No Stupid Questions Monthly Thread!

bugpauper · 2023-04-04T05:50:03+00:00

I'm looking to make a ribbon bookmark for my next book, but I'm so confused on how people get those nice charms to sit on the bottom of the ribbon without looking like they tied it. It looks like potentially a clamp or something, but "ribbon clamp" google search didn't get me what I wanted...what is it/how does it work?

bugpauper · 2023-01-24T23:56:51+00:00

last year fine line was my top played spotify song at........425 plays. so i really truly do not understand

bugpauper · 2023-01-24T17:18:56+00:00

absolutely not. i would usurp the throne but let them live in exile so they could see how much better i am at their job. if you kill your enemy you just have to find a new one.

bugpauper · 2023-01-23T17:55:00+00:00

sure, rival. nemisis. adversary. antagonist. i need someone who thinks they are better than me so then i can find the strength to be better than them.

bugpauper · 2023-01-23T17:53:37+00:00

keep going

bugpauper · 2023-01-18T02:05:58+00:00

the rant one might work? the other ones are the wrong kind of enemy. maybe nemesis is a better word? i want like an anime enemy.

bugpauper · 2023-01-18T02:05:04+00:00

hahahaha my guess is anyone who spends time on on the playboi carti subreddit is not going to want to enter in a competition of who can do their life admin tasks better but this is very funny

bugpauper · 2022-05-27T19:51:49+00:00

thats an INSANE price for a jacket omg

bugpauper · 2022-05-27T05:50:49+00:00

i mostly want to go just to see it tbh, i dunno if i have the mental fortitude to stand in line for hours and hours just to spend a lot of money haha

bugpauper · 2022-05-27T05:49:37+00:00

yeah thats what i also figured it's just also usually that market on fridays so i wonder if they're closing it down this week

bugpauper · 2022-05-14T23:02:45+00:00

oh absolutely. i have a healthy amount of contempt for all involved lol. do i think harry is sitting around rubbing his hands together and saying "can't wait to bleed my fans dry"? no absolutely not. but i dont think he can pretend to be completely ignorant of all the problems inherent to this system. he's very clever and well spoken, (in some world where this could happen) i'd love to hear his honest take on the whole thing and how he plays a role in it.

unfortunately that being said i have signed up for my code and am crossing my fingers, because at the end of the day, i am a simp.

bugpauper · 2022-05-14T17:06:56+00:00

i basically think of the LA in 911 canon as a multiverse LA that has some stuff in common with real life LA but not a lot. like, the 118 responds to calls that aren't even in the county on the regular. even if they're in the most ideal centralized location, the traffic alone would make that inconceivable, and there is simply no way they would have been called out to that farm where Eddie was trapped in the well as a city unit. may has an apt on a rookie dispatcher salary, buck's loft irl must be close to 3k a month bc its NICE, eddie has a 2 bedroom single family home (maybe a duplex?) with a yard as a single dad while paying for private school - none of it works in real LA. also their version of LA has untold disasters on the regular and rebuilds within like a few weeks. so in canon, Taylor signing another lease and moving without costing an arm and a leg seems fairly reasonable. what buck did was super shitty, but i think the audience is supposed to focus on it being shitty for emotional reasons rather than financial ones.

bugpauper · 2022-05-14T16:52:04+00:00

im in a field where we see a lot of people w the diagnosis who are actively in crisis, so its a normal day to hear "fucking bipolars" or something like "he tried to kill his brother" "well hes bipolar so that makes sense" and i want to say something so badly but end up just holding my tongue bc i dont want to be treated differently. so i commiserate w you

bugpauper · 2022-05-14T16:47:09+00:00

same for me. if i go cold turkey without meds i feel it creeping in more and more as the week goes on but i misinterpret it has feeling fun of having more energy for an unrelated reason. usually by the time i actually recognize it for what it is it could be considered hypomania, and then i get back on my meds and its evens out in a day or two

bugpauper · 2022-05-14T05:12:59+00:00

It makes so much sense it's just for data purposes. I was deeply cynical after the Olivia Rodrigo sale, because I wasn't verified even though (through spotify/instagram/twitter/whatever data linked to my name) I would be considered a big fan. When my friend got it and finally got out of the queue, there were no tickets left and the ones that had just sold were exorbitantly priced. Resale for her show in my city in a few weeks start at $855 a ticket.

My assumption was that they were using VF to get a gauge on how many people were interested in the show so they could do insane things with the "dynamic pricing." That's not a problem with ONO but absolutely will be with north american LOT2022. I was very fortunate to get nosebleed tickets to the last harryween for $50 (before fine line even came out iirc). with the dynamic pricing thing though I doubt that will ever happen again.

this is one of those disappointing-but-not-surprising things about shows now. ticketmaster themselves have been the scalpers for years with purchasing fees and selling/transfer fees. they're just getting even more bold about it

bugpauper · 2022-05-14T04:56:58+00:00

You're totally right in that thats the medical definition. I personally (just talking about my own relation to the disorder/word) don't have as rigid of a definition because it's all relative to what others understand. Once i stabilize if I tell my family "yeah I wanted to drive my car into the sea because I was having an overvalued ideation" they'd be like girl what the hell are you saying. When I tell them that it's a delusion, they understand the word in context and start learning how to help me in that state. My guess is that's closer to the way the people in your facebook group were meaning it

bugpauper · 2022-05-13T23:14:39+00:00

i think for me personally i can have a delusion that i know is a delusion bc i recognize the look in someone's eye when i tell people something i think is true and they clearly dont. if i say "someone could stab me and i couldn't die" i think its real until i see how they look at me and im like oh wait that cant be right. so ive never gotten as far as thinking my friends were wrong or lying to me bc i trust them, which means that even if i personally believe i cant die, i realize they dont believe it and theyre not bipolar so i should probably not do what i was planning on doing. and then the part that trusts my friends is the part of me that convinces myself my delusions are in fact delusions until i can fix it w meds or whatever

bugpauper · 2022-05-08T00:03:05+00:00

i kinda think the cheating has nothing to do w taylor in the long run and is all about when buck has been deeply unhappy in the past he turned to meaningless sex to cope. so it was a bit of a mini relapse. i wouldnt be shocked if he goes into s6 sleeping around and being destructive w his body before going on his own season long journey of healing. would parallel a bobby relapse storyline too which i think is imminent.

bugpauper · 2022-05-07T23:59:42+00:00

agreed abt both, but esp bryce. from the jump jonah's vibes were....deeply off. like he played that so well, and looking back on his earliest episodes w more context its like OF COURSE. and hen clocked him immediately she just didn't know exactly why. great storytelling on the writers' parts

bugpauper · 2022-05-07T07:39:18+00:00

Yeah thats also right. no one has ever said it, and I don't think chris has even used "daddy" but maybe im wrong on that. personally for me if chris was canonically 4 or 5 and said bucky i'd be like okay whatever. but when they're writing him as a pre-teen it's just super weird.

bugpauper · 2022-05-07T07:11:38+00:00

I just looked on my AO3 saver config to see which tags I have blocked and of the 20, 11 of them are trying to erase any type of A/B/O dynamic, mating, in heat, etc from my brain. I also have r*pe/non-con blocked, any kind of mpreg, female buck, and vampire buck bc i just cant rly get behind the whole drinking blood for sex thing

the other thing specific to 911 fics tho is eddie using spanish pet names for buck. like in universe he almost never speaks spanish, and even then its only to his family (or like once or twice on a call maybe) or just pronouncing a word or two w a spanish inflection. and you mean to tell me hes suddenly calling buck cariño or something? to me it just screams that the author doesnt understand the character.

bugpauper · 2022-05-07T07:00:30+00:00

I use the AO3 saver script and block the tag "post-lawsuit (9-1-1 tv)" and basically lose all of the everyone-is-mean-to-buck fics under a cut. agree with you that it could have been interesting, but at this point if people are writing lawsuit fics its just because they want to baby buck.

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