#(Not quite but almost)

[arctic-hands]

PERIODIC PSA that if you have celiac or otherwise a severe reaction to gluten, rye and barley (and thus malt) are not gluten free. You WILL get just as sick as if you had just eaten wheat

To make matters worse, barley/malt and rye aren't declared allergens in the United States, so you won't get the big bold letter warning like you would with a wheat product. Hell, up until a few years ago Rice Krispies didn't even declare malt in their ingredients list at all, us with celiac had to figure it out by reporting on forums that the plain cereal and the rice krispy treats were making us mysteriously sick

Also, it's estimated that twenty percent of celiac suffers will have a reaction to oats. I myself do not react to oats unless there's been cross contamination (not just on equipment, but often oats are grown right next to wheat so there's contamination on the plants themselves even before harvesting), but for some it's just as bad as if you've eaten bread or malt vinegar French fries

I don't know why the barley and rye parts are always left out of the discussion–even by doctors–when it's just as dangerous. Yes, celiac is dangerous. For us just a crumb of gluten is potent enough to cause miscarriages in the pregnant, and for the rest of us it can still send us to the hospital and make us violently ill for weeks. Pay attention to the ingredients you're serving us and for the love of God stop fucking with our diets in order to catch us in a "gotcha!"

[ctrl-lupin]

Superhero landing

[none-ofthisnonsense]

I feel incredibly guilty right now because I struggle with they/them - and not as pronouns for me, just to read or write. Goodness knows that I try my best but every single time I catch myself accidentally falling back into what I was taught for years and every time I'm ashamed because I know better but my mind refuses to acknowledge that and despite identifying as she/they myself for 3 years I still have trouble with using they/them. I feel so guilty every single time - I don't know why neopronouns are easier for me but they/them are the only ones I struggle with. I hate it I hate it I hate it my mind forcing me into something I don't want because all I want is to be able to use these pronouns naturally but it just decided to say no.

[ehlnofay]

wrote 3330 words today... I am the most prolific author of our age

[diddl]

[kittytheroseofkirea]

you know, there's this thing. (queue ramble about nonsense) I learned a long time ago that most people don't want me to start blabbing non stop about whatever thing I am reading or have decided is my thing. Which means that because I think in stories, or maybe patterns (jury is out), I don't talk a lot, period. Which means it is incredibly hard to get me to just talk. But once I get started, it's hard to get me to stop. But this does mean that when I want to talk about something, I have to decide if it's on the Acceptable Things to Talk About List (this list is varied and skewed by little traumas) and if it is, how much do I really need to talk about it, and can it go on any of my various talking to myself spaces. If it is both Approved and something someone might care about, I have to be very cautious when engaging someone in a conversation to see if they actually care or are willing to talk about it. Option 1: they are! We have a great conversation (I hope) where I get to talk about my current special interest (which will vary day to day, depending on what I have been reading, see the "thinks in stories" thing) Option 2: they are only interested for a short time, and I get full of way too much energy and excitement, only to be cut off when the person walks away, because I misjudged and they don't actually care. I hate it when this happens, because I have all this energy/ excitement over being able to finally being able to talk about my thing, and now there's nowhere for it to go. (I am still learning healthy ways to dissipate this energy when this scenario happens)

So, most of the time I don't talk much. I don't believe people care what I have to say, so why say anything. This does mean that I am an amazing listener, because I don't want this to happen to other people.

Downside is that I can't be asked to talk about stuff, because in social situations I don't know how to talk about my interests because I haven't had much practice since probably early Junior High.

It does mean, however, that I pull fairy tales apart to decide what elements are required for certain stories, and then I obsess over that quietly for a while.

This doesn't mean anything, none of it does. but it's a thought I had, and this is the platform of choice for me to talk at myself today.

[notthesaint]

FISH EYE PERSPECTIVE IS HARD

[markscherz]

Behold, the European platonic ideal of a frog.

[fictionadventurer]

Stories referenced:

Pentecost: Acts 2:15

Peter and John escape prison: Acts 5: 21-26

Peter escapes prison: Acts 12: 1-16

Paul and Barnabas worshipped: Acts 14: 11-18

Paul's fatal preaching: Acts 20: 7-12

Paul's rules-lawyering: Acts 26: 30-32

Paul's snakebite: Acts 28: 1-6

Paul turning his enemies against each other: Acts 23: 6-10

Philip's teleportation: Acts 8:39

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

wanted to scribble a couple of my favorite moments from the "Just So" song demo <3

[chalkrub]

this too is yuri (the relationship between me and two of my own characters i love too much)

[ruporas]

kisses of affirmation (ID in alt)

[lazylittledragon]

How was Astarion during Kits birth? I feel like he’d panic tbh

i think he would be his regular flippant self to hide that he was SHITTING BRICKS

[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go

[moonkhao]

WE ARE | EP11