some pixie dust

Always remember that "You can have anything in life, if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

[sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051]

I'm NOT gonna say it again

SEASONINGS include herbs and spices, along with minerals and chemicals used to season food!!!! Salt, citric acid, and MSG, are all examples of seasonings that are NOT herbs or spices!

HERBS are flavorful leaves. Only. Leaves. Doesn't matter if its dried, fresh, whole, or ground, if it is a leaf, it is an herb

SPICES are flavorful parts of plants that are NOT LEAVES. These include seeds, berries, stems, bark, roots, flowers, buds... NOT LEAVES

THANK YOU

[tompetertrash]

Things are heating up in the cooking fandom.

[boopednose]

That's how cooking works

[incorrect-harry-potter-quotes]

snape deciding to teach children at a school:

[blvkvholic]

[systlin]

GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar-BBDO5VC

[beautifultoastdream-deactivated]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[systlin]

I KNOW RIGHT?!???

[ella-raene]

I can’t help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying “it was done with this and this”, and some old rich white guys looked at it and went “oh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discover”

For a long time, archeologists didn’t know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to “needle” in the descriptions. They went, “seems like we’ll never know.” Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew - and by sewing the braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.

The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went “oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?” LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went “what if we did the thing the pictures said they did” AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT.

Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going “that’s a myth sweaty”

Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years, we’ve had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE AND DEMENTIA.

[systlin]

In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman recipes it never turned out quite right. 

Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water. Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviously you knew that you used seawater for cement. Duh. That’s so obvious that they never really bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn’t necessary, everyone knew that. 

But then the empire fell, other empires rose and fell, time passed, and by the time we were trying to reconstruct the formula the ‘mix the dry ingredients with seawater’ trick had been forgotten, until chemical analysis finally figured it out again. 

It’s sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that’s mentioned all the time, but we don’t actually know where it was located. Because it isn’t written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It’s Punt. Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It’d be ridiculous to waste the ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt. 

3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written down. 

[feitanswife]

So moral of story is be specific

[chronicmuppetbrain]

I was thinking it was stupid that they didn’t specify seawater but then I had the thought that we don’t specify to use chicken eggs in baking because DUH so we just write eggs

[aethersea]

2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and crying bc the ancient recipes make no sense

[lierdumoa]

Forget eggs what about milk? They’ll look back at us, the ancients, and think we drank human breast milk by the gallon. When asked for evidence they’ll pull out from the deep archives the historical records of anime tiddies proving ancient humans had huge boobs. i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers. packin some dobonhonkeros. massive dohoonkabhankoloos. big ol’ tonhongerekoo—

[ilikeyoshi]

me: hey how long is this thing going to last

someone: haha you just want to know when you’re off the hook

me: hah

me: (actually i just need to allocate the right expectations and backlog of energy and make sure the rest of my day falls in good accordance with it so that i don’t feel time-crunched and propel myself into a hysteria because if i don’t know how long this thing lasts or when it ends i can’t possibly know when literally anything else starts and my entire life becomes an unraveled realm of anarchy with no rhyme or reason and how is that not terrifying to you)

[ilikeyoshi]

me: hey how long will this take

someone: oh like twenty minutes

me: ok

*an hour later*

me: *clinging to every learned social skill i can think of with the desperate hope my distress and exhaustion doesn’t show*

someone: hey we’re almost done don’t be so crabby

me: *smiling* *internally screaming at this SENSELESS CHAOS*

[ilikeyoshi]

someone: hey do you want to do [involving time-consuming thing]

me: hey that sounds fun! when were you thinking?

someone: oh we’re doing it right now

me: oh. like. now-now? like right now. like you want me to stop what i’m doing and get up and do this thing with you, suddenly, with thirty seconds of warning. now. like this second. immediately. now?

[snarkylittlespeedster]

this feeling is so real

[labelleizzy]

I know this pain

[adhd-community]

This post is staring into my soul. I feel seen.

[james-flint]

Follow me.

Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

[szuddenly]

you think you want me to shut up? i have to listen to myself even when im not talking

[tooiconic]

wow this is a fucking mood

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

not to start discourse but i think jellybeans are overrated 

[corvidmoth]

i will come to your house and personally eat your vertebrae one by one while reciting the alphabet backwards

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

pop me open like a pez dispenser  

[wordpresspaidthreemil]

This is exactly the type of content that Automattic paid $3,000,000 for

[a-dozen-moderate-fragments]

this is exactly the type of content that Verizon lost $1,000,000,000 for

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

fantastic job everybody

[somespaceman]

i thought this was bot post but i guess real human people thought these words and decided to share it

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I feel that way about my own posts a lot

[clarityofchaos-deactivated20200]

[aprilwitching-deactivated201808]

candles are how we keep fires as pets

[annabellioncourt]

this is unnecessarily adorable

[just-shower-thoughts]

One day, when millenials take over, instead of sick days we will have “I can’t even” days and our bosses will approve them by saying “it do be like that”

[ibelongtothe-sea-deactivated201]

[myravenousmindandme]

[1-800kanye]

u know whats wild. everyone on here like 20 and when i first joined everyone was like 14 15. u ask anybody n they been here for years. nobody new on here. staff locked the doors n were all Stuck Inside

[lupinelolita]

Tag your current age and how old you were when you joined Tumblr

[ineffable-bisexual-deactivated2]

Fan Fiction Was Just as Sexual in the 1700s as It Is Today

Before the tales about Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter, people wrote bawdy or gross stories about "Gulliver’s Travels."

Fan fiction’s role as a collective project in popular ethics was ultimately what the 2019 Hugo Award acknowledged: AO3 may have officially earned the honor, but so did every writer who had ever been bold, brave, or foolhardy enough to share their work with the internet.

I wanted to share this really cool article from Shannon Chamberlain at The Atlantic with my fellow fic writers. 

[valtsv]

seeking employment opportunities in the following professions: paranormal investigator, ghost haunting a motel, shadow that runs alongside people's cars when they're driving at night, talking crow with a terrible sense of humor, local urban legend, slightly unsettling late night radio host, cryptid

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