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shoutout to the time in 2021 I was having scary seizurelike episodes that sent me to the neurologist, after having barely slept all week due to being a nervous wreck over my symptoms and shit.

when I sat down to describe what I was going through to the (young, very soft spoken) phys assistant taking my notes I started audibly almost crying . The whole time he’s furiously working on a tablet thing that I assumed he was writing my symptoms down on

in the midst of me having a mild nervous breakdown during my monologue he slowly turns the tablet to me after closing whatever program he had open and just fuckin stare-smiles at me all placidly til I notice the wallpaper the laptop is set to— a lovingly decorated collage of Lord Farquaad from Shrek

once I noticed I stopped dead in my tracks and we sat there staring at another for a solid minute til I broke down wheeze laughing, upon which he picked up the tablet and scurried off wordlessly. I just sat there dumbfounded til the doc showed up. 10/10 doctor experience ngl

I didn’t own a phone at the time to get any proof so this my best artistic recreation

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love to purchase items but at what cost

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with love. you have to fact check shit. yes you. you still have to fact check shit. a lot of people are great at fact checking stuff they don’t want to be true, but somehow are still absolute ass at fact checking stuff that’s rhetorically convenient to them. even people my age, who I KNOW grew up doing internet/bibliography literacy workshops, and being warned not to believe anything that isn’t reliably sourced, people who DO harp on fact checking conservative output or whatever, are still kneejerk sharing unsourced shit that is partially or wholly untrue or misleading, because it suits whatever narrative they’re pursuing in that moment, without even a “take this with a grain of salt”. fact check!!!!!! look at the sources!!!!! yes it’s a drag!!! do it!!!!!

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Martin: This statement is important!

Jon: Did you look into the statement giver's fate?

Martin: I did look into the statement giver's fate

Jon: Only stupid people look into statement givers' fates. You are stupid.

Tim: I looked into the statement giver's fate

Jon: You are a whore

Tim: This vexes me

Carlos Vittery: I am being haunted by a spider

Martin: That's bad

Carlos Vittery: Also I have arachnophobia

Sasha: You need to be researched. Also, I have not spoken in a while

Jon: No, research will lie to us. He needs to be disbelieved.

Martin: I forbid this!

Jon: Don't care. More disbelief.

Carlos Vittery: I died

Jon: This is unrelated to the spider

Elias: I too am in this episode

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I have made a pay-what-you-want zine about... How To Make Zines!

I go over my entire process, so you too can learn how to supplement your income with zines. Please give it a look, and share if you find it helpful!

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After Margaret Thatcher's death in 2013, a review of classified medical documents revealed a bizarre series of experimental procedures from 1979 where she had her pineal gland surgically replaced with one harvested from a wild hog. The procedure, codenamed "Operation Iron Dawn," was allegedly performed by a rogue neurosurgical team after traditional treatments failed to address her notorious sleep problems. The documents suggest the hog's pineal gland was specifically chosen for its abnormally high melatonin production - nearly 4 times that of a human gland. While officially deemed a success due to Thatcher's reduced sleep requirements (allowing her famous 4-hour nights), the procedure had an unexpected side effect: she developed an intense, unexplainable aversion to being in the presence of mirrors during the last quarter of each lunar cycle. When questioned about her unusual mirror avoidance, she reportedly only responded with the cryptic phrase "the other one watches back." The surgical notes remain partially classified, though unconfirmed leaks suggest the donor hog exhibited unusual behavioral patterns prior to harvesting, including apparent attempts to arrange small objects into crude geometric patterns.

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metal rulers are weird its like if you took a blunt knife and got people to measure stuff with it

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can you imagine being in high school rn jesus christ

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Can I just say something honestly and very seriously to all you writers?

With the Internet going down the "nothing adult, no death, no nothing. Make it kid friendly" route,

Please don't ever stop making art or writing wips that are gruesome, horror, other things like that. Don't let the Internet sanitize how you wanna tell a story. Channel your rage into your art and keep going and don't give up

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i hope luigi mangione is proven innocent & gets to sue a ton of companies for slander and win & i hope he gets enough money to rebuild his life and get any help for his chronic pain that he needs & i hope he’s able to disappear from the public eye entirely if that’s what he wants

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sometimes pirating things is clicking three buttons and then the thing you want happily appears on your computer and you run off into the sunset together. other times you have to travel through 18 different dimensions and wait an hour and a half for you computer to muster up enough energy to download powerwash simulator off of so backwater site

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No wait, random worldbuilding idea:

A people who have an age-old tradition, that when warriors left home to go to war, their family that remains home prepare funeral goods for them while they wait, sewing them the clothes and preparing the tools and all that they will be buried with - to emotionally prepare them to the hard possibility that the one who left will not return home alive. If the warrior returns, their burial goods are all burned in a bonfire that is lit for the celebration of their return.

And to this modern day, mothers of the culture will tell their children "fine, but let me take your measures for burial clothes before you go" as a way of telling them that something they're about to do is lethally stupid. Sharing stories about just how dramatic their mothers are, someone tells their group of friends that his mother once actually took out a measuring tape to start taking his measures when he said he's leaving home for a work trip.

And another one goes "pfft, yeah. This one time I went to a rock concert and came back home to mom sitting on her sewing machine, fucking making me a funeral coat."

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need to write a guy (gender neutral) that is just undoubtedly a bad person. so my mutuals can get into them ofc

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.