#tea post

[radishnt]

i'll admit the most terrifying part of the staff's stunt was that all of a sudden i was getting all the notes from the tea post. can't believe you've been living with this for the last four years lmao. i'm so sorry i did this to you.

ive given up on trying to respond to anything anybody says to me in tags reblogs or replies because if i dont see it within the day it is 100% buried under the tea post notifs always 😭 its okay i pay the price for your wit & artistry 🙂‍↕️

[boimgfrog]

Succeeding with replacing my coffee intake with tea a good amount of the time which unfortunately means that I do need to purchase. An electric kettle.

[marbles-in-a-trashcan]

The Tea Post: LAES Reboot edition

Lunar: Which one of you was gonna tell me that tea tastes different if you put it in hot water?

Earth: Y- You were putting it in cold water?

Lunar: …

Andromeda: Lunar? Answer the question Lunar.

Lunar: Yeah??? Like since I woke up I thought that people just put it in hot water to speed up the tea-ification process and didn't realize there was an actual reason.

Andromeda: You don't have the patience to microwave water for like 3 minutes???

Comedy Bot: Why are you. Putting it in the microwave. TO BOIL IT!?!?

Andromeda: Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove???

Comedy Bot: It takes less than a minute!!!

Dazzle: Are you using a stove powered by the fucking sun!?!?

Earth: 4 Lollipops in the swear jar young lady.

Dazzle: Dang it. Also how long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove?

Earth: It takes like seven minutes.

Comedy Bot: Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat and it boils in like less than two minutes. Less than that if you use a saucepan.

Lunar: You're putting the whole mug on the stove!?!? ON MEDIUM HEAT!?!?!?

Comedy Bot: Yes???

Lunar: … Your stove is enchanted.

Mars: *Holding a cup of tea with a disgusted expression on his face as he listens in on the conversation* Every single one of you is a fucking lunatic.

Day: *Watching them on the cameras and listening in on the conversation over the intercom* Do none of you own a fucking kettle!?!?

[numberonetacostan]

hiii!!! spelling my user right this time

but I know how exastuing it can be to run an ask-blog heavy thing (r.i.p. my old bfdi headcanons ask blog), so I just wanted to know, do you like tea? and if so, what kind :) ~~@lovely-pavlova

Hi Pavvy!!^^ Welcome back, and thank you for sending in an ask!! :]

Aww, thank you! Yeah, as much as I do enjoy it, it can be quite a bit sometimes, especially with all the headcanon requests I've been getting in the past... month? 2 months? or so. It can be hard to think of so many, especially for characters I get asked about a lot, or ships I don't really see the chemistry with. And I feel bad if I don't answer something or make people wait for answers... But I like my blog, and I shouldn't be as busy as I've been the past month-ish soon, so hopefully I'll be able to do more :). Again I appreciate your acknowledgement of the effort it can take, thank you very much <3

As for your actual question, I love almost all types of tea!! I really like peach tea, I like green tea of all kinds, Oolong is very refreshing, there's a strawberry-cucumber blend I really like, Chamomile is a classic of course, honestly I could go on and on and on. This is why my objectsona is a tea bag :3. The only tea type I don't like as much is ginger, because while I do enjoy spicy food I don't particularly enjoy it when my tea tries to be spicy. There's a time and a place, yeah?

[wizardlyghost]

hello i saw the post where you turned a tumblr thread into a Shakespeare play and i have to inquire, how in the world does one learn to write in iambic pentameter?

for the life of me, i cannot figure out what syllables are stressed or unstressed. I AM STRESSED THATS WHAT

hm... to be honest, i'm not sure how well i can explain it, but i'll give it a shot.

when we talk, we naturally give some syllables of a word more emphasis than others. consider the word "syllable", for example: if you've heard someone say the word, they've almost certainly said "syll-a-ble", not "syll-a-ble" or "syll-a-ble", which sound strange when said out loud.

when it comes to iambic pentameter, it's just a matter of counting out syllables. "iambic" means we're using a pattern of one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable, one-two, and "pentameter" means we do this five times per line. so:

shall i compare thee to a summer's day?

thou art more lovely and more temperate.

writing your own stuff is just a matter of learning to notice the natural emphasis that most people will place on which syllables of words, and tweaking the phrasing until it fits the pattern.

there are also other poetic meters you can experiment with, differing in the pattern of syllables and the length of lines - for instance, dactylic tetrameter, which sounds like this:

old mother goose, when she wanted to wander

would fly through the air on a very fine gander

"dactylic" means it uses a pattern of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed, one-two-three, and "tetrameter" means we do this four times per line. an interesting thing to note in the above example is how the last dactyl is split across the two lines - this is a little trick you can use occasionally in iambic verse too, to improve the flow of the spoken verse and change things up a little.

there's a lot more to the subject - i didn't even get into alliterative verse, which was commonly used in old english and old norse and is extremely fascinating - but hopefully this is enough to get you started.

[ifvwasix]

Get to know you food positivity game - 🍵 drinks edition! 🍵

List 4 of your favorite drinks with photos, and tag 4 of people to do the same.

✅ flavored water, tea, coffee, milks, fruit juices, sodas, alcoholic beverages, slushies, etc

❌ plain water, thick drinks that are meals or full desserts like smoothies, shakes, ice cream, etc

From left to right: cheese cream oolong tea, cream soda, genmaicha green tea, and horchata (plus opt. splash of cold brew coffee)

I’m tagging @confirmedcannibal @this-isnt-heathrow @dearcottagewhore @dentondeathmetal or anyone who wants to!

[twisted-tales-told]

Im actually in heaven rn

My mum was given a gift from one of her students who just got back from the uk

Idk how to describe it but it just tastes better than the one we have here

[crepe-of-wrath]

Now that I started writing that Bassy x Reader fanfic, I now describe all my teas to myself in the style of Sebastian Michaelis from Black Butler. (Not the actual, real life person named Sebastian Michaelis who happens to be a professional tea sommelier.) Tonight we have a white tea of relatively humble origins, but whose flavors of vanilla and lemon recall the fondest memories of iced Victoria sponge.