txt #okay goodnight this took like an hour to write bc I couldn’t do words #I am not in a healthy state of mind or body 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 #I have a caffeine addiction and nonexistent sleep schedule and also I am . burnt out every other day !!!! #anyways . #spn #jack kline #spn ramble #spn meta #media tropes #knight in shining armor #dragons #ouroboros #the chicken and the snake #spn 14x14 #supernatural meta #animal motif #Plsase guys does somebody understand this #clutching my head and screaming HE JUST WANTS TO BE GOOD DESPITE WHAT HE IS !!!?!?!!?! #a monster that wants to be a hero . Do You Even Care . #suugghhjfjkgdg #maybe my gummies did kick in #it’s about fucking time it’s been almost thre hours #goondigjttt

[forestshadow-wolf]

Soap: *vibrating in his seat*

Gaz: what's wrong with you? What's happening here?

Soap: uhh...

Ghost: he just had 7 shots of espresso

Soap: *nodding vigorously*

Gaz: ... ah... I see

#inspired by a slightly exaggerated current situation #help #coffee #caffeine #espresso #john soap mactavish #kyle gaz garrick #simon ghost riley #call of duty #cod #cod mw2 #el rambles #incorrect cod quotes #incorrect quotes

[lazylittledragon]

Feel free to ignore if this is intruding but I remember you posting about dealing with caffeine addiction and I hope you're doing ok <3 Addiction is really hard to deal with so I hope everything is going alright for you!

!! thank you for checking in <3333

i haven't cut it out completely (i really don't think i'd be able to) but i'm still doing much better, i've cut down from 6 shots per cup to only 2. i've also changed my sleep/eating habits so now i don't feel like i need the caffeine as much because i just don't feel as shit anymore.

it's been very nice :3

#ramble #also yes that wasn't 6 shots per day it was PER CUP #which sounds. Insane thinking about it now #also i was SHOCKED at how seriously everyone took it. bc i really didn't think it was that bad #spoiler alert it was very bad #it's also done my IBS a favour because. wow #i'm thinking of switching back to cold brew because it didn't upset my insides as much as espresso does #tl;dr caffeine addiction is a very very very real thing and you seriously need to treat it like any other drug

[why-the-heck-not]

truly my best brain time is in the middle of the night caffeine & sugar rush. I think I just understood math, like some part of the general pattern of math if that makes sense. something clicked somewhere in my brain and I felt it

#idk this might sound like a sleep deprived caffeine up god complexed person's rambles bc that's 100% what it is #(it's vector & matrices I'm at currently bc got some algorithms to figure out and explain how those would apply to deal with EEG-data #in practice and I think I got like the basic thing that idk how to put into words; like the connections etc.) #I think it helped to have that EEG-data there to think things through with bc some context is always nice #I suck at just purely theoretical math #anyways feeling great & maybe I'm not the dumbest person on this earth after all #april 2024 #2024