SPark is me

idk man when i was a kid i remember a lot of adults saying "if you can read and follow directions, you can cook" so i was like yes i can do these two things. doesn't seem that hard. and it wasn't! so it just always surprises me when i see people of any age who are capable of reading and following directions bemoaning how impossibly hard cooking is. like i know i'm always on this hobbyhorse but it just seems like a lot of people have never developed basic life skills and instead of going "oh wow that's embarrassing, i should learn and catch up" they instead get defensive and turn it into a learned-helplessness thing where they CAN'T POSSIBLY be expected to learn something that's SOOOO HARD. and suddenly somehow we're the oppressors for thinking it's weird that a grown adult can't grill themselves a cheese.

At some point the gaps in your knowledge/abilities become your responsibility. Someone may have neglected to teach you or let you practice a skill, but when you are a grown adult the initiative to learn is on you. Keeping yourself stuck in a state of helplessness over the discomfort of making up a deficit becomes a choice you're making, and it's one that hurts you in the long run.

Look. Look. DNIs don't work. Bad people, on the whole, don't believe they're bad people. Real predators aren't going to look at your "predators don't talk to me!" notice and say, "oops, my bad, can't prey on this one." They're going to ignore it, either because they don't think they're predators, or because they know it and they don't care that you don't want them there. And you're going to think, oh, I've put up a notice, I'm safer because of it, and you'll be less alert to signals and red flags that someone might actually be dangerous to you. DNIs don't work and they shouldn't make you feel safer. Because you're not.

I shouldn’t have laughed that loudly

People love simple, extremely practical things. I hope you win!

Vampires are not weak to garlic in particular. Rather, any allergy a vampire had in life becomes a deadly bane in undeath. The garlic thing is just a matter of one famous vampire having that as their thing.

Picturing someone rubbing peanut butter on their neck before they go out, with strawberry-scented shampoo and as much cat hair on their clothes as they can manage. “This has gotta be enough, right? My odds are good!”

#that’s a fun idea for sure #there are some very niche allergies out there that would make for an exceptionally embarrassed vampire #‘Oh no my one weakness! Rubber gloves!’ #vampire hunter breaks out the balloon animal sword 'You’re not getting away this time!’ #squeaky battle noises

Event: Potato Palooza

I FORGOT TO CHANGE THE REST OF THE SENTENCE TO BE ABOUT HORSES INSTEAD OF BUTTERFLIES,

Thank you @chiropteracupola no I get it

i like when a piece of media says that an all-powerful character "sees humans as insects" because that really could mean a lot of things. maybe they view us as insignifigant and will squish us under their boot. maybe theyre actually studying and cataloguing us for their thesis paper. maybe theyre campaigning for human protection because we're an important part of their ecosystem. maybe they see a human and go "ew ew ewwwwww someone get the cup and get that FREAK out of my house." .

dude i saw this years ago on my dash and it deadass rewired how i look at Ares. And just. is cool to think about in general.

forget everything anyone has ever told you on the matter the truest marker of adulthood is starting to hear the siren call of high quality kitchenware

to be clear you SHOULD buy that cast iron pan and you SHOULD buy that knife set and you SHOULD buy that fancy rice cooker and you SHOULD buy that novelty mug. high quality kitchenware is always worth it you’re literally gonna be using that almost every day