#constant-instigator

Sam. Sam, is that a roll of painters tape at the top?

LOL! No, but I can see how you’d think that. It’s one of those little soft-silicon bracelets, like you get at fundraising walks and such. That one has tiny jingle bells attached to it, and I got it as a souvenir at some holiday festival or other a few years ago. 

superqueerpasta replied to your post “Dearborn will, grudgingly, flopcat on any blanket that’s on my lap,...”

Sam, obviously you need more lap and more hands to properly accommodate kitties.

They’re just brats who don’t want to share! 

arsenicjade replied to your post “I am also super soft, as I’m wearing a new fleecy pullover from Old...”

Wuuuuuuut. Sometimes, I hate that hanukah even fucking exists, stg.

Yeah, I didn’t hold out a ton of hope for the movies, but I had a distant wish that they would hold off on the worst of the bullshit. Apparently no dice. 

kingedmundsroyalmurder replied to your post “junker5 replied to your post “kissmeagainarthas replied to your...”

hanging trees is actually a callback to a much older tradition! i don't have all my research at hand, but iirc it was mostly done by poorer people who had less floor space to put up a tree (with the bonus that, in the era when trees were decorated mostly with food, it kept the kids from sneaking off with all the treats before christmas!)

You know, I swore I remembered that it started out as an older tradition somehow but I thought no, surely I imagined that. For some reason I thought it was Victorian. 

constant-instigator replied to your post “I am also super soft, as I’m wearing a new fleecy pullover from Old...”

Ok, but couldn't you star in a holiday Purim movie as the author trying to finish their holiday novel?

Post: so you know the rule in fairylands, a title, a pun, these are the kinds of thoughtful lines of questioning... Writer: confusedlucifer (aka sinfullucifer), kromiprice (aka actualtrashbag), tinfoil-on-the-windows, generallyhuxurious on tumblr and AO3, audsbot, constant-instigator, justalostmonster, fallingforthevillain, ginguzzler Reader: rhythmia Rated: Teen and up audiences (references to sex acts) Summary: Like it says on the tin. :D Length: 6:11, 6.21 MB Cover Art: rhythmia, with photograph by adege on pixabay.

Image description: Black background with a photograph of delicate purple mushrooms growing on a mossy branch. Text on black background reads: A Socratic discussion on whether performing oral sex will get you stuck in fairyland. Text on bottom of photograph reads: read by rhythmia, photo by adege. Text curved along the mossy branch reads from top to bottom: ginguzzler, justalostmonster, kromiprice, fallingforthevillain, tinfoil-on-the-windows, generallyhuxurious, constant-instigator, audsbot, confusedlucifer

Notes: Recorded as part of the Out of the Auditary podficcing challenge! Many thanks to confusedlucifer, kromiprice, tinfoil-on-the-windows, generallyhuxurious, audsbot, constant-instigator, justalostmonster,   fallingforthevillain, and ginguzzler for permission to record this piece! 

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*pharmacy technician hat* It's also possible that is has to do with step therapy: other drugs work, and are cheaper, so a lot of insurances won't cover azelastine until you're on record as having tried other (cheaper) stuff first

JESUS CHRIST CAPITALISM IS THE REASON I HAD A TWO MONTH SINUS INFECTION.

Sorry not yelling at you, just yelling :D Of course the insurance company wants me to buy the OTC they don’t have to pay for. Jesus CHRIST. 

dignitywhatdignity replied to your post “Its called Azelastine bc its only used Azelast resort”

My gp was just like, "Just use Flonase whenever you're congested." And it's worked wonders; I've only had one sinus infection since, as opposed to the several a year I'd had before that point.

ariadnespyns replied to your post “mishaberryreblogs replied to your post “How do you clean your...”

Azelastine is an antihistamine, where otrivin is... something else. Have you tried flonase yet? That's what we give people here in the hospital!

Sadly, Flonase sits at the very top of the “does nothing for me at all” list. Doesn’t even make my nose run. Just sits there and tastes bad. :D 

myjennieblr replied to your photoset “theambassadorposts: Signal boost 99% Invisible just did a great...”

So, this was fascinating, but i initially read "History of Consumption" and went the tuberculosis route, not the consumer goods route and was a little perplexed at how the Sears catalogue linked to pulmonary health.

HAHAHA ME TOO. I didn’t mention it because I didn’t want to dilute the message, but yeah my immediate thought was “the history of tuberculosis? That’s an understandable but very niche class...”

constant-instigator replied to your post “WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ROOMBA??”

Oh! can we get deets on where to send the old Roombas For Science? Our poor old Rosey is ready to go to a nice farm upstate.

Oh, this wasn’t anything formal, I just asked Knotta (who is a children’s librarian) if she wanted it for anyone who was nerdy enough to want to take apart a Roomba. But you should check around with children’s libraries, STEM programs, and scout troops in your area, someone may want it. 

geekgirl76 replied to your post “WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ROOMBA??”

Oh, speaking of, didn't a friend of yours do research and have a recommendation for uprights? When we got rid of the wall to wall, we switched to lighter cordless stick vacs, but we're on the third and they ALL suck. (or I guess technically, don't suck) gave up on Hoover eons ago, Bissel lost our loyalty with this last one that chokes up on ANYTHING other than the finest dust. (who puts a 80 degree corner in the throat of a wimpy stick vac?!) 

Yes! One of my co-workers wanted an efficient, cost-effective vacuum that would handle their dog’s hair decently. They went with the Dirt Devil Quick Lite. I looked at it, but I opted for the Black & Decker Airswivel Ultra because it was slightly lighter and had a longer cord. 

There are things I’m not crazy about -- to unlatch the handle (so that it tilts) you just put your foot on the vacuum and press down, and then it snaps back into place when you’re done, but it doesn’t always snap on the first try and I’m just waiting for that latch to break. It also doesn’t have any way to adjust the height of the brush, so it can be rough going on denser-weave carpets. If you have wall-to-wall carpeting I would not recommend, but I just have small area rugs and runners, and it does fine on all but one of those, and it’s pretty good on my vinyl flooring, too. It’s great at getting up dust and cat hair, and for $70 I didn’t expect a lot of bells and whistles, so on balance I’m glad I bought it. But I think it’s definitely a vacuum for someone like me, who only has 900 square feet to vacuum and most of that not carpeting.  

dreamwaffles replied to your post “How do you clean your sinuses? I'm currently suffering =(”

I tried for years to use neti pots and they never worked. Turns out I have a deviated septum.

Yep, I have a punctured septum, so it just goes in one nostril and out the other.

lacrimula-falsa replied to your post “WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ROOMBA??”

@copperbadge The fact that your roomba was named MagNeato has me in stitches. XD

It gets better, it wasn’t even a Roomba -- it was a roomba-knockoff by the Neato Company, that’s why we named it MagNeato :D My original Roomba was Dalek Suck (after Dalek Sek). 

and-rugelachs replied to your post “I managed to do something to my foot in the past two days- I woke up...”

Do you know about plantar fasciitis? It causes arch pain, and I hear it can happen through running. I had it for a year (I did it through actual injury and couldn't rest it until 4 hours after, so mine was a bad case) and it sounds similar to what you're describing.

oh, man, I’d typed up a whole long bit about being kind of glad that i’d been too chicken to ever let anyone read any of my early stuff because that meant i got to keep them as mine (mine oownn myyyy precioussss) but then I was like ‘mneh is this one of the tumblr etiquette rule-breaches? i’m not really adding anything fuck it tags it is’.

but yeah.

i have whole notebooks squirreled away.

there’s the half-shin’a’in ex-grifter who meandered too close to valdemar and her con fell apart because of a cranky horse and she ended up becoming some kind of healing mage herald thing, and she ended up saving the day with an animal mindspeech mindhealer who dragged herself down from the arctic north with her pair of dogs-who-weren’t-really-dogs because a raven bondbird went ‘…yo, Bad Shit is on the way and you’ll need our training’

and there’s the half-vulcan half-klingon science ensign who kicked ass all over the alpha quadrant (and totally did not have a giant crush on b’elanna no why would you think that no no see look, vulcan srs face) and then got hit with a Thing and suddenly got, like, All-Speak and because of that stopped a war based off of a linguistic misunderstanding.

or the hotshot pilot jedi student who, along with her twin sister and Mara Jade, stopped the extermination of an aquatic planet of sentient sharks because i maaaay have been rereading eugenie clark’s books a liiittle obsessively in between the bingeing on rogue squadron and the thrawn trilogy and, let’s be honest, every star wars book until children of the jedi (sidenote: what the /shit/, luke? really?)

ahaha oh lord how could i have forgotten Aya, who loved to tease duncan mcleod about jazz age indiscretions and drove methos crazy because she was pretending to have been born in the 1300s in norway but really she was Akkadian and she and Methos got locked in a museum and snarked their way though the shitty translations and had an epic bitch-fest about who was older?

like, the writing behind all those is bad. so bad. tenses and voicing were nooot my strong suits. also early exposure to terry pratchett meant parenthetical statements were /everywhere/ and my god did i love hyphens. but i don’t care, i still love them. they’re mine. and i’m afraid that if i’d let them out at the time of their writing, i’d have felt the need to change them into something more appropriate and less fantastic.

well?

constant-instigator Haha sorry I got distracted and never looked! As I suspected I'm not really finding much, though I found a set of LGBT matroyshka dolls made because of the recentish anti-"homosexual propaganda" laws in Russia (autoplay at link) The profits from the set go to the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association...

Not quite what I'm looking for, but interesting.

Apparently in like 2003 a girl at school was suspended banned from wearing a shirt that said "Barbie is a lesbian" and then sued and I'm not sure after that but that's... also not the same thing.

Ugh I hate “whine” in a sexual context. I read that a LOT. Reminds me of shrill, upset toddlers. Not hot.

"See you later, Theonator" hardly counts as a nickname. Although it does crack my shit up every time.