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[flockofdoves]

makes me so made whenever someone is like 'i'm allergic to this ingredient but i want to make [x] type of dish what would you recommend i do?' on reddit and all the top responses are just like 'just omit it!' even when the ingredient gives significant texture/flavor/chemistry contributions to the dish at hand.

like i know it can be hard to respond when someone asks in a generic sense for a wide variety of recipes where the ingredient can be doing different things in each and you personally might not have experience making that substitution.

but jeez. either brainstorm using your cooking knowledge some ideas for what they could experiment with in different contexts or just don't respond. surely they've thought about omitting it already lmao

[flockofdoves]

officially for real pushing 30 today (27th birthday)

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thinking about tara working at a build a bear in juxtaposition with all the literal and metaphorical stuff in the movie connecting understanding of the self to ones insides/owens line about how trying to think about sexuality makes him feel like someone dug his insides out with a shovel and theres nothing there/the cutting open scene

they literally put hearts in those bears

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talking about a heavily transfem coded character in an almost dead fandom but still having people come out of the woodwork on a <10 note post to say shit like this. infuriating

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niche and petty annoyance but the intersection of pop internet linguistics and all the various ways people always talk about noam chomsky (some very stupid and nothing, some very justified. recent news obviously justified) leading to people who clearly don't know shit about linguistics celebrating daniel everett as an awesome linguist who epically took down chomsky. what are we doing.

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people twisting the language of intuitive eating into an intentional weight loss diet thing makes me so fucking angry. how do you not see the contradiction in saying stuff like 'i'm doing intermittent fasting with intuitive eating to lose weight.' like oh okay you're ignoring your body's intuition for 2/3s the day and then banking on reduced hunger cues from chronic restriction to give you a calorie deficit enough to lose weight in the remaining part of the day...

like sure i guess thats a step up from you restricting for the entire day but lets not fucking fool ourselves about what it is you're doing. that's still an eating disorder

[flockofdoves]

it makes me soooooo maddddddd how people watch the show and don't see flints development as a character as he develops a stronger political understanding of how his own experiences with marginalization under empire connect to those of enslaved and colonized people and there's no hope in reform and anti-imperial revolution in coalition and solidarity with all oppressed peoples is the only solution

and then are like well he was just a fucked up violent guy who had to be stopped. but it was okay when he was in the british navy and wanted reform within it [and maybe also will say its okay when he was doing violence as a personal revenge quest with no political aims] but they draw the line at strategic revolutionary action against the british empire

violence that is rendered invisible by hegemony vs the demonization of violence from people subject to that is literally one of the major themes of the show howwwwwwwww are you missing that. most rancid politics in the world to be like well its Good what happened to the maroon communities at the end of all that because violence is bad.

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my god. it is the bane of my fucking existence how often i see peoples interpretations of early sunsets over monroeville that assume either that:

the couple featured are the demolition lovers

one of them got turned into a vampire

they are both white

they are a straight couple

its crazy how like. this song is directly engaging with peter and rogers storyline in dawn of the dead but instead people are constantly parroting a much more boring and frankly just entirely unsubstantiated interpretation instead