Thinking about an au where the Watchers show SecretLife!Scar that Hermitcraft exists, and then makes a deal to swap his and HC!Scar’s places cause the emotions and the entertainment are too tempting
Like, imagine HC!Scar alone in the sunflower fields with the graves of his close friends, while SL!Scar has to pretend to be someone he’s not so he can keep seeing the people he never got the chance to be friends with
You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.
HELL YEAH DESHITTIFICATION!
For everything we do here, please be sure to be careful with what you edit, and restart your computer to lock things in.
If you don’t have access to the Group editor, (likely to happen if you’re on base windows) you can do this as well by opening your Registry Editor app, then inputting this after your ‘computer’ or whatever the initial segment is. (Mine is computer. If I just try and paste the below string it gets SO mad at me)
Navigate to your “DisableSearchBoxSuggestions” bit, if you don’t see it, you can make it by right clicking and creating a new registry D-Word key of that exact name. Edit the key, set it to 1. It’ll look like this if you do it right!
To get rid of Windows Spotlight, (The thing where it pulls up ten billion pages on windows start page, shoving ads in your face and cluttering everything) we go to
And set “Enabled State” To 0. If you do it right, it’ll look like this!
Disabling edge on startup will also help a fair deal with processing speed and the like. This you can do in all sorts of ways, the easiest being turning it off entirely on startup through settings in the like.
If you want to kill it *entirely*, though? :)
In regedit, run along to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
Navigate to your MicrosoftEdge key subcategory. If you don’t see it, you can make one! Note, this is a KEY, not a d-word. *inside* that subcategory, we want to either make or find the D-Word key of PreventLaunchEdge and set that to 1 in the same way as all the others. It’ll look like this.
Aaaand while we’re here, I’d HIGHLY recommend shanking Killer Networking Services. It’s just bloatware. (Ostensibly it’s supposed to monitor your network bandwidth and even things out, but that really means it’s constantly monitoring and pinging things, which eats up the bandwidth you DO get, and also chunks your computer’s processing power.) Getting rid of it entirely is borderline impossible, since it’s set to redownload on regular updates and intel is very pushy with its updates.
This you can do by opening your Services.msc, which basically shows you all the background stuff that Windows does. Find Anything with Killer in the name, right click it, go to properties, and disable startup. It should look like this, if done successfully. It will probably reenable itself in time/in later updates for windows, but it’s a quick fix. I’d also check your TaskScheduler app to make sure that nothing’s scheduled to open up there, either.
If you CAN completely kill Killer services through uninstalling and the like, I would warn that at very least for my computer, the only ethernet/lan support applications that are available ARE Killer’s. When you download updates, you really do have to do it manually and ONLY download the ethernet services, or just be cool with not having Lan functionality.
(Note- This isn’t the string copy paste from the reddit thread, this is mine that does the same thing. If my string doesn’t work for you, check the reddit thread string. If that doesn’t work either, you can follow the path and find it pretty easily. Probably has like, one letter of difference somewhere. The bits all start the same, though, so it’s easy to find.)
and go to “attributes”. Set the value from 1 to 2, and now in your advanced Power Plan settings in control panel, you’ll be able to *see* turbo boost and turn it off.
It’ll look like this, and in power options, a successful disabling of boost should look like this.
Turning off quick startup’s also a good call, since that basically stops your restarts from actually shutting things down properly.
GOOD LUCK OUT THERE YALL. MAKE SURE TO CLEAN YOUR PC!
I would like to once again recommend to you all Winero Tweaker, a free program that lets you adjust a bunch of windows settings with a single click instead of digging through 30 different setting screens and registry entries.
There’s well over a hundred settings, here’s just a few of them:
(sorry the classic taskbar option no longer works with current windows 11 version)
Fair warning: This is a powerful tool which means it can also do some damage if you don’t know what you’re doing, but every setting comes with an extensive explanation, as you can see in the Ads and unwanted apps screenshot.
This tool will even turn windows 11 from a bloated mess into a (more or less, this tool isn’t magic) usable operating system.
Some tech advice for you all from my personal blog. I figured the more people see this the better, and I got a lot more followers on this blog.
This is cool and all but installing Linux takes like half a minute
Just sayin
Well yes, but if you’re the sort of person who gets confused and frightened in the face of massive org charts and file directories, like I am, then you probably aren’t the sort of person who’s ever going to take to Linux.
Arent you having to go thrhough massive file directories to turn off the ai in the windows 11 anyways?
That’s why I reblogged the version of this post that suggests programs to help with that.
I don’t think people are ready for when Shadow Milk learns that the Witches didn’t actually seal them. Cause a lot of people assume he’ll just go after Salt, right?
But no. It’ll break him. The idea that even his worst lashing out didn’t bring the Witches back? That he hurt so many cookies for no reason? That all of his suffering was worse than ignored; that it wasn’t even worth checking on?
That’s going to be a horrific crash out, and let’s, uh… hope that someone’s gonna be there to get him back down to earth…
ahead of No Kings I’d like to give you some tips and tricks I’ve picked up along the way:
Shut up. Tell your emergency contacts where you are going, and that’s it.
Shut up x2. No posting. Not even to Tumblr, or reddit, or wherever you think you’re anonymous.
Make your plans ahead of time with your people and then leave your phone at home.
Don’t let anyone take photos or videos of you. This includes friends, and theothers.
Your face is a target. At night, reflective tape on your hood, the collar of your shirt, even your cheek bounces light back from flashlights and camera flashes.
Umbrella.
A Fox 40 is nine bucks, and nothing cuts through a bunch of noise like that shrill ass whistle.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but swears it isn’t a duck… it’s probably a duck.
Mob mentality is dangerous on all sides. Be smart.
For anyone who might need it. Special emphasis on the shut up part. No one on social media should know where you are or what you are doing.
as someone with a speech impediment, all of the people saying that only one type of stuttering is valid are wrong.
stuttering CAN look like this: “t-this is a-an example s-s-sentence”
OR this: “this-this is an example sen-sentence.”
OR this: “t-t-t-th-..t-ttttthis is an example sentence.”
OR this: “this is, uhm, an example, uh, sentence.”
OR this: “this is an example sssssss-sentence.”
OR this: “this is an examp-…this an example sentence.”
sometimes the sentence won’t even come out of your mouth at all.
there are probably many examples i’m forgetting, but that’s the point! it usually is a mix of a few of these, but some people do one of them more often than others! some people with speech impediments have certain sounds that they almost consistently have trouble with (for me it’s “st”).
people with speech impediments also rarely-if ever-stutter whilst they’re singing or whispering.
most importantly!!!! people with speech impediments are capable of saying a sentence without stuttering!! it can just be a gamble sometimes.
and if more people could portray the frustration that comes with stuttering and not being able to get words out, i’d be a very happy girl.
(fun fact: sometimes when my mouth won’t let me say what i want to say, i get so annoyed that i just yell or grumble out “WORDS.”)
this was your speech impediment PSA!!!!
out of all the posts i’ve made i’m happy that it’s THIS one that blew up
I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.
I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.
Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.
Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.
Are there any other particularly egregious examples?
This book already exists, sort of! Or at least, it’s a biology textbook but I bought it for writing purposes:
It starts with a chapter about freezing to death, and it is without a doubt the scariest thing I’ve read in years (and I read a lot of horror fiction).
This book can be downloaded for free on Researchgate, posted there by the author himself:
why are there 5,000 people on this site holding back from doing something with literally zero repercussions for anyone in a world that will never remember the chances you didn’t take? don’t waste your time on this earth live your life slap some rice
Hi my job is literally to reset the shelves and honestly??
Slap that rice. Slap it good. patting down the bags makes it easier to stack more, which means when I have to do it it’ll be flatter and more settled and more likely that I can just slide it along without it slidin’ around.
You are doing me a FAVOR by slapping that rice.
rice man approves
Slap that rice. Slap it good. Slap that ricebag just like you should.
Every time I’m forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.
The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.
The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don’t tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.
I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.
I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.
if you wrap the end of the thread around the needle several times you can slide it all the way down the length of the thread for a super easy beginning knot
So I was reading through @faemytho’s discussion about the new costume set and how it relates to Viridescent Daydream and Moonflower Faerie. And it got me both rereading and thinking about Midsummer Night’s Tragicomedy from a new angle.
I don’t actually think Pure Vanilla was looking for Moonflower Faerie to fall in love in the original story. I think he was actually looking for something else (perhaps Ad-Lib Ending? or perhaps a way out?), and he succumbed to the flowery haze before he could get the wish/answer he was searching for.
Here’s my evidence and my thoughts (story copy-pasted from the wiki, btw) (also sorry about the length; I wanted to get all my thoughts in here):
The story starts with the faeries gossiping about the Faerie Queen and her ability to grant wishes. Pure Vanilla, who until the dream starts in earnest is very emotional and nervous, tries to get information to find her. He is looking for something specific: a Truth that the faeries pick up on.
(Side note here: interesting that White Lily is always Moonflower, but Pure Vanilla is called by his name. Especially with traditional Faerie lore, it might hold some interesting significance that the pixies know his true name and use it liberally. Also, there’s some big differences between the pixies here and the Faerie Kingdom, which might be another thing to keep in mind)
The fact we are left with a question in this passage feels very telling; almost like the love potion we all assume is part of Viridescent Daydream’s story is not actually real. Rather, the faeries are trying to make assumptions of the motive of a cookie who is hard to read, yet is clearly restless.
The fact Pure Vanilla refuses to respond to this question is also telling considering his character. Pure Vanilla is not always the most open person, but his subjects and friends can often get him to answer questions, even if he gives a very basic answer. So the fact he is so tight-lipped about even the thought of answering a question is strange; especially one so innocent as “do you have a wish to make”. Almost like he doesn’t want someone to know what he’s planning.
And again, the secrecy feels important here. He is going to the shrine so quietly, at a time of night that no one else would think to check for. Clearly, he wants this information to remain secret; yet he has no fear proclaiming his newfound love to the rooftops later on. Which implies the reason he’s sneaking out to see Moonflower isn’t his supposed romantic feelings, but rather, something much more secretive and imperative.
This here is a very interesting passage, and it really piqued my essay-writing brain when I reread it. “Smitten, Pure Vanilla Cookie recalls his wish” is a very fascinating line, if only because it actually has two very different meanings in one. And in such a dense piece of media which mimics quite a bit of Shakespearian prose, it can be both simultaneously.
While yes, this line can be taken at face value (that being smitten reminds him of his wish to fall in love), there is another possible way this could be taken. This other interpretation is that he is smitten, yes, but he remembers his wish despite being smitten. Which in turn pushes him forwards and makes him try to fight against the sleeping spell rather than succumb to it. I find this second idea more compelling, as it gives him much more agency while also making the pain of him inevitably failing all the more crushing on both parties. Despite the spell, he’s trying to fight back; because what he seeks is more important to him than anything else.
(Firstly, interesting that Silence is a consistent theme here, considering the fact this set was designed at the beginning of Beast-Yeast, so Salt and the other Beasts were on their minds. Nothing I have concretely here yet, but just thought I’d mention it)
This is such a dense passage, so I’ll give the sparknotes here (though if you’re curious, send an ask for any one of these little snippets and I’ll give a more thorough response to it):
“Something calls his name, the wind…?” is very vague, and like the other questions prior the line feels like it’s trying to imply that something else is calling out for him.
“…but Pure Vanilla Cookie must persist through its blissful haze” shows that the affection is taking over him, but to get his answer he must defeat it. Ergo, Moonflower’s love is not his actual wish.
“…having overcome the flower’s spell. Then, the flower blooms…” highly implies that the spell did not actually take root until this very moment; and that the flower blooming was the catalyst that put him to sleep/removed the last of his original wish.
“…her smile benevolent yet tinged with sorrow” shows that White Lily has an idea of what’s going on even before she asks her question. Perhaps she knows that he’s been corrupted by the flower? Or perhaps she knew all this was a hopeless endeavor from the start.
This here is the part I think truly sells the idea that love wasn’t his goal. If falling in love with her was his plan, why is his soul “shrunk and withered”? If adoring her to the ends of Earthbread was his goal, why would he be unhappy? Surely if the words he was speaking were the ones he wanted to say, he would be elated to court her rather than humbled before her.
I think this is the last moment both of them have before the script takes over fully. The last action Pure Vanilla takes as himself before he becomes Viridescent Daydream entirely. His only goal from here on out is love and affection, but it is hollow. Shrunk and withered. What little hope he had of asking his true question has officially died, and the bliss takes away what’s left of himself to love Moonflower.
Pure Vanilla has only had to verbally follow the script once before this, and every other action to fight against this bliss and find his answer was done in silence. And yet the moment he is forced to speak again, it makes Moonflower cry. Not because she rejects his affections inherently, but rather because that’s not the Truth he sought. It is the plea of a broken man, but it is not his wish. And thus, she cannot grant it, as we next see.
White Lily admits here that the smell of the flowers is what’s causing this. Not his “wish” to love her, but rather the haze both the dream and the blissful flower have sent him into. She just wants this story to finish; to be done with so she can move on and take the lily scent from him. And yet in leaving, she takes the only person who could grant his wish away and breaks what remains of his spirit.
A horrible twist: that Pure Vanilla can only find his answers through a method that can never give them to him.
She indulges this new Pure Vanilla, but any idea of what he’d looked for is long-since in the past. His memories are tainted by the blissful flower bud, and the happiness of his dreams are forever ingrained into him. It is safe to say that he’s forgotten his purpose, and what remained of his agency and self is now swept away in an obsessive love towards Queen Moonflower Faerie.
With all the new context we have, the story now reads about one’s attempts to fight back being smothered by feelings of affection and bliss. Which should not be nearly so surprising when you consider that Eternal Sugar is the one who wrote it. Perhaps she believed it was kindness, or she thought it would make them happy (much like she does with Ad-Lib’s tragic ending), but in reality all it has done is removed all agency in Pure Vanilla, leaving him forever to pine for a cookie who can do nothing to save him.
TLDR:
Midsummer’s Night Tragicomedy is not about love and affection; but rather Pure Vanilla’s futile struggle to achieve an impossible goal wrapped in blissful forgetfulness. Neither him nor White Lily could truly fight Eternal Sugar’s script, and thus both are bound together into a story that erases all agency and personality from them. Forever encasing their lives in a tragic ending that lost its meaning and its Truth somewhere along the way.
(I would love to hear your guys’ thoughts on this! I also have some ideas about Hollyberry here that might explain why Shadow Milk has short hair and why Pure Vanilla and White Lily are being shoved together, but that’s for another day lol)
at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, “hm, this doesn’t look thick enough. maybe i’ll let it go for another 10 minutes.” this is the devil speaking. it’s only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you
at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think “this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid.” this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.
Istg, if I ever get rabies because some dumb ass antivaxxer refused to vaccinate their dog, I’ll probably be doing the rest of my blogging from prison because I promise you, Imma curbstomp the shit out of the owner
Fun fact: if your dog is unvaccinated and bites someone, in most states it’s not only perfectly legal but SUGGESTED COURSE OF ACTION for animal control to seize your dog, euthanize it, and cut its head off for rabies testing. This process costs 300-500 USD and is the responsibility of the owner to pay.
This happened to someone on tumblr, and happens with regularity at my job, so it is not a far-flung worst case scenario.
Rabies shots cost 20 USD at your local pet store or farm supply and if your dog bites someone while vaccinated, all you have to do is quarantine for 10 days.
Once again:
Rabies is one of the most lethal diseases in the world
If you get bitten by a rabid dog - or even slobbered on by a rabid dog and happen to have an open wound - and don’t get medical treatment until you develop symptoms; congratulations! You’re dead.
