the vet healed my cat too much

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

Did you pick up on the subtle hints that Fabian may not be ready for a new sibling?

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Pelvis Resley and the Dick Wizards

would be a good name for a drag king band

“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

hater of socks

I'm playing a witness so I hope not

Hey there! Will you be in MOUNT GAMBIER this weekend?

Do you HATE CLOWNS and would rather EAT YOUR OWN FACE than listen to a single bar of jazz so you have nothing to do? Were you planning to spend Saturday afternoon SAD AND ALONE in your HOUSE?

Why not COME DOWN TO THE COURTHOUSE and watch us PUT AN ACTOR ON TRIAL FOR MURDER?

There will be an afternoon tea and I have it on good authority that the woman making the snacks will be making jelly slice! Have you seen the price of jelly slice at cafes today? At $5 a ticket, this is like getting an extremely reasonably priced afternoon tea with a fun mock trial to watch as a bonus! You can't afford not to come!

Also you will SEE MY FACE, which means that any of you planning on hunting me for sport in the future will more easily be able to ID me in a crowd! I'll be playing the publican of the Sportsman Hotel.

yeerk

Once upon a time…

It's easy to kill someone via stabbing if antibiotics haven't been invented, you treat your knife like shit and the local surgeon sucks. You just have to wait a while for them to finish dying.

one of my greatest pet peeves in fiction, and it is truly stupid I know, is that no one seems to understand how genuinely hard it is to kill someone via stabbing. stab wounds have a mortality rate of like 5%. especially abdominal stabbing. tv shows and movies show dudes getting stabbed one time in the lower abdomen with a tiny knife and then they fall over. like what did he die of precisely. that man died of Small Knife

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

Hilariously, I got called in for this after I started Ace Attorney, and could think of nothing else during rehearsal

Hey there! Will you be in MOUNT GAMBIER this weekend?

Do you HATE CLOWNS and would rather EAT YOUR OWN FACE than listen to a single bar of jazz so you have nothing to do? Were you planning to spend Saturday afternoon SAD AND ALONE in your HOUSE?

Why not COME DOWN TO THE COURTHOUSE and watch us PUT AN ACTOR ON TRIAL FOR MURDER?

There will be an afternoon tea and I have it on good authority that the woman making the snacks will be making jelly slice! Have you seen the price of jelly slice at cafes today? At $5 a ticket, this is like getting an extremely reasonably priced afternoon tea with a fun mock trial to watch as a bonus! You can't afford not to come!

Also you will SEE MY FACE, which means that any of you planning on hunting me for sport in the future will more easily be able to ID me in a crowd! I'll be playing the publican of the Sportsman Hotel.

ptzah394 is really jonesing for that jelly slice

Hey there! Will you be in MOUNT GAMBIER this weekend?

Do you HATE CLOWNS and would rather EAT YOUR OWN FACE than listen to a single bar of jazz so you have nothing to do? Were you planning to spend Saturday afternoon SAD AND ALONE in your HOUSE?

Why not COME DOWN TO THE COURTHOUSE and watch us PUT AN ACTOR ON TRIAL FOR MURDER?

There will be an afternoon tea and I have it on good authority that the woman making the snacks will be making jelly slice! Have you seen the price of jelly slice at cafes today? At $5 a ticket, this is like getting an extremely reasonably priced afternoon tea with a fun mock trial to watch as a bonus! You can't afford not to come!

Also you will SEE MY FACE, which means that any of you planning on hunting me for sport in the future will more easily be able to ID me in a crowd! I'll be playing the publican of the Sportsman Hotel.

I read the description. If I think I'll like it I keep reading. If I don't think I'll like it I stop. Why would the kudos rate matter. I don't think I've ever looked at the kudos count for any fic that isn't mine. Baffling metric -- won't the fic itself tell you more reliably?

Also, if you were going to use a numerical metric. TERRIBLE choice. Hit rates are partly randomised due to bot activity. And the really good fics or the long fics will get higher hit rates if they are better, because people will reread them and revisit them for new chapters, but they can only give kudos once. The best fics (especially if they're multiple chapters) will have a low kudos ratio; a high one suggests a more forgettable story.

Honestly this metric is just baffling on so many levels. I know there's no wrong way to choose what you want to read but come on. Move your eyes over just a little bit and read the title and summary.

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

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