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Rants and Rubbish

@flightlessnotfightless

An American student who should probably be studying right now. She/her
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peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it

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dont do this

I really hope its not too bad bc i actually love both components.

it forms a dry skin at the top made of the sour pellets. not a great start.

tastes really good actually. i also feel like i am about to explode.

do not do this.

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Unanimous consensus: Do not do this

Other people: Hold on I’m about to do this

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all year. all damn year we've been in constant battle with our middle schoolers who are endlessly determined to make this sign say 'hoe'. every time we fix it by the end of the day it's back to this. they never ruin the Phoenix and they never rip the whole thing off. somehow this entire school year we haven't been able to catch them. every time I see it I have to pretend like it isn't the funniest recurring bit in this stupid world

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Okay but legit, if you're not in a Buy Nothing group, seek out your closest one. We literally got a free washer and dryer once. We've gotten groceries, craft supplies, pet supplies, clothes, and all sorts of shit. It's awesome.

On top of that, Instead of donating our old unwanted stuff to places like Goodwill, which wildly mistreat their workers, Buy Nothing lets me donate things directly to my community, without the risk that the sorters at the thrift shop will just throw things in the trash. I've passed along open things of hair care products that I didn't wind up liking but that had nothing wrong with them. I've passed along snacks we didn't like, pet food we didn't wind up using, and all sorts of perishables that would have otherwise gone right in the garbage.

My local group even has regular meetups where people bring all their stuff at once, and it's like a giant garage sale where everything is free.

So... actually came out to my family at dinner the other night (I’m bi)

At dinner with some family friends, the mom is whispering to my mom about how their daughter is bi but not out yet to her dad, her dad overhears and goes huh? and I go “same, me too.”

Queue clarifications and “don’t you dare say anything until she comes out to you herself istg” from her mom to her dad, my parents being like “yeah that tracks for you idk about [other kid]” 

Kinda funny though how this is like the third kid I’ve lowkey adopted as my younger sibling that has turned out some shade of queer.

(My parents are chill, I had already been out to my mom for a while and I just never had the convo with my dad, and they had been hinting they’d be chill with it since I was in the middle school GSA)

Still thinking about how Darth maul and ventress canonical origin stories are that they come from the evil dark side planet ruled by evil witches where they do dark magic with spooky green potions and chanting and men don’t have rights

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"magic mushrooms"? uhm, actually, all mushrooms are magic, so jot that down

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magic isn't always "find connection with all things in the universe," sometimes it's just "make tasty soup" or "shrivel your kidneys" yknow how it is

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What the Fuck??

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People think of children as either sweet and innocent or too stupid to cause much trouble and both views are wrong. A child of elementary school age has the moral reasoning and impulse control of a racoon paired with problem solving equal to or superior to an adult’s, yet unbound by the shackles of cautionary experience or awareness of long-term consequence. 

This is what allows the children to both create a black market in live bioweapons while still only valuing said weapons at 25 cents.