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[yuurei20]

Hey there! I was wondering, since we have the "Favorite food and why" sections in the twst note site now, could we also have a "Least favorite food and why" compilation too? Still love your work & hope you're thriving 🤗

Hello hello, thank you very much for this question! 🎂🫑🍣🧄🍛 You are too kind!! ^^ ♡

Very many apologies for the delay, here is a compilation of "Least Favorite Food and Why"!

Trey: Mustard

Trey's dislike of mustard comes up as early as his first birthday vignette, where he explains the reason why:

One time, Chenya and I decided to test our luck with a little game. We had six cream puffs, and one contained mustard. I'm sure you can guess the rest—| drew the short straw. We didn't have any water, and Chenya was just laughing nonstop...I seriously almost cried.

In a Master Chef voice line Trey says, "I hear your tastes can change as you grow older. I tried mustard for the first time in years, but I guess I've...yet to acquire that particular taste."

In his Platinum Jacket vignette Trey explains a time he tried to overcome his dislike of mustard, but went about it the wrong way.

When Leona asks if he could just not eat it, instead, Trey says it is too troublesome both to himself and the chef to ask for mustard to be removed from everything he eats in the cafeteria, and he feels that would be rude to mask the flavor of a dish that someone else has made for him.

Trey's solution was to try and force himself to get over his aversion, putting mustard in at least one dish every day for a week, and almost even putting it in cake.

He says his dormmates refusing to let him add it to the cake is what made him realize that it would be okay to give up if he had already gone to such lengths without success ("Once I start obsessing over something, I tend to get a little too carried away......").

While he still dislikes mustard Trey says that, thanks to that week of effort, he is now able to eat dishes with mustard in them as long as it is only being used as a light accent.

In the Magical Archives Game Guide, Trey's official eye color is listed as, "mustard."

More here:

Official Hair and Eye Colors

Trey’s eye color is listed as “mustard” in volume one of the official Magical Archives Game Guide and Trey’s connection to food is maybe par

[exhaled-spirals]

« When I think back on the year 1915, it seems to me that I still hear my friends tell me despondently: "I can't think of anything else! I can't read, I can't work, or find useful distractions (...), I only ruminate about our times, incessantly, until I'm nauseated (...). I've just had two hours of liberty—there was a time when I would have offered them to Tolstoy or Pascal. Today I read about [the war], or European colonial methods; issues that are entirely beyond my reach, but how to think of anything else?"

And perhaps we shouldn't strive to think of anything else; the point is not to turn our backs on our times, but to consider them calmly and thoughtfully. (...) It may be that the philosophy which absorbs you leaves no room for indulgence. Perhaps you feel yourself full of bitterness and rancour towards your fellow men, perhaps you have made up your mind to see in their activities nothing but greed and selfishness. (...) Do not be too eager to prove yourself right! Above everything, do not rejoice in being right in so dismal a fashion. (...) My only ambition is to beg the world to look for anything which can lighten the present and future distress of mankind, to find what interests the soul in a life burdened with troubles and disillusionments, to honour more than ever the faithful and imperishable resources of our inner life. (...)

The storm rages on, the events escalate, worsen, never cease. Never have they seemed more complex, more severe, more demanding. More dangerous. Wherever we turn, an opinion holds up its head and vehemently solicits our belief. (...) Our convictions, our certainties, are at each other's throats. (...) Yet mankind, even in these terrible hours, is only seeking happiness. Men have set off to conquer happiness, clutching in their hands the tools which will forever destroy it. (...) The wrong direction the world has taken is so obvious, so cruel, so vast (...)

Regardless, I would suggest not to lose hope—so long as a single wallflower still opens, in April, over the ruins of the world. Like algae, like mosses, like these laborious lichens which attach to the very ruins their infinite need for happiness, we will find joy in our present affliction and we will grow it, like a wind-battered plant in the parched soil of a wilted world. »

— Georges Duhamel, La Possession du monde (translation mine) Written in 1917 as he worked as an army surgeon.

[90ssuperheroes]

Let's take a moment to appreciate just how amazing the title cards were for Batman the Animated Series.

[forgotn1]

Oh! I actually know what made these look so iconic!

The backgrounds for the entire series were done on black paper, a first for any animated show. It's Batman, which means everything is at night and incredibly dark. So, the majority of the backgrounds were going to be black anyways and using black paper would cut down on the time it took to create all of the backgrounds. Adding color over the black paper instead of the traditional method gave it a much more stylized look that helped make it iconic.

It also forced some other creative choices, such as using an airbrush to do all of the background art. During the early testing, they found that using an airbrush was easier to apply paint with than a paintbrush and that it looked better. Airbrushing let them be more experimental with painting techniques, such as the spattery fades you can see in the "Bane" and "Deep Freeze" title cards above or the soft, deeply shadowed face on "the Last Laugh." The overall effect of airbrushing on a black background is a much darker, moodier vibe than could be achieved with a traditional approach.

They cared very deeply about the art of the show and how they were going to create it. It wasn't just about the story or the character. In the words of co-creator Eric Radomski: "As opposed to making shows just to sell toys, we've made quality films."

[l0rdgumby]

PSA the "si" in shared YouTube links stand for Seal Indicator. This means there is a nefarious seal tracking your information and will give YouTube your data in exchange for fish. Please remove the part after "?si=" before you click on it or share the link with others because it is a tracking token!

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Trades your data for fish! Tracking tokens!🎵

[7crowsinadress]

If you’re a USAmerican and rightfully horrified by what the government is doing right now, I just want to rq share 5calls. They have a really simple tool for finding your reps and contacting them, as well as a variety of scripts for anyone not confident speaking off book. Emails can be filtered out, phone calls, voicemails, and physical letters are much harder to ignore. Calling your reps isn’t the end all be all of anti-war action, but it’s a place to start while you process what the fuck just happened.

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

[narutwitter]

[were--ralph]

i should start 2026 by asking out the guy i like who lives across the country even though im broke and can not afford to travel

[were--ralph]

one thousand notes by the time i wake up (5 hours) and i'll do it

[were--ralph]

oh my bad i mistyped i meant 100k by the end of the week silly me silly mistake i need a new keyboard

[amarveloustune]

what album is the most important to you? not as in your favorite, but the one that was at the most formative time and is critical to your lore

[senatortedcruz]

my new year's resolution is to be normal

[senatortedcruz]

Solve world hunger it is

[raisinchallah]

ok enough regular fujoshi media we need to investigate how writing about men fucking is actually proxy sex between women we need a story about two womens increasingly codependent and toxic online friendship built on writing slash fiction together escalating to doing sex roleplay on instant messengers pretending to be their favorite ship to get better at writing so they can really embody the mind of the characters obviously and talking one of the women thru her divorce and their weird emotionally blurred and toxic friendship as the more talented friend keeps leveraging her popularity and control over a major fanfic site in the fandom to keep control over the rapidly deteriorating friendship and they have weird phone sex and one of them realizes they are gay for real and gets a girlfriend whos jealous of how much time shes spending online and the friendship eventually explodes and one of them goes on to get published and the other woman shows up at her book signing and its the first time they have ever seen each other face to face but only one of them knows who the other is

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[laerugo]

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

[mortimermcmirestinks]

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

[rue-nightly]

A 2025 update

[justjasper]

OKAY i'm intrigued by Zevran/Josephine...

I’ve got a big fat fucking bone to pick with you, my darling (lmfao)

From the Alkaline Trio prompts!!

Josephine is nearing sleep, when there's a knock on the door of her quarters. The hour is very late, and only the banked hearth gives any light to the room. If someone wishes to speak with her, they surely will wait for her as she pulls a dressing down over her nightdress.

She does not expect the Iron Bull to be at her door. She most definitely does not expect him to be holding someone by the scruff of the neck.

"I have a bone to pick with you," says Zevran, not even struggling even though his feet are off the floor. "This is no way to treat a guest."

"Do guests usually try to climb in ladies windows?" the Bull says.

"Bull, oh! I must apologise if my... aquaintance here has inconvienced you."

Thank the Maker that the Iron Bull has proved to be discreet, when it is warranted.

"He's only lucky I recognised him before I broke his neck," the Bull says, jovially.

"You know him?"

Zevran grins. "I know lots of people."

"Why am I not surprised. You can put him down, Bull."

Iron Bull drops Zevran, who lands fairly gracefully.

"You good, Josephine?"

"Yes, thank you. I can... deal with Zevran from here."

The Bull gives what she think is a wink.

"I'm a lot to deal with," Zevran says, leaning against the wall beside her door. "Perhaps he should stay to assist you."

"Oh, my," Josephine says, which is not, apparently, a no. It would be a lie to say she hasn't considered the Iron Bull in such a sense; he is a uniquely huge and handsome man, as well as thoughtful. She does not imagine that the rumours that persist about his prowess are untrue.

"Spoken for, little guy," he says, saving Josephine from herself. "Got my own good trouble tonight, can't keep a vint waiting. I'll leave the lady Josephine to hers."

"Another night, perhaps," Zevran says, and the Bull tips his head and makes to leave. "Who's his good trouble? Are they any fun?"

"Sweet Maker," Josephine says, at the sheer concept of Zevran meeting lord Dorian. "Come on in before anyone else sees you!"

[my fic on ao3] [my fic on tumblr] [bluesky] [prompt me]

For @thedasweekend

[cupcraft]

Do you want to be politically pure in theory or help your neighbor. Is it fruitless to help your neighbor because there's no Perfect Pure way to do it ?

[kingxanthesecond]

Honestly I would rather be politically pure. Your neighbors would never help you, so why help them?

[cupcraft]

Youre who this post is talking about. Individualism and elitism is not going to help the revolution and grassroots activism and mutual aid.

[gean-grey-blog]

When the pandemic hit this old church lady joined our tattooed queer leftist mutual aid group bc her church soup kitchen closed. We shrugged and told her she was welcome as long as she didn't proselytize.

That woman never gendered me right once, but she shut up about Jesus long enough to feed people next to us bc she cared more about action than ideology. She also had a whole network of other church people who helped contribute $ to ingredients. We provided more and better meals together than in our "correct" silos

That's how any of us get out of any of this

[sugareimon-deactivated20260217]

Solidarity is far more important and useful than purity.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

[maxofs2d]

Firefox is adding an AI kill switch

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of Mozilla, announced that AI will be added to Firefox. Public outcry prompted Enzor-DeMeo, and then Jake Archibald

Additionally, here are some interesting comments from a Mozilla employee who's been working on these features:

[thelegendofsqam]

[wrenchinator-central]

No, you should definitely keep calling it a kill switch. It helps describe my feelings on the matter.

I would also accept ai throttle. Not because I want to use levels of activity between fully on and fully off, but because I want to throttle the ai with my bare hands.

[irishironclad]

okay this makes me feel a lot better

[unconvenchinal-charm-reactivated]

Take notes @ all other companies

[yyshcul]

could you please do a tutorial on how you do your risograph style drawings? they look so cool 😭😭

[ourravenboys]

during these exciting times (heated rivalry) i am once again encouraging you guys to watch women’s hockey, where this ACTUALLY publicly happens

[vamppvictoria]

is this that yuri on ice people talk about