#it's garbage

[inevitably-johnlocked]

So Tumblr has apparently QUIETLY lessened the amount of links allowed on a post EVEN MORE than previously... Just found out while making this weekend's Fic Rec List, and I had to LITERALLY cut out half of the fics on the post, and it STILL wouldn't save, and that was after cutting out author links too!! This website is REALLY starting to turn into a place not welcoming for creatives and curators at ALL.

I used to EASILY put 50 fics to a list, author links and additional links (like Series, Podfics and Translations) included, and now I have to reduce that by half AND remove author links, so my guess is they reduced it even more to about 75 links per post? Fucking terrible.

I mean, great for me to have to make more posts for one topic now, but not really because I REALLY hate missing fics on primary lists when I know I have them. UGH.

Anyway, never hesitate to ask me for lists I've already recently done now, because apparently I have to cut all my lists.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

[teaboot]

Sometimes I think a lot about my mom's cat

My mom's cat is a common domestic shorthair we found on the side of the road as a kitten

Regular cat, not a maine coon or one of those massive breeds. His mom was smaller than a loaf of bread

But in a sort of a Clifford The Big Red Dog situation, he grew super fast, and really really big, and took a super long time to stop growing

Worried that she was overfeeding him, she eased back his portions, but he stayed a massive round baby

When he started having kidney problems, she took him to the vet.

The vet took a look at him and said, "holy fuck, what are you feeding him", checked the nutritional listings on his chow, and told her "Yeah, maybe he's reacting badly to the amount of grain in this, try a meatier diet"

So my mom wound up special-ordering this specific high-protein prescription cat food made of like. Kangaroo meat or some shit that cost like sixty bucks a bag

And, as typical act two in an episode of House, he somehow got worse on the fancy specialized stuff that was supposed to be Primo Athlete Olympic Feline Blend

Like. WAY worse. His guts were inflamed and his kidneys were shutting down and he was all sore and HE WAS STILL HUGE, just miserable and sad

So shetook him back to the vet, where they had to help him pee (he was apparently close to bursting and had some kind of blockage too) and went "Yeah no this is NOT normal and we don't know what's going on, we're gonna do some tests but in the meantime you should go back to what he was eating before, at least that wasn't actively killing him" so she did

And he still wasn't great, but he also improved

And so they take his blood and do an ultrasound and a couple g's later she gets a call back like "this is gonna sound crazy, but we want you to put him on a low-meat diet. Just the least amount of protein and iron and shit. We need you to find the grainiest, filler-iest dollar tree kibble available and give him some of that bad bad shit"

And my mother is a woman of science. So she did

And he GOT BETTER

His energy picked back up, inflammation went down, he started drinking normally again, got back to pissing like a fuckin champion

And so it turns out that out of all the random ass freeway bonus cats we possibly could have scooped out of a ditch, WE got the one-in-a-million freak of nature with a SPECIFIC genetic defect that means a paleo protein free range diet is essentially poison and he THRIVES on cheap ass garbage

Like. He medically NEEDS junk food

I dont really understand how that works, but i cant argue with results.

If we had four of him, they'd outweigh my mom. And he's FINE

Also blind, but that's unrelated

Im not using him as a symbol or a metaphor or anything. I just keep catching myself thinking about my mom's Big Fucking Cat

[gayrika]

[askshivanulegacy]

THIS. And this is exactly the problem even in countries with "good" public transportation.

I hate driving to and from the airport. It's only an hour and some change, but it sure would be nice to relax after a long flight, and it would also be nice not to pay ridiculous parking prices. But the train takes 2 hours. They might or might not be doing work on the line, which means I need to take a longer route, and I might not be able to make it back to my departure point because the routes each way are different. On top of that, the train only runs at a certain frequency, and not even regularly through the day - there are gaps in service that are hours long. That means I have to be super extra ultra early when I start my travel, just to be sure I can reliably make the flight. And when I return, depending on my flight and whether it was on time, I might have to wait an hour or more before I can even start the train ride back.

So I'm going to drive.

I have rarely EVER looked at public transportation and thought it was better than driving. It's not. Between infrequent schedules, unreliability, line work, and the public transit system failing to take responsibility for making people miss connections (like flights!), it's not worth it as anything more than a novelty.

If you are thinking about it on paper, the bus running every half hour doesn't sound so bad, until you're waiting at the stop and you miss a bus or it's delayed. Then you're waiting a very, very long time. To people who never take transit, that's probably fine. Why do you care. To people who only take transit, they're expecting it, it's baked in their lives. But the important part, what really impacts our cities, is what happens to people for whom transit is an option.

The spiral goes like this. You go to take the bus instead of driving, thinking "I'm going to o have a couple drinks" or "I don't want to worry about parking where I'm going." So you take bus. First bus is right on time. But then you transfer from your neighborhood line to the line that takes you where you actually want to go. And your bus is delayed. And it only comes every 30 minutes. And then you're waiting, 40 minutes later, wondering where your bus is, knowing you could have driven there in 20 minutes.

Why would you ever chose to take a bus again? The bus made you waste precious time on your day off just sitting there. So next time you drive. Ridership goes down. When the transit authority asks for more money for more buses and more drivers, people point to the ridership numbers and say "why should we pay for this instead of paying for our schools/police/baseball stadium/parks/police again (let's be real that's who's taking all the money)?" If we want to increase ridership we need to actually design and fund functional transit networks. If we want people to actually ride the bus we need to make it a better option than driving, which means reliable service, which you don't get with a bus every 30 minutes.

Every 15 minutes, everywhere, all of the time.

[borrelia]

not even "boycott the lilo and stitch remake for moral reasons" but just "have some standards for movies." like yes having moral convictions for boycotts is important because, what, if it was good would I think people should see it? no, of course not. but that's the thing, innit? it's not going to be good. youre getting slop. let's worry about clearing the very low bar of "not slop" first. you deserve better. don't waste your ticket money on sequel/remake/rebootquel/Expansion Of Our IP slop and you won't even have to expend the emotional effort of sticking to your principles.

[spitblaze]

finally some realism in video games

[zhnnveuxpasdrmir]

it's hard to put my finger on it but I can sense a disney stylistic choice before I can understand it

sadly, the practice of recreating disney styles is incurable, "artists" who fall prey to it might have temporal success in terms of getting paid for a minute, but they will be forgotten

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

do you even remember the lives that you threw away like trash

continuation of this

[freedelusionshere]

Rounders. I still remember disliking this movie so much from the first time I saw it. Filled with toxic masculinity garbage. That's why it's in the basement of The Bear where it belongs.

John Malkovitch's terrible Russian accent as KGB took me out in the theater, it made me cackle.

[nothing-but-paisley]

Every tos episode is called something like "in the mind of the divine" and it's about trying to communicate with a giant alien slug made out of glittery shower curtains.

[skellybonesart]

I was given free will for a purpose

Anyways I used that free will to draw Minecraft Movie ship art teehee

[balesdoesart]

Yeah

[onlytiktoks]

[disgracefulthings]

Shen Qingqiu, handing Yue Qingyuan a baby: Hold this

Yue Qingyuan: Of course, Xiao-Jiu. Who is this?

Shen Qingqiu: This is Shen Yuan, our child. I gave birth to him. You will take responsibility

Yue Qingyuan: Of course. I will make preparations for our wedding ASAP

Shen Qingqiu: Good.

Qi Qingqi: I don't remember Shen Qingqiu being pregnant?

Mu Qingfang: I believe that our shixiong just grabbed some random orphan to baby trap Yue Qingyuan with