#im not much of a cook

[jdragsky]

Best recipe for entertaining a group of four?! 👀

probably some combination of lasagna dish mac & cheese and a copy of fiasco

[llycaons]

I’ve never regretted moving out of my parents’ house and into a city in a different state. I do get homesick and lonely, but I enjoy so much having my own space, my own kitchenware, my walk to and from the train station, the access to things I never would have been able to see or go to, the restaurants, my very own room. it’s not like I was leaving behind any friends in my hometown, and I made sure a lovely friend right here. it may be smelly, and loud, and confusing, and my job may be stressful and overwhelming, but I would have rotted away at home acting as third parent and doing my repetitive, meaningless job. I needed to be moving towards something or I would have felt like I was dead. not even dying. just dead. but I walked back today from the grocery store and it was warm and noisy and the sun was shining and I felt just so grateful to be here, in this place, making my own way

[kaogens]

static

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[roppiepop]

Who’s coming to the cookout?

[sunlit-mess]

gonna be away for a while to focus on finals projects 🍴

[dex1o]

the third semester of p5r is wild if you think about it from sumire's perspective, and that's without even getting into the whole sumire/kasumi thing.

imagine you wake up one day and the entire world's a little bit fucked up for some reason. you see a building flickering in and out of existence (the same one where you awoke to some crazy JJBA stand powers, except last time it wasn't visable from the outside). so you call your friend/crush (??) because he knows more about this shit than you do, and he shows up with the idol and ace detective, trademarked 'pleasant-boy' goro akechi?? for some reason??? but hey, if he knows about the metaverse then that's good enough for you. he's a nice enough guy anyway but then you get INTO the metaverse, and his outfit is the edgiest thing you've ever seen, and the moment you get into a fight he's releasing what looks like years of pent up rage by screaming and laughing maniacally while absolutely tearing through shadows. and hes flirting (?) with your friend/crush (??) the whole time

but while he's literally calling your friend/crush (?) a loser and an idiot straight to his face, the meanest thing he calls you is a scardy-cat. he never refers to you by your first name and always uses the honorific '-san,' even while he's yelling. he commentates on every one of your kills like a deranged and zealous sports commentator. you think he respects you (???) youre not sure

[livingdeadhorse]

I hate them. Btw.

[chloesimaginationthings]

your Jeremy seems like the kinda guy that, when he first sees scoop'd Michael, just goes "yooo sick dude!"

YOU GET IT… I’M GLAD y’all get and like Jeremy,,

[duckngk]

era between sonic 1 and 2 must’ve been rough

reference below 👇

[tawnysoup]

The Kritter (king critter). to me, kritters are like if a borzoi had long hair that covered its eyes like an english sheepdog

wet and sniffling and, like the fritter, wears hats. but this one wears hats as an aggression display rather than as a shelter. WATCH OUT, IT BITES!!!

And, the Euphramsie! a close relative to the mirabun species, and very good at protecting and managing large groups of other critters :D

Plus, bonus arts!!!! what the kritter looks like underneath its hair:

Kritters are about 3-4x as big as other critters. Euphramsies are about 2x as big.

@princemonarchempress

[hinamie]

binding vow

[honorarypines]

Edwin canonically liking feminine things is so so important for my mental health

the hat he's wearing if you care:

[linkedin-offficial]

chimera vivi batch of stuff #1million

[heynhay]

merry Christmas klancers 🎅

[mangomybeloved]

i hate to say it, like i love watcher, but my thoughts on them leaving youtube is this is too much too soon, like the bulk of their fans are probs younger/unable to afford another subscription fee, plus youtube has always been where they've been?? it's just so stark to go from this being the site you put your content on for years and then to go full cold turkey, no more posting on youtube ever

and i'll be honest, they don't have enough content to warrant a separate site/subscription all together. dropout is able to pull it off because they have the full rotation of shows and cast as well (dnd, game changer, etc), whereas for watcher, they only have a few couple really successful shows and those are primarily only focused on ryan and shane.

and tbh, i don't think they have a big enough audience to launch it either, like their marketing team could do better on advertising their shows! like, i haven't been keeping up with their recent shows cause either i don't see it on my youtube algorithm at all or i have to go out of my way to go see it.

and i don't know this just feels like a kick to the face to their fans, like even dropout has shorts on youtube and keeps up all their content on youtube like some episodes and the entirety of season one of fantasy high, and now i'm seeing in the comments, that their international fans outside of the usa won't even able to subscribe cause of how payment works which is :///, so yeah, watcher, it's been nice knowing ya, but i don't know how this move will turn out for you, i'm sorry to say