Especially The Lies

Fandom things, with a healthy dose of science and real-life inanity thrown in for variety. At the moment I'm all about the hockey (go Sharks, go Penns, go Habs…Oilers and Canes I am regarding you fondly) but also all things TTRPG (Critical Role, D20, WBN) and Star Trek (DS9 my beloved), but I'll happily chat about a whole litany of things including Lord of the Rings, Rogue One, Teen Wolf, Merlin, Stargate, the Queen's Thief series and many more. 35+, a research chemist in real life, Irish, call me Ro.

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Малкин

This work took 18 hours to create using Procreate on an 8th Generation iPad.

28, April 2026

[hedgehog-moss]

I didn’t know fondue was a thing outside USA—stupid but i thought it was like, fake cheese that we would melt to dip tiny weenies in. Looked it up and found out it’s Swiss—so probably more people than I realized enjoy it! I would love to try a fondue of local cheese, but that’s not easy to come by where i live. Enjoy yours!

I'm sorry but I am so morally disoriented by the concept of 'fake cheese' that I have trouble focusing on any other aspect of your message. What is fake cheese?? You say that like it's a perfectly understandable and emotionally neutral combination of words. I feel like I've just been handed a koan.

Then you add the phrase “tiny weenies" like it's the logical next step rather than a new psychological event. From my (very French) perspective the sentence "fake cheese to dip tiny weenies in" sounds like such a unique cultural artefact in itself, like a linguistic diorama to be displayed in a vitrine. This is not meant as a negative judgment of you or your country! just my earnest ethnographic confusion as I try to grapple with the concept of "tiny weenies" from a place of "fake cheese" trauma...

I had no idea fondue was seen this way in the US—I thought we (as a species) had a collective working definition of it, a sort of global consensus like the commutative property of addition, so the idea that in some corners of the world "fondue" means “fake cheese to dip tiny weenies in” has made me remember that you can just flay language off reality like skin. There's also a non-zero chance for this phrase to have activated a sleeper agent in Lausanne and authorised targeted elimination under the Académie Française’s emergency powers.

The concept of fondue now feels violently theoretical but I wish you many delicious ones in the future though :) You have politely disintegrated a couple of foundational concepts I'd never realised I relied on, which is always enriching. I won't recover, but thank you for sending this!

[boysharkmack]

halloween 2026 prediction

[goaliegardens]

nobody can be normal about mack istg

[idyllisk]

Lake Kaindy (Қайыңды көлі, Qaiyñdy kölı, the "birch tree lake" or landslide), also known as a “sunken forest”, is a lake located in the Kolsay Lakes National Park in Kazakhstan, 129 kilometers away from Almaty. The lake was created as a result of a landslide triggered by an earthquake over 100 years ago, forming a natural dam that blocked the gorge. Surprisingly, the water that filled the dam didn't destroy the spruce trees. Instead, it created a lake and its cold temperature prevented the tree trunks from decomposing.

[keelpay]

(source 1, source 2)

[careersincombat]

first nhl goal :)

[aquilotti]

via _willsmith2 on insta

[shadowboxr]

abolish the willmack surveillance state

[robo271]

can i come over and stare at you like this

[goaliegardens]

this is the funniest sequence of photos i have ever seen

[brini71]

Will Smith Hockey 3.28.26 SJS VS. CBJ

[puckwanger]

30min colour blocking practice ft. sidney (process + ref under cut)

[lesbianswift]

FOOD DISCOURSE: reblog with ur opinions on guacamole, olives, mango, hummus, tomatoes, and cannolis

[mcjesuswept]

RJ Celebrini is absolutely a beast and I can’t wait to see how he develops. BUT I feel I should point out to people who are not aware, Connor McDavid was training with NHL players and beating them at drills at 12 years old. Sam Gagner talks about it here.

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂