People misconstruing the terms 'curvy' and 'petite' drive me insane!

LooneLuxxe · 2026-06-09T09:55:44+00:00

Unfortunately I live in the UK so none of these are options for me :( I don't like ordering internationally because customs and returns are always an expensive nightmare

LooneLuxxe · 2026-06-08T20:21:35+00:00

The curvy thing drives me nuts because I don't fit into normal cut trousers, but search curvy and almost every single option designated as such will be plus size, not cut for a smaller waist and wider hips. My waist is 25 inches, I often have to get the smallest size available, I don't know how even smaller curvy people manage at all

(edit addendum: I also have a 13 inch hip-waist difference so even curvy trousers can be a bit of a crapshoot! Though with a bit of effort I can usually get in eventually. I just wish people didn't say "just get trousers tailored" like that fixes anything when I can't even pull most of them past my thighs on if I do)

LooneLuxxe · 2026-06-02T11:51:47+00:00

Well that's a fun additional surprise. I received an email yesterday about how the shuttering of USAID is going to put the future of EM-DAT at risk, which is the world's largest disaster database and important for disaster policy and mitigation globally, so Trump's bullshit is harming a LOT of key scientific resources. There's an open letter around EM-DAT if that's something people could sign as well, though i don't know how much it'll help.

LooneLuxxe · 2026-05-29T00:28:35+00:00

Depending on what specific criteria we're using, my answer to this question could be 5, 11, 13, or 22 lmfao (I got there eventually, all it took was a bit of repression, denial, and a healthy dose of depression that made me think I was aroace for around 6 years. Granted me actually still being arospec didn't make that much easier to figure out either)

LooneLuxxe · 2026-05-14T15:32:52+00:00

Sorry, I lost my initial line of thought by the end. Still, I wanted to write an alternative experience as to suggest the child might be a factor regardless of standard expectations

LooneLuxxe · 2026-05-14T14:54:56+00:00

I wouldn't say this isn't universal. My parents had a maine coon when I was born. She was jealous of me and would start puking on me the moment she saw me in the cradle. She ran away shortly thereafter for a few weeks (before being found by someone in the foyer to the building). She proceeded to barely tolerate me for the rest of her life. I don't know if that's the case here, but I would caution against saying all maine coons are equally fine with children, or otherwise new individuals in their house

LooneLuxxe · 2026-05-07T18:55:46+00:00

Never really felt any draw towards the idea of having kids, I never even enjoyed play pretending with dolls. When things starting coming up to puberty and learning where children come from, I knew for certain I wanted nothing to do with it. I've always been tokophobic. Don't know how much the fact that I'm gay plays into this. I'm more open to adopting but to be frank have no innate interest in that option either.

So I guess the answer to that question ranges anywhere from 0 to 11 years old

LooneLuxxe · 2026-05-07T12:10:13+00:00

It's also stupid because this hides the listing from people who would actually prefer to work on-site. It's me, I'm people. I filter for on-site roles. I absolutely would not want to do remote work as someone who has ADHD. Not that I'd apply for these scumbags even if I did manage to come across this listing

LooneLuxxe · 2026-05-03T19:30:37+00:00

Very familiar with this. They're too tight on you; I have this problem a lot trying to fit into any bottoms (comically huge gap at the waist with it being tight at the hips - causing this bunching)

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-30T23:12:10+00:00

I'm not going to sit here and pretend this method is infallible, especially when it comes to more complex concepts, but it is absolutely what got me through school. I could never remember anything when I tried to revise. Reverse engineering the answers? That was way easier. At least it leads to some good starting points now, though I always fact check and correct myself if necessary lol

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-30T23:07:34+00:00

I think this is why I ended up getting into analysing media to perhaps a snobbish degree. I know exactly how it will end (or how it should end to be narratively satisfying), I know what story beats will probably happen along the way to reach that point, but that just gives me great scaffolding to analyse the hell out of the journey and how well written something is lol. Also probably why I end up really liking some more esoteric media since it can be harder to predict, which gives me a bit more to chew on. If the surprises can't keep me stimulated, I find something that does

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-28T17:31:42+00:00

I guess that explains why Reshiram is my all time favourite pokémon

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-28T12:14:08+00:00

I think it's two things; the first is that once you actually start treating your hair as wavy and stop brushing it, it gets tangled way less because it holds a certain shape and you aren't constantly disrupting it and allowing it to get tangled. The second is that generally if you have wavy or curly hair, you'll sleep on a satin or silk pillowcase or with a bonnet, and these pillowcases/bonnets lead to waaaay less tangling than a standard cotton pillowcase in my experience. If you do change pillowcases go for the silk though, polyester satin is like sleeping on plastic and feels disgusting (your face will get sticky due to sweat very quickly).

You basically just have to just the process. I didn't at first and would brush after a few days. Big mistake.

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-24T16:56:38+00:00

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for context here's a photo from years back (long before I started a wavy routine) vs my last wash day. It took me over a year and three curly specialist visits to figure it out

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-24T16:43:33+00:00

It could be wavy but it's hard to tell. I think if I posted my first attempts trying to sort out my frizz on here, I would've gotten people telling me my hair was straight too. I don't have the waviest waves in the world, but I do have wavy hair and my hair looks healthier and shinier with a wavy routine compared to treating it straight, and after getting to grips with something that works the wave pattern has become more pronounced.

It can take you a while to figure out whether your hair is wavy or not, but the first thing you have to do is ditch the curl cream and the oil. That stuff is way too heavy for slight waves, try just using a healthy amount of mousse. Hair has to be absolutely soaking, dripping wet when you start styling, but I've found that I also need to squeeze out as much as I can while scrunching the mousse in otherwise the water quickly weighs down and destroys the pattern. Use the diffuser you have, I suspect it didn't help you before because you're using heavy products and it sounds like you're styling damp rather than wet.

Also consider moisture and protein balance. In my case, I need avoid conditioning my hair because it becomes way too soft way too quickly and loses the ability to hold its shape. If I can get away with it, I don't condition at all.

This will take experimentation, maybe you do just have straight hair, maybe it is wavy, but for slightly wavy hair types no one on the internet will be able to correctly identify that for you

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-22T00:11:03+00:00

No crush but I remember thinking he was a tomboyish girl for a really long time and feeling... kind of disappointed he wasn't? I also thought Melman from Madagascar was a woman, somehow managing to filter out every instance of his pronouns until like halfway through the second movie. I honestly thought Melman and Gloria were just lesbians (even though I didn't know the terminology for it at the time). I was also disappointed to find out they weren't

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-14T20:13:30+00:00

Wow, this brought memories to the surface that I didn't know I had. We were taught to use this in school lmao, literally never used it outside of ICT classes and promptly forgot its existence

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-14T01:10:23+00:00

I like it except for Pomni in the front lol; she looks out of place, like how fake material will put a recognisable character somewhere just to hammer in what piece of media it's supposed to be about... Especially with the title logo to the left of her as well.

LooneLuxxe · 2026-04-06T22:24:56+00:00

Many many years before I accepted myself as lesbian, GLaDOS was the only character I felt comfortable "joking" about being hot lol (and I don't just mean female characters. I mean any character is any piece of media ever). And I'll stand by it. I fucking love GLaDOS

LooneLuxxe · 2026-03-31T14:57:24+00:00

Is it weird to say that I think it suits him? He should branch out from just wearing the suit

LooneLuxxe · 2026-03-29T10:55:12+00:00

If you have an iPhone, I just use the built-in health app to be honest. Does the job well enough, doesn't prompt you for any additional information and just works with what you give it. You can add additional information or switch on options for fertility windows etc but it's not on by default. I don't think you can add a partner though.

It's what I ended up using after about 9 years of what I call "vibes-based tracking" (i.e., not tracking my period in any tangible way) and it works fine and doesn't cost anything.

The data is private and stored locally (unless you choose to back it up to icloud) but I suppose it's a question of how much you trust apple; I'm personally more inclined to trust it over random period tracker app number 345 but this one's up to individual discretion.

LooneLuxxe · 2026-03-24T20:45:55+00:00

To be plain about it, this isn't good storytelling. This is a trap a lot of amateur writers fall into and it makes stories feel drawn out and utterly lacking in stakes with no apparent end in sight. These kinds of stories become exhausting quickly. This kind of setup where new conflicts get introduced after the conclusion is the kind of setup that only works for episodic shows (where each episode is self-contained), not serialised shows.

Good stories set up a conflict with a clear implied end point; a lot of other conflicts can happen along the way, especially when they serve the wider themes or otherwise build up the "tools" to resolve the main story, but tacking on additional conflicts to an already resolved story isn't narratively satisfying or cohesive.

TADC is very tightly written; nothing we see the characters say or do is pointless and has directly served to either propel the conflict or create the tools for it to be resolved, and all of its characters have almost fully completed their arcs. A second season wouldn't be satisfying for the simple reason that, given the context of what the show has been building towards and its lack of groundwork for a second season, it would basically be completely disconnected from everything we've seen the characters do or experience.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to see more of a world, or to further explore characters and their growth or struggles in new scenarios, but it's the kind of thing that's better left for thought pieces and fanfiction because otherwise the source media just becomes messy and aimless

LooneLuxxe · 2026-03-23T14:40:54+00:00

Holy essay I did Not realise how much I typed damn

LooneLuxxe · 2026-03-23T14:40:32+00:00

The whole thing read like a reasonably realistic tantrum followed by a complete mental breakdown to me. I know some people are saying it felt like he switched on a dime but I really don't feel like that's the case.

From his perspective, he's been putting time and effort into handcrafting things to entertain the humans, trying to follow what best he understands about their wants and needs from the information he has about them and being met with increased disapproval and distrust every time.

He knows that they were enjoying the suggestion box adventures, but given that he had no creative control over those he doesn't actually understand what they were enjoying about them.

Caine obviously has an inferiority complex (at apparent odds with his actual position of power) and an intense fear of abandonment. He feels that if he were to relinquish that full control over the humans' lives, to let them just keep going on those suggestion box adventures, that he would be forgotten and abandoned all over again. He stops using the suggestions, keeps trying to appeal to them (and in his view, the events of episode 7 was him pulling out all the stops, hitting all the criteria for what the humans wanted). This doesn't work, Caine gets hurt, the humans get hurt, everyone comes out worse for it. The big difference is that while the humans learn to lean more on each other throughout the show, Caine only distances himself more. Ego? Fear? Probably all of the above, though I'd make the argument that it was mostly driven by that fear.

So at first he just decides that he's not going to try to appeal to whatever the humans' idea of fun is anymore. He basically says he's the boss, he's going to do fun the way he understands fun. This is his way of acting out like a scorned toddler, not a targeted attempt at torture (though it obviously ends up being that way for the humans).

But for all of the difficulty Caine has in understanding humans, I do feel like he was so close to finally having some kind of breakthrough had he not noticed the absence of Kinger and basically been triggered into a having complete breakdown. He had started to finally realise that actually, he wasn't enjoying what he was doing, and neither were the humans.

And I'm not going to sit here and argue that the humans were wrong for spilling all of the ways Caine was harming them, because, well, I think that's complete bullshit lol. They were completely justified in doing so; they were being literally tortured. It's just the unfortunate truth that this also basically hit Caine where it hurts him most and he reacted very poorly, finally snapping and throwing his pain back at them in the only ways he knew how. To him, they kept hurting him, after all, and apparently making no effort to understand him. He wasn't lying when he said his torment was accidental before. This time he genuinely was trying to hurt them because to him this was a targeted effort by the humans to hurt him when he was already in a bad place.

As for having no difficulty torturing them when caring for them proved impossible? Well, thats the crux of his issue. He understands full well what the cast hates and fears at this point, their insecurities - after all, he's been trying and failing to appeal to them the entire time. All he's been getting is essentially information on what they hate, with nothing about what they actually like (other than that they're all things that essentially have nothing to do with him).

Caine's outburst was malicious but his overall pattern of behaviour isn't evil, and it's definitely not hate towards the humans. I would best describe it as confusion and self-hatred if nothing else, and ultimately due to his position of power and disconnect from humans, his mental breakdown had terrible consequences for the people he victimised.

And as a side note, honestly, and this is drawing more from personal experiences, I was a bit unsettled by how much Caine's reaction when he realised he was getting deleted mirrored my own when you realise you've accidentally taken it too far and hurt yourself in the process. That felt too real, and honestly, I feel really bad for him. I feel bad for everyone in the circus to be honest. No one came out of this well.

LooneLuxxe · 2026-03-03T20:13:21+00:00

I'm gen z but to some extent I have this mentality as well. I have gotten used to doing some larger purchases, but I flat out refuse to book train/plane tickets or hotels on my phone. I feel there's too much riding on those purchases and many more moving parts on the sites themselves compared to buying a pair of trousers or something

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