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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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speaking of peeing the bed it's been long enough that i can tell this story publicly. in high school i went to a party at some house with no adults, as you sometimes would, and at the end of the night like 10 people all clonked out together in the same bed. fully clothed, one of those teenage moments where you're like wow heehee how rule-breaking, because sure a lot of our parents wouldn't like us sleeping in a bed with a bunch of other teenagers and no adult supervision blah blah. fond memories. anyway.

i'm an extremely light sleeper, so i barely slept, and sometime around 6 am, i woke up to a girl totally panicking, very quietly, because she peed the bed in her sleep. and listen. this wasn't a group of mean kids by any measure. but there's no level of kindness or understanding in the world that will make peeing the bed when you're 17, surrounded by people you only sort of know, a gentle blow.

so i sat up and she was like "oh my god" and I signaled at her to be absolutely silent and I said I'd be right back. And I crawled over everyone and out of the bed like a stupid cat.

and the thing is, by senior year i wasn't getting bullied much anymore. i was generally pretty well liked by my peers, but, if this makes sense, people still didn't always expect very much from me. i was still figuring out how to mask (autistic) and i still often said or did something that made everyone remember i'm weird and they'd just be like "well. that's story for you. i guess." and for the most part i'd become pretty secure in that.

so what i'm saying is i had nothing to lose and this girl had everything to lose.

so i went downstairs and i made tomato soup. and by "made" i mean i put a whole can of tomato soup in a too-small mug and microwaved it until it was lukewarm so as to be convincingly "made" but not so hot to burn someone.

and then i walked back upstairs, and no longer like a cat, i clumsily "attempted" to crawl back into bed, loudly lost my balance, and spilled tomato soup all over the girl and her lap and several other people's laps and heads and the mattress.

everyone woke up confused and anguished and i was like, "oh my god, I'm so sorry. I just got really hungry and it's all i could find."

and everyone immediately accepted with absolutely no further questions that I would go downstairs, make tomato soup at 6 am,and bring it back to bed. everyone just begrudgingly climbed onto the floor and went back to sleep while I put the bedding right into the laundry.

i don't even know this girl's name. i only remembered this story recently because i'm in my hometown for a few months and recently a high school acquaintance said, "hey. do you remember spilling soup on everyone after prom? why did you do that?" and for a moment i genuinely did not and i stared at them completely dumbfounded while the memory loaded and then i started laughing too hard to answer for 2 minutes.

the best part is i can tell this story, and even if it reaches the people who were there, none of them will know which one of them peed the bed. thanks to tomato soup.

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I finally finished it!

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I hate it here. The man had literally no redeeming qualities in the film. Almost every comment directed at him was about how he was an asshole. His wife left him and took their child because he was that awful. And then he helped to save some people and then the corrupt CIA director said he got to be an Avenger and now he's all good because he's on a TEAM, guys, and they're a FAMILY, and if he's still an asshole, that's all ok because sometimes he gets funny lines and Bucky and Yelena are associating with him.

Guess what, he helped to save some people in the last episode of TFATWS too and got a nod from Bucky, like that was meant to be a redemption arc or something, and yet three years later in Thunderbolts* he's clearly learned nothing from that experience and is demonstrating precisely zero growth.

The same people who liked him in TFATWS still like him now, and for the same reason - because they are desperate to cling onto a blond-haired, blue-eyed Captain America so they don't have to accept Sam Wilson. And it's not good writing - it's just that now tptb are encouraging these people and telling them their racist pov is legitimate and a-ok.

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in honor of the best Dropout clip of all time

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🚌Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - Dimension 20: On a Bus!

DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

Watch the full episode here

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housewives were not banging out spirk fanfiction in the 60s for you to be AI generating your fic

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when I say “Let me ask my husband”, one (or both) of these things is taking place:

1. I am in a loving, happy relationship where we value and respect each other’s opinion

2. I am using this as an excuse to get out of something I don’t want to do (sorry habibi)

what is not happening here: I am being oppressed

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watching this scene in the theater was INSANE :’)

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MONDAY NIGHT RAW | 06.30.25

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rhea + doing iyo's signature emote

MONDAY NIGHT RAW | 05.12.25 MONDAY NIGHT RAW | 06.30.25

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For the last time dude, my leitmotif sounds exactly like it always has. There is no symbolism for creeping corruption in there

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you silly little cleric

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Showing this to past me saying "I can't draw on paper anymore, sad u_u" YES BITCH (affectionate) YOU CAN this is just one month and a half of re-learning and I'm so so happy I tried ??

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The King Does Not Understand Human Feelings

my take on saber

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Nessie @raccoonmilf, founder of the original Dashcon (who came up with the idea at 15 and then had the project hijacked by a bunch of adults who exploited her for child labor 😭) in a Marie-Antoinette-inspired Ball Pit Queen outfit constructed by herself + me as Yugioh Robespierre, at the incredible post-cringe redemption that was Dashcon 2.

We did NOT plan this coincidence but once we realized it we did plan that little failed revolution quelled by Sir @strange-aeons at the Closing Ceremony!