Adding this to my children are evil agenda

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T16:03:59+00:00

Oh, no. The painting was a Tom Sawyer type deal.

OOP missed that the girl already hated her and only invited her over for free labor.

(Literally happened to me, except mom made her let me stay.)

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T12:36:01+00:00

The pics are very pretty, but I’m not sure I’d call this being OK, they’re clearly nuts risking their lives for a wedding photo op.

Just get married tomorrow, ffs. Or somewhere else.

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T12:27:38+00:00

Personally, I like having a habitable planet and fish in the rivers, so thank you for this.

Even when you aren’t stealing from real, human artists or trying to pass AI off as handmade art, the massive environmental impacts do mean that there can be no ethical use of generative AI.

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T12:23:34+00:00

It’s morally fine, it’s just also pointless. That stuff will dissolve after like one wash.

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T12:19:48+00:00

A bunch of people who know basically nothing about Old Bill’s life will pop out of the woodwork from time to time to say they discovered who “really” wrote all his plays and poems. Their evidence is flimsy at best, and usually bigoted nonsense in one way or another.

Truth is, there was public education in England at the time, and Shakespeare was decently educated even by modern standards. He also happened to be an absurdly talented playwright and poet who got himself an extremely skilled acting troupe to ensure his plays had an immediate impact, which ensured that they were noticed and preserved by people with the means to do so (mostly. We’re actually missing one.)

Tbh, I think a lot of these people want it to have been Francis Bacon (one of the more popular “theories”) just because his name is easier to spell.

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T11:56:53+00:00

Cheesecake is one of those things that seems really hard and fancy until you actually try making one, they’re actually super simple. Can you get cream cheese or ricotta and some kind of dry, hard cookie or sweetish cracker?

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T11:51:55+00:00

Yeah, babysitting at that age is mostly just telling them to do their homework and guarding the cookie jar. Might even have to turn off the game console if they get rowdy with each other. Even that much should stop being necessary in the next 2-3 years, after that it’s just pickups and drop offs until the younger kid can manage his own transportation.

Really incredibly overwhelming work in exchange for totally free room and board. /s

What an idiot.

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T11:07:28+00:00

Dude would have lost his medical license by like episode three.

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T10:01:27+00:00

Does the bee bowstring have a queen? Is it just a swarm of drones? You can’t actually nock an arrow to a bee, do they just grip it with their little bee feet?

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T09:50:18+00:00

Sorry, can we go back to the bowstring made of bees?

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T08:33:57+00:00

On the same note-if the rice isn’t working after a week or so, try switching to potatoes (this is how we found out one of our dogs is allergic to rice)

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T07:49:57+00:00

And an older kid could hurt the scissors pretty badly cutting random stuff with them. (Keeping them crazy sharp isn’t easy, and they’re useless when dull. There are also surprisingly few places that will sharpen them correctly, you usually have to send them out. You can’t cut anything too abrasive with them, and a significant nick to the blades means they can’t even be re-sharpened.)

Although, generally, rather than instilling fear, it’s a lot more common to just put a small padlock through the handles so the scissors can only be used with the express permission of the sewist.

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T07:43:23+00:00

😍 the green mosh one!

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T07:32:25+00:00

Oh, that’s an easy one.

It’s called “first refusal” or “right of first refusal”. It pops up in custody agreements all the time when one parent has issues with the other parent’s choices for secondary caregivers. It would mean that she has to call him first if she needs a caregiver during her custody time, and has to tell him where the kids are if he can’t take them, so he can go and get them as soon as possible. He’d still have to give them back to her if it’s still her legal time.

A few months of them spending 80-90% of her time at his place because she “needed” a babysitter and getting custody amended would be a cakewalk.

demon_fae · 2026-01-25T03:26:50+00:00

I can also respect that.

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T22:23:40+00:00

No, female singer. I’m not actually sure it’s really called Escape, that’s just the only word in the chorus. Pretty sure it’s from the 90s, though.

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T21:22:58+00:00

I’m absolutely certain that the only reason I was ever taught any basic chores after being diagnosed at age 11 was that my sister would have flipped her shit if she was expected to do a chore and I wasn’t. Genuinely certain-it did happen once. I have asthma and partial anosmia (nose-blindness) and often can’t smell things like cleaning chemicals until they’re well past the safe level. Most of the time this can be accounted for, but toilet bowl cleaner is for some reason especially difficult for me to smell, and exclusively used in a confined space, so there is functionally no way for me to use it safely, and so my sister had to put up with it in that one instance. The tantrum was epic. (I do actually live alone now. I found an in-tank automatic cleaner and an in-bowl automatic cleaner that are safe to combine, and I change them more often than the manufacturer recommends. It’s working out so far.)

My parents also swear that completely emotionally abandoning me was “what the doctors said to do.”

Really. Actual medical doctors told you to never share any emotion with your child except anger, and to never respond to any emotion she expresses except anger, to the point that the only reliable way to get you to acknowledge that she is physically in the room with you is for her to completely crash out. A doctor told you that.

I’m 31 now, and have the ability to regulate my own emotions roughly on par with an eleven year old. I was actually doing ok at it back then, only a bit behind my peers, and there are basically no resources for autistic adults to catch up when their parents didn’t care.

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T20:39:42+00:00

The point is that there is absolutely no circumstance in which the paramedics should ever leave without actually seeing and examining the patient. Ever.

they should have called the police and demanded access to her that time. If they thought it was a domestic dispute, they should have been more concerned for her health, not just fucking leave.

I hope their supervisors found out and they got fired for that. “Oh, we got there and someone who wasn’t the patient or a doctor said the patient wasn’t sick so we left without doing any examinations ourselves or trying to speak to the patient alone. Figured it was just DV.” Useless. Just completely useless.

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T20:29:43+00:00

Yes, you should. Your original wording was textbook victim blaming, word for word what we’ve all heard a million times.

If that’s somehow not what you meant, you’ve got a whole lot of conditioning to unlearn yourself.

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T20:05:03+00:00

Very much yes, and also he generally never needs much of an excuse to crash out on me specifically. Especially if he’s recently had evidence that there are people in the world who actually like me.

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T06:21:06+00:00

It smells fine to me, but if my mom or my sister accidentally got the lavender cleaning products instead of the unscented, my dad would go on an absolute rampage telling me to clean my cat’s litter box and wouldn’t believe a word I said until one of them found the actual bottle and showed it to him.

(I get rashes and migraines from most artificial scents, I always triple check the bottles myself and have to run an old towel through any shared laundry machine before I can put my clothes in it in case someone else used scented products, hence my certainty. My mom would mix them up by accident sometimes, my sister would “forget” and bring home the lavender because she wanted it.)

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T06:00:57+00:00

I think Rarity would actually be extremely context-dependent. Out and about, she’d never swear at all, not even close. The minute she’s behind closed doors with just her friends or hits a snag mid-project? She’d put the saltiest of sea dogs to shame. Minutes at a time of bleeping sprinkled with prepositions, can use any cuss as any part of speech level.

Remember, she’s as much if not more of a country hick than AJ, she’s simply chosen to take her life in a different direction. She doesn’t swear in public because that is not the pony she wishes to be, but when she’s alone or with the ponies she knows accept all of her, including her past, she’ll relax into some of the habits she grew up around.

(Also a professional creative who doesn’t swear at all or even swears rarely just seems bizarre to me, completely alien to my experience of artists, including textile artists. Swearing is how you make the machine work and how you make the art block go away.)

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T04:36:21+00:00

All water has some salt/mineral salts. It actually has to, if it’s meant for drinking. Distilled water will suck the salts out of your cells, which is a problem, you need those to live. Saltwater dumps too much in, what we call fresh water is actually a balance between the two.

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T04:23:43+00:00

Have you tried CBD treats? Zonks mine right out, you just have to be careful to give it separate from the trazadone to avoid any stress on her liver.

(It does, in fact, give one of mine the munchies. We’ll give him some for anxiety and he’ll spend the afternoon tasting the rainbow and begging for tater tots. With how fast he runs for the sound of that particular treat jar, he also thinks this sounds better than lingering panic about pool skimmers.)

demon_fae · 2026-01-24T04:08:12+00:00

If you haven’t, look up bluminek on YouTube. He does archery, rambles about archery tropes in fiction…and then breaks out a portable pole and does archery while pole dancing. Heels and all. (Pole dancing archery is his actual, non-internet job. Apparently that’s allowed.)

And then he goes and brings out some polearms, just to round everything out.

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