#ITS FILBERT

[rthwrms]

i think this is like. 3 hrs of work?

[ask-bucko]

the gang showing off their costumes! bonus page with cj and flick antics

[a-life-long-story]

🎉NEW CWACOM AU🎉

Story:

Swallow Falls quietly lives its life, eating sardines all over the city, which does not suit anyone, but the residents have no other choice. So it goes on until one day a strange boy comes to town, full of strength and hope. It turns out his name is Filbert Lockwood and he is 26 years old. Short for Filby. He is a novice pastry chef and, after learning about the Swallow Falls, its inhabitants and their "rich" food, decides to come here and open his own restaurant. He does it, his food is simply amazing for the residents, soon Filbert becomes a famous float chef. Life begins to acquire new bright colors, previously unseen.

There will be no events from films 1 and 2 in this AU, since there are no reasons for such fantastic catastrophes as a Food Storm. Filbert is an ordinary chef who is not able to arrange something like this. However, he is able to create foodimals together with his best friend Flint.

Friends:

Filbert is not only a cook, but also loves science, just like Flint Lockwood, the local notorious inventor. Filbert is Flint's second cousin, as a child he often visited Fran, Flint's mother and his great aunt, because Flint and Filbert know each other well. In the end, these two support each other in their hobby (for Flint, a profession) and Filbert does not consider Lockwood strange at all, rather on the contrary, the sanest in Swallow Falls.

Filbert will also make friends with Sam, as she is Flint's first best friend and they will love to talk about the weather. Filbert will dream of edible rain, which in reality, of course, does not exist.

Filbert won't be on good terms with Brent because he's an upstart, a so-called "wet chicken" (Filby loves to call him that) and he's bullying Flint. In addition to Brent, Filbert will not love Gil either, because he considers him to be the same upstart and a person who wants not to remain in the shadows and always attracts attention to himself, and Filby does not like such people. He doesn't know about Gil's abusive relationship with his father, lol.

Filby will avoid Bella because she is his ardent fan, who also loves the kitchen and this young, still in the prime of life, chef.

But Filby will be on good terms with Cal and Joe.

Likes:

- friends

- food

- his own restaurant

- attention

- cheeseburgers

- marshmallow

- Barry

Doesn't like:

- Brent

- Gil

- corn

- Bella

- sardines

- Mayor Shelbourne

Interesting facts:

- Filby is about the same height as Flint, a couple of centimeters taller than Flint.

- His restaurant is called "Chewandswallow".

- Since Filby is a kind and soft-hearted guy, he tries to dress up cool and show himself from a cold and relaxed side at various conferences, meetings, interviews, etc. He does this because he wants to have a reputation not just as a chef, but as a respected, strict and demanding chef and the head of a large restaurant chain, which is worth being afraid of. Only people close to him know that this is an image and in fact Filbert is not at all what he seems in public.

- Together with Flint, they will create a new kind of life - foodimals. These are lively foods, some of them look like animals.

- Filbert will notice that Flint's idol and a well-known scientist, Chester V, who is too painfully interested in animal products, has appeared in the Swallow Falls. Filby doesn't believe him a bit.

- Filbert is for healthy lifestyle, he does not drink and does not inject, but sometimes, quite infrequently, he is not averse to lighting a cigarette.

- Filbert is asexual and does not have a romantic relationship with anyone.

- Filbert loved Fran very much and was even depressed for a while after learning about her death. Together with Flint, they often come to her grave.

I'm not giving up on the AU where FLDSMDFR is a human robot, it's just that I now have as many as 3 CWACOM AU🐥

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

So The Banana Splits came over for Thanksgiving dinner and--

Our crew of the nonce just could not believe it: Crazy Claws, Huckleberry Hound, yours truly, the Hair Bear Bunch and Emmy Lou and Jenny Lee, stunned to see Bingo, Drooper, Fleegle and Snorky pass through Crazy Claws' Artificial Lake Delton retreat.

And for Thanksgiving din-din, even!

Even if it meant bringing over for the dessert frozen banana creme pies and, for noshing on, banana nut bread. And they say bananas are something of a decent source of fiber, but whether this is true with banana bread to which some butter creme spreads in the likes of vanilla, honey, cinnamon and filbert are spread on to enjoy with coffee--well, leave that for later. Never mind the band preferring to sleep in their CoolBus, considering the limitations of CC's retreat and its being nearly taxed to the limit.

Anyhow, later in the evening, with some banana bread and coffee set out (the latter by way of the Chemex coffeemaker, translating into an especially agreeable cup) and an impromptu social hour ensuing, Drooper pretty much explained things for the Splits:

"Just be thankful we weren't caught in the Chicago mess of traffic--and likewise be thankful for I-39 providing an alternative way to get here from St. Louis and that. Can you imagine how much savings in time and fuel were so effected, as well as its being a more direct routing?"

"You can say that again," Crazy Claws remarked in his trademark snark. "Yet then again, why doesn't Wisconsin Dells start marketing more to St. Louis and places further south, which can get certainly muggy over the summer?" To which Huck responded, "Good point you have there. Especially with Lake of the Ozarks and the music shows down in Branson being popular in and of themselves."

Emmy Lou chimed in for a moment to remark about when she and Jenny Lee attended one such "music show" of the Branson sort, and were quick to leave before the intermission "considering just how predictable and tacky the acts can get, not to mention the jingoism hidden in the routines!"

"But, all things considered," Drooper went on to continue, "we thought it worthwhile to stop here when we did, considering where you can never predict what the weather can change to, and how it can affect the driving--especially if the roads got iced up rather bad, and we wouldn't want to get into an accident on our Road Trip of Redemption!"

"And I mean SERIOUS REDEMPTION!" Fleegle emphasised, to which Bingo chimed in, "That horror film has certainly compromised our name and repute, and we seek to reclaim it the best way we can--even if it means incognito performances in our old manner!"

Myself asking about the banana bread, Bingo was quick to note that they found it in a supermarket bakery section "somewhere between Rockford and Madison," when they were getting groceries and sundries. "And considering how things could get over the holiday weekend, what would stop us from sharing a loaf with such company like yourselves?"

(When it came to the coffee, it was of a special holiday blend for close friends that Cattanooga Klatsche, the Cattanooga Cats' Gatlinburg coffee house and roastery, was fond of preparing and shipping out ahead of the holiday rush. Think of it as a cross between "Vigorous and Winey" Bokar and "Mild and Mellow" Eight O' Clock coffees back when the A&P stores had them exclusively, even grinding them in the store at checkout!)

And as for the dinner proper ... next time, next Monday to be precise, should answer all the mysteries.

And may I just conclude here with a short note that this blog will be going on Thanksgiving weekend break from here on out, until midday Sunday even, come to think of it ... and I just hope that however you manage to celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope it turns out well!

[roselightfairy]

Here Spring was already busy about them: fronds pierced moss and mould, larches were green-fingered, small flowers were opening in the turf, birds were singing. Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.

South and west it looked towards the warm lower vales of Anduin, shielded from the east by the Ephel Dúath and yet not under the mountain-shadow, protected from the north by the Emyn Muil, open to the southern airs and the moist winds from the Sea far away. Many great trees grew there, planted long ago, falling into untended age amid a riot of careless descendants; and groves and thickets there were of tamarisk and pungent terebinth, of olive and of bay; and there were junipers and myrtles; and thymes that grew in bushes, or with their woody creeping stems mantled in deep tapestries the hidden stones; sages of many kinds putting forth blue flowers, or red, or pale green; and marjorams and new-sprouting parsleys, and many herbs of forms and scents beyond the garden-lore of Sam. The grots and rocky walls were already starred with saxifrages and stonecrops. Primeroles and anemones were awake in the filbert-brakes; and asphodel and many lily-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass: deep green grass beside the pools, where falling streams halted in cool hollows on their journey down to Anduin.

The travellers turned their backs on the road and went downhill. As they walked, brushing their way through bush and herb, sweet odours rose about them. Gollum coughed and retched; but the hobbits breathed deep, and suddenly Sam laughed, for heart's ease not for jest. They followed a stream that went quickly down before them. Presently it brought them to a small clear lake in a shallow dell: it lay in the broken ruins of an ancient stone basin, the carven rim of which was almost wholly covered with mosses and rose-brambles; iris-swords stood in ranks about it, and water-lily leaves floated on its dark gently-rippling surface; but it was deep and fresh, and spilled ever softly out over a stony lip at the far end.

[cromulentbookreview]

Fun with Fungi!

Huh, what's this? *cleans away dust* oh, yeah, this blog is still a thing. I probably should've written more reviews, but...

I mean, I could come up with an excuse, but I'm too lazy. Just as I am too lazy to continually update this book review blog that nobody reads. I mean, I just wrote a review *consults calendar* uh. In 2022. Dang, I have been lazy. Oh well.

I'm like a rug on valium, I'm talking lazy.

And by that, I mean: let's have a dual review of the Sworn Soldier series: What Moves the Dead and its sequel, What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher!

Those covers, man. They're awesome, but at the same time: poor bun bun. Poor horsie.

So technically, what I'm doing here is not one but two reviews. So I'm actually being really, really productive right now and not lazy in the slightest.

This is a legitimately true story, I swear. Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...by which I mean, four or five years back or so, I'd never heard of T. Kingfisher / Ursula Vernon in my life until I got into a fight with her on Twitter* on whether or not the fruit of the hazel tree should be referred to as Filberts or Hazelnuts.

For the record, I am firmly team hazelnut. I mean, they're nuts from a hazel tree. Hazel+nuts = hazelnuts. Who in their right mind wants to eat something called a filbert? But, terminology varies as T. Kingfisher is firmly on team filbert. My parents also call them filberts on occasion which is weird to me as we live in an area lousy with hazelnut farms.

Mmmm, Hazelnuts...

Anyway! I had no idea who this person was but I got into a tongue-in-cheek gif fight on Twitter with them regarding hazelnut v. filbert. Feeling bad that I got into a fight with a random person online on their hazel tree fruit name preferences, I went to their profile, saw they were an author, looked up their books and bought the two books of the Clocktaur Wars series. I tore through them, and continued on, reading all of the World of the White Rat series (I just saw that we're getting a new one in January and I might have let out a bit of a fangirl screech), and the absolutely delightful A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking and Minor Mage. So far, every single one of T. Kingfisher's books that I've read has been awesome. Nettle & Bone? Amazing. Thornhedge? I'm a very slow reader, but I devoured it in an afternoon.

T. Kingfisher writes amazing fantasy novels and I absolutely love them. She also writes horror. Which is where I hit a brick wall because I'm a baby who doesn't handle horror well. I don't like horror movies. I don't often read horror books. Because the world is scary enough without ghosts and poltergeists and demons and jump scares. Also I watched The Ring when I was 12 and it scared the shit out of me. Anyway! Oddly enough, I've always found myself drawn to horror-type stories. I mean, horror fits so well in fantasy and sci-fi (looking at you, Doctor Who episodes that gave me nightmares). As an adult, I've found myself more and more willing to dip my toe into horror fiction. Season 1 of The Terror, one of my favorite-ever TV series is considered horror (maybe because it's not jump-scare scary, it's existentially scary. Also it's set in the past. Also it's got dudes-on-boats, my favorite genre). Part of me really, really likes horror stories set in the past - no horror like 18th/19th/Early 20th century horror, amirite?

Right?

Well, whatever, I just like horror to be ye olde timey horror, OK? Like Crimson Peak, The Witch, The Death of Jane Lawrence, Mexican Gothic, The Woman in Black, The Hacienda, Vampires of El Norte, The Hunger ... spooky-scary Gothic-y-Romantic-y-type stories that have a historical element to them. Those are awesome. I'm slowly - very slowly! - getting myself to read more contemporary horror stories. I understand that The Twisted Ones and A House With Good Bones are really, really good, but....what can I say, I'm a wuss. And contemporary stories aren't really my jam. I read to get away from the contemporary world, damn it!

(Me, too scared to read contemporary horror but not too scared to listen to 900,000 true crime podcasts).

Right, where were we?

Oh, yeah. The review(s). I'm starting to understand why no one ever read this blog and why I let myself be lazy.

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In What Moves The Dead we meet Alex Easton, a Gallacian ex-soldier on their way to visit their old friends, the Ushers, at their delipidated estate in the rural countryside of Ruravia. Alex had word that Madeline Usher was dying, and they wanted to be there for Madeline and her brother, Roderick. Roderick had been a fellow soldier with Alex back in the day and -

Wait a minute, Roderick and Madeline Usher? Delipidated mansion? Unspecified 19th century middle of nowhere...

Yep, this story is, indeed, a retelling of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, and it does a much better job than certain series you might find on Netflix.

Moving on:

Alex, Roderick and Madeline were childhood friends, and Roderick and Alex even fought together back in the day. Alex is a "sworn soldier" - something unique to their home country of Gallacia, a small, backwater country located somewhere between Bulgaria, Hungaria and that other -Garia, a vaguely Central/Eastern European nation with a language somehow structurally worse than Finnish, Hungarian and Icelandic combined. The Gallacian language has seven sets of pronouns: there's one set used only when referring to God, a set used to refer to children before puberty, one set specifically for inanimate objects...and, as the Gallacians are a fierce warrior people (though they're not exactly great at it), there's a special pronoun set just for soldiers.

So, in Gallacia, anyone, regardless of gender, can waltz up to the nearest military recruitment post, declare themselves a soldier, and be given a sword and a new set of pronouns within the hour. Hence the term "sworn soldier."

Anyway!

Prior to arriving at the House of Usher, Alex encounters an Englishwoman, Miss Eugenia Potter, a mycologist studying the local mushrooms, and there are some gnarly-looking (and smelling!) mushrooms. In fact, the whole landscape around Usher House seems...off. Everything seems dead or dying. Random hares will stand up and just stare right at you.

And not in a cute way, either.

As if the landscape weren't bad enough, once Alex gets to the Usher House, Roderick himself barely resembles the soldier Alex once knew. His skin has gone bone-white and he's as thin as a skeleton. He seems terrified by something but can't quite articulate what. Madeline is still alive, but in bad shape. Not even Roderick's friend Denton, an American doctor, can say what is wrong with her and Roderick (Catalepsy? Anemia? Hysteria? Roomis Igloomis? Who knows?). Denton and Alex immediately figure it's something to do with their environment - the house is both rotting and falling apart around them - but Roderick insists that Madeline can't leave, and if she can't leave, he won't leave.

Determined to find out what's happening to their friends, Alex resolves to stay. But things in the House of Usher are starting to get weird. For one thing, Madeline sleepwalks far more than a dying woman should, speaking in a strange, child-like voice, there's a lake outside that seems to pulse and shine with odd lights, there's a legion of undead hares wandering around and, seriously, what is up with those mushrooms??? With the help of Denton, Miss Potter, and their trusty batman, Angus, Alex must figure out what the hell is going on with the House of Usher...before whatever it is starts to spread.

What Moves The Dead is short and sweet and the perfect book to read when it's cold and dreary outside - and definitely not one you want to read before eating a giant bowl of mushroom risotto. If you're looking for a fantastic, spooky-type read that reads like if Edgar Allan Poe and The Last of Us joined forces with an army of undead bunnies.

But!

Luckily for all of us, Alex Easton's adventures don't stop with the events at the House of Usher.

It's late in the autumn and poor Alex would much rather be in Paris. Unfortunately, Angus has successfully guilt-tripped them into a trip to Alex's family's old hunting lodge back in the Old Country, aka Gallacia. Nothing like good old Gallacia in the winter where everything is damp, cold, cold, and, you guessed it! Damp.

But the redoubtable British mycologist Miss Eugenia Potter wishes to study some Gallacian mushrooms, and Angus, who is absolutely sweet on her, pretty much voluntold Alex to come along to act as Miss Potter's translator and use their hunting lodge as a home base.

So instead of a beautiful late Autumn/Winter in Paris, Alex is stuck back home.

*Sigh* looks nice, doesn't it?

As much as Alex sulks at the thought of spending several weeks back home, it's not like they're going to say no to Angus and Miss Potter. Not after everything they went through with the Usher House *shudder*.

Unfortunately, when Angus and Alex arrive at the lodge to help get it ready for Miss Potter's arrival, the caretaker, Codrin, is nowhere to be found. A quick trip to the nearby village reveals that Codrin has been dead for the past two months. But the locals are being very cagey about what killed him - Codrin's daughter is very insistent that it was just a lung infection, nothing else, no further questions, goodbye.

Finding a replacement for Codrin proves difficult, as it seems none of the villagers want to go near the lodge because there's a rumor that Codrin wasn't killed by inflammation of the lungs, but by a creature called a Moroi - a woman who sits on your chest and quite literally steals your breath. And the rumor is, a Moroi has taken up residence at the Hunting Lodge.

Yikes.

After some effort, Alex manages to hire a new housekeeper: the ill-tempered Widow Botezatu, who brings her grandson Bors along with her. The Widow immediately hates Alex, thinking them a wastrel, but Bors is nice enough. Miss Potter arrives, complete with terrible Gallacian phrasebook, but it soon becomes clear things aren't quite right at the Lodge. Alex begins to experience strange dreams - dreams in which a woman is kneeling on their chest because, yep, the Moroi is very real, and it can get to you in your dreams, just like Groundskeeper Willie in Treehouse of Horror VI.

Which is to say like Freddie Kruger, but still.

When it becomes clear that the Moroi is after the residents of the lodge, it's up to Alex, Angus and Miss Potter to figure out how to defeat a creature that can infiltrate your dreams.

What Feasts at Night is just as creepy, eerie and atmospheric as What Moves the Dead - there is plenty of non-fungal body horror and, mercifully, no zombie bun buns. Kingfisher is fantastic at capturing the terror of having your ability to breathe taken from you, and of the dread of having to fight something you can't grasp while awake. How she manages to pack so much into two short novels, I have no idea.

RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone in the mood for some short, sweet spooky horror.

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone who gets easily queasy, someone in the middle of eating a nice mushroom risotto, someone who really, really, really loves bunnies being alive and living their best lives, anyone who might wake up in the middle of the night with their cat on their chest staring directly into their eyes...

RELEASE DATE FOR WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT: February 13, 2024

RATING FOR BOTH: 5/5

ANTICIPATION LEVEL FOR SWORN SOLDIER BOOKS: Chigori

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[pixelated-furry-drama]

also chief wanted to sing too but its obvious he wanted to be as far away from filbert as possible and he's not even trying to be subtle about it, i love the overt shade

[stil-yr-sand]

what the hell is a filbert and a marrionberry

pnw stuff!

filbert is a dialect thing its just another word for hazelnut. its my favorite pie ever i think its kinda like pecan?

marrionverry is a lab made berry thats kinda like a blackberry its gery good it was made at u of o

the funny part is im not wven from pnw its just my dad

[miku-meeku]

A better love story than EllyAce or MeekuWhitney

get your filbert or whatever his name was off of my face. also its whitmy, im not shipping him w me you donkey

anws speaking of animal crossing,

marshal is my favorite go figure out why

also not to mention, i am a big fan of his cafe looking interior home in acnh kyaa (still waiting til i get acnh one day since 2020)

[cait-sith]

October 2023, Day 5: Hanahaki/Flowergore

I decided to give the flowers meaning and a friend kindly found out some old books on flower language. This also meant it took a lot longer, just to find the right ones. Meanings and rambling under the cut!

Snapdragon (eye) - Deception, Desperation Oleander (mouth) - Beware Laburnum (throat) - Loneliness, Forsaken Hawthorn (hand) - Hope Harebell (ribs) - Regret Hazel (antler, yellow-brown) - Reconciliation Filbert (antler, brown cylinders) - Reconciliation Fern (all around) - Magic, Fascination, Concealed Love

As everything about Cerwin, this is also about Cernunnos. The mix of painful and positive meanings in the flowers reflects their somewhat fraught relationship, somewhere between dependence, hate and affection. It gets better eventually, once they've worked out the biggest issues. A god and its scion.

[rthwrms]

its december so filbert is getting festive

[fryknave]

what are your favorite csp brushes to use o.o

i actually change up my brushes a looooooot (im addicted to downloading them </3) so this is kinda hard LOL... some of my current faves under cut

hhh 2 by jeluto - my absolute FAVORITE!!!!! inking pen everrrrrrrrr ive been using it for a Stupid long time. like yearsssssss

clip studio 800+ brush set by Frenden - i would buy this set solely for Wett Chett it is my absolute favorite textured colorer (? flatting brush?) ever ever ever but ngl i have a lot of faves from this set! the variety is insaaaaane and its still being updated to this day (when i got it it was only 400 brushes lol..)

あったかアナログ画材 by 弥阪 - got this set rly recently actually its rllyyy good. been obsessed with using Drawing6!

andddd a dump of some random fun brushes/things ive been loving:

chalkeri by Nahkeri

Stingo Pen by Stingou

wiggle brush by spriggiestuff

Filbert (dual) by Marredae

おみずブラシ5types by 酸化水素

Erase Along Edge by pharan

any of the cb gradients sets by desuzee

i also have a noise pencil and a noisey marker (literally a copic w/ grain lmfao) but um yea ^_^

[piperallegheny]

Fennec's Confectionary ♡ General Information

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♡ About the business: A small, relatively well hidden street corner confectionary and bakery that emanates warmth and mouth watering smells from early in the morning to late in the evening. Originally a family business rooted in Pennsylvania, Fennec’s has just recently appeared in Saintes along with the arrival of its newest owner, Piper Allegheny. Despite the change in location, Piper’s proud to say she still follows the centuries old coveted Allegheny family recipes. Boasting a wide variety of baked goods, unique candies, and specialty coffee brews prepared fresh each and every day, Fennec’s offers sugary treats that are sure to sweeten any supernatural’s senses. ♡ History: The Alleghenys were a long-standing familiar bloodline with reputations as resourceful and wise tradespeople. During the early 1700's, old Roe Allegheny was the first of his lineage to finally set down permanent roots, exchanging his caravaneer lifestyle for a small slice of land in Pennsylvania. He and his wife, a human named Edith, turned to farming as a means of income and found good profits from their work- enough so to turn their home into an inn only a stone's throw away from the nearest town. It quickly became something of a safe haven for travelers of all sorts to seek shelter, drinks, and home cooked meals at. It wasn't just the hospitality that made the Allegheny Inn so popular however. Edith had a way with baked goods that alone had customers forming lines at the inn's doors in the early mornings. Gingerbread, cream filberts, eclairs and more- Edith's recipes were the inn's secret weapon.

Roe and Edith's only son Fennec, born in the late 1700's, continued to build upon the family legacy long after his parents passed. The young familiar successfully kept the inn in steady business before his first troubles arose around 1855. The county sheriff William Magill had recently opened subtle investigations into numerous rumors of the inn being a front for supernatural beings seeking refuge in the town’s shadows. The rumors were all true of course- Fennec had started keeping tabs on any other supernaturals that frequented the area, often helping them flee into Toronto to evade bounty hunters and the likes. Despite this, it seemed Fennec was always one step ahead of the sheriff and his pesky officers.

By 1859, Fennec had consistently outsmarted sheriff Magill and his protégé shreiff Patterson, tiring the second lawman out after only his first year of duty. The newest sheriff, James Grahm, would prove to be a bit more stubborn than his peers. Grahm believed the rumors to be true, but also recognized the failures of the sheriffs before him. Knowing Fennec was a witty adversary, he turned to the freshly established Pinkerton Agency to assist him in the investigations. At that time many of the agents had already passed the sheriff's tales off as little more than ghost stories and superstitious banter, and after a month had gone by without any solid evidence being uncovered to back the town's rumors, the Pennsylvania Pinkerton operation decided to recall the town's party. Their departure left sheriff Grahm and his reputation in the dust. It was another win for Fennec and the town's supernaturals, however it would be very short lived.

In the summer of 1860, the Allegheny Inn burned to the ground in the middle of the day. Grahm and his officers investigated the "accident" and claimed it was simply an unfortunate act of God. Fennec was quick to refute the claim, arguing that Grahm surely had more to do with the incident than God did. The public dispute turned physical, and the sheriff's lackies jumped in to overpower Fennec. They brandished him a heathenous outlaw, and promptly ran him out of town.

With nothing to his name and nowhere to go, Fennec had no choice but to return to his family's old way of life. He wandered the outskirts of the Appalachians, exchanging his foraged goods and camp services with travelers. It brought in just enough money to keep him alive, but Fennec wanted more than mere survival. He started saving up, keeping portions of his meager earnings tucked away in hidden caches along his trade routes. By 1905 he'd accumulated enough money between the caches to open a small rest stop further up in northern Pennsylvania. It wasn't much, but Fennec was optimistic. In a few years time his mother's recipes would become something of a staple for locals and newcomers alike, and grow the business into the bones of a bustling new enterprise: Fennec's Confectionary. Only a handful of years later Fennec would meet a young Earth elemental named Ruth, and the pair birthed their only son Jack in 1918. Jack took to working in the town's mines while Fennec and Ruth lived out the rest of their days happily serving the confectionary until Ruth's passing in 1967. Following his mother's death, Jack left the mining industry and started working alongside his father. Fennec passed away in 1991, just a year after Jack married a female familiar named Selene.

Jack and Selene struggled to conceive a child for years until their miraculous pregnancy finally came. On October 4th, 1995, little Piper Allegheny was born. Not much is publicly known about the Allegheny family after this, though it's said Jack and Selene had some sort of falling out to the point where she decided to up and leave her husband and daughter overnight. Piper completed highschool and moved out of state briefly to study business management at the University of Virginia. After graduating she promptly took over Fennec's, and only a few months into officially owning the business Piper relocated to the new supernatural safe haven in Saintes, Louisiana.

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♡ Business type: Bakery/candy shop

♡ Current owner(s): Piper Allegheny

♡ Hours of operation: Mon-Sat, 7am-7pm

♡ Bakers & Baristas: Piper Allegheny, TBA!

♡ Confectioners: Piper Allegheny, TBA!

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[quarantinescarpet]

My quotes list from over the years

FRESHMAN

-“‘tis I the frenchiest fry.”

-“Someone’s stabbing me in the leg with a spork.”

-“I A DEMOCRAT OOPS”

-Spill the pony tea.

-How many geese would it take to bring down a full grown man?

-Point is, I love you both and I would 10/10 ride a motorbike

-“Apparently someone in Mr. Hopkins G block got scared of turkey noises.”

-“It’s like... it’s like a stupid game of Russian roulette Tetris with giant death machines”

-“I feel like you'd have a shrine to remember Spider-man, complete with candles and every single ‘mr stark I don't feel so good’ meme printed out.”

-“don’t ask me, I don’t know anything about the sex”

-“I WILL RIP YOUR DICK OFF”

-“What’s the difference between gay silence and regular silence?”

-“what yields a focus pencil? A patience tree?”

-“I might boogie on the desk so hard that the gum keeping it together gets unchewed and yeets back into the dimension it belongs in”

-“You smell like my fencing teacher”

-“sponsor a sponsor! Become a child”

-“Woof woof bitch, im a furry.”

-“yo to the hoe”

-“does my emoji still smell?”

SOPHOMORE

-“peter doesn't have a detachable head”

-“two thirds of me is wearing glasses”

-“You look like you have autism. Are you vaccinated?”

-“When did Haydar become friends with Emily?” “In hell”

-“I know you have something to do with Filbert”

-“Ayo beans check”

-“Who cares about beating the game‽ I’m a goose.”

-“You can’t make contact lenses out of cranberries”

-“cannabalism is for beans”

-“You know the party is lit when the epileptic kid starts doing the worm”

-“Imagine getting stabbed to the beastie boys”

-“I CANT TORTILLA MY CHOCOLATE MILK”

-“Pure drip”

-“The All Mighty King Tuggle Wuggle the Original... The 5th”

-“It’s a drink.” “Coal?” “I’m sorry who the heck is drinking coal??” “It’s heroin.”

-“Is climate change good or bad?”

-“I’ve had to keep her from stealing my toes for so long”

-“Apples are delicious, babies are not.”

-“It’s like I’m exfoliating my knuckle”

-“We are literally just birds.”

-“I’m slowly transitioning to emo. Today I’m wearing navy blue, tomorrow it will be black.”

-“Omg Aimee why are you such a try hard” “Oh my god Ava why are you orange?”

-“Wait what the fuck does crashing a funeral have to do with driving?”

-“Why are blonde people driving???”

-“That house looks like stephen king” “its super thicc?”

-“If you don’t do your homework, they are legally allowed to steal your cells”

-“Why would digging up graves be a problem we have to cover during a spa day??”

-“I would commit neck rape”

-“he looked at me and I looked at him and I was like ‘genocide’”

-“like Klaus, from Klaus”

-“SANKADANKA”

-“facism is also gender neutral”

-“I mean we all knew that the birds just wanted the body to be gone!”

JUNIOR

-“you know what they say in chemistry”

-“I got it from bed bath and behind you”

-“A two line poem. I see a frog. My heart: 💕❤️💓💗💕”

-“who needs a straw when you can suck it out the hole?”

-“I wish I could get neutered”

-“eggs are so well named”

-“You’re not a fandon? We don’t standon.”

-“If you’re horny just walk it off”

-“potatoes and molasses, there is inequality between the classes!”

-“save the tiddies”

-“I think I could explain socialism” “okay do it” *doesnt do it*

-“what part of no interruptions does Trump not get?” “The english part”

-“my knees how they crackle like rice crispies”

-“the planet is dying you fucking walnut”

-“do you think I’d be able to avoid conversion therapy?” ”no you look dumb as shit have fun at camp.”

-“the US military uses 738 billion dollars per year, and we can’t dunk the moon into the pacific ocean? Where are our priorities? Disgusting.”

-“I hope he dies on my birthday”

-“the doctor’s sewing you up and you’re like ‘harder daddy’ and they just leave you to bleed out on the floor.”

-“I don’t know what your parents do for a living” “I’d have to kill you if you found out” “oh he’s a conversion therapist?”

-“Peaning, pregnancy, protection.”

-“Being railed and math are two totally different things”

-“Aren’t all white people just german strokes?“

-“the pickles are tasty tonight, don’t you think?”

-"Gay people have feelings too! I mean those feelings aren't valid, but they have them!"

-“Grapefruit is the Wild Kratts of roblox”

-“My lungs are rejecting christianity”

-“Lettuce cereal”

-“get zooted”

-“why are they doin that to my boi Eric Snowblower???” “... do you mean Elric Stormbringer??” “Yes OMG hi futon”

-“Milk towel (sent with gentle effect)“

-“nose haemorrhoids”

-“my favourite colour is bitches”

-“THE LESBIAN FISH WHATS HER NAME”

-“You’ll have time to pull moose daddy”

-“The more you beat it the bigger it gets”

-“Were you wa today??”

-“oh uh slaves are now horses”

-“tarnsgender is a lifestyle”

-“not me misgendering my dishwasher”

-“Kiss! Kiss Kiss!”

-“its a regular human but you can open it up and take a shit inside of it” “like a kangaroo”

-“kiss kill marry, good piss boy, eric snowblower, michael”

-“if you don’t wanna strike the set, strike yourself.”

-“did you listen to waterparks in middle school or have you had sex?”

-“he said his pullout game is strong and he’s only used a condom six times” “tell him he needs the practice”

-“its a didney movie”

-“I already have a dick so I’m good with the foot sucking, thanks!”

-“I don’t misgender you cause you changed your pronouns I just misgender you cause you have pronouns”

-“made a joke and nobody laughed”

-“You’re a socialist gray shut up”

-“dont straddle my dog shes a child!”

-“chloe, kim, kendall, kourtney,,, the genders”

-“which constellation looks most like a dick”

-“I’m being intimate with my pudding. Only my pudding loves me.” “Yeah but it feels a little violated”

-“vending machine, easy bake oven, and ramen are the four food groups?”

-“mom I found your tinder”

-“doesnt this baby look like it would grow up to be hitler?”

-“anti smack”

-“I said no farting”

-“I’m at the point in this trip where I want to make out a little with every dog I see.”

-“I’m worried about your mom right now” “I’m worried about the dogs”

-“I’m going to start streaming” “awesome I’ll watch you! I’ll download Tinder”

-“jesus is coming are you clenching?” “Did you mean swallowing???”

-“Today when I said I had an image to show you and you came to look at my phone I wasn’t on Instagram yet and I was worried you were going to see that my last google search was what is a craisin”

-“My username is deep_seated_fear_of_geese”

-“Savour the flavour, uncle”

-“potential energy this, kinetic energy that, when will anyone start paying attention to the most important energy. dumb bitch energy”

-“Happy easter i guess i don’t know why the heck jesus likes eggs so much” “Jesus has an egg obsession” “And he has a bunny fursona””

-“Cause I’m kinky for color coding”

-“I’m going to name my child Brad. With a silent gh. Braghd”

-“Headcanon that Prince Philip died because he saw unsolicited feet pics“

-“I kin prince philip”

-“theres three genders: kailer, gay tyler, and regular tyler”

-“I swear to god they spent half of their budget making those titans asses so scrumptious”

-“Everything is terrible, can’t magnum dong, repressing my emotions”

-“Master has given dobby plan b. Dobby no longer needs the hanger”

-“I want someone to be just as obsessed with me as my social worker is”

-“You wanted to end the conversation so you decided to be homophobic.”

-“It is commonly thought that there are two types of people in this world, communists and pessimists.”

-“Glass half full glass half empty everyone shares the glass”

-“I thought it was about to be something sexual about slushees and I was like: 😃?“

-“Piss on, I know how to have sex.”

-“Sarah we’re making milf jokes wake up”

-“Its like im having a panic attack but I cant stop making kink jokes”

-“good old fashioned jesus?” “I said gay sex”

-“the straggot and the slurs”

-“grandpa has had way too much time without his meds”

-“You’re gonna find ur special someone bro ❤️ or someone to raw you idk what you’re into”

-“Do you wanna represent conversion therapy?”

-“Don’t punch me! I’ll get a boner”

-“I’m known to frequent elementary schools at night”

-“ever since I found out there were ants in baked beans” “WHY ARE THEY THERE? JUST BAKE THE BEANS!”

-"aaron burr shot hamilton which is kinda kinky and im not into that" "i guess he forgot to give him his safe word then huh"

-“we can’t make these jokes tomorrow people will think we’re fucking crazy” “nah man people will just think we’re FUCKING”

-“this 14 year old just looked me straight in the eyes and said drill me daddy-o”

-“they piss on you when they’re comfortable with you. Thats how it works”

-“are penguins fish or mammals?”

-“car washes are traumatising”

-“it’s okay gray has a 22 year old sugar daddy”

-“I get vored easily and yeehaw”

-“You get really stinky when jade honks for bill”

-“Jade needs a shit sleeve when she honks for bill can we go dunky now”

-“not the llama,,, the liQuid”

-“I’m allergic to jesus”

-“if you cant see stuff in your head how come you can vacuum?”

-“dont be a whore drink instead”

-“pain is temporary, existence is temporary, we’re all temporary”

-“I did not know veggie tales was religious”

-“you’re a sussy baka yes sorry now can we watch the video”

-“I assumed everyone in tech is gray”

-“skyrim wasn’t bad I just wanted fussy”

-“im not gonna get a shrodinger kink”

-“those crocs are bitchin”

-“you seem so put together” “it’s just the shoes”

-“capitalism is my sugar daddy”

-“when aang is riding someone do you think he says yip yip

-“Capitalism breeds innovation? How bout you breed this bussy”

Senior

-“Ollie: Can Jewish people eat the Lorax?

Jillian: Yeah. He is canonically a Nazi you know

Ollie: …Are you implying that nazis are kosher?

Jillian: Yeah how do you think we won the war dumbass”

-“I wanna get manhandled”

-“chryssy is SO thicc. Thats why benson loves her.”

-“are we still meeting autism?”

-“so what im hearing is you stole my prostate??”

-"Benson doesnt have a liver? What about her alcoholism problems!”

-“do [squirrels] have beaks or are they flat?”

-“ I feel like I’d fall into a pond.”

-“I didn’t come”

-“Cis piss”

-“YOU GRABBED HIS JICK?”

-“Everytime I come out as ace people send me all their ace stuff” “omg thats what I do for my italian friends”

-“I wanna be someones thyroid problem”

-“Yeah you could go to bobby about your skin cancer”

-“I feel really pregnant right now”

-“stomachs love diluted slim jims”

-“benson is a milf”

-“aj just gave birth to me” “how?” “teamwork”

-“the universe is nothing but a collection of corpses”

-“tight shaggy”

-“the moonwalking bear will come back to haunt you”

-“You forgot your jizz in the shop”

-“Please be a monster fucker”

-“Wipe the milk moustache off your face because I can’t talk to you”

-“the moonwalking bear will come back to haunt you”

-“You forgot your jizz in the shop”

-“Please be a monster fucker”

-“Wipe the milk mustache off your face because I can’t talk to you”

-“Mr. Hands is my safe-word”

Freshman pt 2

-“nah this isn’t true love this is smash or pass man”

-“the more swords the more smash”

-“virgin??? Like VIRGINIA??”

-“He’s really going ham on him”

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Buoy Beer Co. and the Ocean Blue Project collaborate to release the first in a series, Baltic Porter.

Press Release

At the beginning of 2023, Buoy Beer Company launched a new program to contribute 3% of the sales of their rotating 16oz 4pks to Ocean Blue Project. Ocean Blue Project is a grassroots, boots-on-the-sand nonprofit founded in Newport, Oregon by Richard and Fleet Arterbury, father-and-son tribal members of the Choctaw Nation. Their organization is built around one vision: to restore the world’s oceans, beaches, and rivers to pristine, self-sustaining ecosystems where wildlife and human communities can coexist and thrive. 

Because everything flows downstream and the ocean is a mirror reflection of our city streets, Ocean Blue Project educates, empowers, and lends technical expertise to communities and governments around the world to support microplastics recovery, river restoration, and programs that teach kids to be stewards of the earth and wildlife.    

Buoy’s first beer release to benefit this organization is a fan favorite, Buoy Baltic Porter, a crisp, malty lager that yields its light richness to a combination of Munich, Vienna, and Black malts. Born from dark winter nights in the icy northern latitudes, Buoy Baltic Porter crosses the boundaries between rich and crisp, smooth and brisk. Lagering below freezing for thirty days and thirty nights evolves the resonant flavors of coffee, filberts, and bittersweet chocolate into a beer perfect for those all at sea. 

A quick season of Baltic Porter will be followed by a new release, Buoy LAGER. Coming out in April, Buoy LAGER is a tribute to the premium Oregon-brewed lagers that inspired a generation to become production craft brewers. This easy-drinking golden lager is crisp and light, brewed with American Pilsen malt and Cascade hops for flavors of toasted cracker, bright citrus, and a finish of spice. It's the lager you never knew you always needed. 

“When you drink a Buoy LAGER for the first time, you understand exactly why you picked it up,” says Matt Jones, Head Brewer. “This is an easy-drinking throwback to the premium NW lagers that were the go-to weekend beers not so long ago. It’s light and smooth with crispness from Cascade hops and spiciness from Sterling hops.” 

Buoy Beer Company’s partnership with Ocean Blue Project brought them together with Block 15 Brewing and Sunriver Brewing, two breweries that have also supported Ocean Blue Project. Though all three breweries are in different distinct areas of Oregon, they are all impacted by the interconnectivity of our regions; as they say, all rivers lead to the sea. This environmental connection is the inspiration for a collaboration beer between the breweries. All three breweries will also be participating in a beach clean-up in Newport to celebrate World Oceans Day on June 24th. Everyone is encouraged to join. Stay up to date with details on the Ocean Blue Project website and the breweries' social media. 

Baltic Porter and Buoy LAGER are available throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. 

image courtesy Buoy Beer Company

Astoria, OR overlooks the meeting of one of the West's most relentless rivers and the wilderness of an entire ocean - and it's here that Buoy Beer Company brews its beer. With balance always a priority, we focus on traditional lagers and NW ales to savor and share with friends after a hard day's work.

from Northwest Beer Guide - News - The Northwest Beer Guide https://bit.ly/42i6rTv

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