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[meryl-writes-deactivated2023121]

A Song of Sorrow and Guilt~ HOTD

For @flannelsandfatcats

⚠️Descriptions of stillbirth⚠️

It was imperfect; her enemies would jeer ‘diluted’, ‘tainted’, - ‘bastard’, but it was a dragon’s brood through and through. By the blood of Old Valyria, of Jaeherys, of her father Viserys. Of her blood. The blood of dragons. The dark hair of her two beloved sons did not make them any less Targaryen; they were the sons of dragons, not just by her ancestry but the blessing of Syrax and the dragons before her.

​Rhaenyra remembered the day she presented her firstborn to her dragon. Hobbling from afterbirth, red-faced, sweat dripping from her temples, Rhaenyra had raised little Jacaerys to the amber gaze of Syrax, speaking low and soothingly in the old, lilting language. Syrax had made a low crooning, rumbling sound, much like a purr from deep within her throat at the sight of the babe. Then she bent down and oh-so-delicately pressed her muzzle and maw against the top of his head, the gesture of a dragon’s kiss. A kiss from a god, a blessing for a future king.

​Rhaenyra did the same for Lucerys, for Joffrey, and she presented both Aegon and Viserys in the presence of her new husband. Daemon’s pride shown the moment Syrax and Caraxes both acknowledged his sons as sons and princes of dragons. In fact, Rhaenyra had never seen him more proud.

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[flannelsandfatcats]

OMG ILYSM this was so visceral, your writing is unreal

[disposablebicycle]

Freelancing in technical theater means you’re on a lot of different email lists. People need a crew, they send out an email, you respond with your availability. Now, most people start these with things like “hey folks” or “hi everyone”. Neal is not most people.

His openers started off innocent enough.

Then, he started to push boundaries.

And as you can see, it has spiraled out of control since then.

[disposablebicycle]

[disposablebicycle]

[disposablebicycle]

[disposablebicycle]

Tag yourselves. I’m the anteater in a suit who thinks he can pass.

[disposablebicycle]

THEY JUST KEEP COMING

He’s even witty in real time.

[maestrokitty-deactivated2019082]

Neal is a hecking gift.

[numeneragoth]

this is a very good resource for an rpg character gjcjiscnnsjc

[cipheramnesia]

My new guide to professional email greetings.

[sarahconnorjr]

Let’s go o o o o o o o o o o

[rowark]

It’s important to understand, the Satanic Temple is an activist group.

They don’t worship Satan - they don’t actually believe in Satan. They call themselves Satanists because Satan is the antagonist in Christian theology.

They are actively trying to promote the separation of church and state, and prevent the US from becoming a theocracy. And their method is genius: they’re fighting religion with religion.

Essentially, they go up against religious-based legislation by petitioning for their own religion to also be represented, since separation of church and state means all religions must be equally represented by the government, or none are. If only one is, then it’s getting special privileges and that’s not allowed.

[darthmelyanna]

For real, I think there’s multiple places where town councils used to have some local religious leader open their public meetings with a prayer, until the local Satanic Temple volunteered. They generally sue when turned down, and then when the court tells the town you let the satanists pray or you stop having prayers at government meetings… they stop having prayers at government meetings.

And I have to say, as a Christian who doesn’t want the church within ten city blocks of the government, I admire their activism.

[circespigfarm]

[crittizen]

The look on her face when she realizes

[aegri-somnia-vana]

Here’s what they said if you didn’t understand-

Interviewer: What do you think about starting an initiative on campus here at UK, to be more inclusive to women who have penises? So we can put urinals in the womens restroom for them.

Student: Sounds fantastic.

Interviewer: Oh, does it?

Student: Yeah.

Interviewer: What about- Let’s take it one step closer, y'know more- for inclusivity here on campus, but free tampons and pads in the mens restroom for men who have periods?

Student: Sounds great.

Interviewer: Ok- You dont see anything wrong with those statements?

Student: No.

Interviewer: What men do you know with periods?

Student: I generally use- ones like in Willy T* have pads, I use them pretty often.

*(Willy T is the college nickname for their library I’ve heard.)

[lost-clause]

I attend this school and I can confirm 2 things. Yes, our big library is indeed called Willy T AND the day that this stank bitch came to campus everyone was losing their MINDS and kept walking by in hopes of getting chosen to call her out. Immaculate.

[iclimbtreestofeelalive]

i. am on the floor. wheezing. the moment she realizes that not only is she talking to a trans man,, but that SHE COULDN’T CLOCK HIM,, this is high art and i want it written in Big Wedge sharpie on my wall

[tricky-pockets]

okay, idk where the clip was, but there was another bit where she was talking to this frat-boy looking dude:

bennett: so do you think we should put tampons and pads in the men’s restroom? dude: sure, I mean, I don’t really care. if a dude needs a tampon, he can have one. bennett: but would he need one? like, what would he use it for? dude, thoroughly unimpressed: I don’t know, that’s his problem.

and I just love that guy’s energy. So much of the trans bathroom talk is invasive and way too personal, and then there’s this guy like “yeah, why the fuck would I need to know? why do you need to know, you weirdo?”

[spidaerman]

do it for uncle iroh

[brattylikestoeat]

[chondrichthyes-nuts]

hack?

that’s just garlic confit

[itsawritblr]

Seriously, anyone who didn’t know about how to make this didn’t have parents/relatives who cooked.

Y’all need to pick up a cookbook.  Or watch Julia Child.

[brattylikestoeat]

Sorry everyone didn’t grow up in a household where their caretaker cooker or knew how to cooked. Some of us didn’t grow up in a household with fresh fruits and produce. Some of us didn’t have the money to spend on a shit ton of garlic.

So how about enjoy the video instead of being a snobby bitch.

[charismat1c-megafauna]

Also Julia Child would be ashamed of people behaving like that. Her whole deal was just… Making cooking accessible for people. Hell, she had a whole segment devoted to “oh, nobody taught you how to cook eggs? Here’s how you do that.” A significant part of her show was basics that people take for granted (and though the equipment may have changed somewhat, its still pretty helpful). My dad had busy parents who didn’t have the time or knowhow to cook, and he learned from watching Julia Child. French cooking made easy, here’s the basics everyone assumes you know but never taught you. And ever since, he’s had a love of cooking.

Stop putting people down for not knowing basics. Everyone is a beginner at some point or another.

[ysabelmystic]

I grew up in a healthy-eating cooking-skilled household and I did not know that this existed.

Just shut up and spread the TikTok

[esoteric-merit]

So confit is a way of cooking things, and it does marvellous things to many things. You put stuff in oil and slow cook it. That’s confit. Garlic confit? Put it in oil and slow cook it. Chicken confit? You put it in oil and slow cook it. (side note: confit historically means to preserve by cooking at a low temperature, (which often also meant a cure prior to cooking). So Fruit confit is fruit that’s been cooked at a low temperature in a very concentrated sugar solution, not in oil. Nowadays, confit usually just means cooking slowly in oil outside the context of fruit and does not imply a curing process) Compared to deep frying, almost no moisture is lost, and the flavour is not changed via the maillard process because it doesn’t happen. There is no charring or searing done to the meat/whatever you’re confitting. For veg in general, to confit them will cause them to become ultratender, as fibers and stuff will partially break down, cell walls will collapse, but no moisture will be lost. And their flavour will mostly remain; for garlic in particular, the hot garlicky taste, the result of the allicin, which is a result of crushing or chopping the garlic, will never come out. The chemicals will break down under that amount of heat. The oil does not terribly seep into the food by the way; it’s already saturated with water, and unless that water leaves, the oil doesn’t have a place to seep into. It’s saturated already, and the result of connective tissue breaking down, or fibres breaking down, is less room for fluids. Which is why a carrot can be nice and dry, go into a hot oven, and come out floppy and moist, as the water inside can no longer be held by its inside, and available, unabsorbed water = wet. You do get a thin layer of oil coating the outside of the food. This means that confit’ing a food item is actually very close to steaming that item at a particular temperature, or cooking it sous vide; in either case, the item does not dry out and slowly reaches its final temperature.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

@brattylikestoeat the damned garlic wars was back on my dash this morning.

[capt-coffeebitch]

I like this post. Video with technique. Somebody being a dick. Other people saying don’t be a dick. Super helpful science dump that I enjoy a ton.

[scottandhiskind]

[onenicebugperday]

whats your favorite bee :o) just outta curiosity

BLUE BEE BLUE BEE

Cerulean carpenter bee, Xylocopa caerulea, photos by gancw1

[theangelswans]

[probablyasocialecologist]

[probablyasocialecologist]

[probablyasocialecologist]

One year ago today!

[whitmerule]

Hey look, there’s a sign now! ❤️

[prokopetz]

More inadvisable ways to introduce a replacement for a dead Dungeons & Dragons character mid adventure: 

Hanging from a gallows, apparently dead, only to speak up and request help getting down at the party’s approach; when they ask how you survived, simply remark that you have a very strong neck  

Appearing in a flash of light in response to some seemingly innocuous action, tearfully thanking the party for “finally breaking the curse”  

The next ogre or other large humanoid the party encounters is wielding you as a club  

Wandering aimlessly from around the next bend, peering at an enormous fold-out map and loudly insisting you could have sworn this was the way to Waterdeep  

Falling screaming from the sky, and landing miraculously unharmed; if questioned, mutter something about bats and refuse to elaborate  

(replacement character is at least one size category smaller) It turns out that you were in the deceased character’s backpack the whole time

[dragonsorceress22]

As it turns out, your characters was actually two characters in a trench coat the entire time, and only the top one died.

[weaver-z]

If you ever, and I mean EVER think that you fucked something up royally, remember that the organizers of the 1904 Olympic marathon:

- Had zero stations for water on the 26 mile (42 km) course

- Accidentally gave North American competitor Tom Hicks a cocktail made of egg whites, brandy, and actual fucking rat poison

- Had a guy come into the race late wearing a beret and cutoff slacks, sneak into an apple orchard during the race because no food had been given to him for 40 hours, eat rotten apples, projectile vomit onto the track, fall asleep for hours, and finish in fourth place OVERALL because most of the other runners collapsed of exhaustion or injuries

- Conducted the race on a dusty road, which caused so much dust to be kicked into the air that an American runner somehow inhaled enough to tear his STOMACH LINING open

- Accidentally released feral dogs onto the track

- Fucked the other competitors up SO BADLY that Tom Hicks—the guy who ate RAT POISON and was HALLUCINATING the entire run—came in first place

[postmarxed]

[stockpilingantihistamines]

[firstunitarianchurch]

Same energy

[catasters]

[radwolf76]

[cleansingreflections-deactivate]

obsessed with the fact that today half of the internet was down and i didnt even notice because i was on tumblr, which, very ironically, was working perfectly fine

[cleansingreflections-deactivate]

i went on fandom wiki at some point and it wasnt working and i said huh. weird? told a friend about it and they went "oh yeah like almost every major website isn't working right now" and i was like huh. okay

[mrv3000]

[palavengarden]

this is from tODAY?

[nitewrighter]

6/8/2021

Tumblr is the sunfish of the internet: Thriving because we’ve evolutionarily perfected utter uselessness. 

[hamletthedane]

Fun fact: the software (Fastly) that crashed a ton of websites Tues is used to help sites & apps load content (esp images) quickly. That’s why you don’t see gradient placeholder pictures on sites like Twitter or Pinterest.

…so yeah, tumblr was definitely immune

[frogseyy]

mutuals feel free to do this

[mite75]

I love this lil guy he looks so happy ;_;

[skyinide]

[afronerdism]

This might be the funniest reply I’ve ever seen in my life

[thepioden]

[burntlikethesun]

A young, talented scientist named Yzma (played by Ariana Grande) stumbles onto a plot orchestrated by a corrupt empire. She vows to stop them but in the process, her entire family is crushed by a stampede of llamas. In her despair, she gets her potions mixed up and accidentally drinks from a vial that ages her 80 years and renders her scary beyond all reason. Yzma swears revenge on the newly born emperor, Kuzco. Kronk is her love interest and played by one of the hot guys from Riverdale.