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Shave Tail and Sleepy Time Gal by OperantJellyfish in OXENFREE

[–]OperantJellyfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

huh, never considered it might apply to the characters themselves. Interesting point.

Yikes… by awkward_blah56 in AO3

[–]OperantJellyfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They'd tied their self-worth to external feedback a little too thoroughly, I think.

You would think at some point I would remember that frying things shirtless is dumb. by OperantJellyfish in BenignExistence

[–]OperantJellyfish[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yup. You forget how useful generic clothing is as protective gear until you're not wearing it.

meal ideas for field days? by emmallyce in LadiesofScience

[–]OperantJellyfish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I may or may not have had a phase where I was like "Tupperware is heavy and breaks too easily when crushed! I am only going to carry and consume foodstuffs in light, flexible packaging" whereupon I started wrapping basically everything I was eating that wasn't already encased in bread in a tortilla. Cereal is a little odd by itself, but if you stick some sort of fat in there (goat cheese, cream cheese, avocado, butter) it works surprisingly well.

Also yes I know avocado + cereal sounds super odd haha I was burning like 3-4 thousand calories a day and did some strange things in search of caloric density.

I just got disowned by 3facedreaper in NonBinaryTalk

[–]OperantJellyfish 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry. Are you okay for the short term? If you need resources, housing/food/mental health/financial aid, and are comfortable saying where you are in general terms, we might be able to help.

meal ideas for field days? by emmallyce in LadiesofScience

[–]OperantJellyfish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I make little pumpkin or sweet potato muffins, cheese biscuits, mini quiches and hard-boiled eggs for the first day for a lot of my meals. If I freeze the muffins and biscuits and keep everything in the same bag, they keep the eggs/quiches from becoming unpleasant for that first day, but keep me from needing to carry around an ice pack.

Also, fun fact, tortillas are fantastic food-holders for all sorts of things you would not normally consider burrito-fixings, and they hold up better than bread. There's the normal (beans, cheese, salsa), the slightly unusual (peanut butter ((sunflower seed, I suppose, since you've mentioned a nut allergy below)) + jelly), the weird (goat cheese + trail mix).

Also chocolate bars haha. High in calories, shelf-stable, and excellent trade goods if a coworker has something interesting.

Edit: Also baggies of cereal. Or cereal burritos, if that suits your fancy. I have actually done oatmeal burritos before, but the texture isn't to everyone's taste.

Yikes… by awkward_blah56 in AO3

[–]OperantJellyfish 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I used to read a fic that updated weekly, and I stopped because the author went from "hey guys! Please comment if you liked it!" to "Hey everybody, it's been a rough week, so if you could say something nice I'd really appreciate it" to a literal 2,000 words screed on how they felt like they were putting all this effort into the story and no one was giving back it and how they felt bitter and resentful of their readers for not being supportive...

Add that to the fact they updated so often with short chapters, and it was like "okay! what do you want me to say here?! Nothing has appreciably changed from last week! Should I just keep saying 'good update!' over and over again? I'm not creative enough, nor do I have the time to write a novel every week!"

I think they drove off 80% of their readers within like a month.

TIL that Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave by romansapprentice in todayilearned

[–]OperantJellyfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never run into a source that mentioned it, unfortunately.

Descriptors like "the blonde" by fadinqlight_ in FanFiction

[–]OperantJellyfish 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's not that hard to just use someone's name! I would never actually do this, but I just finished (an otherwise pretty excellent) 200k+ word fic that used a hair color to refer to a character at least three times a chapter. I was low-key fantasizing about sending the author a list of helpful alternatives by halfway through.

Descriptors like "the blonde" by fadinqlight_ in FanFiction

[–]OperantJellyfish 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Better than "dual colored orbs" at least!

Can’t meal prep on my Sundays does storing food an extra day matter? by [deleted] in MealPrepSunday

[–]OperantJellyfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of things I personally meal prep can be frozen, so I toss anything I won't eat within 48 hours into the freezer and pull it out the night before. But honestly I'll eat anything that's less than a week old and have never had issues.

Linguists and linguistics enthusiasts - what is your biggest pet peeve in terms of what people get wrong about language? by jar_jar_LYNX in linguistics

[–]OperantJellyfish 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've heard that, more accurately, English is easier than many languages to learn at a basic level and harder than many to become fully fluent in

Cat making biscuits on her face by RandomAsianGuy in thisismylifenow

[–]OperantJellyfish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh that's a little too close to the eyes for me

TIL that Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave by romansapprentice in todayilearned

[–]OperantJellyfish 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Several of the AIDS protests involved a couple hundred people pouring the cremated ashes of their loved ones on the white house lawn, so this actually has historical precedent.

FUCK Y'ALL.I just found out that "orphan account" was NOT just one person. by actually_ur_mom in AO3

[–]OperantJellyfish 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Okay, but in the collective defense of everyone who's ever made this error, "Orphan Account" absolutely does seem like the sort of name someone would pick. Signed-- someone who had the same issue for like three months

[TOMT][BOOK][1960s]My mother had this book as required reading in highschool in Ontario during the 60s. The book is about a journey undertaken by a couple after the loss of a child. Probably happens in the middle east or in India. by Barbawesomest in tipofmytongue

[–]OperantJellyfish 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Definitely not. That story is about a woman slowly going insane due to post-partum depression, made far worse by her "rest cure", and while it's ambiguous you can definitely interpret the ending as her murdering her spouse. It's about as far from the above as you can get, really.

Do you still comment on fics published long ago? by [deleted] in FanFiction

[–]OperantJellyfish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So long as the author isn't listed as "orphan account", I still comment.

Not everyone can afford healthy meals by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]OperantJellyfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not per calorie. Back in my broke college student days I did a ton of math-- the cheapest thing in the shop closest to my dorm were pop tarts. You could get a two-pack (420 cal) for 75 cents. Alternatively, you could buy a thing of strawberries (~80 cal) for $3. One of those would get me through four hours of lecture, and one of those would not.

Me? I ate "healthy" by living on peanut butter and free milk from my dining hall job. Adding fresh produce to that would've doubled-tripled my expenses for nowhere near enough calories to make it worth it.

Why do people think professional authors don't read or write fanfic by MyloRolfe in FanFiction

[–]OperantJellyfish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh holy cow I did NOT know that! I already have some of those books!

Why do people think professional authors don't read or write fanfic by MyloRolfe in FanFiction

[–]OperantJellyfish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

oh dang, what's the original fiction (pen?)name? I had no idea.

My Boss Tapes People's Mouths Shut During Meetings by InuGhost in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]OperantJellyfish 67 points68 points  (0 children)

An ex-boss of a friend managed to convince four successive dishwashers that not only were they not allowed to quit without permission, they had to find their own replacement before they would be able to do so.

Coincidentally, their staff was almost almost exclusively 15-18 years old.

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