Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@twistylittlepassages@weirder.earth i think, passing by, i may be able to tell you why!

Oatmeal A is you loading up carbs with more carbs - oatmeal plus fruit, honey, etc. that punts up your blood sugar and then punts it back down again, leaving you hungry.

Oatmeal B is introducing a fat - butter - so once your body goes through the carbs, it has something more to work on, and your blood sugar doesn't rollercoaster as much.

if you find yourself missing sweet - try packing it full of nuts :D

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz @RobsteinOne but people are instead arguing that the atelier games should play the trope straight - present fanservice that IS fundamentally disposable to lure people in, whereas the taroverse is rife with women who are dressed skimpy-sexy but are definitely not the ineffectual fanservice that is expected.

trust me, i've never played any of these games and only watched some of nier automata/drakengard 3, i am clearly an expert 🧐

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz @RobsteinOne like is yoko taro horny also? well yes.

but story-wise they all are defying a very specific trope, of the fanservice woman who is there to only look pretty. 2b, zero, kaine - they're all there looking pretty, but are also honestly the key and essential movers and shakers in their respective plots, and all of them formidable warriors.

yoko taro packages them as disposable so the audience might write them off - to their peril.

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz @RobsteinOne y'know, just as someone passing by, it's even funnier to me because i think yoko taro - besides being wanting to be stepped on, bless 'im - does something very intentional with the sexy designs that is not what fans are thinking atelier games are doing

2b, kaine, zero - there is an intentional and purposeful juxtaposition there. it's a very intentional subversion at work, when each of them are getting sexy outfits. >

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz i assume the tumblr tag is nonstop mod gore still, and instagram is that but moreso

note: i will stop complaining about the mods when people stop being so fucking awful about turning perfectly nice character models into bargain-bin blowup dolls

guess what

mateus was open for character creation so i have now made

Obligatory Joke Alt

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz aw man if i weren't on crystal i'd totally be making a note in my planner because void ark is Hella Fun

it's def not as scary as it might seem, y'all will have a great time i'm sure!

@em that's just the mmorpg equivalent of this

happy catgirl o'clock! (it's always catgirl o'clock somewhere!)

cw for eye contact

i finally remembered filters so they've got a bit of color too

i don't know what the expression in the third one is but i like it, whatever it's ended up being. that and the awkward pose make it look oddly intimate to me, like janine's whispering some encouragement to you before you both go on stage or something. a thing for only you to hear. it's nice

today it was tension in the shroud, which is an ancient #ffxiv proverb that translates to "quick quick you guys gpose photoshoot!!!!"

i got some good pics but i also got this, which i am going to entitle "Come With Me Into The Woods, It's Fine, I Totally Won't Murder You Like All The Folktales Say"

cw for virtual eye contact

@aradinfinity it's fucking bizarre honestly

i think far too many people do stuff out of a sense that it's what they're supposed to do. you're supposed to have someone you're dating, you're supposed to get married, you're supposed to have kids. the real sad thing is that i think it cheapens the joy of these things, which can all be good and joyful, if people go into them just blindly by rote instead of consciously choosing them

i know it's such a cliche for answers online/in columns about relationship advice to be "dump the motherfucking asshole", but

a) people typically don't come to ask advice for genuinely good situations. it's a bit like diagnosing someone being wheeled into the ER as a bit sick perhaps

b) motherfuckers need to be dumped and i will stop saying DTMFA when they stop needing to be dumped

the bigger red flag to me honestly was husband totally agreeing to spending the money without asking his partner

$1,500 dollars is not an amount of cash to be casually pissed in the wind. that's a pretty significant chunk of change. i ain't saying you have to hold a full meeting with your partner every time you buy a coffee, but when dealing with joint resources, they are *JOINT*, not just one person's

i know you were trying to treat the issue with kid gloves, but "my husband is wanting to go away on a bachelor party in mexico and spend 1500 dollars to do so 3 months after i give birth" is something that deserves a harder line, especially if husband's argument is "but i wanna tho" to "honey i'm going to need you here to help me and we'll have drained our meager savings by then too"

fairly certain that if you had checked me with a surface temp thermometer this morning my bad shoulder would be a good 10 degrees higher than my good one, if not more so

bury me in icepacks and menthol spray please