Ode To All Things

A little bit of everything, inluding my stories.

[quasi-normalcy]

I mean, it probably goes without saying, but the Found Family trope is so popular because so very many people are so terribly, terribly lonely

[sketchyfletch]

I adore the friends I do have immensely but god it would be nice to have like five people living nearby who I could call on for help or to hang out at any given moment

[fractally]

Found family, or, the villager impulse

[localgays2]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to get too deep on main but did anyone else have such deeply rooted issues with their self worth for so long that they thought as a kid/teen that their only redeeming feature was being “low maintenance” and now as an adult you give yourself guilt pangs asking for any more than the barest minimum in virtually any relationship because asking for things might negate your only good quality which is just “doesn’t ask for things”

[draco-tokens]

[princessvicky01]

I didn’t know this!

[comingoutofthecauldron]

i love that missing one post on here makes this entire website incomprehensible. my friend never saw the og blorbo post and didn't understand the blorbo meme for like a month. i didn't see the ps5 guy tiktok and had no fucking clue what was going on for a week. if you happened to miss the post about the star wars slug you're probably curled up in a ball sobbing right now

[love-lays-bleeding]

Buddy I haven't seen an og meme post on this hellsite in 4 years, at this point I just let the current of incomprehensible fads carry me along.

[whatdoyoumeanitsnotawesome]

#my experience on this site is entirely#oh we're doing this now#ok sure

this is the way

[nakiapark]

Ode To All Things turned 9 today!

[mamath]

Arizona Iced Tea vibes haha

[thehauntedrocket]

The Meeping Angel

Cosplay by Council Of Geeks

[seerofmike]

too lazy to retype this but . insane interaction w coworker last night

[seerofmike]

tell me you have never worked in customer service without telling me you've never worked in customer service

[apostatefrog]

Gather ‘round kids: I had a coworker mention to me this morning that it’s impossible to get grease stains out of fabric. As a former chemistry minor who worked two years under the table doing housekeeping and who generally tends to be a fucking disaster, I am here to tell everyone that it absolutely is not impossible, in case this is a widespread belief. Here are a few of my favorite cleaning stain removers that I always have at home.

Here are some options:

A Tide™ pen.

I’m a generic kinda lady. I hate promoting brands 99% of the time. BUT if you catch absolutely any kind of stain before it gets ground in, you can get most of it out with one of these babies. I’ve tested it on blood, chocolate, coffee, guacamole, pizza sauce, red wine on, on that one time i accidentally slopped some oil I was supposed to be using on antiques onto a fancy rug (also an antique but not the one I was gunning for). If you’re washing something delicate, pump it onto your finger a couple of times and gently rub it in. I’m not sure what they put in these things but I’m pretty sure it’s an arcane secret.

Dish soap

Granted, this is a little trickier for upholstery/carpet, but it can still be done using a rag, some water, and some patience. But for clothing, just pour some soap on the stain and rub it in under cold running water.

Absolutely any clear alcohol is your new best friend

You know the old “white wine to clean red” trick? Well, this is its updated sister I like to call “you, too, can use coconut rum to get red jello shot out of your nice white dress”. It’s a nice party trick. Straight vodka works even better. For every day situations involving any kind of alcohol-related spills (including markers)–and especially work situations–rubbing alcohol is ideal. To quote another adage, this one from every chemistry teacher you will ever meet, “like dissolves like.”

Hydrogen Peroxide

It can get blood out of absolutely anything, including your mattress. It reacts with the iron in hemoglobin, which breaks down the molecule, causing it to lose its red color. So make sure you’re not using a cast iron skillet to wash your period underwear in.

Vinegar

This will dissolve lime buildup overnight. Fill a bag, tie it around your showerhead, and presto. You can also use it to scrub the area around your sink and to break up any buildup in pipes. (Limeaway™ is for rich people.) 

Baking soda

This is great if you have a pet or child who peed on the carpet. Just cover the area, wait until it dries, and vacuum it up. The longer you leave it, the better it will do at removing the smell. It’s also good removing mild odors from a small space, like a fridge or a laundry hamper. 

Charcoal

This is your heavy duty odor killer. A little goes a long way. In chemistry, activated charcoal is used as a purifier in reactions, and in medicine, it can be used to treat mild poisoning/overdoses. In your car that smells like someone died because you forgot you had potatoes in the trunk for six months? All you need are regular old charcoal briquettes. Stick a couple handfuls in a flat box and the smell will be gone overnight. Guaranteed. For larger areas, just use more charcoal.

[captainlordauditor]

Baking soda is also good for stuff stuck on pots pans and your stove top. Add a little bit of water and elbow grease and it’s like magic

@howtogrowthefuckup

[madamehardy]

Baby shampoo will get oil stains out of clothing even if it’s been washed and dried several times.  Shampoo is formulated to remove oil from organic stuff.

[inmysewingbox]

Fabric cleaning tips. good to know for sewers.

[badass-art-tutorials]

Helpful!!!

[lovelyladylavie]

Thank you guys so much! I have so many shirts i can’t wear anymore bc im a messy one

[jibril-thelibraryangel]

A muppet version of good omens were everyone is a muppet except for all the angels and demons.

All angels and demons are play by humans but whenever they are on earth they carry around a little muppet version of themselves Avenue Q style, because those are their corporations.

So Aziraphale and Crowley are still Michael Sheen and David Tennant but they puppet around muppet versions of themselves.

Whenever they are speaking to each other or to other demons and angels they are just talking with their actual faces and normal voices but when talking to a human/muppet they put on exaggerated little voices and the muppet/humans will exclusively address their muppet corporation, not acknowledging the full grown human men puppeting them.

There are no muppets in heaven or hell

When Aziraphale possesses Madame Tracy he just starts puppeting the Madame Tracy muppet.

Adam is just a human child, he doesn’t even have a muppet version of himself. He’s just a human child in this world of muppets and no one ever acknowledges it, not even Aziraphale and Crowley or Adam himself.

Dog starts out as a real dog but then shapeshifts into a muppet dog.

[icemaiden-deactivated20220406]

Important question: no matter how embarrassing the answer is, tag or comment with the first song you can remember really liking as a little kid. The one you tried to listen to as much as possible and thought was really profound. Bonus points if you say how old you were.

i’ll start. the song “i talk to the wind” by king crimson was my favourite song when i was 7 years old … I thought it was so Moving. and it still slaps

[awed-frog]

Okay but imagine you’re a tiny lizard living your humble & scaly life well hidden inside tomato leaves and then one day God starts leaving hills of brownies and avocado toasts three times the size of your head right by your front door.

[source]

[jjones186-deactivated20150201]

[lifelessordinary0]

Temple of Horus, Egypt

[boopsandswoops]

its horus he’s here

[valarhalla]

Guys no, it gets so much better. 

A small fat bird, like the above, is the hieroglyph used in Ancient Egyptian to mean “wicked” or evil”.

The phrase above him (the inscription should be read from the top down) is “Nb s3″ or “Lord of the son of”. Genitive is usually implied in this sort of phrase without a connecting word, meaning:

This birb has literally created the sentence and declared himself “ Lord of the Son of Evil”

[valarhalla]

God dammit, I realised I made a mistake doing this from memory- the first sign is “k” for “your”, not “nb” for “lord”. So this birb has declared himself “your evil son”, not “the lord of the son of evil”. Which is not quite as dramatic, but still very menacing. You go bird.

[ainawgsd]

Behold, my evil son. I am so very proud of him.

[emails-i-cant-send]

@todaysbird

[mysharona1987]

[shitpostinguniverse]

[robotslenderman]

Source

[tributary]

teetotailer

[judygemstone]

first incidence of good writing advice i've seen in 10+ years on this platform and it's in the notes of a mustelid wreaking absolute havoc in a german grocery store

[renousim]

[zagreus]

this is like the opposite of ASMR