#one restaurant was enough

[anime-scarves]

Today is one of those days where I watch esports, sip on beer, and bake bread. There are a lot of things I probably should be doing but it’s saturday and I’m going to take a raincheck on all of it. 

[sevenines]

i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.

two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!

[unloneliest]

in the lonely hearts club job leverage asks the question "does romantic love exist?" and answers it by having eliot buy parker a venus fly trap on hardison's behalf, expecting no recognition and revealing eliot remembers a throwaway comment parker made on their second job together.

we all know this.

but was anybody going to tell me hardison already had a browser window open looking for restaurants to buy eliot in portland in response at the start of the episode immediately after that? or was i supposed to figure it out on a rewatch all by myself?!

[cosmic-light-fics]

2x09 - Sydney: You could do this without me.

3x09 - From Beef to Bear: How Carmen "Bear" Berzatto Turned His Family Sandwich Shop Into A Fine Dining Establishment

[galaxostars]

presque vu (almost seen): the intense feeling of being on the very brink of a powerful epiphany, insight, or revelation, without actually achieving the revelation

Sirius Black is born.

Sirius Black dies.

Everything in between is the unknown.

—from the fic Presque Vu by @starsworth

[makingshortstorieslong]

So, my new 'apartment' has no kitchen.

This is obviously not something I would have chosen, but it's what was available within a reasonable distance from work.

I've bought a steamer/rice cooker and an induction ...whatchamacallit... a plug-in stove burner basically. I need to get a table for counter space and then I'm good to go, washing dishes and stuff in the bathroom is okay.

Anyway. The point of this post is: I'm a boring cook anyway so this isn't a big deal to me. HOWEVER I do want to be *a little* less boring. One thing I realized at my last place is that ever since I moved out of my parents' house I've had a very limited spice cupboard. No wonder my meals get boring, I have like. Two possible flavors I can give them.

So I have a request: recommend me a seasoning!

[arohuacheng]

what people don't get about hualian is that they're literally like. jock and alternative art student. xie lian lives like a frat boy (mattress on the floor and nothing else in his room, no standards for his own well-being, can't cook and ends up eating what could be classified as biohazards) and is really enthusiastic about fighting as a hobby. meanwhile hua cheng rocks up to the function in his cunty little outfits every day of the week, bells on his boots and the red eyeliner slayed, obviously has taste but is soooo in love with his boyfriend who only ever wears cargo shorts and the most fucked up questionable hoodies you've ever seen. hua cheng wants xie lian to have nice things but it's always like. "babe i promise it's no trouble can we please get you a bedframe??" nd xie lian is obviously so enamored with his cool alt boyfriend who wears skirts sometimes and never misses a beat on a bitchy comment that's just the way it is. basically if your hualian concept doesn't have hua cheng as the hot goth gf you just don't get it

[it-wasntaphase]

this video was so domestic i’m going to throw up

[angelmush]

the other day i walked around the golden lake w my love and the sun was setting hot and orange and we watched a brown duck preening through the weeds, ducking her head under the dark water. the cool lake swallowed up my tired feet to the ankles and we counted the dog walkers with their curly panting doodles and their handsome german shepherds and their whip smart little terriers and we admired the careful construction of a sand castle whose moat held determinedly against the lapping of the waves. we could feel in our chests the persistent thunderous thumping of celebratory music at the finish line of the lakeside 5k, welcoming each gasping runner across its bounds. and i felt like crying. i felt like curling into myself and crying. we walked through the swamp of the bird sanctuary afterwards and listened to the woods sing and croak and groan and then we went and got ube and yuzu gelato and devoured it suntired and sweating on the couch in our living room. and i was so overcome w a deep and true unshakeable happiness and a sort of confused grief that i wanted to sob and sob and sob.

[bunnymajo]

Mighty the Armadillo vs. Food Bank 2.0

[episims]

I had a restaurant here, which I was tweaking, and... on a whim decided that I need a roller skating rink more.

[souenkun]

Maybe manifesting for your favorite character to appear in the gacha game you've been addicted by writing them in a fanfic actually works! 🤯

Excerpt taken from "the home that awaits us".

[waywardstation]

'I know most people have a food that has become inedible based on Events' WAIT THAT'S NOT JUST A ME THING. I CAN'T EAT CRUMPETS ANYMORE BECAUSE I FOUND A PACK IN MY CUBOARD THAT WAS BASICALLY COVERED IN MOLD. THAT'S NORMAL?? ON GOD

In regards to the tags on this post

YES!! It’s a thing!! I mean, I deal with it, and many other people I know deal with it. It seems common and normal! So not wanting to eat something in its entirety after seeing mold all over it in one instance is very understandable to me!!

[mimiruku]

wanted to participate in that ' Which OC gives other people nicknames? ' , but Miruku is absolutely the opposite of that, if he likes you a lot, he'll use your full name : ' Tsunayoshi ' never ' Tsuna ' - ' Yi Pin' never ' Ipin', whether or not people will catch onto this is not his problem. never let Miruku find out Reborn's gov't name cause suddenly it's Renato.

[see-arcane]

"Eggers' version, a verbose and full-blooded Gothic melodrama, fleshes out the character of Ellen and accentuates the 'love' story. This aspect might remind some viewers of Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, a movie that Eggers watched many times as a child..."

Well that is not very promising

Ohhh the impact of Francis' erotic fanfiction (derogatory)

The upside: Technically this is not Jonathan and Mina getting screwed over again. Huzzah.

The downside: Now Thomas and Ellen Hutter, the copyright skirting un-Harkers, are getting just as screwed over as their inspirations. Because not even the best directors are immune from the apparently desperate need to turn other people's work into a vampire fetish flick rather than just making their own characters to play with. Which is especially galling when the original Nosferatu's Ellen made her sacrifice explicitly to save Thomas and humanity at large from Orlok. I have my fingers crossed that Eggers will at least try to wring out a different gothic tragedy twist--one in which Ellen, now fully gothically enamored with Orlok for Reasons still acknowledges that he's a monster and to let him go on will mean death and misery for everyone. So she still goes through with the original film's ploy of distraction until sunrise, cue demise.

But considering this is the same guy behind The Witch and The Lighthouse, there may be a more sinister knife twist ending involved. Maybe a little closer to the 1979 version's gut punch, give or take some character swapping. I don't know.

On the one hand I am genuinely excited for this movie because Eggers is a master of atmosphere and building off the bones of folkloric horror for some seriously unnerving stories. On the other hand, I feel about this the same way I felt about Guillermo del Toro praising Francis' Dracula. Learning that a creator you deeply admire applauds a work (and a trend) you deeply deplore just sucks. No way around it. Sigh.

[megumi-fm]

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