Alex

also I got a tattoo partially re-coloured today and they bandaged me in veterinary wrap like I'm a sick horse

Not gonna lie, that made me do a double take.

Not because of the vet wrap, it's great stuff and I keep some at home myself for first aid purposes.

But because that colour is considered euthanasia green in a lot of vet clinics here including mine and we ONLY use it for animals we are euthanising. We will literally continue restraining a squirming dog or cat while someone restocks the drawer if we open it to find only the euthanasia green vet wrap than use this because we consider using it for a healthy patient to be a bad omen...

they're going to put me down? :(

unoriginal joke

"I think the reason I don't want a new look is because I'm finally happy with who I see in the mirror right now. So what ever I put on, I just want to be able to see the same me looking back."

reposting the animatic i made for that one contest bc of the quality

I like when someone invents a new and disturbing way to Decorate Wrong

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

My motto in a lot of things is "stupid problems require stupid solutions". For one, it takes me an unreasonable amount of mental effort to wrangle myself to take a shower, because the ferret operating my brian goes "nooo, not the wet box, it takes forever in there >:C" and it doesn't like being wet.

So to compromise how to take a shower without it taking as much time and involve as much Being Wet as it normally would, I will instead wash my body without getting my head wet (hair is dry, therefore we are Not Wet), and then later on wash my hair and face in the sink (body is dry, therefore we are Not Wet).

Because somehow, taking a five minute body-washing-shower at one time of the day, and taking five minutes to wash my head in the sink separately later, is easier and more efficient than just taking one single ten minute shower.

in Disco Elysium I was expecting there to be some kind of “addiction mechanic” that would add a long-term downside to taking drugs, and was surprised not only by the absence of any such mechanic but also that the benefits of drugs greatly outweighed the cost. anyways fast forward to the late game and I was downing three bottles of pyrholidon and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before attempting any check, and it was only then I realized there was in fact an addiction mechanic

honestly, i think this is why i like the way the game handles substances so much. when i was looking up playthroughs of disco elysium i stumbled across one subreddit thread where someone asked “gameplay wise, is there any point to staying sober?” and just looked at it. like, yeah. yeah, exactly. we know that harry often does drugs specifically so that he can take on a superhuman caseload - as he puts it to kim, to be a “really good detective”. it was so chilling to see a player asking the same exact question that harry would probably be asking himself. without an external punishment mechanic, without being heavy handed about it, and in a way that (as OP pointed out) is so natural as to be almost unnoticeable, it manages to put the player exactly in his shoes as a recovering (or not recovering) addict. it’s a really well-designed mechanic

“Things are harder without this substance, so there’s no reason for me to abstain” being a purely Player-Driven interaction is a phenomenal addiction mechanic. Absolutely fucking gorgeous.

You can survive almost anything through the right combination of:

my favorite coworker told me the scenario she thinks of to fall asleep is she stumbles upon a baby sheep and has to raise it and it grows up and she has to shear it and she says she envisions shearing it so carefully that she always falls asleep at that part

I hate the sound of babies crying, but I can't hate a baby. They've been here for like five minutes and approach this situation with an unhesitant attitude of "my needs are unmet and I am going to make it everybody's problem", and I respect that.

There’s also a thing that people who think they’re being accepting do where they go “Not wanting romance is SO SAD AND LONELY! Not wanting to read romance novels is SEXIST! Not wanting a partner makes you a FREAK! Not having sex with your partner is BAD and ABUSIVE! Not feeling sexual attraction to your partner means there is SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU!… unless you’re aromantic or asexual, of course! Then you get a pass.” The only acceptable reason to deviate from the amatonormative and sexnormative societal norm is to claim an identity label that exempts you. The actual thing you’re doing is still bad… but don’t worry it’s OK for you to do it! It feels like, we haven’t actually challenged any norms at all, you just get a pass on them because you can’t help it, poor thing. If you have the capacity to feel these, you have the obligation to; you are only exempt if you claim an identity that says that you are unable to. It implies that we would if we could, but we can’t, and it’s merely unfair to punish us for our shortcomings. Romance and sex are still social requirements, that hasn’t changed, we just are allowed a pass on it because we are unable to meet them. (And we’re still expected to reassure everyone that of course we recognize that their romance and sex is far more important than anything we will ever be able to have!)

I don’t want aros and aces to get special exemption from the requirement to have romance and sex and romantic attraction and sexual attraction; I want that to not be a requirement for anyone.

yo, can we get an update from this guy? you think he already jumped from the last floor of his office building?

the tragedy of tumblr is you will inevitably meet people who you should be having a sleepover with. you should be rolling around on their floor and rummaging through their fridge and watching shitty movies with. you should be shopping with should be going out to a cafe with should be wandering through the aquarium with. people who you should be experiencing quotidian joys with... and you cannot! because they live one million miles away

Reblog to hang out with your tumblr friend who is many many many miles away

also it is with a heavy heart that i must inform you that tumblr isnt inherently better than twitter and having the ability to use More Words has not done anything in the past to give people on this hellsite any reading comprehension. we’re just lucky 😔

whats the point of having a glass house if youre not throwing stones

you know what nevermind that’s valid

entirely unrelated to the post, but what the fuck is going on in the replies

Fuck up up, fuck down down, fuck left right left right, fuck B, fuck A, fuck select, fuck start.

cha cha real smooth

Imagine getting to the end of this post and agreeing with OP that Tumblr isn’t inherently better than Twitter smh