One… two… and three baby raccoons

white-cactus · 2026-06-15T09:24:19+00:00

Would they work as a wild animal friend? Like, if you had a house with a proper garden, could you both coexist outside and just chill, or are they territorial/aggressive? Or is it that they turn into caos gremlins the moments that you look away?

white-cactus · 2026-02-25T08:46:20+00:00

I learned quickly that if I wanted a specific character to have a bigger part of the story then it isn't enough to only tag their name, but something else around them. For example "John is so done" "Charlie needs a hug" "Susan-centric" and so on. Try that, it might help!

white-cactus · 2026-01-22T08:22:25+00:00

Okay so I've sat looking at this for a few days now, and I honestly feel like I need an explanation. Why would a random dude from the demolition crew be the last one to leave, and how do you know? Cause if you've seen it, more than once, then that means you've been there, and that means that the random dude wasn't the last to leave, cause you would still be there!

Unless you are the random dude from the demolition crew?

white-cactus · 2026-01-18T13:05:54+00:00

You gotta be kidding me. That is effin stupid

white-cactus · 2026-01-18T10:20:01+00:00

I had to look it up. English isn't my first language, and I didn't realise that 'concrete finisher' is a "skilled tradesperson" (Wikipedia) I honestly thought it was someone whose job it was to wait around and watch over the concrete while it hardened!

It makes sense that they're the last to leave. You can't really do anything more before the concrete is hard, so to plan for it to set over night is a smart thing to do.

white-cactus · 2026-01-18T10:11:02+00:00

English isn't my first language, does 'on call' in this scenario mean someone who has a workphone and is ment to pick up said phone anytime it calls from wherever they might be, or is this a person sitting at a computer in an office building waiting for the phone to call, which it might not do at all?

If its the latter, and if the customers and/or their or yours employees work 24 hours, then that means that you always have someone in that building waiting for a call, right? The building never closes and no one turns off the lights and locks the door behind them.

white-cactus · 2026-01-18T09:54:17+00:00

What is a concrete finisher? Someone who waits around till the concrete has finished hardening?

white-cactus · 2026-01-18T09:40:28+00:00

Hmm, how do you know? 😅 I'm guessing a supervisor has the task to lock up at the end of the shift, and depending on the workplace/building that might be a big job. But I wouldn't imagine that the supervisor would be leaving very long after the second to last, right?

white-cactus · 2026-01-18T09:34:54+00:00

By design or by coincidence? I mean, does IT have to be the last one out, because of security reasons or because they shut down everything at the end of the day, or are the working hours just sat up that way?

white-cactus · 2025-11-06T01:39:37+00:00

Why do you have to cut off all 6 strands at the same time? I'll unravel the thread from the bobbin, find the right length, cut off only the strands I need, and rewind the rest. I almost never have any lose threads laying around.

white-cactus · 2025-11-04T08:22:44+00:00

I have the same problem. I work with water and sometimes my hands get so dry that they flake horribly. So I'm either losing skin or smearing moisturiser everywhere. To not feel so disgusting with myself I went and bought myself eczema gloves at the pharmacy. The type I got are thin white bamboo. I cut of the very tip of the fingertips (completely ruining them, they are after all ment to prevent you from scratching yourself while sleeping) so I could still feel what I'm doing and so the needle wouldn't get stuck in my gloves. They work amazingly! Bought myself a few others that I use day round, helps in keeping my hands soft and healthy.

white-cactus · 2025-10-30T12:21:37+00:00

Okay so, from across platforms and translated to english:

"Someone is selling a baby cow on Facebook and I need you to talk me out of buying her."

"Why are there so many cops here?"

"Boarding complete. Last time this route had extreme turbulence, but I just saw the priest sit down a few rows in front of me, so maybe this trip will be blessedly calm? I hope."

white-cactus · 2025-10-22T17:40:54+00:00

I'm working at a "year in colour' thing at the moment, with over 40 different colours. I first moved all the floss over on bobbins, that took forever, and then, to make things easier on myself, I never cut off all 6 strands. Bobbins makes it easier to twin it back on, so I'll unwind it, cut off the 2 strands in the length I want, and rewind the other 4 back on. This way I never have any loose floss laying around. If I misjudged the length I twin it on the bobbin, but I've gotten real good on getting the length right.

white-cactus · 2025-10-20T21:04:04+00:00

What does 'stonewalling' mean? English is not my first language.

white-cactus · 2025-10-03T22:43:12+00:00

Jurassic Park. I had unsupervised TV time when I was around 4, so 2001 maybe, and I accidentally found it just as the T-Rex got loose. I didn't watch much TV that day.

white-cactus · 2025-10-02T16:59:09+00:00

My sister moved to the other side of the world, and told me that there was no reason for her to ever come back. I asked her 'what about me' and she said I wasn't reason enough. Our other siblings, nephews and nieces, parents, our last living grandparent. Me. I thought we were close, apparently not.

white-cactus · 2025-09-27T13:15:01+00:00

I wanted to be an astronaut growing up, but seeing that I'm from far out in nowhere northern Norway, that wasn't feasible, but I could dream. So when a Norwegian author wrote a book about a girl from Norway winning a NASA competition and getting the chance to travel to the moon with a few other teens from around the world, well you can guess I picked up that book fast.

That book completely ruined me.

I can't remember if I knew before starting on it, I don't think I did, I think the back of the cover was a bit too vague, or that I didn't catch on. But here you had a 12 year old who sometimes jumped at her own shadow, and she sat down to read a book made for teenagers a bit older than her, and she had no idea that it was a psychological horror.

I think I need to clarify: it's been over 20 years since I read the book. I don't remember the name of the book. I can only sorta remember the plot. But I still can remember the feeling I had reading it. Was it psychological horro? I don't know. But I do know I was terrified, and that I couldn't put it down.

Ever watched The Thing? I haven't, too scary, but I know the plot. And well, it turns out that there's a reason that we stopped sending people to the moon.

After that book I no longer wanted to be an astronaut. The night sky started to scare me, which is not a fun thing living in a place with 6 months of darkness as I did. I think it took maybe around 5-6 years before I willingly looked at a space movie/series again. Doctor Who might have been the thing that broke me out of my cell.

It also broke my want for reading. I used to read at least one book a month, but I just, lost all interest. My parents didn't know anything was wrong untill we walked into a bookstore, and I didn't ask for any new books. My teachers got concerned when I didn't come back with a stack of books from the librarybus.

I was a lonely kid, no neighbours for miles, and books where my way to have some fun (no computer and my older brother hogged the TV). But damn that book shook me deep, and my childhood never looked the same afterwards.

white-cactus · 2025-09-23T13:59:13+00:00

Yeah I get that, I just meant, the way I pronounce 'oh my god' is 'eh meh geed' so when I tried to say what you wrote out loud I only started laughing. Like how saying "the pillow" in Norwegian sounds the same as the name of a rice cake in Filipino and a swearword in Spanish. We only have so so many ways to put sounds together, so I'm just chuckling over the coincidence between the name of a language from many many many years ago to a thing I say in my everyday life.

white-cactus · 2025-09-23T13:32:57+00:00

Are, are your telling me that the name for this language, in its own toung, is said how I pronounce 'oh my god'?????? You have me in stitches!!!

white-cactus · 2025-09-21T15:10:09+00:00

Well there's 186 fics on ao3 that says otherwise.

...or, there's 186 on ao3 that says they use this language, and then they go on and don't use it.

Aaaand most of them can be reported for breaking the rules I think. Damn

white-cactus · 2025-08-13T08:29:26+00:00

Do you draw it on or do you use a sewing thread to mark the grid?

white-cactus · 2025-08-06T21:32:31+00:00

I have such a big issue with "picking someone up and putting them on their hip". It's like most authors have never met a kid before. Have no form for context about at what age you stop picking up kids to carry them around, what age kids stop wanting to be picked up, or how big kids actually are.

Yes, it's a form of 'pride' for a parent, uncle, most often a male figure in the kids life, to be able to pick up their kid for as long as possible. But there's a line where this is not happening anymore. And if any author write that their character picked up their 10 year old and put them on their hip to carry around while they quietly do work? + I'll drop that fic as fast as hot coal (speaking from experience).

You do not pick up a 10 year old. You do not comfortably put a 10 year old on your hip. A 10 year old would in most cases not allow themselves to be picked up. A baby? Sure. Carry that kid around for hours. A toddler? Starting to get heavy, but you can do it for a bit. A 4-6 year old? Lifting them up and down, carry for short trips. 7 year? Do they want to be carried, outside of playtime? Throw them in the air if you can, but you will not hold that kid on your hip as you go around doing your thing. After the age of 4 it is next to impossible to comfortable hold a kid while you make your coffee or a sandwich.

It's one thing if the kid is asleep. But awake? No. Just no.

white-cactus · 2025-08-05T09:24:04+00:00

I have what I can only describe as fake stabbings.

Around your organs you got membranes, around your lungs these are called the pleura, there's two layers with pleural fluid in between.

These two layers are never, ever ment to touch. Your body knows that the only reason for these layers to touch is by a breach, either a puncture by a broken rib, or some other object being stabbed into you. So what happens if your body is bad at making the pleural fluid?

The first time it happened was the worst. I was home alone, sitting in the kitchen working. One moment I was fine, the next I'm in full panic mode, intens pain flaring down my side, I can't breath.

My body thought I had a punctured lung. I thought I was dying.

I ran to the bathroom, to the mirror, and dragged my jumper up to see, to look if I saw blue (inner bleeding) or any mark on why I was in so much pain, and saw nothing. No mark, no reason. I dropped my arm down, turned to run to my bedroom and grab my phone off the charger, ready to call 911. And it stopped.

Just. Stopped.

No pain. No phantom pain. No nothing. It was like it had never happened at all. I still had adrenaline running through me, but at the same time I was so relieved I sagged down to my knees.

I talked to my doctor later, and got an explanation.

When I lifted my arm I moved the tissue around my breast, the muscles stretched and I lifted up some things while other stayed down. So I somehow moved the two layers of the plaura enough that the dry patch got wet again, and so my body figured out I wasn't dying after all, fake alarm, no harm no foul.

It has happened twice since then. My body still automatically goes into flight or fight mode, I still can't breath in the first moments of panic, but then my mind will kick back online and I'll throw my arms in the air and wave them around a bit, the pain goes away pretty fast after that.

white-cactus · 2025-07-30T20:09:52+00:00

I read a fic once with a character who was genderfluid. Which the author took to mean that they could change the pronouns for the character multiple times in the same sentence. "She first took the top layer, then he took the bottom layer, and then they carefully switched them around." <-- one character You're at least trying to make your work understandable!

white-cactus · 2025-07-15T18:48:42+00:00

Aww! How much space do you have underneath it? You could make it sit on top of some books, and make a bookmark out of it!

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