rb the give garlic bread and a warm hug to the person u rb'd from

howdy ladies and gaydies, I spent ages making this What Tarot Card Are You quiz which has ZERO pop culture references and lots of horror / surrealist writing! (also if you get death I’m sorry)

take this one. and do not dare make me think of it ever again.

zero pop-culture references??? give OP a prize please

girl help i’m having creation ideas above my skill level

Leaving this in the tags is a crime

omfg that is just too adorable

This will always be one of my favorite comics ever. It gives me warm fuzzies~

This is the most perfect.

This kitteh having a little halloween adventure is one of my favourite posts of all time :)

Every fall like clockwork this photo set pops up and we all must reblog it

ITS TIME

YOU hates terfs

Once upon a time I worked in this little burger/coffee/ice cream shop and a lady came in one winter and asked if we had a caramel apple drink and we were like ‘well we have cider’ and she was like ‘no I don’t remember what it’s called but this place made a drink that was chai tea, apple cider, and caramel’ and Breezy offered to try and make something for her but she changed her mind and left so Breezy and I were like ‘alright let’s try this’ because we had chai tea, instant cider mix, a shit ton of caramel, instant hot water from the espresso and too much free time. 

And let me tell you it was delightful. It tastes like watching the leaves changing color and dancing in the wind. It tastes like picking out pumpkins and gourds and fresh apples at the farm up north. It tastes like witches and freedom.

I make it every year now and this year I walked in the house on the morning of October first with all the ingredients and shouted ‘FALL DRINK’ and my roommates were like ‘????’ so I made them Fall Drink and now every time they get home from work they’re like ‘Fall Drink pls?????’

Anyway I remember literally nothing else about that woman but I’m very grateful to her. 

for anyone wondering about proportions/etc here’s op’s answer from the repiles:

@gaslightgallows I feel this would be relevant to your interests. 

I don’t like caramel but I can vouch for hot chaider being amazing.

Deareat @simonalkenmayer I feel like this is relevant to your interests.

Also, I do something like this in the crock pot with the overly sweet Growers Pumpkin Apple Cider, chai spices, cloves, a bit of orange juice, and some super dry Pinot Grigio.

Mix, heat, and serve on a nippy night best spent cuddled under blankets with a book.

My friend, you have essentially backward engineered a wonderful winter drink from the Stuart period.

White sack wine, cider, spices (clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, ginger) tea, sugar, and if you want it authentic, a bit of cream or whipped egg. All this is brought together in a low temperature and then stewed for a time. It can also be “pulled”, a process in which one “stirs” the concoction by using a ladle and pouring it repeatedly from high in the air. Makes it foamy and frothy. 

Serve warm.

On a cold night, this is a delightful thing. Believe it or not, we also used to make it with a stout beer instead of wine. For a darker richer flavor.

One Black Tea Bag, One Cup Apple Juice, 2tsp butter, 2tsp brown sugar, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger to taste will also accomplish something similar (just melt the butter and brown sugar together and whisk them around a pan a bit - don’t bother making proper caramel) Make your faux-caramel then you add the apple juice and then the rest; heat it up to a boil then turn off the heat, drop the tea bag in and let it steep for 3 minutes, serve with gingersnaps.

Nothing better than tumblr recipe posts

Started making something similar last year, old cider (Irish, alcoholic), chai tea bags and a mulled cider flavour sachet (sugar, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg mainly). You don’t need caramel because it’s already pretty sweet and lightly boozy! Great with popcorn, banshee bones or Halloween picnmix

@esotericecology @firelamplight

k.b. // maybe one day this will come true

Imagine an alien sharing a cool human fact they just learned like ”hey guys did you know that the silvery markings on humans actually aren’t true stripes? They’re called stretch marks, they happen when the human is growing fast enough to actually outgrow their skin, which is apparently something that just fucking happens to almost all of them at some point of their life.”

and another one is like ”wait so you’re saying humans don’t have stripes.”

”actually they do, but the stripes are invisible. There’s genetic code that’d give them stripes but they’re just the same colour as the rest of the skin. So the visible stripes are not real stripes and the real stripes are invisible.”

”I swear if you tell me one more weird human thing today I’m beating your ass.”

The human in the room looks up and goes "Wait I have stripes?"

"what do you mean cats can see them, but I can't?"

what do you fucking mean cats can see them

I WENT THROUGH THE SAME THOUGHT PROCESS

MY CAT THINKS I HAVE STRIPES?!?!?!?

NO NO ITS NOT "IT THINKS I HAVE THEM"

BECAUSE WE DO APPARENTLY

SO ITS ACTUALLY A VERY DISTRESSED "MY CAT THINKS I KNOW I HAVE STRIPES?!?!?!"

AND I THINK THATS A BIT WORSE TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST

MY CAT KNEW I HAD STRIPES BEFORE I DID?!?!?!?!?!?

I DIDNT THINK OF THAT

WELL I DID AND NOW I CANT UNTHINK IT

@beenovel @messiambrandybuck these are the variants

This is the oldest piece of music known to humankind. It’s engraved in cuneiform on a tablet from 1400 BC. And it was a hymn to their goddess Nikkal.

I wasn’t actually expecting something serious.

That was, um, actually unexpected.

What is this grand old instrument? It is almost ethereal to my ears!

I wish more ancient music was written down. It’d be interesting to study it!

Only 15th century BC kids will remember this bop

It would’ve likely originally been played on a sammûm, a bit like a lyre, in accompaniment of a singer.

Whilst its the oldest piece of music, it’s not complete (I believe the oldest complete song is the Seikilos Epitaph), so it’s transcription is controversial; there are a few differing decipherments.

The fact that this recording exists is nothing short of miraculous when you consider all of the background work that you have to do before you put a lyrist in front of a staff-notation transcription.  This article will tell you about it in exhaustive detail:  https://musicircle.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Babylonian-Notatin-and-the-Hurrian-Melodic-Texts_Music-and-Letters-1994-WEST-161-79.pdf

In short, here are some of the things a musicologist would have to do in order to get to the point where you can start looking for someone who plays an ancient Mesopotamian lyre (yes, the sammûm is a type of lyre):

1.  Find the tablets. 2.  Know enough cuneiform to identify the language, the culture, the time period, and the fact that this is music notation, which was vanishingly rare in a culture where people wrote with a stylus on wet clay. 3.  Know what instruments people played and how they were used. 4.  Figure out how many strings this instrument had and how they were tuned.  This is harder than it looks because, while instruments can sometimes survive millennia, strings tend not to survive, and as any string player knows, tuning often doesn’t survive a single performance. 5.  Figure out the tuning system – our Western even-tempered scale is a recent invention.  J.S. Bach composed the Well-Tempered Clavier to show off even-tempered tuning in 1722.  The octave is a creation of physics; dividing the octave into pleasing individual notes that can be put together to make music is a creation of culture, and there’s no reason to assume that ancient Mesopotamians used modern Western scales. 6.  Learn the corpus of music theory that supports the structure of this piece of music.  If you know the theory, you can figure out what the music is doing; if you don’t know the theory, you have a random string of notes, not music. 7.  Because this was only a semi-written culture, music was heavily improvisatory.  You have to know that what’s written down is more of an outline or a suggestion.  The real art is in filling in the rest of the pattern.  A lot of traditional non-Western music works like this (and up until fairly recently, quite a bit of Western classical music also incorporated this aspect; even today, the art of playing a cadenza is a Thing), so if you’re not an ethnomusicologist, you’ll want to bring one in, preferably one who works with contemporary West Asian folk and/or classical forms. 8.  Ahhh!  At last!  You’ve gotten to the point where you think you can figure out what this piece is supposed to sound like.  Now you have to transcribe it all into Western staff notation (which isn’t designed to handle music like this). 9.  Unless you are also an expert on building and playing ancient Mesopotamian lyres, you must now go and find someone who is.  Fortunately, there are one or two of these people around.  Give that person your music, and book the recording studio! 10.  The next time anyone asks you why studying music is important, now you know.

*goes outside in a nirvana shirt while I dont even like nirvana*

It's just a nice looking shirt

"oh you like nirvana? name 5 songs by them" "actually i fucking hate them. dont make assumptions. it makes you look like an ass"

"Oh you like nirvana" I am wholly ambivalent towards Nirvana

tbh Kurt Cobain would love this

My lawyer advised me not to disclose the specifics of my relationship with the band Nirvana

I almost didn’t click this because I assumed it would be someone singing the altered lyrics and I can basically figure out what that would sound like

BUT NO, someone has instead the original song to go like this and it is, very good

Reblog this to give the person you reblogged this from a plushie <3

YOU hates terfs

people still play league of legends?

I think it's less that they're 'playing' it and more they're condemned to experience it, like video game purgatory

why am i nostalgic for my teenage years bitch i didnt even have fun !!!

Yeah but your back didn’t hurt

Your sailor nickname is [what color your shirt is] [your first pet’s name]. You are [phone battery percentage] years old. Your ship is the HMS [last thing you ate].

“Anxiety disorder” sounds so morose from now on I’m telling people I have Clinical Heebie Jeebies

Medical Grade Willies

Whenever I do worldbuilding I try to keep this image in mind