Fevered Scribblings

When I first signed up for electrolysis, the clinic owner told me her whole staff is trans. Cool. I assumed that meant trans femmes, since we're the ones who usually need the facial hair removal, so it only makes sense that some of us will go into the business.

Nope! My electrolysis tech is a trans man with a full beard. Huh.

I like how every reply has unanimously agreed that he's taking the hair for himself. We're all on the same wavelength here.

I'm going to see him again today to continue my electrolysis. On a scale of one to that's weird, how much of a bad idea is it to bring a printout of this comic?

I need to know how this ends.

(I haven't shown him the comic yet. I keep forgetting to prant it)

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Update: I still haven't remembered to PRANT it, but since we were talking about beards today I explained the post and comic to him, and he thought it was hilarious. He says he's gonna put it on his wall once I do PRANT it.

Important update: I finally remembered to prant it (I gave up and did it on my own printer, so it was black and white), and the little man is chuffed.

He was giggling the whole time he read the thread, and then once he was done zapping me, he went over to wash his hands and it was still sitting on the counter, and he started laughing again.

Mission accomplished! It only took a few months or so. This is how adhd works. I'm lucky I remember to bring my skin to the "remove hair from skin" appointment.

I keep reblogging this but this time it's because I laughed out loud (again) about the idea of forgetting to bring your skin with you

True ADHD hours

Witches in rural Discworld do everything. They're de facto country doctors, midwives, morticians, veterinarians, small claims court judges, food pantries, emergency services, just whatever. And 90% of it isn't even magic (though they can do incredible things), it's working hard and helping people and being respectable and a good person and making everyone a little bit afraid of you.

(Meanwhile all those venerable wizards up at Unseen University are like, accidentally opening portals to faraway lands or creating new gods or becoming obsessed with Music With Rocks In and basically being chaotic and useless, I'm just saying)

as someone who was a student journalist in college, i'm absolutely in awe of columbia university's student journalists covering the nypd raid on their campus right now. they're bravery is commendable and they are 100 times more impressive than the fucks who attended the White House correspondence dinner the other night.

Solidarity with all the students and student journalists on college campuses right now who are fighting against fascist states and the excessive force being used against them and especially those on columbia's campus right now.

you can listen in if you google wkcr student radio. my connection's spotty but that could just be because of the storm's in my area.

EDIT: dropping the link because other reporters are blaming students. Don't listen to them. Listen to the students:

EDIT AGAIN WITH NEW LINK

That cat realized he needed to answer emails

I love the Discworld dwarfs.

You weren’t at that protest. Neither were your friends and allies. You weren’t seen there because neither you nor your friends were filmed. You couldn’t be seen because you dressed exactly the same as all your allies, and you sure as hell didn’t let the cameras see your face. You practice digital hygiene. You go above and beyond the security you assessed the situation requires. You knew your cause was about more than clout, and you fought right because you knew that. When people asked you questions, you say you weren’t there. Hell, you didn’t even know there was a protest that day. You don’t use your real name. You know the state isn’t on your side, and you know it can’t ever be. You know your rights and you make sure your arrestors know you know them. You stay on your feet. You know your exits. You know their tactics and you know how to counter them. You trust your marshals and you read the situation. You defer to those with more experience. You protest right, and you keep fighting until you secure the rights that keep you alive and able to fight for someone else, another day.

The thing that stands out to me about Game Changer is that the cast is on to Sam by now. It's been six seasons and these are intelligent people. They know there's a twist. They expect something's going to happen. They're going in shields-up and ready for anything.

And Sam STILL gets them every single time.

“Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” -- Discworld (Snuff)

[Video ID: a TikTok that starts with a person asking "What's a word you pronounced incorrectly one time and it still haunts you to this day?" The video cuts to Justin Timberlake, who takes a pause then says, "Uh.... 'me'." /End video ID.]

Great A’tuin for Terry Pratchett day ✨🐢✨

So happy I found the way into Discworld, but how I wish there were more stories ❤️‍🩹

What is your favourite book from this series? 📖

Mine is definitely “Night Watch”! ❤️‍🔥

In honour of Terry Pratchett Day, here is my crochet Discworld.

@terrypratchettestate

It *is* a problem that charismatic species are often focused on for conservation at the expense of less charismatic but important species, but threatened species that are the subject of a lot of public outreach and education are also typically strategically selected.

I suspect that monarch butterflies are an example of this. Milkweed is a highly valuable plant for pollinators and a host plant for like. 400+ insect species. Getting people to plant it to save monarchs is funny because you're essentially finessing people into saving a ton of other insects that they wouldn't ordinarily care about

"Save the bees" isn't misguided, it's just the version of the truth you would tell a 5 year old. If a small kid asks about the colors of the rainbow you don't start explaining that visible light has wavelengths of 400-700 nanometers

A lot of people don't even know that there are different types of bees. things like planting native flowers, stopping using insecticides, etc, benefit all bees and all insects generally

ALSO

it's actually a GOOD thing to have lots of conservation efforts focusing on "Charismatic megafauna," especially apex predators

Because big animals like tigers need a LOT of space

So creating a preserve to save tigers...saves thousands of other species, because the tigers need miles and miles of habitat to live on, and that habitat needs to be healthy to support the tigers

They're called "umbrella species" and they're a great thing.

1. a couple months ago a publicist invited me to a concert and i accepted her invite and she said she’d add my name to the guest list. the night of the concert i was feeling a little tired and not entirely up for walking all the way to the venue and standing around listening to a band i’d never heard of. but then, as i was making dinner, i thought, “why don’t you pretend this is a date night with bill hader?” i realize this is an insane person thing to think. i do often go to concerts with friends; i am not in the habit of pretending bill hader is accompanying me to concerts. but that night i did put on the band’s album and pretend that bill hader was dancing around the kitchen with me while i cooked. and then i pretended that bill hader threw his arm around me on the walk to the venue and walked slower than usual because he’s taller and his paces are longer than mine. then i got to the venue. and i told the lady in the ticket booth that i was on the guest list. and i gave her my name. and she handed me two tickets, and she said, “here, for you and your plus one.” i was all alone in front of the box office. there was no one else around. at no point leading up to this had the publicist mentioned giving me a plus one. i laughed a little to myself at the idea of Imaginary Bill Hader being given his own ticket and then i went inside.

2. on the way home from acting class tonight, a long walk in the cold, i came upon a diner lit in warm golden hues, and i hadn’t eaten all day, and it looked irresistible, so i went inside. “for one,” i said, and the hostess said, “do you want to eat at the bar?” and i said, “no thanks, could i sit at a table?” and i was ushered to a table for two. it was a pretty busy night and i was kind of self-conscious about being the only person eating alone so i was like, “well okay i’ll just imagine i’m on a date with bill hader again haha.” and so i sat there and enjoyed some very good sweet potato ravioli with chestnut-cream sauce, and what was perhaps the best cheesecake i’d ever eaten in my life, all the while imagining bill hader seated in the empty chair across from me. and then at the end of the meal, my waitress came and cleared away my dessert plate, and she looked at me, and then she looked at the empty chair, and then she looked back at me, and then she said, “are you paying separate or together?” again, the other seat was empty. i had been sitting at this table fully by myself for the entire duration of the meal. the waitress had come by the table perhaps five or six times over the course of the hour, seeing me completely alone. and i said, “sorry?” and she said, “separate or together?” and i said, “…together?” and she said, “cool, do you need the machine?” and i said, “yes” and she brought the machine over and i paid, because my dinner companion, despite apparently being visible to my waitress, was imaginary bill hader. 

just spent like a half hour googling around trying to find an explanation for the oft repeated joke that peyton beachdeath had a “bill hader tulpa” before I finally turned up the source and it truly did not disappoint