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splatoon-confession-box · 2 years ago
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The bucket compelled me
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aroaessidhe · 12 days ago
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2025 reads / storygraph
The Isle In The Silver Sea
standalone fantasy romance
set in a fantasy version of Britain where folktales and myths from the past reincarnate over and over, and memory of the rest of the world is obscured
follows two women who are the latest incarnations of the knight and the witch, who are fated to fall in love and doom each other, though don’t fit the traditional molds of each role
neither particularly wants to give in to the tale - but when a strange assassin starts killing their kind, they inevitably have to work together, and will either have to give in or find a way to free themselves from their fate
arc from netgalley, out oct 21
#The Isle In The Silver Sea#sapphic books#aroaessidhe 2025 reads#oh my goddddddd#This book was so perfect and made for me.#I loved the atmosphere; all the elements of folktales and myth mashed together in an anachronistic setting that’s#medieval in some ways but more modern in others - perfect encapsulation of the themes of being stuck in the#trappings of the past and stifling other cultures.#It’s very blatantly exploring the modern issues of how being stuck in a rigid colonial anti-immigrant past and against#change and diversity is actively killing the people/country.#Maybe a little heavy handedly? But I personally don’t mind that#as far as being the wider plot to a romance.#I guess I can imagine if it weren’t romance focused it could have gotten a lot more complex and detailed in those discussions but…#(I’m a little concerned there so many reviews confused about the time period THAT’S THE POINT. KEY THEME OF THE BOOK.)#the entire point is that the cyclical narrative of myths and the isle is overtaking actual culture - both of immigrants#and other cultures on the isle (welsh for example)#the first half I was like yeah I enjoy this; it’s a little slow but I love the vibes; the second half - while I was initially unsure#absolutely pulled on my emotions in a way that had me fully invested. the way the switch up affected each MCs personal journey#& also their relationships with the other characters - that’s the thing that Got me.#the unexpected weird little family……the friendships….the cat…… thinking about them days later made made me cry again.#I’m generally not a fan of soulmatey or instant attraction kind of things but this is both the core of the story#and also the kind of characters/dynamic I like. I love both Simran and Vina individually#and the way their romance intertwined with each of their personal journeys really worked for me.#And the question of whether there’s a true connection there or whether they’re just giving in to fate -#as well as ‘what does it matter#lets enjoy ourselves in the moment’ - is explored in the narrative.#I loved the little snippets and notes at the start of each chapter too!#anyway I don't think it'll work for everyone but i liked it very much :)
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inhurtandincomfort · 3 months ago
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Spiking whumpee's food with something that tastes awful. The food itself is fine, and it isn't dangerous: but it's tainted with a strong, bitter taste that whumpee just can't get rid of. They're starving, they have to eat, but the foul taste will linger in their mouth for hours, days even, until their next meal which bears the same bitterness.
Maybe whumper shakes it up sometimes, randomly alternating so whumpee never knows if they're getting normal, palatable food or this horrible tainted meal with an aftertaste that will never wash out.
Even in recovery, it may take them a long time to be comfortable enjoying food again.
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yache-berries · 4 months ago
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Should I bring him with me to London...?
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extra silly cat behavior below the cut...
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Yaranaby, where are you going with my Danish "Bring It On Home To Me" Animals single from 1965- YARNABY!!!!!!
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technoschnauzer · 3 days ago
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God I have found 0 alternatives to google docs that work for my needs and it's kinda frustrating. Would very much prefer to find another place to host stuff but something has to meet a very high standard for me to choose it over just doing shit in note pad and never sharing anything edit: i may have crashed out directly after posting this
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smartzelda · 2 months ago
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Sometimes it's frustrating having worked in video game retail and knowing anything about game/console prices and deals watching people just. Say things online
"Look at this nintendo add for the SNES you could get the console and super mario world for like $100! Companies never do that anymore they're so greedy hahaha"
Yes, companies still bundle consoles with games. And yes, often this means the games come at a reduced price. (Mario Kart World for Switch 2 is $50 in the bundle versus the $80 for physical. When Gamestop was bundling games and controllers with new ps5s to keep away scalpers in like 2022, the games included often would be discounted between $10 and $20 for that bundle.)
Don't get me wrong. Of course less than $200 for a console and a first party game would be swell these days BUT. When you decided to get up in arms over prices these days, did you adjust for inflation? (Because like. It's one thing if the new console you're doing comparisons with the old one is much more expensive even when factoring in inflation. But also like some of those old consoles adjusted for inflation are worth about the same if not more than a switch 2, then it's like...okay? At that point the prices aren't the problem. The root issue is the companies not paying you in accordance with rising inflation.)
Believe it or not YES. Nintendo still does console deals where you can buy their most recent home console with a first party game added in for free! (Listen to me. Listen. In 2021 and 2022 for Christmas it was possible to walk into a video game store and buy a $300 switch bundle that included Mario Kart 8 deluxe and like 3 months free Nintendo Online. In like 2022/2023 for Christmas they also did $350 switch oled bundles that included Mario Kart 8 deluxe and 3 months nintendo online for free. The price of a console for a $60 video game and 3 months of the online service. This isn't some mythic business practice that stopped happening in like 2005 or something. I promise.)
Yes obviously the companies are greedy. They use deals to pull you in to get you to spend more than you expected. They also often have more sales than you're even aware of because they benefit more from people paying full price. They underpay people and they use whatever excuses needed oftentimes to raise prices to keep that profit rising. But it does no one any real good other than allow people to get pissed off to lie or assume things which aren't true. There are so many reasons to dislike companies (esp. Nintendo), you don't need to rely on acting like things used to be so much better in cases that they're not, or treating things that are industry wide standards/issues as something one company is the sole perpetrator of.
Moral of the story, maybe perhaps like do a bit a research instead of assuming whatever thing that pisses you off greatly is 100% true, and direct your ire in the right direction. Ground yourself emotionally and mentally, know what's going on. Be pissed at corporations. You're allowed to be fuckin pissed at corporations. Just please know what tf you're talking about and what exactly the root issue is
#Sorry sorry I've been putting off making a post like this#There are many rightful reasons for people to be angry about the things we've been finding out since the Switch 2 announcement#But it's so fucking frustrating. People literally have been lying online and on youtube as ragebait about shit#Everyone wants to believe in this idea that Nintendo is the worst video game company in the world and the root of all evil#So they just believe anyone who goes ''look what they took from you!!'' or claims Nintendo is charging more money than everyone else or#paving the way for new industry standards (often untrue)#And the reason I've put off talking about it is that people are so reactionary about this that their gut reaction to anyone wanting them to#have any sense of perspective or get facts right is to call those people bootlickers#I mean. Let's get a sense of perspective right now. Are consoles these days expensive? Yes. Is Switch 2 the most expensive console on the#market? Hell no. That would go to the ps5 pro. A $700 console that doesn't even include the $80 disc drive you need to buy to play physical#games on it. You're not even required to buy Nintendo online or any other add ons to play a switch 2 out of the box.#Is the switch 2 the most expensive nintendo console to date? Run the launch prices (w/dates) for previous consoles through an inflation#calculator and see for yourself. Does it suck ass that they're pushing Nintendo online for all this shit it does? YES. I have refused to bu#Nintendo online or playstation plus because I hate it so much. I was around in the years before when you could do online Switch multiplayer#without spending money. I *praised* Nintendo pre-Nintendo online for being the only company who hadn't done a stupid online subscription.#But listen to me. They were the *last* of the big 3 to do that. And comparatively‚ it also has the least confusing subscription plans while#being then more cost effective and family friendly option than the others. I hate that these exist at all‚ but Nintendo is far from the#truest worstest and only evil here.#Anyways last example. Nintendo is not even the first company out of the 3 to break $60 with a launch title. Sony was doing that with PS5#before Totk even came out and MK World was even a blip on the horizon. Obviously shit's getting expensive and that sucks. But the idea that#Nintendo is the evil trailblazing more expensive games is untrue. 90% of Switch 2 games aren't over $60. And even if $80 games DO become th#new norm‚ may I remind you that we have had a $60 standard for over a decade now. We have been lucky for this. And the issue at the end of#the day isn't the rising price of these things. Inflation has always been a thing. The real issue is that no one can afford them because#wages aren't also adjusting with inflation. If companies would pay people properly‚ then games and consoles being more expensive wouldn't b#an issue. (also sidenote. Microsoft was the first to increase console prices with tariffs. While accessories and add ons jumped with price‚#Nintendo at least didn't increase the price of the base Switch 2 console or games when they released the tariff price adjustments)#So many things are shit right now. A lot of these things shouldn't be the norm and I don't blame anyone for hating those things. I also#don't like Nintendo as a company. But again. Do some research. Ground yourself. Get some perspective. Stop believing people who are doing#the equivalent of claiming cds and dvds are already dead and you can't buy them anymore#zessay
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screambirdscreaming · 14 days ago
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I wish I knew the right amount of complaining about something to make it not feel bottled up but also not make me lean into it
#my grievances are justified enough that if I rant to someone they're often like. encouraging of it more or less#but I am trying to override my personal petty grievances for various reasons of principal and/or not being a dick#to someone having a bad time.#so it's like. Yeah I'm pretty frustrated and unhappy about my housemate having a prolonged screaming meltdown#I find that. Pretty unpleasant. And the unpredictability of it is stressful to live with.#But like. Presumably the degree of bad time they are having is worse than that. Figuring based on. The screaming.#And it's not like it helps anyone whatsoever to try to have a direct conversation about it#I'm assuming we're all on basically the same page about how less screaming meltdowns would be better than more#So there's not anything to say about it that isn't pressuring and blamey#But then I'm like. Not sure how to get past the frustration checkpoint where I usually try to calmly explain an issue to another person#What other strategies are there that substitute for that??#For various other reasons I really don't want to move out. But I should probably at least like. Seriously consider what moving out#looks like as an option.#ughhhhhh. Bleh.#(caveat i know the cause of the screaming meltdown and it is not related to me.)#(If the direct interpersonal issues were that bad I'd be a lot less ambivalent about moving out.)#(it's also another layer of frustration where I want to be petty and shitty and complain about them making choices -#- that had a pretty high risk of causing a situation that would trigger a meltdown and here we are.)#(But! If I complain about that and someone agrees with me then I have to switch modes into explaining about the dignity of risk#and how disability narrows the spheres of your life and how you still have the right to do things that might go badly#And how relative to all that 'not being an annoying housemate' is a really petty consideration#that I'm certainly not going to push on! Because what the fuck would that even be!#so again I'm like man I want to bitch about this because I AM annoyed and I don't want to be logging and bottling up annoyances#because that escalates.#But I'm also like. I can't even bitch to myself about it without running back and forth through an analysis of which complaints#Are situationally so out of scope on a scale of harms that I need to just. Flush em.)#but i don't know howwwww#fucking uncloseable popup window type emotion#i acknowledged you go away!!!
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whoslaurapalmer · 6 months ago
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the adult horror conversation with yourself of 'i could have tortillas with dinner tonight. i just had tortillas the other day. that's okay. i can, in fact, have tortillas again! i am putting a different filling in them! but if i have these tortillas, i will have a total of six tortillas left in the freezer. eventually i will have to buy more tortillas. by god, girl, you are allowed to eat the things you have in the freezer, instead of feeling like you have to save them for some potential eventuality so you don't run out of them, and like, what situation are you even imagining where the tortillas would be better to have later instead of for this particular dinner??? if you keep feeling like you have to save them for Something you will just not eat the tortillas!! eventually EVERYTHING runs out and you have to buy more of them!! that is the way the world works!! you are allowed to not have things aggressively stockpiled, except for like, tissues, but that was a purchasing incident on mom's card while she was still here, so you just happen to have, a bizarre amount of tissue boxes. AND WHILE YOUR FINANCES ARE STILL BIG RED QUESTION MARKS, YOU CAN, IN FACT, AFFORD TO GO BUY MORE TORTILLAS IF YOU FUCKING WANT TO!!! YOU GET THE STREET TACO SIZE AND THEY'RE LIKE $2.99!!!!! AND WHEN DID YOU EVEN BUY THESE TORTILLAS, HUH???????? YOU DON'T KNOW, DO YOU???? WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH THE TORTILLAS AT AN ACCEPTABLE PACE!! WHATEVER THE HELL THAT SENTENCE MEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
anyway i'm eating the tortillas. or i mean they're on the counter defrosting while i have some chicken toasting in the toaster oven
#adulting is going soooooooo normally i tell you WHAT#first option of how to keep the house is going to fall through (or well it's not long-term sustainable)#so now we're on second option to keep the house and tomorrow that process starts and i will find out soon if THAT'S possible!!!!!!!!!!!#aaaaaaaaaand if not! then! well!!! will have to move. some places i have an eye on but it's also. Thousand Yard Stare#i got a projected electricity bill -- that was A+ i was so pleased with it!! not bad at all!!! sooo much lower than i was assuming. yay.#BUT THE GAS BILL MADE ME GO 'ARE YOU FUCKING FOR REAL??????'#FIRST OFF LOCAL GAS COMPANY IT'S NOT MY FAULT IF YOUR METER READER CAN'T TRUDGE THROUGH THE SNOW TO THE BACKYARD#AND IS ESTIMATING 100 UNITS HIGHER THAN PREVIOUS USAGE WHICH I'M SURE MAKES A DIFFERENCE#THERE ARE PEOPLE LOCALLY WHO KEEP THEIR HEATER ON 60 BTW AND YOU'RE STILL CHARGING THEM $300 WHICH AT LEAST YOU AREN'T CHARGING ME BUT DAMN#this area is having a bit of a Time with gas and electric bills. it's a whole Thing. mostly i have luckily escaped that.#/crosses self for good luck even if it does NOT work that way and i am Not religious by ANY means#also they're breaking up a security deposit over 3 months bc i didn't have any other real bills in my name when i switched all the bills#(at least the gas was the only one that wanted a security deposit. and they'll give it back to me in a year if i'm current for a year.)#(but also. rrrrrrrrrrude)#so i was expecting that but also a specific budget billing but they are asking for moreeeee than i thought they would!#mostly this is a jan-march issue. after march at least it'll go down like $90. which is better but also. still. sigh.#idk if i should call and argue about the reading. i should just let it go probably. i don't like it but. well. idk.#WELL I GOTTA GET THROUGH TOMORROW FIRST.#AND BEFORE THAT. TONIGHT. AND MY TORTILLAS.
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keyks-art-zone · 8 months ago
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Tried playing Sugary Spire for the first time, and died on the first level...
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kesbeacon · 6 months ago
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You know, I'm beginning to think I don't read knitting charts the way other people do.
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tetranymous · 1 year ago
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Does anyone know of a way to force a memory limit on Firefox for Android?
All of the methods I've seen are only for desktop (mobile doesn't have about:config) or people saying that you should leave the memory management to the OS (clearly not helpful) or people complaining about slowness or storage space or browser crashes (irrelevant, clogging up search results) or confusing ram with internal storage (who even decided to call internal storage memory in the first place??? As if RAM didn't already mean random access MEMORY).
I'm getting sick of Firefox suddenly using up all of the RAM and causing my entire phone to hard crash and reboot 😭 (not just a tab or browser crash).
My phone's fairly old (I've gotta upgrade soon due to the 3g shutoff and lack of VOLTE support) but that's still a while away and it's only Firefox that's causing this to happen, everything else runs fine (plus I'd still like to use this thing even when I upgrade!). Can't mess about in root until I upgrade because this era of phone punishes you if you do (and I don't want to break something in there and be out of a phone for several months! Again!)
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aran-morinorea · 8 months ago
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Happy December yall! I bestow upon you all that remains to be posted of A Major Diplomatic Incident (part 1). It's going to take some revision, so I'm not posting it to ao3 yet, but this gets us to where I'm leaving off. The other chapter is the actual reason Elrond came to visit: post-Worst Road Trip, they invite him over to see Maglor. If he's going to be niceys about it. Both to Maglor and to Annatar.
…It was Tar-Glóriel who found Maglor in the first place. If it turns out he's literally Sauron, Elrond is going to blackmail Celebrimbor into letting him take Maglor to Lindon after all. At least for a year or two at a time.
This decided, Elrond ends the awkward pause with, “I suppose so. Mostly I'm just confused.”
“Tell me about it,” says Tar-Glóriel, tipping back over to put his head in Celebrimbor’s lap.
Elrond finds, despite himself, that he is smiling. His evil cousin-in-law, who feels about Celebrimbor the way he feels about Gil-Galad, thinks of him as a Maia. Not a half-Elvish Man or a half-Mannish Elf; not half-anything at all. What else would you be? 
And Elrond’s voice reminds him of… what might honestly be one of the worst days of his infinitely long life. He can’t imagine it was fun in itself, but given what it led to, Morgoth must have been very upset. Thinking about it, he says, “That must not help with the urge to murder me.”
“It really doesn’t!” Tar-Glóriel complains, making the shadows dance, “But I'm being nice about it, because I am capable of self-control.”
Celebrimbor laughs and puts his hand in Tar-Glóriel’s hair, saying, “And I appreciate it, love, thank you for not attacking my friend.”
“Yes, I am the embodiment of kindness and grace, you know,” says Tar-Glóriel, sparkling again; Elrond is beginning to think that’s what he does when he’s teasing. If “teasing” is a thing that a being who could plausibly be literal actual Sauron can be said to do. 
…If Elrond treats him like an enemy now - after being allowed to see him being so affectionate, so intimate, without further provocation - well, then he’s going to feel like the asshole in the situation. He might never stop expecting the further provocation to come, but he can’t act on that expectation, because he’s positioned himself as a - an amiable distant relation. Not even that distant, depending on how he’s counting! It’s possible he’d be in the wrong to start a fight even if he gets definite confirmation of Tar-Glóriel’s identity.
What in all the Iron Hells has Elrond gotten himself into?
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stonedopossums · 2 months ago
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just got a call from the pharmacy. the first lady was a cunt and gave me ZERO information but the second lady was nice. she didn't know WHY my prescriptions were always being cancelled but she did push them through for me. I will be switching pharmacies cuz what do you mean you don't know why they keep being cancelled that's insane
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vaguely-concerned · 9 months ago
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this is approximately what rye ingellvar (they/he, transmasc) looks like btw
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I have spent more time with the dragon age: the veilguard character creator than I have with some quite dear and treasured real life family members, but I think it paid off eventually. look. it's my little guy. my crypt baby babyboy. a watcher to watch
(their hair should be much curlier and cut a little differently (it falls more forward and on one side when released from its bonds than any of the actual veilguard hairs and is short in the back), but overall the design is pretty close to what I wanted!)
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feat. corvid bae being dragged along to the depths of the necropolis once again to attend Double Bones with Doctor(s) Skelebones with the Mourn Watch lads, but he can't even really be annoyed about it because hanging out with rook keeps proving so infuriatingly fun even when he goes in determined to remain glum lol
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thatwitchrevan · 3 months ago
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I. want to make blades in the dark characters to play.
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receding-tides · 2 days ago
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I had a VERY strange issue where chapter 37 specifically would sign me out of a03
(looks at what chapter that is)
deep cut are trying to hack your account. sorry
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