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That weird mom who likes squirrels, estradiol, Harlock, and James Baldwin
Plural enough to not know how to advise singlets with mental health issues apparently. (Median system.)[...]

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mookraker

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[ID: Tumblr post by TwistCMYK. Her dog fursona reacts to a notification on her phone in surprise, yelling, "Oh fuck! That's right! Friend!" Text says, "To all my friends I hardly speak to, I'm sorry I literally do not have object permanence." Hashtag I'm working on it, hashtag I'm so sorry. /end ID]

December 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM

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https://soundcloud.com/zoe-sidener/mess-mel-stone-cover

Zoë Sidener does a lovely cover of Mel Stone's song "Mess." https://melstone.bandcamp.com/track/mess

Lyrics: #mel-stone #mess #clara #MelStone #SongPosting #Zoë-Sidener

ID: Image of lyrics from Mel Stone's Bandcamp page
(opens with a dedication: for Clara, for being in the right place at the right time)

she don’t mind waking up alone
she don’t mind talking to this empty home
quiet keeping her company
while the vultures scream circling drones

she don’t care what the critics say
she don’t care which name goes on her grave
darting eyes never settling
carrying through on her day to day

she says, yeah, I'm a mess but I'm trying my best
to be all that you expect of me
picture-perfect princess broke, broken, and depressed
just pretty enough to pass invisibly

she don’t want her failure to win
she don’t want to give up and to give in
the inescapable momentum
of the black hole where her heart had been

racing home sixteen miles to go
silence cuts through the radio
the sun is chasing her down

she never stops to rest will always second guess
every move every choice every day
on an aimless mission slave to indecision
free to sit and worry her minutes away

but despite all the stress she’s doing her best
but can't fight the raw gravity
so she's scraping her pennies and burning her twenties
so that some day she might be free

from Clara, released November 13, 2017
all rights reserved

December 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM

mookraker

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I guess I never posted this silly thing here. (Harkness Test joke) #harkness-test #monster-fucking #shark #my-cruft #nsfw-meme

ID: Comparison of two kinds of test. On the left, a description of the Harkness Test. Transcript will follow; to summarize, it's a set of criteria for whether the monster or alien is ethical to fuck, based on its maturity, ability to communicate consent, and ability to make an informed decision. On the right of the Harkness Test, is the Sharkness Test: A diver touches the nose of a shark and says, "Yup. That is a shark." okay so transcript: "So you want to fuck a fictional creature? Give it the Harkness test first! Does it have human intelligence or greater? Can it talk or otherwise communicate with language? Body language is a dangerous road. As always, err on the side of caution. Only rely on body language if both parties have attempted communication through different means and failed due to language barriers and other special situations. Is it of sexual maturity for its species? If the answer to all three is yes, then you can fuck it! It's a nonhuman creature with sentience and all you need to have consentual sex with. If you answered no to one or more, watch out! That's bestiality or possibly pedophilia! Don't fuck it! Here's an illustrated guide: (Two pictures of a serpent-like monster follow. One hisses and gronks to the questions "are you an adult?" and "do you want to fuck?" This has a NO symbol, and says, Do Not Fuck This.. The other demurely responds, "Certainly," and "of course," while slightly flushed in anticipation of sexy times. This one has a check mark and says, It's okay to fuck this! /end ID

December 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM

mookraker

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I get it, he's played by Ricardo Montalban, he's genuinely very attractive, and I am not judging you for staring at his ass, but I *am* judging you for your taste in men, McGivers.

[ID: Star Trek original series screenshot. Khan, played by Ricardo Montalban, strides across the room; as he passes, McGivers, a young woman in Starfleet, stares at him, her eyes traveling down to his behind. /end ID]

December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM

mookraker

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I was looking for Linux solitaire games, and stumbled upon tty-solitaire.
I install it, and nothing makes clear how to use it.
I try typing tty-solitaire; no such command, etc.
I look it up online.
The actual command is ttysolitaire. #solitaire #bad-commands #linux

ID: Captioned Sailor Moon image. A very angry consternated Usagi is shown yelling, "WHY?!" /end ID

December 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM

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[ID: Animated gif from Captain Harlock: Endless Odyssey. A hologram of a woman glows brightly and dissolves as she's deactivated, against a backdrop of multiple moons visible in the window. /end ID] #I-MADE-IT-MYSELF #animated-gif #gif #Space-Pirate-Captain-Harlock-Out... see complete post

December 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM

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#flarian-meme #flarian #flarians #TRC-culture #TRC-meme-culture #my-cruft #OpenSpecies #open-species #original-species #OriginalSpecies #casual-spec-bio

ID: Getty Images stock photo of a man in a business suit wading into the ocean. Caption says, "I've seen enough. I'm going sessile. RETURN TO SPUNJ."

November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM

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Flarian meme.
Many flarians, especially TRC flarians, believe to some degree that going sessile and mingling your internal sea with the rest of the sea means mingling minds, becoming one vast being. There's no science to back it up, but there doesn't really have to be.... see complete post

ID: Meme with the Bugs Bunny "our whatever" format. Top caption says, "When all our seas are open and all are one, Where all books lie open pressed page to page: OUR foot fetish. /end ID

November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM

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I fell in love with Maison Ikkoku as a young teenager, via the gateway drugs of UY and Ranma, and now in my 40s I still watch a few episodes a month, and can talk endlessly about how Godai and Kyoko develop over time an understanding that transcends language; how Kyoko... see complete post

ID: Maison Ikkoku gif. Kyoko Otonashi, a dark-haired young woman presently wearing 1980s tennis gear, returns a served tennis ball.

November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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#date #today's-date #the-watchmen #watchmen #dr.-Manhattan #doctor-Manhattan #jon-osterman #november-14th #nov.-14th #nov14 #11/14 #November-14 #nov.-14

ID: Comic panel from The Watchmen. November 14th: A partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing. In the image, two guards respond in appropriate horror to a partially muscled skeleton doing just that.

November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM

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My bestie Tea made this Flarian meme and it is the best. #flarian #flarian-meme #flarians #TRC-meme-culture #uwu-smol-sounj #OpenSpecies #open-species #original-species #OriginalSpecies #casual-spec-bio #friend-Tea #TeaFriend

Photograph of a sea sponge, a sessile filter feeder. Text says, "When you're mean to me, this is who you're being mean to."

November 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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#shit-I-said-on-facebook #NoResultsFound #no-results-found

[ID: Phone screenshot of a Duck Duck Go search: "No results found for, keep honking I'm listening to John Cage 4'33." /end ID]

November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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[CWs: spoilers for Nope (2022) and Dungeon Meshi.]
![media-1]
Thinking about how OJ Haywood and Laios Thorden have a few things in common, and how the Jean Jacket operation had a lot in common with a Dungeon Meshi plan (albeit, one of the ones that went somewhat awry.)... see complete post

ID: Scene from the 2022 horror film Nope. Angel Torres and the Haywoods sit in a fast food place eating. Angel tells OJ, "Like, read the room."

November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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So I was watching Star Trek and thinking,
Tam Elbrun of the episode Tin Man should have studied on Vulcan. He wouldn't have had to be institutionalized. It worked for Dr. Miranda Jones. Their day to day experiences do not greatly differ, but she copes better than he do... see complete post

Star Trek: The Next Generation screenshot from the episode Tin Man. Tam Elbrun, a humanoid betazoid telepath with red hair and a green tunic, speaks with Data, an android in Star Fleet command uniform, in Data's quarters.

Star Trek Original Series screenshot. A brunette in a blue and green dress stands on the transporter pad holding a rose as she gives the Vulcan salute: Live long and prosper. Dr. Miranda Jones, episode title Is There In Truth No Beauty?

November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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[Spoilers for RoboCop (1987) and Us (2019)]
Originally posted to Cohost @macksting

Full disclosure, this is gonna be fairly stream-of-consciousness, and is directly reposted from a rant I said in a venting channel. I genuinely don't think any of these takes are dogshi... see complete post

ID: Scene from RoboCop. Murphy as RoboCop holds a drill. Looking away from Lewis as he prepares to remove his damaged exterior armor, he says to her, "You may not like what you're about to see."

November 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM

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When the priest arrives to perform the exorcism, but the demon has started dating your polycule. #ARetreadFromMy #Cohost #LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes #LOGH #LOGH-memes

[ID: Legend Of The Galactic Heroes screenshot. Frederica Greenhill Yang sits in the driver's seat of a vehicle, dressed in her naval uniform, and playfully tells those present, "Thank you all very much, but I prefer to be possessed." /end ID]

November 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM

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Earlier I rewatched Mermaid Scar (1993). The re-emergent popularity of Ranma probably is what brought it to mind, though as an annoying Maison Ikkoku fangirl for over 25 years, I probably needed little prompting.

ID: Maison Ikkoku animated gif. Kyoko Otonashi, a black-haired woman in her 20s, is full of life and joy as she runs to return a tennis ball with her racket. /end ID

October 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM

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Crikey...

[ID: Edited El Goonish Shive panel. Grace frowns, bags under her eyes, and says, "Yeah, that's a lot of red flags." End ID]

October 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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https://plush.city/@mynameistillian/115351964020027788

Social media post by Tillian. Text says, i went to the Mad At Me island to see who was there but as soon as i reached the shore and i abandoned my boat, i was completely stunned. what i found were thousands of people with my face, distorted and contorting, vicious, with bloodied grins, showing my every transgression and every single wound that was inflicted onto me, they caused me as well. they were inescapable, their voices choked me, and yet they were all just mirrors to myself. the guy i jostled into on the street was also there

October 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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I often see the categorical condemnation of people based on where they live, absolving oneself and those in one's area of any wrongdoing and conflating region with morality or merit. Dunno if you meant to condemn all rural people for the foolishness of a few, but it came off that way.