aspiring thembo

tlt posting with mega nona spoilers <3

[jordanbolton]

To the Person Who Asked If I Was OK

Pre-order my new book here

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[ao3commentoftheday]

[crazy-brazilian]

[resident-idiot-simp]

[modern-politics111]

[disregardandfelicity]

sounds very similar to a radio story i heard in 2014 ago about credit card debt. the debt got sold to a collection company and a couple received a court summons. they knew they had taken on debt, but they were confused about who this new company was and where specifically the number they were supposed to owe came from.

they show up in court and just ask the lawyer for the collection company: can you prove where this number comes from? Do you have a contract showing that you purchased our debt? probably luckily for them, a reporter researching a book on the topic showed up and asked the same questions.

10 minutes later they get in front of the judge and the collection company drops the whole case and theyre free to go. story is below, it has a transcript in the link too

Prologue - This American Life

Ira talks to reporter Jake Halpern about a scene he saw take place in a Georgia courtroom where a couple uttered some magic words that seeme

[evolutionsbedingt]

https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1674963884703088642

Link to the twitter thread for accessibility!

[quasi-normalcy]

Mel Brooks on taking studio notes:

[drdeath]

Fully and utterly obsessed with every single aspect of this scene

[wintersoldierfell]

#when you’re both gay and one of you is stuck at a family dinner so you plan an elaborate rescue mission

[gecko-with-a-greatsword]

*guy who doesn't know anything about sports and has never cared about sports in his life* hey did you know womens professional baseball is returning after 70 years and the games are going to be streamed for free on youtube and the season starts august 1st

[gecko-with-a-greatsword]

youtube link

Women's Pro Baseball League

Our time is now. The inaugural season of the WPBL begins August 1st, 2026.

website

[beemovieerotica]

was at a bar and a 50+ year old drunk white woman complimented me and my friend's outfits, told us there was a campsite up in northern maryland where a lot of gay bears go to have sex in the woods. we asked her how she knew about this and she very aggressively said "because i'm a FAG HAG!!! but i'm not allowed to say that anymore I GUESS!!!"

[trickstarbrave]

BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU

[pinetreememories]

[gabowook]

Guns and roses or something like that. Thank you Toby Fox for all your blue and yellow couples

[withnailrules]

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

[the-boring-distopia]

There is something so profound about how necro cav relationships are meant to make the necromancer stronger and lead to the cavalier's inevitable demise upon reaching lyctorhood, but every lyctor we ever meet regards the loss of their cavaliers with maddened despair and it inevitably leads to every betrayal against god. The thorn in the side of John's empire is that he can't take loved away and all of his creatures will turn on him for making them try.

Ianthe is the only exception but only because she never truly had a cavalier. She has a sister and she will rather starve herself into an undying death until the sun burn out than eat her sister. The greatest necromancer from the house of gold and greed refuses to do that.

I am not even going to try unravelling the Sixth, that's THE can of worms to ever worm of cans. They saw the stages of grief and said "no, we're going heresy any lysis instead".

[capillaryspice]

One thing that's underlooked but incredibly frustrating about the assimilation of food products industry-wide is allergens

I have a metric fuckton of allergies, including peas and non-fermented soy. Even two or three years ago these particular allergies were not a huge issue because the things they typically were in were pretty easy to identify and avoid. But now every fucking product includes either soy or pea protein or soy flour because of a combination of cost and/or the American obsession with protein. Most chicken nuggets nowadays have pea or isolated soy protein in them, and a good chunk also have soy flour in the coating. Basically every chain bakery item (little debbie, hostess, etc...) has soy flour and/or protein in every one of their items now. Fucking HAMBURGER PATTIES at big box stores have soy protein in them now!!!

I had a craving for donuts the last couple days. I haven't bought a donut in a couple years now, the only ones I've had have been donuts in the break room at work that were from a local bakery. Anyway, I went to Cub, lunds and byerlys, AND Trader Joe's (I already know the Target ones are a no go) and not a single fucking donut in any of those stores, in house or big brand, doesn't use soy flour to some capacity. I checked. Every ingredient list. It took a long time.

I went to the aforementioned bakery this morning bc I live a couple blocks from it, and I'm glad I asked there too because their cake donuts use soy flour! The local bakery!!! They do have brioche donuts that don't use soy, and so I finally got my donuts (I tipped the gal there like 90% on the whole order bc she went above and beyond tracking down recipe lists and talking to the bakers in the back, if ur in mpls definitely shop at Bogarts donuts they're lovely people)

My favorite bread shop growing up changed most of their recipes a couple years ago for the same reason and I can't even shop there anymore. Anyway, all this to say if you have allergies it's another thing that assimilation under capitalism just makes harder. It fuckin sucks, and because small businesses also have to cater to industry standards it's trickling down to the bottom line too. It's insidious, dangerous, more expensive due to having limited options and leading to go the organic/no additives route, and continues to wall people out of food at an ever expanding pace.

I just wanted a fucking donut. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[dankxsinatra]

[drtanner]

The cat is so stoked to be there??? What a little star. 💜

[animentality]