As much debate as there is about tone tags, 90% of the issues would be solved by just typing the word. Like instead of typing /gen or /hj you can just write (genuine) or (handjob) and you'll be doing pretty much the exact same thing.

Of course I personally think it's less awkward to use some rudimentary language skills to form actual sentences and phrases. They don't even have to be complicated. Like "Genuine question, why are you doing that?" Or "I'm being serious. Stop that." Or "I'm going to jerk you off now."

I whole wholeheartedly agree with you on this matter OP. I do feel like it's often forgotten in this discourse that tonetags originated on Twitter where they had to get around a constrictive character count for tweets. I think how we got here makes a lot more sense when you consider the process otherwise of trying to fit an entire handjob in 280 characters.

I think a lot about how in one of the later books someone says something along the lines of really the only person who simon illyan is afraid of is cordelia, due to the lasting power of first impressions, and remember that when they met, cordelia was free aboard a barrayaran ship and covered in the blood of a dead admiral

Simon: "and then she did it AGAIN with Vordarian! Basically to prove to ME, SPECIFICALLY that she can do it anytime she wants, and I had better just handle things so she doesn't feel forced to exert herself!"

suggestion: vampire characters who actually act their age

give me a sitcom about 100-year-old vampires living in a florida retirement community! some of them got turned eons ago and still look young, some of them have only been vamps for a decade or two and look mostly their age, and a few others got turned into vampires whenever but for some random genetic reason still undergo the mortal aging process. give me all of that–and then make their personalities old and grumpy.

so you have a cul-de-sac of florida retirement condos full of pissy aging bloodsuckers who physically range from age 10-years-old to ancient-as-dirt, but they are all unequivocally enthusiastic about bingo & competitively comparing grandkids & printing out MapQuest directions & complaining about Kids These Days (anyone under age 90). greenlight this project immediately and offer Betty White any salary she wants

for no reason in particular, the nursing assistants should be werewolves.

the ostensible reason is that werewolves are immune to vampire bites. but the more gossipy of the vampire residents insist the werewolves have ulterior motives, up to and including:

Okay, but who’s gonna work the night shift on the full moon?  Because obviously, the werewolves all need that night off, and possibly the next day, too.

Igors.

They get extra TOIL to make up for those -particular- night shifts, which not only include managing the cul de sac’s vampiric inhabitants, but throwing about 3 cases of tennis balls for 3 8-hour overnight shifts straight.

I have actually never heard this term before but it is my new favorite acronym. TOIL in exchange for toil. I like to think the Igors have a strong union

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google translate defaulting to chinese at first

okay but for those of us with interests in both the murderbot and the daomu biji fandoms this is kinda hilarious

(english-side-only really, i get that the kanji and hanzi are completely different)

our good (air)ship murderbot! thanks google

cordelia, shards of honor era

Them using Signal wasn't stupidity, it was done on purpose to avoid having any official records of their conversations--which is legally required. Avoiding an official record is part of Project 2025 to help them all avoid charges or any protests.

That is the part that needs to get focused on, while also continuing pressuring everyone involved until the issue is unavoidable and again, they back down or admit what they are.

And it needs to get stressed over and over again to Republicans who love the military or are in the military--this will get soldiers killed. This is a breach of National Security and it was done on purpose.

These are deeply evil people but this groupchat o'death was done deliberately because Signal will delete their messages.

Tulsi Gabbard will get US soldiers killed. Drunk-ass Pete Hegseth will get US soldiers killed. J.D. Vance will get US soldiers killed. That person in the chat who was *in Russia* will get US soldiers killed.

Regular soldiers who even slightly might breach operational security are punished, even if it was an accident.

You want everyday Republicans and military personnel to get mad about this? Say that. Say all of that. And remember that it's all to "expand" US (Russian) interests and appear strong in true fascist style.

And every Republican and Democratic Senator who voted to confirm these people should not be forgotten either.

I say we kill off young justice and give Secret a book where she goes to their specific afterlives to resurrect them, one issue is Cassie in Elysium, the next issue has Kon in a kryptonian afterlife, then Bart in the speed force etc. important to note that Cissie isn’t dead because she is retired and therefore wasn’t on the mission that killed them

New Species Added: Basselope!

It's time to finally to announce a secret I've been keeping for weeks: the addition of an incredibly elusive animal to the repository collection!

Meet the basselope: a rare species that was thought to be extinct until a last surviving individual was rediscovered in 1986. Thanks to some incredible breeding successes in the subsequent years, the basselope population rebounded successfully. Now found in all continents but Antartica, modern basselopes have proven to be a highly adaptable species, and populations in different regions display a wide range of phenotypic variability.

Meet.... the basselope!

Basselope, while not domesticated, regularly choose to den in human homes. The North American population has a particular fondness for couches.

The "jungle" phenotype has lost their antlers over time, likely due to ease of movement through dense plants and vines. They are known for their habit of swinging their ears through the air as they move: while the origin of this behavior is unknown, it's theorized this adaptation may be both a form of enhanced thermoregulation and a way of communicating with conspecifics.

One isolated population of basselope has begun to shed their antlers seasonally, and they have begun a new annual tradition of posing against a backdrop of their previous year's accomplishments.

One of the most elusive morphs is the "arctic" basselope. Despite sharing a range with other basselope populations - which is not all that far north - they're known for developing a strikingly colored and oddly jingly winter coat. The genes responsible for this seasonal color expression are as of yet unknown.

More super-rare, never-before-seen basselope photos can be found here!

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission from the basselopes to use these and all photos of them in the repository as references, including for works that will/may be sold.

The Animal Photo Reference Repository is an independent, permanently open-access project and funded entirely by donations, which allows me the creative freedom to have way, way too much fun on April 1st.

In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

Sometimes you have to take a step back and remember that same-sex marriage has only been legal in America for ten years.

I know that it seems like it's been this way forever, but when they were leaving it up to the states and Indiana legalized it for a whole 24 hours before Mike Pence got wise to it- me and a bunch of strangers ran around the city hall block with a rainbow flag because we were so happy. People were getting married on the spot because they'd been waiting so long and we didn't know if the ruling was going to stick.

It's wild to think about how much has changed just in my lifetime. Sodomy was a crime until 2003. Don't Ask Don't Tell was both enacted and repealed in my life.

The processes are slower than we want, but in retrospect- a lot has changed since the 90s.

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

one of my favorite things about the extended Batgang circa New Earth is the way Bruce comes down like a sack of bricks on JPV and ESPECIALLY Helena for even a suspected use of lethal force, while choosing to tactically ignore that Barbara is, like, pretty down with murder. and Babs will also tell you she's against murder, mostly! except for when the murder is being committed by a cop or agent of the US government. or it's the Joker. but it's definitely bad when Helena does it, because of reasons. like genuinely I love this, I love how full of shit they all are. deeply unwell group of people, it's delicious.

Barbara voluntarily signed on to work for a government black ops team that carries out regular political assassinations performed by teams that include convicted criminals whose cooperation is ensured via the threat of being killed on the spot if they display disobedience, but god forbid Helena wants to see if gang violence can be solved with a crossbow

and it's like. what IS the difference. is Barbara just useful enough in her capacity as Oracle that she's allowed to do some thought crimes as a treat? is Bruce cutting her some slack because of the guilt and responsibility he feels for her assault? does Barbara's history as Batgirl make Bruce trust that she'll always ultimately defer to his judgment in a way that he can't count on from Helena? is the fact that he's completely willing to disregard the sanctity of human life as long as his associates aren't the ones directly pulling the trigger just a huge and obvious flaw in his cope-based worldview? all of the above and more, baby! this house is a fucking nightmare!

the funniest answer is of course that you can get away with almost anything if Batman is in love with your dad

this is not an "anti Bruce Wayne" post btw that's my awful son who I love. this is a "the Bats are really interesting when they're messy and hypocritical and inconsistent" post

Went and saw the cherry blossoms at the park Saturday with Gerti.

It was a beautiful day, and the park was overflowing with people. Almost every bench was full. But as we walked towards ours—towards the very same one we sat on last year—it was clear, which I couldn't believe. A group of queers were picnicking behind it. We sat down.

We brought you with us. The photocard that @adventuresinjoylandmade for your small memorial, in its new frame. Your favorite Tarot deck, your rainbow arm band, your bee ewer and that stupid glass straw you loved so much. A honeycomb stim toy Gerti had just made. Your memories, and the parts of you that live on in us and change us and make us who we are. Our grief.

Gerti sat with me and cried with me and listened to me tell stories about you. She told me some. We talked about who were you, and who you might have become.

Gerti knows Tarot, so she pulled out a few cards from your deck that spoke to her. We're keeping The Sun at the top of the deck, with Death right under it—it's been like that since the small memorial. We think you'd like that.

Gerti took about 1000 pictures. She indulged a lot of different requests from me. They didn't photograph well, but there were a few minutes when there were, just, so many bees buzzing through the blossoms as she took pictures. I've never asked a bee to come closer before. I think you've changed my relationship to bees forever.

At one point there was a bird, and I told her about the time you fed a bird from your hand in a different park, like some sort of Disney Prince.

There's a line in Lucy Dacus' new song, Ankles. How lucky are we, to have so much to lose.

The photocard says We are so lucky to have loved you.

I am keeping a running list—well, a lot of running lists— about you. This one is about gifts you gave me. This park is one of them. The list is pages and pages long.

It was a good, beautiful, meaningful time. I'm glad I was able to do it.

I wish you had been there.

This is literally my favorite tweet of all time. It’s so powerful.

She Freaken Forgor Me

[Image ID: Screenshot of a quote tweet and tweet, both by Coke Zero @\CokeZeroCat.

The quote tweet reads: She Freaken Forgor Me

The tweet reads: well. i Must say. , i am Excited to go my vacation, or "Bone Voyage". Included are two photos of a domestic short hair cat with tabby and white sections sitting in a loaf on a black suitcase.

/end ID]