Pour Some Misery Down On Me

This counts as vent art.

"if tumblr dies you can find me on bluesky" "if tumblr dies you can find me on Instagram" if tumblr dies you cannot find me. It's over. I'm free.

"Making a better burger is literally so simple, I don't know why McDonald's doesn't do it this way. First we're going to begin by craft dry-aging this A5 wagyu beef with the sho-shu-ryuba technique that I learned at a restaurant you're only allowed to work at if your parents are bluelinked on wikipedia..."

This post continues to occasionally strike a nerve in the trust fund baby influencer fandom.

the king picked the guy with skull shoulderpads for the court magician job, which is exciting

happy biblically accurate friday again garfie baby to those who celebrate

Still convinced the most unrealistic thing in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is that all the alchemists could draw perfect circles on the fly.

I fully believe in Ed and especially Al being able to do so, but also, that's part of why I think Mustang wears gloves with it already embroidered (painted? Stitched?) On. If mans had to draw a perfect circle he might blow himself up instead of his target

Yeah but then Mustang went and managed to carve a perfect transmutation circle onto his hand while bleeding out that one time.

Which H O W.

It's because he's g- I am forcefully removed from the podium

I propose that making perfect circles is a genetic trait in the FMA universe because any alchemist that CAN'T make a perfect circle leaves the gene pool very very rapidly

This suggests that there could be a future or an alternate universe where children are tested for "perfect circle" gene and turned into killing machines to fight a losing war

that's just the state alchemist exam

i took an art class once where the teacher walked in and drew a giant, perfect circle on the chalk board. everyone gasped. he then drew a small perfect circle, and kept doing that for about a minute, until everyone was yelling incredulously.

then he explained that he once wanted a studio job where the only test was to walk into the room and draw a perfect circle on command. it's extremely difficult, but you can learn to do it if you spend a couple months doing nothing else with your life. the studio wanted artists that would make that commitment, and this teacher made it.

'so we can do that?' someone asked.

'anyone can do this,' the teacher says, 'if they're prepared to spend all summer learning how.'

anyway, i still can't. but i know now that it's possible and it takes about four months. if drawing a perfect circle was the gateway to doing actual magic on a government salary, i think you wouldn't have a shortage of people practicing their circles.

the exciting conclusion!!!

Animage July 1993 Issue

i HAVE to stop looking at shelter cats until i'm moved but BUNNY

bunny is still there and apparently hasn't been adopted because she's very skittish and shy but so AM I

i assume they don't put cats on layaway but i might go this weekend to see if i can say hi, at least. and then bring her home on, like, june 5th when i'm all moved and settled if she's still there.

bunny 1.5 years and a few pounds later

dilute black (blue) tortoiseshell with moderate white spotting

so simon & schuster sent my boss and i a bunch of scanned nancy drew covers so we can use them for various parts of our project and most covers had two files, one with text one without

except for nancy drew and the hidden staircase which i guess they started to remove the title on and then stopped so they just sent us

genuinely will never be done thinking about the fact that my ex constantly tried to convince me it was a "misogynistic trope" for a man to complain about his spouse, regardless of the nature of the complaint, how it was expressed, or whether or not it was true. and somehow I spent years calmly trying to explain that yes, it would be a misogynistic trope for me to call you a bitch because you asked me to help with the dishes, but it was not a misogynistic trope for me to say you were being an asshole when you yelled at me for four hours over the texture of a cheesecake

it's also?? not a trope?? if you're real people??

see that's the thing. I eventually realised that they judged literally everything through the lens of "what does it represent politically for people of our respective social categories to have this interaction". I'm genuinely not sure that in 6 years together they ever processed the idea that we were real people. it was like being a fanfic character somehow married to your own reader who was taking their first feminist literature class

so this has reminded me of the fact that at some point a couple years into our marriage, my ex retconned their memory of our relationship and became convinced that when we were first dating we had "addressed the power imbalance that existed between us because of our age difference". and they were then angry because I was "no longer willing to engage in conversations like that". and I was like, we absolutely did not do that because that would have been insane. when we met you were a 25-year-old grad student and I was a 30-year-old grad student. if you had said you wanted to "address that power imbalance" I would have asked how many different things you were high on

The "The Personal Is Political" to "Emotionally Abusing Your Partner Is Praxis if they're more privileged than you" Pipeline (entire length shown)

@ominous-signs

Official ominous sign

had a dream that someone suggested the best gender neutral form of address would be Mþ (pronounced Myth) and i immediately said "mith me with that gay shit HEYOOO" and woke up at 4:30am hanging sideways off of my bed

I ❤️ jack off jill