Just adding this so I can have it as a pinned post. Includes links to things like my TikTok, YouTube, various Amazon wish lists, etc. 

People out there really trying to compare Bruce Wayne to Elon Musk when Lex Luthor is right there. Even after confronted with all the good Bruce tries to do both as Bruce Wayne and Batman.

Sorry, folks, but Bruce Wayne is DC Comic's Dolly Parton. Lex Luther is Elon Musk.

I have this head canon that if the immortal type vampires like Lestat, Dracula, etc, were real and walking amongst us today, no matter how evil and detached from humanity they might be otherwise, they really and DEEPLY despise anti-vaxxers. Especially the older vampires who remember what life was like before vaccines and probably even lost loved ones to diseases like measles and polio back in their mortal days.

I can just see it now -

Van Helsing: "UNHAND THAT WOMAN, DRACULA! I, Abigail Van Helsing, will not allow you to turn her into one of your unholy brides!"

Dracula: "Bride? Bride?! You think I'm going to take this - this - KAREN - for a bride?! This brainwashed bitch believes vaccines cause Autism so she didn't vaccinate her children, then she PURPOSEFULLY exposed her youngest to measles and sent her to daycare sick where there were children too young to be vaccinated and at least two who are immunocompromised! Thanks to her three children are dead, five are in the ICU, and two are sick! I'm not going to turn her into a vampire. I'm going to drain her then put her impaled corpse on Jenny McCarthy's lawn as a warning to all anti-vaxxers out there!"

Van Helsing: *putting away her vampire hunting gear* "You know what? Carry on. I'll see you when there's an actual human being to save from your clutches."

So I did a video as my vampire character, Claire Donovan, progeny of Jack Townson, over on my TikTok, talking about the folklore how vampires are supposedly compelled to untie knots, ending with the idea of presenting a vampire with the mythical Gordian Knot. The comments are giving me major giggle fits!

You've got some people talking about presenting a vampire with their tangled Christmas lights, tangled electric cords, and tangled yarn. But the majority of comments are either about the type of knotting you find in spicy monster fucker fiction or garlic knots.

I feel folks on Tumblr could make some sort of sexuality scale out of these comments. All I know is it's got me craving garlic knots.

Imagine if the infamous Glasgow Willy's Chocolate Experience had the Dashcon ball pit.

My coworkers and I decided that Shrek is a Dungeons And Dragons campaign gone wrong.

Shrek is either a Druid since his intention was to protect his swamp or a Cleric who's god is the swamp.

Fioana is a Way Of The Open Hand Monk.

Puss In Boots is a Rogue.

And Donkey, who creates distractions by singing and dancing and successfully romances a dragon, is a Bard.

We didn't discuss Lord Farquaad or the Dragon's alignments but I think it's pretty obvious that Lord Farquaad is The Big Evil Guy and the Dragon is the beloved NPC the party adopts.

Awhile ago I went down a research rabbit hole trying to prove that Mina and Lucy in the novel Dracula would've been a weight and body type that in the modern era would be considered fat. (Like around 135 pounds. Not actually fat, but fat according to modern beauty standards.)

While I never found proof that they would be "plus size" according to modern standards but considered normal size in Victorian England, I did find other Victorian England beauty standards that blew my mind.

It was the style for middle and upper class Victorian ladies to have at least one tattoo. Sometimes easily hidden by their clothing, but if you could get her completely naked you might find a butterfly tattooed on her butt.

Upper class Victorians of all genders often removed ALL their body hair in order "to look as pure as a marble statue." While safety razors didn't exist, obviously, waxing, sugaring, threading, and even depilatory creams have existed for hundreds if not thousands of years. (In fact, it wasn't unusual for our cavemen ancestors to remove all their body, facial, and even head hair in the hot months as it reduced both parasite infestations and skin infections.)

Which means a dude like this -

might be completely hairless from the chest down.

That's right, this guy might've made visits to a Victorian waxing parlor to get his arms, chest, back, legs, and even balls & taint waxed.

What a visual.

Tip: If you see your public library in disrepair don't complain to the library staff, complain to your city council. 99% of the time the city owns the building & is in charge of all repairs of the building. 100% of the time they'll listen to the voting public over those who actually work for the library. Staff can put in all the repair requests they want, but it's the general public who can get the city to do the repairs. Example, one library I worked in the AC broke. Despite the temperatures being over 100 degrees Fahrenheit the city refused to have it repaired because "You can just open the doors." It wasn't until a patron complained that it was repaired.

*sighs* So I have a lot of old credit card debt that's directly related to veterinary bills for my dog, Molly, who passed away in June of 2023. She wasn't always a healthy dog and some of her bills were over $1,000. I'm trying to clear $2,000 worth of that debt - though it would be nice to clear more - and doing it with just my paycheck (which is only $490 every 2 weeks after taxes) - isn't working. A friend encouraged me to make a GoFundMe so here it is.

I'm ready for a dog again, but I need to clear as much of my debts because of Molly's bills as possible first.