[ID: A gif of a classic wizard made from rather clunky CGI. He holds a staff and a blue magical sword, the sword in the foreground. The wizard stares ahead of himself with a slightly blank gaze. The background is dark. The staff throbs with white light, and the sword glitters. Blue and green sparkles cover the whole frame at varying levels of brightness, seeming to emit from the staff. At the bottom it says Have a Magical Day. End ID]
as a kid i had one of those “there’s a monster under my bed” moments except real.
every night i would cry about a ghost or something trying to scare me by knocking on my bedroom windows and walls. like, really loudly, every hour or so, every night. only at night. so my dad was like “heh okay kiddo let’s check it out :) ah see? there’s nothing here :)” and left.
until years later he admitted to me that he did in fact hear the unexplainable knocking when he slept in that room one night, and it kept him awake with fear. and suddenly felt awful for not believing little kid me.
imagine your kid being like “daddy there’s a demon in my closet” and you being like ok son lemme just check that for you :). and you open the door and there’s a demon in the closet
WHAT
How do you preserve the food from your garden so it doesn't go bad before you can eat it?
You are wildly underestimating my ability to go fucking feral about fresh produce. I don't think I even brought snap peas into the house last year. Just ate them right off the vine.
Though I did end up freezing the strawberries/blue berries as they ripened, but even those were consumed within the week.
The only tough one was the potatoes, but that was resolved by just foisting potatoes on everyone I knew. Much more welcome than Zucchinis.
Oh this is why every gardening person I know keeps trying to give me the food they grow
That, and we love you. Homegrown produce is a love language.
Unless it's zucchini. Then it's a cry for help.
Tomato (June) - I think highly of you; treasured friend
Tomato (September) - you are a warm body that is nearby
Fresh new asparagus - romantic love
Artichoke - fondness
New rhubarb with leaves removed - flirtatious potential
Rhubarb with leaves left on - the bloom is gone
Swiss chard - I have made mistakes
Perpetual spinach - declaration of animosity between our houses
White-fleshed potato - you are a neighbor
Blue or red fleshed potato - as above, but with overtones of camaraderie/affection
Kale - you are a person who was nearby when I had kale
Raspberries - you are a person I admire
Strawberries - you are a treasure
Onion - I am confused
Young French beans or young peas - I thought of you especially
Runner beans - mild criticism; familial ties; gift from parent to child
Pumpkins - overt romantic, sexual or childhood-bestie interest; highest declaration of loyalty
Prettily coloured popping corn, I.e. glass gem - let this seal the breach between our houses
Zucchini/courgette - cry for help, resignation
Novelty pumpkins - marriage proposal
(chortle)
Me: huh. Why is this getting a rash of notes all of a sudden?
*discovers paper bag full of zucchini on doorstep*
Me: Ah. That time of year again.
I heard the next star wars film will cut costs in the cgi department by filming real spaceship battles and writing a plot around whatever dope star shit they capture
this may look epic, but the tragic thing is that I wrote out GIRL in front of it too but i wrote it too big and there was no good vantage point to view the whole thing. another staggering loss for women everywhere
letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.
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“Mrs R” was the pseudonym of Phyllis Shafer, a Kansas City local who helped found the Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom in 1966, a full three years before Stonewall. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she and her son Drew operated the Phoenix House, a safe haven for queer people in the city, and a hub of national queer activism. Drew passed away due to AIDS related complications in the 1980s, and his lover, Mickey Ray, spent the rest of his life fighting to keep his memory alive, largely contributing to the creation of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America.
“We tend to view American history as this constant march toward progress, which is total crap,” he says. “You gotta fight for that stuff. And if you don't fight for that, you can fall backward. Like it's not just this linear history."
Good quote from the article which may be relevant right now.
Yesterday I got my Chickasaw name!! It means “Light on Leaves”. The naming ceremony was lovely and I will cherish my memories forever
Impatiently on the edge of my seat to hear what happens next in the novel Dracula (came out in 1897 and also I read it last year)
popping open the skin of the email to consume the sweet flesh (pdfs) inside
why is it always the fancylad boy-king type whos the bottom. maybe his tough loyal knight who uses his body to protect and defend him and lives to serve him wants to get railed
maybe i just like it when masc dudes with scars and calluses and a devotion complex bigger than the moon get topped by troubled prettyboys with hands thatve never worked a day in their life. who said that
i hate it when you ask people to treat fat people with just some semblance of decency and you get hit with "stop promoting obesity" -_-................. just because you said that im promoting obesity now.
oh my gd these two films came out on the same day? should tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite gender essensialism
should we invite insensitive jokes about some of the largest massacres in human history that effects people to this day
On the one hand I think it's sooo funny to be like "Maybe it's kind of YOUR problem for even SEEING this stuff." Like sure let's just do this for everything now, let's all start passing the onus of responsibility away from people who do shitty things and onto people who witness those things because the real societal problem is uh [checks notes] curation
On the OTHER hand this person successfully managed to avoid one of the biggest viral phenomena of the year involving pink mushroom cloud imagery and official apologies from Warner Bros to the people of Japan, so I can't say I'm not envious
Nocturne on the Bosphorus by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1897)
No, no. I can have one more shot, I swear. I won’t start behaving like a flamboyantly gay pansy stock character in a pre-code film again. I swear. You can trust me. Darling, you must trust me.
Paula Duró (Argentine, 1981) - El Mago (The Magician) (2022)
This is such a beautiful take on the imagery of The Magician. You can tell that the artist really understands the significance of the symbology, and understands how to manipulate it skillfully.
- Pentacles at the hem of the skirt, forming a foundation for the magician
- A serpent rising from the cup towards the genitals, appearing as if to grow from the sodden earth
- Swords as earrings.
- Wands being used as an instrument to provoke the cycle of rain and growth which the magician appears to themselves sprout from.
- Sunflowers as sun imagery taking part in the process of growth
This is someone who really truly understands tarot.
You can’t ship that the characters have too large a gpa gap which means it’s a power imbalance
*explaining kitchen appliances to my pet medieval knights* The microwave, or Micheal the Wavious, and metal fork, or Sir Silver Prong, are sworn enemies and can never cross paths lest their meeting spell destruction for all.
HYPE.. My sister's shop just went live!! Check these cuties out if you like foxes and or toadstools (she also ships worldwide ✨️)
A catgirl should be smug and self assured, but then they turn around and miss the doorway and slam right into the door frame. They pretend this didn't happen, and in fact vehemently deny this, but literally everyone saw them do it.