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The Problem with writing multi-chapter fanfiction.

  • Person leaves kudos, never comments.
  • Person leaves comment on chapter one about how much they love it and are looking forward to reading more. You never hear from them again.
  • Person leaves comments over a span of chapters (be still my heart, seriously I love you) and then stops commenting somewhere in the middle.

Are you still there? Still reading? Did real life take over? Have I failed you in some way? Did it turn into absolute suck and you just didn’t have the heart to tell me?

traumatizedofficial:

what i hope yall mean when you say “protect people with ugly symptoms”: protect/support people who have meltdowns, people who pick at skin, people who are anti social, people who have hallucinations, etc

what some of yall actually mean: protect people who are abusive, manipulative and stalkers. protect people who constantly use their mental illness as a shield to avoid facing consequences for their behavior. support people who are anti recovery and refuse to better themselves. 

gothfirefaerie:

yatzuaka:

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medusasmirror:

unpretty:

unpretty:

findingnewnormal:

slytherinlynx:

hollydonlan:

heartfilledminds:

thegoldheart:

joehabana:

unpretty:

do microwaves in other countries have different quick setting buttons? are american microwaves the standard? do people outside the u.s. have a potato button, is what i want to know.

Mexican here, we have potato button

I’m in Brazil and here we don’t have a potato button, we have a rice button.

I’m from the Netherlands and we have a potato button:)

In Scotland and we have a potato button but not on all microwaves just the nice ones.

In France I had a microwave with a chicken button and a breadloaf button

I’m from England and I didn’t know potato buttons were even a thing

Potato Button:

  • United States
  • Mexico
  • Canada
  • Netherlands
  • Posh Scotland

Rice Button:

  • Brazil

Breadloaf Button???:

  • France

No Dedicated Carbs Button:

  • England

okay i got sick of waiting for answers so i hopped onto some international versions of amazon and here is what i found:

  • australian amazon only sells books?? what the fuck
  • same for chinese amazon but that’s not as surprising
  • german microwaves have a potato button, but only when there are buttons. most of these things have dials. like… what. only weird fancy american microwaves have dials. also i saw a yogurt button.
  • indian microwaves seem to generally feature a ‘stuffed veg’ button instead of a potato-specific button. there is also a rice button. but do you know what else is standard. A GODDAMNED CHICKEN TANDOORI BUTTON. FUCK ME.
  • german and indian microwaves both had beverage buttons, which was not a surprise, but they also both had pizza buttons, which WAS a surprise. the indian microwaves called it a bread snack but it was clearly a picture of a pizza. why is the pizza button more universal than the potato button??
  • japanese microwaves have rice buttons and not potato buttons. no surprises there. the big surprise is that they also favor the dial. for that matter india had a lot of microwaves with dials, too. what gives. why the dials. where are your flat, easy to clean buttons.
  • according to italian amazon, in italian you call a kitchenaid stand mixer a “robot da cucina”. that is the cutest fucking thing i have ever heard. but back to microwaves. once again i’m seeing a lot of dials. you know these aren’t real ovens, right? why are you adjusting the strength so much. keep it on high and hit the one minute button. stop complicating things with dials. a lot of these are just rebranded german microwaves, so there is a potato button, and also a yogurt button.
  • see above for spain. y’all just have the same microwave. spain’s amazon is a lot less intuitive than every other country’s. i don’t know why. spanish amazon, please fix your menu system. it is wrong.

This concludes my fact-finding mission. Australia, why are your microwaves so mysterious.

I love the words “potato button”

I deeply admire the OP’s devotion to cross-cultural microwave studies and potato button data.

Australians: PLEASE END THE SUSPENSE. DO YOU HAVE A POTATO BUTTON? ARE THERE PREDOMINANTLY DIALS OR BUTTONS ON YOUR MICROWAVES? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW. 

@ozhawkauthor @determamfidd please help my Aussie friends, is the potato button a thing?

@gothfirefaerie – not really??? I have one, but I have never used it. And this is is the first microwave I’ve ever owned that even has the potato button. I don’t know anyone who uses it at all. 

Most folks here seem to use the oven, or make mashed potatoes by boiling + mashing. I could be wrong, but I’ve never seen anyone use that button ever. 

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fellow Aussies @bubbysbub, @thudworm, @morvidra and @dragonmad – do you use this potato button??? Or am I just surrounded by sad potato-button unbelievers?

Did preteen!Gimli have an awkward beard growing in phase? Like, was he carefully tracking growth to see when his chin tuftiness would meet his sideburns? Was he staring at the mirror every day wishing that those two bald patches by his chin would grow over? Mizim tried to comfort him but it didn’t help much. Gimris’ good-natured beard-related heckling was also a constant.

From the fic itself:

A burly young Dwarf, not even seventy, was stacking wood for the braziers that would warm the night-watchmen. His bright red hair was pulled back into workman’s braids, his short beard thick on his cheeks and tied into two small braids that stuck out either side of his chin. His face was set and pale. “Glóin’s son,” he said in surprise.

“Aye,” said Frerin. “Did you forget him?”

(ch2)

And 

Mizim smiled at him, and threaded two golden beads onto the short tufting braids of his beard. “You look very handsome,” she told him.

“For a troll,” Gimrís added cheerfully.

“Gimrís!” Mizim snapped. Her daughter rolled her eyes.

(Ch3)

OH AND AND AND ALSOOOO

“Oh,” Frodo said, and he looked puzzled for a moment. “It seems so strange. I mean, sixty is passing middle-age for a Hobbit, and yet it’s only young to a Dwarf.”

Gimli smiled at him. “Very young. Your uncle met me a few years after the Quest, and no doubt he thought me a very raw and callous youth. Why, I could barely braid my beard properly, and it stuck out in two tufts! Terribly embarrassing. I’m glad none here saw it!”

(Ch11)

LASTLYYYYY

From Follow the Leader:

He bows his head, and then he looks up once more, a sad smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. He reaches up and unbinds his short beard before taking out his belt-knife and cutting three locks from it. Hair already dusts the feet of the three statues: some more will not make an appreciable difference. His bright red hair joins the others, to moulder away along with the bones of the honoured dead.

“You bloody sods,” he says, and then he laughs softly. The echoes laugh back: a thousand Gimlis are laughing at him. “My beard is long enough to braid now,” he says to the solemn face of Kíli. “No more tufts. How jealous you would be!”

SO yeah – the answer is yes, he had an awkward tufty time of it for a while. 

Hey Dets! I drew a bunch of Dwarrowdams for you and Tumblr won’t let me upload them, but I put them on imgur! If you want you can add them to this post or something if Tumblr isn’t borking on your end, or not, whatever you want. Either way, sweet character designs for you! If you can tell who each one is supposed to be, that means I did a good job.

AHHHH!

omg look ppl, this is brilliant!!!

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THERE’s MORE TOO – go look omg go look this is amazing

(I AM IN LOVE WITH THAT HRERA AND BARIS – OMFG THEY ARE AMAZINGGGGGG)

@the-anchorless-moon thank you so so so so SO MUCH!!