Lipstick And Tigers

Fandom blog. 30. They/their pronouns. Bi/pan/ambiguous, easily amused by string. I only use Tumblr on mobile, so if I reblog something sketchy please feel free to speak up. Please message me privately with any questions.

[marzipanandminutiae]

one aspect of Millennial nostalgia I seldom see anyone talk about is having learned certain words and phrases from a certain series of books books- through voracious fable devourment, if you will -and thus being totally unable to hear anyone say "inordinate" and be mentally normal about it, even a score of years later

"score" being a unit of measurement which here means "oh my god I'm 33 years old and I got Pavlov'd by the Lucky Smells Lumbermill"

[knittingandscience]

I've never gotten to tell someone that the world is quiet here, but I have told them I liked their shoelaces.

[biologicalstepfather]

If you know who Emmett Till is please reblog.

I’m trying to prove a point to my dad.

[brarchives]

jaguars in manaus, amazonas, brasil, photographed by caio vieira

[queer-as-city-folk]

How are film bros like that? Every classic film is so fucking gay actually

[queer-as-city-folk]

Like Strangers on a Train is about a gay man becoming obsessed with a celebrity and killing said celebrities wife to get attention from him

Casablanca ends with 2 men tricking and betraying the Nazis and agreeing to cross the continent together, walking off into the distance

Double Indemnity LITERALLY has the main character tell another man " I love you" as he bleeds out

Some like it hot

Singing in the rain has those two guys spend all their time together and they tap dance

[vinceaddams]

Leatherwork patterns/designs from Le Cuir: Compositions Decoratives by Jehan Raymond, 1908.

[vinceaddams]

I'm seeing a lot of people tag this with their find later tag, so I just want to say that you can make an account on the internet archive and save the book to your favourites! (In case it wasn't clear from the post, there are pattern diagrams and full colour illustrations for every design in the book.)

And once you do that, also save Leather Work (1915) by Adelaide Mickel to your favourites. (Some bizarre uploading error has tacked on another unrelated book to the end of that one, so unfortunately it's only 58 pages and not 464.)

[eonblueinmay]

Watching the process of this absolutely stunning painting makes it even more beautiful.

The artist is Sydney Swisher

[knittingandscience]

You don't need to know what Wikipedia rabbit hole I was on. This screenshot is enough

[callmebliss]

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

[macleod]

I've seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:

It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.

calculusmadeeasy.org

[callmebliss]

TIL the highest honor is to be consigned to the processing vortex

[viralfrog]

[fishthegenderwiz]

That must be where she's heading now!

[beggars-opera]

As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses

[beggars-opera]

I feel that some non-Boston people think I may have been exaggerating this. While I did not snap a photo as I was on the train, someone else did several months ago. I do want to stress that this column is now freshly painted and therefore completely structurally sound and in absolutely no danger of causing the entire tunnel to collapse. And yes, it did in fact never cross my mind that the original post was nearly 105 years to the day of the Molassacre

[beggars-opera]

This is so safe this is the safest I’ve ever felt good job mbta gold star

[beggars-opera]

Happy Molassacre Day everybody I'm still alive

[beggars-opera]

[beggars-opera]

Because it's been a while, I must share with you the important update that the column is now hidden behind plywood, because the mbta believes in peekaboo rules of engineering

[frangipani-wanderlust]

So the creator titled this "Caveman Cooking," but I have decided that it is Grug the Orc making Peanut Butter Squares. Link to original post.

Sound on. Trust me.

[tendie-defender]

[thashining]

Sept 6. 2025

[darthstitch]

TFW the 4th wall is knocking on your door..

*dying of laughter*

Look, in my HC, Vincent REALLY moves into the Apostolic Palace so he gets to have his own kitchen and the rice cooker has pride of place in there.

Thomas learns how to cook rice both with the classic finger method and through the rice cooker.

Cardinal Tolentino (totally not a fictional version of a certain Cardinal Yappatron IRL we all know and love) is a frequent visitor and delivers all the best tea to His Holiness NYAHAHAHA. And they constantly exchange recipes too.

[knittingandscience]

What about lo mein?

[stiickleback]

ok so yesterday my coworker/friend went to go mop and she saw some little things moving in the mop bucket. she looked closer and saw that they were brine shrimp

which is very silly and odd but not quite unexpected because we are aquarists and we have brine shrimp hatching cones that we raise them in to feed our jellies. and sometimes visitors mess with the knobs on the tank and then end up dumping them out (which fills me with RAGE because you can't accidentally do that. you have to be purposefully reaching around the hatching cone so like why the hell are you messing with our stuff but anyways that's not the point) so then we mop them and yeah ok that's how the eggs got into the bucket. but not only have they hatched, they are thriving adults !!!!! and they are thriving so much that some of them even have EGGS!!!!!

ok now here's the kicker

THEY KEEP DYING IN THEIR HATCHING CONES !!!!! SO OUR BATCHES KEEP FAILING!!!!! EVEN WITH THEIR REQUIRED WATER PARAMETERS THEY ARE FAILING. SO. WHY. THE. HELL. ARE THEY ALIVE IN A MOP BUCKET OF ALL PLACES

so you're telling me that our brine shrimp (that keep dying) that we are dutifully caring for with specific water parameters for maximized hatching etc etc etc are so happy in a Mop Bucket that they are fucking ????? these little shrimps are porking on company time in company supplies ???????

(update: my other friend @plaguedocboi took them home yayyy)

^ the soggy children

[queer-as-city-folk]

Trying to convince my roommate I haven't met irl yet to take me to the Renn Faire next week so I can buy a sketchbook (:

[queer-as-city-folk]

They have this vendor who hand makes these amazing leather bound sketchbooks for a really good price and I filled my last one and that was like the only sketchbook I have ever filled, so I want a new one

[queer-as-city-folk]

It was a handmade 8.5×5.5 in 240 page, 80 lb paper, Bison leather sketchbook for like 37 usd before tax, like that is a really good deal based off prices I have seen at other craft fairs

[queer-as-city-folk]

I also just think he seems like the type to love a good Renn Faire but that's just a bonus

[queer-as-city-folk]

To be clear, since he will probably be driving, I will buy the tickets for both of us

[knittingandscience]

8.5x5.5 is perfect sketchbook size because you can easily carry it anywhere

[headspace-hotel]

curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape

(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)

[headspace-hotel]

I was going to suggest fettuccini but twisted with the ends connected to form a Möbius strip, but then I realized that would fuck like hell.

[headspace-hotel]

@fishofthewoods I did NOT expect to get such a strong contender so early.

[headspace-hotel]

@alilcajun @aralioideae

a couple of challengers emerge

[headspace-hotel]

You are all fucking madmen

[knittingandscience]

A central axis of spaghetti-like strands like a koosh ball that rolls around and tangles itself in the pot, but on the other end of each noodle strand there are wide flat pieces that stick to themselves while cooking and once you get it on a plate and manage to wrestle a chunk of the Pasta Rat King off the core, that extra lump of flat pasta on the end slaps the plate real hard and splatters you with sauce.