Punitive Cuddles.

Punitive cuddles.

sees cat being naughty and scoops him up: This is a disciplinary hug. Do not derive joy from it.

naughty cat: purrs loudly

I’m just going to nudge this under the couch with my hair band and catnip mouse collection. … for later.

i made a whump wheel

want to beat up a character but don't know how you wanna do it? same here, friend. behold, the whump wheel! it currently has 60 different prompts/tropes on it and is ready for use! 🎉 i...love this thing. it is wonderful for writing exercises. (if you wanna know what's on it before using it, take a peak at the screenshot below)

It's MB and ART and ART and MB and it is everything.

one of the most ship dynamics of all time

YES. I've been saying it forever: Perihelion is the magic school bus Research and Transport Vessel Research and Teaching Vessel

Transport + Teaching (+trolling, omniscience, no regard for rules, power that resembles straight up magic, science-focused, kidnapping, physical transformation, mandatory interactive lessons) ART's kernel owes its base coding to a digital copy of Ms. Frizzle's brain that they merged with her OP vehicle of educational adventure.

one of the reasons i love the murderbot diaries is how it doesnt flinch in trying to grapple with some of the Big Questions, such as "why is it that Humanity™ is the goal to strive towards for artificial intelligence if it wants to be acknowledged as a person?" and "What does it look like when someone is both undeniably a person but also unapologetically nonhuman?" and "what if the magic school bus had a gun"

Related: Aspec people are confused/inexperienced/late-bloomers/prudes/traumatized.

But the thing that really puts a cherry on this post is that line at the bottom: "Have the day you deserve."

For a lot of reasons, I hesitate to wish vitriol on other people even when they're being cruel or harmful to me (due to Very Normal anxiety that I would feel bad if such a thing actually came to pass) and I appreciate the phrasing here so much, highlighting both personal guilt and social shame as *consequences* not *retribution/punishment* and doing so without malice. People don't always get what they seem to deserve, but there's something freeing about wishing it to them anyway - especially if they claim to believe in fairness or righteousness, or any other merit-based mode of engagement with the universe, as such people very often do. it means that they'll never be entirely free of the concern that anything bad that happens to them might just be a confirmation of their worldview, and if it's not, then they must be wrong. They can resist the conclusion that they're doing the wrong thing in any case, but they can't expunge it. Such people are *always* feeling like bad things are happening to them.

My 90yr old Irish Catholic grandpa doesn’t miss with my gender. He’s never gotten my name wrong, or my pronouns, never even faltered over it.

It’s all so natural too: son, big man, young man…

We’ve never talked about it. He’s the only one who hasn’t pushed for details. He just accepted it and carried on because it’s not a huge deal.

It’s so comforting.

An enemy is just a friend I haven't worn down