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Hey everyone. There's another app on the Google playstore. Pretty sure it's not official and it's making money from in-app ads.
I think the AO3's latest post about apps is here:
I don’t access Ao3 on my phone, but for those of you who do. wise words of warning.
Last time I looked, my best bet to use AO3 safely and free was to go straight to AO3.
I don’t understand the appeal of this. Has anyone ever thought “you know what would make AO3 better? Ads!”
Semi-regular reminder to my readers that AO3 does not have an app and every time you login through one of them, you are potentially comprising your account/password. AO3 has an effective design for mobile use and you can always add to home screen, if you really need an "app" icon.
ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN DOES NOT HAVE AN APP!
Do not download this app, as it is not from AO3 and they do not have an app!
Oh for FUCKS SAKE THERE IS NO WAY PEOPLE ARE DOING THIS
Hey uh, the fandom is mischaracterizing you on Discord again. Yeah it’s pretty bad. You’re totally OOC in the fanon -_- What happened?
I got sidelined for a popular ship :/
They “fixed” my character design and now I look cis :/
They made me a cop in a timeskip :/
They conveniently forgot that I’m ace :/
They drew me too thin :/
I got woobified into an innocent cinnamon roll, too good too pure :/
All my dialogue is perfectly articulated therapy speak :/
They made me Found Family with people I straight up do not like :/
They oversimplified my cultural identity :/
I’m actually fine the fandom’s got nothing but good takes about me [see results]
A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:
- When you like or reblog a post, that counts as user engagement for the person you liked or reblogged from, and shows up in their notifications.
- If the person you liked or reblogged a post from wasn’t the original poster (i.e., you’re liking or reblogging a reblog), it also counts as user engagement for the original poster, and shows up in their notifications as well.
- This means that user engagement from your likes and reblogs can potential accrue to two different people, the original poster and the person you liked or reblogged from.
- Consequently, you cannot “steal” user engagement from someone by reblogging their post.
- This is one of the very few areas where Tumblr actually functions more reasonably than other social media platforms.
- Note that this is only true if you use Tumblr’s built-in reblogging function. If you save someone else’s content to your local device and append it to a new post, you effectively become the original poster from that point on.
- This means that on Tumblr, “reblogging” and “reposting” are two different things; if you see someone complaining about “reposting”, this is not the same as reblogging.
- Commenting when reblogging does not affect any of this – unlike, say, Twitter, where quote-retweeting causes user engagement to accrue to the quote-retweet and not to the original tweet – and you can and should do so freely.
- However, every Tumblr user can see who exactly you reblogged a post from, which functions as a soft disincentive against making inane comments; if you make a dumb comment on a reblog, people who see your reblog may “back up” one step in the reblog chain to reblog a version of the post without your comment.
- Nobody understands tags, and there’s a fair amount of evidence that how tags work changes periodically and without warning.
- Tags are a divine mystery.
i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.
Need it to be easier?
- baby carrots (good dipped in ranch)
- Celery sticks (add some peanut butter or cream cheese for extra flavor and protein)
- Broccoli (good with ranch, cheese, or salt/pepper/butter)
- Canned peas (you can microwave in a microwave-safe bowl. Good with salt/pepper/butter)
- Bell peppers (cut into strips, good with cream cheese)
- Canned green beans (can be microwaved in microwave-safe bowl. Good with salt/pepper/butter)
- Hummus (good with crackers or tortilla chips)
- Salsa (good with tortilla chips)
- Guacamole (good with tortilla chips)
Need it in something?
Can't see it:
- Hummus
- salsa
- Guacamole
Can see but disguised flavor (can usually be found store bought or done at home and use different veggies):
- Dressed up ramen - just toss in some random veggies in ramen of your choice. Pretty much everything I've tried goes fine with it.
- Chicken pot pie
- Vegetable soup (with so many together it's hard to taste any specific one!)
- Chicken noodle soup
- Sweet and sour pork (haven't tried it but chicken should be fine in place of pork)
Texture problems:
Need it soft:
- Hummus
- Salsa
- Guacamole
- Cooked carrots
- Avocados
- Beans (personally I prefer black beans and canned baked beans)
- Peas (make sure to cook well, great value brand has the softest peas I've tried)
- Cooked broccoli (note: it does smell bad while cooking)
- Cooked asparagus (note: also smells bad while cooking)
- Cooked zucchini and squash (good together but can be eaten separate)
- You can also puree most vegetables and eat with a spoon or use them as a dip
Needs to be crunchy:
- Raw carrots
- Raw celery
- Raw bell peppers
- Salad (remember you can put whatever you want in it! Even if that means no lettuce)
- Most veggies are okay raw, and are usually very crunchy
Veggies google says stay crunchy after lightly cooking:
- Snap peas
- Brussel sprouts
- Cabbage
- Water chestnut
- Bamboo shoots
Broad texture tips:
- You can change textures by eating raw, cooking, chopping, pureeing, etc
- You can separate different textures to use in different ways (ie using broccoli tops in a soup and eating the bottoms raw)
It also really helps to think about why you dislike a vegetable. I found that I am scared of green foods so I like to use those veggies for ingredients in things they are well hidden for. I've also learned that watching something while eating helps because then I'm not looking at the gross green things. When possible, I also like to get help hiding it (ie using cream of celery soup in my chicken and dumplings).
Also keep in mind that one of the most common reasons that people "hate" vegetables is because they've only ever had those vegetables when theyve been horrifically overcooked.
Broccoli is one of my favourite vegetables, but it tastes like shit if you drop it in boiling water and cook it so long that it turns so soft it can't be eaten with anything other than a soup spoon.
If you hate vegetables because they're always soggy, tasteless, watery mush, then try them again, but cook them for SUBSTANTIALLY less time. As mentioned above, most veggies can be eaten raw, so you're not at risk of undercooking them. It's just matter of how firm or soft you like them.
Try something other than boiling, too! You can pan fry most vegetables, you can roast most of them, you can fry them off with some onions in the bottom of a saucepan, add some stock, blitz it up, and make a soup. Brussels sprouts are great when you slice them up thinly and fry them with some olive oil and chopped bacon. Do you like pickles? You can pickle almost all vegetables as well, and it's actually super easy. You just need a jar, some vinegar, and some sugar for the absolute most basic pickle, and then you can do carrots, zucchini, beetroot, radish, onions, cabbage, etc. And it all ends up tasting like the pickle juice that you made to your own personal taste.
You can also blitz vegetables up really small and use them as the base for a meal like risotto or pasta sauce or cottage pie or etc. These are meals that have other, stronger flavours that will drown out any vegetables in it, especially if you've blitzed those vegetables into wee little tiny pieces and stirred them through the mixture before cooking.
There's loads of different ways to prepare vegetables, some of which you will like better than others, and - if you still truly dislike them, there are ways of sneaking them into your own diet without your tastebuds noticing. If you need to treat yourself like a picky 3 year old who screams if they see a green food item, but whose parent is trying desperately to smuggle vegetables into, then that's fine, do that. Be your own sneaky parent to your own picky toddler, but work out how to get some veggies into yourself.
For me, foraging was the key to getting myself to give vegetables another chance! I used to go weeks without any vegetables and would just leave them on my plate if they somehow made their way onto a plate of mine. With foraging, I didn't have expectations about how things would taste because I've literally never had them before and haven't heard about them, and that helped me view the flavors with an open mind! I always hated spinach, but stinging nettles are weird and cool and make me feel badass to pick and eat, and I'm into the flavor! I've heard it described as a better, earthier spinach. When I first tasted it, I really wanted to like the flavor because they're very cool and also incredibly nutritious, so I was paying attention to the nuances of the flavor and didn't just go "ew, spinach, I already know I hate spinach." Turns out I like it a lot! Also, if you puree it and then freeze it into ice cubes, you can drop one into a smoothie and the taste blends right in and you get SO many nutrients!
Similarly, lamb's quarters (weird name, fully unrelated to lambs, is also called goosefoot) is also delicious and the undersides of the leaves sparkle in the sun, and this motherfucker grows EVERYWHERE. Parking lots, parks, the tiny squares where the trees grow on city sidewalks, everywhere. It also tastes like better spinach, and it turns out I don't actually hate normal spinach either, I just had such bad expectations of it because I Know It Tastes Bad so I always processed it as gross. After eating nettles and lamb's quarters and hearing that spinach tastes similar to them, now I eat them and am like oh, this tastes kind of like nettles! Neat!
You don't need to live in a rural area to forage. You truly can do it in a city. That's how I started.
Now I don't forage as much, but I go to the farmers market and try to find at least one thing that I haven't worked with before, or at least haven't used in a while and haven't explored much, or that's really pretty and gets me hoping that I'll like because of how pretty it is, or that just looks nifty! I like to ask the farmer what the vegetable tastes like and how it's cooked (you can definitely just Google if you want but I've gotten friendly with some of the farmers and so now I enjoy asking them), and then I'll get it and Google recipes for it, and get it home and try it out!
It's been SUPER successful. Using this method, I've discovered that I REALLY like kohlrabi and radishes and honeynut squash and acorn squash and green tomatoes (if you hate the texture of tomatoes normally, try green tomatoes! Much less soft and mushy, almost a little crunchy, and the weird section with the seeds that's kind of slimy is waaaaay smaller! Also the flavor has a really nice freshness to it!) and heirloom tomatoes! I've also discovered that I'm into fresh beets and celeriac and fennel and raddichio and little baby striped eggplants, which I got the first time because they're called fairy eggplants!
I used to HATE kale because I had had it like twice many years ago and the best I could come up with was that if you cover it in enough vinegar, it tastes like vinegar. I was chatting with my favorite produce guy and he had a bunch if kale also that week and I was like ah kale, I wish I liked it, but I've just never been able to get into it. And he was like yeah I used to hate it but my daughter is home from college right now and the other day she sautéed some up with garlic and olive oil and it was actually really good! And I was like you know what? It's been a decade since I tried it, and I didn't try that method, and fuck it, if I hate it then I've only wasted $3 and if I like it then a whole new vegetable opens up, I'll get some and give it a shot. And it turns out to be good like that, and also really good in a pesto with other greens!
My second most hated vegetable used to be broccoli. Last week, I got some broccolini on a whim, because I had heard it could be roasted nicely and I was planning on making something that involved roasting a bunch of vegetables and putting it on couscous, and so there was room for me to try broccolini and then just not put it on there if I didn't like it. Turns out it's AMAZING. Salted it well, roasted it until crispy, and it was one of the best parts of the dish.
Also, did you know they've changed Brussels sprouts? The type that used to be around was very bitter, but several years ago they bred it to be less bitter and yummier and now any Brussels sprouts you get are gonna be the new better ones, AND NO ONE FUCKING TOLD ME. If you haven't tried them in a few years, grab some. Cut them in half, toss them with olive oil and salt, put them on a baking sheet, and roast them in the oven. It's a whole new experience.
When I was growing up, my mom's attitude toward vegetables was that they suck and are gonna taste bad regardless so there's no point in "making them less healthy" by adding butter or salt or dressing (which is also misinformed diet culture bullshit about), so vegetables were steamed or boiled or microwaved and you forced them down and then got on to eating the stuff that actually might taste good which could have butter and salt and seasonings and stuff. I later mentioned this to a friend and he looked confused and said "so you ate vegetables like you were taking shots?" I hadn't thought of it like that before, but he was absolutely right. And obviously I'm not going to force myself to eat yucky things if I have the option of just making the yummy stuff.
The healthiest vegetables are the vegetables that you actually eat. If that means they're covered in butter or cheese or ranch or eaten on a chip or fried or literally whatever, they're STILL the healthiest vegetables. Broccoli cheddar soup that you eat is infinitely healthier than broccoli sitting in the produce drawer until it goes moldy and is thrown away. Salsa and chips is gets vegetables into you, but a rotten tomato in the trash doesn't.
I haven't been officially diagnosed, but I work in mental health and know enough to know that I very likely am Autistic and have/had ARFID, and there was a while where I was essentially living on plain white rice and candy because it was all I could get myself to eat, and I actually was pre-diabetic for a while because of it. If you haven't tried foraging or farmers markets yet, or haven't tried them in a while, it really is worth a shot.
Now I eat vegetables every day and it's not a struggle and I enjoy it. It was worth the time and energy, it really was.
Can we just talk about how “Goth Anime Legs Uncle” IS A FAMOUS ARTIST AND AUTHOR, BUT HIS NIECE OR NEPHEW NEVER THOUGHT TO BRING THAT UP?! No no no, you have a famous artist/author for an uncle, but screw that, here’s his goth phase.
Think about it: This guy is known on Tumblr for his goth phase, but not his actual freaking work, even though we’re all familiar with his work!
Listen. Look at his body of work. This is not a man who had a goth “’"phase’”’.
Sex work is real work and if you disagree, leave.
Y’all really out here getting cucked huh
Dude, he’s fucking the girl you jack off to. That’s the exact opposite of being cucked.
Unmute !
POV: You are Simba
Love it when you can see the impending disaster before it hits, lol.
you know the camera is going down, so you’re just guessing which dog it’s gonna be
until suddenly you know
I can’t tell if this aged like wine or like milk.
Betty #46
I went on snopes and like, yeah no this was genuinely published in 1997, somehow
when we try to befriend cats we mimic their meows and get down on the ground to their level and try to gently coax them to interact with us right
that horrifying entity mimicking human noises at us maybe just thinks we’re cool and wants to pet us?
had to draw it
a few people pointed out that they probably wouldn’t understand what they were saying and just mimicking whatever sounds they happen to hear so I wanted to add this
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“This character is dead in canon” to you. They’re dead in canon to you. To me they’re fine
“This character is dead in canon” then explain to me why they’re still running around and living rent free in my head.
I cannot emphasize this enough as a practical life skill: learn how to say no to authority figures. Learn how to tell them that nothing they can do to you will change your mind. Disappoint your parents. You have to live your own life.
How DARE Tolkien omit in the final draft the information that the traditional hobbit marriage custom is to have unspoken vibes for years and then disappear without explanation for an indeterminate length of time!?
@finegoddamnit how dare you hide this in the tags
so that whole time merry, pippin, sam, and frodo are gone the whole shire is losing their minds arguing over who married who.
just write a shitty poem, what do you have to lose
To everyone reblogging this and saying something like “my dignity,” may I submit this very good and accurate tweet
[Image ID: Tweet from abolish police (@/ niceTryOfficer) reading: What makes writing poetry so low stakes is that only a bunch of other weirdo poets will read it & if they hate it it’s like ok you wrote a persona poem about a seahorse last week buddy let’s not cast the first stone /End ID]