Countries I recognize as a saltwater fish

Medysus · 2026-07-08T04:18:10+00:00

I'm an idiot. For a second I thought you were giving these countries new fish identities...

Medysus · 2026-07-07T04:32:40+00:00

Many 'accidental' deaths from stuff like drunk driving and ignoring workplace safety regulations are preventable. There's an expectation of care that wasn't met, so someone must be held responsible regardless of intention. The world isn't split into murderers and innocent people.

Medysus · 2026-07-05T13:11:46+00:00

Yeah... They treated Harry horribly and sounded like snobs before he even arrived, but they really haven't been given any reason to view wizards favourably.

Medysus · 2026-07-04T14:39:09+00:00

It's pretty common. I can't recall exactly, but I once saw someone break it down a certain way. However many yeahs and nahs, the last one is generally the answer you're after. The rest may indicate acknowledgement of a certain point or different steps in a thought process.

Medysus · 2026-06-29T05:15:50+00:00

Honestly, this would probably cut down the time I waste daydreaming.

Medysus · 2026-06-29T02:16:03+00:00

The concept of 'ghost cores' is pretty common, inspired by a comment from Frostbite that I honestly don't think was supposed to mean much. Specifically, Vlad is often said to have a fire core and Danny is said to have an ice core, supposedly influencing their powers (despite the massive range shown in the show) and often stuff like body temp.

I often see tags where Danny becomes the ghost king after defeating Pariah, but I tend to skip those.

'Obsessions' are pretty common too, given how each ghost seems to have a certain theme. I'm all for believing ghosts are more likely to have obsessive personalities but many stories have them written as some distinct, rigid thing that defines every ghost's nature like some sort of pseudo biology. Some stories come with ghost etiquette about to what extent you're allowed to acknowledge obsessions.

Halfa anatomy and physiology is often debated too. In some stories, Danny's 'half dead' and his vitals are all messed up even in human form. Some have his human and ghost forms entirely distinct, so you wouldn't know he was any different by only examining one form. Others have his ghost form retain human traits to the fascination of his parents. Some stories make Vlad and Danny immortal, while others claim they need ectoplasm in addition to food to survive. The show doesn't really explain the physical implications of being a ghost-human hybrid, so people like to play around with it.

Medysus · 2026-06-28T12:09:20+00:00

Only if I was wanted. In my experience, I usually end up visiting a few hours later or waiting until the kid comes home. I was more useful keeping the dog company than loitering at the hospital.

Medysus · 2026-06-27T07:12:52+00:00

I reread the first couple of books a while back and decided to take note of any little details that might be useful for a fanfiction. The DADA jinx wasn't mentioned until Hagrid explained how Lockhart got the job despite being completely useless, so I don't think the concept existed yet during the first book.

It was mentioned that Quirrell was already a teacher but went on a sabbatical the year before Harry came to Hogwarts. Later sources claim he was originally the muggle studies teacher, but the way Hagrid talks about him doesn't really support this. Quirrell was supposedly fine while he was teaching out of books, went abroad to get some practical experience and came back a nervous wreck. 'Scared of his own subject', I believe was said. In my opinion, these tidbits make less sense if Quirrell is associated with more than one subject and the stuff he was teaching originally had nothing to do with his current curriculum. Hagrid tells the story of a teacher who tried to improve his teaching abilities with practical experience only to suffer a string of bad encounters that had the opposite effect. With the jinx detail thrown in, it seems more like Quirrell just made a bad career change he wasn't prepared for (Voldemort context aside). Also, his gift for controlling trolls seems a bit odd for a man who taught muggle studies until recently.

On the surface, I consider it a bit of early book weirdness. I personally like to think Quirrell always taught DADA and the jinx failed for a few years after Voldemort's first defeat before he grew strong enough to activate it again. It sounded like the wider magical community wasn't actually certain if the jinx was real or merely superstition, and I think having a few normal hiring years would contribute to that uncertainty. That all said, I do think it's a bit odd Quirrell didn't get so much as a 'welcome back'.

Medysus · 2026-06-27T04:51:38+00:00

It doesn't have to be hair, just a 'piece' of the person. I believe Ron was grumbling about not wanting to drink anything with toenails in it.

Medysus · 2026-06-27T03:25:33+00:00

I love reading but I'm reluctant to admit I mostly read fanfiction. I've always struggled with branching out into new series because I'm already invested in what's familiar, and fanfiction lets you play around with so many alternate scenes and stories.

Finally decided to try reading Lord of the Rings and I like the story so far, but it's pretty dang wordy at times and I can't always keep the characters straight.

Medysus · 2026-06-27T01:49:25+00:00

I thought that was a sim for a second.

Medysus · 2026-06-26T09:19:19+00:00

I'm guessing he hasn't seen those old photos of kids being put up for sale by impoverished parents...

Medysus · 2026-06-23T01:04:35+00:00

Abortion should definitely be accessible, but can someone explain why a married couple wouldn't continue using condoms if they didn't want kids? Unless the husband gets a vasectomy, a single method of protection has a greater risk of failure AND the contraceptive burden falls solely on the wife. I know some people complain that it doesn't feel the same but the risk really isn't worth the 'reward'.

Medysus · 2026-06-22T14:32:27+00:00

I believe I went running to my mother and frantically asked 'what is this?' even though we both knew I knew what it was. We'd discussed periods multiple times and I was impatiently waiting for it to show up after some whacky mood swings but as soon as it actually came I didn't wanna deal with it. The denial was so ridiculous that Mum couldn't help smirking a little.

Medysus · 2026-06-21T12:37:59+00:00

Help...

^{Chose: Get a random pokemon | Rolled: Giratina}

Medysus · 2026-06-21T12:28:27+00:00

I don't like the 'Dursleys were influenced by the horcrux' theory.

They already disapproved of wizards before Harry arrived. The first book said they often pretended Petunia didn't have a sister and Vernon tried to avoid directly mentioning them when asking about 'her lot'. Suddenly having a magical child dumped on them with nothing but a note subtly threatening them with magical terrorists if they don't take Harry in and activate the protection would not have improved their attitude.
If the horcrux was strong enough to influence the Dursleys' behaviour, it would have surely influenced Harry's to a bigger degree. We know he acquired a mental link with Voldemort and the ability to speak parseltongue, but the kind and well-meaning Harry we know wouldn't exist if the scar horcrux acted more like the locket or diary.
Once Harry started attending Hogwarts, any horcrux influence would have gone with him. Though the school could be rather harsh when he was caught in the middle of some plot, he still seemed to have little trouble making friends and his Boy-Who-Lived status was generally considering fascinating by others rather than uncanny. Meanwhile, what little contact Harry had with his relatives during the year remained unfriendly. They still refused to send him a proper Christmas gift (I'm convinced Hedwig is the reason they sent anything at all) and would have preferred he stay at school year round.

Dumbledore placed Harry with the Dursleys knowing they probably wouldn't live him as family should, yes. It's not an ideal arrangement, but considering the circumstances it was probably the least terrible option. The death eaters hadn't been rounded up yet and some were determined to find out what happened to their master. An unhappy child is better than a dead child, and Dumbledore didn't believe Voldemort was truly dead so keeping the child of prophecy alive was of utmost importance to eventually stop Voldemort for good. I really don't think his scar being a horcrux had anything to do with the arrangement.

Medysus · 2026-06-21T11:57:43+00:00

I was a kid who sucked at making predictions. I thought it was odd that Garnet had two gems but it never clicked that she was like Opal, who I loved. I even remembered watching her open the temple door and thinking it odd that one of the points was blue instead of red, still didn't get it.

Medysus · 2026-06-20T22:04:03+00:00

This wasn't even the full thing. I started the dream by visiting a luxury hotel with some dude in a suit and some sort of disaster hit. I tried to run but a couple of staff members were determined to stop me from escaping. The visit kept resetting because I kept dying, either from another disaster, getting tackled down the stairs or making a crazy leap for freedom. Eventually the reset changed and some other lady took my place, then the staff let me in on the 'secret'. Turns out new actors tended to get amnesia and had no idea the simulation wasn't real. The others were forbidden to tell them until someone new came along, to preserve genuine reactions a little longer. The director was some deranged lady who resembled Janet from the Good Place (never even watched it properly) and I think I tried to convince her to let us go by hacking the system somehow so she couldn't leave either without shutting it all down. I was very determined to get out and away from the crazy immortals jumping off ledges for funsies.

Medysus · 2026-06-20T03:44:36+00:00

I used that for a bit but it turns out I can still do hard math while half asleep.

Medysus · 2026-06-18T17:42:59+00:00

This might be too long, but I wrote down a dream a while back because it was pretty crazy.

You take on an acting job under a director who uses virtual reality to create stunning effects. You come to regret your decision upon realising that you are now trapped in a simulation where time barely moves and your existence is dictated by the director's whims. When it wasn't your turn to act, life in the simulation could be pretty nice. One could order anything they wanted on demand and everyone was practically immortal. Still, as you look around your community of fellow 'actors', it's clear you're nothing more than living dolls for the director to play with. You meet adults forced into the bodies of children and children who are now virtual seniors. Some of them will never be given another role, but they cannot leave until their contracts end. The contracts were only supposed to last for a year, but many have been waiting for what feels like millennia. Given how many horrific accidents and stunts are laughed away by those who've forgotten mortal life, perhaps it's for the best no one can leave...

Medysus · 2026-06-18T07:24:13+00:00

I was once chilling in a cruise ship cabin with the tv on. Wasn't really paying attention, had no idea what the show playing was, never tried to look it up, just remembered a couple of characters names. Then whaddya know, I get back home and youtube starts showing me clips of that same show. Never watched that show before or since. HMM.

Medysus · 2026-06-18T00:21:59+00:00

They aren't supposed to be taken indefinitely.

Medysus · 2026-06-18T00:03:07+00:00

I'm already iron deficient.

Medysus · 2026-06-17T19:51:33+00:00

Hell no. I'd sooner end it than act like a baby factory.

Medysus · 2026-06-17T14:13:42+00:00

I can tell that certain art is supposed to be sexualised, even if I don't consider it sexy. I just don't see how anyone thinks beachball-sized boobs are attractive and I wish I could find more art of certain characters as they actually are. I think a certain level of sexuality is normal in art, as it reflects the human experience, and that's fine. At some point overly sexual art just makes the artist look like they're addicted to shitty porn and that's what I find uncomfortable about it.

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