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we're not kids anymore.
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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can i speak my truth is this a safe space
not to save my fucking LIFE will you ever get me in a hot yoga class
i don't CARE how many of my friends fall victim to the propaganda and talk about how cleansed and renewed they feel afterwards
like HELL will you EVER get me into an exercise done in ON-PURPOSE HOT ROOM
DEATH FIRST
There’s an emotion only unlocked when you live in a house with multiple stories. I call it “the stair emotion” and it’s when you realize the object you need is on the other side of yet another trip up and down those goddamn stairs. It’s the closest I get to transcending the desire for material goods. Maybe I don’t need that notebook. Maybe I don’t need anything.
The “encrapification” of the American pint — a chemist’s plain-language dissection
Really good article by a chemist on why most ice cream sucks now— it’s because it’s not really ice cream.
part of me wants to be like "do people really not know this" and part of me knows full well i only read the labels because i have gut problems and don't want to suffer
anyway i've had my eye on the fat content for years. actual ice cream made with real cream won't trigger my lactose intolerance, because the higher the fat content of dairy, the lower the lactose content. my personal tipping point is around half-and-half so if you make "ice cream" with with skim milk, the enshittification i experience is unfortunately literal
A lot of the lore questions can be answered with, "yes, Spike is just a fucking freak."
Like, yeah vampires don't get much out of eating, won't risk going out during the day, wouldn't have the inner compass to seek out a soul, wouldn't stand by a mad Drusilla for centuries, would avoid slayers at all cost, and wouldn't aid a slayer once neutered for funsies.
Spike is just a fucking freak. A weirdo. Darla and Angel couldn't stand him in part due to the fact that something just is sideways in that man's head. No wonder him and Drusilla got on like a house on fire, they both have something deeply wrong with them.
And yeah, there's that whole demon taking the human as a template theory, and Spike being hedonism personified, and I'm well aware.
But like, I think using Spike as any kind of metric is a mistake because he is simply like that.
Spike is a kinked up, adrenaline junkie, loser, who sees common sense and sprints the other way with nothing but a blanket for holes for cover. It's just him, his purple shampoo, and his boredom zooming through the undead existence.
I have many thoughts about how much of the BtVS vampire lore as stated by the Council and Angel is either just wrong or twisted or misinterpreted, but simultaneously I can't deny that also Spike is just a fucking freak.
when that absolute CUNT (past me) said, "no, we don't need any little sweet treats to have with our tea this week" and now I have no little sweet treats to have with my tea this week
If you dream about work you should be allowed to sleep in an extra hour.
'Ariel in the Cloven Pine' from William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' by Paul Vincent Woodroffe, 1905.
Bro. Just found out that death valley is a real actual place in america. what the fuck. I thought they made that up for the fall out boy song
Been listening to this song for 10 years man i thought they were just being edgy
Enjoyment of song severely gone down since finding out that death valley is Not in fact a strange mythical land full of nihilistic emos having sex all the time or smth and is actually a real place that is 1 day and some hours away by flight and would cost around ₹89k to reach :(
This is so fucked up.
Ironically, America does ALSO include a “strange mythical [desert] land full of nihilistic emos having sex”; it’s just that instead of “all the time” it’s a week-long annual festival called Burning Man which takes place every late August/early September in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada (the state next to the state where Death Valley is). Yes, of COURSE the name comes from the giant humanoid effigy that they burn every year, amidst taking a lot of drugs and having a lot of sex.
It is so funny to me how most people in Dead Boy Detectives are just “let me tell you about my backstory.”
Edwin repeatedly brings up Hell, like he wants to add “so there, nyah” but he’s too proper. Charles says Edwin has told him loads of stories about his time there too.
Tragic “I was once a mighty walrus” Mick.
Esther tells teenage kids currently foiling her plans that she made a deal with a primordial goddess. Also, the snake thing. She doesn’t question how Crystal learned about Esther’s cheating husband—how well known is that story?
Nico tells someone she just met about her dad dying, dropping out of school, not being able to read her mother’s letters.
Crystal doesn’t even remember her past, but she’ll vent about her asshole ex-boyfriend and getting out of a bad relationship with her landlord she’s known for a day.
She’s using the “treat my trauma like a joke so I don’t have to actually deal” method, but Jenny does bring up her alcoholic father.
Aisha the gift shop owner only has a few minutes of screen time but still manages to mention she does acid and paints primordial goddesses.
The three most secretive people are Monty (and you know he’d be chattering about his actual past instead of his made up one if he could), the Cat King, and Charles.
Which is even funnier, because Cat King and Charles are so alike here! They are both saying “look at me, pay attention to me, no not like that.” And they would absolutely hate having that in common.
The real conflict in Smallville isn’t Clark vs Lex, it’s Lex vs the Narrative.
I’m not even being pithy here. We have a character that is Going To Become Evil. That is the information we have going in. Then he shows up episode one, he’s kind and hurting and being emotionally abused by his father and the whole town hates him and he keeps trying.
But he can’t win, because the pitch that got the show made depends on him Becoming Evil. It externalises the evil as something that happens to him, rather than the Lexes in other media who often start out as arseholes who only get worse. This Lex could have been good, but he’s not allowed. The narrative says from the get-go, without subtlety because subtlety is not Smallville’s strong point, ‘there’s darkness in him’. And then it shows us a kind and intelligent man trying to escape from his father’s control and says ‘that guy, there. Don’t you see it? He’s going to destroy everything. Why? Oh, because he’s Lex Luthor. The narrative requires it.’ And that's the fucking tragedy.
And part of the tragedy is so many almost-moments where you wonder if Clark could have helped him. On the brink of sharing his secret, of speaking openly with Lex, of showing someone believed in him and Lex wasn't defined or doomed to be like his father - on the brink, and then turns aside. Superman's Narrative keeps his secret, and though Clark sees the good in this young Lex he has just enough doubt or hesitation that he doesn't commit to trusting Lex, and Lex can see it. And Lex of Smallville, who does want to help, who wants to be worthy of trust, is pushed further to the end he cannot escape.
One of my favorite tropes is post apocalyptic towns being named after dilapidated signs with missing letters, like Novac (no vacancy) and Eaden (dead end). There’s something inexplicable about it
catch me in the city of fre shavaca do
Post apocalyptic? It’s from Winnie the Pooh! Piglet has an old broken sign by his house, which he says was his grandfather's name: Trespassers W, short for Trespassers Will, short for Trespassers William.
Maybe I don't want to have to install a vpn in order to have a usable internet experience. Maybe I just want to log in and see online bullshit as god intended.
A 15-year-old boy is about to base his entire personality on the last movie you watched for the next 10 years. HOW BAD IS IT?
He is going to get himself killed. Badly.
He is going to (try to) kill himself
The most obnoxious person in the world has just been born
FURRY (derogatory)
FURRY (normal)
Not much has changed? But now he's stuck like this for 10 years? Yikes.
It's cringe but it could have been a lot worse
At least he'll have fun at Comic Con
If anything this is a slight improvement.
He's not a boy anymore. He's a man now.
She's not a boy anymore. She's a girl now.
FINALLY, a son I can be proud of!
“Cook at home to save money” sounds all well and good until you get a little too into it and suddenly you’re bookmarking recipes that call for The Preserved Grace of God and that shit is $13 at the specialty store
Budget cooking tip! The Preserved Grace of God can frequently be substituted with whole milk. Not epistemologically but like. Practically. Because that recipe wasn't traditionally made with the Preserved Grace of God that's just what the bored trad wife blogger put in to make it different from the Allrecipes version she copied.
(Grandma's Spite is the traditional ingredient but again. Whole milk or sour cream usually works; check the desired end texture.)
peer reviewing these tags in particular because REALLY what have we become??? what are we scared of??? a cracked top on our cheesecakes?? literally just blend some fruit and sugar and boom you have something to hide the crack with. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH FOOD THAT DOES NOT LOOK INSTAGRAM PERFECT. THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT IT TASTES GOOD.
And! If you just set it next to the vent on your stove so it cools slowly! IT WON'T EVEN CRACK!
AND IF IT DOES CRACK AND THE PERSON YOU SERVE IT TO COMPLAINS YOU TAKE THEIR CHEESECAKE AND YOU EAT IT AND YOU MAINTAIN EYE CONTACT THE ENTIRE TIME! THEY DON'T DESERVE YOUR CHEESECAKE!
My period is over!
(Reader, my period was not over.)
