manager in the fanfiction universe: I don't care how many flower petals you're coughing up. You need to come in today

Cranky customers: That’s the trouble with young people today, they don’t want to work. . Why when I was your age, they just put a basket next to the deli counter and we coughed ‘em up and kept right on working. Sometimes the petals got in the sandwiches for extra flavor.

@blueblynd​ I have seen that variant several times, actually.  The dramatic tension is more satisfying that way IMO -  if you could be rid of your painful unrequited love with a medical or magical cure, wouldn’t most people leap for that option, even in a story where hanahaki isn’t fatal?   Make yourself feel better and make sure the other person remains unbothered by your pesky feelings, a win-win. 

But if you’d be blunting your ability to love permanently, it becomes the stuff that tragic myths are made of.

*INCREDIBLY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER*

2023: missives from desktop tumblr suggest that per the latest update my mutuals are being hunted by some kind of grotesque clown. staff assure us this is driven by user feedback.

the person who tagged this #unreality is about to have the worst but unfortunately funniest day of their life

She's 100% right.

So I work I healthcare. I'm in management. I don't touch patients. Not qualified for that.

But I help make sure the hospital stays open and the lights stay on.

I'm also massively prounion, and pro-universal healthcare.

So that said, I hope they rip that fucking prick in the recording a new asshole. I hope the feds come after him for that HIPAA violation and they beat him so badly that the other hospital administrators only dare whisper about his fate after a few drinks.

Follow this lady's advice. And if they are fucking you, get help and get what's owed. No mercy.

THIS Y’ALL

Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.

A box of Kraft mac&cheese, the iconic basic dinner for poor people that used to be 33 cents, is now 2.49.   just saying

Box of Space⭐✨🌟

I would bring the whole box home, consequences be damned.

Here it is‚ the last comic for The Nib. Thanks for reading all these years!

Reading The Nib was one of the things that really opened my eyes to how good comics are at conveying information.  We should be using them a LOT more, for all kinds of education and communication, and valuing the artists who create them.  Instead..well.

That hits really hard.

Heirloom Black Carrot Nebula

this isn't a carrot, this is a stage effect from a babymetal concert

and if you eat them youll be able to see those effects really well!

i have three responses to "how is your writing going"

1) it's not

2) it's going

3) i am ENTHUSED. i have been BLESSED with the POWER of the MUSES. i am an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF CREATION i am the MOST ULTIMATE OF ALL WRITERS

Pie chart showing the proportion of time each answer is used:

50+ Street Style Looks From Tokyo Fashion Week

Street fashion from the first three days of Tokyo Fashion Week March 2023. These are short videos we shot while photographing street style for Vogue.

Get Rid Of The Clown With uBlock Origin

if you have uBlock Origin installed, you can right click directly on the clown image, and from the drop-down menu select Block element (the one with the uBlock logo). then from the window that opens after clicking that select Create. it should get rid of the clown.

[Image ID: A screenshot of the Tumblr dashboard. uBlock Origin has been installed. The clown pop-up from the Tumblr dashboard has been right clicked, and from the dropdown menu that appears, Block element... is highlighted in red with an arrow pointed to it. /End ID.]

[Image ID: A screenshot of the Tumblr dashboard. uBlock Origin has been installed. The clown pop-up from the Tumblr dashboard has been right clicked, and the Block element... option has been selected. This brings up an interface that allows the user to block the asset. The Create button from this interface is highlighted in red with an arrow pointed to it. By selecting the Create button, the user will no longer see the clown. /End ID.]

If anyone wants to add the process for other adblockers feel free

Can confirm it worked and was very easy! Thanks!

I was debating pre- and post- smartphone existentialism with an older gentleman today and he stopped part way through and said “Why are you a security guard? Why aren’t you teaching this at some college somewhere?” And I didn’t know what to say so I went with “Well I used to make art but nobody pays an artist”

I want to invoke thought and wonder and introspection and encourage the passions of every soul I meet forever and ever and dig until I find the glorious potential for creation and experience and joy in every single one but unfortunately I must pay rent and so I stand, a meat shield, an NPC with unlockable dialogue

#capitalism brain tells you that anyone interesting must fight to the top of their interest#and precludes the possibility of everyone everyone everyone already being interesting

Occupational Hugs and Safety: Keep Exits Clear

It took a while to put it together, but Hardison could connect the dots. Eliot was skittish about physical affection, especially hugs, and on the rare occasions he initiated a hug, reciprocating tended to put a stop to it pretty damn fast.

The first time Hardison deliberately did not reciprocate a hug, he wasn't really sure what to expect. It wasn't much—the same sort of abrupt, wild-eyed death grip he'd gotten from a rattled Eliot in the past. A fleeting, desperate contact before stepping back, eyes skittering away to avoid meeting Hardison's, pretending it had never happened. The only oddity was the slightly puzzled look Eliot shot at him out of the corner of his eye as Hardison pivoted to deal with the next crisis.

This is making me grin sappily.  ( @darkmasterofcupcakes​ you mentioned looking for poly stories, this is Leverage fic)

Oh. That clown.

WHAT THE FUCK I just turned my head to the side and noticed him.

Saving a screenshot of my dash so people of the future can know just how bad an idea for a promotion this was. I do think the custom section is very cute in theory, but you do not inflict clowns on unsuspecting people.

New to the Tumblr Helluva fan scene but really wish the "really dedicated their entire existence trying to prove to the world that everything Viv does is shit and therefore Helluva Boss is shit" crowd would stick to the "-critical" tags instead of shoving actual fandom tags into their posts, I just want to find feel good posts about the Streamys and despite having all the critical tags I could find on Tumblr's tag filter it keeps getting shoved in my face every time I search.

If I wanted an asshole in my face I'd ask my cat.

I agree and also am stealing that phrase for future use.

every once in a while i learn some wild new piece of information that explains years of behavior and reminds me that i will never truly understand everything about my ridiculous adhd brain

ok what the fuck who was gonna tell me this isnt normal

what the fuck you mean to tell me that the way that i comically slide around things wasn't just me naturally shitposting

maybe the neurotypicals are just trolling us

THAT'S WHY I DO THAT?!?!?

it is in times like these that it is helpful to remember that all of medical science that isn't like, infectious disease, but PARTICULARLY psychiatry is a bunch of fake ass idiots who dont know how to do science, and when you hear about it on tiktok, it's being reinterpreted through somebody even dumber who is lying to you for clicks. as such you should treat anything they say as lies.

u do this wiggle because it's a normal thing to do.

anyways i looked at this paper. they stick people (n=32) on a wii balance board for 30 seconds and check how much the center of gravity moves. for AHDH patients, it's 44.4 ± 9.0 cm (1 sigma) and for non ADHD patients its 39.5 ± 7.2 cm (1 sigma)

so like. at best the effect size is 'wow. adhd people shift their weight, on average, a tiny bit more than non-adhd people, when told to stand still'.

in summary, don't trust tiktok, and:

@marithlizard

I did find a whole bunch of results when I searched for “postural sway ADHD” citing different studies, which suggests it’s not just one frootloop paper, but the point is well taken.   No claim should be trusted without followup research - and the research itself usually isn’t “proof” either.