part time soulmate, full time problem

I’m the dumbest girl alive

[milquetoaast]

source

[yanguang]

[peashooter85]

Pearl inlaid English or American bowie knife, mid 19th century.

from Helios Auctions

[strangestcase]

Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.

[bleu-guacamole]

This reminds me of the blood river in Antarctica. For like a century scientists had no clue why this river looked like, acted like, and felt exactly like blood. Turns out it’s just really high in iron.

[the-sassy-composer]

"Blood River in Antartica" yeah right there's no way a river looks like bl-

...nevermind

[wigmund]

Blood Falls isn't just high in iron, it's the byproducts of extremophile bacteria that have been isolated under a glacier in a iron- and sulfur-rich anoxic brine for the past 5 million years.

[condorart]

Let’s be sleepy with mama

[rancidthing-deactivated20240711]

its all about the jaws and the paws

[rancidthing-deactivated20240711]

i said the jaws!

and the paws!

and just a little bit of style

[viralfrog]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[wonderwall]

We finally figured out what makes Kristen Stewart smile: hot wings! The “Twilight” star posed for this amazing photo after dining at a Hooters restaurant in Texas recently. Get the details at Wonderwall.com.

[teaboot]

Yeah it was probably the wings

[ms-demeanor]

“Meatless alternatives are getting so good, you should try them! I bet you wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference! In fact….”

Please

Please

Please stop trying to sneak-feed me meat alternatives.

I am willing to prepare and share a vegan meal with you, I’m willing to skip animal products in our group spaces.

Please.

Stop trying to sneak-feed me meat alternatives.

[ms-demeanor]

Mycoprotein is fucking cool, vat-grown meat is fucking cool, believe me I am fucking down for figuring out efficient calories and I’m interested in attempting to reduce or eliminate animal agriculture but you wouldn’t want me to sneak-feed you cricket flour, you don’t get to sneak-feed me your stuff.

[wmb-salticidae]

I wouldn’t mind if you snuck-fed me cricket flour, actually. If cricket flour is indistinguishable from regular flour then sure, go for it.

I really don’t know what the initial gripe is about, though. The anonymous person you quote is not trying to sneak-feed you anything. They outright say “meatless alternative.” Is your problem that they may have GMOs? I genuinely have no idea what your complaint is, because you’re talking about people sneak-feeding you meatless stuff but your pics are all about GMO corn starch or whatever.

[ms-demeanor]

I have celiac disease and a corn allergy and a relative who wanted to try to pass off impossible burger as ground beef to prove how good meat alternatives are.

I don’t care about “gmo” and I dont care about the fact that it’s “textured protein” I care about “corn” and “wheat” and I care that people without food allergies rarely know how inescapable some of those allergens are.

“Oh, I checked the ingredients, it doesn’t have corn”

Okay but does it have maltodextrin, modified food starch, xanthan gum, caramel coloring, dextrose, or glucose syrup?

If it does have any of those things do they specifically say “from potatoes,” “from tapioca,” “from cane sugar” or “from rice”?

If it didn’t did you check the manufacturer’s website? If that didn’t say did you call the manufacturer?

Sometimes I’ll use almond or coconut flour as a replacement for wheat flour when I’m cooking. I do not try to pretend that my alternate flour chocolate chip cookies are wheat flour chocolate chip cookies because most people don’t expect to run into coconut or almond when they pick up a chocolate chip cookie. I don’t try to hand them to people, wait for them to eat a cookie, and say “hah, bet you didn’t think gluten free cookies could taste good, huh?” because if I did that to someone with a severe allergy it could kill them, but also because people should have a say in what they’re eating.

I’ve got no problem with beyond beef or impossible burger describing their products as meat alternatives, I’ve got no problem with GMOs or the fact that quorn is made out of a heavily engineered protein. That’s all very neat, actually.

But I do have a problem with people trying to sneakily serve meat alternatives without considering that doing so is shitty for a number of reasons.

[hapalopus]

Also, insect protein can cause severe reactions to people with shellfish allergies, so that’s another reason not to feed cricket flour to people without telling them.

[tyrannosaurus-tex]

And by severe reactions to shellfish/insect protein they mean ANAPHYLAXIS.

That’s medical speak for:

IT CAN KILL YOU.

Anaphylaxis can cause you to have difficulty breathing or stop breathing at all. It can cause a critical drop in blood pressure or send you into medical shock.

Never sneak ingredients into someone’s food. Especially if you know they have dietary restrictions, but even if you don’t know. They may not have told you.

[headspace-hotel]

shellfish is just ocean bugs so it makes sense.

Anyways dont poison people

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[ohholydyke]

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

[normaloperafan]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have to get this piercing!

Do you like it?

I have it!

Yes!

yes but I wouldn't get it

No

Wouldn't be worth it

Results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 11 hours

[maviyenot]

[klapollo]

"avatar the last airbender is the blueprint" for......what exactly

[dunmertitty]

his blue print

[hannahmcgill]

Some of my entries for this challenge do not have 'dragon' in their name and were chosen because they would be a cool dragon aesthetic, such as this Great Eared Nightjar

[img id]Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of an exuberant-looking Great Eared Nightjar perched on a leafy, isometric chunk of dark forest earth. The Great Eared Nightjar looks like a big fat barn swallow crossed with a great horned owl's mottled coloration. It has excessively large, bulging eyes but unlike a potoo, the eyes make it look cute and not constantly horrified. This bird has its mouth open like it's waiting for a mosquito to fly right into it. [/id]

[turtles-allthewaydown]

Did you know? That the back is made up of terrible and evil muscles that are only waiting for their chance to betray you

[waitinforthebus-deactivated2020]

[byjove]

The Lady of the Lake is a misnomer, she is not the governor of one lake but the guardian of all lakes in Prydain. Additionally, she is capable of emerging from any body of water with a minimum surface diameter of twenty inches, including large vernal pools and particularly nasty potholes on the roads that Arthur hasn’t gotten around to refinishing. She has the ability to spy on events occurring in the surface world through smaller vessels of water such as buckets, chalices and dungeon puddles. One may assume Lancelot is the primary victim of this espionage but it is Merlin, he has begun covering all glasses and bowls of water in his vicinity out of an abundance of caution. She takes great amusement in grabbing his ankle from roadside ditches.

[depsidase]