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I forget there are minors on this website…to me this is the mid/late 20s-30s woman webbed site…until we age past that together

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have you ever seen the same play/musical live more than once?

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

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I'm just popping back in here for a sec to say that I made all the cookies from NYT cookie week and here are my thoughts

Holiday rocky road:

This was so easy and very festive but part of the joy definitely is that the gummies you get might not make sense with the rest of the flavours going on here and you've gotta be okay with that. Would be so fun to make with kids.

Ginger cheesecake cookies (not pictured):

The ginger cookie used for the base of these is 🔥but honestly stuffing it with the cheese cake filling dulls the spice a bit too much for me. Also the cheesecake stuffing process was far too much work. I will make this ginger cookie recipe again I will NOT be stuffing it with cheesecake.

Iced peppermint cookies:

I made the icing for these far too thick and they were still delicious, and the red/white pattern is very visually impressive I think. Overall a delicious and fairly easy and fun cookie.

Lemon Turmeric Crinkle:

I am obsessed with lemon desserts, so it's no surprise that I loved these. Also the fact that they were so easy gives them massive points. I ran out of turmeric so they aren't as yellow as they were meant to be, which I think would have given them a more impressive look, but I'm not mad about it.

Matcha Black Sesame Shortbreads:

These were really fun, and the flavours go together so well! I did find the sesame dulls fairly quickly so I would eat them in the first couple days for max enjoyment, but I made these while super busy prepping for a show, they were not a lot of work at all!

Bûche de Noël cookies:

Listen, these were a lot of work. I mean, my food processor is not big enough so I did a lot of the mixing by hand, then the rolling, the filling, the other rolling, the waiting, etc. But I love the outcome here so much I will absolutely do it again. Look at these little logs! they're gorgeous and perfect and have such a good hit of chocolate 🍫 Christmas perfection

Rum Buttered Almond Cookies:

These were sneaky. I used the wrong kind of flour and tbh almond isn't always my favourite flavour but holyyyyyy did these deliver. They are quick and easy and delicate and I will be adding them to my regular cookie rotation.

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I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

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"how can you like this objectively bad thing!" because i have bad taste. move on.

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never let being a girl stop you from being a boy

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As a software engineer, I feel it is my duty to reblog this one.

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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once I stop being scared of everything it's over for everyone

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i cannot stop laughing at send no pee

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it’s crazy how i don’t know what any of you do for school/uni/work? who are you guys outside of tumblr? what do you work as?? 

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Should I devote six months of my life to writing the 1950s pulp novel that inspired the film Goncharov (1973)

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the worst thing that could possibly happen to ao3 is it being put on the app store so please stop asking for it because you don't understand what would happen if that went through. ao3's whole deal is it archives EVERYTHING, while the apple app store's whole deal is keeping everything clean and safe. so if ao3 were to have an app all of the 'bad' stuff, including nsfw in general, would have to be censored at best or would be purged at worse. the google play store is more lax but who fucking knows what GOOGLE would police if they got their hands on the archive. do not ask for an app. do not use third party apps. it's on mobile browser functioning perfectly, just fucking use that before you ruin everything for everyone please.