A Heart Among the Stars @fancyflautist - Tumblr Blog

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grelliam

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xalatath

Okay good news so it turns out the pure of heart actually can pour grease down the sink

fancyflautist

Motherfuckers making comments about "renting" but y'all look up "fatbergs" and the cost you're doing to our public infrastructure, which then means less tax dollars for other important shit.

that-is-just-so-typically-me

OP was obvi kidding but just in case I have followers who don’t know, because I had no idea until I was like 20* that you shouldn’t do this.

Besties please never pour fats - including butter, ghee, tallow, grease, and plant oils (like EVOO, shortening, margarine, or canola oil) down the sink.

Fatbergs not only cause blockages in our wastewater systems that are breathtakingly expensive to fix, and it takes away tax dollars like prev said, but the reason the blockages are bad and need to be fixed is because they cause raw sewer overflow. Overflow events are very bad for the environment, especially aquatic ecosystems, and are a risk to public health.

Every bit of oil not put down the drain counts! If it’s a little bit of oil or butter left in a pan, wait for it to cool, sop it up with a paper towel, and throw it in the trash bin.

If the issue is you don’t want to wait for it to cool down before cleaning up, for small volumes of fat you can pour it into an empty old food can, cover it with foil, and keep it in the fridge to keep using it as a fat receptacle. When it’s full, throw it in the trash bin. I prefer an old jam jar but you have to wait for the oil to cool or it can shatter the glass - so metal can is best if you ever use fats that solidify at room temp.

For big volumes of fat (like after deep-frying), let it cool completely and pour it into a sealable container before throwing it away in the trash bin.

Only you can prevent fatbergssss

*Growing up I had no idea this is why my parents kept used oil in a tin in the fridge lol, I thought they just didn’t want the sink to get greasy.

fancyflautist

Thank you for taking the time to explain it well for everyone!!!!

#psa #signal boost

ponett

you just don't get shit like this with 8-episode streaming seasons

ladymalchav

Finally finished this cross-stitch for my sister's birthday next month.

Idk what I did to mess up the letters so they're too far to the right, but I think it still looks good

superkursunaskr

bxrntcheesecat

Some recent calico studies :p

wizardarchetypes

OH THE ADHD REALLY GOT ME THIS TIME GIRLS!!!!

wizardarchetypes

a couple weeks ago on my way to do laundry i dropped the detergent container and it broke and spilled all over. after i cleaned it up, i needed a vessel for the remaining detergent so i grabbed a rinsed+clean oat milk carton out of the recycling. well i guess after doing laundry a few days ago in the seconds between the laundry basket and the laundry shelf my brain said 'oh oat milk carton. goes in fridge.' and i put it there with nary a thought in my head. just now i'm sitting at my desk eating cookies and think 'oh i want milk' and reach into the mini fridge beside me, grab the first carton i see, open a carton to take a swig too fast to stop, and well you know the rest.

wizardarchetypes

secret third thing #dranklaundrysoap

wizardarchetypes

you CAN overcome adhd hurdles in your life to do things you want to do such as Recycling and Putting Objects Away Where They (USUALLY!) Belong,

BUT ☝️ be careful

spockslash

An open Tumblr letter to younger fans, from a 77-year-old TOS fangirl

* who has shipped Spirk since that night in 1967 that Amok Time first aired * and helped storm NBC to keep TOS on the air for a 3rd season * and wrote fanfic way back in the day * and was privileged to be around for the earliest days of fandom, when Leonard used to come to your house if that’s where the fan club was meeting and sit on the sofa with you in that Spock hair cut and eat cake

All of you who are writing TOS/AOS fan fiction and creating fan art now: remember, YOU are the ones shaping the traditions of fandom. You have inherited the kingdom. Bless you for keeping it vibrant, growing, alive. In fifty years, you will be the ones who are remembered for molding it and handing it down to the future. It probably doesn’t feel like now, but you are making history.

Your current addiction to TOS and the feels you get when you contemplate the love between Jim and Spock will be with you for life. It won’t always be in the forefront; you will sometimes go years, sometimes go a decade, without Star Trek being more than a passing thought. But then something will remind you and every consuming feeling you feel right now will come rushing back, every bit as powerful and deep and strong as it is today. All there, right where you left it.

The friendships you make in fandom will be with you for life. Like all friendships, they will wax and wane as the focus of your life shifts over time, but you will always be able to pick up the thread. You will — to give you a hypothetical example — be 77 years old and discover Tumblr and get a rush of Spirk feels after a decade of not giving TOS a thought, and contact your 83-year-old fangirl friend in the nursing home, to whom you haven’t spoken in several years. You will open the conversation with, “So, Jim and Spock love each other and that just makes me so happy.” And your friend in the nursing home will sigh and say, “Yes. They do love each other. It’s such a comfort.”

That look that Jim and Spock give each other, of absolute adoration and acceptance and love? That’s real. It’s rare, but it’s real. One of my greatest joys in life is to see my son and his husband give each other looks like that. Of course I don’t know you; I don’t know your strengths and struggles or your place on the spectrum of gender or anything about your sexuality or what you look like or what your life has taught you to believe about yourself, but I do know this: YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED AND LOOKED AT THE WAY JIM AND SPOCK LOOK AT EACH OTHER. Please don’t accept less than that in your life.

The future of our planet does not seem very hopeful at the moment. But please remember that when Gene created Star Trek, the world was in turmoil and the future seemed very bleak. Star Trek is, was, always shall be about hope. Reach for it. When TOS first aired, we hoped to see some form of a Starfleet on the horizon in our lifetimes. That vision must be passed on to you. Do it. Make the world worthy of launching the human race out into space. CREATE STARFLEET.

You are all creative and funny and amazing. Far more amazing than you know. Be kind to yourselves. Live long and prosper, kids.

Tags are in reference to my first bullet point. Meant as a kudos to your work, but feel free to untag yourself if you don’t want to be linked to my ramblings; I won’t be offended! (Also, this extends to a thousand other artists and writers out there who deserve kudos. tag at will.)

spockslash

@spockslash will not be taken down until / unless tumblr takes it down.

Love from “Fandom Grandma” Dee’s children

thefreakmeister

can my job be star trek. im great at star trek

leebrontide

Do you have any idea what I could do if they let me remake DS9?

#let me take a crack at voyager #like plz

lilyblisslys

*remembering being a straight guy is about alcohol consumption and masculine camaraderie* you're like the sprig of mint in my julep bro

cocainejuul

I hope everyone grows tired of being cruel to each other soon

winged-wolf-tsuki

creaturey

i think r/BenignExistence is my favorite subreddit 🥲 i love these pleasant little glimpses into strangers' lives

drchucktingle

another day, another opportunity to create. you get to shape this moment as a thousand different timelines pour off of you in a thousand different ways. so fill it with beauty. how? give today the the uniqueness that makes YOU you. you are the perfect ingredient for this moment bud. LETS TROT

drchucktingle

thats exactly what i meant

clytemnestraaa

just had a really stable moment where i opened a redbull at the exact same second someone started playing industrial music in the apartment below and i briefly thought it was coming from inside the redbull can