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Many random shenanigans that run through my head, including the topics of video games, anime, books, and more.

[eggsaladstain]

anyways i just love the way kpop demon hunters stayed true to its roots in korean/asian culture, especially around the core theme of community vs individualism

the fact that it's not a single chosen one but a group of three

the fact that the honmoon is not powered by the hunters themselves but by the energy and love of the fans

the fact that gwi-ma turns people into demons by promising that he is the only one who can help them when he is in fact reliant on his army of demons to collect souls for him

the fact that "your idol" is about surrendering yourself to a single higher power while "golden" is about soaring to new heights together

the fact that gwi-ma preys on people's individual insecurities and shame to get inside their heads while rumi, mira, and zoey set them free in the end by encouraging them to embrace their differences and reminding them that they're not alone

the fact that you can see the audience cheering individually and even pushing into each other to get closer to the stage during "your idol"

while they're linking arms and cheering together and hugging during "what it feels like"

i have not seen the live action lilo and stitch but it feels like that movie sits on the opposite end of the spectrum from kpop demon hunters as a case study for how to tell a story in way that is culturally authentic and still resonates with a broader audience

and i think given that the core theme of the movie is all about community over individualism, the ending, particularly as it relates to rumi and jinu's budding romance, is really the perfect culmination of that broader theme

rumi and jinu's connection has all the hallmarks of that all-encompassing, all-consuming, borderline co-dependent first love where you keep your relationship a secret and sneak out of the house to meet up and feel like the other person is the ONLY person who really gets you

i'm the only one who can understand you, i'm the only one who will love you is the kind of thing that sounds romantic when you're 16 until you get older and realize how toxic it actually is and i love that the movie counters that in "what it sounds like" with rumi realizing that she had that love and support all along from her girls, and later, from the fans who continue to cheer them on through their comeback

it's about connection and sisterhood and love and sharing your fears and lifting each other up and becoming stronger and better together

and as compelling as i found rumi/jinu and as much as i would like to see their relationship explored more in a sequel/series, i just really love that this movie, which is clearly targeted at young women, ends on the message that romantic love is not the end all be all, that friendship is just as important if not more so than a romantic partner, that single women can lead successful, fulfilling lives, that true happiness and freedom start from within

it's crazy that this message still seems revolutionary in 2025 but given the current state of the world, it feels more necessary than ever

[angstandhappiness]

NEAT

[wolfenergy17]

[wolfenergy17]

[wolfenergy17]

[ginniewheezie]

Important

[squishysquishin]

Adding this because they’re safe for dogs too

[simon-newman]

How are turkey skin and bones not safe? Please elaborate.

[thumbbro]

Dunno about skin, but Turkey bones, and avian bones in general, are really easy to shatter. If a dog eats said shards, it could tear up their insides.

[edwinflores428]

Important for all pet users!!

[gallifrey-knits-no-more]

The skin is very fatty and can lead to diarrhea, vomiting, and/or pancreatitis. Pancreatitis can lead to a very expensive hospital stay, and is quite painful. When in doubt, best not to feed human food.

[thebookbakery]

Important PSA for this (and every) holiday season! As someone with dogs and cats in her life, both of these are nice to have on hand!

[platypusprime]

Why is butter on the not safe for cats list?

[taibhsearachd]

It won’t seriously harm them, but it might give them digestive issues that will be unpleasant for you and the cat. You can give them food with little a butter and it should be fine!

[double-o-donut]

some underappreciated vines i haven’t seen in any vine compilation yet i that found way deep in my vines tag

[mikkeneko]

i mean it quite seriously when i say that i mourn vine… but i think its existence taught an entire generation of people about drama, cinemetography and comedy

[fearlessmastermind]

And also don’t trust corporations with anything

[hgk477]

Surviving IKEA

Never enter near closing hours.

Do not mispronounce IKEA product names. What you summon will haunt you.

Do not trust the arrows.

Walls shift and new ones appear out of nowhere.

Avoid, at any cost, staying after closing hours.

Do not ask employees for directions to the exit. Most of them have been trapped inside the building ever since they signed the contract. These once happy and good people have grown spiteful. Do not trust them. They want you to stay.

Make the bed after trying it out. It makes them less angry.

In case you are trapped:

Find John. He has lived in the store for six years, unnoticed.

Avoid eye contact with employees roaming around.

Hide whenever possible.

The ghost families living in the showrooms won’t betray you.

Do not steal any pencils. It will give away your position.

Avoid walking through the bed area. The creatures sleeping there won’t appreciate your presence.

When music from the 30s starts blasting through the speakers, Walter, the handyman, has noticed you and wants to drive his screwdriver through your ear.

Run.

He often shouts jokes chasing you followed by the laughter of IKEA personnel echoing throughout the store. Never let your guard down.

Open as many wardrobes as you can. Some of them are magic portals. Pray that you find one in time before he finds you.

Only go through a portal when absolutely necessary. What you find on the other side is often not pleasant.

If there is no other option, try pronouncing the name of the IKEA furniture closest to you. The ground will start to shake. Prepare yourself for the worst.

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[fernsnailz]

i think we all need to complain about LED headlights more. please can we all complain about them more. night driving is nearly impossible for me to do now without having to white knuckle my way through a thousand evil suns. every time i see those headlights in my mirrors i take 2d6 radiant damage. i want to destroy every single LED headlight under my feet like they’re goombas

[triapus]

This is how the James Web telescope works

[macleod]

A million little eyes staring into the cosmos to help paint a picture of our place in the universe.

[hungry-skeleton]

That's an angel

[eroticismofthemachinedetector]

Beep

[only-tiktoks]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

The girls are exeeerrrcising

[bringbackgoth]

don't hide your tags bestie this is so cute

[were--ralph]

Thinking about when I worked for honey baked ham and whenever we got busy our store manager would recalibrate the pricing scales to make hams more expensive per pound and most hams landed around $80 naturally so sometimes you'd get an 8lb ham for like $110

[were--ralph]

It seems expensive already but white people really like overpriced ham for some reason

[were--ralph]

Also this isn't me being funny I genuinely mean we would literally have a line out the door and wrapped around at 7am almost exclusively white people who wanted a $120 ham for Easter

[xxxdragonfucker69xxx]

[kanonkitastuff]

Honey Baked Ham wants you to think it's hard to make a good ham. These are lies. Here's what you're gonna do.

You're gonna get yourself a regular old bone-in ham from the grocery store. It'll be like $20-30 depending on how big it is, last time I checked.

You're gonna get a can of pineapple rings, some maple syrup, some whole cloves and some brown sugar.

Pour the juice out of the pineapple rings can into a liquid measuring cup. Add like half a cup of maple syrup and a quarter cup brown sugar. Add cinnamon. This is your glaze.

Put the ham in a baking pan. Now for the tricky part: take the cloves. Stick them into the ham about an inch apart in a spiral or a crisscross pattern or whatever just get your ham covered in cloves. Pour half the glaze over the ham.

Your ham's bag probably had warming instructions on it like, "Warm at 350°F for 20 min/lb" or something like that. It also had the weight, so you should be able to do the math. It'll prolly take at least 90 minutes. You want a thermometer you stick in there near the bone to read 160° F, but the thing is fully cooked already so don't fuss if you don't have a thermometer.

BUT! Don't forget to take it out like every 20 minutes and spoon more of the glaze juices over it. By which I mean scoop them out of the oan with a spoon and pour them back over the top of the ham. When it's about halfway done, add the other half of the glaze. When you think there's about 30 min left, take it out and put the pineapple rings all over it. You can use toothpicks to hold them in place, or you can kind of hang them on the cloves. Your preference.

Take it out and enjoy.

I'm telling you that shit will be so much better than any dumbass honey baked ham any white lady ever overpayed for.

Also you can use the bone to make split pea soup if you're into that.

[wolfenergy17]

Another way to make the glaze/marinade is a can of crushed pineapple, half a cup of brown sugar, a quarter cup of honey, and a tablespoon of ground gloves (don't use whole cloves because you're not supposed to eat them - if you only have whole cloves you can use the above method of poking the long ends directly into the ham then taking them out before eating it). Mix everything together and pour the glaze over the ham before cooking. You can keep some glaze on the side to serve with the ham if you want. This glaze also tastes great heated up in a saucepan and served alongside a ham that has been cooked without any glaze. You can add more or less honey and brown sugar depending on how sweet you like your ham. If you like your ham spicier, you can add more ground cloves (or less for a milder taste). This glaze is very easy to make and is super forgiving in terms of proportions of ingredients. It doesn't really need to follow a set amount for each ingredient, as long as you mix together some crushed pineapple, brown sugar, honey, and ground cloves it will almost always end up tasting great. The only thing you want to be careful with is adding too many ground cloves because they're a strong spice and can overpower the rest of the ingredients. If you like cherries, you can add some drained maraschino cherries into the mixture as well!

If you're worried about the ham drying out or getting too crispy, you can cover the ham in aluminum foil for most of the cookong time (though it is actually a heating time because the ham is already fully cooked - you just need to heat up to eat it). When there's 20 or 30 mins left (according to the weight of the ham and the instructions on the tag), you can take the aluminum foil off the ham and put it back in the oven for the rest of the cooking time to get the edges crispy.

Another pro-tip is to make sure the ham is not sitting in its juices. You can use a roasting rack to set the ham on or roll up aluminum foil into rope-like strips and lay a few strips on the bottom of the pan so the ham is raised two or three inches above the bottom of the pan. Then you add enough water to cover the bottom of the pan to keep the ham moist and make the pan easier to clean (though you will probably need to add more water halfway through cooking since it'll evaporate).

As the other post said, you can take the leftover bone and boil it to get the rest of the ham off the bone and make a delicious broth for a variety of soups! My favorites are ham & bean soup or ham & potato soup. Also, for a quick and easy meal, you can pour a bunch of canned green beans (undrained) in a pot, add the ham bone, pour enough water in to cover the ham bone (if it isn't covered already), and boil it for 20 or 30 minutes (until the green beans are hot and the ham meat falls off the bone). Take the ham bone out, pick off the rest of the ham meat, add it back to the green beans, and you have some delicious ham and green beans! Sometimes this dish does get greasy, but putting it in the fridge overnight will harden the grease on top and you can scoop it off and throw it in the trash (NOT down the sink or you'll clog your drain).

Good luck and enjoy a reasonably priced ham that tastes just as good (if not better) than any overpriced honey baked ham.

[vespertineflora]

so in an among us game the other night, a player in chat said “does anyone want to get married?”

and bc i was in it for shits and giggles, i said “yes”

he asked where we should get married and i told him we’d meet in comms, which was right at the end of that round. we started the next game, ran to comms together and danced around each other for a minute, which constituted our marriage ceremony. he then proceeded to just run around with me as we did tasks, which amused me to no end, and in out first body report meeting, he exclaimed, “I’M A MARRIED MAN.”

and then, inevitably, an impostor ran right up to us and murdered me. my new video game husband immediately reported my body.

everyone voted blue immediately, successfully avenging me

and then. the twist. my husband got caught murdering.

[catchymemes]

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[the-thread-of-the-infinite]

What about the one with the princess locked in a tower learning to become a wizard? That’s lived in my mind for years and I haven’t seen it in a long time

[death-of-the-endless]

Oh, love that story, adding it to the list: 20. Princess Talia and adding a few more contenders 21. Thyme 22. The Monster under the Bed 23. A Meaningful Death 24. Humans are unstoppable…until they aren’t 25. The Monster under the Fridge 26. Antler Guy 27. Cleric slamming healing spells

[death-of-the-endless]

Adding a few more I remembered:  28. The Frog and the Scorpion 29. HSTHETE 30. The First Witch in the World 31. Imagine that Oceans were replaced by Forests  32. A Faerie taking a Name  33. The Dragon on the Farm  34. Synovus & Menace  35. Raising the Anti-Christ  36. Aliens vs. Flora & Fauna of Earth (pretty sure there are even more additions to the original post but I had this one saved)  37. Doctors without Borders…in Space!  38. The Villain-Wrangler  39. The Last Contact  40. The 100 Parent-Point Children  41. And the Heavens Wept  42. The Night Gentleman  43. The Serpent God and their Priestess 

[knottahooker]

44. No One Showed Up for the Last Storytime

[adamskiiii]

Wow! @writing-prompt-s contributing to like half of these!

[writing-prompt-s]

I can hardly take any credit for these stories! But I love sharing them. Unfortunately I cannot read all the prompt responses so please tag me if you want me to reblog a story that resonated with you so I can give it a little boost :)

[wolfenergy17]

A Peacock Spider Christmas

Merry Christmas!

[batri-jopa]

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[airandangels]

You know it’s a great puppet when you don’t even notice the two entire people under and behind its body moving its limbs until it’s halfway across the stage.

[rivertigo]

@softwarmfur

[sasuke-offical]

yo fuck disney on ice i wanna go to whatever this is

[catchymemes]