Hello, Delicious Tea

So far, I've been a baker, a bookseller, a publishing intern, an English conversation teacher, a high school English teacher, an editor, a parent, and a practitioner of the art of making stuff up. You may find books, baking, photography, and Entertainment. I have two small children and talk about them regularly. Tumblr Old.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Bach, winter by Jane Mead

[moniquill]

[dduane]

Oh great, who needed THIS?!

(Info's here: https://www.seriouseats.com/salmonella-egg-recall-july-2026-12026708 )

[zhanael]

It's fine. No one has gotten sick, it's very few eggs on the market, and it's a voluntary recall.

[alegazzi]

Copying from the article,

The recalled eggs have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20, 2026, and August 17, 2026. They also have the codes P-1950 or 0840962 and a Julian date code between 157 and 184 printed on the left or right side of the cartons. The eggs were distributed in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Mississippi

[thirdity]

“I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. […] Such works inevitably allude to larger contexts; they haunt because they are not whole, though wholeness is implied: another time, a world in which they were whole, or were to have been whole, is implied.”

— Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories

[tsaomengde]

My fiancee and I were discussing the worst metal to use to make armor, and the obvious answers are lead and gold, but she cunningly suggested mercury. Which is a fair point, but then I wondered if solid mercury is any good. Googling told me that the melting point of mercury is -38° c (-37° f), so first you get it really fucking cold. At that point, it turns out that mercury has a tensile strength of 1900 mpa, compared to lead’s 18 and steel’s ~500-940 (depending upon the kind of steel).

Now, I know that tensile strength is not necessarily the best measure of a material’s ability to function as armor, but I’m a liberal arts major and didn’t care to actually do that much more research before going straight to, “EVIL ICE DEMONS IN MERCURY ARMOR. THE PCS CAN’T LOOT IT BECAUSE WHEN THEY PUT IT ON IT MELTS AND KILLS THEM.”

[dr-archeville]

Ice Demons wielding weapons made of frozen mercury.  Spearheads that break off & melt inside the target.  Swords that leave tiny bits of melted mercury inside the wound (the swords re-freeze to razor sharpness while in the ice demon’s claws).

[randomitemdrop]

Item: blades, spears, and/or arrowheads made of mercury frozen by Ice Magic; can only be used by one with Ice Magic, but deliver whatever damage the weapon type would normally make plus equal amounts of Cold and 1d8 Poison. Once the wound has been delivered, it continues to deliver 1d8 Poison until the mercury has been removed by healing magic, Wish, &c.

[linguisticparadox]

Apparently I’ve seen this before? But this EXACTLY matches the description of the Morgul blade in LOTR? It felt like “a dart of poisoned ice” (or something like that), it left a piece in Frodo’s shoulder that slowly poisoned him, and the blade melted away when Aragorn looked at it. And Glorfindel warned them all to handle it as little as possible, too!

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

[jstor]

Happy International Dog Day!

Please enjoy this netsuke of a spotted dog guarding its catch, with an all-too-familiar glint of mischief in its eyes.

Image: Netsuke of a Dog and a Fish, late 19th–early 20th century. Ivory and horn, H 1.4 cm; W 4 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[government-cy-op]

Just found 2 copies of a 19th century naturalism magazine and LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE ICON

[osterby]

OMG this is so so cute!

I know just enough about snails that putting the eyes not on the eye stalks pings uncanny valley to me, and this not only gets it right but does so in an incredibly adorable way.

[dreadpiratemegatron]

Steller’s jay stealing sweetener packets

National Geographic photo contest 2011

[zanmor]

Those are clearly complimentary and thus this isn’t theft. A social faux pas perhaps but that’s all.

[randomishnickname]

One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

[inimitably-ineffable]

Not to mention the plot tropes.

“I don’t think the Highschool AU is going to come in too strong this year. Fandoms a touch jaded for that. But the hurt/comfort is growin’ thick as weeds and twice as fast. It’ll be a good harvest, fer sure.”

[mx-incognito]

@cynaram

[cynaram]

“I hear over at [neighbouring fandom] they’re putting the top field into fix-it fics.”

“Yes, ‘twould be.  They had a hard season last year, a right hard season.” 

[explorerrowan]

“You think I ought to plant a little Sailor Moon Wild West AU? Don’t know if anything would come of it. Might not make it to harvest.”

“Won’t know until you plant it, will you?”

[fieldbears]

“Ah, a heritage crop.”

[captainclickycat]

The shipping forecast.

[romanticalgirl]

The Fandom Almanac

[nyansense-the-nyanbinary]

“I think I’m going to sow some rarepairs this season. Don’t know what the market for ‘em will be, but I can eat ‘em if nobody else wants to.”

[jonairadreaming]

Petition to start referring to fanworks as ‘produce’ and stop calling it ‘content’.

Produce = Fresh. Tasty. Nutritious. Contains some ppm of Love.

Content = Lifeless. Sterile. An obligation.

[beemovieerotica]

lesbians did it first 🙏

[ekjohnston]

They don't watch Olympic hockey in the same house, which I feel is a good thing for their relationship.

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[mifeeey]

called "vadászkaja" or ""hunter's grub" for my family because you "hunt" and prepare whatever you can find

[electricpentacle]

When I don't have the energy to cook and I haven't been out to the shops in a while, I end up scrounging together bits and bobs of the food with the longest expiry dates: crispbread, hard cheese, dried fruit, nuts etc.

And then I think of Senshi and I'm like "oh damn, I'm down to the Adventurer Food again".

[thickness-protection-program]

According to fox entertainment this is who we should be afraid of. I didn't know who Francesca Hong was 10 minutes ago but thankfully now I'm aware of this monster and her monsterous policies

[newsandstuffisee]

[harpertheidiot]

I saw a post like this recently so I'm making a classics version

Spin the wheel. This Greek mythological figure is trying to kill you

Spin the wheel again. This Greek mythological figure is trying to protect you

Are you surviving?

100% no, my corpse is desecrated

100% no, but I am given a proper burial

Yes, but with major injuries

Yes, but with minor injuries

100% yes, not a scratch on me

Other (explain in tags)

Voting ended onJul 21

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Winter stress-relief games for people in southern China.

[nabakovian]

i'm sorry i don't know the source of this because it was posted on reddit without credit but i'm obsessed with this