Dark and bitter with a spoonful of glitter

i am in severe distress. i am vibing. i am king of the world. i am bored. i am lost at sea. i am making tea. i am foraging in the forest. i am eating fruit. i am chasing pigeons. i am napping in a chair. i am found. i am lost without a trace.

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[skopostheorie]

[crabussy]

just saw a chair so photogenic I had to reevaluate my feelings towards plastic furniture

[crabussy]

do you see this. beyond ridiculous

[crabussy]

what are our thoughts

I understand your feelings for the chair robin crabussy

unpost this right now you strange strange man

Voting ended onAug 12

[crabussy]

I hired a wizard to cast png on it. effervescent

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It looks like if you took the sunbeams that dance across the bottoms of swimming pools and wrought them into the likeness of a chair

[depsidase]

[importantcatpics]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I know I already made a post to this effect but it's so baffling to me when someone defends the fact that headphone jacks are slowly but surely getting phased out by smartphone manufacturers with some variations of "wireless headphones are more convenient anyway" bc like. If we're talking about convenience what I like about wired headphones is that they conveniently have a single plug that makes the same damn pair of headphones universally compatible with every single audio-output-capable device I own, from my phone and my computer to my fucking gameboy and my casette player, it doesn't get any more convenient than that.

[dogpuppy]

[gayvampyr]

it really pisses me off when adults sit there and drill it into kids’ heads that their youth is fleeting and tell them things like “enjoy your childhood while it lasts because this is the best it’s gonna get”. why are you telling children that adulthood is the worst thing they can experience? seriously what the fuck is wrong with you, why are you trying to make them feel like growing up is a fate worse than death? trying to convince them their life is over before it even begins? i’m tired of that shit. because tell my why my 12 year old cousin told me when she turns 30 she’ll be so depressed she’s just gonna cry all the time. what the fuck. kids don’t need to hear that their already stressful and overwhelming lives are never going to get better, that the abuse and lack of autonomy they face is apparently the highlight of their lives. they need to hear about adults who are happy to be alive and happy to have made it to their age. they need to know that growing up rules, it’s a gift and life does not have to suck for them, that they have a future that’s worth sticking around for. this rhetoric is so damaging mentally and i’m about to start hitting the adults who parrot it. i’m sorry you hate your life but you don’t get to dump your issues on these kids. don’t piss me off and leave these babies alone!

[kirbyofthestars]

people have the audacity to equate vanilla with “plain”. the fruit of a delicate orchid pollinated by hand. worth its weight in solid gold and beyond. the fussy black-and-cream jewel of the american continent. you sick son of a bitch. imagine a world without vanilla. no blondies. no pound cakes. no crème brûlée, no coke floats. no cream soda. no satiny new york-style cheesecakes. no warm apple pie à la mode. no velvety complexity to bring out complex notes in chocolate desserts. no depth of flavour in your cakes and cookies and milkshakes. all in just a few precious seeds or grams of paste or perfumed teaspoons of liquid black platinum. what you don’t understand could fill the library of alexandria seven times over and then some. you ungrateful bastard i’m going to kill you

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Ok. Let’s talk about Vanilla!

This is Vanilla planifolia, the Vanilla Orchid:

Here are the flowers:

Here are the fruits, known as “beans” (not actually a bean):

Pretty standard stuff for a tropical vine.

The plant is self-fertile, which means that the flowers are easy to pollinate by hand. This is fortunate, as the flowers only last a day, and must be pollinated in the morning.

Now. Is this where your Bulk Vanilla Ice Cream gets its flavor?

No

The total supply of natural Vanilla produced accounts for less than 15% of the Vanilla used worldwide on an annual basis.

Where does the rest come from?

Petroleum and Wood.

Specifically, the Guaiacol contained therein. It was discovered over a century ago that the brown liquor that comes off the wood pulping process can be refined into a tasty simulacrum of the exotic tropical flavor.

I say simulacrum because it is very much an incomplete flavor profile. Natural vanilla extract is a mixture of several hundred different compounds in addition to vanillin. Artificial vanilla flavoring is often a solution of pure vanillin, usually of synthetic origin.

This is where the bulk of the Vanilla that is consumed worldwide comes from; not from a tropical vine, but from a chemical plant that processes the waste products of gas and paper manufacturing.

It’s industrial waste.

And it’s Delicious!

[artfilmfan]

Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

[depsidase]

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who hasn't been held in a decade: oh I'm pretty low maintenance, yeah honestly I think I'd find that overwhelming or something, can I just hold your hand instead? If that's okay of course?

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who feels ill at the notion of taking up space: yeah I can stand. Yeah honestly it's no biggie I like standing. Do you mind if I lean here? It's okay to say no.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who would rather die than be considered selfish: I'm really sorry to ask I'm probably just being annoying but could I ask for another pillow? Yeah there isn't one in the room. Yeah no worries I can just bunch up some towels if needed.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who's most outlandish and fantastical fantasies are a coffee date and seeing a movie with someone: oh I don't get out much. Yeah I don't really like being around people. I'm pretty much an introvert. Or something like that yeah.

[alurkerlieshere]

Woman who would break down screaming and crying if someone showed even a hint of affection in person, who would fall apart at the seams if you held her still and asked her if she was okay, woman who if allowed too would wrap herself around you and sob and weep until she became severely dehydrated: oh yeah sorry I spaced out for a second there. Yeah I'm doing alright.

[depsidase]

[calware]

i really love this genre of image

[lunarthesugarglider]

[villaqueen]

The best part of that video is that the owner found the ORIGINAL plush later on the beach and took another video with it after their grandmother stitched it back up

[i-am-a-lonely-nerd]

I love the death grip after the toy was fixed up. Lessons were learned. Try to steal it this time you fucking bird. I dare you.

[fandom-man]

[scholarlypidgeot]

@moethh don't hide this in the tags

[luxiomahariel]

"3d printed snickers dick vein remover" is a new phrase that has never been said before i think

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[asteroidtroglodyte]

[hometoursandotherstuff]