Had a supermorbidly obese mania pt where (imo) a big part of the problem was poor sleep at night. They would sleep sitting straight up against the wall and when they would finally nod off, their head would fall to the side and you'd immediately hear them start choking on their own throat until they jerked partially awake enough to pick their head back up. That mania was crazy hard to break because they were too manic to tolerate the CPAP but also too sleep deprived to break out of the mania.

100% medically cleared and ambulatory enough for psych but that snore was just aaaawful to listen to. I used to mention it every single time I handed off in the morning and they'd be like "we know!" and I'd be like, no. no you don't know. You haven't just sat and listened to it for an hour straight. It just keeps going like that. Continuously. There is 0 REM happening. ZERO.

we're talking about Ao3 here

The other issue is that a big part of ao3 most people don't realize is there is the volunteer tag wranglers. Some of that might be able to be done by an llm that can catch basic misspellings and common ship naming conventions but sometimes ship names refer to really obscure references that can't be reliably sorted that way.

I applied to squidgeworld personally. I'm super bummed because I JUST finished my latest two chapters of my slow burn tentacle porn plus the actual porn part for later down the line because it needs a little more burn to fully satisfy.

Well it's mostly an academic religious term and for a lot of people those two things don't go together for one reason or another. It's sad because they both have a lot of benefits.

And yes on the tarot cards. I actually used them in a therapy session recently because I haven't done it in a while and I feel like that's pretty symbolic of my current life state. It gave my therapist a lot to work with because she does EMDR and I basically started babbling about which people in my life resembled the court cards and events in my life that were similar to the pips and so on and so forth and her EMDR direction / redirection technique helped go in the right directions more consistently.

And no it's not rude, I love TIL moments.

My honest recommendation is that you calculate your chart, then pick one thing in there that resonates with who you actually are, then emphasize that when the conversation comes up. The charts are long and messy with lots of different meanings mixed in for a reason. Even just between the sun, moon, and ascendant signs you should be able to find one of the three that describes you. If not you can look into the planet / house alignments or even just have the chart made sidereally.

It's a small amount of information to memorize, then you can say,"oh my sun sign is Aires but honestly it's my Libra ascendant that matters most of the time. I'm just always looking to make the world more equal." It'll both satisfy the person you're communicating with while also providing them with a way to conceptualize your personality within their worldview (which is basically the entire point of dating, or even just vetting sexual partners).

For the uninitiated: You need your birth time to calculate your full astrological chart. There's definitely a looot of crazy in the western esoteric mystery tradition (loose term for the religion-lite surrounding tarot, astrology, tea leaf reading, palmistry, etc). I should know, lol.

I spent about two years learning to interpret tarot cards as a regular introspective practice. Whenever you learn one thing though, you wind up learning about the others since they all use the same spiritual model (a lot of Christian Kabbalah influence + the four element alchemy of the time, but highly syncretic with especially greco-roman mythology but also a touch of Babylonian, Zoroastrian, and new age Buddhism, and some minor Celtic or Norse influence, although the specific mix varies highly from person to person).

So anyway I also wound up learning about, history, multiple religions, and symbolism of various glyphs, plants and animals, gemstones, etc. It was fascinating and has the benefit of deterring pretentious men (although that's less important now that I've picked one).

You're not a bad person but you either need to masturbate a lot more or a lot less.

Shitty childhood. On the upside I learned a lot of useful skills, namely how to tell when someone's getting ready to hit someone. Comes in handy in my line of work. There's been plenty of times where the patient starts screaming and my coworkers are like "oh no what do we do!?" And I'm like "wait 30 more minutes for the haldol I gave them 30 minutes ago to hit. They can holler until then if they need to." Sometimes I just look at the way someone's pacing and how hard and fast their steps are and my brain just goes "hell naw" and usually if I catch it then the person still has enough sense to take a pill for it.

might be a cheeky way to say gender neutral but

My husband messaged me on OKC with something along the lines of,"hey this is probably just gonna sound crazy but were we stuck in the psych hospital together about a year ago?"

Yes. Yes we were. And I was a little bummed I hadn't gotten his number. That was five years ago and we just celebrated our first wedding anniversary. Fucker is still batshit crazy, but so am I.

Apple cider vinegar does the same (acid closes the cuticle and will seal in any oil you apply first, then make the hair look smoother / shiner) but the rinsed-out scent is much less offensive and even works well with some of the earthier perfumes like patchouli.

By that logic most media consumption is unethical. Almost anything out of a major studio is made with the abuse of, underpayment of, and often even outright theft from small artists. I think a much better solution than not using them is to take all the money they made from it and redistribute it as universal basic income, then make the models 100% free to use. Cat's outta the bag, at this point I just wanna see the little guy get paid.