Author: Brin

Anonymous asked: Body mod: Unaging preteen girl.

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brin-bellway:

moonlit-tulip:

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know

On the one hand, unagingness is very good and worth grabbing. On the other hand, I like having an older-than-preteen body, both for personal “I enjoy the results of estrogen-puberty and would rather have a body which lets me have them rather than not” reasons and for social “being seen as a kid by people who don’t know me would lead to assorted interpersonal difficulties” reasons. Ultimately, though, the unagingness consideration is a Very Big Deal and wins out over the downsides, and so while it’s not my favorite choice within the space of possible unaging bodies it’s pretty clearly worth it relative to my current baseline (which is how I’ve been rating these).

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Loophole hacking, maybe? They didn’t say pre-*adolescent*, they said pre-*teen*.

Me aged 12 years and 364 days is a *little* less physically developed than me aged 25, but close enough to be believable as an adult: most of the difference between 13 and 25 is experience, and I assume you’re keeping the ability to gain experience (unagingness wouldn’t be any fun if it gave you anterograde amnesia). You might not pass for adult *at first glance*, but people routinely mistake me for 17 as it is, and I doubt being physically reverted to 13-less-one-day would make it that much worse.

(And it does occasionally have its advantages: one time–it was the day after my birthday, I think I was either 21 or 22–I was in a grocery store and the attached bank had a guy trying to talk passersby into signing up. He started trying to talk to me, but when I turned around and looked at him, my face pinged to him as “too young to sign legal contracts” and he stopped.)

((While seeing whether I could look up which year it was, I found another relevant quote in my diary (age 21): “She tried to take only the parents’ cards†, reading me as underage. (Most of the museum cashiers did. I’m not sure how I feel about that.)”))

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†Note from present-me: the cards were a citizenship gift from the Canadian government, granting free museum access for one year. Only adults get cards: children merely accompany their parents.

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#reply via reblog #aging cw #fun with loopholes #morphological freedom ask meme #amnesia cw #our home and cherished land

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Anonymous asked: Body mod: Unaging preteen girl.

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moonlit-tulip:

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know

On the one hand, unagingness is very good and worth grabbing. On the other hand, I like having an older-than-preteen body, both for personal “I enjoy the results of estrogen-puberty and would rather have a body which lets me have them rather than not” reasons and for social “being seen as a kid by people who don’t know me would lead to assorted interpersonal difficulties” reasons. Ultimately, though, the unagingness consideration is a Very Big Deal and wins out over the downsides, and so while it’s not my favorite choice within the space of possible unaging bodies it’s pretty clearly worth it relative to my current baseline (which is how I’ve been rating these).

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#zeroth degree asks #aging cw

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harrysgucciteam:

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biggest-goldiest-fish:

Bottom left

 

aliaitee:

top right

 

rainbow-mcgee:

I’m not even an adult, but top left

 

aliaitee:

i’m not an adult either

 

chicken-burrito-official:

bottom left

 

chicken-burrito-official:

i’m looking through the notes and generally what i see:

top left and bottom left: mellow, fun, think this is kinda interesting

top right: very rare, mysterious folk who don’t explain their opinion much

bottom right: “FUCC You All!! bottom right is the one true god!!! AAaah let’s Fight over this!” kinda responses.

no opinion really: yeah they didn’t know this was such a thing

 

bundleofnervousenergy:

Bottom left

 

toomuchdickfort:

I’m just bottom right Bc right hand and also left is for put things out of the way…

 

awkward-scarfy-boi:

Bottom right

 

dreamhunterwolf:

i’m not an adult but bottom right

 

justasheepinwolfsclothing:

Bottom left

 

coffiero:

top right (i’m not an adult)

 

thnksfrthmania:

Bottom left, it gets hotter fastest on my stove

 

thetimeoftheoath1777:

Mine has only 2, but I like the left burner

 

het-cats-mustaches:

Bottom left. It’s in perfect placement

 

somepretty-things:

In my old house it was bottom right… but my apartment now it’s bottom left because of the layout of my kitchen for some reason. Idk why it changed for me, but the bottom right just doesn’t feel right now. 

 

delightfully-thomi-posts:

Top Left!

 

belindapendragon:

Bottom right

 

sufficientlylargen:

Flamethrower by the stove.

 

fermatas-theorem:

bottom left because it’s the one that changes size so I never have to change any of my habits for cooking different things

Bottom-right is clearly the best burner, because you don’t have to reach as far and the larger burner size heats the pot more evenly. Bottom-left is okay for boiling pasta and stuff like that, but I’ve *tried* making popcorn on the bottom-left burner and it *doesn’t cook right* because that burner is too small.

(results not applicable to stove designs in which the burners are not of different sizes, or designs where the sizes have a different pattern; possibly also not applicable to people significantly taller than 5′3″ or equivalently shorter stoves)

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#is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #long post #reply via reblog #meme

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archiemcphee:

Happy Caturday! Christmas tree season is fast approaching. We know that for some of you it’s already here. Your cats are looking forward to it too, though perhaps not for the same reasons. They’re less interested in festive ambiance and presents than pawing at shiny ornaments, pulling off the garlands and lights, and climbing that tree like it’s their own sparkly, evergreen fort.

Bored Panda assembled an awesome collection of creatively pet-proofed Christmas trees. These photos are just the tip of the very merry iceberg.

Click here every cat-proof, dog-proof, and even fox-proof Christmas tree.

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Photos by/via jennthemermaid, Cole & Marmalade, Bill & Vicki T, Cowybuga, Shelly Davis, lokitheredfox, and Bored Panda respectively.

[via Bored Panda]

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#cat #fox #Christmas #love the decor fandom #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(the vacuum cleaner one)

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prokopetz:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

There are a lot of classic horror films where the defining experience of viewership is going “okay, this is definitely the director’s fetish… and shit, I think it’s mine now, too”.

(And yes, I’m aware this happens in other genres, but I wouldn’t say it’s the defining experience of most other genres. When I watch an action movie, I’m rarely seized by the creeping certainty that the director is sexually gratified by men in dark glasses walking away from explosions. I mean, I’m not ruling out the possibility, but in most cases the explosion love seems reasonably platonic!)

@effulgentinara replied:

I am willing to believe that Michael Bay is sexually attracted to explosions.

Michael Bay wants giant robots to pee on him.

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#sexuality and lack thereof #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #nsfw text? #unsanitary cw #there is probably some other warning tag I should put on this but I am not sure what

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slatestarscratchpad:

There’s a subreddit called r/totallynotrobots where people pretend to be badly-disguised robots. They post cat pictures with captions like “SINCE I AM A HUMAN, THIS SMALL FELINE GENERATES POSITIVE EMOTIONS IN MY CARBON-BASED BRAIN” or something like that.

There’s another subreddit called r/SubSimulatorGPT2, that trains GPT-2 on various subreddits to create imitations of their output.

Now r/SubSimulatorGPT2 has gotten to r/totallynotrobots, which means we get to see a robot pretending to be a human pretending to be a robot pretending to be a human.

Here is a sample:

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If only Alan Turing were alive to see this.

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#hiding in plain sight #computer generated text #oh my god

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gasmaskaesthetic:

I think I have a healthy work environment right now, so here are some things I’ve learned that I didn’t learn (and which became nasty sources of anxiety) during my first corporate job or for the first few years of running my business:

-Most, if not all, businesses have process inefficiencies and it’s normal to feel like you’re doing something in an annoying or hacky way.

-Good managers and coworkers will appreciate you bringing these up.

-Good managers and coworkers will be interested in you taking steps to fix these things or at least be able to talk about why it ended up that way in the first place, what kinds of tradeoffs are being made, or why your proposed solutions might make things harder on other people in the company.

-Small businesses mess up their books all the time.

-It is normal to discover that you have been doing something wrong, especially if you are new to the job, the field, or the workforce in general.

-Good managers and coworkers expect things to take longer than ideal and it’s more important to give honest updates on your progress and honest estimates of how long something will take you.

-it will take time to learn how to reliably estimate how long things will take you.

-Good managers and coworkers will make it clear when your performance or output needs to improve, specifically, long before you are at risk of being fired.

-Good managers will work with major health issues, family crises, and even things like circadian rhythm as much as they can, and will have reasons that make sense when they can’t (even when it sucks or is incompatible with you remaining in that position)

-working well in any given work environment is a skill and will take time to develop, and good managers will account for this when they assess your performance.

-you will eventually learn which things can be ignored or delayed, and which things must be prioritized.

-good managers will help you figure this out

-in healthy work environments you will know roughly what is expected of you to retain your job

-it is normal to forget “basic” things and have to ask

-knowledge gaps are normal

-some parts of any job will suck. Minimizing the shitty parts is important and a good work environment will be interested in helping you do this.

About getting used to working, in general:

-you *can* eventually learn how to work with your happiness and energy levels. It’s a skill.

-being “bad” at parts of your job or even working in general isn’t a moral failing. It’s a skill.

-taking more time than you expected to figure out how to work, what kind of job you can thrive in or at least tolerate, and how to perform *well* is not a moral failing. It’s a skill.

-taking longer than your age peers to figure out all of the above is not a moral failing. It’s a skill.

-rest and recreation aren’t luxuries. ambition/burnout cycles will put more wear and tear on you than you think and fuck with your ability to evaluate how much you can tolerate your work environment.

-everything will be harder if you are chronically sleep-deprived.

-you aren’t doing anything wrong by leaving a work environment that “needs” you, even if you feel guilty for leaving. Your employer will prioritize the needs of the company, and you should prioritize yourself. The trick is finding a balance you can both accept.

-not loving your job is not a moral failing.

-noticing things that people really appreciate or rely on is useful, even when the thing feels “trivial” or “easy.” It’s evidence of the specific value you provide. You can use positive feedback to figure out what to talk about when negotiating for a raise, and when interviewing for new positions.

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#tag rambles #adventures in University Land #I’ve been doing some research and realised a couple of days ago that #it’s totally plausible that I could have an accounting internship this time next year #(it would only take a couple of fairly small tweaks to my plans over the next year to get into a position) #(where there would be actual internships that I could actually apply for and have a decent chance of getting in) #so it’s good to see some advice from a more experienced accountant #(I suppose a nice thing about a summer internship is that) #(if you find yourself struggling to handle [9 – 5 Mon – Fri and probably an hour+ each way commuting†] long-term) #(*this* time you only have to withstand it for like three months) #(and then afterward you can regroup and plan workarounds‚ coping mechanisms‚ limits‚ etc for next time) #†no driving‚ though