Victor Frankenstein syndrome aka you spent nights over nights crying and bleeding over this work and now that it’s finally done you’re just like “nvm. it’s trash” and go to bed
some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.
I couldn’t remember the word “doorknob” ten minutes ago.
ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website
REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER’S LIFE
LIFE SAVED
REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE
I use this every time I sit down to write. It’s the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!
apparently i, who has never edited wikipedia in my life, nor has ever had any desire to, am blocked from editing wikipedia. my crime, allegedly, is block evasion. my ban will expire in 2027. i did not ask.
oh by the way the wikipedia administrator who banned me for absolutely no discernable reason i can tell did so at 23:19 on christmas day.
apparently he’s from alabama. which would make it early evening in his time zone. like bro go and eat with your family
i’m digging into this because a bitch gotta know and it looks as though my entire remote scottish region, population 40, is banned from editing wikipedia. this is due to “disruptive editing.” i presume that when we moved here the admin gods thought our new connection was an attempt at ban evasion and brought down the hammer mercilessly.
one of my neighbours appears to be in the ban logs arguing his innocence passionately and frequently. i am considering buying one of those baseball caps that says “WIKIPEDIA EDITOR” on it and wearing it on my walks around the local area both as an ironic statement and to potentially flush out drama. perhaps i did ask after all.
firing up my vpn to edit this as an example in the collective punishment article
“How would you feed if you were a vampire” reveals a lot about people
“Steal blood donations from hospitals and blood banks” = my personal favorite. They assume the process for this is simpler than dealing with eating people, clearly the most ethical.
“Stealing blood bags is more unethical than eating people” = surprisingly common take. Perhaps they hold the belief some people deserve life saving care over others. If stealing blood people donate anonymously that would keep both you and potential victims alive, then how is it unethical? Most likely, they read this take online and never really thought about it too hard just agreed because everyone else did. Very telling.
“I’d only feed off of volunteers”= has a deep set faith in a sense of community. Not only people that you trust to keep your secret but would put themselves in danger for you. That’s beautiful. Probably gay.
“I’d feed off of strangers but knock them out first, I’d just take a little” = the belief this is more ethical than stealing blood donations is fascinating
“I’d only eat bad people” = MASSIVE can of worms, requiring its own post. who do you believe deserve to die, how would you be sure of that, and how is this more ethical? This conversation is now about who you would murder if you could get away with it
I feel like if you advertised online asking strangers to let you suck their blood, you could find quite a lot of volunteers, so long as you looked in the right place.
shoutout to AO3 authors who write 100k fics for free while juggling mental illness, academic burnout, 3 jobs, and a deep-rooted need to fix fictional people.
was visiting a friend who has a farm, and one of the chickens has a home made flared cone on, so i asked what was up with that and she said “that’s diesel, and she’s suicidal” so obviously i went ??? and she pressed the door lock on her truck fob so the truck beeped, and this dumbass bird SPRINTED full tilt across the garden to shove her head in the tailpipe. she has to be locked up and coned so she doesn’t gulp down toxic fumes direct from the pipe for some idiot bird reason. she is obsessed with doing this and has to be locked up any time someone is using a vehicle.
i told her i posted about this and she has an update (which i guess content warning for animal harm [the animal did it to it’s damn fool self])
she found this out the first time when she auto-started her truck to warm it up before work one below-freezing morning and came out ~5 minutes later to find (the then unnamed) diesel with her head stuffed in the tail pipe hanging limply by her idiot neck and thought that she was dead, ran over and pulled her out, and the chicken went “oh hi! anyways mind if i get back in there?” and did it a-fucking-gain??
best guess is bc she feeds her chickens with a pvc gravity pipe like this
and despite having ~40 other chickens who don’t fuck this up, diesel went “food comes from tubes, this is tube, ∴ this is the ~secret~ food hole that the others do not know about. i will be rewarded with golden seed for being the cleverest of them all :)” and is now on 24/7 vehicle related suicide watch. fine line between docile and dumb sometimes.
i love cutthroat kitchen but bingewatching makes it really stand out how often alton brown refers to himself as ‘daddy’ and makes contestants wear spreader bars
We met Alton Brown at a show he did here - we paid the extra cash to meet him and get a blurry cellphone pic with him and have him sign a picture. He noticed my (male) companion’s pocket watch, and proceeded to order him to take it out of his pocket. It wasn’t obnoxious, it was in a Dom tone that brooked no argument. So he complied. When he found out it wasn’t wound, and so not working, he was deeply disappointed, and told him to do better next time.
If this guy isn’t a Dom, I’ll eat that spreader bar.
This post just keeps going new places every reblog cycle.
There’s money for SNAP btw, there is explicitly contingency funding in place for this exact scenario and that the Mad King is choosing to instead build his fucking hall of mirrors tells you everything that you need to know.
Here’s an archived version of the plan that Trump’s USDA deleted from its website to try to hide the fact that cutting off SNAP and letting 40 million people starve is a voluntary decision they’re making on purpose.
To excerpt the relevant portion: “Congressional intent is evident that SNAP’s operations should continue since the program has been provided with multi-year contingency funds that can be used for State Administrative Expenses to ensure that the State can also continue operations during a Federal Government shutdown. These multi-year contingency funds are also available to fund participant benefits in the event that a lapse occurs in the middle of the fiscal year.”
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