we have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven

K, she/her, lesbian.

[tailoredshirt]

FIC: Among my stillness was a pounding heart (TK/Carlos, PG-13)

TK took a deep breath. “I think we need to talk about what happened last fall. With the loft.”

Carlos’s brain was skipping around from one feeling to the next like a pinball. “With…when we broke up?”

“Yeah.”

“You…want to talk about the breakup,” Carlos said slowly. “While I’m proposing to you.”

TK squeezed his hands. “Yes. Please.”

—

AO3 / 4k words

[porcelain-dollbones]

mammals whenever they encounter any sort of problem: hold on let me secrete a useful fluid

[fearstreetdaily]

♫ Who knows? Not me We never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world ♫

∟ Fear Street: 1978 [2021] Dir: Leigh Janiak

[niyarest]

write your url by only using emojis

🍅✨✨

[santners]

Black Sails | 1.05

[ineedagun2001]

end of january affirmations

im not doing anything wrong and no one is mad at me

there must be a place for me in this world because here i am

my art doesnt suck

instagram is nothing to me

[ruscha]

OCEAN'S ELEVEN (2001) Dir. Steven Soderbergh

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[annie-maria12]

So true

[the-worm-man]

call that a skill issue. i have all 5 😎

[the-worm-man]

ok you’re not gonna believe this. but my advisor

[p-haliaetus]

(sexting for the first time) i love you

[glubby]

[rosettyller]

BLACK SAILS

4x09 ● “XXXVII.”

[stealingpotatoes]

hey. hey dont cry. there are literally seals

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[sloganeeer]

the fabric of civilization by virginia postrel!

mark kurlansky also wrote cod and paper and salmon and one about onions. it’s his whole thing and my very favourite genre of book.

[preacherboyd]

Rust + hands on hips

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Anyone and everyone CAN write. The world’s most skilled writer didn’t start off skilled. The key is that they practice hard by writing a lot.

As long as you write, you are practicing your craft and you are getting better at writing. But you will never get anywhere if you let AI write for you.

[tcfactory]

I think "everybody can write (as a creative outlet, a hobby, to tell stories among friends, etc) so claiming that you are completely incapable of writing without the use of genAI is categorically untrue" and "not everybody can write well, on a professional level, because writing is also a form of art that takes practice, time and dedicated study to master" are two concepts that get often mashed together in ways they shouldn't be. These are statements that don't contradict at all and should be allowed to coexist.

Anyway, even if somebody only considered skilled, professional writing as 'writing' and wanted to argue that not everybody can do that, genAI definitely won't make you into one of the people who can write.

[tragicsiblings]

[byjove]

this is a terrible time to be alive *remembers the latter half of the 14th century* this is a not so good time to be alive

[dragon-in-a-fez]

hey op how do you remember the latter half of the 14th century

[byjove]

not fondly. I do not recall it fondly.