Age 28, undiagnosed multiple.
Disorganized mess.
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I know some of you need it, so I’m tagging this “trypophobia,” remember to re-tag if you reblog.
But speaking of which, I thought that might constitute an interesting monster ability in itself. If you aren’t afraid of barnacles, the Barnaclops can make you afraid of them by looking at you.
It also has the power of being both sharp and very, very dirty, which is ALSO true of actual barnacles! Margret and I used to get some nasty infections on our hands after handling tide pool creatures in Florida, but how can you not??? How can you let a little thing like “flesh eating bacteria” stop you from playing with sea sponges and limpets????
So a company called “Epic Miniatures” was selling my barnacle monster as a “Fungus Golem” without my knowledge, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt that they really had no idea, and maybe they didn’t, but I asked them about it as kindly as I could on Facebook and they never answered, then I asked just as kindly on their Discord
…And they responded by quietly banning me from the server??
I even said it was a great model and I wouldn’t mind working with them?? I DO NOT KNOW AT ALL if the moderator who booted me actually represents them or is literally only their discord mod. It’s still possible that whoever’s in charge is unaware of this and would have been reasonable about it, so it wouldn’t help for anyone to be a dick to them, but since I’m now cut off from ways to contact them, it would help if they were politely asked about it more. Folks might also wanna look over their models to see if they recognize anyone else’s designs.
On this, the anniversary of the lunar landing, let us also celebrate the greatest post-mission achievement by a crewman.
I refer, of course, to the time Buzz Aldrin (age 72 at the time) cold-cocked a moon landing conspiracy theorist straight in his smug face after being accused of being a coward, liar, and thief.
Yes, someone was indeed dumb enough to tell a man so unafraid of death that he was willing to go into the void on a fragile explosive rocket, a coward.
Said dumbass was filming this confrontation as some sort of proof of moon fraud, but has instead captured this glorious moment of near-cosmic justice for us to loop for all time.
Aldrin was not charged with any crime. He should have been given another medal for public service.
when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest
I’m the world’s worse advocate for wasps. Everytime I see people repeating bees=nice good pollinators wasps=bad stinging meanies, I face a deep internal struggle trying to explain how they are important to the environment without explaining wasp facts that freak them out in ways they never even thought
“Bees might be cuter and make honey, but wasps are VERY important too, some of them are necessary as pollinators themselves! Hey anyways you wanna hear some fucked up things about figs?”
“You hate wasps? Well think of a bug that you hate more then wasps. There’s probably a parasitoid wasp that lays their eggs inside them and their babies to devour them alive from the inside, reducing that insect species’ population!”
“Your least favourite bug is parasitoid wasps now? Well you are gonna be THRILLED and CONFLICTED about the existence of hyperparasitic wasps.”
