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9th doctor is best by default because Chris Eccleston is rabidly socialist and gives 0 shits about threatening the queen's life on twitter

roboco-san

I've been informed his primary venue for promises of regicide is actually instagram

matrixdragon

He was banned from Twitter for wishing death on Trump.

roboco-san

he's doing god's work

wordshakerofgallifrey

@greatmist26 @overcast--harlequin

overcast--harlequin

@wordshakerofgallifrey we Stan one man

ampervadasz

flareonfloof

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

@drukhari

theconcealedweapon

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

JUNE? what’s next, July??? Heaven forbid, August??? When does the nonsense end!!!

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

i have received some ATROCIOUS news

soothifying-sounds-asmr

Cat Cracking Clay by ttugttagnara

onwardtorakichi

lmfao

onwardtorakichi

soothifying-sounds-asmr

IT WAS REQUESTED

whitepeopletwitter

purple-beard

macbcth

nothing frustrates me more than when adults refuse to even slightly indulge the questions and thoughts of children. i remember one time when one of my younger cousins accidentally stumbled across the concept of purchasing power parity because she realised 10 rupees which bought her 10 candies in India only bought her ~3 candies when we went on holiday to Japan, and when she asked her mother about “why the same things cost different amounts in different places” my aunt had the audacity to call her spoiled for not understanding the “”worth” of money, that’s not what she was ASKING damn it!! your daughter just set up her own big mac index and realised a key metric of macroeconomics!!! how do you not find that utterly fascinating !! why don’t adults talk to children !!

macbcth

i just remembered this is the same young girl who discovered solipsism right before my eyes— she and i decided to go on a zipline together, but i’m slightly scared of heights, so i naturally didn’t enjoy it as much as she did (she LOVED it). once we got off she, still giggling and giddy, said something along the lines of “i’ll never feel the fear you just felt because i’m not scared of heights, and you will never know the happiness that i feel right now.” then she kind of just stood there quietly for a bit and said “wow, it’s crazy that i’ll only ever just be me.” and then she just… trotted off… to ride the zipline again, as if she hadn’t just realised and calmly accepted something that throws me into an existential crisis every time i think about it.

teaboot

I find a lot of arguably mean things funny, but there’s a special place in my heart for hardcore hipsters who insist they love tea despite having no idea how to brew it and just choking down that hot bitter disaster while insisting it’s God’s gift to man

teaboot

My man Tanser over here gulping back scalding mugs of $40/oz organic loose leaf white tea that he steeped for half an hour before his holistic underwater basket weaving course at Lord Wiffleton’s Combination Waffle House And Taco Bell: I dunno I just prefer it over coffee I guess I’m just different

teaboot

Okay, I’m getting questions so here’s what’s up.

Y'all are thinking of the water as n ingredient- what you gotta do is think of it like an oven.

Think about baking cookies- you can have all the best ingredients, all the perfect measurements, all the right consistency- but if the oven is too hot or you leave the dough in for the wrong amount of time, you don’t have cookies, you have sludge or charcoal.

With tea, the water is the oven.

White and green teas are delicate and prone to scalding- IE, the cookies burn easy. Put the water to a low boil, with small bubbles- tiny, like pinheads- and pour the water onto your leaves in the teapot to steep for 1-2 minutes- one teaspoon of tea per cup of water. Then strain the tea without squeezing the leaves- squeezing and crushing releases more of the natural tannins, which are healthy for you but taste bitter.

Likewise, the shape of the leaf can alter the taste- whole leaf teas are more expensive and take longer to steep, but have a subtle, pleasant taste that can have a lot of layers to it.

Read which are granular and crushed up are called Fannings- they’re typically cheaper, as they’re the castings that come from whole leaf tea processing, and they steep faster, but they also turn bitter easily and cloud the tea’s color. Fannings usually have a strong, bold flavour compared to whole leaf variations, but lack complexity.

Next are oolong teas- oolong teas come from the same plant as white and green teas, as well as black tea. The difference between the four is the oxidization of the plant- the Tea plant.

Oxidization is the process that causes the leaf to change color- white teas are the least oxidized and black teas are the most oxidized.

An oolong is a tea leaf that isn’t quite oxidized enough to be called a black tea. It usually has a reddish color to it, and can steep any color from amber to deep red. It also has a good but of caffeine in it, and a more bitter taste than green or white tea. I personally enjoy oolongs because the ones sold in my area tend to have a sort of woodsy-fireplace kind of taste.

To prepare an oolong, take one teaspoon of leaf per cup of water, and bring your water to a medium boil- the bubbles should be the size of the tip of your finger, no bigger. Pour the water onto the leaf and steep for 3-5 minutes.

Again, be sure not to squeeze the leaves while straining.

Black tea is the most oxidized leaf, and also contains the highest concentration of caffeine.

Black tea is also sturdy and hard to bruise, so to prepare it, you can bring the water to a full rolling boil and steep it around 4-5 minutes.

Black teas also tastes the most bitter of all the variations I’ve listed, so be aware of that. Depending on how they’re processed, though, they can have a wide range of warm, smoky flavors.

The darker the leaf, the longer it usually needs to steep, and the more bitter it is, but the more caffeine it has.

The smaller the leaf, the cheaper, faster, and stronger the flavor, but also less subtle the taste.

Good green teas are typically bright, vibrant green.

White tea, contrary to the name, produces pale yellowish or greenish tea.

Herbal teas are 1 to 1.5 teaspoons per cup of water, at a rolling boil, and should usually steep at Least 5 minutes.

Again, contrary to the name, Herbal Tea isn’t technically Tea, as it doesn’t actually contain Leaves from the Tea plant- these are called tisanes by detail-oriented nerds like me.

Herbal teas can be made of anything from dried fruits to flowers to vegetables, spices, and garden herbs, and don’t have any caffeine unless intentionally added.

Herbal tea also doesn’t release the tannins that green, oolong, and black do, so it doesn’t typically turn bitter with time.

Do be careful not to steep too long, though, because it can turn too strong and pungent to drink.

Each tea blend is different, and is specifically designed to be prepared a certain way to get the intended taste, so these guidelines will vary from tea to tea, but the important thing is that you find something you genuinely enjoy.

It doesn’t matter if what you like is some fancy expensive matcha or a cheap dollar store chai; as long as you enjoy it, there’s no wrong choice.

To beat the metaphor: Please don’t force yourself to eat burnt cookies!

Enjoy what you put in your food hole

13faeinapenguinsuit

Is this a bad time to point out that sometimes it is enjoyable to drink burnt tea because it is has that particularly tanniny bitterness that overwhelms all other flavors?

teaboot

Hey my friendo as long as that’s the recipe you crave

marisatomay

vegetables aren’t gross y’all just can’t cook

marisatomay

brussels sprouts are GOOD! broccoli is GOOD! green beans are GOOD! squash is GOOD! cauliflower is GOOD! asparagus SUCKS and i will die on that hill! eggplant is GOOD! yall just cant cook!!!

spirantization

everyone stop saying you need to cook vegetables in butter or oil or with cheese to make them good. britain didn’t invade india and disrupt the sociopolitical balance of an entire subcontinent so you could forget that spices exist

anxietyproblem

mysharona1987

bella-loves-blue-deactivated202

Honestly to all of the adults refusing to wear masks and saying it’s not a big deal: fuck you. Your ruining my school life and my social life as a teen. I will be unable to do anything I love and the careers that I want to take part in because you keep making this goddamn virus worse for other people.

especiallyqhere

This ^^^ 100% and to the old people at work who say they don’t want to listen to all this “nonsense” : fuck you!

phendrift

Don’t forget although there is a lot of ignorance among older generations, corporations are forcing us to work during a pandemic and our government has done almost nothing to prevent this from happening. If there’s any rage to be had point towards those that have the power to make us fight amongst ourselves.

boomonster-rawr

reblogging for that last comment.

zevveli

For those wondering about the “two year” thing, at this point the can of worms is open. Even if we started using the vaccines that we are not entirely sure if they work and they do work, it will take about 2 years to create enough herd immunity that we will get this thing under control.

miseducatedmelanicmuse

Never forget.

hotgirlsakura

do you remember when middle school started and all the white kids started going through their “racist phase?” when i started using swear words, white kids started using racial slurs. when i started referencing memes, white kids started making nazi jokes.

everyone likes to joke about how horrible middle school is, but no one is willing to acknowledge how traumatic it is for kids of color. we understand what racism is from the time we are little kids,–i knew what racism was before i understood what race and ethnicity were–and we understand how it feels to experience, but when white kids start to find out about racism, it’s a joke to them.

i didn’t know any white kids in middle school who weren’t racist. the ones who didn’t use slurs or make racist jokes or find nazis and nazi propaganda funny hung out with those kids. they segregated their friend groups to the point where even white kids who were friends with kids of color wouldn’t have black friends or dark skinned friends. i experienced tokenization and microagressions and outright being called slurs and mocked for not being white the whole time i was in middle school from both other students and the school’s faculty.

i need to clarify here that i did not grow up in the south. i did not grow up in a conservative place. i did not grow up in a predominantly white place. i grew up in a racially diverse and liberal city in southern california. racism still existed there. i heard the same horrifically racist slurs and jokes and preachings as kids of color who grow up in texas do. the kids saying this shit had democrats for parents and teachers, but they were not told they were wrong for being racist. any time a teacher overheard a kid being racist,–even when a white gentile wrote an ode to hitler for our poetry unit–the kids who suffered because of their racism were told that these racists in the making would grow out of it. we had to forgive them. the authority figures were just as racist as our classmates even though our principal wasn’t white and we lived in a progressive area.

the most painful part of this experience was that i didn’t have the words to explain what was happening to me. i didn’t know it was a collective experience that other kids of color were having. i didn’t know what was so wrong with me that i was being made fun of for not looking white or for acknowledging my culture. it wasn’t until i was in the 8th grade that i finally felt seen by anyone else when i got seated with a bunch of other kids of color in algebra and they would comment on the racism they experienced and noticed in our school. that was the first time in this whole experience–in my whole life even–that i felt like i wasn’t crazy. i was right. none of us had the vocabulary that we all must have now to explain what we were experiencing, but we were all experiencing the same thing.

the white kids i was friends with back then are all around 19 now. i see some of them post about racial injustices in the world. i see some of them wear maga hats. none of them have ever apologized to me or any of the other people of color they hurt with their racism. their activism is performative at best and nonexistent at worst. what’s the point of this post? racism isn’t a phase. racism isn’t a character flaw. racism infects every aspect of our lives. racism exists everywhere. i want the white people i grew up with to understand that the internet didn’t radicalize me, you did. i was not radicalized by learning what racism is when i was 17 or by learning that racism still exists when trump was elected. i was radicalized by growing up a girl of color.

hotgirlsakura

white people read this and evaluate your behavior as a kid and how it affects your behavior now but do not use this or me as a way to absolve your guilt. i do not care if you are sad that you were a racist kid.

marisatomay

we did all of this hamilton discourse in 2015!!!!!!! if you weren’t around for it then just know it happened and every take possible was had!!!!! go get some juice and log off

gay-jesus-probably

The 2015 Hamilton discourse got the point of one healthy able-bodied white american girl pretending to be a disabled middle eastern lesbian couple with HIV so that she could write a modern AU of Hamilton about HIV, who was then caught in the act by another fic writer who had a grudge against her because she’d attacked them for writing a Hamilton AU where the founding fathers are cannibalistic mermaids, and the reason she had attacked them for it was because somehow that was cultural appropriation.

Seriously. Whatever hot take you have about Hamilton, I promise you several dozen people already said it years ago, and if I have to see this shit again I’m going to throw myself into the fucking sun