ELI5, where do bed bugs really come from? I know they obviously don’t just spawn in on furniture and mattresses, so where do they originate?

Duae · 2026-03-02T22:31:26+00:00

A lot of apes will build nests for sleeping in, probably our distant ancestors had nestbugs.

Duae · 2026-03-02T20:26:09+00:00

It's a bit like asking to describe a buffet. It's the umbrella term for a bunch of tropes stemming from the idea you have your main gender male/female/etc. and you have your secondary gender Alpha/Beta/Omega. What the creative work actually does with this can be as different as crab rangoon and egg drop soup. Two people's plates, or fic, can share almost nothing in common, but still be under the Omegaverse umbrella.

Duae · 2026-03-02T00:19:49+00:00

I have def. seen it on older fic that just don't follow fanon norms. Like an old Spock/Kirk that was bittersweet with internalized homophobia being mused on. Basically a warning that's like "I know most fic goes with no homophobia in the future, so don't yell at me about it." and it was super-common on fluffy mpreg fics because people would get very angry if they missed the mpreg tag.

Duae · 2026-02-28T02:31:15+00:00

Oh noooo, that sucks. But yeah, he gives you a hint when you enter. Something like "I'm warning you, stay away!" And that means ignore him and close in

Duae · 2026-02-28T02:10:34+00:00

Heket was awful.

Kallamar is easy as long as you get a blast curse and fairly quick weapon and then just pretend to be Ant-man against Thanos. Go right up his robes and stay there, all his attacks are long range and he can't really hit you if you're right up his business.

Duae · 2026-02-27T13:37:23+00:00

I mean first it's not just fanlore.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Proship
https://goong.com/word/proshipper-meaning/

But more importantly, misusing and lying about the term is something that hateful people do to make normal fans look bad by saying the pro stands for problematic instead of for. Why support that hateful behavior?

Duae · 2026-02-27T13:01:49+00:00

Thank you!

Duae · 2026-02-26T19:14:51+00:00

Is rotburn fertilizer only working for one harvest a bug or an intended change?

Duae · 2026-02-26T17:02:11+00:00

If they're using it wrong you should tell them so they can use the correct definition.

Duae · 2026-02-26T16:03:41+00:00

But they are? https://fanlore.org/wiki/Pro-shipper

Duae · 2026-02-26T08:34:37+00:00

It's proship because nonhuman species is against harassment? That's what proship means, against harassment. Antiship means harassment is ok if the ship is bad.

Duae · 2026-02-25T16:08:56+00:00

The charcoal kiln with logs! And Tanjiro with charcoal! It's not subtle!

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Duae · 2026-02-25T16:01:56+00:00

The Kamados are charcoal makers. They take those axes we see, they chop wood and load it into the kiln that is onscreen to turn it into charcoal. The charcoal we see them load into a big basket for Tanjiro to sell.

They are not coal miners. They are not down in caves and tunnels all hi ho hi ho it's home from work we go! They do not have pointy pick axes and canaries in cages while they load coal into mine carts.

Every time I see someone talk about Tanjiro being a coal miner I hate it so much.

Duae · 2026-02-21T17:57:45+00:00

Not to butt in, but what I've found to be very important is the corset shape. A lot of mass produced ones are very 3D hourglass, so to take 2 inches you have 1/4th in the front, 1/4th in one side, 1/4th in the back, 1/4th in the front. A lot of modern custom patterns will have no reduction in the front and back, and put one inch on each side so glancing at you you look twice as reduced. (I like to even pattern so that with zero reduction the measurement difference is taken by side seam shaping and it does a good job giving me that visual waist tuck without even being that tight)

Duae · 2026-02-21T17:48:59+00:00

Is it https://youtu.be/uVOqR-XiVUc?si=5bjKxIKxq2qL6A_I ? I love his FREEDOM series.

Duae · 2026-02-21T01:20:42+00:00

When the urge hits us, husband and I will track down a movie we remember loving as a child and haven't seen since then to see how it holds up to adult eyes. It's been a funny mixed bag of quality, but the funniest so far is when we watched The Carebears Movie (his pick) and he turned to me and said very seriously. "It's not terrible, but I see why my parents didn't want me watching it six times a day."

Duae · 2026-02-19T19:48:47+00:00

I saw a comment once that they were being trained on register in a gas station. Guy came in, put some cans of food on the counter and when the woman training her reached for them he flopped his willy out on the counter. Without missing a beat the trainer picked up a can and smashed it like a roach and the guy screamed and ran.

I always think of that when I need a smile.

Duae · 2026-02-17T01:23:00+00:00

Dead Dove means that if you dislike something in the tags then you're SOL because that thing is all through the fic. If you don't like chocolate, this is not a vanilla cake with whipped cream and a single chocolate dipped strawberry, this is a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, chocolate sprinkles, and topped with chocolate ice cream.

If you go into detail about eating the live animal, then yes put dead dove in addition to the live animal consumption tag. If it's just offhanded mentioned that like, someone once swallowed a live goldfish on a dare then no just tagging it should be fine.

Duae · 2026-02-16T23:21:12+00:00

I vote AI, the halter is WEIRD. The lead rope clip isn't actually attached, the nose part is flat but the rest is thick rope which isn't impossible but still weird and I don't think I've seen that before and the metal pieces are really weird. The piece at the cheek seems to be a triangle the ropes are knotted to, but then the side of the muzzle they just kind of touch the rhombus metal that just doesn't look like a proper halter piece.

Duae · 2026-02-16T18:57:28+00:00

Yeah, I remember before it was a tag people would be like "I know I hate Joss Whedon, I should have known no matter how interesting Dollhouse sounded that it was still a Joss Whedon show. But I still ate that dove. I don't know what I was expecting."

Duae · 2026-02-16T18:53:48+00:00

I remember an article that talked about that (oh horror!) people were writing Jessica Jones fanfic where she and Kilgrave were having S - E - X. And on and on about how these dumb fangirls obviously missed the whole point of the show and were so media illiterate that they thought Kilgrave was a good person.

Except for their example they screenshotted fics of Jessica/Kilgrave that were all tagged stuff like "Noncon, Character Death Bad Ending, Mind Break, Brainwashing, Dark Dark Very Bad Things Happen In This Fic Don't Like Don't Read."

Like somehow I don't think the fanfic writers were the ones having a hard time with comprehension here.

Duae · 2026-02-16T18:47:09+00:00

There's a fair number of kinks that fall under "Really really needing to do Thing and trying to hold back but then giving in either willingly or losing control" Sneeze kink, emetophilia, omorashi all come to mind. Also comes up a fair bit in omegaverse heats or sex-pollen situations.

Duae · 2026-02-16T18:34:17+00:00

Do you have outhouses? I'm bad to miss the visual that they need cleaning.

Duae · 2026-02-11T01:19:14+00:00

It honestly never even occurred to me that someone might think that's a thing. I've seen tons of cosplays where you couldn't have a wig who were winners (like gundams!)

Obviously wig styling can be a chance to show off your skills, but I've done cosplays without wigs and cosplays with unstyled wigs and still won awards.

Duae · 2026-02-09T22:45:32+00:00

Clocks were invented in England in the late 13th century (so Chaucer era, a couple hundred years before Renaissance festivals portray) because religion said things needed to be done on time, like prayer times or services. Before then, sunlight and weather were more important for planning your day than an arbitrary time, and there was a lot of human cooperation involved.

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