Okay I just had some trail mix yesterday and now I'm curious; for non-allergy reasons, which type of nut do you like the LEAST?? Feel free to say why in the tags, I wanna hear nut slander. (Nothing against folks with allergies, but I'm just curious to see results based purely on general enjoyment/taste rather than "this thing can kill me".)

(inspired by this one for the sake of full transparency)

If you think that's appalling, just wait til you hear about the accelerator.

Great news everyone. There was a kitten wandering in the drive thru at work and my inner warrior cats kid tried to be a hero and capture him.

I have now suffered multiple puncture wounds and have to go to the emergency room.

Me: I shall become his mother and gain his trust

Me talking to an animal control officer five minutes later: he is a nasty horrid little boy and I am bleeding heavily

Animal control officer on the phone: So he’s in your car with you?

Me: Um. It’s his car now and he’s very mad at me.

Second animal control officer: oh you captured him and got him in your car? He’s friendly?

Me, my right hand completely wrapped in paper towels: wouldn’t say that

Urgent Care Nurse: Wow it’s strange he managed to get you so many times.

Me: I uh. Did not let go.

You vibe as someone prone to toxic relationships

People on tumblr will just say anything huh.

Oh cmon, "he hurt me a lot cause i couldn't let go" absolutely has double interpretation.

Me, holding a cat (of unknown gender) as it repeatedly digs its little teeth deep into my flesh: Is this… too… yuri?

This website is free

We pay in other ways.

I understand the "I will die for you" ship dynamic, but what about the "I will not let you die, I will not let myself die- we will, at any cost, survive" kind of couple?

REBLOG IF YOU HAVE STRETCHMARKS

This way people can see they’re not alone. I have them and this would help me see that.

The person I reblogged this from deserves happiness and love

Behold…

✨WORLDBUILDING✨

Excuse me as I go insane over the fact that Cybertron is an inorganic-organic hybrid planet

doodled yet ANOTHER weird Wick variation, this one took on some vaguely tech qualities

genuinely so tired of the male love interest in every m/f romance being the most hugelarge tallman to ever growth spurt. I need to see some women swooning over little five foot five rat dudes who need to be tucked in their gf's pocket lest they blow away like a napkin in the wind.

Not to be a hopeless romantic, but was anyone going to tell us that 2023 was the year scientists were able to visualize quantum-entangled particles for the first time and they literally look like yin and yang??

Full article published in Nature Photonics here, though I read a lay reader friendly explanation here!

Plot Bunnies, Plot Chickens, Etc.

As a lot of people aren’t familiar with plot creatures, I thought I’d shed some light on the members of the mental menagerie…

The Plot Bunny - Story ideas that come bounding in and start multiplying.

The Plot Chicken - They squawk, flap around, and shit everywhere, but when you actually need to do something with them, they scatter.

The Plot Sloth - Takes its sweet goddamned time turning into something useful.

The Plot Mule - When you mash two plots together and get something cool, but you can’t get a sequel out of it to save your life.

The Plot Cat - Lazy little bastards who take up your headspace, scare away all the other plot bunnies, but won’t actually do anything except lay there.

The Plottweiler - Barks loudly and viciously so you can’t ignore it, distracts you from everything else you want to write, but leaves you too paralyzed with fear to actually put words down.

The Plot Squirrel - Cute, distracting, full of nuts, and just TRY to keep up with that train of thought.

The Plot Bedbug - Shows up during the night, chews on you so you can’t sleep, and disappears in the daylight.

The Plot Tick - Burrows in, bleeds you dry, and leaves you with the creepy-crawlies. Mostly preys on horror writers.

The Plotroach - Totally unappealing, but so tenacious they’ll survive anything until you finally give up and write them.

What Plot Creatures have you encountered?

The Plot Dolphin - Either something very intellectually stimulating and probably surreal, or porn without plot, no inbetween.

The Plot Fin Whale - It’s a longfic, but a surprisingly fast-moving one that just flows right out of you.

The Plot Dragon - A gigantic pile of your most treasured tropes that probably don’t go that well when mixed together haphazardly like that but so shiny

The Plot Gryphon - A crossover.

The Plot Chimera - An especially ambitious crossover.

The Plot Hydra - WHERE ARE ALL THESE SUBPLOTS COMING FROM

The Plot Salmon - A love story that ends tragically.

The Plot Peryton - That deathfic you don’t want to write because you like that character and don’t want them to die but its shadow will be cast upon you until you give up and write it.

The Plot Stick Insect - You thought the plot was going to do one thing but SURPRISE! The characters have decided to go in a completely different direction.

@blackkatmagic I found your zoo

The Plot Tribble - It seems unassuming at first. Small, and appealing, it purrs when you give it attention, which feels good, and what’s the harm? But it multiplies more rapidly than the plot bunny - once you feed it the slightest bit, you suddenly have ten plot tribbles.

The Plot Minipig - When you adopted it, you believed it would stay tiny, cute, and manageable. Instead, it keeps growing.

The Plot Cicada - loud as fuck and annoying, but after a while it disappears completely just to return out of the blue several years in the future.

The Plot Crab - Neat, a classic, comes in various slightly different forms. Somehow your other Plots seem to morph into its template. You are unsure why it keeps happening.