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forget Resting Bitch Face, I have Resting Competent Face. People see me and think ah yes she can point me to the nearest train station. Fellow grocery shoppers ask if I know what kind of butter they should buy. If a strange man speaks to me on the street it is literally always an inquiry and never a catcall. Once someone randomly asked me what an equinox was and after I told her she nodded and said "you seemed like you'd know." why am I assigned oracle at random interaction

#i have also been that person #like when i was in a different country just doing tourist things #and i couldn't even answer in country language #they still asked anyway #(and i still had an answer anyway too so yeah)

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Thanks for your imput!

A COVID-19 question!

#tumblr poll #covid

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I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

#ugh #psa #discord #they keep getting worse

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A COVID-19 question!

#tumblr poll #covid

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would go to bed early, got anxiety about it and now it's morning

#tigs rambles #i mean

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#tumblr polls #i needed a unique name for something else #and well here we are

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Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"

And I'm like...

A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?

B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.

C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.

Yall are wilding.

#fandom #writing #my faves do loooooooong form #and some do short #and y'know what i'd love to have those two cakes #(and every other cake for that matter)

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"Don’t just delete an app, make sure you delete your account first. The app mentioned in the screenshot [Ovia] has a policy of retaining your data for SEVEN years after you stop using the app."

A quote from bluesky about this app. Please take note.

#ovulation tracker #psa #for serious a lot of these come from extremely icky funded devs to begin with #just do a pen and paper tracking that's only clear to you #<3 #stay safe friends

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at the theatre the other day with my sisters & we have a family tendency to pee a lot so we all troop down to the bathroom in the interval. and then as per usual spend basically the entire interval queuing bcos there's about 3 milliion women wanting to pee and 3 stalls.

anyway we're coming up on the front of a queue and a woman at the back calls out to my sister (angry) 'they're ringing the bell' and we're like huh and she's like 'they're ringing the bell hurry it up' like it's somehow our responsibility to make the line go faster??

me & my little sister get back to our seats first and my sister is like 'wow that lady was really weird & rude' and im like yeah. but also unironically having to queue that long for the bathroom is a gender equity issue. and she's like 'lmao yeah have you read Invisible Women'

our other sister gets back and is like 'wow that lady was really weird and rude' and we're like yeah. sucks having to wait that long for the bathroom though and she's like 'well it's a gender equity issue' and we're like RIGHT??

it's a gender equity issue anyway

#gender equity #bathroom equality #you know you're doing something wrong if only one gender has to queue #this shouldn't be hard #and yet

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awkward how reassuring i find this

#speech #language #i do the 'blank stare' bc i can't say things when i am thinking #and ppl always add questions when i do that #it's highly unpractical and i wish i could just add a filler instead

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Ok, so, as most know hobbits LOVE mushrooms, but what if they love ALL mushrooms, even the poisonous ones. What if a hobbit’s body is able to handle more of the poison and it doesn’t affect them at all. And they love it!

#lotr #lotr meta #i can see this

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in dutch to purr is 'spinnen' and to spin is also 'spinnen' so i definitely think there is a thing here

He sits on my lap while I spin, he does the little jiggle

#cats #wool spinning

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#libraries

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me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you

#ao3 #trust me friend i still think about that one story that may or may not have been entirely finished #and the always finished stories from ppl way better organised than i'll ever be #<3

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with the news Gumroad is going to be cracking down on nsfw content due to payment processor pressure, reminder that itch.io is mostly known for games but explicitly allows books/zines/etc too and many nsfw creators swear by them as a host for their paid works. (with the caveat that they do limit this to nsfw content that is fictional, not eg irl porn work, among other content requirements; the full policy is here.)

itch.io is especially noteworthy because their approach to creator/platform split is incredibly flexible; you as the creator choose the split. you can in fact choose to take 100% and give itch.io nothing, only losing out on any payment processor fees. obviously itch does need people to choose to share some revenue with them to continue going, but if you as a creator need to retain your profits to keep going, you can set it wherever you like and itch honours that. and as itch has a culture of people choosing to set it above zero because the community wants to keep it going, if you need to reduce their cut, it's an option!

itch isn't as popular as a platform to share non-game works so promoting your stuff elsewhere is important for visibility. but as someone who regularly buys both comics and books off there, it is very, very viable. here is a basic 101 guide:

now: itch uses the same payment processors that prompted the gumroad changes, and may at some point be challenged on the same grounds. it's not inherently a safe haven. but itch.io has historically made its commitment to working to keep nsfw content viable on its platform clear (look up the epic store apple lawsuit nonsense sometime; it didn’t result in a nsfw ban despite everything) and as of now is still small and niche enough they are not getting challenged the way larger, more generally popular sites like gumroad are; they are not trying to be a big commercially viable site, just stable enough to keep trucking, so they are less likely to be subject to that much scrutiny, or cave to it.

#itch.io #fyi

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the chocolate trigger thing is a myth??

Thank you for asking. The short of it is yes.

Chocolate as a posited migraine trigger came out of migraine journal studies. Basically, people suffering from migraine were asked to keep detailed journals of their lives, including what they ate, and this was compiled and trends were picked out.

One thing they found? People often ate chocolate before reporting a migraine attack.

There were two things going on here, though it took years for people to come to this conclusion. The first is that migraine prodrome can include sugar cravings-- so people who were already well on their way to a migraine attack were craving chocolate, ate the chocolate, and then reported the migraine. The second is that stress is a trigger of both migraines AND sugar cravings. Thus for someone had a rough week, the stress induced both a migraine attack and a desire for chocolate.

Later lab studies in which people who suffer migraine were given chocolate, or cocoa, or small doses of caffeine similar to what's found in chocolate, etc etc found that there was ZERO evidence for chocolate triggering a migraine. No component of chocolate triggered a migraine in sensitive people, even people who reported chocolate as a trigger.

So really, eating chocolate is a symptom of migraine, not a trigger of it.

These same food diary studies also led scientists to (briefly) believe that alcohol might PREVENT migraines. Why? People who reported fewer migraine attacks drank more alcohol. The actual finding here? People who have more migraine attacks don't frequently drink alcohol because jfc who wants a drink when they have a migraine (also migraine fucks up social lives). Alcohol, unlike chocolate, DOES trigger migraine attacks.

So these are the kinds of limitations of food diaries when you are trying to figure out what triggers your migraine attacks, and also why doctors emphasizing food triggers, especially chocolate, get a side eye from me.

That said, there is ample evidence that when people feel in control of their health, they tend to feel better. If you believe that chocolate triggers migraine attacks and you feel like limiting chocolate helps you, I'm not going to tell you to stop.

But if your doctor handed you a pamphlet with 20 year out of date information on migraines that included the idea that you had to stop eating chocolate and cheese (no evidence for cheese, either, eat your heart out), I'm here to say your doctor is at least 8 years out of date with the literature.

TLDR; chocolate fine, alcohol bad, doctors lazy, science progresses

#migraines #i actually knew this #and frens pls if you do caffeine #do not do less caffeine when you feel a migraine coming up #it won't help but it can give you an additional headache bc of the lack of caffeine #<3

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Watch the cast of Crimson Mirror transform into their characters!

#critical role #haven't seen it in ages but this clip is very nice