#and the menu is in the highlights

[hehosts-moved]

HAL’S PARFUM GIVEAWAY — THANKS FOR ALMOST 4 YEARS!

within the next month or so, ren will have been established for four years on tumblr. that's an awesome feat. i've made a lot of great connections here, have started a manga, and have started a parfum (perfume) business all within that time (and more). to celebrate, i want to do a giveaway of something more tangible than my usual prizes of digital goods.

here's the deal: 2 winners, 2 prizes. random generated / non-bias.

prize 1: a custom parfum made by me for whatever you want. this can be a signature scent, a custom for a canon or oc, your own creation, an attempt at a recreation of a currently marketed perfume (britney spears or something), etc. my idea is that i'll limit scents to around 6, unless i decide the blend calls for more. most blends have 3-7 scents anyways. please note that i don't have every single scent in the world, especially in the ways that i am sourcing them to be at the highest quality, thus not every scent is available at that standard. i have a huge library, so i can always substitute.

prize 2: a pre-made parfum off my menu, which you can find on my IG highlights or on our website — both show what they are, what's in them, what fandom they're for, etc.

when will you get your prizes? pre-mades are asap, unless they want to wait for something to be restocked. customs will be made in february when i have time off, as well as have ordered a full scent and bottle restock. we'll talk shop throughout that time to make sure that the concept is solid. also, be patient with me. i get busy.

a quick aside ... these are vegan, pet-friendly, organic, all-natural parfums. they are essential oil rollers using grapeseed as the carrier with slight vitamin e. be transparent about allergies. in addition, i use only organic essential oils and IFRA-approved fragrance oils, meaning they're basically non-american products that are held to a higher standard, thus not containing carcinogens or parabens. i make these all myself.

important links: my IG and our store — both have menus for the parfums, including what's in stock.

to enter, you have to ... like this post at least, though you can reblog it as entry. you have to be following me. if you unfollow me after winning, that's bad news bears. if you follow me just for this giveaway only to unfollow after, again ... don't do it. let's keep it clean. also, it'd be nice if we'd at least have interacted or talked, but it's not required. just be my mutual.

giveaway ends february 1st ... that's enough time, right?

pictured above is tomoe from kamisama kiss.

[onyxbird]

Saw a mention of "Thief juice: it's a mouth crime" in the Leverage tag and it sparked a glorious thought:

Brewpub menu using con names

A fair number of them look like straight-forward descriptions, nothing notable except perhaps the unusual inclusion of "the" before all of them, e.g., The Cuban Sandwich, The Cherry Pie, and The Apple Pie (most customers don't understand why the apple pie crust vents/decorations sometimes resemble life preservers, but it certainly doesn't occur to them to connect it to the very literal name).

Things turn significantly more confusing for most patrons with other menu items. Customers familiar enough with con-artist lingo recognize some of the established con names enough to figure out the naming theme, and some of them can guess at associations between some of the food and their namesake cons, but for the most part it's a mystery.

"The Fiddle Game" is Eliot's chili, at Parker's insistence. Hardison was initially a little concerned, since the "fiddle" is supposed to be an overvalued item that is actually essentially worthless, and, Parker, maybe we shouldn't be applying that to any of Eliot's food? But after Eliot gruffly cut him off and tried to pretend he wasn't a little choked up about it, Hardison decided not to stand in the way of Parker insights. (And he supposed she had technically named the chili after the con, not the fiddle itself, and the con was solid. A classic.)

No one on staff quite understands the private joke between the owners and head chef about using horsemeat in "The Lost Heir" burger--they all know it's actually bison.

And, finally, one of the most baffling to their clientele is also one of Eliot's few suggestions of non-literal con names for food, and an ongoing good-natured argument between Eliot and Hardison: Splitting a sandwich between two people with sides of soup or salad is "The Vegas Wake-Up Call." (It's like the Cuban Sandwich, but "the boyfriend shows up").

(BTW, for anyone else needing to reference Leverage con names, @glen-reeder compiled a list.)

[spandexinspace]

Am I enabling my colleagues' incompetence or did they just save all of their tech issues for the poor IT guy who came by every other week before I started there. Because today my coworker actually seemed to get mad when I told her I was too busy to rearrange the ribbon menu in outlook for her and just explained how she could do it herself instead. And she still didn't do it.

[icewindandboringhorror]

just a few little bits from the past few days

[ellraiser]

BUGS

[lavellane]

combat looks so fucking good. so happy for warrior gang and their ultimate ability "BOMB THEM" <3 congrats

[bionic-penis]

Finished my Foundations of Visual Design final (a short visual novel type game about confronting trauma via dreams) so here's some artwork I made for gui/menu purposes <3 honestly super proud of what I was able to accomplish and had a lot of fun creating custom gui for this project (something I've never done before!!)

[nerdishfeels]

I watched The Menu last night and I didn’t expect to like the movie as much as I did?? All I knew about the movie was that it was a horror and involved food. Instantly, I was already thinking the worst lol.

At first, you’re like, “yeah rich people would eat this” but then you start thinking WTH is going on?

I love that it had a deeper meaning to it and that there was an underlying message which allows you to understand the motives of another person.

Highly recommend if you’re into horror movies that go deeper (also trigger warnings for suicide and violence).

[analog-cottage-gore]

N

anyway normalize women not wanting children as a happy ending

[beingjellybeans]

A Midweek Reunion at Wildflour Six/NEO BGC: Great Food, Great Friends, Great Memories

Reuniting with old friends is always special, but when your group is made up of former coworkers who have all gone on to different career paths, it feels even more meaningful. Over the years, we’ve stayed close despite everyone moving to different companies. Even though our schedules are hectic, we make it a point to meet up at least once a year to catch up on life and everything in…

[xumoonhao]

I THINK ALL THE JS FOR MY LAYOUT IS DONE 🥹🥹🥹

[scolek]

google is just broken. none of the places it says has calzones on the menu actually do.

[thehardkandy]

Today I got to feel like I know what I'm doing because boss accidentally noticed a dev feature I had put in and goes "oh, what's this arrow? Oh! That's so cool!" and it just opens a link menu

[mlleclaudine]

The Dish with Kish (s21e08)

[actionyak]

went to an Italian restaurant with my family but I wasn't in the mood for pasta so I got a burger, and let me tell you they have no right making a burger and fries better than almost any actual burger place I've ever been to but damned if they didn't do it anyway

[s-cullayy]

I am compelled by the divorced chilaquiles….what do they know……