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[lunian]

Gale: *practices shadow magic*

Lae'zel and Shadowheart: wtf

Astarion: TWIRLING HAIR GIGGLING KICKING FEET

[homofied]

[smolfairy-deactivated20150914]

dere you go

[oursidae]

ey

ey you lil shits

lets just talk about this here cookie recipe

this shit

is 

the

BOMB

HOLY SHIT

I JUST FINISHED THIS AND WOW IT TASTES AMAZING

YES

WONDERFUL

1000000/10 WOULD ATE AGAIN

[smolfairy-deactivated20150914]

yAy

[post-and-out]

For magic improvements on thing that is already perfect:

Use one spoon white sugar, and one spoon brown if you have it.

After microwave, before noms, add vanilla ice cream.

\o/

[fan-troll]

salt is a flavour enhancer, add just a tiny dash, not enough to make it salty.

[goldpilot22]

Because I love you all.

[purple---skye]

reblogging cause i need to save this

[5bi5]

A note for those who have trouble measuring butter with a spoon as I do: one cup I am sixteen tablespoons. Butter/margarine bricks are usually a half a cup, so just cut one eighth of that amount 

[ironwoman359]

These are really good! And yes, for the love of god, if you have it use white sugar and brown sugar, add just a pinch of salt, and as many chocolate chips as you darn well please. Great with icecream, whipped cream on top, or a tall glass of milk (keep in mind you gotta eat it with a spoon, you can’t dip it in milk) 

Super college friendly (trust me)

[trytogethappy]

the humanity of the AIDS crisis: the ward by gideon mendel

colorized by me

[tigerleggies-deactivated2019121]

Never forget 🏳️‍🌈😔

[toddreu-deactivated20191220]

OP you did a beautiful job colourising these shots

[prismatic-bell]

Notice how OP says “colorized?”

I want to remind you this was the eighties. THE EIGHTIES. Color cameras existed. Color VIDEO CAMERAS existed.

Someone put these in black and white to make them seem long ago and far away.

OP is returning them to their proper place in history: ONLY TWO GENERATIONS AGO.

[zeldahime]

that’s not fair to gideon mendel, the photographer who took those photos in 1993. he took them in black-and-white even though color cameras were available, yes, but not to “make them seem long ago and far away”. he was photographing in black-and-white so they would be taken seriously.

mendel is still documenting and lifting up the voices of people who live with hiv/aids in the project “through positive eyes”. 

if mendel hadn’t taken these photographs, we wouldn’t have a record of these  patients and the ends of their lives at all. it was extremely unusual for aids wards to let photographers in, and the patients took a risk in letting mendel photograph them and their loved ones. 

rest in peace, andré, steven, and john.

[vintagegenderpunk]

it’s a legitimate thing in photography that:

black-and-white = real, journalistic, unbiased, gritty, implied printed in newspapers therefore news color = potentially fabricated, the stuff of art and aesthetics

they’ve moved a little bit away from that in more contemporaneous works, but to the larger populace, this taught bias still remains

[anneemay]

Fuck Europe

[taqrir-deactivated20210809]

[ID: a tweet by The Times reading, “Businesses can sack Muslim women wearing the hijab headscarf if they work face-to-face with customers or if the wearing of the religious clothing causes workplace conflicts, the EU’s highest court has ruled.” End ID.]

[iamindifferenttolamp]

"the wearing of religious clothing" doesn't cause conflicts.

Bigots cause conflicts.

The EU is protecting bigots and punishing victims of bigotry.

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

Honestly love it when you go off with animal facts! I feel so damn educated!!

Oh well then I'll give you one of my all time favorite facts lol

So there's this lake on the island of Palau called Jellyfish Lake (pictured below)

And, as its name would imply, is FULL of jellyfish. 2 distinct species of Golden & Moon jellyfish

(Gold Jellyfish right; Moon Jellyfish left)

Since they live in a lake with no natural predators, they've evolved separately from their relatives that live in the nearby lagoons, so while they do possess a sting it's been reported to be almost unnoticeable to humans. So much so that you can scuba dive in the lake right through masses of these hoes

BUT. The coolest part is the golden jellyfish are full of a symbiotic algae so they swim in very distinct patterns across the lake from east to west, following the sun. AND. They also float near the surface & rotate their bodies counter-clockwise to ensure maximum sunlight for their algae.

The moon jellyfish on the other hand migrate vertically, rising from the deeper areas to the surface at night to feed on copepods that also migrate to the shallows then

It's all so fucking wild how these things evolved in such intricate yet simple ways living in an enclosed environment.

I want to go there some day and swim amongst them jellies soooo bad 😭😭

[yorksilk]

the discussion of older lgbtq people using queer as a personal descriptor is such a messy conversation because at the same presentation I heard a 60-ish year old woman say queer was an empowering word that most lgbtq people of her age used, while a 79 year old man said he would never call himself queer because of the bad associations he had from having it used towards him as a slur, and you know what? they accepted and respected each others’ preferences and moved the hell on. it turns out older lgbtq people are not a monolith and have individual feelings on the word queer, yet can still act maturely and respectfully about it. where did we go wrong?

respect peoples’ decision to use or not use queer. it’s that simple.

[odinsblog]

Wow. Talk about attention to detail.

Video here: https://twitter.com/javi_draws/status/965260617790738432?s=21

[whitepeopletwitter]

[mythosphere]

[chrisflemingslegs]

Victor Frankenstein: I’ve created life but I refuse to put any effort into helping that life develop. I won’t teach him, love him, or defend him even though I forced him into existence with a fully operational adult brain lol. Peace, bitch.

The Monster: Am Eloquent Baby

Boomers: He’S NOt thE ViCtIM, HE’s tHe MOnsTEr

[an-ace-up-your-sleeve]

An ironic parallel considering the idea of “tough love” parenting that plenty of boomers like to use. If they buy into the idea that their kids just have to toughen up and face the real world without guidance or emotional support, I’m sure it does scare them to read a story where someone who wasn’t given any support began to resent their creator and turn on them.

[firelxdykatara]

it’s like that post that’s like ‘knowledge is knowing that frankenstein is the doctor; wisdom is knowing that frankenstein is the monster’. like the whole point of the post is that frankenstein’s monster is a victim of viktor frankenstein’s own monstrosity.

mary shelley did not lose her virginity on her mother’s grave just for people to misunderstand her best known work over a century later.

[oraclesofnorway]

Your body is an incredibly bizarre machine.

“What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.”

[andrewbelami]

Look at her STRUT!!! She is dragging that endorphin for filth and using that filament as her runway, bitch.

[deactivatingrealsoon-deactivate]

6 inch heels…..she walked in the club like nobody’s business…..godam…..she murdered everybody and i was her witness

[iguanamouth]

ghosts n ghouls ( aka Whats With All The Orbs )

[mira4-deactivated20150320]

When's your birthday?

Why so you can look up my natal chart? So you can figure out my weaknesses? So you can destroy me?

[weirdlandtv]

[donnerpartyofone]

I will never write anything this great in my life.

[afklancelot]

you’re laughing. olive oyl fainted after hearing the sad news that popeye has “bonkus of the konkus” and you’re laughing.

[jenniferrpovey]

So, this hasn't crossed my dash yet. (Not blaming anyone, there is soooo much going on in the world and I'd also missed it in the noise).

There is currently a strike at Frito-Lay. in Topeka. These workers are striking because:

They were being forced to work 84 hour weeks. The company's best offer so far is a 60 hour cap. This is shit we fought for a century ago, people.

Their generous offer also includes a whole 4 percent wage increase...over the next 2 years. I'm not sure what COL is in Topeka, but... Well, it's better than the entire 77 cents they've apparently gotten in the last decade.

There's also a report that a worker literally collapsed and dropped dead on the line and the foreman's response was to make them move the body out of the way and put in a replacement. (However, this is unconfirmed and, of course, the company denies it).

There have been multiple OSHA violations at this plant over the last few years, including a forklift accident that's under investigation.

They've now been striking since July 5 but, of course, it only hit the national media yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/14/frito-lay-strike-forced-overtime/

So, why am I signal boosting this?

Because Frito-Lay is refusing to budge. They are attempting to make the excuse that union leadership agreed to the 60 hour work week and crappy pay cut...when union leadership only agreed to put it to a vote.

And this means that we need to put the thumbscrews on them. Remember, this is about 19th century style working conditions.

So, I'm calling on my followers to boycott Frito Lay's until the strike is involved.

Frito-Lay owns:

Lay's

Doritos (Sorry. I really am. I KNOW there's no good alternative to Doritos, although Zapp's are good if you can find them).

Fritos

Tostitos

Cheetos

Ruffles

Sun Chips

Baken-ets

Chester's

Cracker Jack

Islen plantain chips

Funyuns

Grandma's (the cookies)

Matador Meat Snacks

Maui style potato chips

Miss Vickie's

Munchies

Munchos

Rolled Gold

Sabritones

Santitas

Simply

Smartfood

Stacys

The Walking Taco

NatuChips

PopCorners (this one wasn't on their website, but was bought by Pepsi's in 2019 with the intent of adding it. So best avoided just in case). Yes, this really is more than half of the snack aisle. Suggested alternatives:

Kettle Brand Chips

Zapp's (If you can find them. My supermarket had them once and not since, so I'm guessing the culinary cowards in this neighborhood were afraid of "Voodoo" flavored chips).

Pringles

On the Border for salsa.

Wise Cheez Doodles

Bugles

Utz

Store own brand alternatives, if your store has ones that are any good.

Cheez-its

Check before you buy and let's tell these people they don't get to treat workers like that.

[pendragyn]

just to add support to this but also, Frito-Lay is a part of PepsiCo so also avoid

Pepsi products

Gatorade

Tropicana

Quaker Oats

but more than just avoiding them, if you can, tell them that you are and *why* you are. Bad press and a drop in sales is good leverage.

[jenniferrpovey]

There's some discussion about whether or not the boycott should extend to Pepsi products. I would say go with your conscience on that.

[ruffboi-mags]

So hey FYI there’s a local fundraiser here in Topeka to help striking workerss, if y’all’d like to donate. 785 is a Topeka-area culture/arts/lifestyle magazine and they’re working with the local union president to distribute the funds. They met their original goal already, to have enough to cover utility bills for the month, but any extra is still getting distributed as strike relief so please consider donating if you can <3

[ousia-poetica]

Let’s never trivialize climate change, nature always wins the partide.

[thetroublesofbeingtrans]

I recently came out to my mother's side of the family who are majority conservative christians and it went much better than I expected. Like, they were weirdly supportive. I only got one comment insinuating that I might possibly be going to hell but it came from my aunt and she's dying soon anyway so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Anyway, I'm telling them how shocked I am and that I honestly thought that they'd have more of a problem with it when my grandma is like "Well you know we've been through this before with your uncle Nicky" and I'm like "what" and so it turns out that my uncle Nick was born a Natalie, came out as a boy at 19, and my great grandma proceeded to pay for his top surgery and hormone therapy. In 1974. And I just had to process for a bit because my entire life no one has referred to him as anything other than he/him and his chosen name. I ask why no one ever thought to mention this and they're just like "tbh we forgot. It's been so long that he's been a man" This man is married. He has a wife and three kids. I ask my relatives how they went about having kids, whether through adoption or sperm donor or what and none of them know. Apparently he just told everyone that they were gonna be parents and then one day showed up at my grandma's house with a baby. No questions were asked. Just. He and his wife had a baby now and that was that. Three times. Weeks later when I finally talk to my aunt Sarah (Nick's wife) all she tells me is that neither of them have ever been pregnant and, I quote, "sometimes you just come into children". She phrased it like people use the phrase "come into money". Like children are something that just happens to you. I ask my relatives if any of them had a problem with Nick being trans at the time, saying I'd understand if they had negative feelings about it, as it was the 1970s after all. They were like "nope" and i was just like "you didn't think anything of it?" And my grandfather was like "these things happen" while the other adults nodded sagely. So I guess the moral here is that if my conservative christian relatives could accept my uncle as trans in the 1970s then there really isn't any excuse for anyone. And also my family needs to ask more questions because I'm fairly sure my aunt and uncle stole their kids.

I’m laughing my ass off at that last sentence- But I’m so glad your coming out went well! That’s one heck of a way to find out you have LGBT relatives.

[maruki]

i don’t know who blessed us with the editing for this show, but this is the single funniest thing i’ve ever seen