* Despite everything, it's still you.

i have a suggestion

me too

hey you 🫵 have you washed your water bottle lately? 🫵 it’s getting hot and mold is going to grow 🫵 wash it 🫵

I’m a patron of the arts (I leave nice comments on aO3).

I'm a patron of the arts (I reblog on Tumblr dot com)

if you use potholders how will you ever build up the calluses necessary to pick up scalding hot metal without burning yourself so severely? it’s like you’re not even trying to get better

I mean, my mother uses potholders, but she’s in her 70s. You’re just… too YOUNG to be resorting to potholders at your age.

If you start using potholders, your inability to hold hot metal will only get worse.

As a professional cook I was, and still am, able to pick most stuff up out of an oven without a pot holder. I might get blisters and maybe it will hurt, but usually it won’t

No actually I will not forgive this fandom for treating the young abused homeless trans girl who was trapped in digital purgatory at the age of 18 like an irredeemable monster, thank you very much.

I say this as someone who loves worldbuilding, but too many people seem to believe that what makes a story good is some imaginary Worldbuilding Score that increases with the level of detail you’ve put into the linguistics and economic systems instead of, like, telling a good story.

Also, leaving some things mysterious and unexplored can actually make your world feel bigger and more interesting. If you can tell us everything about your fictional planet in a few pages of exposition, your planet is pretty boring no matter how much research and detail went into those pages. Allowing readers to speculate and use their imaginations is good, actually.

Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."

being kind often does take effort. but not being a dick doesn’t take any effort at all.

Actually for some people it does and part of my point was that those people deserve to have their efforts acknowledged and respected when they put in the work needed to treat others right even though it doesn't come easily or naturally to them

nature documentary but the narration is just weird enough to make you question it

“Some fish can walk out of water, so remember that next time.”

“You might think you’re safe, but horses are omnivores”

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s