A Grumpy Fool

dont get me wrong this is #mood but just try eating a piece of bread with salt. please, seriously. ok? at least a tiny bit. salt helps with nausea, bread calms the stomach acid. if you really can’t face eating anything, just lick some salt like a damn elk, then wait and see if you can manage the bread. make some broth if you’re into that kind of thing. no spices, yes salt. if you’re feeling too weak and shaky to do much, just have a cup of tea with sugar (energy) and lemon (again, good against nausea). nibble on the lemon first, it will feel good, but don’t overdo - citric acid on an empty stomach is a majorly bad idea. take care of yourself, you’re the only you we’ve got

ok!!! ♥️

Yeah okay ill reblog that!!

This is so damn sweet and also good to know. I regularly have this struggle

Today I cried a little bit because I remembered that when Beethoven conducted his ninth symphony for the first time he got a standing ovation and one of the sopranos had to turn him around to see the audience. 

I have never recovered from this illustration by Scott Cameron for Barbara Nichol’s “Beethoven Lives Upstairs.”

Henna-haired Vinga, dread rouser of battle-strife, unwearied leader of the host, who delights in the cry of war and battle

Godrick x Sir Knight (OC). Crossing the city gates.

omg I just remembered that to love another person is to see the face of god

There are stranger things in reality than can be found in romances ...

Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There

I can hardly ever get to the library - Libby has changed my life! I've library cards to three different libraries now, because if you live in NYS you can get library cards to both the NYC and the Brooklyn Libraries. Please, please, please go get a card and try this out: https://libbyapp.com

@queerliblib is also on Libby! Go get you some queer literature!

I hesitate to be the person to defend Kindle Unlimited, because 1) I have many issues with Amazon, 2) I love the library system and want people to use it as much as possible, and 3) I think KU specifically has a lot of problems.

But, for better and for worse, Kindle Direct Publishing has become one of the best, if not actually the best, places for self-publishing, particularly for authors who don't already have the capital and time to pursue a more robust self-publishing career. And KU is a big part of that.

The books that a lot of people are reading on KU (myself included) are books that you will never find on Libby, because they are self-published. While libraries do take self-published books, actually figuring out how to get your self-published book into a library system is not trivial, and many self-published authors don't have the wherewithal to navigate that.

KU has so many problems, including everything noted above, plus the fact that the royalty system is opaque, complicated, and frankly not great. But it's also one of the only ways for a lot of self-published authors to potentially build a readership, because people are more willing to take a risk on trying a book by an unknown author when it doesn't cost them any extra. (And yes, that means that they are willing to take that risk on books at the library, too--but, again, see above paragraph.)

I wish we had better and easier alternatives for people who do self-publishing. Please tell me if you have any, and I will amplify them! But right now, KU really does seem to be the best option.

Anyway, go use the library! Support your local library! Take out physical books and ebooks and audiobooks and large print books!

Hired a moving company and they sent four strong, strapping, beautiful lads to my house to disassemble my furniture and move all my things. I loved them. I got them pizza. They told me moving company gossip. I missed them one minute after they left. My moving lads. Come back to me. You're so strong and so well trained in safe lifting

I miss my moving men they took such good care of me and they were so handsome and beautiful and strong and efficient and they wrapped all my furniture up in plastic and they loved that I got pizza for them and they knew how to safely drive the big big truck. Come back to me moving men

Moving men please come move me in your big strong arms in a way that complies with local safety regulations and the company's values

One of the men had a dangling earring and a stud, so I told him I liked his earrings. So he told me about how when he first got his ears pierced, he lost a stud and had to borrow an earring from his girlfriend to keep the hole from closing up. Well the only one she had to lend him was a dangling pink fuzzy duck. And everyone made fun of him for wearing it until they realized he didn't give a fuck what they thought. So now he always wears one stud and one dangling earring.

He told me this story while manhandling my entire couch. And I'm supposed to be normal about this? I'm bisexual

what fucking hell dimension are y’all blogging from

this is what it feels like to hear people screaming for mercy from the zombie hoards outside your walled compound while ublock origin mercilessly snipes anything that approaches

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

me whenm i am. Prougraming on my Computer

It's him, the Fire Fox, from browser

I remember meeting a guy at a bar a year or so ago who told me he worked at the international consortium that does the porn parodies of all the top-grossing film releases. He said that the whole Barbenheimer situation presented his combine with some spectacular highs and lows. Because he said that with Barbie, right, the thing about Barbie is that there's already kind of a three-way ideatic, structural parallel between the curated artificiality of Barbie as a children's toy, the curated artificiality of Barbie as a mass market film, and the curated artificiality of pornography as a genre. Add on top of that that Barbie as a film is already feeling this tension, right where it's trying to be about a character graduating from the platonic sexlessness of a children's franchise to the functional-and-frank sexuality of being a living human woman, but it's also being bogged down in the "Everyone-is-beautiful-no-one-is-horny" aesthetic restrictions of any contemporary big-budget mass-market film so the two states end up looking pretty similar, he said. I mean the film itself is very aware of that tension, right, with that joke about how "casting Margot Robbie is the wrong move if you want to make that point," all that jazz. So, all that in mind, Barbie-themed pornography, he said, is in a weird way actually kind of complementary to the extant project, gesturing at unaddressed tensions and ideas, a dark mirror, the shadow self it wants to deny but can't, there's a lot of room to play in the space. He used the adjective "Lynchian" a couple of times, he seemed super stoked, he was talking with his hands. Oppenheimer, on the other hand. Oppenheimer he said presented a problem. Because obviously you can eroticize the detonation of an atomic bomb, we're all probably three mutuals removed from someone on this site who does exactly that, but obviously that's a niche market, and moreover it's a market that has a ton of overlap with high-minded thinkers who treat the historical use of atomic weapons against Japan with the level of gravity that atrocity demands. So they were stuck. They were really stuck. He told me that they'd been pulling their hair out for months trying to square the circle and all they had to show for it was a big whiteboard with the phrase "Grope-nheimer" written on it

i think more people would be getting laid if it wasn't a logistical nightmare

to get high speed railed

You know I'm literally this 5'11 muscled half masc/half femme Polish-American bean pole, with a burning rage against Nazis and systemic inequality, finding the least expensive way to make a mass-produced firearm in a civil conflict for marginalized groups. I have intimidated people because of my chronic RBF alone.

And then I remember... I'm literally wearing panties with rabbits and moons on them because I thought they were cute and I wanted them. I regularly text :3, my bed is full of plushies, and, I cannot stress this enough, I CANNOT GO TO SLEEP WITHOUT MY CAT ON TOP OF ME.

The duality of bunny girls. It ain't easy being fluffy.

"What’s that :3 pin on your uniform, soldier?"

"A bunny girl smiley face, sir!"

"And what's that other message on your gun, soldier?"

"Born to kill, sir!"

"Is that some sort of sick joke? What are you trying to say, soldier?"

"I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of bunny girls, sir!"

I never watched FMJ, I just know that conversation from it because it's a good conversation.