just some guy, you know?

i kinda like tumbleweed tinctorum, for the alliterative value of it, but i do think that people will have a much harder time remembering tinctorum/tinctoria than they will any of the other words on this list

💀💀💀 i'm so sorry, what a pain in the ass

stef this is the sickest burn i've heard in months

friendship decay is only real if you want it to be! 💕

seconding vanness and jetpens. if you're willing to wait for shipping, i've also had good experience with cult pens, who often have (comparatively) inexpensive ink

oh my god. ginger. the 'allegedly' here, while correct, is killing me. please let me know where this is--dm, email, semaphore, etc, as desired

i feel like everything vinegar has a ring to it

sext

oh, i'm so sorry. please take care of yourself. 💕

oh, this is *so* fucking cool, i absolutely love it!!

ugh, i hope you're better soon 💕

💕 sorry i'm like this!

oh, sorry, i hate the warnings! i, an adult person on the internet, am very good at simply not looking at parts of photos that make me uncomfortable. having the warning there feels like trying to dictate how i engage with the photo, i guess? DIRECT EYE CONTACT OR NO LOOKING! it makes my skin crawl.

it's allegedly to be more ~respectful~ of autistic people who are uncomfortable with eye contact. feels like a solution in search of a problem, tbh.

(i, an autistic person who is uncomfortable with eye contact, fucking hate it, because it feels like i'm being ordered to make direct eye contact.)

i did *not* let myself watch this before drugging myself into unconsciousness, but i did now and 😭

thank you! 💕

oh no, i'm so sorry. i hope you find some comfort today 💕

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i have. not heard this. it's seven thirty in the morning and i haven't gone to bed yet.

i'm—

[clicks, starts crying immediately]

no im fine its good everythings all right im ok

no no no, noro??? i'm so sorry. i hope you recover quickly, both of you 💕

they are, if nothing else, impressively consistent

or, i say, sighing, you can send it to me and i'll make sure they get it. just throw it in my bank.

and my mother says, brightly, oh! i already put money in your bank, you can just use that to buy it for me!

on one hand: i don't care about the money, it's fine, whatever
on the other: come onnnnnnn

i called to thank them, obviously, because i'm not a monster. my mother comments she'd like to send money to ash or buy them a gift card, but doesn't know how.

ok. i explain currency conversions and banking systems and how international amazon sites work. she still sounds confused.

hey, i know that what with the loss of locked accounts, everyone's been missing the updates about how things are going with my parents, but just fyi, they sent me some money for christmas, which is still not a thing i really do but was nice of them. they deposited it in my us bank acct. ok!

i just want you to be happy 😭

i hope that eggnog blows your tits clean off, babe. tits out, feet up, lost in the sauce, etc. 💕

safe travels, pal

this is something that i've needed to do moderately extensively in some roles, and while my employers have generally felt that i'm good at it, i find it miserable and cannot stop being Aware that my work isn't nearly what it could or perhaps should be. also it's like walking uphill through molasses

honestly, i don't even really understand forgetting it, here, because there's literally a toggle to force alt text—if enabled, you can't post the photo until you've added it.

i don't love it about myself, but i have, at this point, a fairly extensive internal style guide that's one part aesthetics, one part hand movements, and one part actual guidelines that i've decided are worth following.

anyhow, you're right.

like, *i* know that i double the salt and use twice as much of this ingredient and leave another one out entirely, but that information lives in my brain, not on the page where i originally noted down the recipe thirty years ago, you know?

ok, i'll admit that if someone were to look at recipes i've written for myself, then at how i've sent them to other people, they would think that i was doing this, but for at least some people (me!!) the one i give you is real and includes the things i've changed that are otherwise stored in my head