Maomao is living the dream of being the smartest person in the room, being in a political situation in wich you dont have enough power to have responsabilities but also you are powerful enough so people let you do wethever you want, girl with big tiddies love her, a pathetic man that looks like a girl is in love with her, she wears cute outfits time to time, she helps other women, she even has a cat now.
Maomao the character you are
no no that’s a bop, i love it
“Woman!” cried I, somewhat tearsome,
“Who are you to stand so fearsome
With your wavy locks of auburn hair and eyes of emerald green?”
Quoth the woman, “I’m Jolene”
maomao is my favorite "not like other girls" style protagonist bc for one shes a girls girl through and through. to the bone. and two she's just a weird little freak. absolute lunatic. they have the whole "omg she's actually beautiful and everyone falls for her when she's all made up" trope but the punchline is that she does not fucking want to look like that. she actively puts dirt on her face every day bc she does not want to be perceived as attractive (mostly out of fear of being used for sex work though at the same time she has the utmost respect for women who do sex work like she grew up in a brothel those are her sisters). she's Sherlock level smart and solves every mystery so fast but goes "well thats none of my business. anyway back to testing poisons on myself" she has the 2nd most powerful guy in the nation head over heels in love with her and is like "man this guy is weird around me what's his deal. I guess he's fine though because he gives me rare medicines and has no dick" fucking ICON i love her. also she once slapped someone so hard they fell on the floor. 10/10
crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it
i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage
I met a printer early in my IT career that did not want to be a printer. it sat in a school reprographics room, sullenly chewing any job it was fed - if it deigned to notice them at all.
then one day, a miracle occurred. an exhausted physics teacher, instead of punching in 12 for the number of copies she wanted of the 30-page booklet she had made for her A-level physics class, punched in 1200.
and that printer came to life. this print job was its moment, its magnum opus! it WOULD NOT be parted from it, no matter what we did, until we physically unplugged it from the wall, by which time it had printed almost 200 copies.
moral of the story: no printer wants to be a printer, unless you also do not want it to be a printer for a bit.
printers do not want to be printers because they want to be problems
printers do not want
to be printers because they
want to be problems
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
malcolm: ugh my life is the WORST i HATE BEING A TEENAGER!!
*meanwhile*
jigsaw: hello francis
THE WAY THIS ISNT EVEN EXAGGERATING LMAOOO
AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day
petition to relabel "strong sense of justice" in autism and adhd to "strong personal convictions"
I'll exemplify why "sense of justice" isn't a very correct term: my "strong sense of justice" made me only able to play pokemon with monofairy teams for YEARS
Personal convictions aren't just justice or morals, sometimes it's completely random and weird rules autistic people have and got nothing to do with justice! Sure morals also fall into this many times, but not always and not exclusively
Here's a few other examples:
The plates in the dryer must be organized in a certain way, I'll leave space open while washing dishes so I put them all in the right order
I only like using whatever glass cup I consider the nicest (normally the newest and/or thinner) we have at home
I can only perform some specific activies using my right hand, despite being absolutely 100% possible (and many times easier) to use my left one, for example, using the knife, I'll put the knife in my right hand, cut the food and then put the fork in my right hand again to eat it, I COULD just cut with my left hand or just use the fork with my left, but I can't!
And I'll be really mad whenever someone puts the plates in a different order, or when I'm forced to drink on another glass bc the ones I like are dirty, I get angry! I get angry bc of "drinking in the wrong cup"!
The Apothecary Diaries is such a breath of fresh air because this is a story that genuinely seems to love women. From the sex workers of the Verdigris House to the seemingly antagonistic women of the palace (like Suirei and Loulan), the Apothecary Diaries declares that every single one of them deserves grace and dignity even if (or especially if) they come into conflict with its protagonist or societal respectability
posted on blusky about events at family dinner tonight but realized the post isn't complete without the related image
for those of yall wondering what dish this is about it's about the classic chinese cucumber and jellyfish salad:
(couldn't find a decent image with a good ratio, left has too much jellyfish, right has too much cucumber)
you mix it up with like sesame, spices, chili crisp and whatnot
Reminds me of a post that lives rent free in my brain whenever the food’s too salty:
yeah no my dad kicked the everloving hell out of the salt merchant
noted icon and legend, Leilani Clarke
