a distance that can't be measured

this has existed for too long, yet i am glad

[diacetylmorphine-android-deacti]

slut

[transmechanicus]

loyal knight

[o-craven-canto]

Come to the Human Cuisine Restaurant, we have:

Boiled grain

Flatbread with various toppings

Flatbread wrapped around filling

Fried lean meat

Stew of fatty meat and starch

Fermented vegetable

Oily sauce

Aromatic herbs

Stimulant alkaloids

Alcoholic beverage

[o-craven-canto]

Added to great demand:

Fried lump of dough

Dough-coated ball of filling

Savory curdled protein

Sugary plant juice

Salt

[wizardarchetypes]

scariest thing is when you're a kid in a huge family run by women and then you go over to a house that's deeply patriarchal & misogynistic. i remember when i was 8 years old and i got invited over to my friend's house for a big birthday party with her entire extended family. after the enormous lunch that served over 30 people, i got called into the kitchen to do literally hundreds of dishes, alongside all the other little girls and women. not only were the boys our age all excused from the meal to go play, but all the grown men went to the living room to watch sports together and drink. i couldn't believe it. i asked why some of the grownups were watching TV but the girls had to clean up and all the women just laughed and laughed at me.

[wizardarchetypes]

as a teenager when i learned the word "sexist" and used it the older women balked at it and tried to convince me this arrangement was a good thing actually because women need space from men, and cleaning in the kitchen after parties is a sacred domain of safety. and i was like actually i think needing private safety from your own husbands, sons, and brothers sounds even worse. like do you understand you somehow made this even more troubling than it already was

[wizardarchetypes]

like i think it's fine if a bunch of sister-in-laws/wives want time together without their husbands & brothers to talk together in camaraderie. i'm not judging that. obviously. but dare i ask why the women's meetup could only take place while doing manual labor for a nearby room full of men

[sacred-portal]

[shingojira]

the fuck you lookin at keep scrollin

[myfairkatiecat]

My friends and I all took a “which Jane Austen love interest would you fall for?” and I was like ooh ooh I hope I get Mr. Knightley. But also if they have Henry Tilney on there he’s super underrated and I would get his humor better than Catherine anyway so I want him too. One of my friends said she wanted Mr. Darcy and I was like eh hard pass. Everyone looked at me like I committed sacrilege and I was like look! I love him! As a character! And I think he’s great for Elizabeth! I am really super happy that Elizabeth ended up with him. And also perfectly content to not be Elizabeth because he’s just not for me. And then we took the test and I got Mr. Darcy and one of my friends said “I forgot not liking him was a prerequisite for falling in love with him” and I threw my phone at her (spiritually, not physically, bc phones are expensive)

[coffeepeople]

One time a friend told me that if she wanted to have a chill night she would come to me and ask for tea and a book to read. I didn’t like tea at the time, but I always made sure my cupboards had them in case she needed a quiet night. One time I told my boss that I loved oranges, but couldn’t peel them because of my nails. For a year he made sure to peel me one at least once a week. Once my friends gave me a made up superlative of “most likely to have a pen they could borrow” and ever since I’ve made sure I always carry a pen with me. A long time ago, my high school librarian told me that no one would care what my grade in my sophomore chemistry class was if I’m bringing them doughnuts and asking them about their day.

[coffeepeople]

Sometimes friendship is about carrying pens and peeling oranges. But the point is, surrounding yourself with people who you want to do the little things for. The point of it all is bringing in the doughnuts because you’ve found the people who deserve the doughnuts.

[big-smiling-monkey]

How sweet it is to be with people you enjoy taking care of

[jessaerys]

my evil superpower is that i am really, really good at the fine-tuning of emotional manipulation for ads which i only use for fb marketplace but if i had less of a moral compass i could make bank in advertisement

[jessaerys]

i didn't actually buy this i inherited it from my roommate who bought it and gave it to me to make some money off of. but that's not a good enough story. the facts are right but we need a more relatable framework, we need to be trendy, we need an adhd mention. adhd mention stocks are way up with brooklyn libs who would buy an espresso machine. clear, clean picture with a plant for the algorithm, which favors aesthetically pleasing pictures. if you get this espresso machine, your mornings will be green and bright. pets work too but use judiciously, you don't want to gross out non-animal people. then you hit them with the challenge that doubles as a disclaimer in case they are unhappy with their purchase: if you buy this espresso maker, you can be a sophisticated person who can handle a delicate machine, unlike me, who is not sophisticated, who is not a coffee connoisseur, like you are, reader. so now that i have lightly self-deprecated which has gotten you into an open, receptive mood, you go in for the kill: a call to action that's a little bit pathetic. sold in 2 days

[amaditalks]

We all know and love The Chocolate Wizard, but may I introduce you to The Paper Wizards? (Fourth Cone Restorations) These people work true magic.

[lgbtqiatext]

[catgirl-kaiju]

[bellcarved]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the worst part about cardio is the laundry

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

“ancient Greeks exercised naked for spiritual or sexual reasons” no they exercised naked because they didn’t own automatic washing machines

[adaarsvitaar]

I await the day video game characters can realistically drink out of cups

[fenmech]

[thranduils]

[thranduils]

[motive11331]

[deceptive-owls]

me n the girls going out n getting wasted

[the-everything-remover]

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[motivationisdead]

Still convinced the most unrealistic thing in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is that all the alchemists could draw perfect circles on the fly.

[roguefandoms]

I fully believe in Ed and especially Al being able to do so, but also, that's part of why I think Mustang wears gloves with it already embroidered (painted? Stitched?) On. If mans had to draw a perfect circle he might blow himself up instead of his target

[motivationisdead]

Yeah but then Mustang went and managed to carve a perfect transmutation circle onto his hand while bleeding out that one time.

Which H O W.

[roguefandoms]

It's because he's g- I am forcefully removed from the podium

[yggidee]

I propose that making perfect circles is a genetic trait in the FMA universe because any alchemist that CAN'T make a perfect circle leaves the gene pool very very rapidly

[roguefandoms]

This suggests that there could be a future or an alternate universe where children are tested for "perfect circle" gene and turned into killing machines to fight a losing war

[yggidee]

that's just the state alchemist exam

[roach-works]

i took an art class once where the teacher walked in and drew a giant, perfect circle on the chalk board. everyone gasped. he then drew a small perfect circle, and kept doing that for about a minute, until everyone was yelling incredulously.

then he explained that he once wanted a studio job where the only test was to walk into the room and draw a perfect circle on command. it's extremely difficult, but you can learn to do it if you spend a couple months doing nothing else with your life. the studio wanted artists that would make that commitment, and this teacher made it.

'so we can do that?' someone asked.

'anyone can do this,' the teacher says, 'if they're prepared to spend all summer learning how.'

anyway, i still can't. but i know now that it's possible and it takes about four months. if drawing a perfect circle was the gateway to doing actual magic on a government salary, i think you wouldn't have a shortage of people practicing their circles.

[agnesmontague]

i love the word jumbotron. the most american word, beating out any sad contender the likes of “burger”. immediately you get “jumbo”, the most american size; land of the Big Gulp. “tron”, like the movie, implying some vague cybernetic concept that hints at its purpose. then you find out, oh, it’s the giant screen at football games. the thing that sometimes puts you on blast for the most mortifying 45 seconds of your life, if you are so lucky. feel like (or become) a star, however briefly. get your affair blasted on national tv. everything about the word speaks to such an american way of living. huge fan

[agnesmontague]

#hate to break it to you but uh#Jumbotron's from Sony#Sony's from Japan#It was invented by a Japanese person

even better! it's an immigrant

[holespoles]

Botanical Applique Quilt by Chinami Terai (Japan)

寺井ちなみ「緑のヴァリエ」

[alexanderwales]

Grim Reaper holding a scythe must have been a much more potent symbol when scythes were in common, everyday use, when people had actually used them on crops, sharpened them, felt the grains falling by the thousands in a single swift sweep. The scythe still exists as a symbol, sure, but it's one that has little visceral meaning to the people that look at it.

[booksandchainmail]

#everyone's in the notes going 'modern grim reaper should drive a combine harvester!!!' but they are missing the point I think#a combine harvester is not a common everyday tool for anyone but a farmer#and farmers are a much smaller percentage of the population than they were back then#and a combine harvester is not a thing you hold in your hands#it's about the warm wood against the skin of your palm#it's about your arms flexing out in the sweeping arc of the harvest – the muscles working; the sun on your back#the soft shushing sound of the grain falling before the blade#the perfect sharpness of the steel – a sharpness you have yourself honed with your own whetstone#the smell of cut greenery rising up around you as you work#the way you can see each individual stalk fall but each one is irrelevant in the cluster of its fellows#..............actually the increased emotional distance of the combine harvester vs the scythe is a funny parallel to the increased distanc#which the average modern person has from agriculture and the source of their food#death bears a scythe because farming is THE foundation of society#it is what most of society spends its time doing#and all of society is deeply aware of how the harvest is going because even if they live in distant cities#when the harvest goes bad the cities starve#only the very wealthy can insulate themselves from such things and even they would be wiser not to#all of this changed a lot and very quickly in the last few centuries (tags via @aethersea)

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

It really is!

[booksandchainmail]

#sibling was making fun of me recently for sitting on the kitchen floor in front of the oven watching many (many) rounds of cookies bake#but it's oven tv! oven tv has it for you! (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)