#rambl

[etirabys]

the thing about the three musketeers (book) is that there are three musketeers (guys) and also a fourth dude who's always hanging out with them and is part of the friend group. yet he is not one of the three musketeers

#rambl

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Today's horoscopes:

2/24/2015

Aries: You are fully prepared to embrace your inner demon today. Look for a bright color that just pumps you up

Taurus: Your imagination is so very vivid. It's like a movie that is so real it's just wrong

Gemini: So you want a sign from God? Go outside and look at the moon.

Cancer: Answer the door and start a new conversation with a stranger.

Leo: Make a vow to yourself and keep it. To yourself alone.

Virgo: Drop your plan for tomorrow and focus on the moment. The moment is all you have

Libra: Plan to plan to plan to plan and then quit when you're not getting any of it done

Scorpio: A new perspective always helps. Pulling your head out of your ass is a good place to start

Sagittarius: What the hell are you so afraid of? Pick one and conquer it.

Capricorn: Loneliness is just an app on your phone. Click it off and use it less.

Aquarius: It's alright to enjoy things even when you're not looking for the deeper meaning.

Pisces: We're all monsters. Let your inner monster free.

#rambl #i don't actually believe in astrology but these are fun #nqqn

[lackingdaisies]

can i just say that i love it when @lordofdestructionm tags me in vikdecai posts

like i’m one of the gang 🥲🥲🥲

#despite being a relatively recent convert to the ship #three months ago i was vikdecai-neutral #but now… #oh we have descended into the ninth level of ship hell #and i’m enjoying every torturous minute of it #rambl

[etiragram]

3h ago I was half naked, starving, feral, hunched over paper cutouts in the living room, manually running a k-clustering algorithm on suboptimal wetware to determine wedding seating

trying to crunch like 10 tables ("the conservative table", "the tumblr table", "the misophonia table", "the korean table", "the entrepreneur table", "the young people table", "the baby lover table"...) into a mere 5

#rambl #an image of my meat avatar

[eightyonekilograms]

Something about Apple makes people uniquely vulnerable to idiotic clickbait, which is especially annoying because pointing it out always makes me feel scummy for stanning the world's richest corporation, but it has to be done.

"We hit the new iPhone 15 Pro with a blowtorch, then attacked it with an exacto knife, THEN bent it as hard as we could in the middle, and the glass cracked! LMAO MAJOR FAIL." the fuck?

#rambl

[space-spoon]

ramblening time @t0ast-the-gh0st

we got one character that is probably mentally ill and kind of out of touch with people, growing up in a rich family being privately tutored with only a few friends their parents made them have for the sake of looking normal, they would grow to be fascinated with taboo things like violence since they were very sheltered from it (yet that only made them more interested, eventually they desensitized themselves to it and now they can't really tell if something is bad or not, although they do have a baseline of "don't stab people")

this character becomes almost obsessed over this person put in jail for killing someone, to the point they pay money to the police to get them out of jail (this transaction was illegal, but hey money is money)

the person who was put in jail, was really just framed for the murder (when it was just manslaughter) of their dad, their dad was emotionally and verbally abusive, yet they had no evidence to say they were defending themselves and their dad's friend defended him and even set up fake evidence so it looked like a planned murder.

this character came out of jail and was basically homeless (they spent about 2 years there, and had no home to go to, except of course the first character's)

they didn't really have a choice if they were going to stay or not but they didn't really mind staying in a giant rich families' house, until that first character started to act weird, and ask a bunch of questions about the murder

uh another character was the friend of the character who got put in jail, they're trying to start a band and kind of got really upset about that other character going to jail but figured they should keep going with life. this character got an apartment with another band member who has a job and probably pays a lot more of the rent, but this other band member kind of unintentionally manipulates them and leads them on, they start to realize it's not very healthy, they try to make it healthier for both people

uhjchftdtdfshcvjhikvjvjvjbjvjvjvufufjv I SHOULD GET NAMES I'll draw them later I like their designs in my head I hope they work out

AFSGSGZHXHDFHGGHN TELL ME ANY ADVICE OR COOL IDEAS FOR THEM OK??? , HC

#big big post #rambl #rammling. tambl ramble

[aries-is-a-god]

Rambl

I had a series of dreams for a while where you couldn't go outside or leave your lights on past 9pm because "Santa" would get you. The last of which I made a the mistake of staying out past 9 to help some scientists, and I started hearing explosions.

I did the obvious right thing and ran for my life leaving those Scientists to die, and went indoors, TURNING THE LIGHTS ON TO THE HOUSE AS I WENT.

The explosions got nearer and nearer. I began to tremble in fear, one of the scientists had escaped and his in the house with me and she whispered "She's here." then a fat as fuck Indian woman with a bazooka blasted the door down saying "Come out for Santa!" (she didn't have an accent) and started blowing shit up.

Eventually she found me said "Fresh meat" and aimed the bazooka at my head. I woke up.

#funny #dream #one time i dreamt #dreams #rambl #ramblings of a lunatic

[babieshowclown]

THE WAY ELQUACKITY HAD LIKE AN WHOLE PLAN TO KILL THE OTHER CANIDATES AND WANTED TO COLLAB WITH SLIME AND HIS ASS JUST DIED dam :[

#qsmp #hes useless #rambl

[etirabys]

81k: [accidentally plays audio from his laptop for 1 second]

me: oh, were you watching the eerie tornado warning video?

81k: no... that was my music

#rambl #the boyfriend with quantities

[etirabys]

hanging out with @femmenietzsche and they said, "you're one of the few cis women I hang out with and I'm not sure you even count. The most cis woman part of you is your sexuality, and that's the part I click with least... all that fucking drama..."

#rambl #fandemonium #oh i reread this and realized it's ambiguous. i just mean that my sexuality runs on '300K slowburn amnesia kidnapping enemies to lovers fic #i need my leads to go through a lot of bullshit and at the point they can actually bang the best part is over as far as i'm concerned

[etirabys]

I recently started on a course of meds that fuck with my mood and woke up very anxious about my life choices, but on the other hand picked a truly transcendental, structured, almost crystalline booger out of my nose soon after waking, so the day is a wash so far. I'll drift off into some unhappy train of thought and then get derailed by "...it had zigzags. it had narrative." and so the happy three year old in me tramples over the preoccupied thirty year old

#rambl #emo depletion #emo repletion

[etirabys]

had a fight with a partner yesterday where I was completely in the wrong, so today when we met up again to discuss it, I bought flowers (one reddish rose, one white blossom, two blue blossoms) beforehand

and presented it with the rest of my apology, in an embarrassed monotone, because by all accounts this should not work to affect his emotions at all, and I was doing this in a kind of "hopefully this alien ritual works to convey my earnestness because I don't have a lot of additional vectors for it... sorry if you perceive it as a ridiculous and ineffective bit of bribery" way

the presence or absence of flowers seems orthogonal to my internal state (e.g. contrition, probability of future improvement). they're not a useful gift. they're not zero signal of caring, but it's a low barrier to entry signal. getting flowers is not difficult or very expensive

but he said it worked! I grilled him about it. here are my findings.

he said that the flowers reduced his anger to 60% of initial anger when he walked in through the door

I asked whether more flowers would have worked better. he said a full bouquet (probably 20 flowers?) would have been noticeably better, but the curve goes flat after that.

I asked him how much 20 flowers would have reduced his anger, and he said to 45%. so here's a graph extrapolation (that does not account for non-flower factors like the quality of the apology)

#rambl

[etirabys]

as a child I wondered why adults were so stupid (doing things out of habit/routine/heuristics rather than reasoning explicitly about what to do based on their goals) and the answer is that adults are unimaginably fucking tired all the time

#rambl #child me would be so contemptuous of present me #look. you have NO idea how sleepy I am. if I have to think more than I need to I'll cry #more notes than usual

[etirabys]

new heights of extraversion - was at an airport, saw some guys repairing these friction lines, went up to them and asked questions

the lines turn out to be called 'grip strip' and they are using a 'putty knife' and a 'margin trowel' to apply it. The mixture will dry in 15m. Before it dries they also have to sprinkle sand on top and press in with the knife/trowel.

I was writing this down in a notebook, and they asked me what for, and I told them I'm sick of not knowing the words for things. Sometimes it feels like I don't know the words for anything! I've read so many words without ever mapping them to the physical things they corresponded to.

I'm going through the corridor that's outside of the airport building and leads into the airplane, I don't know what it's called either (edit: just asked the flight attendant, it's called a jet bridge)

There's yellow and black angled striped tape on the sides of the floor of the jet bridge, and I don't know why THAT'S there or what it's called. (edit: kind online people have informed me this is "hazard tape" / "hazard stripes" / "safety tape", and the general class is called "barricade tape".)

#rambl #more notes than usual

[etirabys]

after every layer of tape I change the painting slightly

at the end, I'm going to rip all the tape off. Honestly have no idea how this is going to go

#rambl #eti draws stuff #more notes than usual

[etirabys]

can anyone find me that mesopotamian clay tablet telling you to marry a party girl because she'll bring you joy

#rambl #i've put my husband in touch with 3 people across 2 companies he's interviewing at #and cited that tablet in self-congratulation... reader he had never heard of it