Any time a doctor is like "I'm old fashioned. Just call me, don't send emails or messages through the portal" I start chewing on the drywall.

It's just a classic thing of "person whose company uses a system does not know anything about the system or how it's used"

Because every doctor's office is set up to all but force you to use the online portal. You'll get stuck in automation and answering machine purgatory forever if you call directly but that's also 100% more effective than the portal.

The portal and the 2 minute long message that plays every on repeat while you're on hold on the phone to the doctor: "do not call your doctor. If you are trying to call your doctor I'll kill you myself. We worked so hard on this portal I swear to God if you even think about calling when you could be using the portal I'll come to your house and gut you like a fish"

The doctor: "oh I don't read those portal emails. Just call."

does anyone have any advice to give when bringing up a possible rare disease with a doctor??

These clowns genuinely think that every article they read is sanctioned or even written by his team. Zero understanding of how journalists work. ///

So how would the article have been written?

Showbiz Editor: Russ, I need 1000 words on why Harry Styles shaved his head.

Russ: Shall we go for the Britney angle?

Editor: No, that won't sound credible - he has no history of mental illness or even meltdowns. Friends of mine heard he just wanted to be anonymous so let's go with that. Write something about the new girlfriend too.

Russ: Got it.

i like fanfiction more than traditional fiction not because i'm overly attached to my blorbos and can't bear the mental strain of getting new ones, but because i like read 200k+ word works of unhinged nonsense and publishers don't generally vibe with that

Actually I'm slightly, lowkey glad the TRC TV show didn't happen, cause the more I think about it, there's like... no way I would have liked anything they would have done

Hey uhh my neighbor has a talking meowscarada. What do I do?

What the FUCK. i mean. Able to string sentences together?? Or just a cute meowscarada that just says "nyaa" and their owner insists it's saying your name???

Either way unless it's bothering you or using your voice for fraud i dont think you should mess with any of that, it's their pokemon and their potential white collar crime basement

Objectively cool AND out there though

Alternatively it might just be someone in a suit. Dont even check you could get charged

Honestly, a factor that keeps Autumn away from terrible relationships is the fact he's too scared of falling in love.

If he wasn't, I believe he would always pick the wrong partners. He'd have gone through abusive, absent, a combination of both; the emotionally uncommitted, and the list goes on and on. It's not like he thinks he deserves those people or anything, but his referral of "love" and "care" from his younger years is neglect, abandonment, fear, and hopelessness. It's also begging, tolerating, demanding, distancing, and duty more than anything else.

Thanks to his walls, he puts people through a constant prove yourself before I am sure commitment could happen here. If Autumn was slightly more reckless, he'd be hurt in many new yet familiar ways.

You expect Izumi to be asleep at 3 AM but he’s wide awake grading papers and reading books.

Love when I say that I 'just realised something' because I can guarantee that 90% of the time I do, I have already been aware of said thing for at least 24 hours.

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

"damn I'm crying over an insect" "why am I having such strong feelings over how the sky looks" "it's weird how happy this small thing made me feel" THAT'S BECAUSE YOU LIVE HERE!!!! you live on this earth. everything all the time is an experience, no matter how common or mundane. this world is unique. so are its small moments. it is good to enjoy a tiny thing. you love the world even at its smallest scale.

Reblog and put your rare pair in the tags/comments! I want to see the depths people will go to create, for the most random two characters in the most obscure media.

“why would you write fics for small, unpopular fandoms? you’re not gonna reach that many hits in fandoms not many people know about” ?? because I’m not writing fics for hits or kudos, I’m writing them for me because these characters are my blorbos and I have so many ideas, so much thoughts about them that my brain might explode if I don’t write them out.

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

Came back wrong this, came back monstrous that

What if they came back loving? What if they came back in love. What if the necromancy worked and you cheated death and it's everything you've ever wanted, but now they love you in a way they never did before and you cannot know if that is because they finally know the lengths you are willing to go for them, or because something in this deathless magic bound their soul to yours to guide them home and it left them no. choice.

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.