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I will update this post as necessary. Posted July 18, 2025

links to my fics under the cut as a thank you :)

Kinda wild how most people generally recognize that the "too sick to go to school, too sick to watch tv/play games" mindset our parents had was bullshit but still impose essentially the exact same rules on disabled adults and scrutinize them for enjoying low-energy hobbies while being too fatigued or in pain to work a full time job (or any job at all)

I think it's a common misconception that domesticating animals is somewhat like enslaving them. It really is more of a symbiotic relationship. No wild animal would have willingly put up with early humans if they didn't get something out of it. Wolves wouldn't have stayed with us and become dogs if they weren't getting food and safety out of it. Many large herbivores that are now domesticated could and would have easily trampled their early human captors or broken their enclosures open if they didn't have a reason to stay. Sometimes individual animals still do if we don't give them what they need.

The animals that have stayed with us for thousands of years have evolved to cooperate with us better. Dogs have additional facial muscles around their eyes that wolves lack in order to mimic human facial expressions. Sheep grow their wool perpetually while their wild counterparts don't because a bigger fleece means they're more likely to be allowed to breed and be kept around. Domestic dairy cows produce much more milk than wild bovine species and domestic hens lay more eggs. Do you know how energy costly producing eggs or milk is for an animal? It's pretty intense! They wouldn't be able to do that if we hadn't given them the food and safety from predators and the elements to.

And we really need to show these animals respect and gratitude for what they give us by taking excellent care of them. They gave up a lot to be with us, often including the means to take care of themselves in the wild. That's a huge reason why I'm not against using animal products, but I hate factory farming. They are still living, breathing creatures with needs and feelings. They deserve a comfortable life and, when the time comes, a humane death.

when a mutual has a bad take, itโ€™s important to remember that nobodyโ€™s perfect. but when someone you donโ€™t know has a bad take, itโ€™s important to send a firing squad to their house

Confession: The letter โ€œtโ€ key on my laptop has been broken since 2024. From what my research tells me, they canโ€™t fix individual keys on that model, and my laptop is no longer under a warranty, but it seems foolish to fork out over $900 for a new computer, so instead Iโ€™ve trained my brain to hit ctrl+v every time I want to hit โ€œt.โ€

But sometimes I have to copy-paste something else besides โ€œt,โ€ which means I need a readily available place to copy the โ€œtโ€ from.

My first thought was to search โ€œtigerโ€ on Google, but if you canโ€™t type the letter โ€œt,โ€ you just get search results about Bob Iger.

I realized words that end with โ€œtโ€ are easier for Google to autocomplete, so the first one I thought of was โ€œcrypt.โ€ But wouldnโ€™t you know, googling โ€œcrypโ€ takes to you to cryptocurrency results, and I REALLY donโ€™t want my algorithm thinking I google that multiple times per week.

Then I remembered a cool place I went in London, called Cafe in the Crypt. Itโ€™s exactly what it sounds like and located below St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church. When I type in โ€œCafe in Cryp,โ€ Google does indeed autocomplete it effectively! So I either keep that search result open in a tab or Google it every day.

So, that being said, if anyone works for St. Martin-in-the-Fields Churchโ€™s marketing department and has been utterly flummoxed by an IP address from Virginia that has googled their cafe hundreds of times over the past 6 monthsโ€ฆ that wasnโ€™t a bot, that was me.

I am the Spiders Georg of Cafe in the Crypt.

Anyway, itโ€™s a pretty cool place to check out if youโ€™re ever in London. Just maybe not cool enough to Google it on a daily basis for months straight.

Back in 2017, while I played BotW, a thought crossed my mind... What if the time Link had after his resurrection was only lent? And he had to give it back after he fulfilled his destiny...

adding the tags that @rebornofstars left bc bee. bee i am already crying, you did not need to twist the knife even more my gosh๐Ÿ˜ญ

Talking to friends with inept parents is crazy. No wonder theyโ€™re like this if their parents kept fumbling

โ€œIโ€™m having trouble adapting to my adult responsibilitiesโ€ well no wonder, nobody raised you ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Hot tip for future parents: you actually have to guide your kid to adulthood. Feeding them and waiting for them to grow up is not enough since they are not house plants. A little more thought and care is required.

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