Unable to shut up

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Tagged by @mnimeresponding @whirlception @thescrapwitch @stormsbreadth @ecofutural @starshadeemilyart @riding-with-the-wild-hunt, thank you!! 🫶 In between other more important projects and in my very limited free time I have been slowly picking away at toxic badwrong reembodied Fingolfin/Miriel 🙂‍↕️

“To live, but not amongst your kin. To live, not as an elda but as a voiceless ghost haunting Vairë’s halls, hiding away behind your tapestries like burial shrouds. To live, but not as one of the living. How is your life worth more than your death? What purpose is there in your living while he does not?”

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

Anthropeum.com · Jun 9 2026

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It was only legalized in 8 US states (the 8th only a few months before), and wouldn’t be legalized nation-wide until 2015.

It was only legal in TEN COUNTRIES in 2011. We wouldn’t hit 20 countries until 2017. (Australia was 23rd)

As of today (April 14, 2026), I believe only 38 countries have fully legalized same-sex marriage. Out of somewhere around 200 countries in the world. That’s only ~19% of countries.

the city of los angeles

the city of new york

sex

how drinking alcohol works

how getting high works

how a child of any age speaks

how nuclear physics work

how [my job] works

how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is

how hypothermia works

things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:

SHRIMP COCKTAIL:

banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol

generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is

#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro

And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!

POMEGRANATES:

zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple

thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute

sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.

FRUIT TREES:

zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''

salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE

baander: #cranberry trees

DOUGH/BATTER:

maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre

livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles

lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY

Some other topics:

in a time loop you get to literalize that sense of running in circles repeating your mistakes but differently!! and not being able to escape from a hell that is, in some way, of your own making (because the best time loops, in my opinion, are about a character needing to correct some kind of mistake and struggling to figure out how).

like. there is a character where they think they've gone too far and can't go back so they just have to keep going. and then there is taking that character and making it so they can't keep going at all because they keep digging the same hole over and over.

not sure I'm expressing this adequately but. something about the "making not exactly the same but similar mistakes over and over and over again until you figure out, somehow, how to change" that fits very nicely with the kinds of characters I love most.

I lost you the minute I left town with him. You just haven't let yourself admit that yet.

It's a little extra messed up when you remember that not only did Elena know that the only reason she survived this bridge the first time was because Stefan saved her, she was also already aware that Stefan got her out of that car first because Grayson actively refused to leave her there. Must suck to realize that the man who could give you the gift of knowing that your father, in his final moments, loved you (that he loved you despite spending every moment since then feeling like you caused their deaths for crime of being a drunk teenager who fought with her boyfriend and called her mom to pick her up) would be so willing to render that sacrifice null and void. (Over a man who hurt you. Who killed Isobel and Jenna in front of you. Who killed you and when you woke up you found that the last adult who loved you was dead too, that John died so you could come back as a human. Stefan shoving that blood into your mouth would have made that sacrifice meaningless too.)