as i live and breathe – 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣?

[vexheart]

[luna-azzurra]

Stages of writing a novel: (1) this is a great idea (2) this is a good idea (3) this is an idea (4) what even is this (5) i have made a terrible mistake (6) okay there's something here (7) this is actually good (8) this is too good, something is wrong (9) wait did i accidentally write something real (10) close laptop. do not think about it for three days. open laptop. start over from stage 4.

[maraiara]

vibrating between 4 and 4 with enough energy to power my laptop long after i've ripped it from the wall

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[fallout-lou-begas]

i cannot even begin to describe how load bearing this video has been for my mental health lately. thank you macho man randy savage. i'll get over it but not really

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[maraiara]

the devil is some kind of junkyard goat that keeps himself in good nick solely by rummaging through the trash of home cooks

he habitually forgets about those who will eat whatever comes out of that pot or pan, come hell or high water

and that is why people still choke on food to this day

[elierlick]

Never forget that the physicians and "detransitioners" they bring to speak against trans healthcare are paid enormous sums to give false testimonies. They're not legitimate sources and shouldn't stop you from living your best life (source).

[tomloftis]

Thinking about Tom and Lauren Loftis and what could have possibly happened and thinking of ‘Salem’s Lot…

[maraiara]

It's a horrible situation bc Evan will not believe Tom even if he finally, painfully tells him a truth (and there are so many truths piled up). It's also ironic that Evan was right on both counts – his father is scared all of the time and he is a liar. He lies because he's scared.

I wonder if Tom, as a mainlander, perhaps felt safer with their baby being born in a "proper" hospital with more supports. We've already seen the island's medical staff runs lean. So the two set off on the ferry, and something goes wrong. Tom is consciously adamant that whatever happened to Lauren has a natural, perhaps idiopathic, reason – but subconsciously, I think this is when the seed of Widow's Bay lore starts to germinate. From that subterranean viewpoint, trying to leave hurt his wife and took his son's mother away.

So he operates with this exasperation that overlays the usual mayoral exhaustion. Why? Because the island is a superficially and elementally dysfunctional system, and Tom can feel how nothing he does as mayor will right it enough for what has gone wrong. And engaging with the superficial dysfunction while being ignorant of the elemental (inviting mainlanders to the island) is as much of a kick to the hornet's nest as that fateful ferry ride.

Even with his eye beginning to open, Tom is still caught between the superficial and the elemental, between lying to maintain the natural and fearing the supernatural – while either* can take away Evan, who is around the age at which independence and conformity feel equally imperative. A stranger could sense in 10 minutes that Tom Loftis thinks more highly of the mainland; there's no reason his son shouldn't get to visit or go to college there with his father's full-hearted blessing, and they both know it. But one thinks the reason is natural; the other knows that it's supernatural.

If the Loftis father-son confrontation results in Evan making plans to leave the island, Tom will be heartbroken but relieved that his son technically can.

* God forbid Richard isn't the last of his line, though.

[redxluna]

A love declaration that'll get me every damn time.

[maraiara]

- David Duchovny, explaining his acting choice and what underpins the chemistry that people sense between Mulder and Scully

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[lynati]

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

[agoldenplum]

Thanks @slightlylightly founded by Sunny Somrat, This is  SSFood Challenge

The players in and around Bangladesh play and are rewarded with food even losers get food. The combination of colorful games and the feel-good factor of nobody going home empty-handed has given Somrat a genuine hit.

[allallestodo]

PATRICIA: "The perfect hostess exudes confidence, effortless and elegant."

WIDOW’S BAY

1.04 Beach Reads

[maraiara]

THE COKE ON THE TABLE 💀

[nobrashfestivity]

Dear Linda,

I am in the middle of a flight to St. Louis to give a reading. I was reading a New Yorker story that made me think of my mother and all alone in the seat I whispered to her “I know, Mother, I know.” (Found a pen!) And I thought of you — someday flying somewhere all alone and me dead perhaps and you wishing to speak to me.

And I want to speak back. (Linda, maybe it won’t be flying, maybe it will be at your own kitchen table drinking tea some afternoon when you are 40. Anytime.) — I want to say back.

1st I love you.

You never let me down.

I know. I was there once. I too, was 40 with a dead mother who I needed still. . . .

This is my message to the 40 year old Linda. No matter what happens you were always my bobolink, my special Linda Gray. Life is not easy. It is awfully lonely. I know that. Now you too know it — wherever you are, Linda, talking to me. But I’ve had a good life — I wrote unhappy — but I lived to the hilt. You too, Linda — Live to the HILT! To the top. I love you 40 year old, Linda, and I love what you do, what you find, what you are!—Be your own woman. Belong to those you love. Talk to my poems, and talk to your heart — I’m in both: if you need me. I lied, Linda. I did love my mother and she loved me. She never held me but I miss her, so that I have to deny I ever loved her — or she me! Silly Anne! So there!

XOXOXO Mom

Anne Sexton to her then-fifteen-years-old daughter Linda.

[beaswellgirl]

perfect tv. perfect.

[maraiara]

bless you for posting this specific scene

[mobius-m-mobius]

It's only a 12 hour experience. Oh, my God!

MATTHEW RHYS as TOM LOFTIS in WIDOW'S BAY 1x05 (What to Expect on Your Trip)

[maraiara]

widow's bay 1x05 is the spiritual successor to the brothers & sisters episode b-plot in which matthew rhys's character accidentally gets high on weed and nearly disintegrates under the weight of his own dismay

[emziess]

"As I look around this room at friends old and new… I feel grateful. For there is always time to change the course of history. And tonight, tomorrow starts today."

Widow's Bay, S01E04

[maraiara]

LUCY FOURS / LUCIFER

patricia you didn't dodge a bullet, you dodged the bullet

[maraiara]

listening to the spider noir soundtrack, and I'm so happily amazed at how strongly it aligns with the incidental music from spider-man: the animated series. the scoring on that show was so lush – full of dread-filled minor keys, sweeping violins, stressful staccato brass.

spider-noir is very much its own thing, yes, but it also has the spideriest music I've heard in a long time. just underscores why kris bowers has quickly become one of my favorite modern composers.

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you're currently wearing.