[apolladay]

Have you ever been to a celebrity's grave?

yes

no

Remaining time: 1 day 2 hours

Define celebrity however you'd like.

[ashoss]

“word hashtag my word #myword” has done irreversible damage to my vocabulary

[asterwild]

snoozin'

[not-equippedforthis]

'sincerity and innocence of purpose of an iceberg drifting into a major shipping lane' is by far one of my favourite character introductions to date

[modelsof-color]

Chol Mabior at Robert Wun Couture FW 2026

[a-french-guardsman]

Me when I'm a dead knight effigy but I keep smiling through eternity because I know I'm serving major cunt

[a-french-guardsman]

Update: I have found the full effigy and it's even crazier actually

[hedgehog-moss]

The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:

the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”

That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”

oh, that hurt

I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots

the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life

on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious

I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was

The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”

God.

for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again

it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”

[queenbruv]

one thing from project hail mary the book that i really wish theyd made clear in the movie is that when grace makes the decision to save rocky instead of go back to earth, he is prepared to die. like i understand why the movie had to cut a lot from the book for pacing and it wasnt exactly necessary to include the whole sub-subplot where rocky and grace figure out that there is nothing on erid that is safe for humans to consume, but it would have been worth a passing mention at some point, because grace goes back for rocky knowing that even if rocky takes him to erid, he will still die there, because there is nothing he can eat. the only reason he survives is by eating taumoeba, which is a solution rocky comes up with only after grace saves him and admits to him that he came to his rescue fully prepared to die.

the movie really breezes past rocky's rescue and the time skip, and it never explains why choosing to save rocky is so monumental in the first place: it answers the central question grace is grappling with for the whole movie. "who would i die for?" he doesn't just go back for rocky because it's the right thing to do. he sacrifices himself to save rocky. he is ready to die if it means rocky will live.

[shinraalpha]

i do think lobbying for data centres over climate goals should be considered a crime against humanity btw

[boymounter]

my dad bought a cnc and is going wild

[bigbluefishi]

Eowyn 🐴

[beckysquiltingagain]

Dream big panels have been around for years, we sold tons of them when I worked for a quilt shop. But I never saw a color that I was dying to have a go at until this fiery one. It was my project to wrap up 2023 and sneak in some free motion therapy. I loved every second of it. It’s edges are now trimmed and faced and it’s hanging in my living room. New year, new quilted art!

[thatgaybitxh-deactivated2025062]

why am i dressed slutty you ask? to read classic literature alone in my room. mind your own business.

[somekindaspacecadet]

[francesderwent]

nothing more fun than a YA classic from the 80s that’s been republished every five years with a funky fresh cover

which covers are your favorites?

original 1983 covers

holy 80s Batman

Joyce Patti

Marilee Heyer

Yeshia Fung

holy 2000s Batman

Nekro

Yuta Onoda

kindle editions

Voting ended onJul 1

original U.S. covers (1983)

holy 80s Batman (1989)

Joyce Patti (1989)

Marilee Heyer (2002)

Yeshia Fung (2009)

holy 2000s Batman (2011)

Nekro (2014)

Yuta Onoda (2023)

Kindle edition (2024)

(editions included are American ones, you can find a lot of other ones here.) the illustrator names which are included are ones I was able to find, mostly by looking at the back covers of the books I currently have out from the library)

[eggseventy]

one of the best things about cats is that sometimes they'll just purr because youre around them

[m1dori-fangirling]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “Blue Prince” 🟦🤴📕 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 📜📰🗞️📊💹

Me: yeah whatever it's just another strategy roguelike.

5 minutes later: Dude I swear I just saw an eighth red letter in Herbert's safe.

My buddy Simon pacing: I think that the Red Guard's investigation into our mother's disappearance was a political manhunt organized by a militaristic ethnostate.

[mandatoryrollercoaster]

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