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Suburban Necromancer

@hedgewitchnecromancer

My official main blog that I now basically just reblog stuff too because I’m not good at The Tumblr Jokes. Writing blog @theauthorinblue and main blog by use @miscellaniousbyblue

Okay cool Reddit advertisement and all but the best maple syrup is Grade A dark amber from the most local brand your grocery store carries. It’s the richest in flavor because it’s the most boiled down (the lighter the color the waterier it is, so the less sweet if dark amber is too much for you) and the local place means it’s probably not a huge chain so it’ll be better quality. It usually is pretty expensive but it’s absolutely worth it. Maple syrup doesn’t need to be aged, so any sort of bourbon-barrel stuff is pointless. It takes a large batch maybe a week to boil down to dark amber, and, since it’s food, that stuff does expire eventually so you just have that much less time to eat it if it is aged.

Also, when it comes to ethical problems with maple syrup it’s honestly one of the least problematic plant products to exist. You drill a hole in a sugar maple tree, and some of its sap spills out into a bucket or a collection line to be boiled down into maple syrup. It’s like a mosquito bite to this plant. It doesn’t hurt the plant whatsoever in the long run. Then all you have to do is boil the sap down, so there’s no more ethical issue really to that than there is to charging your phone or doing laundry. Sugar maples don’t need to grow to produce maple syrup, so they typically aren’t fertilized or watered more than the rains give them so they don’t add any pollution, and it actively encourages people to leave their trees up, and often this spans entire forests since there’s also no real way of making industrial companies around real maple syrup and thusly nobody finds any need to cut down every single non-maple tree to make room for more maples because that just hurts the forest ecosystem that’s keeping the maples alive and thus makes more work for you and the max-20 other employees that deal with the actual making of the syrup.

Also for anyone not from Canada or the northeastern USA, you’re probably having flavored corn syrup. It’s super viscous, more like honey than water. That’s not real and that tastes nothing like the real thing. If you ever get a chance, try some real maple syrup. You won’t regret it! (Unless you’re apparently allergic to it. But I’ve never heard of anyone ever being allergic to maple syrup so it’s probably near-impossibly rare, and if you still are, please come and tell me I’d be incredibly curious how that goes)

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am i insane or should masks be mandated for hospitals as a permanent installation. a forever institution. always. covid is an irrelevant factor when hospitals are always full of both very sick and very immunocompromised people..?

School today was wild. Half my teachers were out. I was outside for three of my eight periods. A freshman threw a rubber ball into my jaw and I had to ice it for an hour. I got a card from people nobody knows for being good at trivia. Half the school was asked to leave halfway through the day. I’m being graded on my opinion of a movie from the ‘40s. I graduate in two weeks. I drew a map for a place that doesn’t exist. Prom is today.

You know the biggest loss of the decline of physical media and the rise of streaming? DVD special features.

I love you DVD commentaries I love you making-of documentaries I love you behind the scenes footage I love you bloopers I love you deleted scenes I love you silly little videos of the cast dicking around 💖

You know, it’s officially occurred to me that the only thing you would have to do to get a virus on my phone is to make it look like a uquiz link. Just have something like Could You Escape the Wizard Maze? And I would just click on that without hesitation. I don’t need gifs of people fucking or random women with 😃 Link in Bio ❤️, I just need some sufficiently fun and pointless quiz to take

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Non-Britons! Instead of being distracted by the pomp and fanfare of the coronation, here’s a reminder that:

  • The coronation was funded by tax-payer money. This same tax could have gone towards the cost of living crisis. People are starving and freezing to death as this is going on.
  • Protests (peaceful or otherwise) are illegal now. A lot of anti-monarchists are being arrested for simply holding signs.
  • Our government is currently trying to push through a revision to the Equality Act that will exclude trans and non-binary individuals.
  • Oil companies have made a record profit in the past couple of years. Oil and gas prices aren’t rising because of an inflation issue.
  • Our NHS is crumbling because funding is going to stupid projects like this coronation.

The Republicans: literally attacking every single piece of the constitution in a desperate last ditch bid to install fascism and failing that make as many minorities as possible miserable, banning books, enforcing censorship, and stripping civil rights from nearly everybody

Biden, allegedly: idk bailed out a bank or something?

Dipshits: BOTH SIDES ARE EQUALLY EVIL

vote left or die

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Hollywood Writers Strike: Official Sources

The Writer's Guild of America has voted to strike, and I want to get out ahead of something Tumblr is bad about doing and encourage y'all to PLEASE get your information about the strike from the guild itself, not from random people on Tumblr telling you it's "actually" about this or that.

The WGA wants the public to understand why they are striking. They have plenty of info available that is written with a general audience in mind.

  • WGA.org is the official website of the Writer's Guild of America West.
  • WGAwest is on Twitter and posting extensively about the negotiations and strike. This account is linked from the WGA website.
  • WGA also has a Linktree (linked from their Twitter bio) with more information about the strike, including their own Twitter threads about various strike issues, as well as articles in the media.
  • WGA Contract 2023 is a website full of information about the strike. It is one of the first links in the Linktree above. It's a great resource if you want to get deeper into the subject. There is a FAQ.

Any third party explaining the issue for you has an opportunity to, intentionally or not, insert their own spin or agenda. Get the information from the source.

Oh and quick note for writers:

One difference between this strike and the last one is that there are a lot more fellowships targeted at early career tv writers than there used to be (there have always been some, but the fellowship model is way more commonplace these days)

Studios are about to make a ton more of these opportunities and advertise them widely as a way to break into the industry, and they will be very specific about the fellowship not technically counting as a writers room or a tv job

THIS IS A TRICK TO GET YOU TO SCAB

Sharing any written content with a studio (even if they route it through a 3rd party "foundation" or development org or something) IS SCABBING

What you do in regards to the strike is your business, but the WGA has been very clear that anyone who scabs will be BANNED FROM JOINING THE UNION FOR LIFE. That means even if you get hired, that's no health & pension and no union protections for your entire career. This shit is serious

So please please double check and dig into any new submission opportunities you see in the next weeks. Playwrights especially be careful - many studios are finding their writers through play scripts these days so be very careful about how and where your work is being shared

No writing going to the studios means NO WRITING of any kind

(if you see suspicious fellowship stuff being passed around let me know, I'd love to keep an eye on that for my peeps)

Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.

If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.

The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.

Hey y'all. With the Writer's Guild of America on strike, you might be hearing a lot more about something called "residuals," which are payments that the writers get for the studios continuing to air their work on reruns and such. Already I'm seeing people trying to frame the union trying to bargain for better residuals as greedy and unreasonable, so I just wanted to give you guys a peek into my dad's full, 100% real residual payments for writing some of the most watched episodes of American late night television.

Yeah lol. If u hear anyone trying to frame the conversation around residuals as writers being greedy, please do me a favor and punch them straight in the face ❤️🙃🙃