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heyo, im mouse

i don’t have a blog theme or subject because the brainrot is real and i cannot separate it out. i tried, and you can find the attempts scattered around under various other anony-mouse-[word] blog names

my tags are both comments and also for blacklisting. i’ll tag for spoilers within a day or so of something new coming out unless someone asks me to keep tagging it for longer.

blacklist tags:
#us politics, #food. (previously #food cw), #abuse cw, #rape cw

fandom tags:
regulars: #tma, #batfam, #dc, #marvel, #leverage, #su

minecraft youtube: #mcyt (applies to all), #hermitcraft, #hc9, #trafficblr, #dlsmp, #empires smp, #dsmp

personal tags:
#op, #mouse’s life, #mouse’s writing, #mouse’s soapbox, #mouse’s musings

let me know if I miss any tags or if you need me to add a new blacklist tag!

fiend-shaped:

The crew is gonna be so fuckin hot in season 2

faggy–butch:

aloeverahhh:

faggy–butch:

fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it’ll say “eating a lot of food causes diabetes” and you’re like oh dang what? I thought we didn’t know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says “we still don’t know what causes diabetes” bruh they’re just making shit up to give people eating disorders

IM SORRY WE DONT KNOW WHAT CAUSES DIABETES. EXCUSE ME I WAS TOLD YOU GET DIABETES IF YOU EAT A LOT OF SUGAR. WHAT

nah we don’t. diabetes is autoimmune disease. Sugar builds up because your body becomes resistant to insulin and or doesn’t make enough of it, insulin converts the glucose into fuel for the cells and everything, but we don’t know why. basically. idk the specifics but thats at least what I know about type 2. It’s not caused by eating too much sugar. that unfortunately is a fatphobic myth

as much as i love a good fight against fatphobia and ableism as the next bitch, that does not give yall license to just say whatever you want. your explanation is strongly conflating types one and two

there are two kinds of diabetes and YES one of them can be caused by what and how you eat.

Type 1 diabetes, formerly known as ‘juvenile onset diabetes’ is the autoimmune disease. We don’t know what causes it to happen, but what does happen is your body’s immune system registers the beta cells in your pancreas (responsible for making your natural insulin to break down sugar) as a foreign entity and kills them on sight. since the immune system is the problem, you can’t introduce new beta cells, so you need external insulin for your body to process any carbs.

Type 2 diabetes is the one that op has heard about. It is obviously more complex than fat = diabetes that fatphobic rhetoric would have you believe, but it can be caused by diet, basically what happens is your body intakes more sugar than it can process and has to generate more insulin. But with lots of chemicals, your body can develop a tolerance to it’s own insulin, greatly reducing its effectiveness. Technically, anything that requires your body to process large amounts of carbs can cause type 2, so while most people would be at risk through large amounts of daily carbs like breads, fruits, or sweets, highly fit athletes who consume massive amounts of carbs to keep up with their caloric needs can develop it as well.

there is no known cure for type 1 diabetes. type 2 has a chance, with careful dietary shifts, to reduce their natural insulin tolerance, hence ‘diabetes diets’. however, type 1 diabetics don’t have that option (because its autoimmune) and so can eat sugar without potentially building further tolerance, which is why telling an adult type 1 diabetic what they can and cant eat is incredibly rude, because they almost certainly know better what they can have and how much insulin theyre willing to spend on it.

but to be clear: type 1 and type 2 diabetes are very different and you can get type 2 from eating a lot of sugar.

sources: diabetesresearch. org, hopkinsdiabetesinfo. org, personal experience

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chthonic-pain:

chthonic-pain:

nobody warns you this but addiction happens without you noticing and one of the first things that it attacks is your ability to care. if you find yourself using recreational drugs every day, stop and take one day a week sober. if you struggle with this or if you don’t see the point of the exercise, you are likely already addicted and you need help.

nobody ever taught me the warning signs for drug addiction, only that “it costs lots of money and destroys your life!!!1” which is not helpful if you can’t recognize a developing addiction in yourself.

so here’s some things to watch out for with recreational drug use:

• planning your day around drugs e.g “i’ll give myself an extra half hour before heading out so i can get high first”
• rapidly switching emotions around drugs. you love them but you hate that you love them so much. you hate the way you feel on them but you hate being sober. feeling guilty after using even when you didn’t give a crap beforehand.
• caring less about spending money. if you are budgeting for drugs like they are food, you are likely prioritizing them more than is healthy.
• getting high to do household chores and other unpleasant things because it would suck less and be more bearable on drugs
• feeling anxious or restless while sober, not knowing what to do with oneself, feeling lost or ungrounded.
• thinking about doing drugs constantly even while sober. maybe it’s the first thing you think of when you wake up. maybe when you’re bored or otherwise have free time, drugs are one of the first things you can think of to occupy yourself with.
• going to work or school while under the influence, especially if it happens regularly and if you’re seeing your performance suffer as a result.
• the idea of taking a ‘tolerance break’ sounds good to you until it’s actually break time, at which point you can come up with 20 very reasonable sounding points to explain why it wouldn’t benefit you actually and you should just keep doing drugs regardless.
• even if you succeed at quitting the drug, you keep your dealer’s number on your phone “just in case”
• you pretend to be sober when you aren’t. you worry about other people noticing how much time you spend high. you make efforts to hide your drug use or minimize how much other people think you’re using. you’re scared of other people’s judgement if they were to find out.
• you have mood swings laced with self-hatred, regret, financial worries, and guilt. these mood swings are then very quickly wiped away by feelings of “but it doesn’t matter, i can do what i want, and clearly i’m doing just fine while using drugs frequently”. news flash, if you are rapidly switching between feeling numb-ok and hating yourself more than anything because of your drug use, you are mentally ill.

yes this applies to weed. weed is a drug and you can get addicted to it like any other substance. addiction is not the same as physical dependence; it is psychological and it can happen to anyone. you are not immune to addiction.

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anony-mouse-writer:

every iteration of the life series tangles the web of relationships in the funniest ways possible

still true

do you think scar ever really got over not being able to secure an alliance in last life?

like every season since then, he’s been kinda gun shy about them, and even when he finally found one he felt he could (mostly) trust in the clockers, an old one (that he can never seem to properly intuit as A Danger To Him Personally) came around to literally stab him in the back.

sarioh:

sarioh:

YOOOO WHAT 54 MINUTE ETHOSLAB DECKED OUT RUN?? HES CRACKED HES INSANE HES Oh wait hold on.

Oh okay.

22 minute cringe compilation (live audience commentary)

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silverskye13:

So the thing about this server, right, is that it’s a– a– it’s– it’s attritional. Contritional? No, it’s– like attrition. Man that doesn’t sound like a word.

Anyway so attrition – game of attrition. It wears you down. It wears everyone down. But it’s invisible. There’s the survival aspect, right? Gotta get food gotta get resources gotta– you know, build, alliances, things. Because it’s easier in a group, right? Gotta have more to wear down so you don’t break so much, but, also it’s kind of worse with a lot of people as well.

Like, attrition. It’s wearing down slowly. It’s– you’re always losing things on this server. I mean that’s Life. Life Series. And Secret Life is no different. But this time, right, this time, there’s no regen, so it’s harder. The game of attrition is – every time the meter goes down, it really sinks in that attrition is a game you can lose. It’s not just opening your inventory and realizing you’ve got no food anymore, or breaking your iron pick and realizing you’re back to wood tools just to make stone just to make iron again. Which, those things hurt but they don’t – like they stack up but they don’t hit hardest. It’s the regen. It’s the – watching your heart’s tick away and wondering where they all went. It’s being scared of the nickel-and-diming on slightly too far falls and twisted ankles. Getting hurt by monsters sucks but on some level you can blame other things on it. It’s not your fault you didn’t see, not your fault it aggroed on you and not the rest of the group not your fault– well, you could be better but who could blame you? No one. Mistakes happen, the world is hostile, we only have each other.

But that’s the problem, right? We only have each other – but it’s a game of attrition. The group wears down. Not enough people and it still feels like you’re on your own, not quick enough and you’re alone because no one else is, not charismatic enough not not contributing enough to the group to justify the group sticking together its– it’s people. It’s a game of attrition it’s– it’s secrets, right? Because we’re a group but I can’t tell you what I’m doing and you can’t ask. You wouldn’t ask, because that’s not what friends do they don’t kneecap each other out of curiosity and anything the secret keeper gives me might help you because we’re together now, for better or worse. Till second death do we part.

It’s a game of attrition and I can’t trust you, can I?

You’re keeping secrets – or you’re not. I can’t tell, wouldn’t tell, because it could hurt us. Don’t look too far into it don’t think about it keep it surface level but I can’t trust a reflection pool I can’t see how deep it goes. Will you drag me under? How much of us is written on paper and how much of it is on the surface I can’t tell.

Got a secret can you keep it? I wish you wouldn’t, but you have to. And I have to keep mine.

It’s a game of attrition, it’s building and breaking but we’re missing the building blocks. We can’t share this. It’s a problem that doesn’t go away it’s hearts we can’t regen it’s a little nicer when we press the button and relinquish our task but I trusted you. You said you needed my help what you needed was to help yourself. We shared a moment but that moment wouldn’t have happened if some whispered voice hadn’t told you to do it. What are we, really?

It’s a game of attrition. It’s hearts ticking down. It’s secrets we can’t share it’s people we can’t really trust it’s doing things and not knowing why it’s no meaningful way to heal this it’s temporary hearts and cheap giving it’s deals made quickly and panicked with no real bond formed it’s a game of attrition.

And it’s wearing us down.

Can you keep a secret?

Right…

I shouldn’t ask.

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theminecraftbee:

theminecraftbee:

the other funniest dynamic, btw, is “cleo and tango have decided to be enemies for some reason, and skizz has thrown his whole pussy into also being enemies with cleo as a result”. it’s possibly the stupidest rivalry i’ve ever seen and i adore it. etho really was right in episode one: cleo makes the most interesting relationships with people,

#it’s so funny#they all sound so so happy about being sworn enemies too#it’s very cute?#secret life spoilers (via @mossy-mariel)

NO YEAH THIS IS THE BEST PART. one of them enters a conversation with cleo and the tone suddenly changes from “normal conversation” to “AHA, MY SWORN ENEMY. WHAT FOOLISH THING ARE YOU DOING FOR ME TO MOCK TODAY” and it’s hysterical. i love it i want them to keep doing it all season long it’s so funny.

shatterpath:

sazandorable:

mathiasandthefinntrolls:

Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol 

a short selection of concepts and phrases that used to be commonplace in fandom and we’d really benefit from making that a thing again:

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

(definitions lifted more or less wholesale from fanlore’s relevant pages)

bring the healthy fun back to fandom!

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fantasysclerosis:

Writing Advice: How to Create Conflict when Your Characters are Competent.

Featuring Leverage, the ultimate in Competency Porn.

• Make them so good it gets them in trouble. So you’ve got a hacker and he’s the best, definitively. Okay, well, one of his fake IDs just got called for jury duty. You pretended to be a psychic so well, someone kidnapped you to talk to a dead crime lord.
• Make them targets. You’re so good, enemies you didn’t even know about are trying to kill you just so they won’t have to take you on in your element. You’re being blackmailed into doing a thing because you’re the only one that can.
• Limit the scope of competency. Sure, you’re competent as a fighter, but your hacker is in jail and now you have to do his job and you are not competent in that. Yeah, you can climb a building, but do you know what you need to do to not end up in a crevasse while climbing a mountain?
• Raise the stakes. Can you handle extracting a orphan being used by a washed up actress to fund her extravagant lifestyle? Yes. But can you handle extracting 30 orphans being used by the Slovenian mob to fund gunrunning? Maybe all you wanted was to get enough money to buy back a house, but instead you have to ruin the company so that all houses they illegally obtained are returned to their rightful owners.
• Make others competent, too. Your characters are the best, but are they the best of the best? If you take you enemy down, do you go, too? If you win, does it make them win? Does it get out of hand and make other people start noticing when you’re trying to keep your head down? Do they know every trick in the book and know the next move before you make it?
• Make others painfully incompetent. Your characters are the best, but are they woefully unprepared for people who are not even good? Can your hologram hacker roll with it when the vital information is on a casset tape? Is the old mentor up to date on the recent technology, or is he going to screw you because he assumes the cops are just as corrupt/incompetent as when he was young?
• Have some standards. Specifically, morals that make it impossible for your characters to back out or gets them in trouble for doing things “off-script.” You can’t leave on the train someone just stole for you because you’ve got to go back and stop the bad guys from bombing the IRS (even if we don’t like them). You wish you could just say no to that assassin contract and leave, but someone’s getting assassinated and you have to stop it because you’re a good guy.
• Bring up the past. Do you think that bad guy you brutally scarred a decade ago is going to carry a grudge? Do you have to save your ex-wife from the bad guy, who may also be her boyfriend, and if you suggest that she’ll shut you out and you won’t be able to save her or get paid? It’s Draaamaaaa, babee.

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