my profile picture is two people kissing through their masks
Emmet, after finally getting into Hisui: hello! have you seen my brother? Lady Sneasler:
These messages came one right after the other and I thought it was so amusing XD It was like these anons were having a conversation PFFFTT
My body is a temple that is largely used for the management and storage of grains.
blood is so cool
its like a magic liquid that keeps you alive. AND its bold red like the most cuntservy color possible and a little blood on the outside of your body and everyone’s attention is on you. It commands the room. AND it tastes good
this is a normal take ! 👍
It’s a poetic reiteration of the primordial sea!
It’s a poetic
reiteration of the
primordial sea!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
why do they let the worlds most boring people direct movies
They explain this in the tinkerbell movies. The light comes from the pixie dust covering every faries wings. This guy hasn’t even seen the tinkerbell movies
Hot take everyone needs at least one creative hobby to accompany their consumptive ones. I don’t mean just art and writing I mean literally anything where you create something. Embroidery, cooking, knitting, gardening, wood whittling, trap making, needle felting, instrument playing, bug raising, fandom analysis writing, ANYTHING where you do work and can hold the fruits of your labor in you hands. Anything where you MAKE something else.
Something that isn’t a career choice. Something you don’t have to be good at. As long as it brings you joy.
Please get hobbies, they enrich your life.
Can I just bold this so people don’t miss it: Something you don’t have to be good at. As long as it brings you joy.
Something you can hold, touch, see phisically and have proof of effort
Something you can hold,
touch, see phisically and
have proof of effort
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
talking to my dad is a freaking minefield. Today at dinner I asked him if he’d ever been to New York City in the 90′s and he was like, “nope. Only in the 70′s to donate blood for my mom in the hospital while she was dying from leukemia.” I swear I didn’t even know my grandmother had leukemia (may she rest in peace). This is worse than the time I asked him if he’d ever had riding lessons and he said, “not since my childhood lesson pony burned to death in a barn fire in Kentucky.”
he just did it again! I was making small talk while we were carrying in the groceries like, “yeah I have a taser in my purse but I’ve never gotten to use it,” and he goes, “I’ve been tasered before it’s not fun. Neither was waterboarding.”
wtf dad
latest edition: me: I found a bottle of vic’s vapo rub in the cabinet that expired in 2002 but it was fine.
my dad: Oh I don’t touch that stuff but guys I worked with used it to mask the smell of bodies that’d been dead for a while.
is your dad an ex-assassin
This came up in a post I made last month too but it seems like there’s a “celery gene” just like there’s a “cilantro gene” and nobody knew it until very recently. Celery for most people (including me) tastes and smells deliciously cool and fresh, like a cucumber. For other people it apparently tastes and smells like pure ass, like rancid smelly vegetable fart poison.
Let me be unhinged for one moment because I’ve been sitting on this for years. I’m a dr of molecular genetics and I dare not utter this heresy at work lest I be torn asunder and subjected to The Horrors (mildly disapproving look from my boss’s boss at lab meeting).
I love cilantro (or coriander, since I’m Scottish and we don’t say cilantro) but sometimes it tastes like the gift of the gods and other times it tastes like soap. And I know the distinction is meant to be binary: you have the SNP that makes it taste one way or the other. But I contest that it’s not a human thing, it’s a coriander thing. I think it’s a cross-species gene x gene interaction whereby some coriander plants have the allele that makes them taste a bit funky and some humans have an allele that makes it taste a bit funky BUT ONLY if they’re eating a coriander plant that also has the corresponding funky allele.
You need both is what I’m saying. Which is why sometimes coriander tastes fine and other times it tastes awful. If it was a purely human thing then more than just coriander would taste bad, there isn’t a specific coriander taste receptor, it’s multi-purpose so a whole range of things would taste like soap. Both you and the corriander you’re monching on needs to have the variant (whatever it may be) to produce the bad taste.
I rest my case.
I could probably just search this up in pubmed but I refuse. Every scientist needs one unhinged pet theory they’ll go off about at a moment’s notice.
No this sounds highly believable, especially if most of the *commercial* cilantro is coming from only a couple sources all descended from a particular cultivar!
ok.
veggie science man! say veggie science things!
I never did much taste testing ,besides eating my own experiment rejects, but from what I remember a big part of taste in plants is secondary metabolites and other such things. For example, high levels of phenolics and flavonoids make a plant taste bitter. In corianders case it has a higher level of specific Aldehydes in it which makes it taste like soap to some people because it’s the same aldehydes that are in soap. So it could be that some species have more of the aldehydes present in the plant which is why they taste bad and then others have a lesser amount which is why they taste fine. I agree you’d need both a plant high in aldehydes and the taste gene to really notice it though as I’m guessing the gene just makes you more sensitive to the taste of the aldehydes
At my local library, a little girl dropped her library books into the ‘return’ slot, waved and shouted “GOODBYE BOOKS, HAVE A GOOD DAY AT SCHOOL!” and my heart grew three sizes 🥺
Had a dream that my friends and I were playing a tabletop RPG with Titus Hardie from Disco Elysium as our DM. We weren’t friends with him but we were the only people he could find to do nerd shit with in secret.
I kept making him mad because I kept having my character hit on and try to seduce various monster NPCs, and because of my insanely high charisma stat it kept WORKING and Titus just got increasingly uncomfortable and angry with me for forcing him to roleplay a sexy monster. Once we heckled him for not knowing how lesbian sex works and he was upset because he felt like we were typecasting him as a homophobe when really some of his best friends were homosexuals.
Every now and then he’d get to the point where he was ready to rocks fall everyone dies us, so we’d have to backtrack and sweet talk him into sharing more of his lovingly crafted worldbuilding and storyline with us. Just when he started to relax again I’d roll to have gay sex with a monster.
god this was so good actually. thank you brain. the only way it could have been funnier is if garte was there.
