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Jenrose | nonbinary |  queer | agnostic | married | parenting | disabled | writer | Yuri!!! on Ice, Check Please! and Merlin, plus some LGBTQA and other politics, and so much writing | they/them

Temporarily open for fic prompts

Probably better be MDZS, unless the prompt is very detailed for another fandom I've already written for. In an existing fic universe of mine or not. Does not have to be time travel.

No guarantees because my brain weasels have been kind of offline, but I tend to be more motivated if charity donations are involved. Send prompts by DM or ask, no anon. It is entirely possible that I will do none of them. It is also possible that something will jumpstart my muse and I'll churn out 100k. I've just been having a really hard time with body pain lately and need something productive to try to dissociate from it, and my personal muse is just like, "eh whatever."

Plz note that if I have a WIP posted that has not been worked on for a while, there's probably a good reason. YOI is not on the menu rn. Other, finished fics where you want a "what happened to so and so" might be an option as long as the prompt is very specific.

if that map is wrong that they're tennis shoes, what *do* you call gym shoes on the west coast (from someone who that map is right for)

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Depends on the type. Sneakers, converse, running shoes, almost anything BUT tennis shoes unless they are actually for tennis, and we did use tennis shoes in my childhood in Michigan. Gym shoes sometimes.

My native Oregonian youngest shrugged and said, "Sneakers?"

My flares are having flares right now and I'll probably be horizontal for the next two weeks. But I saw my daughter for the first time in person in over a year, and I now have pictures of all three of my children together. My 18 yo is the shortest. She looked her 11yo brother up and down and then shook her head like wtf because he's like 3 inches taller than her now.

I knew it would cost me and it absolutely did but I went to my kid's graduation this past weekend, the first actual event I've gone to since the pandemic started.

She had two cheering sections, 8 of us, and something like a dozen people from her foster family and support system. Bless them all, they've done what I could not physically do.

We've been calling weekly for a long time, but it was so good to see her in person, and the physical cost may be high but it's worth it.

(the delay has been all pandemic: I'm immune suppressed and she's unable to keep a mask on for sensory reasons.)

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Honey, I'm "scribbled my first drawings on a stack of used punch cards dad brought home from work because they were moving to magnetic tape" old.

My first personal computer was an atari with a cartridge system that hooked up to our television, but it had a keyboard, an art program and a word processor and I was able to write a report on it and then draw a picture one pixel at a time and print that picture in color. Musta been circa 1985.

The year before that my dad had brought home a computer I wore stories on, the monitor was one color, amber or green, idr. The year before that I'd started to learn to type on an old apple at school.

Windows 95 came out when I was already an adult. XP was like, my seventh Microsoft operating system. That I was aware of. It was a vast improvement on the things that came before.

My first windows 95 system and it's entire hard drive would be an insignificant blip compared to the RAM in the phone I'm using to write this post.

Spicy-brained friends, I would like to propose an update to the very useful ‘if you hate everyone, eat, if everyone hates you, sleep, and if you hate yourself, shower’ mantra to live by

Have you suddenly become a petty, hateful little gremlin who thinks people should face the firing squad for (checks notes) leaving teabags on the counter, breathing loudly, or daring to exist in the same space as you? Perhaps mundane and reasonable requests like ‘hey, we agreed to hang out now, let’s hang out’ make you want to scream and move to a yurt in the woods.

You. Are. Overstimulated.

People talk a lot about being overstimulated, and the physical/mental effects of it. What I haven’t seen is people talking about what it does emotionally, and it took me an embarassingly long time to link up those nitpicky, resentful emotions with the state of overstimulation/meltdown/shutdown.

These feelings do not mean that you’re a bad person! They probably aren’t how you actually feel about the people around you. They probably do mean that your nervous system is at its absolute limit and any request/demand/stimulus is Too Much and taking you into fight or flight territory.

Go lie down in a dark room for an hour, or find somewhere safe and familiar to stim for a bit. If it’s happening a lot, schedule yourself regular low-stimulation shutdown time

Signed: someone who moved in with their nearest and dearest only to have a massive crisis of faith about Suddenly Hating All of Them. I don’t hate them, it’s just overstimulating living with people. If I can spare anyone else a similar 9 months of suspecting that they may actually be a bit of a shit person, then this post is worth it!

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Words to live by and a useful adjunct to fork theory for brain management.

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.

Made some fanfic writer achievements, might add more later

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Since y’all asked nicely, part 3

[ID: A series of fake achievements, styled like xbox achievements, in different colors.

Part 1:

  • Teal background, 2000 points: Me, myself and I. Be the only person posting for a particular pairing/character/media.
  • Brown background, 100 points: Oops! Accidentally post a draft.
  • Purple background, 300 points: The Gang’s All Here. Recognize alll the names in the comment section of your fic.
  • Pink background, 1000 points: All for one, one for all. Get exactly 1 kudos on a fic.
  • Berry background, 200 points: Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Have someone plagiarize your fic.
  • Blue background, 300 points: Things that go bump in the night. Post a fic after midnight.
  • Cyan background, 600 points: Art is worth 1000 words. Have fanart made for your fic.
  • Orange background, 300 points: Fic 2: electric boogaloo. Write a sequel to one of your fics.
  • Green background, 100 points: Uhm, ackschully. Have someone point out a fic typo in comments.
  • Light green Background, 900 points: It’s over 9000! Receive over 9000 hits on a fic.

Part 2:

  • Hot pink background, 690 points: Is it hot in here, or is that just me? Write an explicit fic.
  • Blue background, 300 points: Switcheroo. Participate in a fandom fic exchange.
  • Purple background, 100 points: No Beta, we die like men. Post a fic without reviewing it.
  • Dark red background, 200 points: Rotten Tomatoes. Acquire a negative fic review.
  • Gray background, 300 points: I’m doing my part. Write for a rarepair with less than 20 fics.
  • Pale brown background, 500 points: Return of the King. Post your next chapter at least 3 years after the previous.

Part 3:

  • Blue background, 500 points: Tear Drinker. Cause a reader to cry in the comments over a fic.
  • Orange background, 100 points: Fic? What fic? Orphan a fic.
  • Dark red background, 700 points: Omelette du Fromage. Post fics in more than one language.
  • Teal background, 300 points: Hoarder. Collect over 2000 bookmarks.
  • Pink background, 200 points: Second Time’s the Charm. Delete a fic and repost it.
  • Purple background, 400 points: A man of many names. Have at least 2 pseuds.
  • Gray background, 100 points: Incognito Mode. Post a fic anonymously.
  • Blue background, 300 points: The Ballad of Orpheus. Write a fic where a character who canonically dies isn’t dead. End ID.]

Same-sex marriage in 2003 vs. 2013 vs. 2023

(20 years of change)

More info below:

Nearly twenty years ago, I was volunteering as a hotline staffer at GLAD -- the LGBTQ law firm that brought about same-sex unions and marriages in New England. Every week I would take a lot of heartbreaking phone calls from queer folks who were in states that didn't yet recognize same-sex partnerships. I heard from so many people being separated from their partner and/or their kids, because their families or their workplaces or hospitals or the immigration system didn't recognize the partnership. So many who couldn't provide sick partners with health benefits. So many people who were fired for being queer. So many breakups that ended with the biological parent automatically getting sole custody of the children.

We've come SO far. Like many of you, I worry about a lot that's happening right now politically, and I know there are lots of fights left to fight. But I also try to step back often and appreciate how far we've come. Thirty years ago, I was a scared & closeted school kid, and legally-recognized same-sex unions felt like an impossible dream. The big picture shown above is amazing.

Happy Pride, all. May we look back in another decade and see many more wins for queer folks around the globe. <3

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I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

I’m in the last 47.33% 

I shouldn’t have taken that test

Am I fucking stupid LMAO

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cool. cool cool cool.

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im- im an english major i hate it here

The only thing being a native English speaker has done for me: let me guess things accurately!

English is not my mother language so this is higher than I expected it to be already LMAO

This is so funny when you consider English isn’t my mother language either and I literally chose half of the words randomly😭

I are a riter

Like Cory I are also a riter. But I bet Cory dun it fasterer.

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Oooh, there were some new words in this one! Yummy words.

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still got it. what, I don't know, but I got it.

ending up somewhere between Neil Gaiman and Cory Doctorow seems alright to me.

if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?

They ship of theseus’d my girl

Can’t have shit in Detroit

this actually perfectly demonstrates the transitive property of memes: you can replace a meme piece by piece until it only structurally resembles the original, and it is, in fact, the same meme.

call that the meme of theseus thesis

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tumblrites can have a little intertextuality as a treat

my naym is ship and when i’m broke the broken part from me they toke

replace the part had been the plan but in the morn hand door car man

*me shoving transitive properties into my purse* sorry, I have to go

if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?

They ship of theseus’d my girl

Can’t have shit in Detroit

this actually perfectly demonstrates the transitive property of memes: you can replace a meme piece by piece until it only structurally resembles the original, and it is, in fact, the same meme.

call that the meme of theseus thesis

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tumblrites can have a little intertextuality as a treat

my naym is ship and when i’m broke the broken part from me they toke

replace the part had been the plan but in the morn hand door car man

*me shoving transitive properties into my purse* sorry, I have to go

The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper

I want to stuff a pumpkin full of raw meat and roll it around my enclosure, but I also know that I’ll have to be the one to clean up afterwards :-(

Take steps to minimize the mess! Put a cheap, disposable plastic tarp down in the area you'll be rolling it around. And.. Maybe recognize your species-specific needs and cook the meat first

Actually, if we're going for species-specific enrichment, a pumpkin may not be the best solution. We're not built for pouncing on prey or batting it around. We're distinguished by our persistence hunting and tool use

What you should do is put a pack of jerky on top of a roomba, go in another room and count to ten like you're playing hide and seek - or use this time to find a tool to use - and when you come back, try to catch it by setting a trap or by pinning it down with a stick

When you want a greater challenge, have a friend drive an RC car full of jerky around the park, and chase it until it runs out of battery

Aliens trying to cure the Clinical Depression of Humans aboard their ships by theorising Earth-Specific enrichment activites...

I feel like it might work tho

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I feel like the laughter at the very image of chasing a roomba around with a stick could probably do the same thing as actually doing it.

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In case no one told you growing up

  • Bras last longer if you let them air dry. Don’t put them in the dryer.
  • If you have a problem with frizzy hair, don’t dry your hair with a towel. It makes the frizzies worse. (I recently read an article that said to use a t-shirt? I brush mine out and let it air dry.)
  • Whites wash best in hot water. Everything else can be in cold - save on your electricity bill.
  • You can kill 99.9% of germs in a sponge by putting it in the dishwasher for a cycle or by microwaving it for 2 min (be sure to make the sponge damp before microwaving and to put a cup half full of water in with it and please DO NOT squeeze the sponge until it has cooled off)
  • Airing out your room/house and letting sunlight in every so often can decrease the number of household pests like silverfish and ants.
  • Black underwear is best during your period as stains are less likely to be visible.
  • To save money, put aside 10% of each paycheck into a savings account. It’ll add up.
  • Unless your hair has something on/in it (like grease or mud or something), using conditioner first can actually be the better choice. The conditioner holds in the good oils that help you hair look sleek and beautiful, which shampoo would otherwise wash away.
  • Speaking of shampoo - if you have long hair, washing just the bits that touch your scalp is generally enough. The rest of your hair gets cleaned with just the run off from your scalp.
  • If you put a tampon in and it’s uncomfortable/you can feel it, you didn’t do it quite right. A properly placed tampon is virtually unnoticeable by the wearer.
  • Apply deodorant/antiperspirant a couple hours in advance of when you need it. This gives the product the chance to block your sweat glands. Using deodorant just before going somewhere where you’ll sweat (this means walking outside for people in high humidity places) results in your sweat washing the deodorant off and starkly limiting its usefulness.
  • After running the dryer, use the dryer sheet from that load to brush out the lint catch - it gets everything off in a fraction of the time it’ll take you to get it clean with your bare hands. Paper towels also work well.
  • Wash your face everyday, or as often as possible. Forget which brand of cleanser is best. Just washing your face everyday will guarantee you clearer skin. And do you best not to pop pimples, as tempting as the urge may be.
  • Fold laundry asap after taking it from the dryer to avoid wrinkles. This may seem obvious for dress shirts and silly for things like t-shirts, but you’ll notice the difference even then once your shirts stop looking like unfolded paper balls.

To all the kids whose parents couldn’t help you with this kind of stuff

This post literally had me going “Oh shit! My bras are outside!” out loud, so I would add “Take your laundry in after line drying it so that it doesn’t get spiders.”

(I don’t know if there are spiders in my bras. This is now my spouse’s job to find out.)

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Most knits last longer and look better if you hang dry them. Especially the dark ones. Get one of those cheap folding racks and put it in your bathroom if your bathroom has a vent fan, if you can't put them outside. You can wash whites on cold with modern detergents, but do separate whites and lights from other colors if you don't want them looking dingy. Hot water is for actual filth, not sweat/daily grime. Many sunscreens also needs a bit of "cure" time on dry skin to not wash off. If your hair is not actively dirty and runs curly, you can probably get away with just using conditioner most of the time. It has enough surfactants. If you get itchy scalp, see if switching to a product with no sodium lauryl sulfate helps. Toothpaste also often contains SLS, as do a lot of pills. This (especially the pills) can be a hidden source of inflammation and joint pain. Crystal rock deodorants actually do work to prevent odor (the alum kills bacteria) but don't stop you from sweating. They last for freakin' ever but don't store them in the shower as they can get sharp. If you learn how to roast a chicken and make a soup from the leftovers of a roast chicken you're going to have a much cheaper food option, especially if you need to feed multiple people on a budget. Both of these things are nearly foolproof if you are capable of setting a timer, responding to a timer, and following basic instructions. I wrote up basic instructions here a few years ago, no ads, not selling anything, just very much want people to be able to learn to cook.

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

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Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

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Paid for seven thousand, the other 100k was free