hell if I know also lost the mochi

the funniest dynamc between my boyfriend and i is the chef/baker divide runs so deep. experimentally my boyfriend is a genius with figuring out what flavor profiles will not just taste good together but also will be enjoyed by the specific audience he is cooking for. a recipe is not a guidebook so much as a suggestion and he will frankenstein ideas together to get exactly what he wants to happen. he also didnt know that sugar will not work properly if you dont mix it with the wet ingredients in banana bread and when i asked 'why didnt you do it in the order of the recipe' he said 'i didnt really think it mattered'. autistically i exploded his head in my mind

when your pumpkin loaf or banana loaf is not delightfully moist and soft and sweet like the pillow of a cherub and instead is like a dense fruitcake brick of misery we will see who is pretentious then. beast

Gonna finish Gideon one soon, but for now you can have this Harrow

Gideon to match Harrow 😗✌️

neil gaiman literally any time david tennant is mentioned:

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) dir. Robert Wiene

To everyone who has lush fields ripe with story ideas but is struggling to go out and actually harvest them with your writer’s scythe: that’s alright. There’s a reason.

I see writers despairing or making self-deprecating jokes about how many wips they have, as if the ability to come up with the idea is equal to the ability to finish it out into an end product.

It isn’t.

A lot of our ideas come about, not because we were determined to be productive writers, but because daydreaming is an internal escape from life’s demands.

Writing is a demand, too.

Resting and relaxing are basic needs, unlike the high level, abstract satisfaction of being creatively productive. That’s why you might daydream (which is a mild and normal form of dissociation) ideas that you feel good about, and then struggle to research, write the words, fill plotholes, check grammar, revise— all the critical thinking and executive function things involved in creation. Your basic needs must be satisfied before your higher needs can be met effectively.

So, if you’re daydreaming about your stories extensively to mitigate stress, it’s expecting a lot of your stressed self to return from fantasy land, sit down in the cold hard real world and do the hard work to write masterpieces of literature. Those operations are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Writing is hard. Making yourself feel guilty is only going to make it harder. You don’t have to atone for entertaining or distracting your mind by making that available to other people. Daydreaming is a valid end in itself.

Don’t feel bad about having ideas but not being able to write them. Scribble some notes if you can, if you want, but above all enjoy the escapism and take care of yourself first. The words will come after.

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē

Vashtember Day 29 Zero Hour

Went a little different this time around.

Also for some reason Reddit was glitching on me so I wasn't able to post there yesterday... hopefully I can get it working.

Apparently viable and attested Medieval names, according to this list I found

Since this is getting notes for some reason I need y’all to know about

“Coke” is a genuine surname - Wikipedia list here - and the “Diot Coke” story first appeared in 2004, popping up occasionally since then. 

However, as far as I can see (it’s 2:08 AM as I write this, and I’m not up for looking too hard) there’s never been any proof or citation other than variants of “George Redmonds discovered something surprising…”, and it doesn’t even get mentioned as a mood-lightener in his obituary.

Until something better turns up (and if it does, please tell me!) take this Diot Coke with a pinch of salt; it won’t improve the flavour, but it’ll be harder to swallow…

However, the names in that list linked by @thedurvin (and again here) are definitely real, and might be worth noting for use in RPGs or fantasy fiction. I’ve spotted several which I found in other sources and used in the Horse Lord books.

Literally the dude is pulling a Bond villain and explaining the evil plan beforehand.

And the press will still fall for it.

The Palestinian genocide is connected to every imperialist genocide of previous centuries. There is an unbroken line between the actions of the Israeli government, military, and settlers and the displacement of native Americans, the forced starvation of Indians and Irish, and the apartheid regime of South Africa. Intelligent conservatives see it too, and they want to make sure that line is defended. Genocide is always on the table for them, and their goal is to stop anyone who might care from seeing it coming.

Witch cat

holy shit watch this until the end for a wild easter egg. not gonna spoil it and not sure when this aired but wow

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It's important to understand that this segment is 9 years old.

IM F***ING DEAD?????

just so my mutuals know, some of the stuff I reblog is for you specifically. good luck figuring out what.

if it did somehow turn out that i had made a horrible mistake and hormonally feminised myself because of the pressure i felt from a highly organised cabal of beautiful and manipulative trans women, i would be so turned on that i wouldnt be able to see

imagining my hot milfy she/they GP pushing me to get on hormones so I’d be more attractive and submissive to them during physi—hold on I gotta sit down

She’d never really liked the book. It seemed to her that it tried to tell her what to do and what to think. Don’t stray from the path, don’t open that door, but hate the wicked witch because she is wicked. Oh, and believe that shoe size is a good way of choosing a wife.

A lot of the stories were highly suspicious, in her opinion. There was the one that ended when the two good children pushed the wicked witch into her own oven. Tiffany had worried about that after all that trouble with Mrs. Snapperly. Stories like this stopped people thinking properly, she was sure. She’d read that one and thought, Excuse me? No one has an oven big enough to get a whole person in, and what made the children think they could just walk around eating people’s houses in any case? And why does some boy too stupid to know a cow is worth a lot more than five beans have the right to murder a giant and steal all his gold? Not to mention commit an act of ecological vandalism? And some girl who can’t tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother must either have been as dense as teak or come from an extremely ugly family. The stories weren’t real. But Mrs. Snapperly had died because of stories.

you ever think about how in star wars the four heroes that overthrew the tyrannical empire and inagurated a new government are the princess of a tragically destroyed planet, a wisecracking rogue, the last heir of a religious order of wizards who do actual literal magic, and.........a city mayor

i should clarify that im not disparaging lando here i'm just wondering what it's like to be in a space fantasy adventure as the ONE member of your friend group who knows what a zoning law is

You can frequently see this in Lando's face.