I saw a post talking about how some of your mutuals will always be their url to you (even once you know their name), soooo

Please be normal

Vow 🪝

i'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy

Doing more than one? Choose whichever you found the most helpful. ❤️

Really been enjoying The Book of Hungry Names (there are amazing choose-your-own-adventures for grownups. Who knew!).

Here's a doodle of my disaster pup, Sierra.

New oc I’ve been cooking for a while and still need to study. Dami

hisuian typhlosion for @significantlylesschill ^_^

queer people who have done zero self reflection when they see someone who doesn't look fem in their space

ACTUALLY FUCKING THO

#the bioessentialism is gross and inescapable#‘oh i’m just not comfortable around this person bc i don’t know them!’#is that it? or is it that they’re masculine presenting and you only think of non-binary people as girl lite

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

Today I discovered that "bro visited his friend/the visiterrrrrrr" isn't necessarily a widely known meme outside of tumblr after I referenced it irl and seemingly came across as a complete maniac, ironically exactly creating the circumstances of the original meme

What this looked like

Because I've recently had one of those "your experiences are not universal" moments, please humor me

If anyone wants clarity on the distribution of thunderstorm conditions

hey quick question. Does this graph imply that a good chunk of the US has two to four MONTHS worth of thunderstorms every year?

Because like, yeah, we've got a few times of year where we expect something on the neighborhood of one or two a week (or sometimes a week off and then three days straight), but I am having a hard time believing that we deal with thunderstorms for 1/6 or more of the year.

That is indeed what it's saying! If you're interested, there's tons of info. For example, Florida has several months of pretty much daily thunderstorms every summer.

And I mean, "Florida" is a big area, and not every thunderstorm is big, noticeable, or right over your head. Not every rainstorm is a hurricane. You (I presume) do not have radar detectors strapped to your head. But that's what the climatologists (who nobly bear the radar detectors for the rest of us, press f to pay respects) have found.

As a Florida native, the idea that there are places in the world where rain is common but thunderstorms are rare is mindblowing to me. I've gone my entire fucking life thinking of 'rain' and 'thunderstorm' as synonymous. Rain without thunder and lightning isn't really rain to me, just a light shower.

I am in my mid 30s and I am legitimately learning for the first time here that places renowned for frequent rainfall like the UK or the PNW are largely experiencing thunder-less rain. Like... what the fuck? You might as well have told me that in other parts of the world, the sky is green and the grass is purple.

based on a quick google search, iowa experiences about 100 days of measurable precipitation per year (including snow, sleet, hail) and 30-60 thunderstorms per year depending on region. so probably around half of the rainy days i’ve ever experienced have been thunderstorms of some caliber. it absolutely blows my mind to think that there’s rainy places where thunderstorms are uncommon enough that someone might have experienced less than 10 EVER. it’s… just wet?? no noises?? no flashes?? just wet????????

heraldic beasts

Commission for @pango-doots of the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx.

I saw recently someone accuse nonbinary people of "riding the coattails" of binary trans people, and I cannot emphasize this enough: take my coattails, hold them in your hands, pull yourself up by my bootstraps. Together is how we thrive, together is how we fight, together is how we win.

There are queer people out there who when they see another branch of the queer community either succeeding or receiving support, their reaction is to try and pull them back down. The logic is often: if I had to suffer, so do you.

If I could give a piece of advice to anyone just entering the queer community, it would be: be wary of people who want suffering more than solidarity.

Remember, in this community, we are not here to fight for scraps, we are here to rise together.

Also, goddamn, maybe people could take the time they wanna use to make ignorant posts about enbies, and instead use it to read some seminal trans writing?

Like, I dunno.... Transgender Warriors? Trans Liberation? Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation? Boys Like Her: Transfictions? My Gender Workbook?

Just off the top of my head.

All of these are 90s trans books that helped shape the movement. All of them are by and about enbies who have been major figures in the trans movement.

We've all been building this together, hand in hand, the whole entire time.

We're always gonna have a handful of people who have grasped binary transness and nothing else. We're always gonna have to point them towards the rest of our collective reality.

But seriously, it's RIGHT THERE. (And you can read a lot of it for free at openlibrary.org.)

"came back wrong" but it's food that you heated up in the microwave

OK SO

For anyone who hasn't heard my Microwave Rant:

Microwaves are designed to be used at a broad range of power levels. If you're getting bad results reheating your food, and you're doing everything on full blast, try a lower power setting! 50% power for twice the time, just give it a shot. It gives the heat time to spread evenly, and prevents overcooking of parts that are exposed to more radiation.

People complain about reheated pizza a lot -- that's bc overheating the crust makes it tough and chewy. I usually do pizza on 30% power for THREE times as long because it's especially vulnerable -- and my crust always comes out nice and tender.

I think there's a good metaphor for Came Back Wrong here too: if you actually take the time to do your necromantic ritual and/or unholy experiment right, and don't rush it at 100% power, you're likely to get better results.