#still v good and v easy

[amethystsoda]

I tried these swapping the sugar and using sucralose instead and they still turned out really good!!! Great option for people who need lower sugar cookies ^_^

Spy x Family season 2 is here, so I’m gonna make Dylan’s magic peanut butter cookies (1984) to celebrate (since peanuts are Anya’s favorite food after all 🥜)

[tangledinink]

For the Swanatello fam: what does everyone miss most about Donnie during his lake-induced absences?

for donnie, leo will gladly give every scrap of patience and grace and gentleness he has. he doesn't mind explaining things. he doesn't mind telling his brother the same things over and over. he doesn't mind it when donnie forgets or doesn't understand or needs his help to remember or process things.

but he misses the banter. the back-and-forth. the stupid fights and pranks and 'you said's' and 'i told you so's.' and, perhaps a bit selfishly, he misses when he didn't always feel like he had to be the bigger person for him. he misses when he still had the space to be childish and immature and petty towards his twin, and it wouldn't hurt either of them the way it tends to now.

[ swanatello ]

[scatterbrainedbot]

Hello :D

You're so cool

Anyway have you thought that in your rat sons au Splinter might outlive the boys?

You're very cool :D love your stuff dude

(tw for some blood, light gore, implied overdose (kinda??))

hi copper!!! this is a fantastic question!

so obviously typical irl rats have far shorter lifespans than the average irl tortoise. according to google (yes, be awed by my spectacularly in-depth wealth of research) the average pet rat lives between 2-4 years ish, and the oldest on record lived to be about 7. meanwhile, an African spurred tortoise (Splinter's species) averages more around a 50ish year lifespan in captivity, tho is suspected to possibly exceed 75 or more in the wild.

Now, the mutation does give us a lot of wiggle room for playing with these numbers. For the rat sons boys, id say their natural lifespan probably clocks in at about 45-55 years old? definitely not old by human standards, but not young young either. (though, its also important to note that the boys were exposed to the mutagen just days after being born.)

For Splinter, meanwhile, aging is slightly more complicated. He lived the vast majority of his life as a regular normal African spurred tortoise (well, non-mutated at least. there were perhaps some shenanigans of a more mystical variety going on before he was mutated, but thats a separate matter) He was about 70ish i think? when the boys were born and they were all exposed to the mutagen. so he is already distinctly an old man turtle papa. id guess he'd probably still have another eh lets say 25-30 years after his mutation. he could probably push it a little farther even with some mystic nonsense, but when push comes to shove id say his 'natural' post-mutation lifespan would put his death like a solid decade or two before his sons.

of course, the tricky part of the matter is that theres no way for Splinter to know any of this. theres no way for him to know how the mutation affected them all, or if it even affected them all in the same way. especially since the boys dont show many physical signs of mutation for the first few years, and just kinda look like normal rats, (albeit with a more human sort of intelligence) — what sort of health standard do you hold them to? what if they simply dont show external signs of sickness or old age anymore? how do you actually know if something is wrong?

for a while there Splinter is very worried that one of his babies will just essentially reach the end of their normal rat lifespan, fall and not get up again.

so mostly, he just tries to live in the moment, enjoying whatever time he does have with his little ones, taking each day as a gift <3

still,

that fear

never

really

goes

away.....

[catgirlweed]

two very different girls

[keii]

Mint Eye Yoosung making a reappearance. Despite the red flags in his head, he keeps coming back to MC's quarters since Saeran is usually busy to check up on her.

[moeblob]

I vote for Argenti! I hope you feel better soon!

Thank you ! I do feel much better (though I admit I hurt a little for very much my fault reasons but it's mostly manageable through light pain meds).

Take an Argenti o7 I got lazy and didn't draw the roses I was gonna draw to the left so there is now a wide open blank spot.

[cinematicnomad]

i've been doing a deep cleaning of my apt today while watching mad men s4 so this has been a pretty successful day tbh.

[ronanlynchbf]

see too many ppl still defending jdepp or running with the "mutual abuse" angle so here's a video presenting basically all the (publicly available btw! for anyone to be able to look up!) information on this case. Let it be known if you still support jdepp i am assuming you have never done a grain of research into this in your life and just ran with public opinion and misinformation

[officialjanetweiss]

“4B is problematic because it reinforces the idea that sex is only for men’s pleasure! Women deserve pleasure and shouldn’t have to abstain from sex with men!” Literally go masturbate.

[slav-every-day]

[keeps-ache]

once again i am on the playlist lol

[hugoweavingbaskets]

Had a date at my place last night and I made it clear several times beforehand that I was going to need a lot of time to warm up to anything sexual and probably not anything on the first date

He got to my place at EIGHT O CLOCK AT NIGHT and I made him a drink and we settled in on the couch to chat. He seemed nice and there were moments of us connecting but it was clear to me that this wasn’t going to go anywhere since we didn’t have much in common. At around 9 (wait omg it just occurred to me that we had only been chatting for an hour?!?! It felt like it was 2 or 3???) the conversation had slowed considerably and he turned to me

Him: “so how do you want to get this started?”

Me: “what do you mean”

Him: “you know… having some fun 😉😏”

Me: just completely silent for like five minutes trying to formulate an answer and also contemplating if I wanted to do anything. He was pretty cute and I am trying to be open to the idea of casual relationships but I realized that it wasn’t going to ever be something I could just plan ahead of time

Him: “so like… what do you want to do first”

Me: just STARING at my cup of water “I’m not sure I’m ready for anything”

Him: “it’s okay we can do it next time”

Me: oh yeah okay we’re never meeting again

There’s no moral to this haha just that dating is hard and I am picky and also not the type of a large segment of people so my options are limited and it is a little demoralizing 😋 but we stay silly :3

[unproduciblesmackdown]

speaking of drawing people's faces and lifting any art of [will roland role based] characters overhead when you can tell the artist was actually trying to meaningfully use that inspiration beyond "brown hair. glasses" like wow once in a lifetime unsame as it ever was

not coming up a lot that Professional Illustrators are drawing will roland as [role] or like, in general, but that in fact there Are the examples of professional illustrator justin "squigs" robertson drawing him several times and it's like, doing stylized portraits of people working in theatre that are indeed focusing on distinguishable individuals versus, say, the style being more abstracted

all drawn differently but various gists are there, and none of the people in these group collages look interchangeable or like oh and this person gets thee "generic/default" look

there's also the fact i'm like 99% sure there's a squigs-drawn larger portrait of will roland just as himself that i love to think of / sure further encapsulates that "thank god this artist drawing Features" but i can't find it or remember exactly what context it was in. augh

but also there's this other deh illustration ft. wrol jared i found lol. bonus

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Hhhh havin to lay down bc i am all faint-y and dizzy but i wanna help my gf build the ikea furniture >:(

[cryptcombat]

SURVIVED THE TRIAL WORK. 👍

[moe-broey]

Only cunt remains....