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Adding on, it would also make more sense for the tripedal to be one from leg two back legs, not the other way around. The knock on effects are immeasurable to contemplate, but just from a purely surface level read, bifurcation for legs is going to be evolutionarily advantageous than arms. Yes, I understand it's the assumption that the tail never splits and you already have two fins for motion, however, that works in water, it's not going to work as well on land (tripedal isn't going to work well anywhere, but let's argue something here)

I'm also assuming the fish-deer is mammalian? That's rough. Live births with this thing is going to be nightmarish. Also what's their habitat? My best guess if you're going with a tripedal ungulate, is to tap into weird mountainous and rocky terrain near high altitude lakes and calderas. Make them extremophiles like flamingos that occupy a niche that shouldn't exist where the weird balancing of 3 legs makes movement easier.

(kind of like how mountain goats can balance on like a few millimeters of rock)

As for continuing the species, unless a wizard has specifically crafted these because he's bent on violating all laws of decency by showing the council how all their little weird regulations create disturbing loopholes, I'd figure out the one that didn't require them to gestate for very long, or require as much care and attention as mammalian species need in the first year or two.

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the whole "lipstick on a pig" thing makes no sense because the second we gave a pig access to makeup she became god's cuntiest soldier

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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they should invent a bus that never gets stuck in traffic because it's on its own path separated from the roads. and then chain multiple of them together and put it on rails. has anyone had this idea before.

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Kept up with the large block of colour because it looks cool as it disappears.

Progress of something I'm working on, I bought 5 cross stitch kits a few years ago and I dragged this one out to work on back in December. As you can see I didn't get very far.

However since I'm kind of trapped and need to do things. I'm probably going to jump around to other colours because the unending black of the corner I chose is a lot.

Apparently once I'm finished, I wash it gently in warm water and the stamped design washes away, here's to hoping that's the case.

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The real thing with ADHD is not "I forgot", but that forgetting is this ongoing process. I remembered! And then I forgot.

At ten this (hypothetical) morning I remembered that I have a meeting at six. And then from 11 through 3 I worked on other stuff and had zero thoughts about that meeting. Maybe even thought about what I was gonna do with my evening at home. Got attached to the idea of taking the time to make a good dinner, maybe play some video games.

And then at three I said, "Oh! Fuck!" and remembered again, hopefully long enough to set an alarm. And then I went to the bathroom and remembered that I need to clean the counter and spent twenty minutes cleaning the bathroom and went to get a snack and then at five I said, "OH! FUCK!" and had to scramble to dress like a real adult and get out the door.

It isn't one clean forgetting. It's a constant process of forgetting and then, with an exhausting adrenaline spike, remembering. And then forgetting. Baby, I can forget the same thing more times in a day than you ever forgot your parents' anniversary.

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‘Manuel’ - Rodrigo (Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester)

‘Manuel’ was showed in the 1983 edition of ARCO, Madrid’s contemporary art fair. It was deemed “the first gay sculpture at the fair” and caused some commotion in Spain’s cultural scene. The artist, Rodrigo, made this sculpture based on a man he met and fell in love with at a public pool in 1976.

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censorship

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vulcan horror movies would be an exercise in emotional regulation against fear, targeted directly at vulcans' deepest insecurities. movies titled "IT IS ILLOGICAL TO QUIVER AT THIS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS" which, if one of its hundred-and-six jumpscares gets you, you'll never live it down. humans find them annoyingly scary, like a friend who won't stop trying to "get" you.

you'd think that klingon horror movies are gorefests, but it's actually quite the opposite: gore is honorable, and nothing is scarier than dishonor. they often show a person whose life falls apart despite their own valiance and virtues: like an earth tragedy but with someone who clearly doesn't deserve it. at the end, there's often an operatic number where the protagonist exclaims that there's nothing they could have done to prevent their abysmal fate.

ferengi horror movies are documentaries about stock market crashes

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the assurance "nobody is judging you" is straight up false... people ARE judging you and you have to find a way to be ok w it

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My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

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Progress of something I'm working on, I bought 5 cross stitch kits a few years ago and I dragged this one out to work on back in December. As you can see I didn't get very far.

However since I'm kind of trapped and need to do things. I'm probably going to jump around to other colours because the unending black of the corner I chose is a lot.

Apparently once I'm finished, I wash it gently in warm water and the stamped design washes away, here's to hoping that's the case.

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At this point I'm putting this under a read more because it's getting long

I'm beginning week 3 ish, technically week 3 starts on Wednesday (at noon if I'm being pedantic) but I'm feeling better each day.

Pain levels are down to the occasional Tylenol if I feel like I need it. There is still some numbness, but it's localized to just above the incisions.

I'm keeping an eye out for any kind of potential complications, mainly a seroma (lymphatic fluid that drains into the post op site instead of being collected by the lymph nodes.

So far so good? It's supposed to kind of feel like a water balloon and I truly can't quite tell (like I have some swelling but it's not a lot and it looks okay to me right now). I'm keeping an eye on it and will continue along as I am.

I bought a beach wagon last year for camping and I'm using it right now for laundry. Keeping up with the apartment is going slowly, the biggest thing I need help with is trash removal.

I think I need to get a second binder, I have a full binder but those are not surgical I don't think they're the ones that I'm supposed to wear like the post op ones.

First full week post op! For those unnerved by surgery talk or anything block 'meph post op talk'

I had the surgery last Wednesday in Halifax, came home on Friday with a stay over at my aunt's on the Thursday, only to get in my friend's car on Sunday to go back to Halifax for the follow up appt Monday, and come back that same day.

So it's been a lot of travel.

But I'm healing well! The drains were removed Monday, I'm now in the binder that is to be my friend for the next 6 weeks.

Tuesday I went to mom's to shower - my building maintenance guy came by and finally replaced the floor in the bathroom and fixed some of the issues going on in there, the water wasn't turned off so he couldn't replace the taps and my shower requires the buildings water to be shut off for it to turn off ಠ⁠︵⁠ಠ

But there's a new floor down, and it looks so much better, and there was no water damage on the subfloor which is something I was kind of terrified of there being. But that did mean I had to shower elsewhere.

That took so much out of me, omg. It took 20 minutes to get as much of the tape residue off me as I could handle and I didn't get all of it. They had me so wrapped up in surgical paper tape that I was slowly turning into a cryptid.

So by the time I got back to my place I was exhausted and honestly sore for the first time since the surgery.

Shockwave on my leg has hurt more than this operation. That is mind boggling to me. They did a nerve block -this might have been in the literature around the surgery, it might be a new technique that they're trying for post op pain management, I remember being told probably several times but I don't recall it being mentioned before the operation.

When I was speaking with the surgeon on Monday he said it was perfectly normal that I was still frozen, that is coming out more now, as I can feel the pressure changes and if I touch along the binder it stings a bit. The weirdest sensation has to be the little shivers of nerves that I can feel "something" travel along it but it's not pain, it's not even a full sensory thing, like heat or cold. So it genuinely feels like the nerve is moving like wiggling in my chest.

It's like signals are being sent to the nerves to read what's happening, and since the block is in place there's a road work ahead sign being held by a wacky inflatable arm flailing tube man.

Otherwise though, I'm doing great, sleeping on and off, trying to move around slowly.

Super hoping my shower will be fixed soon soon, as I don't want to make the trip (like less than 5 minutes but so much effort) to go to mom's to get another shower.