#TheThingIs

[danandphileselevel4]

Redoing for more accuracy with a few new options thrown in for giggles

[ferf-bish]

every game with @alex-thethingy is guaranteed to be some wack ass goofy shit💖💖💖💖 istg I have not laughed as hard in my entire life until I played garticphone with this goober

[ferf-bish]

first one is me ngl

Also me and @alex-thethingy at the weezer concert

old fb uploads of concerts will always send me

[moshintheteagaiwan]

Dollars vs. Puerh

For those of you who may be a bit more experience with buying Puerh, you have no doubt come across terms like “budget tea” or “everyday drinker tea” amongst many variations. These terms are based around non-expensive teas that are affordable for people on a budget. The teas are also often described as being a good value for your dollar, or good enough to scratch the itch. In other words teas that are good enough to want to drink daily, that don’t cost a lot, but that are also not as good or as great of quality as a cake that would cost says between $80-$200.

And so when it comes to Puerh that care labeled as “Old Arbor”, “Gushu” or “Ancient Tree” you very rarely see any of the above terms included in their descriptions. This is because these teas are “supposedly” made from very rare and expensive material that comes from old tea trees/ plants. I say “supposedly” because until you’ve tasted it, and have they experience to know the difference, we don’t actually know how true this is. Is it could be, but we are also at the mercy of the information given by the vendor, but I’ll dig into that another day.

My personal opinion on this is that all tea should be an everyday drinker, and everyday drinker tea should be just as good as the uber expensive teas. After all who wants to buy all these tasty teas and not be able to enjoy them as often as they want? I can understand having maybe 1 or 2 cakes that you drink on occasion because they are expensive, but for the most part your tea should always be delicious, high quality and affordable. But when it comes to these high cost teas, shouldn’t the taste of them reflect the price??? Good question!

I wanted an answer, and so to get it I did 2 blind taste tests. One with myself alone and then a second one with 3 friends. For these blind tastings I bought 4 sample sizes of Raw Puerh from White2Tea. The teas ranged in price from “Budget” to “Medium Expensive” to “Upper Expensive” to “Broke the Bank”. Each teas was blind tasted side by side, with no information besides what I was tasting. This same method was followed with 3 friends all of whom have little to no experience with Puerh. The outcome being how many of us would pick the more expensive teas simply based around taste.

The 4 teas tasted in order of price range lowest to highest were: (Canadian $)

- 2021 Hotline Space Coyote ($6.81 per sample or $43.25 per cake)

- 2021 680 ($13.17 per sample or $87.78 per cake)

- 2021 The Thing Is ($21.63 per sample or $147.57 per cake

- 2021 Is a Gift ($45.80 per sample or $316.77 per cake)

Now let me just say that all of them were very good but all for different reasons. I have so many tasting notes that I won’t include them with this post but maybe at a later date I’ll do a more detailed on. But as for results for the tasting I did on my own I very much preferred the “Budget” and “Medium Expensive” teas over the higher priced ones. 680 was my favorite of the 4, so much so that I will be buying a full cake in the future.

The results for the group tasting very different. 1 of the 3 favored the “Budget” tea over all others while the other 2 both favored the higher priced teas. So that’s 4 tasters, all with 3 different results. What does this mean? It means exactly what I thought going into the experiment which is that while price may reflect the material used to make the teas, it in no way reflects taste, and therefore a high price does not mean the teas will be good or bad. Ultimately taste is up to the drinker or the individual. And so what I think you should take from this as either a beginner, intermediate or well experience Puerh drinker is that should pay little attention to price and more to your gut.

Judge based on not only the price, but also the look of the tea, the description, reviews, and if you want to jump in that deep, where the tea was harvested and stored. But ultimately don’t avoid buying a Puerh because it’s classed as “Budget” and don’t buy because it’s expensive “Gushu”.

[spooningmoon]

SHAE + CLEM. It’s true that @mikeclemow is exactly 12 DAYS older than I am, but he feels like my other precious little brother. I love him to bits! He and I had a little help from our friends @lindaloowhoatx @abfab.jenee and @beerd.ave to wrex n effect hill country and Austin. Tons of food, deep conversations, spirits, laughs galore, general antics, shopping, cruising, bonding, nerding, and just having a ball. My two favorite quotes: “just give me a minute I gotta make an ambient track real quick” and then “it’s just so funny because you were JUST saying that you need a battleship” hahahah Smooches! @mikeclemow @drawsontrash special thanks to @lindaloowhoatx for being our hill country chauffeur and photographer hahah #battleship #cartwheels #wut #waytoohot #yellowphone #fakephonecalls #cocktaillessons #thethingis #yaknowwhatitis #racecardriving #strandedonisland #nostalgia #brosporvida #carkaraoke #moonpie #comebacksoon #margiesnext 😘 (at Desert Door Texas Sotol) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfHf4xsFH09/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ferf-bish]

@alex-thethingy us bro us ✨✨✨💖

[reneedeneve]

The Thing Is

BY ELLEN BASS

to love life, to love it even

when you have no stomach for it

and everything you’ve held dear

crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,

your throat filled with the silt of it.

When grief sits with you, its tropical heat

thickening the air, heavy as water

more fit for gills than lungs;

when grief weights you down like your own flesh

only more of it, an obesity of grief,

you think, How can a body withstand this?

Then you hold life like a face

between your palms, a plain face,

no charming smile, no violet eyes,

and you say, yes, I will take you

I will love you, again

This poem really resonated with me where I was at a cross point some months ago. To find love again. To love life again. To fall in love with what I have and what is around me.

[white2tea]

#sidebysides #dueling #whiteTWOtea #doubletrouble #carmensandiego #listenupgumshoes #gaiwans #twosteppin #thethingis #white2tea

[laylawafiyyah]

“She” contains “He” , so shouldn’t we call God “She”? (Even just from a linguistic aspect...) #god #goddess #thatsthething #thethingis #thinkaboutit #linguistics #foodforthought (at Depok) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7U1YptnI5y/?igshid=cvws9a56mdlb

[ferf-bish]

yehehe

basil (omori)

cesare (bigtop burger)

bob (spooky month)

Papyrus (undertale)

garry (ib)

lancer (deltarune)

@lolipoptheclown @alex-thethingy @candyclazzyashton @sillylittlegenderfluidthing @annabel184 @chaosqsanity

five comfort characters, five tags

(had to start a new thread, got too long) thanks for tagging me @loulooser ooh i like this okay - nick nelson (osemanverse) - aled last (osemanverse) - peeta mellark (hunger games) - linh song (keeper of the lost cities) - xavier hawthorne (the inheritance games)

tagging @lyssified @mister3127 @raeny-nights-and-faery-lights @weirdo09 @charliethinks

[thatlosttimelady]

~ The Thing Is

To love life, to love it even

when you have no stomach for it

and everything you’ve held dear

crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,

your throat filled with the silt of it.

When grief sits with you, its tropical heat

thickening the air, heavy as water

more fit for gills than lungs;

when grief weights you down like your own flesh

only more of it, an obesity of grief,

you think, How can a body withstand this?

Then you hold life like a face

between your palms, a plain face,

no charming smile, no violet eyes,

and you say, yes, I will take you

I will love you, again.

-Ellen Bass

[andthisbreath]

The Thing Is

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

Ellen Bass

[snakerij]

[ferf-bish]

@lolipoptheclown @alex-thethingy

Y'all to me fr

[segemarldoodles]

From what I understand from all the twitter people yelling about it, Clip Studio Paint has made really unpopular choices with their development and a bunch of people are dropping it, and recommending people not pick it up.

It's as good a reason as any to remind people that you should never be loyal to a brand, and while you should monetarily support small creators/businesses, it is never morally wrong to steal from a megacorp.

With that said, I set up this page on my website so my friends could assist me with my web comic, and it has a download button for theThingy's package of photoshop should anyone want to save about $600. It is only cs6, but the creativecloud version of ps has literally not added anything that merits the $55 a month they're asking. http://segemarl.com/ps/

[babycakes-rps]

Im pissed off because the older generations saw that picture of young people swarming the beach and they use it to say that youngpeople are the problem. But thethingis that we’re not the problem for the most part.

Older generations have said it themselves. “Milennials and Gen Z are so lazy”, “Milennials and Gen Z are so touchy,” “They’re so picky,” “They’re such pansies.” The older people are the stubborn ones. In their own words, young people are pansies; we aint going to try andfight an epidemic head on, cuz we’re touchy. Stop blaming those who are younger you just because they are younger and therefore ‘not as wise’. Take a seat bro, suck it up and join the pansy parade. Stay inside.