Fancy Cheese Locker

please leave your shoes at the door. god's not dead. he's fake.

[monkeyislandtwo]

i wish for medical diets to not be left out of diet culture discussion for ONCE

[monkeyislandtwo]

can we talk about how diet culture messes with medical diets and how diet culture keeps affecting how medical diets are perceived and try to display themselves as helping medical diets but making them worse instead can we talk about products for medical diets still needing to exist without them adding extra unneeded diet culture shit and can we just not forget medical diets exist and are affected by diet culture

[writing-prompt-s]

His daughter was stolen by the Fae. Two decades of fruitless searching later, his time for vengeance has come. He kicks in the door to the Queen’s throne room as she flies to her feet, grabbing the hilt of her sword before recognition flashes across her face. “Dad… what are you doing here?”

[lakevida]

remembering that octopus brains are donut shaped cause their esophagus goes thru the middle of their head and sometimes they die from brain damage from meal too big, and saying a long prayer before bed every night that if something like that happens to me i will be able to handle it gracefully

[lakevida]

now i lay me down to sleep

i pray the lord my soul to keep

and hope my brain does not explode

from lunch or dinner overload

but if i die from eating good

i know the haters wish they could

and every day i thank my god

i was not born a cephalopod

and as we all know most prayer is silent so while there are no further words it continues for twelve minutes or so

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

oh excellent I needed a warmup exercise, thank you!

[writing-prompt-s]

When the truly ancient gods were rediscovered, they didn't seek vengeance on a world that had forgotten them - rather, they were happy that the humans they were so fond of remembered them once again after untold millenia of loneliness.

[nn-ee-zz]

We begin again!

The Fool - 0

[thatjayjustice]

Update: The marriage equality bill is expected to pass through its final reading in Thailand's upper house of parliament on Tuesday, June 18th. It will then be sent to the king for approval & come into force 120 days after being published in the Royal Gazette. source:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-moves-pass-same-sex-marriage-law-couple-wait-tie-knot-2024-06-17/

I am so excited for all the Thai people who have been waiting for years to marry their partners. My wife is Thai and dreamed of being able to have our wedding here in Bangkok one day. We're so close to equal marriage in Thailand! 🥹🙏🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭

[thespookiestace]

Calligraphers/people who use fountain and dip pens

Hi. I am a bookbinder. I know that mass produced notebooks, sketchbooks, journals, etc are often unsuited for fountain pens or dip pens. I want to make some journals specifically for calligraphy or fountain/dip pens, but I don't know what I should be looking for in terms of paper specs.

I would love to hear from the community what properties I should look out for when choosing journal paper (weight, gsm, finish type, etc), which papers are your favorites, and what types of pens you use with them. This can include paper pads from art stores, printer paper reams, uncut sheet paper, anything that isn't already bound and glued to a spine (spiral bound is okay because there's no glue).

@theshitpostcalligrapher I hope you don't mind if I tag you in this, you're the only calligrapher I know

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

okok so @mamoru is far more of a paper nerd than me, but personally I hunt for higher weight art papers if I'm doing anything more complicated than a little card.

the cards are actually plain index cardstock cue cards from staples, which is why I can write so many of these without bankrupting myself on paper alone, they're at a perfect weightage and finish to take in the ink without much feathering

for commissions, it depends. For bright whites, xerox makes a type of bright white printer paper, but it's got a semigloss to it that keeps ink from feathering AND it can come in 32lb paper, which has a much nicer feel to it. for reference, your average printer/notebook paper lives more in the 20lb zone

for a more weathered/older look, I particularly favour southworth's ivory parchment, which I order in two formats: 100 sheet boxes in 65 lb and 250 sheet boxes in 32 lb since I do a LOT of commissions

as for pens, i'm a cheap bitch tbh, it's all speedball nibs (c-series) and I use a wide variety of brands and colours for inks so not much help for u there

other calligraphers, chime in!

[momegranates]

[prokopetz]

The real reason your sapient dragon character needs a "rider":

Dragons on the wing are vulnerable to being mobbed by smaller, more agile flyers, particularly in your large rear blind spot, like a bird of prey being mobbed by crows. Having a human armed with a long spear perched on your back helps to dissuade anyone from getting any funny ideas.

Breath weapons are impressive enough on the ground, but in flight they're really only good for strafing stationary targets; trying to use your breath weapon in an aerial dogfight is a good way to get fire up your nose. A real fight calls for sterner measures – and, concomitantly, a crew to aim and reload the cannons.

In today's competitive world, it's not enough to devour a flock of sheep and call it a day if you want to keep your edge. You're accompanied at all times by a qualified personal alchemist tasked with carefully regulating your internal furnace to ensure peak performance, and sometimes you even listen to them.

No dragon of any quality would be caught dead without their valet. It's not as though you can announce your numerous long-winded titles yourself when introductions are called for, can you? You suppose next you'll be expected to pick up the spoils of your conquests yourself, like a common brigand. Perish the thought!

[probablyevilrpgideas]

Dragon pirate who acts as both captain and ship with a full crew of kobolds running over its back manning cannons

[3000s]

[teathattast]

art by keiko fukuyama (1999)

[ralfmaximus]

Tesla is tanking so hard it is dragging the entire EV segment's sales down into the negative. When you omit Tesla from the equation, EV sales are up 13% across the board.

Don't let anyone tell you EV sales are in a slump.

[eternvlsound]

Neon street lights to guide you home

ig: space.ram

[lizclimo]

[anxeious]

[anexperimentallife]

[sanguinewolves]

ily dropouts ily ppl getting their ged ily ppl who arent even getting a ged ily homeschooled ppl ily ppl who have to take breaks or leave the school system or who got held back i love everyone with a nonlinear or short school journey with my whole heart. btw.