#so much breakage

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

My friend has now completed the Hunter Exam and Zoldyck Family arcs of HxH (she loves it btw which makes me so happy), when suddenly she is possessed by the need to give every single character so far Pokémon. Every. One. I’m definitely going to be posting it later.

But anyways. She assigned Togepi for Gon, and while explaining more about Togepi to me (who knows nothing about Pokémon except through osmosis btw), she tells me that “yeah it evolves to basically lose its arms over time but… who needs arms right? It’s fine.”

I had to try so hard not to let anything show on my face. Whether that was going to be laughter or tears, I’m not sure, but somehow I held it back and just went “yeah hahaha…”

[shleemies]

Just did a T shot for the first time in years!! I was so brave!!! Used a bluey bandaid too :-)

[geroya]

aaaAAAA MORE XARIS POSTING :)

[lovefingers]

this little girl in my class recently cut her hair to her shoulders and it’s tempting me to do the same to mine 😩

[adaine-party-wizard]

every time i see a picture of myself with platinum blonde hair i’m like hm… maybe… i bleach it again… but then i touch my hair now and go wow it’s actually soft and doesn’t feel like it’s gonna fall out of my skull!! so that’s all that’s keeping me going, laziness and mmmm soft hair

[daydreaming-in-daisies]

i was able to get my hair consultation with this new, well-liked stylist in my city rescheduled from the beginning of march to this thursday!!!! i randomly got an email saying there were new openings and i logged into their booking system with a quickness and got that shit rescheduled. very happy that i don't have to wait 5 weeks to (hopefully) start fixing my scalp✌🏾

[victorluvsalice]

'Tis Spring Thursday in the Chill Save as of this update, and we have a lot to get through, so let’s get going! Starting with some romantic times in the garden for Victor and Smiler -- never a better time to take a romantic selfie than in the greenhouse after one of you just drank some plasma and the other just finished mopping up a mysterious symbol from the grass. XD Anyway, highlights from this morning:

-->Alice took over Smiler’s laptop to finish her new motivational book, and Smiler gave her a nice boost of Inspiration so she could get through it (and complete some aspiration goals along the way) -- damn thing ended up being bestseller quality! Alice plopped it right in the mail to sell to a publisher. :) She also got back the mask she found during her and Victor’s Selvadoradan honeymoon -- genuine! So that went into the display case (not that I think I have a good shot of it, sadly).

-->Smiler did a bit of early-morning yoga, then chatted with some more of the specters hanging around (fortunately they all like them), before going to feed the new gaggle of chickens the gang has purchased! I really need to build a proper coop with a fence for this lot, but so far it’s working all right.

-->And Victor discovered that the washing machine had broken, fixed it (because handiness important y’all), finished washing the clothes, moved them to the dryer -- and then THAT broke. *rolls eyes* It was then that I remembered “oh hey, he has the Repairio spell, doesn’t he? Let’s try that!”

Yeah, uh, as you can see, that did not go well. The spell failed, and the damn dryer ended up on fire. O.O Fortunately Victor was able to extinguish it pretty quickly, and his SECOND attempt to use Repairio on the now-scorched dryer was successful, yay. The whole experience also got him up to the Neophyte level, which is good -- I promptly picked the “Discharge” perk, because anything that allows you to get rid of too much magical charge is a good thing!

[apollos-boyfriend]

this is so funny actually. seth won't even consider letting charlotte take it. probably for the best.

[theculturedmarxist]

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

[pocji]

every time I wash my hair I have approx. 10 minutes of allowing my natural curl pattern to form and I think ‘huh, maybe this will be the year I finally master the curly girl method’ but then the siren call of my revlon one step rings out and the Blowout Wins

[suoulfillem]

rip my blonde hair it’s nearly all officially grown out u are soooo missed. pink hair u are So So missed. never have i felt more like myself than when i had pink hair. one day I’ll get u back☝🏻

[the-winds-of-destiny-xxx]

.

[miss-floral-thief]

Target time

[arthyritis]

got a new case for my broken ipad, hoping this will protect it from my liking-to-drop-things hands

[kennahjune]

HEAR ME OUT?? Please—

I LOVE love LOve when like, in fics, Steve has this really weird talent or interest that nobody knows about or like nobody expects but then oddly enough it sort of fits him.

And just like— it opens up so much possibility for character projection.

My favorite is writer Steve but I’ve been growing increasingly obsessed with Steve who’s hyper fixation is snakes.

The image in my head is like— everyone’s hanging out at the trailer park for one reason or another, and they hear Robin fucking /screech/.

Everyone’s on their feet in a split second, worry and confusion and deep dread forcing the way into the forefront of their minds.

Turns out: it was a snake. A really small one at that.

Eddie and Wayne offer to take it and dispose of it, the two of them having done this various other times with the other snakes people find in the trailer park.

But Steve pushes to the front of the group yelling and scolding.

“No absolutely not!”

Eddie shares a look with Nancy, both chalking it up to Steve’s hero complex acting up and him trying to protect them from the potentially dangerous critter.

“Look, Stevie—��

“You are not going to kill that little sweetheart!”

Eddie paused, shared a confused furrow of brows with Nancy and Robin, and turned to face Steve fully.

“Stevie, baby, that’s a snake.”

Steve stood with his hands on his hips, a determined glint in his eye, and nodded. “No I thought it was a squirrel.”

Eddie sighed loudly. “Then what do we do with it?”

“Well not fucking kill it for starters! It’s harmless. Aren’t you baby?”

Eddie and everyone else watched Steve step up to the snake that was hanging from the trailer’s side door. “Um, Steve what’re you doing?”

Steve ignored them completely and simply plucked the snake from its place on the door. From somewhere beside Eddie Robin squeaked in horror and Will groaned while Lucas gave a violent shudder.

“Such a small baby aren’t ya?” Steve cooed at the little snake wrapped around his hand.

“Steve— that’s a snake,” Nancy said warily, eyeing said snake like it killed her mother. “A potentially dangerous snake.”

Steve scoffed while the snake lifted the front of its body to peer at him. “She’s not dangerous, she’s a goddamn rat snake. They’re harmless.”

Just as he said it, the snake turned its head and not his finger. Where Steve didn’t even blink, everyone else freaked.

Eddie and Robin rushed over to him, Eddie immediately taking a look at his hand but keeping his hands away from the snake. Robin kept her distance but rambled about rabies or whatever.

Steve huffed and laughed quietly. “Guys, seriously. It’s a rat snake, they’re completely and utterly harmless to humans. They have such a small amount of venom it doesn’t bother humans. And besides, this little baby’s so small she couldn’t even break the skin.”

He was right, there was no sign of breakage or even redness on Steve’s hand where he was bitten.

Eddie looked at his boyfriend a little in awe and even more in love.

Jesus Christ.

Dustin and Mike walked slowly over to Steve, each asking to hold the snake.

Steve held it out gently, Dustin taking it first and holding it delicately in his hands. When he passed it over to Mike, the snake wrapped itself around his hands and a bit up his arms. Eddie was a little in shock at the giggle the younger Wheeler let out.

Dustin, Mike and Steve sat on the trailer’s side steps and held the snake together, going back and forth about random animal topics that Eddie couldn’t be bothered to remember.

When he asked later, Will and Lucas were delighted to explain that the entire reason Dustin was allowed to join The Party was because in 4th grade he brought Mike a frog he found. Lucas explained that Mike and Dustin had both gone through and extensive reptile and amphibian phase in elementary school and still held onto some of that obsession.

From then on, whenever anyone in the trailer park found any form of snake or rodent that they wanted gone, they called Steve.

[thestarmaker]

My hair is finally getting better after 3 years of A Bad Shampoo And Conditioner and I'm so glad 🥺