theanishimori:

alder-knight:

androfembot:

androfembot:

note to self: do NOT double the chocolate chip cookie recipe. the mixer can’t handle it. I can’t handle it. my knees hurt. I’ve been rotating cookie sheets since I was born and I will be rotating cookie sheets until I die

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Originally posted by lganey33

The perfect reaction gif does not exi—

miggylol:

spongebobssquarepants:

3liza:

quendergeer:

quendergeer:

3liza:

unironically i love this website and the people who post here because like 4% of them are even more pedantic and specialized in their knowledge bases than i am, and they are ALL HATERS. these are my people, sincerely. i support them uncritically even though all of us are REALLY annoying

if you just want your effete dilettante twink to have an emotionally distant servant who brings him tea after fucking him then the term you are looking for is VALET

if the setting is military and you want to really fuck with the A03 tags then the term is BATMAN

sorry can you repeat that, i got as far as “effete dilettante” and got so bricked up i was walking like a cowboy for 45 minutes

vehiculartheyslaughter:

finefaefruit:

brawltogethernow:

viralfrog:

11/10 hysterical, no notes

The design is very human

elodieunderglass:

elodieunderglass:

sufficientlylargen:

sufficientlylargen:

elodieunderglass:

Oh I forgot to say.

Bug (4) is going to start school now so we’ve been doing literacy practice. One set of exercises was about “opposites” and I drew a card reading “fat”. Ok what’s the opposite of fat.

Bug thought about it and then said dreamily: “meat.”

Other fun opposites to teach kids include that the opposite of “white” is “yolk”, the opposite of “up” is “asleep”, the opposite of “down” is “happy”, the opposite of ‘in" is “unfashionable”, and the opposite of “fast” is “eat”.

When I was a kid I had a book of word puzzles (well, I had a bunch, but this one in particular stands out to me), and one of the puzzles was exactly the above - it just gave a bunch of words and asked for opposites of specific lengths, like “Opposite of fast (3 letters)”.

And I was absolutely stumped. The puzzle text assured the reader that they were all common words - no archaic lost words or anything like that - and I spent FOREVER trying to figure out a three-letter word for “slow”. The book had Will Shortz’s name on it, so there was no way they’d accept something as sloppy as “slo”, and obviously the opposite of “fast” had to be something that meant “slow” so… what could it possibly be?

Eventually I gave up and looked at the answer in the back the book, and saw “eat”, and I was like

Originally posted by witstream

Like my third eye just blew the fuck open and I could suddenly see that language is sounds and symbols and they have no meaning except that which we assign and agree to, and a word without a context is just a noise I make with my face, and the opposite of “fast” is a reflection of it across an axis, and it’s is “slow” when you talk to a driver and “eat” when you talk to a dietician and “loose” when you’re holding a screwdriver and “unfaithful” when you’re telling your new best friend about your former best friend and “impermanent” when your laundry is now pink and “sedate” when you’re talking about how people live and “lightly” when you’re talking sleep and “feast” when you’re celebrating Ramadan and all of these are just thoughts that people before us wanted to share and so they gave sounds and letters to them and “fast” could be a kind of refrigerator or the feeling of pain in your gallbladder or a dance with a carp if people wanted it because words aren’t things, there’s no platonic ideal of “fast” there’s just my “fast” and your “fast” and his “fast” and their “fast” and a million million other “fast"s and we even each have many "fast"s ourselves and a lot of the time they mostly align but nothing is ever perfect and "a language” isn’t a thing it’s just a map we each made up on our own to try to understand the territory and we made up the territory too.

Thank you for telling me this story!!

Pretty accurate to being 4 or hanging out with people who are 4

ofhawkinsandghost:

bunchofdoodlesinspace:

softichill:

catcake24:

softichill:

I still think the most devastating enshittification I’ve ever seen has been picrew. One of the few dress-up game websites left that’s not flash-based and it’s become DRENCHED in ads. You can’t open the home screen without being blasted by at least three or four ads. You can’t open two picrews in a row without watching a video ad first. When you have a picrew open the ads cover up the different options and sometimes even stack on each other so you have to hit like 2 or 3 different x buttons to get it to go away, only for more to appear seconds later. Evil world

It got worse - they added a subscription service

WHAT

For once I can be the one to promote alternate sites, my time to shine has finally come

Now I will say I do use an adblocker so I can’t say how many ads all these places have, but- Here’s some other places you can go to dress up little characters on your screen!

meiker.io - A free dress-up/character creator tool/platform filled with a TON of neat little games. There ARE ads on this site unfortunately but imo they aren’t overwhelming (and from what I understand them running ads helps keep the site free, so). I’ve been using this site off and on for years already bc most games are fullbody instead of headshots, which I find more helpful w oc creation, and I can say in my experience it all runs extremely smoothly :) of everything here this site is the most similar to picrew

DollDivine - One of the classic dress-up game websites. Not only is it still up but it is actively being updated with new games, and the owner has been working to try and transfer the old flash games into a program called Ruffle so that they can still be played. Most of the games that I played when I was younger are already back up and working again thanks to this. DollDivine is also the host site for the games featured on Rinmaru Games back in the day so if you were like me and lived and breathed that site for most of your pre-teen years, you will be delighted to know that many of those games were saved here! :D

Azalea’s Dolls - Another classic one that is still running and still being added to! If you like Disney/fairytale-esque dress-up games you will love this website, they have some BEAUTIFUL games. They have also been transferring many of their old games into Ruffle, so a good chunk of those will be working again too.

PastelKatto Games - A site owned/managed by one of my personal favourite developers back in the day. While the creator has moved on from publishing their own games they still update the site with other games every so often, and the catalog of games they created over the course of the last decade or so is absolutely worth your time. The range of options they would give to players for characters included a wide range of skin tones, vitiligo, missing limbs + prosthetics, scars/burn marks, and more. Plus their art is also just really, really pretty.

VeggieStudio - If you like anime-esque games then this is the site for you. Their catalog may be quite small, but all the games on this site are beautifully drawn. You may recognize their style if you played any Rinmaru games, as they did the art for a few of those back in the day.

Most of these sites mainly feature games that center around female/feminine characters, but there ARE games where you can make guys/masculine characters as well. But just a heads up in advance. None of them are hardwired for pfp creation either, so if you’re looking for that you might not find a lot here. But otherwise, def check these sites out! The flash purge hit dress-up game communities HARD but people have been working to keep things running in some form or another ever since the news dropped. It’s been rough, but all has not been lost and a lot of the old games I used to play are now playable again! :D

Man they got picrew

violsva:

All Canadians:

(or at least all Canadian citizens, which isn’t quite the same thing)

There is an election Monday, April 28th. That’s tomorrow. You need to vote.

If you received a voter card, it will have your poll location on it. If you didn’t, you can find the location HERE (français). Elections Canada does not call voters - if someone called or texted you to say the time or location has changed, that’s fraud. Check the website for accurate information.

In order to vote you need EITHER a driver’s license or provincial ID card, OR two pieces of ID, one of which has your current address. A letter from your University or residence counts. (Proof of address is more important than proof of citizenship.) The full list of ID accepted is HERE (français).

If you didn’t receive a voter information card, you may not be registered to vote. But that’s okay!

YOU DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE TO VOTE IN CANADA.

You can register at the poll station on Election Day. It’s not hard and it doesn’t take very long, and you don’t need extra ID.

Voting is quick and usually simple. Polling hours depend on your province (français), but all polls will be open until at least 7:00 pm, usually later. (Note that in the Eastern Time Zone polls open late, at 9:30 am.) Your employer is required to give you time off to vote (français) if you need it.

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If you got a mail-in ballot and you have not sent it yet, you can drop it off in person at your local Elections Canada office (français) or the address on the envelope, anytime before the polls close.

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