#guess which option I am :)

[hellenhighwater]

How many times did you burn yourself with the hot glue gun? If you didn't at all, how did you do that? I can't stop burning myself with it and it sucks, so any advice is appreciated

the video is sped up so you don't see the numerous times I just stuck my finger directly into the hot glue and went ow ow ow out of unthinking automatic habit. But it's on the heat callus of my fingers so it doesn't really hurt? I just am dumb.

Anyways the way to not burn yourself is to hold something far away from where you are applying glue, apply the glue, and then set it down and let things cool. This involves using patience, which I do not have, so instead I just stick my fingers in the molten plastic and keep working.

The smart choice is to work in phases, letting the glue cool and not trying to sculpt it with your hands.

I am maybe the wrong person to ask this question

#my solution to getting burned handling hot stage lights was to do it so many times i got heat calluses instead of just wearing work gloves #i am generally going for the dumb option in these sorts of things. #eventually most stuff has transitioned to LEDs so that's not even much of a thing anymore #but now i just use the heat calluses to hold pizza pans and do stupid things #which i guess is why i have them in the first place

[4letteraroace]

#valentines day #valentine #aro #aromantic #my second poll #guess which option I am :)

[newspecies]

"the vast majority of legal persecution against early queers was focused on men" ARE YOU INSANE

#rot.txt #DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG WOMEN WERE FORCED TO MARRY MEN OR DIE. HUH. WHERE AM I #this is from the section in the new hbomberguy video where he talks about james somertons misogyny and lesbophobia btw #SOMEONES BITTER THAT WOMEN KISS IN CARTOONS SOMETIMES!!! #AS IF THAT ERASES THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF MISOGYNY IN SO MANY CULTURES!!!!!!! GOOD GOD #sorry somerton is just so insanely stupid i cant get over it. why is he like that #like i dont know maybe this isnt important but i remember being asked as a kid to pick a greek city state to live in #but i was a girl. so none of them were good choices because apparently i would be forced to have children no matter which one i picked #and i guess it just stuck with me. if the boys liked to fight they got to pick sparta and if they liked to read then it was athens #but what did the girls get. a little more freedom in certain places but ultimately the same expectation. have babies or die #in hindsight there were definitely options in ancient greece #but my teacher didnt tell us that. we just had to write about whether we would like to have slightly more rights or not #OBVIOUSLY gay men have historically faced discrimination but saying that it wasnt as focused on women is just unbelievably stupid #sorry i dont know if any of this made sense #lesbophobia tw #misogyny tw

[mashmouths]

does anyone know how to stop the body from keeping score? i have shit to do

#i have shit to do but i'm so bad at both going to sleep and staying asleep that it's been fucking up my life for years at this point #yes this about accidentally sleeping through class this morning but in my defense i had an atomic tummy moment at like 6 am :( which is #kind of my point? an reason for missing sleep shouldn't stop me from participating in my own life and i'm tired of rationing my waking hours #if sleep was optional i would be unstoppable essentially but alas. alack even. specifically a lack of sleep. #girl all the saints have it out for me today for skipping church on a holy day of obligation i guess. well fuck those guys. #a post

[torahtot]

ok ive had enough of queering judaism. can we start judaizing queerness now. or something

#like. it feels like so much of this queering judaism shtus just layers an american/secular queer identity over judaism #which i guess is fine for certain communities. but it's only going to push you away from orthodoxy #and if as queer jews we already feel like our queerness makes us into secularized outsiders in our own communities #how does this help? is trying to get our communities to embrace an essentially secular american iteration of queer identity supposed to mak #us feel LESS like outsiders? it's not quite doing it for me #we need a queerness that comes from within judaism that is essentially jewish #ive seen a couple of articles recently from ppl talking abt how word/concept of butch doesnt exist in their language & culture #but they use it anyway #& like. i love being butch. it's important to me ill never give it up #& i am american too. but my whole identity as a butch he/him lesbian is exclusively secular american it came from the outsifr #which is definitely due in large part to the fact that my Gender Problems were really tied up w orthodox jewish gender roles #so naturally to get out of that i'd pull on something not jewish. but i wish there was another option? idk if that's possible #or how it would look #maybe that's why im obsessed w the idea of a butch w long curly payos.... 😦 #i forgot where i was going w this but yeah it's frustrating #this is a large part of why im wary of starting a queer Jewish club on campus bc the people who would wanna start it w mr #well no offense but they are insufferable about this #(incidentally they're also insufferable about chanukah. no surprises there) #nachi speaks #jew blogging #others have Actually written abt all this tho

[macrocosmus]

seeing a post about how rebagelling a post multiple times isnt funny and trying to calculate the funnist number of times to rebagel it...

#my options are 7 which is the best number or 20 which is how many times i queue color of the sky when i see it #or 50 which is the number of times they said in their post as a hyperbole which i can make literal #i am a pvper i guess #i need to have a lil michieve in my life plea

[archduke-enver-gortash]

trying to answer asks is sometimes like a serene walk through the forest in ideal weather ending in perhaps a picnic on a beautiful clearing, of course the benevolent picnic gods packed your favourite foods in this scenario as well, and sometimes it’s like devils ripping your skin off slowly and dunking you in salt and acid before roasting you over an open flame like a marshmallow and eating you alive.

#guess who’s trying to answer asks rn and which option applies #i wouldn’t be making this fuckass post if it was the first one i’ll tell you that much lmao #but. i am so sorry. you’re free to hit me with a newspaper or perhaps a wrapping tube

[kebriones]

The uni administration lost one of my grades for a class I had passed on my very first semester and now i have to redo it. And that lady literally looked at me like I was lying or insane and she was like "well what do you want me to do, the grade isn't there"

THAT'S Y'ALLS FAULT. SOMEONE FUCKED IT UP when the academic curriculum was changedd sob sob

Anyways i have to redo the architectural technical drawing class I'm gonna CRY

#she also forced me to apply for the pedagogics classes which are optional and I absolutely do not want them. #she was like what if you change your mind #?? #I'm literally on my last year #I am not going to change my mind #anyways I'll have to go through the trouble if applying to remove them when I get to my degree i guess #but i just don't understand what her deal was

[divorcedfiddleford]

i already know what the story behind the picture is but please explain it anyway we need to educate the masses

oh my god thank you for enabling me ive been thinking about this all day. regarding this post i made yesterday and this classic image (which i actually just found out was posted seven years ago today!)

basically as can be read in the post at BigFest in 2016 somebody had what i believe was a fan-made prop based on the laptop from season 2 of gravity falls. alex hirsch attended this convention and decided to type in the password to the laptop. we never learned the password in the show so lots of people were excited to find out!

a HUGE thing to note here is that journal 3 was still months away from releasing and in fact while a couple pages had been released as promotional material it was still being worked on until, like... gosh i wanna say may is when they finally started printing it? don't quote me on that though my point is that this was all taking place pre-journal 3 and, therefore, many fans were still operating under the (sensible) impression that the laptop which

had been designed by fiddleford

had been built by fiddleford

had fiddleford's name on it

said "PROPERTY OF F" on it (at this point it had been established through promo images that "F" referred to fiddleford)

was assumed to be fiddleford's by, like, four different main characters

was given to and used by fiddleford following s2e7

fiddleford presumably knew the password to

would also belong to fiddleford. right? i mean logically. logically, guys.

so when alex hirsch revealed that the password had been "STANFORD" all along, people thought that was a little bit... well

of course, a couple months later journal 3 would be published and it would say that the laptop had actually been STANFORD'S, not fiddleford's, and that he had made the password his own name. so technically i lied in my earlier post, there IS a heterosexual explanation for this, but imo it's still bullshit. like sorry i don't believe for a fucking second that stanford "i need to encode all of my messages in multiple ciphers and write in invisible ink" pines would ever make a password as simple as his own name. he wouldve picked like something with six different layers of alternate meanings and also put it through atbash at the VERY least. also as i listed above there is a LOT of evidence which would support the laptop belonging to fiddleford, as opposed to ford, which has this random retcon (and like... some of the computer keys are different colors? i guess?? idk that bit was stupid) as its only supporting evidence.

my theory is that, while writing the show, alex and the other writers had intended for the laptop to belong to fiddleford, but for whatever reason, when they were writing the book, they decided to make it ford's instead. i want to make clear that i DON'T think this swap was motivated by homophobia, or as a reaction to seeing people interpret the password in a gay way. by the time that this photo was taken several promotional journal pages had been released, so it's safe to say that even if they were still adding the finishing touches to the book, it was pretty much in its final stage and in fact might have already started printing (i think the first photos we see of the book itself were posted like a week or two after bigfest). so to assume that there's a correlation there is both unfounded and extremely unlikely.

now, the stargazing scene reprint, on the other hand

#long post #gravity falls #fiddauthor #<- why the fuck not. it's midnight no one can judge me #why are you as a man making your computer password the name of the man you live alone in the woods with #sorry anon i doubt think this is what you had in mind when you said “explain it” LMAO #tales of the wild zeep #uhhh a couple other notes #1. i do not know who made the laptop prop at bigfest. i assumed it was a fan but i wasn't there i really don't know #2. i said may is when they started printing the book but i have literally no source for that #it is a guess based on when promotional photos were being posted #3. i say “fiddleford presumably knew the password to [the laptop]” and i just wanted to explain my reasoning there #basically in s2e10 fiddleford says that he “fixed” the laptop and is shown using it #we also see it at the start of the following episode being used to monitor the activity of the portal #now. i am not a computer engineer. i am mediocre with computers at best. #but based on what i have been told. when you are faced with a password screen. there are two ways to proceed #one way is to reset the computer's hard drive entirely‚ to... “erase its memory” if you will #however this would result in one being unable to access any of the information which had previously been stored there #considering that we see fiddleford using the laptop to monitor the portal's activity i believe that its files must have been intact #so we can rule out resetting as an option #the other way to proceed is by. um. knowing the password. and entering it #so THAT'S why i say that he PRESUMABLY knew the password. #now it's entirely possible that he was able to hack into the laptop or something. he is a mechanical genius and he built it after all #i'm just saying that i think it's far more likely that he just. knew the password. #which is honestly really funny and still kind of gay if you believe the whole “the laptop was actually ford's” thing #why are you as a man telling your computer password to the man you live alone in the woods with when you wont even write it in your diary #fucking apologies for this OCEAN of tags. ive done taxes all day im an adult im allowed to infodump about old hyperfixations as a treat

[ourstarscollided]

You’re welcome to explain your answer in the tags!

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #jatppolls #dont ask me why the number categories are like this!!! there is no rhyme or reason to them!!! #been thinking bout this for awhile now. cause it didnt occur to me that I havent watched it since i netflix party’d it with Rosie in Sept #2021… which has been… a very long time. considering in 2020 after it came out i probably watched it over 100 times in full. #there’s just something that stops me from clicking play on the show and i cant put it into words. its just this feeling i get every time my #mouse or finger hovers over the show. i also got rid of netflix this past year too but that was quite recent and i do have a copy of it on #my ipad sksjsj idk #guess im just curious if anyon else is in this weird limbo. dont get me wrong. i am still enamoured by this show but rewatching it is just #smthg i havent done in a hot minute. maybe i should make Rosie do another netflix party with me 👀 #i feel like if i was more active in a discord or on tumblr i wouldve tried to watch it with mutuals but alas i am incapable of having free #time outside of work and life. #once again i am shocked that the answers are centred in the bubbles before u click on them and it bothers me?!? #alt option: i have rewatched the show aolely through gifsets 😌 #sunset queue #<- queuing this for some reason. idk what the reason is.

[mossflower]

okay not dropping out 👍

#mostly bc i am on my period rn and i stand by the idea that you should not make big life decisions while actively bleeding and feeling sad #but also my current two career options are a) writer. which is not a stable income source. and b) librarian which i need a degree for anywa #i mean there is c) astrophysicist but atm i would rather gnaw my own arm off than stay in uni a moment longer than necessary #i do not think i am built for academia let’s just put it that way. and you kinda absolutely need a phd for astro jobs #we’ll see in 2026 i guess. i know i want to work this summer and replenish my frankly depressing savings #but the summer after i might look at work experience and placements and see if there are any astro related ones #idk. i just miss home a lot and i’m always bored and stressed and every time i think about money i feel physically unwell <3 #morganposting #i wonder if anyone actually reads these. what even are they. diary entires slash record of mental decline?? idk #if you do read them just know that this was supposed to be a fandom blog not 60% diary. i’m sorry and i love you <3

[brown-little-robin]

#I am so pumped for next semester hohoho #so many good options #sadly though I checked and beekeeping isn't a thing in the spring semester... which I guess makes sense given y'know. winter

[coquelicoq]

today is the first time since i started playing that i think i might not be able to solve le mot wordle...i've got the first and last letter and i'm running through all the french phonotactic rules i know and i'm coming up with nothing. got two rows left but i don't even have any guesses. ô dictionnaire ne me déçois pas quand je suis dans le besoin...

#it resets at midnight france time which is like 4pm here i think. so at least i have some time #i was just thinking like two days ago 'wow i'm so good at french wordle. it's all that dictionary reading i'm doing' #you fool. you jinxed it #i do think french wordle is easier than english wordle assuming you are fluent in both. which i am not #but i DO have a really good sense of legal letter combos (because of the sheer volume of exposure i'm getting) #and so far that hasn't failed me. but today? idk guys. i guess that can only get you so far... #anyway the reason i think wordle is easier in english than french is 1) english has way more words. especially 5-letter ones #and 2) french spelling is actually incredibly consistent for the most part. whereas english...has a lot more options let's just say lol #but english wordle is easier for me personally than french wordle because english is my native language #[guy who didn't learn his lesson about not jinxing it voice] i've never lost wordle in english #french #games #to be clear i'm not looking up words in the dictionary to try to solve this wordle. i feel that would be cheating. #i'm just addressing my plea to the dictionary as i would to a god. you are supposed to always be with me you piece of shit #get back here and watch over me right now

[theygender]

I may be considering the crime of... Getting a business degree 🤢

#i Like my new job where i get to play in excel all day and i also like having financial security for the first time in my adult life #i was originally thinking about switching my major to sociology bc its another area that im interested in #but my mom may have talked me into considering a business degree as an option since sociology isnt a great fallback option... #the thought of majoring in business makes me gag tbh. but i mean... i DO like data analysis and there IS a masters for data analysis #and the bachelors degree in information systems would teach me new things about computers which might be cool #and they have an international business program that links in advanced study of foreign languages and cultures #and theres even a certificate program for sustainability that includes direct work with grassroots programs #AND all of this is intentionally made to be accessible to people who are already in the work field so i wouldnt need to quit my job... #...all of this plus a sociology minor (or double major if i can pull it off) is starting to look pretty good actually #BUT... can i withstand the pain of spending the next few years in classrooms full of business majors 🤔 #real talk tho i was wanting to use my social work degree to go into policy anyways which could mean government OR corporate #...if i get a business major i could potentially speedrun the process of getting into corporate policy to make a difference that way #and my sociology minor (or major) would still support that #fuckin. trojan horse the companies i guess #i am rotating the idea in my mind with the emotional state of that gif of someone trying kombucha for the first time #rambling

[jercythesiscrying]

oh the life of a tired writer who has a giant plot beautifully built up in their head but all they have to show for it is either

a) a bullet-point note/doc filled with typos, grammatical errors, and general nonsense instead of any actual creative writing;

b) an empty word doc;

or c) absolutely nothing bc the writer didn't have the energy to even open ms word/google docs/etc

❌ this blog is anti-AI generator. DNI if you want to tell op & other writers to use a bot ❌

#fanfiction #fanfic #writeblr #writer probz #writer problems #jercy speaks #.i actually have Complex Opinions™️ on ai but i'm not gonna hash them out here #.also lmao guess which option i am!! (it's C 🥴🥴) #.i just wish i could WRITE this damn fic 😑😑😑

[hajihiko]

So hey, so you think Soda apologized to Sonia for the way he acted in the game?

GOD I hope so. I hope he wakes up as an adult and regains a little bit of memories and realizes holy shit I was being an infantile jerk, Sonia you can punch me if you want and I promise I wont enjoy it

#Maybe he talks to Akane and hears about all her shit and she says something like #Some guys just see women as a prize and not as a person I guess idk #And hes like wow that's awf- W A I T. .......I'm the some guys. Or i was. Fuck. #There is a very special friendship that can come of this IF he shapes the fuck up. Which I think he has to if they're gonna be islanders #Only the 5 of them together for a while. #I also imagine Souda considers Akane as a flirt option fr 5 seconds and Hajime is like #Bro you're my best friend but hand to god if you start shit with Akane I am actually kicking you between the legs- #-LOOK AT ME I'm not kidding. Trust me. Soul friend. Look at me. Don't. #And that's my thoughts. #Not an art