Okay, #romantasy friends! Christmas is coming up and I want to get my roommate some nice monster-fucking smut. This is not a genre I partake in, so I am looking for recs! She likes heterosexual (ish) pairings, but I could always sneak in some gay shit if it's good.

I feel like most people born after the advent of home video have at least a handful of movies they just watched relentlessly as kids, so I'm not sure what this "hard mode" is. Anyway. "Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, LoTR or Marvel."

One major downside of my current job is that every rotation includes 7 night shifts in a row, culminating in 2 12-hour shifts over the weekend. Let me tell you, that last shift is brutal. I do prefer this rotation over previous ones, but I still have 5 hours left in this shift and I am TIRED.

@textualdeviance.bsky.social Well, hello there, friend!

I just discovered today (because I am not very prolific on here and typically have interactions of only 1-3 posts) that if you reply to a popular person, you will get notified for the ENTIRE CONVERSATION that other people have about that thread even when they're just chatting amongst themselves.

I'd drop down to a part-time job (I doubt UBI would be enough to fully cover my mortgage) and focus on my little fam and my writing during my free time.

I'm re-watching The Pretender, because apparently what my brain needs is quasi-psychopathic montage sequences of terrible people receiving poetic justice comeuppance in a series of increasingly unlikely scenarios. Anyway, Andrea Parker is a smokeshow.

@profanity.accountant I don't think I'm especially swear-y, but I could be wrong!

Who the fuck cast *Kevin Hart* as Roland in Borderlands? Like, of ALL the available actors... this was the choice? Really?

A different section has moved into our space at work in the past couple of months, and they just... let their phones ring for what feels like forever before they pick up, and it's STRESSING ME OUT. ANSWER YOUR FUCKING PHONES, GAWD.

I tried to read through the quoted post, and I have concluded I need to log off the internet forever because I can no longer tell who's being sincere and who's being sarcastic in that thread. /o\

Okay, can someone explain to me what #unconfinedwalks is about? It just looks like regular walks to me. What makes a walk unconfined, exactly?

Did Kenvue Inc.'s CEO run over Trump's dog or something? I don't understand the sudden vendetta against Tylenol/acetaminophen. Does someone have more insight into what's behind this?

At what point are we going to admit that the Notwithstanding Clause is no longer a "rarely used provision," since every single fucking Conservative government has used or is planning to use it to trample on the Charter rights of their constituents? Why do we even have a "hidden fascism" clause?

Huh. Charlie Kirk has been killed.

How are we in 2025 and some people still don't know that The Onion is meant to be satire?

It’s the Year of Our Lord 2025 and people are still throwing their cigarette butts out the car window. 1- Ew, don’t do that. 2- It’s WILDFIRE SEASON, my dude! What the ever-loving FUCK?

The "good" news about undergoing an extended period of major personal stressors (moving/illness/partner surgeries/renovations/visiting relatives/financial crises/etc.) is that I've had very little time to spend on the internet, and therefore I am a lot less stressed about The Horrors.

Decided to finally read a Tom Clancy novel (The Hunt for Red October) and, uh, do ALL his books have this much info dumping/"As you know, Bob"-ing? Because Dear Lord, I feel like I'm reading bargain basement Victor Hugo with submarines.

I wish private equity could buy climate change so it would stop working

Well, The Old Guard 3 had a very singularly annoying thing happen. Cannot say I appreciated that. Otherwise it was pretty solid, but nowhere near as compelling as the first movie.

"Daily testing can offer misleading information, he said, because it takes at least a day for results to come back[...]. "To have people focus in on a water result that's 24 hours old isn't real time information," said Ruf." Waiting a full week will DEFINITELY produce better results. 🙄

“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.”

Friends who deal with anxiety, how on earth do you handle daily, multi-hour panic attacks when you have absolutely no choice but to be productive? I am moving in two days and am very not ready, and the sudden onset panic attacks are seriously hindering my packing progress.

I must have been some sort of criminal in a past life, because it honestly feels like I am being punished for having the audacity to try to buy a house. Why can't things just go smoothly for ONE DAY?

Reskeet with the five shows you would be happiest to have to rewatch over and over for the rest of your life, as your sole TV diet. Oof, this one is hard. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (the Jeremy Brett version) Babylon 5 Campion (although I am sad there are only two seasons) Leverage

I decided to watch The Handmaid's Tale (don't come for me about white woman fantasies, I KNOW the history on which it's based). I had watched the first two seasons when they aired six-ish years ago, and then stopped because it felt uncomfortably close to torture porn. 🧵

I know this isn't an original thought, but companies have been experiencing a "higher than average call volume" since 2020. At a certain point you'd think they'd adjust their messaging to reflect their actual statistics. It can't have been "higher than average" for 5 years. It's just average now.

I really wish phone menus would stop harping on about using the company's app or website. Bitch, if I could do this using the app or website, do you think I'd be waiting on the phone in the year of our Lord 2025? I would like nothing better than to be online instead of on the phone!

This is incredibly niche, but I was literally in my 20s when someone told me that the Polkaroo was played by the male host of The Polka Dot Door, and that's why they never interacted onscreen. ("Aww, man, I missed him AGAIN!") Like, it makes perfect sense, but I had never thought about it. 🤦‍♀️

When she was 82, my mother's GP refused to get her screened for breast cancer when she found a lump, because, and I quote: "You're too old and going to die anyway." She DID have cancer, and managed to get screened. She's 88 now, and in full remission. The screening standards need revision.

The Purge movies have such lazy writing.

Squid Game is a WARNING, not a blueprint, FFS! STOP TAKING INSPIRATION FROM CAUTIONARY TALES, YOU GODDAMNED SOCIOPATHS.

I wonder if Law & Order: SVU ever stopped using the T-slur to refer to transgender people. So far I'm at the end of Season 5 and they're still using it. Eesh.

I decided to watch Law & Order SVU as a mindless background thing (yes, I know it's copaganda), and GOOD FUCKING LORD this Season 4 episode about a trans woman is HORRIFYING on all levels. The misgendering, the slurs, the "trans panic..." FUCKING HELL. I hope the writers are ashamed now.

I’m finally starting to feel better, but still testing positive and still feeling short of breath and very low energy. Covid sucks, I don’t understand anyone claiming it’s like “a mild cold.” At best this was more like a flu, and all of it sucked, let alone whatever havoc it’s wreaking long-term.

In unrelated news, I don't know why everyone isn't more obsessed with #TheDiplomat on Netflix.

I have reached farcical levels of illness, wherein I have truly a ludicrous number of symptoms and feel like absolute garbage, but all of it is only deeply unpleasant and not, like, immediately life-threatening.

It’s official as of today, my parents gave me the ‘rona. I am deeply annoyed because I managed five fucking years by being *so careful*, and it was all undone in a matter of 48 hours.

Oh my God, getting old sucks. I’ve slightly hurt my back (my lower back has been giving me grief since 2022 on and off), and now coughing is a nightmare.

I have what I hope is just a cold for the first time since 2019. I am deeply unhappy about all of it. I’ve been testing negative so far, but am isolating/masking in the house to be safe.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs 📽 (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR) What is this "hard mode" you speak of? Doesn't everyone watch movies more than six times? 😛

Re-watching Men in Black after many years, and I'd forgotten just how fun it was. "No, ma'am, we at the FBI do not have a sense of humour that we are aware of." 🤣

Oh, we're doing verified accounts/blue checkmarks now?

#Photobucket has been threatening to delete my account for about two years now because I refuse to get a subscription. I am ignoring their increasingly desperate/threatening emails because I'm curious how long they're willing to send them before they make good on their threat.

A film that takes place where you're from.

Just got my first Onlyfans bot. I love that the person is supposedly too shy to approach me directly but they’re tagging five other people and advertising an OF account.

The problem with being terminally online is that sometimes you want to yell excitedly at your roommate that “OMG @pearlmania500.bsky.social is covering Lauren the Mortician in a podcast episode!” And then you realize you will have to explain everything in that sentence and stay silent in despair. 😂

So I guess this year in #Ottawa March is in like a lion and out like... also a lion. Hope everyone is staying safe out there!

Know the rule, follow the rule, love the rule.