The electronic sign just outside of town which congratulates me if I’m driving below the speed limit works with a cheap little solar panel and we are entering the season when it will often be off, so I’ve been psychologically preparing to do without this small but prized source of validation. I never even think of it as an entity that bestows approval until the first time I have to do without it, I slow down and look up at it proudly and instead of a cheerful rewarding flash of green I’m looking into the eyes of a dead god, just remote indifference. It’s like that Sartre quote about how absence creates God because God is the solitude of men. It’s exactly like that
Head and tail end are stuffed w ultra plush fiber fill and the bulk of the body is packed full of weighted pellets that have a nice crunchy sound when you squeeze it. Not weighed yet, but it feels between 1.5 - 2lbs?
She doesn’t even have her mouth and flippers yet!!!! She’s fucking embarrassassed…
Smelling you
Finished! My mom named her Beans this morning lol.. She’s around 1.2lbs and soppingly pitiful
The closer a language is to yours, the easier it is to understand, the further it is from you, the harder it is to understand. But there’s a sort of uncanny valley right in the middle that makes a language sound silly.
I’m an English speaker. German sounds similar, I can even find cognates sometimes. Mandarin Chinese sounds completely alien, but I can understand that it is a language.
But Dutch, Dutch sounds hilarious. Dutch sounds like a clown version of English. I wonder why that is.
I’ve heard Spanish speakers say similar things about Portuguese, which makes me think there’s some sort of linguistic Silly Zone.
me, decently fluent at the time in german, staring at the contents of a Danish magazine like I’ve shifted dimensions 2 inches to the left
Facts about your body after you turn 25, AKA things I wish someone had told me:
you will get hair in fun new places. this is normal and fine.
these places include (but are not limited to) if you don’t already have them: your asscrack, your back, your ears, and moles. it’s fine.
some of you, dick or not, will also lose hair. this is normal, but also if you have ovaries maybe get this checked out for PCOS.
your acne will probably change. some people get better. some people get worse. it’s fine.
your nails will probably get an infection or a fungus at least once in your life. this is fine. (but also let your doc know).
how you gain and lose fat and where you do so will change. this is fine.
how you smell will change. this is fine. (fishy or rotten smells mean doctor time though)
if you have a prostate: it gets harder to pee. prostates enlarge as you age (get this checked regularly). this is fine.
if you do not have a prostate: it gets easier to pee but not in a good way. as in as you get older, your pelvic floor muscles tend to lose some of their strength. this makes it harder to keep pee in. this is fine.
all breasts and pectorals eventually sag, with the rest of your body. this is fine.
a decent percent of the population will experience a cyst at least once. some of you will make up for the rest with multiple. this is fine, but keep them checked out by a doctor. (sometimes this is a condition! get checked for that too!)
almost half of everyone gets hemorrhoids. it’s a good idea to just expect them since your chances of getting them get higher the older you are. your toilet will look like a murder scene. definitely get your booty checked out BUT this is almost always perfectly normal. just eat more fiber. “but I already-” eat more fiber. and maybe suck it up and buy some hemorrhoid cream, you’ll thank me later.
yes, this means you will probably need to make an appointment for a doctor to see your butthole. it’s okay. not only do they really not care but 1. they’ve seen weirder that day and 2. they’d far rather you see them now than later when it’s been going on for forty years and now it might be colon cancer. it’s okay. consider it a rite of passage.
adults need more sleep than children. don’t believe the myth that you need less than they do. that is capitalist propaganda to make you give up more of your life to the work grind, comrade.
vitamins and medicine, something you are more likely to take as you get older, sometimes make the toilet turn weird colors. it’s okay.
if you still have your tonsils and get those little stones and get sore throats more than once a year you should plan on getting those suckers out before the tonsils cause an infection and go septic. if you’re getting stones at all you should get those reevaluated every year, especially if the stones are bigger than a needlehead (or get bigger over time). it’s gross and yucky. I don’t care. get them looked at before you end up in the hospital.
you’ll probably need to add foot support to your shoes if you don’t already do. this is fine.
your body changes. sometimes it can feel sorta weird and upsetting that it isn’t what it used to be. that is okay, and it is okay to be upset. just know that this is normal, it’s normal to be upset or not upset, but don’t let it hinder your quality of life. trans or cis, there is a certain level of acceptance you just gotta give your body and forgive your body for as you get older. it’s okay.
it’s okay. I promise.
Your body will revolt over foods you used to love. Sorry, but it happens. Dairy, candies, and yes, even gluten. It sucks but the sooner you make peace with your body’s dietary needs the happier it will be and you won’t feel as gross.
the older you get, the funnier using stupid internet slang becomes. the other day someone on discord told me their mom was younger than me and I said “skill issue”. I can’t wait to still be doing this shit in the nursing home
ok night showerers here’s my question: you get your hair all nice and clean. you wake up. it’s tussed it’s fucked. then what? you wet it again?
no.. sleeping on it wet gives it just a tiny bit of character. Like maybe a little beachy waves to my bangs. But. As soon as I wake up and move around and go about my day, it’ll straighten out.
We’re talkin - the default is, and always will return to this:
but if I sleep on wet hair I might get this for a while before it deflates:
I’m not a psychology researcher, but my guess would be that the nature of it being a time-limited puzzle game where you have to juggle multiple factors means that your short-term memory gets filled and the traumatic images are “dumped” in favor of remembering how many times to rotate the L piece. “As soon as possible” is probably because the sooner you do it, the less likely it is to become part of your long-term memory.
If that is true, then other time-limited activities where you have to remember and plan in a tight time frame may serve a similar purpose.
