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Man, I need to watch Sinners. DnD has made me embrace vampire-centric media just in time for the coolest-looking vampire movie I've seen in decades to come out.

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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actually as long as we're talking about realistic expectations of ageing, the nature of social media decontextualising people's personal posts has absolutely given some of you guys a false and potentially dangerous view of how your body is expected to change over time. I semi frequently see people sharing or repackaging commentary on experiences with disability as if it's an inevitable part of getting older. and like, yes, as you get older you are likely to develop new conditions, injuries or disabilities, but you need to understand your body's baseline well enough to identify those changes and interrogate them.

e.g. if you are seriously having such bad joint or back pain in your 30s that it hampers your day to day activities, you need to take that seriously. that is not 'just ageing', that's potentially an indicator of an underlying condition, unaddressed injury (which is quite common but will get worse if you don't notice and take care of it) or daily habits (poor posture, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle) causing cumulative damage to your body.

I know plenty of 30+ and 40+ year olds who are not especially athletic but who can still climb up and down stairs with ease, sit on the floor and get up again without discomfort, have floor or shower sex, ride a bike, wrestle a dog or a kid, climb a tree, maybe even do a handstand. there is no shame at all in developing pain or mobility issues which limit the kinds of things you can do comfortably, but it doesn't serve anyone to pretend that those changes are bound up with reaching a certain age. even in your 60s and 70s and beyond you should notice if you start feeling a new kind of pain or physical limitation. don't dismiss this shit just because someone told you "yeah that happens when you pass 30"

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Me at my first pride: Gosh I hope it's okay for me to wear this rainbow sticker I was handed, even though I'm not queer. I'm just here as an ally.

Narrator: Little did she know, dear reader....

Me at last pride: Gosh I hope it's okay for me wear this disability pride button I was handed, even though I'm not disabled. I just want to show support.

Narrator: ....Honey, you've got a big storm coming.

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i strongly believe that it's better to take aspirin of a known dosage than to take some willow bark with an unknown amount of active compound that could also just be sawdust from an unrelated tree. like that's just factually correct. medical science is real and the supplement industry is an unregulated nightmare of mostly scams. but. the thing is. if, in order to get aspirin, i had to schedule an appointment where i tell my doctor that my friend said i might have a headache (because i can't just say i have a headache without being treated like a googlemad hypochondriac). and then the doctor nodded and ordered a bunch of expensive tests that have very little to do with my head and a lot to do with the size of my ass. and the tests all came back fine so he shrugged and asked if my head hurt and when i said yes he prescribed me some aspirin while emphasizing he didn't know if it would help but i could give it a shot if i really wanted. and if i had to do that every time i wanted some aspirin. i would probably start eyeballing the willow bark. to be perfectly honest with you.

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Well my loves, it appears as though the answer to "Can the Big Pattern Company (Simplicity/Burda/McCalls/ect.) survive the death of JoAnn?" has come.

The answer is no. No it cannot. It has been sold to a liquidator just like JoAnns was.

So if there is ANYTHING you want I suggest you get it now. simplicity.com is currently having a pattern sale and I snatched up some that might be useful for cosplay purposes.

I am very glad these last couple of years I have built up my collection.

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The thing about Barovia, right, is that everyone's a dramatic little bitch. You can hardly take out a fucked-up corpse crab without it making some dramatic pronouncement of your impending doom. Yeah, yeah, I shall wither at your master's feet, we get it. It gets old REALLY fast. But you can't get complacent because the second you roll your eyes like sure, the streets will run with blood, what-the-fuck-ever, moving on, that's when you turn around and suddenly there's two dozen vampires in the middle of the goddamn city.

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For the ones that need it today

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"Stop talking about the Trump Musk feud, it's a distraction, it's not important--"

This is why we lose elections, gang. A lot of people on the left (leftists and liberals alike) are too righteous to take advantage of a political opportunity even when it falls directly in their laps.

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Donald Trump could give the queer community a gift this month, all I'm saying.

national holiday

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in times like these at least i have the character

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In light of some of the many things happening across the world this year, I thought this Pride Month needed a special illustration.

Happy Pride Month, may we all stay safe, look after each other, and keep painting our rainbows, no matter what. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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I have never talked to people on Customer Service that had an air of nervous desperation like what I heard today.

I thought the guy was just new and nervous, and trying a little too hard. But then he put someone more experienced on and that guy was if anything way worse. I don't think I can effectively communicate how it was "overly friendly" in a way that's miles beyond the usual customer service tone. He was talking a mile a minute, apologizing constantly and putting this extra sincere emphasis on everything.

When I told him my name he was like "oh wow I LOVE that your name is spelled with an H! I know another Sarah-With-An-H and I know that having that H there is CRITICAL, really critical HAHAHAHA." I could practically see the orientation powerpoint slide that said "find some personal detail to comment on, to establish a connection."

"Is there anything else I can help you with?" No but is there anything I can help you with? Are you okay? Are you not safe? Tap the receiver three times if there's a gun to your head.

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Happy Pride!

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Hey tumblr, our household is having a discussion, and you all are nerds with the right expertise to weigh in.

Scribe is considering parting with her 4th Doctor scarf she knitting back in college, but says it's not screen-accurate enough for anyone to pay more for it than the materials would be worth if she frogged it.

I say it's a 20-ft long hand-knit pure wool replica that looks pretty reasonably screen-accurate to me, and we run in nerdy enough circles that she could probably get good money for it.

Thoughts? On either the value or the screen-accuracy, really.

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Check out the bonus panel on the site!🐌🍓

SMBC ◆ PATREON ◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ BLUESKY ◆ STORE

Buy this comic as a print!

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Leaving shit you really ought to have looked at unaddressed because you didn't notice the symptoms is only half the chronic pain puzzle. The other half is when you do notice something and have to play the "okay, is this a new thing, or a long-standing issue I've gotten so good at tuning out that I literally forgot it existed?" game.