#meatspace stuff

[kim-poce]

I'll eat lemons for the first time today

[wolfeyedwitch]

Achievement of the day: explaining to my grandparents that I do identify as disabled, and the term generally preferred by the community is 'disabled' rather than 'differently abled'.

This achievement is somewhat mitigated by the fact that immediately afterward my grandfather made a joke that he's not elderly, he prefers the term 'differently aged'.

Sigh.

[kim-little-sideblog]

Everyday i log into tumblr dot com on my office desktop (which is the first thing people see when entering the office) and everyday I hope no one opens the door right when I'm scrolling down horny content.

[glorious-spoon]

love to get my head bitten off by a coworker over scheduling conflicts because someone else can't be bothered to put their programs on the shared calendar

[cakemagemaeve]

Went to the grocery store with mom this morning, getting supplies in case the hurricane comes our way. As soon as I got home I started doing some cleaning, trying to burn off some of the manic energy that's been keeping me up at night lately and making me feel frantic and anxious. Oh, the joys of being bipolar and autistic with a side of ADHD with anxiety on top.

But anyway, while I was cleaning I found a little Star of David necklace charm in the bottom of an old cookie tin turned pinhole camera turned catch-all container. I have no idea where the Star came from or what it was doing there, but it is kinda pretty. Dunno what to do with it, though.

I also found a little loose jingly bell that the cats went absolutely NUTS over until I accidentally kicked it under the fridge. Oops. :(

Anywho, I suppose it goes without saying that I really, really overdid it with my little cleaning spree, and I am already suffering the consequences. DX I'm gonna be hurting like hell (more so than usual, that is) for the next few days, but the kitchen looks a lot better, so at least there's that.

[i-am-plotting]

Sometimes I need to remember myself that this sideblog is for works in progress and that chaging stuff is normal and the reason I made this blog

[solradguy]

Sol Badguy wig acquired

[personostient]

friendly neighborhood reminder that you should clean out your water bottle every 2 days… or something

[popcornsalty]

Anyway my tip to the youth and not-youth about online friends is: appreciate what they bring into your life. sometimes they stay sometimes they go sometimes they make you nauseous to think about and sometimes they make you happy. but it's most likely not gonna last forever, so try to appreciate 'em while you have 'em, and tell them so, and if you really want them in yr life make an effort

[oddlyunadventurous]

I'm glad the graffiti i drew a year ago is still there :3 yeah it sucks but she's my most specialest little OC don't laugh 🥺

[iamthelowercase]

...Hang on a minute.

So, we were thinking about plurality, and somehow (it's the ADHD) this lead to thinking about that one convention where Sir PTerry wore a hat (or not) in a way that was functionally equivalent to a fronting indicator and everyone at the con went along with it (good!), which lead to thinking about the Discworld character(s?) Altogether Andrews and realizing that:

Altogether Andrews is definitely a plural system, just not called that in the text; and

Altogether Andrews is a system name (none of the people/personalities inhabiting Altogether Andrews are named "Andrews"); and

The other disenfranchised characters who hang out with Altogether Andrews don't make any sort of big deal about it.

Was-- did-- how-- Did Terry Pratchett know a plural system? Is it plausible that Terry Pratchett was plural and most people never knew?

This feels like the same sort of one-two punch to the face as when we simultaneously came across the "gilt by association" pun and had to confront "does Terry Pratchett use puns? Has Terry Pratchett been using puns all this time and we never noticed???"

*pouring salt in a circle around us and banging on the gates of heaven* Hey, PTerry, can you come out here for like, five minutes? We just have one question. PTerry, please, just one question?

[kim-poce]

If my body wanted water that much it would get it on its own instead of asking me to go to the kitchen

[kim-little-sideblog]

I hate when I say I don't like X food and people go "but X food doesn't have [thing I told I don't like]" like, sir, I can dislike two things. I can dislike all things even

[cha1cedony]

Making urology class jokes in my DnDads S2 fics will never get old to me. Sorry. It’s so fucking fun to casually slip in phrases like “at-home open nephroureterectomy”

[cakemagemaeve]

So I dyed my hair yesterday, and got my new glasses today. I also managed to find a nice pair of black slacks on sale! Also, the top that I plan to wear to the funeral still fits, fortunately, plus it matches my nicest face mask. Now all I have to do is find out which of my dress shoes can accommodate the ankle brace I still have to wear because my broken ankle isn't healing as quickly as hoped. 🙃 Also! I got 7 trigger point Injections in my left shoulder on Monday, and though they haven't really helped much so far, at this point I'll take what I can get, y'know? Anyway, it looks like my right shoulder was jealous of the attention the left one was getting, because today I woke up with what feels like a pinched nerve in my right shoulder. Made shopping very interesting, to say the least.

Anyway, check out my new frames! I got my last pair of glasses in 2015 when Remote Area Medical came to our town. So yeah, definitely time for a new prescription. Plus, I finally have transition lenses again! Oh, how I've missed that lovely little feature, but I digress. Picture time.

[littleapocalypsekitten]

So, seeing a random thing on the dash about how folks who try to make amends and grow from past mistakes are better than those who dig up dirt reminded me of a post I saw a while back about callout posts. I wound up giving my onion on that one on one of my sideblogs. It was about how callout posts don't do anything but hurt people - they tend to punch down, gang up people on somebody, will be based on rumors and conjecture more than fact most of the time, whip people into a frenzy and sometimes even if the allegations are true, just don't really do anything. (And when not true or needlessly hurtful, cause real harm). I had this whole spiel about how that happened to me in one of my fandoms - how a private fight confined to Discord snowballed out of control and in conjunction with me having bad mental health times and a personal spiral led to someone who was only tangeitally involved, but who was a fandom bigwig in a small subfandom-of-a fandom doing a tumblr callout post instructing the entirety of the subfandom, including people who weren't on Discord and weren't involved to shun me / called me an emotional predator / insinuated that the suicidal ideation that I was posting on my own personal blog (that named no names, it was just me whining and expressing a very precarious mental state) was fake... And how that drove me over the edge into... need for hospitalisation. The sub-fandom, for the most part, still hasn't forgiven me, despite any and all attempts to approach and make amends. Even just leaving everyone alone never did anything. It was three years ago, so everyone's moved on and I met new people in that fandom and have since, recently, moved on to a new-old fandom of mine that means much more to me (I've been into a specific anime / manga since 2001 and a recent reboot renewed my fandom) and is overall a much more chill fandom. So, it's not really a big deal anymore. It's just that I still have some wounds from it. And that thing I just saw about people bettering themselves and moving on made me think of the whole mess. I've never done a callout post.