#because I have a great track record

[ramblesbiab]

Hope the CaitVi sex starts with anger and a loud track behind it, two jaded women so far from who they used to be and fed up with the world. It could be cut with clips of fights, of sweaty gun maintenance and wailing on punching bags as hands dive and grip and beg, as spit flies from mouths. But as it goes, they start to focus on each other again, Caitlyn grabs Vi’s face and whispers so quietly we don’t hear it. They hear it, though. The cuts slow down, the music starts to mellow. You better believe that Vi starts crying as she finishes. She forgot how contact like this felt. Careful, gentle moves, Caitlyn’s eyes reassuring her. They lie together quietly as Vi’s makeup runs.

Caitlyn pulls the butch to her chest, holding her as the camera moves up, as we leave them in their quiet moment. They deserve that much.

[transgirltrish]

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[akkivee]

happy four years to their very first appearance ever lol 🥳🥳🥳

[valvesoftware]

breakups are so fucking weird. three years and just like that it's gone. huh

[an-incoherent-mess]

So I'm really into genealogy and have been for a few years now and I'm blessed with being really good with names and dates etc. So in conversation I can remember like a ridiculous amount of:

Jane Doe Smith Johnson

b. 1805 Tennessee d. 1879 Missouri

Married 1828 to John Patrick Johnson. Had five children. Died of TB

Etc etc

And that's cool enough apparently but I've mostly been using it for

A. Making up bullshit but real sounding names for stuff (i.e my name is Emily Stewart, Grace Kolár, etc). The point is that they're normal sounding and varied.

B. Having a bizarre frame of reference for historical events. Like "oh [small town],[state] 1942 had [random] event happen? My 1st cousin 4x removed got married there that year, small world!"

It's so dumb, like I'll read about some historical event from my area (where I've had family in the vicinity of since the 1840s) and I'll link up the time frame in my head and be like hmm... I wonder what 3rd great aunt Helen thought about that happening next door to her church.

[bugmistake]

my birthday is in less than a week i literally feel like im gonna barf. what the hell and also fuck in addition to that as well.

[nejackdaw]

Had DnD on the mind recently after a couple posts about it popped up on my dash, so I figured I'd share the ref sheet for a character I hoped to play soon (enlarge to banish the blur)

His name is Cariton Corbett and he's like if Jekyll and Hyde were a really wretched little priest

Never known peace in his life tbh. He's a grave cleric for a Bloodborne inspired campaign one of my DnD friends was cooking up (hopefully that's still in the cards lol.) It took forever to get a solid design idea, but then I picked MHR back up and uh

"What if I combined a tailcoat with a cassock > you're a pain in my ass but you and your upgraded armor are so cool > hey what if I added inverted cathedral window shapes and cobweb tassels"

[thelasttheirin]

Somehow my “For You” tab is full of Astarion

…when I spend all my time bitching about how every -other- character tag is full of Astarion

[bookwyrminspiration]

Mallowmelt cupcakes, anyone? (Recipe can be found on Shannon’s website)

I personally prefer them to actual mallowmelt, but they’re not exemplary by any means. It’s a cupcake (so part of it depends on the cake you use. I used boxed yellow mix like the recipe said). They’re more manageable as a dessert, but actual mallowmelt will give you more of a feel for the treat. These are more reminiscent, more inspired than accurate—which makes sense.

The frosting is actually quite nice, though it is on the sweeter side. And this may be user error, but it doesn’t appear to hold shape very well, so don’t expect intricate designs. I assume that’s the marshmallow fluff in it, but I don’t mind.

Again, may be user error, but I’m not sure why Shannon instructs you to layer all the chocolate and butterscotch chips on the top. They sink to the bottom (except for a ring around the outside that stayed at the top, not pictured), so you’re left with a layer of unmelted (because these are chips) material at the bottom that isn’t overly pleasant. A layer of solid sugar. I think it would be easier to just mix the chips into the batter like in a chocolate chip muffin—and I also only used 2/3c each, not a full cup.

Overall, not bad but not good in my personal opinion. I would rank them above actual mallowmelt, but below the ripplefluffs. Someone who likes cake more would probably enjoy these more, but it’s a fun treat :).

[salstray]

15 questions for 15 mutuals ~ ✨ 

I was tagged by the lovely @killerspinal <3 Thank you very much <3

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1. Are you named after anyone? 

Nope! Doubly so now that I’m changing my legal name, rip.

2. When was the last time you cried? 

Last night :) Worry not! I simply like to day dream before I go to bed and it got angsty, is all.

3. Do you have kids? 

I have a cat that I refer to as my son and that’s as close as I’ll ever willingly get to motherhood.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot? 

Yes. Yes I do.

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

Played volleyball in middle school and hated every second of it! Never touched A Sport since <3

6. What's the first thing you notice about other people?

In person? Their voice cause I’m usually too scared to look them in the eye right off the bat. Online? honestly, no idea. Don’t talk to enough new people-

7. Eye colour?

Blue~

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

Why can’t be both?

9. Any special talents?

My ability to make a story out of Literally Anything that is put in front of me. Mobile games with the simplest gameplay/graphics/features? I’ll build a world from it. A plant? I’ll give it a backstory. Keep anything in the public domain AWAY from me otherwise I’ll worldbuild for 8 hours then never look at it again.

10. Where were you born?

US of A, baybeeee

11. What are your hobbies?

Writing, Video Gaming, watching youtube, and DnD!

12. Do you have any pets?

My sweet, darling son Jinxx (aforementioned cat), who bit me about four minutes ago <3

13. How tall are you?

5′3 and willing to bite you if you comment about it.

14. Fave subject in school?

Gods, I feckin hated school with a deep burning passion- Anything that let me write. One of my teachers let me turn in a Skyrim fanfic as an essay onetime but I don’t remember what class that was.

15. Dream job? 

The dream is to actually finish a book for once in my life and make it big, wonder off into the woods with my cat and live at the base of a mountain, destined to one day vanish without a trace and never to be seen again.

Thank you again, bestie <3 I hope you have a lovely day!

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ACTUALLY TAGGING PEOPLE??? ME???

I never thought I’d seen the day~

I only have two people, though, who I think would actually want to/enjoy doing this. No pressure though.

@captains-price and @charrhylis

<3

[l-g-6-5]

What I am hearing here is that we should beat up IDF servicemen to keep them out of our country.

Pointing and laughing

[digifag]

tjoc lookin kinda cool…

[ribosomeraisin]

So I’ve posted on here at least in tags about how much I don’t like my job… and today I messaged back two recruiters on LinkedIn (shudder) that had reached out to me about different opportunities and it is scarrrryyyy. I haven’t even updated my resume yet. but I want out of public accounting and I have to start somewhere… so here’s to somewhere… and to getting brave enough to go after it for real.

[goinggoats]

Jewish crisis prompted by thoughts of moving and being on a 3 hours bus ride lol. But also, even if I didn't limit myself to places with synagogues, would I even want to move in a place without a synagogue? Even when my only observance is keeping kosher, it rules to meet Jewish leftists and live somewhere with a queer leftist community. Seattle has tons of queer leftists and I still manage to not want to be friends with most of them, so I need a large pool to pull from lmao

[eurovision-del]

Finishing off my ranking of this Saturday's finals, here's what I make of the songs competing in Etapa Națională:

Cătălina Solomac – Fever

Reghina Alexandrina – Contrasens

Natalia Barbu – In the Middle

Y-Limit – Revolution

OL – No Time No Space

Nicoleta Sava – Bravo

Valeria Pasha – Anti-Princess

Sasha Letty – DNA

Victor Gulick – Fever

Iulia Teleucă – Runaway

Viola Julea – Light Up!

I decided against listening to all the songs that auditioned, maybe I’ll go back and check them out when I’ve got some spare time in the future, but looking at what did make it through I don’t have the highest expectations for what didn’t. This wasn’t the most fun ranking to make, I found myself looking more at what I didn’t dislike rather than what I actively liked for the bulk of it.

However, there are a couple of songs that I do very much enjoy. Fever (the one by Cătălina Solomac, not the other one!) is a lot of fun, with a bit of a throwback synth sound to it, and Cătălina’s audition performance stood out to me. She’s got a good voice, and I love the attitude she puts into it, especially in the second verse. I also found myself vibing with Contrasens – it’s a decent upbeat dance pop track, and the accordion adds a bit of interest, it’s a sound you don’t usually hear in music like this but it really works.

I’m not really sure what Moldova’s best option here is. I can’t see any song here being more than a borderline qualifier at Eurovision itself right now, but Moldova have shown a knack for staging entries well in the past. I’d be excited to see if they can do it again, transforming what might be a more middle of the road song into a competitive entry, but right now I’m not feeling optimistic about their chances this year.

[isaacathom]

i forgot about angel hayes entirely because my computer's store of saved artwork starts in 2015 and the entirety of angel's "original run" is contained within a like. 1 month period of 2014. theres art of them later when i *checks notes* had a dangan ronpa episode, but otherwise theyre just not saved on this computer at all.