#alcohol warn

[flightlesscrowkids]

readin’ posts about clumsy nursey and I just remembered that time I was drunk & I finished my drink & wanted to get up to get another so I kissed the dude who i was talking to on the nose & walked directly into a wall

anyway I’m not saying that was a nursey move but that’s a nursey move

[boom-hammer]

[boom-hammer]

Thank you Snapchat for making me look cute even when I'm drunk and sad. 🌹

[elkian]

Thinking about Fallout and post-apoc alcohol

(TW: Alcohol, as you may have guessed.)

Because like.

A dusty bottle of wine that was old BEFORE the bombs is... not going to be good 200 years later. That is fucking vinegar, at best. And who even knows what radiation does to booze. (Though I can believe the world-that-was touted lead crystal and glass above all else, it’s in line with the tone.)

So after a certain point, all pre-war alcohol just becomes outright garbage, right? Like I’m no spirits scholar but almost nothing lasts that long, especially with whatever substandard storage or lack thereof it would experience once most of the power goes down and buildings get ripped apart.

So the people who know what pre-war alcohol tastes like is pretty much exclusively Ghouls, and their sense of taste has probably deteriorated a lot at this point, so even they might not realize people are getting drunk/”drunk” off of piss vinegar basically. And stills definitely exist, but I wonder how many moonshiners would try to emulate the taste of “real” pre-war alcohol, aka vinegar.

And then there’s the Vaults. They had people bring booze down, we know (there’s booze and bullets EVERYWHERE in pre-war buildings, even offices, so I accept that that was just part of the culture of the time like with cigarettes). And I’m certain a few had people set up stills, people who’d actually tasted pre-war booze and passed the taste down via moonshine.

So I don’t really have a conclusion but it’s interesting to think about. There’s no real way to get “authentic” pre-war flavors, even in alcohol, unless there’s a Ghoul out there who had a brewery or still or something and has been painstakingly cranking out the exact same flavor of spirit for however long. Everything is an echo of an echo, a photograph of a photograph, a tracing of a tracing.

On quick research, it seems certain types of alcohol don’t expire, at least in the uncertain timeline here. Not sure if this person means “within your, the reader’s, human lifespan” or “yeah that’ll keep for 200+ years”. Wars, deathclaws, and radiation certainly would have an effect too.

“Most primary (also called "base") liquors like whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, tequila, and vodka, have an almost infinite shelf life if left unopened.

That's because they don't have much sugar and, unopened, aren't at risk of any oxidation. The high alcohol content also makes them particularly inhospitable to bacteria life.”

And almost any group of humans is basically guaranteed to try fermenting or consuming spoiled food at some point, so there’s definitely stuff out there. It’s just a thought.

[elkian]

Logan: Varker is the worst

Logan: *meets Varker’s cat*

Logan: Varker is kind of the worst.

[gamzee]

bojack horseman “soberrrrrrrr NOW” scene except it’s me trying to draw

[boom-hammer]

I'm too drunk for reality so please send me asks.

About anything.

[nitensalis]

to do list for today 

open the store in the morning 

finish shift at 2 when Mary arrives to relieve me of my solitude 

walk to the polling place, partake in the political process 

walk home 

make popcorn, put fellowship of the ring extended edition on 

possibly open wine, it’s not even 3 though 

have a good cry about fellowship, get all those emotions outta here early to prepare for the evening 

don't check exit polls everything is fine 

begin flipping between the hockey game and news broadcasts around 7PM 

drink more wine 

construct a homemade pizza 

continue drinking 

?????????

it's over, go to sleep,,