#or not as the case may be

[lordansketil]

story: he ate an entire pizza

me: what was the pizza, what was the texture, was it crisp, was it oily, what were the toppings, was it pulled out of an industrial oven or did it smell of woodsmoke and fresh herbs? did he fold the slices and eat them with one hand or cradle each piece in both hands as delicate threads of mozzarella stuck to his chin?

story: then he ate a second pizza

me: what about first pizza? what about first pizza?? was first pizza truly so forgettable?? i don't even know what these pizzas look like. are they thick-crusted and sparse, weighted down with ingredients, or light and already losing sauce and cheese to his careless fingers? i imagine you smell of thyme, second pizza, i gift you with peccorino, marinara, and thickly cut mushrooms. your crust looks bruised, a little charred, but you are warm and soft and he eats you slowly. he wants you to last because you are his favourite.

story: then he ate a third pizza

me: maybe he's not eating pizza at all? maybe he just ate three cardboard boxes with the word pizza written on them.

#i'm sorry but i #please people i'm begging #describe the fucking food i can’t #how do i even tag this #hedonism #or not as the case may be

[humanbeanisnotamused]

you know what's wild is the like soft affection that jean has for her father despite all indications pointing towards describing the most frightening man alive.

#or not as the case may be #candela obscura #like what. is going on there #why does his beard??? move on its own???

[purgatory-of-assbutts]

okay yeah they may have a point here lol

#hbo the last of us #the last of us #joel miller #ellie williams #twitter #** #joel + ellie #or not as the case may be

[beepbeepdespair]

please only look under this cut if youre okay with seeing someone happy about their a level results. i dont want to upset anyone who is disappointed. thank you <3

I GOT INTO MY FIRM!!!!!

i REALLY did not think i would. i was expecting psychology B, sociology A and ancient history D....

i got psychology A, sociology A* and history B!!!!

how in the FLYING FUCK did i get a B in ancient history??? that was THE hardest subject ive ever studied in my LIFE. it feels like im alice in wonderland, like none of this is real and im gonna wake up in a minute lmao. i was expecting to not hit the point requirement but i ended up being 16 points over what i needed???

what is quite possibly the sweetest part of this is that i outdid both parents in terms of grades. so SUCK IT DAD 🖕🖕🖕 and my bestie emi got into their firm too so yeah we are fucking VIBING today. i have cried seven times

#ok to reblog if you really want to lmao #beep beep gets personal #personal #ecstatic #a levels #a level results #a level results day #gif #dance #ancient history #psychology #sociology #grades #beep beep likes history #or not as the case may be

[coquelicoq]

me three days into a fever: wow, i bet "such" is a portmanteau of "so much". this makes so much sense!! it's shocking i've never realized this before!

#spoiler: i had never realized this before because 'such' is literally not a portmanteau of 'so much' #dumbass lol #english #etymology #or not as the case may be #my posts #f

[disniq]

Titans! Jaytim as a queerplatonic relationship. Jason enjoying the intimacy of sharing his space and practising stuff with tim, when tim is around they basically do everything together and they feel so in tune with each other it's so fun. It's the first time that jason has shared so much of his life with the same person. Tim feels very free in this relationship. Idk where i'm going with this just been obsessing over it all day. They take turns spooning the other and don't care about people who push them into taking it further, it feels great as it is.

🥹🥹🥹

#posting without comment #because my brain is mush #but this is adorable and I'm rolling around in it #titans (2018) #jaytim #hbo titans #asked and answered #or not as the case may be

[labelleizzy]

Memento Mori, 5:40 am

Sitting on Mom's guest bed

Can't sleep, I go home later today.

Surrounded by photos of my own childhood

Her youth with my dad (gone 27 years)

Other family (some dear, many moved away)

I'm seized by the knowledge that

I'm running out of time.

Slipping through my fingers

So as best as I can I'll fling

Bottled letters into the time slips

Network some loved ones together I hope

I feel

I love her so much

I wanna take the pain from her

Her body slowly failing, crumbling

Her mind and memory bright like diamond

As she slowly continues releasing things

All the things that once made her feel safe

Or so I believe.

Things don't make me safe either, from

Loss we can't avoid

She's figured that out too

Blessing the world from her abundance

Friends, family, the charity shops

Her house gets less crowded

But

The tomato 🍅 plants in the side yard

We went to tuck them up safe in their frames

They flower, already setting fruit

And there, the worm 🐛 spoils the fruit

Drills the stem

She said I can dig up one of last season's

Volunteer tomatoes

(what we have always called the self seeded)

Take a little bit of her garden home with me.

I, too,

Will bless the world from her abundance

Hopefully to fruit and flower for more years

If I can be a frame to help her stand

I'll hold her up, like she's done for me

I guess all we ever have is the time we have

No way to know what that is, or how long

Seed, sprout, flower, fruit, seed, wither...

Sprout.

#words words words #izzy writes #izzy ages gracefully #or not as the case may be #izzy writes poetry #drain off the words #feelings on the page #i love you mom #time keeps on slipping #into the future #hopepunk #thanks for reading #i feel a little better #grief poetry #of course that's a tag #no beta we die like men #of course #that's the point #memento mori

[terresdebrume]

The problem with consuming any kind of Saint Seiya material is that now I want to read about Aphrodite and Deathmask's deeply weird relationship but specifically as I would write it

Which of course can't happen unless I write it

#matt writes #or not as the case may be #Cancer Deathmask #pisces aphrodite #In other newt that next TBU fic is pov Shaka and it is deeply experimental on my part #we'll see how that goes

[wuxiaphoenix]

Worldbuilding: In Want of a Wife

Through most of recorded history the vast majority of people expected to get married.

Note, I’m not advocating for or against any particular form of marriage here. There are some people who have no interest in the whole situation and are probably better off staying single and being the spinster aunt/uncle/ what have you who just helps out. But in most times and places everyone was at least expected to try to get married. For multiple reasons.

Raising children is, of course, a big one. Especially given up until fairly recently (within the past two centuries or less) about half of children died before 15. But a married couple first and foremost had to build a stable economic unit, two people depending on each other to survive, before that was possible. Men’s work and women’s work was a legit thing, and you generally needed both if you didn’t want to starve or die of food poisoning.

Never underestimate the danger of food poisoning. Even with modern refrigeration, getting married generally adds about ten years to a guy’s lifespan - mainly because they stop pulling “stupid bachelor tricks” like leaving frozen chicken on the counter overnight to thaw. Hello lethal case of salmonella poisoning.

So. If you’re writing a story set in a historical, fantastical, or even some kinds of SF setting, most people will be expected to get married. Most people try to get married. And if your characters aren’t married, you’d better have an idea why.

Granted, you could have simple reasons. No unrelated prospects in the village. (Remember that in a lot of settings people didn’t get to travel much - and the ones who do will always be “that foreigner”.) The people who aren’t related are holding out for a better dowry or bride price. Your character is still trying to earn their own dowry/bride price for when they do find The One. Your character is considered suspect for some reason, justified or not. (Like being “that foreigner”.) Your character is a member of some group expected not to be married; a monk, a priest, a nun, or many of the various flavors in several religions.

Or, possibly, your character was married. And is now divorced (some cultures did this), a widow, or a widower.

These last, of course, leave open the option that your character is a single parent. Make sure you read up on children of the right age if you go that route. If you haven’t been around a lot of kids, or not recently, they tend to be a lot bigger a lot younger than you realize.

Note, you can find good reasons for someone to be unmarried in just about any setting. In a lot of stressful times pre-Industrial Revolution, for one, it could be common to marry very late (as in 20s or later) because you had to earn enough money to set up a household first. And if your character is an Adventurer - well, they may earn money hunting dragons, but easy come, easy go....

It’s a lot easier to write a character having Adventures if they’re single. But if you’re trying for a realistic setting, make sure you have a reason they’re not tied down yet!

#creative writing #worldbuilding #characters #marriage #or not as the case may be

[zahlibeth]

goddamnit. hopefully even the non-knitters can see that top row is entirely wrong! it's not supposed to look different to the rest...

🐸

#time to frog the whole row. sigh #in my knitting era #knitting: dishcloths #or not as the case may be #z

[clatterbane]

Back from another periodic diabetes check-in appointment today. This was my second time actually seeing the endocrinologist there, though I had to go back for a nurse appointment when they were setting me up with the CGM.

It was a bit of a mixed bag this morning, and I'm still not sure how to feel about things. The (same) endo did come across as fairly decent and competent again, but I got triggered pretty badly by some pushiness around further meds that I was clearly communicating that I do not want.

Don't really need to go off on that right now, partly for my own mental health. But, I am tentatively trying to interpret at least some of that as a communication mismatch. And of course there are very few faster ways to get my back up by now, than to even give off a whiff of trying to bulldoze me in a medical setting.

On the plus side? No numbers nitpicking, and nobody tried browbeating me about anything else. So, that's a huge improvement over basically anything I ran into connected to the diabetes back on Plague Island.

Anyway, OTOH? She also sent me over to a nurse on the way out, to get what looked like a good portion of my blood drawn for a whole slew of further testing. (Seriously though, it was like 6 small tubes plus another jumbo tube o' blood.) I don't know what all, but will hopefully be able to see through the portal once results come back.

One of the things she wanted to check for, though? MODY! Nobody has ever raised that possibly before, but apparently something set off her diabetologist Spidey sense that it might be a possibility. She specifically mentioned how unusually low my insulin needs have been, with surprisingly better blood sugar control overall than they're expecting to see.

(Yeah, pretty much the OPPOSITE of what you'd expect to see with that persistent T2 misdiagnosis. 😒)

They're apparently also running antibody and C-peptide tests, just to be safe. They didn't get any records whatsoever from Plague Island, and honestly I'm not sure that they ever did the appropriate testing there after my DKA crash. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The major practical difference there, if it is a form of MODY rather than the more common autoimmune kind? Evidently some treatment strategies can be different, and they'd know better what else to watch out for.

But yeah, talk about contrasts. Go from pennypinching refusals to order "unnecessary" antibody tests, to "Gee, it could possibly be this highly unusual thing, so let's just take All The Blood and try to figure out wtf is going on here!"

(Skåne University, which they're attached to, also turns out to be the place in Sweden where they are doing that genetic testing, which probably doesn't hurt at all. Major diabetes research center in general.)

I must say I'm way happier with that approach, all things considered.

#personal #medical stuff #endocrinology #diabetes #type 1 diabetes #or not as the case may be #medical ptsd

[obstinatecondolement]

Now feeling a very strong urge to write fic about closeted (even to themselves) teen lesbians who think that all best friends want to make out with only each other when they get drunk at parties, and everyone else is super repressed and doesn't know what true friendship is for thinking that they're clearly into each other, instead of a) preparing for my performance review at my real life job that there will be real life consequences for me not being prepared for, b) catching up on my many outstanding volunteer committments, c) writing another fic that I am under a deadline to complete, or d) working on the outline for a novel I have committed to starting the first draft of in July.

#werq bitch #or not as the case may be

[misscrawfords]

I really miss just writing about Jane Austen constantly.

Actually, I really miss writing in general. I haven't written a word of fiction in a year apart from that random "modern Jane Eyre on a super yacht" drabble that got loads of notes. I am totally creatively dead. It actually feels like I'm missing a limb. I want to somehow find my way back to it but there are too many things in my brain as it is. I know I need to find a way of removing some of these things but in the mean time... I miss writing. I miss thinking about things that aren't work/my parents/my love life/my future/household admin/more work/my mental health... Generally, I'd love to think less about myself and things that make me anxious.

Anyway, maaaaybe... please ask me questions about literature or writing or request a drabble. Or something. I've got an evening ahead of marking Iliad essays, so I'd like to think about something else as well!

#rose writes #or not as the case may be #i feel like i can't even remember how to engage with fictional characters #who aren't y'know from homer or virgil! #but i want to

[judydreamer]

unsure how to process the news that kendall succession is a man

#good for him i guess #or not as the case may be #i don't watch it evidently #but I thought he was a girlboss type

[carryonlikewedidbefore]

Ugh. It was only AFTER I got in the bath that I found out my kindle was completely flat.

#reading #or not as the case may be

[disniq]

So how Disniq's titans jason doing? Is he good?

Hi Anon! I'll be honest, I'm not really sure what you're asking here 😅

I'm assuming you mean Jason in From Every Height I'd Fall, in which case he was having a pretty severe suicidal episode two chapters ago so "good" is probably overselling it! But he's not *alone*, so. Improvement?

#asked and answered #or not as the case may be #sorry anon the brain fog is real this week! #from every height i'd fall