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I love the Ents in Lord of the Rings because just imagine…committing eco-terrorism with a giant talking tree…just imagine if you could wake up the oak tree down the block like “hey let’s go march on the White House” and the tree would be like “sick”

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I told my best friend last month that building my greenhouse is going to be more expensive than planned because the cost of materials has gone up a lot this year, and she sent me a cheque through the post with an adorable letter saying she wants to participate, in exchange for a lifelong supply of jars of jam and tomato sauce. I didn’t expect that!! She came to visit this week and I’d been trying to think of a way to thank her, and decided to make a Cake That Looks Like Another Thing, which is something I’ve never done before. It is utterly beyond my ability to make a greenhouse-shaped cake (those exist! they look so cute!), so in keeping with the theme I attempted to make one that looks like a little vegetable garden.

I bought biscuits to make fences, chocolate sprinkles for mulch, and various colours of sugar paste to make tiny vegetables and a snail (important). Then I sat down to make my very first sugar paste salad and realised I have never properly looked at a salad in my life. What does a salad look like. I decided the criteria were “cosy”, “folds” and “edible” and sent another friend a pic of my first attempt to ask if it evoked lettuce to her. She said “That is the most yonic vegetable I’ve ever seen in my life” sounding impressed. I flattened it with the rolling pin and tried again. My friend who had been appointed salad consultant against her will received another picture two minutes later and said “This one’s even worse. Or better, depending on what you’re trying to make.” “I’m trying to make a salad” “Try making it less foldy??” I tried. Then tried the opposite and desperately kept adding folds thinking surely at some point it will be too leafy to be a pussy. She mercilessly rejected like fifteen salads, “No”, “Nope”, “Georgia O’Keeffe is that you” before finally authorising three (3).

At first I thought she was messing with me and tried making a salad with the red sugar paste out of scientific curiosity, and was like, my bad. Ceci n’est pas une salade. It was amazing how all my different attempts just kept producing the same result—each salad actually looked a bit more yonic than the last, as I involuntarily perfected my craft. It was like discovering a very mild curse, like you could spend your entire life unaware that a lesbian witch cursed you at birth to sculpt nothing but vulva salads but when the time comes to make a vegetable garden cake it’s a major hindrance.

#incredible

stars-bean

“Grandma, it’s me, Anastasia!”

Anastasia (1997) Ocean’s Eight (2018) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) The Witches (1990)

egobuzz

soursoppi

say cheese!

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still-snowing

a sequel of sorts.

turns out, lan wangji does think about it.

the-green-witch-project

Some nights I stay up (reading Ao3 fic)

Inspired by the amazing Hallelujah video, I have created… this.

vympr

the way she's right about all of this

femmenietzsche

Always feel a tinge of pride when religious people say that intellectually consistent atheists should be depressed nihilists instead of glib utilitarians. That's me! I'm better than all those other atheists!

max1461

But why should atheists be depressed nihilists?

cop-disliker69

Life has no meaning, suffering has no significance, nothing is of any permanent consequence because it will all be destroyed after we die, there is no justice or objective morality

argumate

technically whether you find that depressing or not depends upon your emotional make up; plenty of committed religious adherents are capable of getting depressed despite notionally believing in the existence of a loving god or a divine plan or whatever the fuck, plenty of atheists can be obnoxiously cheerful despite knowing their existence is finite.

klinger4yossarian-deactivated20

Being an atheist can lower certain stakes, no fear of divine punishment, no need to figure out what your god/s expect of you...

Sure, there's no inherent meaning if you're a nihilist, but that leaves you free to do what feels meaningful to you.

Clearly not for everyone, but it's not inherently more depressing than, say, believing in malicious evil forces and the possibility of eternal punishment.

saxifraga-x-urbium

i find it actively beautiful in the same way a soap bubble is beautiful. my existence in a finite and meaningless universe is also finite and meaningless but isn't it glorious? aren't i unique? aren't all of my brilliant and short-lived connections and achievements incredible and unrepeatable? isn't the sole act of living until we die fucking art? i think life without meaning beyond the human is dope as shit,actually. i think it's fucking based af that human people can decide to work on huge kindnesses that span generations knowing they will never experience the results for no reason other than it gives them joy to think about the future being made better for others. i think it's hella sick to seek to improve the lot of others not because of a command but because of a choice renewed in every second. i think the impossibility of a conscious eternity makes the brief flicker of self-awareness profpundly valuable.

what depresses me is shit like people killing each other and stuff

#I once had a conversation with a friend who was religious #and we realized that I #an athiest #believed that humans would naturally want to be good #and she believed the opposite #I can see how that would be depressing

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

#diet culture is a helluva drug #it goes without saying BMI was never intended to be an indicator of health by the person who founded it #who incidentally was an astronomer #anti-diet by christy harrison is a great book btw

blackwiresgrowonherhead

on your marks, get set, bake! broke 1k kudos on Ao3 earlier this week and I got really emo about it, so I made you all a powerpoint. I hope you like it!

(For the recipe without all the shenanigans, click here.)

#gbbo!au is one of the best crossover fics of all time and now there's a RECIPE about it #in PPT form no less #perfection

claudia-kishi

2019 Elementary Appreciation Month Week 5 ✦ Free Choice ↪ Favorite Wake-ups

zombeesknees

#this was just a lovely thread running through all the seasons #i can imagine the writers room re-tooling some boring exposition or linking scene by saying #‘could this be done as a wake-up scene instead?’ #and like yes yes it could #good job everyone #repast! couture!