of Witchcraft and the Stars @asteria-and-hecate - Tumblr Blog

When there’s literally nowhere else to go…

Genuinely one of the best most effective commercial I’ve seen in years i literally want to go there there’s nothing they have that’s any different from the gas station by is but the energy here is evocative and i want to gooooooo

foolhearteyes

Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

puppygirllaika

"you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel" girl i am living that balsamic life, that's the mommy down there at the bottom.

puppygirllaika

#are you havinf a stroke or am i i can NOT understand this

Balsamic vinegar is made by aging a reduced grape syrup in barrels with "mother", which is a kind of bacterial slime that develops naturally in the vinegar over time. True balsamic vinegar goes through a very particular process of aging it in a series of smaller and smaller barrels, transferring it from one barrel to the next either every year, or every few years, depending on the process, and then adding fresh syrup to the largest barrel and continuing the process. The slimy film that forms on the insides of the barrels is the mother, and due to the increased concentrations over the years, the mother in the smallest barrel is most potent, and is sometimes partially removed and used to seed new batches of vinegar, so production can be expanded. Scraping the mother from the bottom of the barrel is how you multiply the goodness, the sweetness, and the quality of your balsamic.

puppygirllaika

If you've ever bought a bottle of apple cider vinegar and thought "what's that cloudy stuff at the bottom?", that's the mommy <3

puppygirllaika

This is also a part of what makes a high quality balsamic, well, high quality. And part of what makes it expensive. Good quality balsamic is all about age, both the age of the batch itself, and the age of the mother that seeds it. Balsamic has to be at least 12 years old, but you can age it much longer, and many places do. As for the mother, that requires literal lifetimes. Some of the oldest balsamic producing families in Modena have mothers that have been kept alive for centuries, passed down through the generations to seed new batches year after year after year, hundreds of years over. The bacterial cultures develop unique and incredible flavors in this time, and you can really taste it in the end product. It's the kind of flavor and quality only age can offer.

puppygirllaika

we have entered laika's autism zone. u will learn food and cooking facts, whether you want to or not.

rhube

I wanna go vinegar tasting in Modena.

#yea this is the real shit #when you taste balsamic older than the nation of italy thats god talking to you

transmutationisms

spam emails are horrifying on an entirely different level once you actually begin to grapple with the material reality of ‘cyberspace’. how many servers were involved in dumping this message into my trash folder, where are they located, how much water goes into cooling them every day? where did the metals come from to build these facilities, who maintains them, how much labour and suffering and exploitation is required to bombard me with 50 messages a day i don’t even look at for products i will never buy? not just useless or a nuisance, but actively harming the earth & its people, and for what. zero social value, zero human communication, just capital trying to metastasise

woman-becomer

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

interpolationz

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

lazzarella

shesmore-shoebill

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

dragon-png

obsessed with cats that bark

veepangwin

cats are the best. such social creatures. so ready to code switch. learn from their surroundings. truly the IRL autism beast

eliciaforever-deactivated201906

strangeskeletonboy

Waiting for the day this happens to me.

thedookutree

This is still my favorite comic to date.

ineffectualdemon

Every time I see this it makes me happy

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you are not a clever man

walmart-the-official

that’s me

escuerzoresucitado

3000s

theyre talking about us again

anactualmoon

gayshitanddadjokes

NO THIS IS SO FUNNY THO

Yeah we fucking won this shit is great

borkthemork

I really like this article, you should go check it out.

krillbeans

soft sad freaks (affectionate)

Ok I feel like we deserve the whole damn quote. The Internet’s soul. It belongs to us.

silver-tongues-blog

us with the internets soul

everythingfox

Accepted as part of the herd

guerrillatech

csny

you are NOT my “passenger princess” get off your phone we are Under attack!!!!!!!! you are my gunner; man the weapons and defend our vehicle with your life!!!

memewhore

cipheramnesia

Y'all are gonna love Dave Made A Maze

cipheramnesia

I don't mean that in the sense of like "Dave Made A Maze did this thing etc etc" more in the sense that it's using similar ideas, and if you saw this two minute video and were like damn I want more, you can scratch that itch right now. Dave Made A Maze is a "holy shit two cakes" handshake addition.