Stripe is Here

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[televisionenjoyer]

Ok I want to know something

how often do you talk with the mutual you speak the most to?

every day

several times a week

once a week

once a month

less than that

i'm too much of a coward to talk to my mutuals

Remaining time: 1 day 2 hours

also if you want to please add in the tags whether you've met in person and whether you live in the same country

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

a lil tomato soup made from roast tomato, onion, garlic and bell pepper with a lil grill ches. regular marble cheddar, some farmers market truffle cheddar, and a lil pickle for the filling. bread is a sourdough pullman's loaf recipe of my own design

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

man it is SO funny that everyone's still cycling this post considering that the meal poisoned the shit out of me

turns out the bread i baked there had started to mold, the cheddar cheese had started to mold, and the chicken stock I used for the soup's best before date was over a year ago. I found all of this out a day or so later and I'm now still dealing with the gastroenteritis symptoms

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

everyone in here would have gotten poisoned if I'd brought this to the potluck, good to know

[identifying-mushrooms-in-posts]

Rhizopus sp./Mucor sp. (mold)

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

dude

[stripe-conlon]

Did the doctor specifically say yogurt or can you get away with a probiotic gummy? I’ve got IBS in the “things sit too long without being digested and start fermenting” style and have fucked up my gut bacteria a few times because of it. Taking a probiotic gummy helps way more than the prescription meds my GI doctor gave me ever did.

[kosmogrl]

[chaoticneutralwife]

the next day after exerting myself too much because i felt good for once

[so-over-ableism]

[Image Description:

The first photo is a brown horse galloping fast with a slight blur to indicate the speed. There is a mountain in the background and the whole image has a bright lens flare to give it an energetic glow. At the top of the image is text saying “How I feel when I wake up with less symptoms than normal”

The second photo is an exhausted white horse collapsed on the ground in front of a barn. In the horse’s mouth there is a sign that reads “I am NOT dead just tired & ugly. Please let me sleep” The word “not” is underlined for emphasis.

end ID]

[stripe-conlon]

Not to be that person, but the sign is not in the horse’s mouth it’s pressed into the ground about two feet back from the horse’s head.

[atthispointeverythingischaos]

if yall have never had a homemade cookie so good it genuinely made you fall down and cry I totally recommend finding one

[asexualbert]

Ok fine, I'll make cookies

[stripe-conlon]

Lucky; I have to go bug the deacon’s wife to make her chocolate chip cookies.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*stroking my device screen with the tenderness of brushing the cheek of a lover returned from the war*

[jaguarguard]

I- okay but- but screens are solid? Cheeks are not? Last time I checked???

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I love this website I can make the most normal possible post and still get replies from alternate realities. what are cheeks made out of in your world plasma?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the wifi came back on

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

what you've never patted your laptop affectionately after a reboot fixed the Issue? never hugged your phone in relief that the screen survived a fall uncracked? never held a tablet to your quivering bosom bc the fic was just that good? puh-lease

[stripe-conlon]

No, I’m a biter. I’ve licked and bit my laptop and phone and tablet and my headset at work and at least one of my work computer’s monitors.

[willgrahamscock]

do you read fanfic for a fandom you haven't engaged with otherwise?

no and I wouldn't

no but I'd try

yes and I liked it

yes but it's not for me

I don't think ppl should read fanfic without understanding the source material

Walter White

Voting ended onMay 27

just stumbled across a video of someone asking for fic recs and when asked what fandom they replied 'any' and my mind short circuited, pls add your thoughts in the tags

[stripe-conlon]

[stripe-conlon]

PAKIG!!!

[stripe-conlon]

[stripe-conlon]

FAKE DIVINATION SPOILERS OUT OF CONTEXT:

Orok in Chapter 2: “Martha, I’m coming home sweetie!”

Orok, like maybe 3 pages later (idk, I’m reading on kindle): “I’M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING”

[prettyboyneil]

One minute you’re normal the next you have a sport mafia yaoi blog and the worst part is the sport isn’t even real

[stripe-conlon]

A fic I need so bad I might write it:

WAG Ilya fic; Ilya gets added and oh no, he already has one of the numbers in phone. He looks across the locker room at Connors. “Why are you in the Montreal wags chat?”

Connors: I was here first, why are *you* in the Montreal wags chat?

[beetlewoman]

adult backpack wearers of the world unite

[yesornopolls]

Do/did you personally know 3 or more sets of twins?

(You don't really have to be friends with them now, just at any point in your life, did you know them/interact with them in some capacity. They don't have to be identical. Idk if we want to count triplets/quadruplets/etc. in here, ig we can. Lol sorry).

Do/did you personally know 3 or more sets of twins?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 8

[incorrectbatfam]

Damian: I'm grounded?!

Alfred: Yes, you are grounded.

Bruce: You disobeyed an order.

Jason, holding up a shovel: And now we are gonna bury you until you've learned your lesson.

Dick: Jason, that's not how grounding works.

[stripe-conlon]

Give him a break, the last time he was grounded he woke up in his own grave.

[kevingayimeanday]

I like how Neil was shocked Wymack had found him and went “no one knows where Millport is” meanwhile the Millport dingos were one of the best high school exy teams in Arizona

If even a quarter of high schools in Arizona had a competitive exy team that’s top 10 out of like 100-and-something other schools what is he on about

((He was also bummed they didn’t make it to championships like what part of being a state champion is flying under the radar Neil))

[stripe-conlon]

We have to remember that 1) Palmetto is based on Clemson and has a name recognition on par with USC, Penn State, Notre Dame, Alabama, Auburn, basically any Big 10/12 and SEC team whom, if you flip to ABC, NBC, or ESPN on a Saturday between September and December anywhere in the country, you’ll see playing football; and 2) we don’t specifically know what division of state championship he was playing for.

Arizona Interscholastic Association has 7 divisions for football, 8 divisions for basketball, and 6 divisions for soccer; division is primarily calculated by school enrolment size with 1 being low enrolment and 6 being high enrolment, all sports have an open division and basketball had a copper division. That means in any given year for any given sport there are between 6 and 8 state champion teams for anywhere from 212 to 285 teams. We know Millport is described as a dying town with lots of abandoned homes so they’d be either 1A or 2A. So they’re almost the best of at most 43 or 58 teams but I would argue they’re most certainly NOT top 10% in the state. Especially if they’re using a shared soccer field. They are not making it to states often enough for the school to move heaven and earth to make room in their budget for a dedicated Exy court so they are not top 10% in the state.

My high school was my state’s equivalent of a 2A and one of the most Neil equivalent players I can think of was ranked 11th in the state and 256th in the nation for football his senior year. He did go to a D1 college, but he went to a Mid-Atlantic region team and most notably, he did not go pro and wasn’t even scouted for going pro. The other most Neil equivalent player I can think of was ranked 155th in the state and 3860 in the nation for baseball; he went to Stony Brook University which, again, D1 for his sport, but again, not playing any of the household name teams. He also went on to be a first round draft pick MLB baseball player.

Basically, it’s very believable for Neil to be both playing on a team good enough for state championship contention AND be surprised a team of Palmetto’s NCAA division and conference came looking for him specifically.

[datura-inoxia]

Imagine, if you will, you're presented with a slab of Neapolitan ice cream such as this.

what flavor do you eat first?

Chocolate

Vanilla

Strawberry

I'm bald/lactose intolerant

Voting ended onMay 4

If there's a reason for your answer please leave it in the tags.

[shamesonlydaughter]

it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be done

[fiyero3305]

The phrase "They don't want it perfect, they want it Friday" does wonders for my productivity.

[blueindeed]

I tell this story all the time but I'll tell it again! When I taught kindergarten full time, we had a working bee one weekend where we did a bunch of gardening/landscaping in the outdoor area. One of the dads put up a bit of fencing, then stood back and had a look, kind of frowning like he wasn't sure. His wife then came along, and the following conversation ensued:

Wife: GETMO? Husband: (after a moment, with a sigh) Yeah, GETMO. Me: GETMO? Wife and husband, in perfect unison: Good Enough To Move On

Absolutely LIFE CHANGING acronym, friends and enemies.

[chekhovs-raygun]

perfect is the opposite of done

[thejediassassingirl]

“Not perfect, passable” is one of my personal mottos.

That, and “good enough for government work.”

[stripe-conlon]

Oh god no, don’t use the last one as a standard, I have intimately seen what the government considers acceptable work. Hell, my dad started encouraging me to apply for government work a decade ago because he watched a government employee delete a massive and extremely important database, the kind that would get you immediately fired in the private sector, and keep his job.

“Good enough for government,” is a 70% falling apart mess that is totally useless. It is something that is going to fall apart and break catastrophically at the most inopportune moment.