"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.

Old dude came in the shop and when I said "lemme know if you have any questions" he goes "what was the name of Alexander the Great's horse," thinking he was so funny. I told him Bucephalus, and he was so disappointed. Like his whole day was hanging on beating me at trivia. He says "you're only the second person who knew that" and I said "well, probably the third if you count Alexander the Great." He left without buying anything, and did not say goodbye. I think I honestly hurt his weird little feelings! Sorry I'm a bitch, old man!

I had one of these once, bookshop customer randomly challenged me to name, quote, ‘the only word in English where two u’s are next to each other’, and when I immediately said ‘vacuum’ he looked disappointed and when I pointed out it isn’t even the only word with two u’s next to each other in English and offered ‘continuum’ as an example he looked like I’d just punched his ribcage out his back like a Mortal Kombat character

People claiming this didn’t happen have never worked a day in retail

At the risk of sounding stupid, I just found out how long the stone age lasted. In my head it's about as long as other historical time periods, a couple thousand years before ancient egypt, and conceptually looks like a bad car insurance commercial. Nope! Dead wrong! The stone age lasted for 3.4 MILLION YEARS.

Okay wow i would not have guessed millions. Maybe in like the tens of thousands? But definitely would have way undershot.

I told my wife and they said "Yeah, modernity is a recent and strange invention"

Oh yes! Hello I am wife. And these are the oldowan tools:

The first image is my favorite, the iconic oldowan hand axe, but you'll note there's a wide range of other tools crafted for everything from crushing nuts and stones, to awls and engraving devices. There is some evidence, albeit hotly debated, that these tools MIGHT have been used in ancient burials. Maybe. This is up for debate because these tools are THREE MILLION YEARS OLD. They pre date homo sapiens and homo erectus. They pre date the ice age. Hell, they pre date the fucking ice caps. We don't think humans were burying their dead as we understand it today, but maybe?? These were made by homo habilis, or the "handyman", so named for their invention of tools.

It makes me feel very small to look at these, like looking up at a starry sky.

Yknow what I LOVE about the Star Trek fandom? It’s ANCIENT. I had a talk with a nice old lady at the old persons home that my great grandma is in and she noticed my Spock shirt and was like “oh I love that show I thought the premise was lovely” and you all know THE PREMISE is trekspeak for spirk and I was like “do you accept the premise because I do” and she looked at me with the eyes of someone who is reliving their otp moments and she said “the premise is all I wrote about, dear” and we just talked about spirk for a hella long time and I just love how age doesn’t matter in this fandom you can be ninety and still be the biggest spirk bitch ever how rad is that

I was today years old when I learned that particular euphemism

I was also today years old. Fandom codes man

Reblogging to spread knowledge about the Premise, because I absolutely love that bit of fandom, and I want to make sure that it survives. (and yay to everyone who is part of today’s 10,000!)

This post is in the Fanlore Article

This makes me so happy

They cut off usda funding from Minnesota, which includes wic and snap. Please consider donating to food banks around the area or food drives. Many immigrants are too scared to leave their homes to shop as well and a community member is doing great work.

Link to midwest food bank:

Link to a community food drive:

I have added some helpful indicators in case anyone was struggling with this one

earlier this week Twitter user ppuccin0 tweeted about a fashion article that advised against tops with large floral patterns, saying the wearer was in danger of looking like a "ロマンティックおばさん," or a "romantic auntie." the tweet went viral with many agreeing that a "romantic auntie" sounded like a very nice thing to aspire to be, and some even posted illustrations or photos tagged with the trend

illustration by Toyota Yuu (author of Cherry Magic)

illustration by 141shkw/Sora Midori (author of Beautiful Curse)

photos by Takinami Yukari (author of Motokare Mania and Watashi-tachi wa Mutsuu Ren'ai ga Shitai or "We Want A Painless Romance")

illustration by m:m (mangaka of Matataki no End Roll)

illustration by ooinuai (mangaka of Onikui Kitan)

illustration by ma2 (mangaka of The Reason We Fall In Love)

BONUS:

Twitter user WomeGa55 drew some art of “Romance Auntie x Combat Auntie”

IT GOT BETTER

The RomCom Aunties!

heated rivalry fans check this out:

Most non-Minnesotans have no idea what this means, but to put it plainly: we're raised with not just the expectation but essentially -programming- to assist others who get stuck during the winter. We'll help people we'd otherwise punch on sight if they're stuck in the snow and ice, for zero reward.

This is the level of rage we're at with ICE. I'm not joking to say it's almost physically painful to not help someone stuck like that, and it's worth it because the people stuck are ICE.

The only way we have to express how mad we are above this is channeling the First Minnesota all over again.

The Scandinavians who settled in Minnesota brought with them their Norse understanding of the laws of hospitality: you do not fuck around with winter, that if someone needs help in the winter, you help them as long as they don't actively try to hurt you or your neighbors. Food, shelter, labour, whatever, if you can help in winter, you do.

ICE has violated the "actively try to hurt you or your neighbors" bit of the laws of hospitality, and thus the hospitality has been revoked. They are free to feel winter's wrath against those who would bring harm to the community.

I like to think that Lady Skaði would be proud of her distant children.

this reminds me of the mud wizard who walked through everything without any problems while the police officers kept sliding and falling and getting stuck, you can watch it right here.

for context, this was during anti-coal protests in lützerath which went on for days and included people being forcibly removed, injured, or otherwise violated by the police. they showed up in riot gear against people simply sitting and camping and wanting to protect their forests. it was a really big deal here.

Okay, no more grumping about weird knitting stuff. Have cool knitting stuff. Been down the Ravelry-hole again and found too many patterns which I will surely never have time in my life to complete all of them. Links below to their Ravelry pages

fantasy elf lore can never be fucking normal its always gotta be some bullshit like "Oh, No, We Don't Urinate Like You Filthy Humans, That's Much Too Uncouth. Instead We Sprout A Single Beautiful Golden Hair From The Very Tippy-Top Of Our Heads And Every Year Upon The First Bloom Of The Mystic Orchard Lilies We Pluck Them And Give Them To The Grand Witch Elder Grethelwed And She Weaves Them Into A Beautiful Golden Basket Into Which The Only Fully Elven Child Of That Year Shall Be Born And Swaddled In Silk" like fuck off man

For a while now, I've been chipping away at redesigning things from Stardew Valley in the style and general design conventions of Minecraft! Here's everything I have so far:

Crab pot, Iridium, Radioactive Ore, Cinder Shards, Fire Quartz & Refined Quartz, Aquamarine, Topaz, Jade, Ruby, Esperite, Marble, Soapstone, Limestone, Lunarite, Malachite, Petrified Slime, Opal, and Fire Opal!

There are some things here I'm not 100% happy with and will probably be going back to tweak in the future, but this is the current progress, and I'm really proud of it so far! I'm hoping I'll be able to turn this into an actual mod one day when I've learned how to code.

update:

ouuughhhhh im so full from texturesssssss

Not only did my fried rice panel take off in a way I wasn't expecting but my POST about the fried rice panel also took off in a way I wasn't expecting please let me rest

Can I still fry the rice if it's less than 18 years old?

every autistic person watching this episode of dungeon meshi:

My workplace has come a long way when it comes to trans and queer issues on the job. I'm really grateful that it's standard to have a Chosen Name that's used on work documents and that once when someone changed my pronouns from They to She in an article about me, they called a whole meeting to educate folks on why not to do that.

But I am tired of getting invited to all these Women Only baby showers.

For a million reasons I need us to divorce the concepts of womanhood and pregnancy. It's vital to women's rights and trans rights. I have spent years hounded by assumptions about my body and questions from family about When Will I Have Babies. This is one of the primary reasons I don't identify with Womanhood. Pregnancy and motherhood are not fundamental to every female person's life and identity. It is so blatantly sexist to make childbirth and childrearing the exclusive purview of women.

While I was writing this post in line at the grocery store a young dad rolled by with his toddler in a shopping cart, and she was screaming and crying about wanting to buy one of the decorative balloons in the bakery. And he was gently consoling her, "yes I know sweetie it makes me sad too that we can't get a balloon." I told him he was being very patient and he laughed and said "you gotta be!" Give dads some credit and expectations!!!!

what you learn from hobbies:

re hands hurting -- I am not super good at actually doing the exercises in this video but they do help