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annebd87 replied to your photo “Dad, tell the truth...when we hunt monsters under your blanket, is it...”

Polk looks like she's getting ready to hunt Deebs' tail.

Oh always. They love chasing each others’ tails. 

Currently it’s storming bloody murder outside and they are scared of the thunder, so they’re sitting butt-to-butt on the back of the sofa, making sure they have eyes on the entire condo. 

ynqh replied to your post “POSTER FRAMES: ORDERED.  When I moved to the Eyrie, which is the place...”

“to make it exactly the way I want it” This sounds so intimidating. I’ve been in my condo for two years and the walls are still sparse because I have no idea what art to buy or where to hang it. It seems like such a huge commitment.

Oh, see, that’s what I love about common wall art, it’s the opposite of a commitment! You put hooks in the walls and you hang stuff on them, but if you don’t like something you can just take it down and replace it. I just got rid of like 80% of the posters I’ve been keeping since college or even before, kept the ones I liked, and realized I could by entirely fucking new art to replace some of the ones I don’t want on my wall anymore. It’s been SO LONG since I bought new art, I’m all stoked for it! 

My advice to you is to find a mall with a poster shop, or go to a college campus bookstore during the first week of school (so like, this week) and find a bunch of cheap-ass posters you like in standard sizes (16x20, 18x24, 13x19), put ‘em up on your wall with thumbtacks in places you look at often (the end of a hallway, above your bed, whatever wall you see when you’re sitting at your computer). If you still like them in a month, start buying frames for them, and if you don’t, buy a new poster! 

Or, if you have a bit more budget to spend, go to Bed Bath & Beyond or Target and find some shit you like that comes either mounted or pre-framed. BB&B especially has some really great decor -- it’s mass-produced but it’s still pretty! Target also sells decals you can stick onto the wall and then peel off when you don’t like them anymore, as does Ikea. Those are SO much fun. 

Art doesn’t have to be a commitment -- it can be a whim that turns out well! That’s what I did with my embroidery hoops, I just thought “This will probably look good, and I have spackle if it doesn’t” and I went to town. 

rocketmanimissearth replied to your post “The story about the woman stealing the plant is killing me because in...”

When I lived in a house I had plants stolen from the front yard every spring; when I put in new plants they'd come steal the new ones.

You totally have my sympathy for that, but I have to admit my first thought was also that if that were happening to me I’d put a REALLY LOUD ALARM under one of them, not because it would do any good but because it would make some suburban garden thief poop their pants in fear at least once. :D 

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This whole scene, but especially "shake him until sex falls out." That line has stuck with me since the day I first read this fic. Oh, Yuuri. "Yuuri wants to hit him, shake him until sex falls out, but he settles for reaching to pull at Viktor's sweatpants, trying to drag them down the the curve of his ass, gasping, "Yes, come on, hurry," and rolling his hips into the negative space between them. It's shameless; he'll be embarrassed later. Right now — he's too crazy with want to care."

Ah, Yuuri on Ice. That was a time and a place. So like one month post election I got asked to move countries at work and start a new job in a hot second, so on top of trying to acclimate to existential horror and not pick fist fights with ever white man I saw (I see a LOT every damn day), I was trying to pack of my entire life and stick it on a shipping container. I was, you can guess, a little stressed out, and it turns out that my coping mechanism was vomiting out like 1 million words of Yuuri on Ice fic because if it was YUURI’s crippling anxiety then it wasn’t MY crippilng anxiety. 

Getting to that point in the story felt like a fucking exhale, because the whole first half is holding your breath as hard as possible, as Yuuri winds himself ever more tightly. To get him to the point where he can be honestly himself, wanting and awkward and mad at Viktor and just not thinking about himself for a second, just living in the moment, was a fucking relief. 

Also before anybody asks: yes, I have genuinely forgotten everything about figure skating since writing this story. I really think that putting it all down on paper was like, purging, you know? Like it’s alllllll gone. There’s just this giant empty space in my sporting knowledge again where abstractly I know that less than 1 year ago I like...knew what a triple axel was and now it’s like lol shrug emoji. Amazing.

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drgaellon replied to your post “glumshoe: binarydreams1010: glumshoe: changingmorphologies: ...”

I don't recall seeing the cop or the corporate shill the last time I was there, but the old lady with groceries can also be found (along with several similar statues) in National Harbor in Oxon Hill, MD.

Yeah, he mass-produces them and then, I don’t know, fucking for all I know he sells them to the cities that install them. Or he pays the cities to let him install them, he has that kind of money and it wouldn’t be the first time he’d paid to get people to exhibit his monstrosities. 

A smaller, life-sized version of Abe Lincoln’s First Date is also in several cities around the country. Though at least that one has a fun if unintentional gay vibe to it that makes it almost likeable. 

annebd87 replied to your photoset “I tried to take a sweet picture of my kitten napping on the blanket...”

I know kittens are pretty flexible, but I don't understand what's happening in that first pic. Where's that leg coming from, Polk?!

LOL! It’s her back leg thrown over her front shoulder -- she almost fell asleep that way after doing some nightly grooming. 

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Sam, now that you’ve bought your own place, are you planning on getting a cat or dog (or wiener dragon)?

I would love a wiener dragon. I would make many sacrifices for a wiener dragon.

However, I looked at my time commitments and a few other things and realized that while I would love to have a dog, I’m not in a good position to care for one properly. Cats don’t require less commitment than a dog, but it’s structured very differently, and I am agnostic in the “cat or dog” wars, I love them both, so a pair of cats makes more sense than a dog at this point, both for me and for the animals. (Also there’s a whole rigmarole you have to go through with dogs in this building, and with cats you don’t have to do any paperwork.) 

It’ll be a few months before I can investigate adopting; I need to have a bit of a cash cushion first. But eventually! Cats! 

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Hi Sam! I was reading the Foodieverse for the zillionth time today, and I came across a line that I'd never really paid much attention to before, but now I gotta ask. In FTBNTS, Clint tells Steve "I'll let Tasha know you have the pie onna stick today." Pie on a stick? Is that a thing? If it is a thing, is there a recipe for said thing?

PIE

ONNA STICK!

There is also this version which is cuter and probably what Steve made because he does like Adorable Food: 

But the more fun versions are what I saw at the Minnesota State Fair the year we went, where Everything Was On Sticks. 

Either way, Clint and Tasha always want to know IMMEDIATELY when Steve is serving pie onna stick because if it’s the cute version he can’t make many so they go fast, and if it’s the hefty version they get a shitload of pie on a stick they can eat! 

In terms of recipes you can find Adorable Pie On A Stick recipes all over the internet; the State Fair Hefty Food version is probably just like....shove a stick in a slice of pie (there’s a reason it’s usually like, key lime or cheesecake, nothing oozes), freeze, then dip quickly in chocolate or dip in batter and quickly fry. 

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Just for funsies, I calculated that it would cost Warren Buffett $2,460,130,001 to buy the world a coke, based on the world population I just grabbed online (7,492,781,730) and the fact that Walmart is selling a 24pk for $7.88. He could literally buy every person on earth a can of coke and still have about $60 billion left over. I feel like they'd probably give him a bulk discount, though....

Well, I mean, you probably also have to factor in staff to manage the distribution, transport of the goods, and possibly duty on various countries’ borders, though I think Coca Cola has production plants in most regions. But I think he could bypass all that by simply giving everyone a “free coca cola” coupon. Then it’s just printing costs and I suppose postage, but it must be cheaper. 

I’d like the buy the world a coke, but they’d have to split it between them. :D 

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Hot take: Jackson Wang is too damn adorable for his own good. He’s so sweet and thoughtful and pretty and caring and hot and loyal and beautiful and also did I mention that he has really nice abs? I thought I had evaded the claws of your thirst posts when I managed to watch SCI without developing too much of an obsession. But then you hit me with a Jackson post, and I have fallen deeep down that rabbit hole. So many abs, so much cuteness.

hahahahahaha that was honestly not my intention, I’m not big into kpop so I genuinely dk about the abs, but I do agree that he is honestly the cutest person, and I love him in all the cvariety shows that he does! :D

For me Jackson is less of a Hot Guy I Thirst Over than he is That Silly Boy We All Love. :D 

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ameliahcrowley replied to your photo “Naughty Polk got out of her collar and then HID IT from Auntie A who...”

On of my cats used to hide wristwatches. We eventually found a cache hidden under a floorboard. We also had no idea what was happening to all our hairbands until we went to wash the blanket in the cat bed, lifted it up and -voila!

I dread what I’ll find if I ever move the couch. :D Though they’re pretty good about retrieving their toys from their hiding spots. 

When I moved in, I did find a towel full of cat-chewed hair ties in the closet. 

annebd87 replied to your post “They seem happy I’m home. (And confused by my drinking mug. She sat...”

Long Deebs is long!

She loves to stretch out and roll around. What you can’t see is the pile of dust just out of frame that she miscalculated and missed. :D 

ladyvyola replied to your post “They seem happy I’m home. (And confused by my drinking mug. She sat...”

I like Polk attempting to become one with the rug. Bb, you can't fit on one triangle anymore! 

I’m sad I didn’t get a photo two seconds earlier, she was doing this weird upside-down pose, it was amazing. 

kissmeagainarthas replied to your post “I HAVE RETURNED. I’d try to get better photos but they are glued to me...”

You have BEEN PLACES and you SMELL MORE INTERESTING THAN USUAL.

I smell like AT LEAST three other cats! Oh, the betrayal! 

candiedgingerbadger replied to your post “I HAVE RETURNED. I’d try to get better photos but they are glued to me...”

I see you found their collars

Yeah, one of them was on the floor and the other Auntie A had found and left on the table for me. 

Polk got out of hers again this morning. It might be time to graduate her to the harness.