#line friends store

[glowsticcc]

my new favorite thing has become complimenting peoples cc merch in at school bc i love seeing their faces light up

like my friend's friend who started sitting with us at lunch had a lovejoy sweater on yesterday and i went OMG LOVEJOY THATS SO COOL and they just went :)

or when i told a freshman i liked their genloss jacket and they just got that look of recognition that i would get when and upperclassmen complimented a thing i liked

its just nice to have that sense of community not just online but in real life bc idk about you but school social life has gotten me into the habit of being ashamed of publicly liking the things i like if they aren't mainstream??? and its nice to know that there are people out there who are less weird than me and like the things i like its like im in a secret club >:3c

[freckle-craft]

You ever get a craving for a certain art medium and have to scramble for something to do with it? Yeah same. ANYWAY this took a week and it kicked my ass and when my dad walked in he said “Is that perspective collage? Do you hate yourself???” And tbh yeah I was a little insane for that but it was funnnnn and I think I nailed the vibe I was going for!

(Also I spent so long picking out the products on the shelves and I put a lot of thought into it yet you can’t see 80% of them but at least I know)

[eternallyblight]

Babyklok Tour Billboard Spotted at Hollywood

Have there been other billboards spotted?

[darewolfcreates]

Really excited for this splatfest. I really love food.

[swordbreakerz]

Disorderly knights update for my adoring audience: part three chapter eight and me have BEEF

[lucalicatteart]

A few little sketches of some possible school uniforms for mage schools/learning centers for magic/etc. :0c Though because Nanyevimi is so scattered and disconnected, it'd actually vary much more by region (like not everywhere would have a cultural concept of what a suit jacket or neck tie looks like lol), so it's probably unrealistic for so many of them to follow too many traditional Uniform Conventions from cultures in our world, etc. But, still, fun to mess around with designs, and think about which would be most fun to wear/what school you'd go to just based off the clothing lol~

[bioshocked-astroghost]

I hate you Black Friday. I hate you overcrowded areas. I hate you extreme sales that last for one day. I hate you corporate who rakes in the money while the employees still get paid the exact same amount as any other day. I hate you customers who destroy stores just to get a few items. I hate you customers who forget how to treat someone like a fucking human being just because they’re a Black Friday retail worker. I hate you shitty backed up three hour wait time traffic. I hate you people who become so selfish and vile just because it’s Black Friday. I FUCKING HATE YOU BLACK FRIDAY

[cuntwrap--supreme]

Why the fuck did 5 pro-anorexia blogs follow my main overnight? Like? I'm blocking all of you, obviously. Had a friend die from starving herself in middle school. I don't fuck with that shit. One of the blogs literally had a post like, "My mom is concerned about how much weight I've lost recently, but she's just jealous that I'm not the fat kid anymore and she still is. Skinny girls don't think about recovery." Like... Please listen to your mother. Holy shit. This is self harm and she's concerned. Your mother is not jealous that she's fat and you aren't. Stop. People literally die from this shit, and promoting an extremely unhealthy lifestyle isn't cute in the slightest.

[ibelongtotheclassics]

Sharing some of my childhood + present anime & studio ghibli OTPs

*uwu* they’re so precious for meee 💖🎬🇯🇵

< PART 4 / on-going list >

[meanderfall]

the assistant director who was always annoyed at me for being late for work and getting back from my breaks just got fired for time theft

[amrv-5]

Got charged by the same aggressive off leash dogs in my APARTMENT HALLWAY. TWICE TODAY

[contritecactite]

Had a weird dream last night (not unusual) that my brain tried to frame mostly as an episode of Doctor Who (unusual because I have never seen a single episode of Doctor Who).

There was some morbid stuff about a cat who tried and failed to raise a fawn, and then dream-me took a break from watching and went to a store upstairs, where the clerk gave me the wrong thing twice and charged me both times.

Then dream-me got mad at my friend because she said something that to her was subtle but to me gave away the whole twist, and we had a spirited discussion about what counts as a spoiler (only for dream-me to then deliberately look up spoilers on my phone dkajjdk).

Went back to watch the rest of the episode, which had some kind of bad guy who caused people to travel in groups of four who made perfectly synchronized movements, so our heroes (unidentifiable by yours truly. Probably not real people) had to pretend to be affected already. They blew their cover when committing to the synchronized movements thing would have made them fall in the bay (I dunno which bay). Some kind of whatever happened and they won by telling the story about the animals from the beginning because the bad guy was the cat all along! Or something!

And then dream-me went with two of my friends to the "DW convention" which was uh. A multi-story department store staffed by any living DW actors not currently involved in filming a season. The only things they were allowed to sign were the backs of receipts, and it was still a high-volume regular store, so they had to keep a quick pace. If you caught them at exactly the right time and had a really long receipt, they might write you a little note! But of course, you had to find the cashier you wanted and/or make multiple separate purchases.

And so I, with no real knowledge of and no real attachment to any of the actors, got dragged into a big store (my own hell) with my spoiler-giving friends so they could buy giant carts of groceries-slash-merch and leave me to wait in various lines (nightmare) while they wandered around taking selfies with other cashiers in the background.

I woke up mostly confused that I wasn't actually in a hotel. Anyway, petition to ensure this never becomes the fate of conventions

[supercantaloupe]

because i know you have food opinions and i am thinking about it being in the carolinas this weekend. opinions on barbecuing?

my personal taste preference leans towards a dry rub on the meat and a vinegar based sauce. i like the way the acid pairs with the fattiness of the meat. but i also think the meat itself should taste really good on its own. i don't like when the meat comes pre-sauced when it's served, i prefer to dose sauce out myself, cause i want to be able to taste the meat on its own too. and because i think pre-saucing everything up front might be a way to try and hide what might be a bland or dry or otherwise not preferred piece of meat. i'm not a huge fan of the thick, sweet sauces that are based on molasses or tomato. i tend to find them too sweet and gloopy, and i generally avoid store/chain brand bbq sauces for that reason, but i won't outright turn up a house made sauce without trying it first. i think pork is my favorite meat for barbecue because it's got good flavor and lots of fat to stay juicy, yet it's not so strongly flavored that strong spice or sauce covers it up. though i prefer a cut like shoulder to ribs. beef brisket is good barbecued, i think that's a texas specialty, but i've had some really dry smoked brisket before, and also i'm very partial to brisket prepared other ways like braised or cured into pastrami. and as far as chicken goes, it CAN be quite good, but for me it's gotta be dark meat and it's gotta be cooked competently. i've had too much "barbecue" chicken that is either just plain roasted chicken drowned in mediocre sauce or overcooked so badly it's like chewing on linen fibers. but a nice, simple, salt cured/brined and dry rubbed chicken leg quarter smoked and served with a good sauce on the side? now that's a great dinner. gimme some cornbread and fried okra to go with. yummy

[gothhabiba]

i mean yeah, i'm gonna assume if poc live in a village or whatever they're part of the community and that means the white people around engage with them? it's not an outlandish assumption.

and yeah, western countries are long past the point where any area within them are homogeneous white communities in 2023... that kind of stuff exists only, ironically, among various communities in the global south these days. or paris' cités which are just communautarian religious separatist spaces (not populated by whites) pretty much

as a person of colour who grew up in a town that was 98% white, I promise you with every fibre of my soul that you are incorrect. you are being so weirdly defensive with your focus on this detail

[magdaclaire]

my parents being fucking weird has ruined so many of the activities queers typically salivate over

[tovaicas]

some of the threads probably could've been handled better but as a whole I love alphinaud's HW character arc so much