hey hi hello! this is the den of a goblin by name of socket, or a human by name of joey, who may or may not be several dorky arcanists in a trenchcoat
(i can also be found as oddsocket on bsky)
within this den lies an eclectic jumble of fandomposting, wizard appreciation, tabletop and OC yelling, posts that otherwise resonated with me, pretty art, and....just me scrawling on the walls, really (which is to say you will be subjected to my stream of consciousness; i do a lot of introspection and parts work on main, and i also have never been normal about my blorbos or my interests in my life and don't intend to start.) there will be the occasional nsfw post, it keeps the ecosystem healthy.
i draw creachers, monsters, original characters, assorted fanart and a whole lot of pokemon over on my artblog, @electrical-socket ! my tabletop blog is @dark-nat-ones-blessing !
#the my art tag - for when i've drawn things! (i post wips and doodles here that don't always make it to my artblog)
#socket talks - my assorted ramblings, musings, journallings and Original Words
#socketface - my arguably human visage
#socket's ocs - catchall tag for OC text posts and art.
#do people still say gpoy - posts that reflect who i am as a person lmao
character-specific tags and other regular tags under the cut!
OC Blorbo Tags
julian montgomery summerwind, wizard, magibotanist and Blorbo Prime, gets multiple tags because he's my specialest little guy
#julian summerwind - all art and julian-centric textposts
#juliancore - extremely julian aesthetics
#julian.txt - textposts with julian energy. i sometimes bully him with these.
#pepper braidsilver and #pepper.txt - pepper braidsilver, draconic gnome sorcerer
#pale horizon.txt - pale horizon, doomed pale elf junk-mage (body horror warning!)
#nuth.txt - "nothing", tiefling urchin warlock and Certified Little Shit
#sorrel.txt - sorrel pondweed, hexblooded halfling sorcerer
#tiskkin.txt - tiskkin, alchemist kobold artificer
#katja.txt - katja, boisterous beefcake bearlike barbarian
#variel.txt - variel, seasonally unpredictable eladrin druid
#lucienne.txt - lucienne felynas, half-drow wizard and curse nerd (frequently nsfw)
#elias.txt - elias hollyhock, humanish illusionist wizard and Ambiguous Love Interest to julian
#archfey tag - the wisteria fey, hedonistic and sentimental keeper of the gilded garden (frequently NSFW). also catchall archfey aesthetics in general.
also, #hyacinthineposting for anything related to Hyacinthine, my julian/elias/wisteria fey fic. it's a character study and tragic backstory exploration via torrid feywild not-quite-flashback hallucinations. :3c
other recurring tags
#familiars - creachers that appeal to me in a wizard fashion
#wizardposting - wizardly posts of all varieties
#transmutation tag - acts of transmutation, altered materials, Things That Look Like They've Been Turned Into Other Things
#magibotany - magical plants, fungi and plant- or fungus-creatures
#feywild vibes - art and environments that are strange and faerie to me
#wizard fashions - particularly arcane garments and accessories
#beafts - real cool looking monsters, sometimes even cool looking real animals
#significant otters - cute otters! and #seals of approval - cute seals! (i like water mammals.)
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(and also..... "Socket Does Parts Work On Main" tags!
okay okay so listen, i'm not plural but not not plural. it's complicated. i do a lot of parts work and i personify the fragments of myself a lot. sometimes a post will resonate with a specific part of me, and i'll tag it duly!
(previously i just nametagged them, but am recently adding the .exe tags for posts actively tagged from This Part Is Active Right Now)
#ravening beast / #ravening beast.exe - The Beast Behind My Ribs. hungry werewolf imagery, frequent NSFW warning
#bleedingheart / #bleedingheart.exe - The Sopping Wet Creature With So Many Hands. yearning, trauma processing, etc.
#yonder.exe - Playful Little Thing! highly social potentially obnoxious little Gremlinself. )
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genuinely sickening to think about how men pop up out of holes in the ground and you have to swing a mallet and hit them over the head to get them to stop
'Why does every nonbinary person want top surgery' I dunno maybe because having visible breasts immediately makes everyone assume you're female and only female, and therefore put you into a binary. Also why are you assuming every nonbinary person has breasts.
I think people who believe that should also put some thought into whether every nonbinary person with breasts actually wants top surgery, or whether they've just decided that the nonbinary people with breasts who want to keep them don't "count" as nonbinary.
#i know plenty of nonbinary people who want breasts or like their breasts#but they're viewed as either transtrenders or trans women in denial <- prev tags
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this sounds a lot like Y from another slavic language I know which means X in mine so this almost 100% also means X
this word is completely different but I can kinda tell the meaning from the morphology
what
okay right now I'm gonna have to dissect the entirety of this language's history to figure out how the FUCK did y'all get to the point of calling X that and not something more normal
I wanted to ask for X and accidentally called someone a whore
This reminds me of that time my (Czech) family went to Poland for my uncle's wedding (because my aunt - his wife - is Polish and they decided to get married in Poland).
The wedding afterparty was in full swing, everyone was drinking and partying.... and an elderly Polish lady approached my two aunts (who were also drinking a lot and partying hard) and commented something along the lines of "jesteście odporne". Which in Polish means "you're resilient" (as in they're handling the alcohol well) but in Czech it means "you're disgusting".
It took my aunts a bit to remember that it means something different in Polish. 😅
'pozor' in Czech means 'watch out!', but means 'shame' in Russian
droga in czech means drug, in polish it means road
záchod in czech means toilet, zachód in polish means 'west'
odchod 'to depart' in Czech means very specifically 'to depart by foot', while in Slovak it has a bit wider meaning, and buses and trains also combine with 'odchod'. To a Czech speaker this gives the funny implication that departing trains grow legs and walk out of the train station
Croatian 'mrdati' = to wiggle, means 'to have sex' in Czech
'Čerstvý, voňavý chléb' is Czech for 'fresh, nicely smelling bread'. In means the opposite in some slavic languages 'stale, stinky bread'. This kind of 'good meaning in one but bad meaning in other' duality happens surprisingly often actually, see also úžas and odporný above
otrok in Czech means 'slave' but in Slovenian and perhaps other South slavic languages it means 'child'. Very funny when combined with bazaar, turns a perfectly fine baby bazar into a slave bazaar
My friend has a fun sentence from Slovenian - "Hitri otroci kuhali jed na Dunaji". Literally none of the words here mean what a Czech thinks they mean. No not even Dunaj. Czechs read it as 'smart slaves were disemboweling poison by the Donau river', original Slovenian meaning is 'fast children were cooking food in Vienna'
Edit: wait one more. "srpanj" in Croatian means July, "srpen" in Czech means August. Listopad in Croatian means 'October', in Czech means 'November'. rujan in Croatian means 'September', říjen in Czech means 'October'. kwiecień in Polish means 'April', kviteń in Ukrainian also means 'April', květen in Czech means 'May'. Months are fucked up.
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if you're an artist of any craft always remember to sleep by putting all your weight on your hands and wrists, and don't forget to make the position as weird and awkward as possible to maximize the damage. sweet dreams
As a child, I was never able to tell the difference between “male bonding” and vicious bullying.
Maybe this was because I was a girl, but I suspect that it may have been because there’s not actually any difference between male bonding and vicious bullying, and parents and teachers are just too willing to turn a blind eye to it.
The thing about “traditional” male socialization is that it’s ALL about hierarchy, and that being “socialized” as a male is all about jockeying for/being reaffirmed of your place in that hierarchy.
You can almost think of it like a control based MLM, with people higher on the hierarchy having the privilege of exerting pain/humiliation/demands on those below them. The people in the middle desperately want to put themselves on top (because it means suffering less) so they’re conditioned to put down everyone they encounter who might challenge them, even without thinking of it.
This is how a friend of my Dad’s ended up nearly breaking my thumb when I was six. Upon first being introduced to me, this rough edged blue collar fellow went in for one of those painful “knuckle buster” handshakes that assholes do to assert dominance. Thing is, I was autistic as hell and didn’t give him the reaction he wanted (yelping to signal my submission) so he pressed HARDER and didn’t let me pull away. Dude was so insecure about being out mogged by a fead eyed firstgrader that he kept pressing till something cracked and I had to go to the emergency room.
The thing that really got me, even back then is because every adult from my parents to the doctors insisted that I shouldn’t be angry or upset because he was teasing and this would toughen me up.
Like, no? All it did was make my neurodiverging ass MORE skittish around people I didn’t know. There was a very good risk that I would have internalized the idea that people who are bigger/stronger can do whatever they want to smaller people which I bet is *exactly* what happened to this dude at some point early on.
it really fucks me up that a kookaburra is just an incredibly large kingfisher. how did they do that. they can eat entire snakes. I'm so used to Kingfishers being as tall as my palm, so small.... I need to see one in person more than literally anything else in the entire world
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Guy makes a really stupid decision and gets in a car accident -> no real damage from accident but insurance goes up -> starts beating himself up over his stupid decision -> gets depressed -> starts to realize he's single and had crash been worse he'd die alone -> realizes he's never had a relationship or even a crush and starts wondering what he'd want out of a relationship -> starts to realize he doesn't really like girls so he thinks he must be gay -> realizes he likes girls and boys about the same amount, so he must be bi -> later realizes that "same amount" is none at all -> he's ace
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