"Random tater tots don't just appear." <- A real and true sentence I just said to myself. In related news, I am wondering if a mouse is in my house.

Something something subtitles that remove curse words is ableist and infantalises those who rely on them....

FISH!!!!!! 🐠🐠🐠

True facts: If you want your water to boil, you have to actually put said water in the pot. It is not enough to simply have the empty pot sit on the burner with the heat turned up. Follow me for more helpful pro tips.

I finally managed to find a copy of Peerless vol. 4 (and learned the importance of pre-ordering) but I am NOT allowed to touch it until I edit and post my bonus bingo fic. June is almost over - priorities etc. (The siren song is strong but I am stronger. I think. I hope. Maybe.)

The irl horrors sure are horrifying. However, Zhao Yunlan now has a new way to torment Shen Wei

Will a suspenseful show kill me? Probably not. Will I be able to finish watching it? Well, that's another story. (Starting ep 4 of The Bad Kids and I'm already a mess. Not sure I'll survive the remaining 11 eps.)

Totally a me problem but I fucking hate overhead lighting so much and it's everywhere. This whining brought to you by the fact that I'd like to hang out longer at the library but it hurts too fucking much to stay.

So everything is still shit and awful and this doesn't fix anything and I shouldn't be laughing but also... I am laughing so hard.

Guardian Bonus Bingo June Prompts: Chase | Door Key | Respite You only need to create for 1 of these to earn a fill. Most types of creations count. Full fest info on tumblr. No tumblr account needed to participate! Join us! #zhenhun #weilan #shenwei #zhaoyunlan www.tumblr.com/guardianbing...

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions Fandom: #Guardian Pairing: #Weilan T Rating/No Warnings/987 Words Summary: Shen Wei shows up unexpectedly at the SID. Zhao Yunlan is in trouble until he isn't. archiveofourown.org/works/65865697

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still no cookie 😔

Fairyland Lovers rewatch continues. Hei Qi has arrived!!!

Maybe I will make a fest account here. Idk. I think most interested people are on tumblr anyway. What I do know is that my cat has been sleeping in the cabinet for almost four hours now. It can't be comfy in there and yet that's where she's been.

Guardian Bonus Bingo is starting in June! You don't have to be on tumblr to participate, any creation format counts, and derivatives and RPF also earn fills! #guardian #zhenhun #shenwei #zhaoyunlan #weilan www.tumblr.com/guardianbing...

I'm sorry but Sabry Aalil by Sherine slaps hard. music.youtube.com/watch?v=cs_Z...

Also rewatching Fairyland Lovers and I forgot just how much I adore this show

Sometimes when you're a cat, you just have to jump on the bathroom sink and sing at yourself in the mirror for a while. Or so says my cat.

THUNDERSTORM!!!!!!

Just three more finals and I can stop for today. I can do this. I think. I hope. Maybe.

I don't want to grade any more. Can someone write me a note saying I don't have to?

So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service." Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

Ok ok ok but there are 2 (TWO!) green anoles behind my house and this is officially the best thing ever! (I am so here for the herpetiles. Also, blue sky needs to let you write a tag essay like tumblr. No, tags aren't for searching, etc, they're for expressing what would otherwise go in parentheses)

The fic I was hiding from yesterday is now singing the old WWI song, "I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way." (This is progress.)

The problem with having three pets is that I only have two hands and sometimes everyone wants pets at the same time and this always leaves one pet jealous even as I try to rotate through petting them all.

Daily bunny no.2928 is fluffy and dry!

Had the day off and need to write a fic for an exchange fest. So of course I decided to do a home repair project I've been putting off for almost two years. Nothing like needing to write to help summon the motivation to do manual labor!

Woke up 30 minutes early. Thought I might sleep some more but the cat had other plans. (Those plans mostly included walking all over me while chirping for breakfast.)

Getting in the floor to do exercises and the pit bull immediately walks over and shoves his big head under my arm Clearly it's time to pet the dog instead.

In other news, I fucking hate vestibular migraine.

Sometimes the best part of the weekend is just getting to sit in the floor surrounded by pets. They're all napping and I'm reading a book and it's a pretty good way to spend the day.

Trying to gauge interest in a 2025 round of Guardian Bonus Bingo. It's a low stress fest with 5 prompts, no minimums, and open to all modes of creation, as well as derivatives and rpf. www.tumblr.com/guardianbing...

Also the cat is once again insisting that it's not my chair, it's our chair. Nice to be perched on the edge as she takes up most of the seat.

I am at a point where I'm honestly happy to read student work with lots of typos because at least it (probably) wasn't written by AI. Also sometimes they make me laugh.

The fucking frustration of trying to find out about realistic side effects of a drug and search results instead finding the most unhinged people in the universe. Like, I just need to know how likely this things is to make my dog vomit, I don't need full on conspiracy theory bullshit.

Today is officially ass.

Sometimes researching details for a fic leaves me reading academic journal articles to get historical, cultural, and/or technical details just right. Tonight's research left me watching videos of people riding a mechanical bull. My fics contain multitudes etc.

Apparently my brain thinks it's a good idea to wake me up 1.5 hours before my alarm and then not let me get back to sleep. It is not a good idea and I don't like it at all.

That feeling when it's a very busy day and a meeting gets canceled.

Just finished my rewatch of The Bond (乔家的儿女) It's possible I'm bawling my eyes out haha. Sooooooooooooooooo freaking good and I'm sad it's over (again) but rewatch was fun because I caught a lot of new things the second time through.

For the first time in more than a year, a triptan actually (sort of maybe) worked for a migraine but goddamn at the floaty spacey feeling that comes with it.

I bid on 3 fandom trumps hate auctions and won them all. Which I honestly did not expect. Anyway, I'm glad I participated this year even though brain fog kept me from signing up as a creator.

Heaven Official's Blessing art (fanart) in Seven Seas-style cover art, because I'm a really big fan of that style and wanted to try if I could do it ❤️ (I'm so proud ok ;; ) #tgcf #tianguancifu #beefleaf

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Inshallah vs mashallah, an impertinent guide for white people: Inshallah expresses your hope that God wills a thing: "inshallah he will OD soon." Mashallah expresses gratitude or respect for something achieved with the will of God: "Mashallah the ketamine got him."

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

Hey, hey, hey - I'm back on my weilan bullshit! More Than Ok by tehfanglyfish Guardian 1550 Words of Weilan Rated T, No Archive Warnings Apply Summary: Shen Wei wants something. Zhao Yunlan's going to get it for him. archiveofourown.org/works/63349273

Sending out a Black History Month announcement for classes and deliberately avoiding all .gov links for my additional reading list *sigh*

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙