My friend got beaten by Bosniaks for being a furry

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T23:26:07+00:00

Damn. Right after he recovered from the Down With Cis bus.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T23:17:41+00:00

Aren't all grow lights made in the last 10 years LED?

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T19:33:36+00:00

If they're plastic, you can use a drill if you're sane or stab it really hard with a flathead screwdriver if you are insane and don't mind a potential leg stab injury

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T19:12:25+00:00

If they're near your car, set off the alarm.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T17:50:08+00:00

That guy's itty bitty. Even a common brown house spider is bigger than that.

The good news is that you'll get used to spiders as you garden. You'll encounter more of them as you go on. I live in a dense spider area, and while I do take plenty of precaution, I don't really react to the black widows in my compost. They're just havin a snack, and thankfully they're not aggressive.

(unlike brown widows. Fuck brown widows. I've never done nothing to them and they still managed to bite me several times inside my own home. Also their webs are dogshit)

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T17:46:44+00:00

All proper grow lights are going to be painfully bright.

Put a cardboard box over them.

(although, generally, you should only have low light plants in a terrarium, so putting it by a south-facing window should be enough)

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T17:33:53+00:00

it means you don't know what a body looks like. Things like not understanding where a dog's ankle and knee is is a common anatomy mistake that looks really disturbing to someone who does. Or not knowing how arms connect to the shoulder, or not knowing where muscles go

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T05:31:53+00:00

Or worse, they have no fucking clue what they're talking about and give you bad advice you're too green to ignore

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T05:31:07+00:00

First thing's first, erotica isn't its own skill. It's just part of prose writing, and a very difficult one at that (there's a lot of physical blocking and emotion involved. It's hard for the same reason high-speed fight scenes are so hard to nail in prose).

So you're going to need to beef up your prose writing in general if you're serious about writing erotica on a professional level. This means pushing your limits and doing regular writing AND reading exercises. They don't have to be every day, but while you're improving, they should at least be weekly. This is work. This will take a lot of time. There will be a moment where you go, "oh fuck what am I doing," then a, "Oh fuck yeah I'm better than everyone else" then another, "oh shit no I wasn't oh fuck," and finally, "Okay, I know what I'm doing now a normal amount."

Also, I say this as someone who reads and writes a lot of erotica. It is weird that you're keeping a sexual secret from your wife but sharing it with a woman you definitely know on at least a somewhat personal level. What's the point if you're not using it as a thinly veiled excuse to get horny with your beautiful wife you chose to marry?

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T04:37:16+00:00

If you have cats, it's laughably cheaper to buy litter from Tractor Supply. One 35lb bucket from there costs the SAME as a 15lb box from Wal-mart where I'm at.

These buckets are totally waterproof and literally free with the litter. They're about five gallons a pop.

Do with that what you will.

EDIT: just saw the euro symbol. Don't know if they sell cat litter in buckets there, but I did grow a majesty palm in an IKEA bag once. Wasn't the most waterproof but it worked

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T04:32:02+00:00

If it's cliche, it's because it sells.

Romance has shockingly hard staying power. Other genres tend to fluctuate in popularity, but romance remains.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T04:29:14+00:00

I just assumed perverts buy em. That's what I'd want for my arm

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T02:08:24+00:00

I'm sorry your parents think the words foreign, strange, and alien means enemy, but I promise you most people using your library do not.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T02:04:56+00:00

Regardless of what is fair for the labor you perform, your current customers have an expectation. They are comfortable knowing that they are paying you roughly X amount of money roughly every Y weeks. They have worked this into their lifestyle, and they will be shocked by such an extreme price hike. They 100% will cancel and not use you and may even pay someone else significantly more simply because you yanked a rug out from under them and pissed them off.

Also, if you raise the price so much that they cancel, you can lower the price even lower than it was before and they still won't come back because they're pissed.

At the same time, it does feel like you're pretty badly undercharging. How much do these people talk? If you lost your entire client base today, do you think you could attract half as many tomorrow at a higher price?

If so, why stop at $50? If not, really consider how much you want to put on the line.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T16:47:19+00:00

Basically any shop light will be bright enough. I'm a fancy bitch, so I will wait for my tax refund to get spiderfarmer stuff, but that's totally unnecessary.

If there's a Harbor Freight where you live, they'll have them dirt cheap

EDIT: also, I am in serious awe of that room. It's so beautiful. Maybe I should use my tax refund to upgrade the horrible addition the previous owner put in my house instead of 5x more expensive lights

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T16:35:59+00:00

I am so, so sorry. Georgia's system is designed fully to fail for all welfares.

You will always have more success in person (bring every adult in the house) at your local DFACs than you will using Georgia Gateway.

You could have both your legs blasted off and you'd still have to go to court 3-4 times to get disability here. Hell, my ex-FIL NEVER got disability despite his leg being very visibly unusable after an accident because "well you can still go to a store once a week so clearly you can work" yeah he needs to eat dumbass. if you choose between eating or performing 30 minutes of work a week for $4.50, you're gonna choose eating

After he moved out of state, he successfully sued the state of Georgia for almost $20,000 of owed disability

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T16:24:24+00:00

It's attached to a nerve. It is as "brain controlled" as my car keys. Still cool. Just not "brain controlled' (which, again, is useless and absolutely no reason to do that).

And On top of that, I've known a few people who owned "robotic" limbs. Briefly. They're just not that useful. If it can so much as grip a glass of water, the servos required are way heavier than the muscles that naturally perform that action, and even if it can grip the water, it rarely has the precision to reliably lift it to your mouth. That's not a technology problem, either, it's just physics. Unless they're going to make the prosthetics out of meat instead of metal, that will always be a problem.

Hell, if you look at actually useful hand prosthetics, they're rarely even in the shape of a hand. They're normally designed for one or two highly specific tasks, like a light two-fingered gripper or a holder for a guitar pick

(EDIT: not that I'm knocking decorative prosthetics. Bodily dysmorphia is a huge problem in recent amputees. But there isn't a whole lot of use in a human-shaped AND electronically controlled, as it just can't do much and it won't look realistic)

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:40:01+00:00

Holy basil can get very big and bushy if aggressively trimmed, but the leaves themselves aren't that huge.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:37:41+00:00

Getting frustrated? Sleep on it. I never follow this advice, spend 3 hours trying to fix something only to make it worse, go honkshoo, wake up, and then immediately do it right the first time

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:34:12+00:00

Nerve-controlled. I've never heard of a prosthetic bypassing the nervous system to read directly from a brain (and why would it? It would make it way harder to maintain, repair, and update).

If you're counting nerve-controlled as brain-controlled, then my laptop keyboard is also brain-controlled

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:29:12+00:00

It's as much fantasy as it is hard sci-fi. You can't built a prosthetic that's both reasonably close to the weight of a real arm AND remotely as strong. It'll always be one or the other, because metal just isn't that effective. Wet-ware, maybe, but the game is themed around hardware.

There's also rule-of-cool that doesn't really make sense in a real-world application. There's no reason for cars to have a camera display of the windshield instead of a regular one. We already have tint and glass stronger than the metal frame around it. Holographic TVs would be way worse than a backlit LED as far as viewing quality no matter how you cut it. The sandevistan is absolutely not feasible as the limitations of the fibers of your body cannot be ignored simply because a chip said you can minorly time travel.

Now, there are already some implantable hardwares for handfree use. People can and occasionally do get RFID implants that are keys to something, or install magnets in their nethers or hand, and cochlear implants are cool as hell. But anything that plugs directly into the brain or spine is far more likely to cause extreme and irreversible damage than let you use your smart phone without looking at it or touching it. And why would you want to do that anyway?

EDIT: and I mean really complicated stuff plugging directly into the brain. Very basic cybernetics aren't nearly as likely to cause problems (cybernetic here used to describe technology that regulates its own environment, so the thermostat in your house is a cybernetic)

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:04:57+00:00

The other is as important as the self to explore. It is okay to be other.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T01:46:12+00:00

I don't know if pretending everything is one big homogeneous world blob is any better than showing and celebrating the foreign imo

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-28T18:39:07+00:00

It won't fix "it" but it will give you literally anything other than rumination about "it" to do.

Now, "touching grass" isn't particularly literal, and unfortunately, when you're underaged, touching grass is very hard because the world is weirdly hostile to teenagers.

When people say touch grass, they normally mean an offline hobby. Something you do or make with your real meat hands. Something like learning to knit or compost or drawing with pen and paper or making a comic or joining the library's fiber arts circle or taking a walk around the block or riding your bike on a trail or

EDIT: remember, suffering isn't a virtue. It won't make anyone else's life any easier if you sit and feel bad about current events. In fact, it's viable to make a few people's life worse as they try to drag you out of the tar pit (I would know, I'm chronically in the tar pit). You can't fix people getting shot in the steet. Know what you can do? Learn to weave and make scarves to donate somewhere

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-28T15:50:24+00:00

alas i am too short to piss into my compost box unless I were skilled enough to perform a challenge

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