#be careful this is looooong

[rimouskis]

Hey! So there is a slight chance I could end up In Pittsburgh next year. As a resident, do you like living there? What are some of its selling points? (Some context: I’ve lived in or near every single big city on the northeast coast, from DC to Boston, so I’m used to cities. I’ve heard great things about living in Pittsburgh, so I’m curious about your perspective!)

oh hey! very cool, potential welcome to you, and I heartily recommend the city.

but: if you've lived in every big city in the east, pittsburgh is going to.... uh, not be like that! at all, haha. if you're looking for city living, I don't think you're going to find that in its purest form here.

my context is that I've actually not traveled the east very much; I've only been to DC and NYC. Neither feels remotely like PGH. actually-big cities like NYC, Chicago... probably Boston, though I've never been... they're cities, you know? they feel like it. they've got concrete jungle energy.

pittsburgh very much does not. pittsburgh, frankly, doesn't feel like a city to me, even though it has all the amenities of a city—we've got theaters and concerts and summers here are a total blast. pittsburgh feels like an oversized town in a lot of ways.

part of that is the geography and what it's done to the city as it has developed. the neighborhoods here are often really broken up by the topography. the hills and forested parts of the city still feel a little wild. some neighborhoods feel like they shouldn't be habitable at all because of how steep they are, lol (the very existence of rialto street feels Wrong to me). panther hollow being smack dab in the city speaks to that: we have a fucking ravine in the middle of this place!! I've seen so much wildlife here that I just haven't in other "urban" areas.

the other, bigger part of pittsburgh not feeling like a big city is the populace. you have a LOT of lifers here. did you know pittsburgh has the oldest population of any metro area in the USA? people are born here and they die here, haha. I know some of the local young people really don't like it (like, imagine all the people from your high school went to your college and then stayed in the same city after they graduated), but I find it to be really novel.

one of my old coworkers was born on the south side slopes and then moved to mt. washington as an adult. she's just never left the city, and that means I can literally play seven-degrees-of-[her name] with her because if I mention, like, anyone with roots in the city, it feels like there's an 80% chance she's going to know them or one of their relatives 😅 that's so fun to me! you can carve out individual pockets everywhere, and don't get me wrong, I don't have that kind of connectivity, but it's something that's possible here that doesn't feel possible in other cities and it gives it a very particular.... flavor.

that's part of the unique culture around pittsburgh that I'm very fond of. it was (is) a really good city to be a young person in, because it's big enough where there's stuff to do, buuuuut it's small enough that you won't feel eaten alive like you might in NYC. and while there are sooo many locals who are still local, there's a decent amount of transplants like myself too, so it's not like you'll be an outsider or anything.

I've also found really good people here. I like pittsburghers. they're pretty salt-of-the-earth (.... coal-of-the-earth? too soon?) and the culture is, like, very palatable to my midwestern sensibilities. if you're an east coaster you might find people a little too chatty or personable, but I'm used to it haha.

as for the living experience, I think it's pretty fabulous. winters get a bit grim (it's so GRAY here and people drive like MANIACS) but fall is very nice and summers in pittsburgh are just unparalleled. perfect weather—not too hot but not cold—and so so much to do. there's a ton of culture that happens, we love street festivals and art markets and night markets and each neighborhood does their own little twist on stuff. it's my favorite time of year, and there's also plenty of nature nearby. falling water is close by and I love it, and ohiopyle state park has good hiking. the cost of living can't be beat, too. I pay less in rent than both my siblings who live in another state, and I have a bigger living space. I was able to live really comfortably here when I made very little money. it's a great amount of flexibility, and you're not too far away from bigger cities if you want; the drive to DC is like 4 hours.

and, finally: if you're a pens fan, well. this IS the place to be! getting easier access to games has been such a blast. it's a fun life to live.

I will also say there are downsides. I'm from a blue state and I was honestly not ready for how red/conservative this area gets when you leave the bounds of pittsburgh proper. like, it goes pretty red pretty fast. that makes me uncomfortable, honestly, but that's the cost of living here. there was also a report put out a few years back that showed white residents in the city had "average or above-average standards of livability", but for black men it was "less livable" and for black women it was even LESS livable. there's some pretty serious segregation in terms of neighborhoods and the city is, on the whole, incredibly white. it isn't a very diverse place, which is of course a huge negative, and the city hasn't done the best job in making itself more livable for its black population. I think that's worth mentioning, especially if you're a person of color. pennslyvania is... well, this part of pennsylvania is very much part of the rust belt, and that shows in charming ways (old infrastructure and buildings) and horrible ways (systemic racism).

in sum: pittsburgh has been really, really great for me. I've met some wonderful people here, I've learned how to be an adult here, and I've really built a comfortable life here. that's involved a fair bit of privilege, though, so when I say I love pittsburgh, I'm aware that comes with asterisks.

if you have more questions, please reach out! you're actually not the first person who's considering a move to pittsburgh, and I really enjoy being an ambassador to the city :)

#ask #anonymous #be careful this is looooong

[wienersmosh]

significant moments with youtubers i watch

2017 - anthony leaves smosh

2018 - the try guys leave buzzfeed, defy media goes under

2019 - mythical buys smosh

2020 - watcher entertainment launches

2021 - ???

2022 - ned fulmer kicked out of the try guys

2023 - ian + anthony reunion and smosh independence

2024 - shourtney wedding, watcher entertainment drama

#my ramblings #smosh #the try guys #try guys #watcher #watcher entertainment #although technically i stopped watching the try guys AND watcher regularly a looooong while back #but i still cared about them as creators??? idk

[booksandcatslover]

*reading all the shit about TTPD and TS literally spilling teas about how the real love of her life is a RAT with popcorns at hand and laughing sooooo hard*

#anti taylor swift #ogm it's sooo funny #how is she sooooo desperate for that rat is beyond me #i almost feel pity for JA #almost #if i was tk honestly i'd be worried #that woman can't be faithful to save her life #but maybe they're both poly so who cares #sure it's hylarious #i hadn't laughed so hard about celebrity gossip in a looooong time #ttpd #that woman can't stay single one day #too scared to be alone with her thoughts and feelings #the tortured poets department

[miz-chase]

campaign to give brennan the christmas so good it makes up for her traumatic Bad Christmas where her parents never came home.

Booth very chastely carries her to bed, but not before glaring at the mistletoe hanging from Brennan's bedroom doorframe. Angela thinks she's funny.

#bones tv #bonestv #seeley booth #booth x brennan #temperance brennan #alcohol cw #bones fanart #i am a grinch but i care about brennan's happiness #and seeley booth learned his lesson about making moves on drunk brennan looooong loooong ago #not making that mistake again #even if she absolutely does it on purpose when she wants to talk to him about Feelings #fanart

[aquagrunt]

Got my hair done for the first time since august yesterday 😁

#me #first selfies posted here in a looooong Time do y’all even care anymore

[spoontales37]

Donuts.

This is exactly what I did when I first encountered

d o n u t s in Starbound

Yes, they exist, and yes, I saw the brightly colored one and thought "ooooo yummy donute" and didn't look at the name . _ . (Natural selection happened I guess)

(But also can we appreciate how funny scanning random things in Starbound is?)

(or maybe it's just me who finds this funny xD)

#art #digital drawing #oc art #ibispaint art #starbound #starbound novakid #starnound fanart #i done goofed #now we know #it's not healthy sadly #be extremally carefull when buying donuts guys this is what happens #natural selection should've taken care of me a looooong time ago #._.

[blazeball]

kind of sickening how hard it is to get a vermillion/amber/vermillion dragon. that's an xyx. they should be everywhere. do any of you even care about me making a sisyphus dragon

#ITS FIIIINE i put in an order with the dragonwish foundation so its like. taken care of #but i have to wait so looooong CRIES #and i want sisyphus NOWWW #quincy.txt

[zaptap]

i do feel a bit left out every year people are sharing shit from spotify wrapped but i think that's probably better than the actual experience of using spotify so whatever

#i did use it a looooong time ago when it was brand new but it didnt have all the music i wanted so i quit #moved on to grooveshark which DID have a ton of stuff spotify didnt #then later they got shut down for copyright crimes or something stupid like that #like literally who cares if they didnt have ''permission'' to have all those songs. i think it's fine :)

[coloursofaparadox]

uuggggghhhhh

#i need to find a way to actually get rest that cuts into the fatigue backlog #so far i havent really found a good way aside from just hoping it goes away eventually and forcing myself on walks anyways? #because 'resting' and lying in bed for a few days doesnt seem to really help much at all if its a fatigue issue #and i have spent a looooong time trying to figure out what to do about it #i want to give myself rest!! im more than willing to take the time!!!! but just lying down isnt working!!! #im eating consistently enough im not tensing up im taking care of myself #so like. the fuck. #if anyone else has CFS and fibromyalgia and has figured it out please please let me know

[mngwa]

maybe a healed femur is not so much a sign of civilization as a sign of community? packs and herds are communities are they not?

Absolutely! But one frequent argument between anthropologists and biologists (and those of us caught betwixt) centers around this... pillar we tend to put humans and humanity on. Do, for example, baboon troops count as civilizations? How about orca pods? What counts as a language - and would whales (who do seem to have, well, dialects) count as having one?

In my personal view, it's not as black and white as it has previously been presented - i.e. humans didn't go from "wild animals who care not for one another" to "deeply interconnected civilizations" - but this is still an evolving field of thought in anthropology, and presentations of, for example, how elephants evidently mourn and remember their dead have been historically discounted. It's a difficult line to walk - we don't want to anthropomorphize animal behavior, because that leads to its own pitfalls, but we also need to take humanity down from the pedestal we've traditionally put ourselves on.

Essentially, that post just brings allllll of that arguing to mind for me, lol. I'm not meaning to say that being a pack animal is in any way a lesser thing, just that I would personally place the evolution of inter-individual, long-term care like that much, much further back than "the advent of civilization" (whatever we're defining that time, and civilization for that matter, as.)

#colourfromtheheart #to be fair that quote is also from Margaret Mead who died in the late 70s #and animal cognition studies have come a LOOOOONG way since the 70s #but you still meet anthropologists who are convinced that animals don't care about their community members

[vyibunni]

bambi finally gets his school picture 😌

#vb ocs #hfjjhjd its been so looooong~ #he looks very cute here hfkfjshjf i like it even tho i would like him to look a bit more... rugged? is that the right word lol #but you can be cute in a rugged way right 😤 #the photographer tried to get him to smile but hes like; are you kidding me #maybe i should start to put together his character profile now that i have the pic to attatch to it....... #anyway i care him i cant imagine another protag <3 #ill try to post sasha and teddy together if i ever get theirs done so that i wont make so many separate posts #but i think the main character deserves his own post!

[schmackarys]

It’s weird, like during the season I’m breathlessly obsessed with hockey, but right now I could not care less. Of course there’s not much going on right now, but I’m not anxiously awaiting the season starting up again either. When it comes, I’ll be drawn right back in, but in the meantime…🥱

#it’s a looooong season and by the end of it I’m worn out from caring so hard #I appreciate having the rest of the year to think about Anything Else and rebuild my capacity to get invested for the next season #I also just love summer. will never ever hope for summer to end early. #personal

[lettuce-seize-the-day]

mental illness is a rollercoaster and i want OFF

#shut up hanna #im like. im fine i actually am not mentally ill #i definitely dont have an eating disorder. i can have this *food i deem unsafe when deep in my ed* #and i eat it and im like see. i was faking #and then im panicking abt the fact that i can feel it in my body and i cant undo eating it #the fucking mental gymnastics im playing every god damn day #can it just be QUIET #and it sucks bc like. mental illness is becoming less stigmatized like depression/anxiety are taken very seriously as illnesses now #and its clear how prevalent they are in our generation #but no one relates to my degree of mental illness in my social circle. #like in my circle of supportive friends i have in person here. theres no one whos had an ed. theres no one with a mood disorder #theres no one with ptsd or cptsd. bpd. bipolar. none of it. and they care and theyre supportive. more than i deserve but #they dont Get It. like #dgmw theyve never been like. just eat its not hard. like they KNOW. but they dont understand why its as hard as it is for me #and like. this is a side thing but its kind of frustrating that every girl in the department (LITERALLY. all of them) #will say they have an ed like. im not gatekeeping or diagnosing its just. that's just not statistically possible yk #like. you can have severe body image issues. AND disordered eating. both of which are harmful and deserving of help #like when i told my roommate abt mine she was like. maybe i do too. and we talked for a looooong time abt it #and i knew she didnt but ill never invalidate someone. its just. its sometimes hard when ppl think they understand and they dont #(she also came to the conclusion she doesnt after talking w me abt mine and knowing im not even bad enough to be inpatient) #like i guess im glad in a way that what i deal with isnt the norm ? in the population yk. like #its good to know that what i deal with. bipolar and bpd and ptsd and my ed being the hardest to deal with. that they also #are like. not super duper common? like its kind of isolating but it is comforting to know that not everyone feels this shitty #all the time so stuff is way harder for me than other ppl lmao #anyway. i lost my train of thought

[captainfightingflower]

God the sticker sheet is going to be just as atrocious as Job Job’s isn’t it?

Y’know, why put in the effort of designing original Yõkai when you could just jerk yourself off and shove references up the wazoo? It’s not like doing this strips the game of it’s own identity and eventually everything you make is going to be so malnourished from the constant coprophagy that you’re going to have nothing going for you. No, because why should you try anymore when you could pander?

#as you can clearly tell: i fucking HATE the direction Tee K.O. 2 is going #Jackbox games #the jackbox party pack 10 #tee K.O. 2 #impact font meme #The fact that Job Job didn't have an identity of their own was my biggest gripe with the game #and now it's happening with Tee K.O. 2 #i'm so fucking upset #God all this makes me want to show you the idea i came up with for a Tee K.O. sequel...because it's certainly better than this bullshit #Jackbox games is a soulless husk of it's former self that only cares about making money and not artistic integrity #but hey. companies aren't your friends: even indie ones #i lost my respect for them looooong ago #(which was last year. btw)

[rosicheeks]

Rosie, come to the UK. We'd all love to have you here and also obviously we'd find other uses for you x

#uhm excuse me #IM ON MY FUCKING WAY #who is buying my ticket? #or I’m just going to walk #and then swim #and then take a looooong nap when I get there #but that will give a few people time to take turns with me #honestly I have ALWAYS wanted to go or even live in the uk #i don’t think I’d ever move to a different state #but I would definitely move to the uk and a few other places #someone PLEASE kidnap me and take me farrrrr away from here 😤 #i want to go to bed in my room and wake up in a room in the uk #someone kidnapped me #but it’s a super nice room #….. and there’s a bunch of lingerie and toys placed by the bed #and there is a dress on the bed that says ‘wear me’ #and then magically I’m in my new life #as my kidnappers cute lil pet #but it’s ok cause they take care of me and all I have to do is be super cute for them and offer all of my holes 24/7 😇 #THE DREAM #gooooodnesssss #it is 3 am and I’m daydreaming 😍😍😍😍😍😍 #also I’m high and this is allllll over the place so who knows if it makes sense #kinda imagining beauty and beast scenario….. where I wake up to a beautiful big room and beautiful clothes #and my kidnapper is this ‘beast’ type guy who is intimidating and scary on the outside but is really a sweetheart #but will also fucking USE me and break me whoever they want #ahhhhhhh dreaming #ask #anon #fav asks

[svffercamp]

   up until All-Stars, Scarlett does a superb job of keeping up appearances as one of the mousey nerds. 

   for the most part, she keeps to herself, occasionally throwing in her two cents or being dragged into conflicts between campers. often, when included in conflicts between contestants, they turn to her for ending them via her knowledge of various topics ; she takes these opportunities to deepen wedges between players, having them second-guessing their judgement, observations, & knowledge even in their areas of expertise. 

#◜scarlett: headcanon.◞ #// shes like heather if she was actually convincing at being nice!! #// plays that looooong con #// does she actually care about anyone other than herself? who knows!!