deactivated (mostly)

currently working on my first ever ragbros animatic!! this is just a WIP, not everything's completed and edited properly, but it's coming along. kaeya and diluc have been through some nasty shit together over their lives and this song reminded me too much of that to not try💙❤️

@KeruboSk she defended slave labor unironically and then went real freakin quiet and changed the subject when i called her out on that haven't spoken much since then

To people who stopped talking to someone after you used to talk to them all day everyday. Why did you stop?

@BraddrofliT if elections aren't rigged, then we're all on board with tightening election security, right? because there's nothing bad going on so what's the big deal there was shady shit in 2016, in 2020, and then in 2024. let's put the doubt to rest already and be done w it ffs

Let’s stop pretending this makes sense: if Democrats really had the power to rig the 2020 election, why the hell wouldn’t they use it again in 2024 to keep Trump out? The conspiracy falls apart the second you apply basic logic. Looking forward to MAGA comments.

@aethersweep cursed skin being very painful and uncomfy and needing extra care will never not bring me life as a hc, idk what about it is so good but it is and i am so happy to see im not alone in it

i have such a specific headcanon that dain's cursed skin is dry and uncomfortable and cracks if left unattended (which dain does.) you wouldn't guess it's painful because the cracks are blue like the markings, but they do burn

@aakashgupta scrolling through this site for too long is suddenly worth it entirely after feeling so seen and understood LOL i get so unbearably upset when my seedlings die (fl sun doesn't mess around). but seeing another one sprouting makes everything better. never thought of it like this

She accidentally described one of the most replicated findings in behavioral psychology. Harvard and Duke researchers found in 2011 that people value things they build themselves 63% higher than identical pre-assembled versions. They called it the IKEA effect. Labor alone, even assembling a standardized box from instructions, is enough to make people overvalue their own creations. Gardening runs this effect at full intensity. You chose the seeds. You dug the holes. You watered daily. By harvest, your brain has priced that tomato at roughly 10x grocery store rates, and the math feels completely justified. Now stack Kahneman and Tversky's loss aversion on top. Losses register at approximately 2x the emotional intensity of equivalent gains. One of the most replicated findings in behavioral economics. So the aphid eating her garden is triggering both simultaneously. She built something her brain values at 163% of objective worth. She's watching it get destroyed in real time. Her nervous system is processing that destruction at double intensity. The grocery store tomato being out of stock? Mild annoyance. Zero labor investment means zero IKEA effect, means proportional emotional response. The garden tomato carries months of accumulated effort justification. The aphid isn't eating a $4 tomato. Her brain priced it at $40 and is processing the loss at $80. Gardening is the only common hobby that combines the IKEA effect, loss aversion, and a live adversary that reproduces faster than you can respond. The violence tracks.

@Matt_Pinner all potatoes are good potatoes. idk if i have 0% gravy or 100000000% gravy, if the mashed potatoes are good then i am already happy and if they aint then i aint eating it lmao

What's the right amount for You? 🤔

@Matt_Pinner if hubby isn't working, he needs to provide another way. if both are working, both need to split chores. if wife isn't working, she needs to provide another way. this isn't rocket science dawg

If a husband lost his job and the wife is the one providing in the house should the husband be helping with the house chores...

@rushicrypto you just accept you can't know and care about everything. focus on friends/family, then local community, and leave it at that and go plant a garden to heal back your mental health. or touch grass and go for a walk. idk but sunlight and fresh air do wonders for the soul

been trying to stay aware of what’s going on in the world… but the more i read, the worse my head feels. like how do you stay informed without slowly losing your mind

@oelma__ rather than boiling in water, throw them in a bowl with a little olive oil, garlic salt (or garlic powder, salt, italian seasoning), grated parmesean cheese, and throw into a skillet. always a win in my house

What can I put in canned green beans to improve their flavor? I hate them, but we're on a budget and have plenty of them.

@bbirdbPhD it won't magically cut your entire grocery budget, ofc. no sane person will argue that. but you DO have some options to take the edge off and that's better than nothing. I'm growing tomatoes, herbs, and lettuce in the winter personally - that alone cut massive costs for me/hubby

@bbirdbPhD ... if someone expects you to live 100% off the land right away they're wildin out that said, you can still cut costs. even growing a few herbs on the windowsill can save a lot of money, fresh herbs are bloody EXPENSIVE at stores. minimal space, + they thrive off neglect

It pisses me fuck off that folks are seriously like “time to grow your own food” as if everyone just has the fucking space or access to resources to fuckin do that. As if the entire system hasn’t contaminated most everything we have, making us dependent on industrial agriculture.

@suspiciouskaeya you good?

@leecantdraw idk man, if my chaeya work gets a "I don't like chaeya but-," I take it as "you wrote/drew this idea so well and it's such a good idea that you've sold me on this ship that I originally didn't care for." that is a MASSIVE compliment, at least to me

When are people gonna realise that saying “I don’t ship x but-” isn’t the compliment they think it is and is actually really fucking annoying

@MelonTeee if you have pests you don't wanna fight, then you need pest hunters! ladybugs, wasps, and birds can be your besties. but that requires space (and peace offerings-). I have birds that like to eat bugs, ladybugs do the rest, I've only done pest stuff like 2x max (im in central FL)

gardening is NOT relaxing bugs are eating all my shit I've never felt this violent in my life

@Killraven2001 @CiCiYouLaterTTV thank god you aint my manager lmao

@CiCiYouLaterTTV Yes. You're the employee and you want to control the schedule because you showed up early. Your manager is your boss, not your coddling parents. You're also a whiner. Good luck getting a new job.

Am I in the wrong? I was scheduled to work 8am to 4pm. I show up to my shift early and then my manager shows up and decides she wants me to close and come in later because she doesn't feel like closing. I told her that this wasn't discussed with me beforehand and I have already made prior engagements, which means I can't just all of a sudden work a different shift that I wasn't informed about until now. So instead she got upset and just told me that if I won't close then she doesn't want me here at all and sent me home. Like am I in the wrong here?

@ThrillaRilla369 sir i dont even know how it turned into gravy, all i know is that i had some flour and blinked and it was there, okay, i can do it but idk how do not assume how dare you😂

People that can make Gravy from scratch think they better than everybody

@7staroth I felt unsatisfied w rerir too. he really needed to be the focus of nod krai and dottore needed to be saved for snezhnaya. literal sinner of khaenri'ah and he got swept aside, it's so unsatisfying. but at least they didnt have him fight dr with us as a redemption arc🙏

My unsatisfactory with Rerir has nothing to do with anything but the timing and how quickly he was forgotten. He's a sinner, much powerful than %99 the cast, yet he was "defeated" in just 6.1 and almost had nothing more, only a off screen thing that we didnt even know of

@parkersity_9 if you're spending $25 on ingredients to make ONE meal (not even multiple servings, just one meal that you eat and no leftovers) and NONE of those ingredients can go to other meals later, you're doing something wrong😭

i love paying $25 for ingredients to make a worse version of a meal that would have cost $12.50 if i got it from a takeaway

@Etteee_2 @bvddieshollanov ...and it doesn't take much to not read them either? like I said, you have to go out of your way to view a bookmark. idk why bookmarks are public by default, but again, it's not like it's right there in front of your face all the time

@mostlydeadyay @bvddieshollanov that's just weird asf it doesn't take much to make a private bookmark like

hey yall is it too much to ask not to rate fics in your public bookmarks 😕

@coffinvoxal ...because that WAS normal for the longest time, but we now live in a hypersexualized world where not needing an emotional connection first is more common and more accepted and not everyone seems to have caught up to that just yet (I def didn't for a really long time)

"being demi sexual is just being normal" we need to drill a hole in your cranium and inspect your brain because how do you come to that conclusion