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The olives post reminded me that I've been wondering what breakfast is like in Italy.
Breakfast in Italy is sweet! We love a cornetto (brioche) filled with something. There's an entire industry around breakfast biscuits. Some people have toasted bread and jam, some have cereals but it's rarer.
For reference here's a google search for biscuits + breakfast and here's mulino bianco (famous bread products brand) website for "italian breakfast"
Olive are aperitivo food <3
Whats Dreadnought other than the ship?
Book series about a closeted trans girl who gets passed the powers of the titular superhero, and it turns out that being Dreadnought comes with the user's body changing to match their ideal self-image. Many complications ensue.
It's great, and was one of my biggest influences when writing Fenrir. I highly recommend it!
On the bright side your makeup and jacket still slay.
Thank you <3
Yeah, wearing nice clothes like that is something I really enjoy, always makes me feel better.
Did Betty Crocker display girl power in conquering earth?
That's the premise of Shock Value, a novel by John C. Wright, which I read last week and is basically a "tale of two women" thing but with Betty Crocker as one woman and an alien female warlord named Baba Yaga as the other (yes). It was very weird -- unremittingly terrible in tone ("Betty Crocker invades earth to subjugate it!") but also had some cool ideas like a computer network that runs on binary numbers encoded as musical notes so all their programs sound like music, etc.
But still, the story was pretty bad overall. (And over-the-top feminist in ways that seemed gratuitous.)
(Also there were a few references to the Bible throughout the book, always involving real Biblical quotes out of context, which left me wondering whether this is something he likes doing?)
Tolkien: Gulp Shitto
glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)
does a ship count? because of all the characters in the greater middle earth canon i have historically been obsessive over aegnor/andreth. my best guess is that this stemmed from 1) the hints at Christianity in the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth and 2) their being the only canonical male Elf/female human pairing (bear in mind the heyday of my Tolkien obsession was intertwined with the writing of a Legolas/OC fic xD).
cleaning up some old asks--blorbo asks here!
Ask meme: Biblical angel (you can pick your choir).
No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know
this one is tricky because on the one hand WINGS!!! WINGS!!! YES WINGS AND FIRE AND EYES GIVE ME ALL OF THEM NOW
but on the other, the religious connotations make me uncomfy as hell
I wouldn’t mind cosplaying Proginoskes, but not as a full-time thing.
Systems I'd be interested in seeing tried (ha ha) on a small scale would be "being a juror is like being in the National Guard" or "being a juror is employment of last resort". Something like this was commonish in the ancient world. Friedman's Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own talks about it but I don't have page numbers on hand, sorry.
[References this tweet of mine] I should get around to reading that book one of these days.
Ok this is good, but consider, Cockney Speedwagon.
I swear to God this is canon but I can't find the proper evidence to attest to same!
Like I know for a fact unless the universe is Mandela effecting me that I not only read in the subtitles but heard in the English dub, street punk Robert E.O. Speedwagon speaking the nastiest cockney. I am so sure of this.
Someone help.
