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Akechi, would you ever have an exotic pet?
... Exotic as in anything but a cat or dog.
#mod piccolo#first post from mod piccolo !! ^_^#touma akechi#saiki k#saiki kusuo no psi nan#tdlosk#the disastrous life of saiki k
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🌙~Mod Lilac's intro and rules~🪻

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Hello~ my name's Lilac!!
I'm Viet 🇻🇳
She/her
No specific boundaries... Just don't be a weirdo!! I answer any ask that's just some conversation ❤️
English is not my first language, so stuff might seem out of place , most of my work is not proofread
Ask to be made an anon and me or Mod Qiqi will assign you your requested emoji or name <3
Rules + Fandoms under the cut
! Rules !
-I do not write sexual non con
-No 1ncest (i will write platonic family only.)
-No age gap
-No full blown nswt fics, but i will write nsft headcanons and suggestive
-I am more inclined to write headcanons rather than fanfics, so if you request a full fic Mod Qiqi may answer instead of me as i tend to lose motivation. I'll try my best though!!
-Yandere is OK to request, I don't condone the behavior irl however
-No specific appearance requests (ex:chubby reader, reader with brown hair)
-I don't write for specific clan reader or reader with a specific pokemon
-Boruto doesn't exist in my mind 🤕 All is written up to Naruto TL
-Nothing with p1ss or scat 😭
-I will cut out some characters you request if it gets too long, but you can always request those characters again with the same scenario <3
-No pregnancy hc's implied is alright (a request like "reader asking to have kids" is okay but i don't want to write reader during pregnancy)
-No crossovers (ex:S/O who came from the KNY world into Naruto, reader with MHA quirks in stardew valley)
-No full blown angst, sorry!!
-No cheating or character pining over taken reader
-Be specific with requests no "general hc's for ____" or stuff like that
-GN! or fem! reader only
-No OC's
-No ships
-My rules may not be the same as Mod Qiqi's, so check theirs and perhaps you can request something and they'll answer it
-Rules can change at anytime, always check before requesting
! Fandoms and characters I write !
Naruto (for Uchiha's specify non massacre or not, I will assume the latter if you don't put "non massacre" in the req)
~Whitelisted~(please request! My absolute faves ❤️)
-Itachi Uchiha
-Naruto Uzumaki
-Kakashi Hatake
-Minato Namikaze
-Obito Uchiha/Tobi (If you request Tobi you are also requesting Obito! I will write for his Tobi persona and may add Obito as well. Requesting only Obito will not include Tobi. Non massacre Obito will have a personality more like his boyhood ver)
-Hinata Hyuga
-Sasuke Uchiha
-Sai
~Will write for~
-Rock Lee
-Sakura Haruno
-Tsunade Senju
-Might Guy
-Iruka Umino
-Karin Uzumaki
-Kabuto Yakushi
-Kiba Inuzuka
-Shino Aburame
-Deidara
-Jugo
-Suigetsu Hozuki
-Yamato Tenzo
-Shikamaru Nara
-Ino Yamanaka
Dragon Ball
~Whitelisted~
-Mirai Trunks Briefs
-Trunks Briefs
-Son Goku
~Will write for~
-Vegeta
-Goten
-Android 18
-Piccolo
-Adult Gohan
Pokemon
~Whitelisted~
-Blue Oak
-Red
-Hop
-N Harmonia
~Will write for~
-Bianca
-Cheren
-Barry
Stardew Valley
~Whitelisted~
-Harvey
-Sam
-Haley
~Will write for~
-Sebastian
-Alex
-Penny
Don't ask if i write for a certain character if they aren't here I don't write for them.

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Blog rulez for Your Fav Is Black!
Here's an updated list of guidelines for the blog
What is 'Your Fav Is Black? - This is a blog in the same vein as other 'your fav is' blogs. Specifically, I made this blog to celebrate Black and Black coded characters in media.
2. Who runs the blog?- I do. There's no group of mods here, it's just me. I don't have a specific name I want to be referred as; but some basics about me are that I'm Black American (monoracial), 28 years old and my pronouns are they/them.
3. What is the flag/What does it stand for?-
4. Can I follow/make a request?- Ive got the usual DNI.
No Fasc/Right Wing/Centrists. No TERFS/SWERFS. No transmeds. No fatphobes/ableists. No Gore/Yanderecore/ED blogs. No pro-shippers/anti-antis.
Also Im sorry, but this is a general audience blog and a lot of minors interact and send in requests. So, NSFW blogs do not interact (that includes likes and reblogs).
Everybody else is welcome to follow this blog so long as you're respectful to me, the content on here and those that interact with it.
Requests are for Black people only. Non blacks liking/reblogging posts is fine though.
5. How do I request something?- Just send in a message to the ask box. Make sure you check the text in the bio first to see if i marked the inbox as 'open' before you send one in.
I ask that you all only use the ask box for requests as sending me PMs through Tumblr messages makes it difficult for me to keep track of them. Submissions are also okay if you decided to take it upon yourself to make your own flag (again for Black people only).
6. Can I make multiple requests?- Yes, although since it's just me making these posts; I ask that everybody make no more than 4 requests at a time so I don't get overwhelmed.
7. What characters can I request?- Any character from any form of media except those from the Do Not Request list as the media on this list either contain extremely questionable/problematic portrayals of minorities or their creators are weirdos/racist pieces of sh*t.
🚫DO NOT REQUEST🚫
Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss/Anything made by Vivziepop
Homestuck
Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin
Hetalia
Black Butler
FNAF Series
Huniepop
Camp Camp
American Horror Story
South Park/Family Guy/Big Mouth (basically any adult animated comedy that has that brand of humor)
The Simpsons/Futurama
IRL celebrities/youtubers
Media with sexually explicit content (ex. Ecchi anime, NSFW webtoons/comics, etc. If you’re unsure feel free to ask)
Newgrounds animations/games
That's all I have for now, but if you have questions on whether a piece of media that's not listed is okay; feel free to ask me.
8. How does a character qualify as Black?-
Well the most obvious answer is that the character will have physical features denoting blackness (brown skin, kinky/curly hair, etc.). Other things that can denote Blackness are speech, mannerisms, displays of Black culture and the like.
Sometimes acknowledgment of a character's race will be outright said in the media or be confirmed by the media's creator.
Racial coding is also an aspect that is used to determine whether or not a character is Black. As with Skeeter Valentine from the Doug cartoon series who is considered to be Black despite him having an unnatural skin color (blue instead of brown), his mannerisms and demeanor lead many Black fans of the show to consider him to be Black coded. A couple of non-human examples of this are Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z and Darwin Watterson from The Amazing World of Gumball.
Darwin is an anthropomorphic orange fish, so one would wonder how he could be considered Black. Well for starters, Darwin's VA [voice actor(s)] has always been a black boy. And Darwin's mannerisms and cadence within the show has always mirrored that of a Black child.
In the case of Piccolo though, he's a humanoid alien from the Planet Namek. Though he doesn't have much in the physical sense that would be reminiscent of Black features (In addition to his VA being a white man) Black fans of Dragon Ball Z feel a connection to him and believe that his character reflects that of a Black man.
9. Well what if I personally don't believe a character is Black?-
Unless you yourself are Black, you have no authority to speak on the credibility of anybody's race/Blackness. I've had my fair share of smart ass comments of people going 'he's not Black he's green! she's not Black, she's orange!'; and I'm not entertaining them with responses anymore. I don't find these types of comments helpful or amusing and if you leave one here, you will be immediately blocked.
With that being said, enjoy the blog; and Happy Black History Month ✌🏾✌🏿
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I guess we should start the new mod introductions?
Hi! I'm Ame! My pronouns are she/they! I'll be writing and producing headcanons for this blog!
I've been writing all my life, and I've been in this fandom (and these nerds) for going on 6 years!
My mod tag is #mod ame
You can find me on Tumblr @astralastrid!
My insta is astralastrid423, my Twitter is AstralAstrid423, and my ao3 is AstralAstrid423!
Fun facts: I'm a huge band nerd (I play flute and piccolo) so I'm sorry for the eventual influx of music related posts
This one is a bit more hetalia related, but when I first got into the fandom, I """"bullied""" all my friends and my ex into watching it, and then I assigned everyone a country. Only my ex and I (she was the one who got me into usuk, she was England and I was America) actually roleplayed. But it took until this year for me to erase everyone's "country name" and hetalia pfp from my contacts. The lesson here is that I do not regret any of that. Cringe culture is dead. Be "embarrassing" folks! Enjoy what you enjoy!
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Question Tag Game
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I was tagged by @memento-scribet
Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better.
1. Nicknames: Cait, Caitlin
2. Gender: Female
3. Star Sign: Scorpio (But because astrology is a lie and there’s actually 13 zodiacs I’m actually a Libra)
4. Height: 5′6″
5. Time: 9:45 pm
6. Birthday: November 16
7. Favorite Bands: BTS, BLACKPINK Panic! at the Disco, The YOI Soundtrack
8. Favorite Solo Artists: Florence + The Machine, Ella Fitzgerald, (Since I guess Composers count as solo artists?) Taro Umebayashi, Taku Matsushiba, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
9. Song stuck in my head: Praying by Kesha
10. Last movie I watched: The Adams Family
11. Last show I watched: Fresh Off the Boat (my dudes this is such a good show)
12. When did I create my blog: June 29, 2016 (this blog) my first was created November 27, 2012
13. What do I post/reblog: Sometimes writing, sometimes fandom stuff.
14. Last Thing I Googled: Borscht. I’m writing a YOI fic at the moment and I needed to look it up . . . for science. Also I was hungry and wanted a recipe.
15. Other Blogs: My main is @blight-incarnate, I am Mod Vitya on @vikturificrec, and I’m the owner of @everyallmight, @every-yuuri-katsuki, @every-victor-nikiforov and @every-lotor where I screencap every appearance of each respective character.
16. Do I get asks: Sometimes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I used to get a lot more when this blog was active. Now I mostly get asks from my other blogs.
17. Why I chose my URL: cait-writes-stuff was only supposed to be a placeholder while I tried to think of something better. The name stuck.
18. Following: 304
19. Followers: 3,595
20. Average hours of sleep: 6ish
21. Lucky Number(s): I don’t have any?
22. Instruments: Piccolo, flute, and bass clarinet.
23. What am I wearing: tank top and jeans
24. Dream job: Something that pays a comfortable wage.
25. Dream trip: An extended tour of all the classic European cities (London, Paris, Rome, etc). I love history and architecture and those cities have a shit ton of it.
26. Favorite food: fried cheese sticks
27. Nationality: American
28. Favorite song (for now) (forever): Florence + The Machine’s cover of Stand By Me.
29. Last Book Read: lol I read waaaay more fanfiction than I do actual books but I think the last one that I read was The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini?
30. Top three fictional universe I’d want to join: DC Comics, Voltron, and Bnha.
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((An OOC Post: Living Human Trash interrupts Memorial Day RP event.))
I’m taking off the RP hat here for a few moments to discuss a problem we have on our server.
The problem is quite simply RP trolls, griefers, harassers. They’re all the same sort of people, intent on ruining your time for whatever reason.
Sometimes they simply dislike RP entirely; some of them are a part of our community of RPers and are specifically targeting singular people, cliques, or guilds; and sometimes they are especially malicious individuals targeting people who LGBTQ RPers or RP.
Regardless of what their reasoning is, they are wrong. What they’re doing is morally wrong and they are pieces of living human filth for doing so. On top of all of that, it is entirely against Blizzard’s TOS.
Today a short but pleasant (other than the trolls) event was ran by some of the more active people in Wyrmrest Accord’s community. A few small sets of trolls tried their best to grief the event into the ground and indeed ruined the experience for a number of people.
So I want to take a moment to highlight some of these terrible people who I saw today, along with their entire guilds who eagerly joined in on the griefing. If these people affected your experience during the event, I strongly encourage you to report them. At the end of the post I will leave a detailed guide on the ways in which I find Blizzard is most responsive to reports.
The first and possibly largest interruption to the event was a Pandaren named Nohara. A lot of you may know her from her spamming Savage Snowballs at human-form Worgen characters to put them into combat, forcing them to shapeshift.
She spent the majority of the event spamming disruptive toys(Including Piccolo of Flaming Fire and the Moonfeather Statue) and yelling as well as using large mounts to obscure the screen of the people watching the event.
Secondly, Auradein. He participated in the toy spam and did his best to place his character in the way of the event.
I feel it is important to point out that the guild he is in, The Thirteenth Crusade is a notorious trolling guild, specifically targeting LGBT RPers and characters. These are possibly some of the most vile people on the Alliance. They use RP mods like TRP3 and MRP to create toxic, terrible, racist, sexist and violent descriptions and tooltips. Basically the WoW RP of edgy 14-year-olds making obnoxious forum signatures.
Auradein’s TRP was somewhat tame compared to the usually racist/islamophobic trash his guild usually displays.
Finally, Jade and some members of her guild Concordance contributed to the griefing with OOC chatter and abuse of the Dazzling Rod toy.
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All of these people made an effort to ruin the times of other people attending this event and they all should be reported for griefing. I want you all to know that ignoring them isn’t the way to handle this. We can defend our server from these people. The tools Blizzard gives us to do so with are clunky but usable. However, they will do nothing if we do not stand together in this. Just one or two people reporting them is not enough.
Firstly, when reporting a griefer, you should whisper them politely, asking them to stop. This whisper has a dual purpose. It shows creates a timestamp for Blizzard to look into as well as helps them determine who is being reported(especially for people with special characters). If they do stop, I leave it up to you as a judgement call to determine whether you should continue on with the report. Them stopping doesn’t excuse their earlier actions.
Secondly, you should always right-click report the person.
Report them for cheating via right-clicking the portrait. Explain in as much detail as you can what they did in the pop-up box.
If the person is spamming chat or using racist OOC language, right-click their name in the chat box to get the dropdown for that.
Now that you’ve done this, you can get to the meat of the report.
Hit escape and go to help.
Now hit Open a Ticket.
Now hit Gameplay.
Scroll down and hit Report a player.
Hit Ongoing harassment.
Then this thing.
Now this.
It may prompt you to log in again. Please don’t be deterred.
Finally you’re here. There will be a large section at the top telling you to place the people on ignore. Please do so.
Now just fill in the boxes. Be as specific as you can. Tell Blizzard who did what, how it affected you and how it affects the RP community.
This is the way we need to stand up against these bullies. Stand together and we can cast them down.
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Finally, I want to thank the kind people who continue to host events on the server despite these terrible trolls. I love you.
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There’s A Decaf-Only Micro-Roaster Boom Happening Right Now
Are you a mod or a rocker? Eat lunch with the jocks or the burnouts? Team Edward or Team Jacob? Rest assured, one milieu in this modern era no longer demands that you choose socio-culturally defining sides: coffee. That is, whether you drink it with or without caffeine.
You see, in the last few years there has been a burgeoning of specialty coffee micro-roasteries that specialize in decaf. They use green beans decaffeinated by natural methods, and as much as their caff counterparts, prioritize flavor while maintaining the same high standards in sourcing and processing. Although the bigwigs in third wave include decafs in their collections (Intelligentsia offers a whopping four online), for this newest generation of roasteries, decaf is a starting point rather than an afterthought. The result is delicious, complex, and varied coffee that could well disarm the death-before-decaf set and lift the Lenten gloom of those who abstain for medical reasons. Some of these roasters were once regular regular coffee drinkers themselves, still are, and/or simply do not dichotomize the joy of a cup’s contents into caff and non-caff camps.
This capacity for coexistence is patently encapsulated in a tagline on the Talking Crow Coffee Roasters website: “He drinks regular—she needs decaf.” Those pronouns’ antecedents are Eric and Carol Blanchet, who established their Sultan, Washington-based roastery in late 2018. Their “predominately decaf” business, as Carol describes it, ideally carries three regular roasts alongside seven decafs. “We roast both so that we can compare our decaf with the regular to be sure we are spot-on with our roast profiles.
“We have a large family (eight children) and we home educate, which makes for crazy-busy days,” Carol explains via email. “A few months after our last child was born, I suffered with extreme adrenal fatigue, which required, among other things, that I give up caffeine. That was really hard because I love coffee and really depended on it to function throughout the day.”
In similar want of salubrious substitution, Kait Brown last year founded Savorista Coffee in Dayton, Ohio. “I first fell in love with coffee as a teenage barista for Boston Stoker,” she recalls. But as an adult, a stressful period compounded by work pressures and her father’s cancer compelled Brown to quit caffeine because it was exacerbating sleeplessness. Eventually, she went seeking drinkable decaf.
“In Colombia, at a blind cupping of decaf and caffeinated coffees, I tasted an incredible coffee. It was one of my two favorites on the table, the flavor notes were really complex and it had a lot of brightness,” she relays by email. “I was shocked to learn that this coffee was a decaf! I realized incredible decaf was possible.”
That Colombian was Savorista’s first coffee. Nowadays, Brown is launching a remarkably berry-toned Ethiopian decaf and “actively looking for more coffees to add to our portfolio, but this has been very challenging,” she says. “I’m not looking for coffee that is ‘good for a decaf.’ I’m looking for coffee that is incredible, full stop, and just happens to be a decaf.”
Some decaf roasteries were born to fulfill not the founders’ desires, but rather their loved ones. Peter Andrews began Sydney’s Playground Roasters in 2016, “when my special lady gone and got herself pregnant, again,” he writes. “It occurred to me that no one was really putting a strong focus on decaf for the coffee enthusiasts amongst us.”
People who connect most with his decaf blend, which is available in cafes around the city, comprise “the growing world of healthy-lifers, the sugar-free movement,” Andrews finds, and “typical cafe-loving mums who so want to have a great coffee, but feel like they just have to go without until they ween the little one.” Though decaf is something he himself has only “occasionally in the afternoon or evening,” he admires the loyalists—included among them are his wife, presently expecting their third child.
“When a customer orders decaf, they are genuinely ordering a coffee for flavor alone—no buzz attached! You could put a case forward that the decaf drinker is the true coffee purist, searching for flavor and flavor alone, while the rest of us are just addicts needing a hit!” he says.
What is more, not all decaf projects are a response to doctor’s orders or an antidote to the jitters.
“We were visiting family in Maine and giving coffee we had roasted as a gift,” Jamie Morganstern recollects of a winter holiday in 2017, when he and his partner, Sara Serino, conceptualized Dewired Coffee. “The days are short in Maine that time of year so we were drinking a lot of decaf, especially when the sun went down. Everyone loved this ritual!”
Today their Berkeley, California-based business offers, on average, three types of decaf. They themselves drink it regularly, but when Morganstern blames buns in the oven, he is not referring to pregnancy. “Sara is always a huge baker, so we’ve pretty much gotten accustomed to having a cup [of decaf] in the evening with a plate of cookies or a slice of pie,” Morganstern says via email.
Though their nights sound traditionally more momcore than millennial-chic, Morganstern is 33 and Serino is 32. They substantiate industry claims that decaf is having a renaissance and young people are its patrons.
“Decaf coffee is also shedding its stigma of being a drink that only the older generation enjoys,” Andrea Piccolo, a senior brand manager at leading specialty decaffeination plant Swiss Water, tells Sprudge. “With millennials leading decaf consumption, the demand is surely to continue its upward growth.”
Still, others attribute decaf’s slow evolution thus far to the specialty scene’s relative infancy.
“Most caffeine-troubled people are not so young and outside of the interest span of these young baristas and roasters,” theorizes Rob Berghmans, who 16 years ago revolutionized Antwerp’s coffee scene with his espresso bar and roastery, Caffènation. “Me myself, I am not addicted,” he says with a laugh.
Yet even Berghmans, ever upfront about the nature of the psychotropic he peddles—his company’s slogan is “One drug, one nation, one Caffènation”—says they have “always been roasting decaf” and are lately enjoying the popularity of their new Caldono.
Another playing-both-sides perspective comes courtesy long-time San Francisco Sprudge contributor Noah Sanders. In “Searching For The Dark Art Of Decaf,” Sanders reveals how during the early aughts he and fellow baristas sometimes punished “the very worst type of customers” by secretly serving them decaf.
Questioned in 2019 about his own relationship with the substance, he admits: “When I was a barista, I drank six cups of coffee a day until an acupuncturist told me it was undoubtedly the cause of the mildly crippling panic attacks I’d been experiencing. I drank some decaf after that.” These days, he notes: “I try—and fail—to give up caffeine every six months or so and decaf is the lifeline I then cling to, but then only paired with a large-ish amount of steamed milk.”
Now, disguise with dairy no more. At any time, sun up or sun down, you can have your coffee and drink it too. Thanks to these emergent micro-roasteries, contemporary decaf little resembles Grandpa’s Sanka (though what a cute corporate portmanteau that name turns out to be: from the French for sans caffeine). This is certainly NYMD (not your mother’s decaf). As specialty coffee grows up, the black-or-white big-gulp attitudes of yesterday are getting displaced by the nuanced fluidity of personal preference.
We say bring it on. Or more simply put, decaf gives us life.
Karina Hof is a Sprudge staff writer based in Amsterdam. Read more Karina Hof on Sprudge.
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There’s A Decaf-Only Micro-Roaster Boom Happening Right Now
Are you a mod or a rocker? Eat lunch with the jocks or the burnouts? Team Edward or Team Jacob? Rest assured, one milieu in this modern era no longer demands that you choose socio-culturally defining sides: coffee. That is, whether you drink it with or without caffeine.
You see, in the last few years there has been a burgeoning of specialty coffee micro-roasteries that specialize in decaf. They use green beans decaffeinated by natural methods, and as much as their caff counterparts, prioritize flavor while maintaining the same high standards in sourcing and processing. Although the bigwigs in third wave include decafs in their collections (Intelligentsia offers a whopping four online), for this newest generation of roasteries, decaf is a starting point rather than an afterthought. The result is delicious, complex, and varied coffee that could well disarm the death-before-decaf set and lift the Lenten gloom of those who abstain for medical reasons. Some of these roasters were once regular regular coffee drinkers themselves, still are, and/or simply do not dichotomize the joy of a cup’s contents into caff and non-caff camps.
This capacity for coexistence is patently encapsulated in a tagline on the Talking Crow Coffee Roasters website: “He drinks regular—she needs decaf.” Those pronouns’ antecedents are Eric and Carol Blanchet, who established their Sultan, Washington-based roastery in late 2018. Their “predominately decaf” business, as Carol describes it, ideally carries three regular roasts alongside seven decafs. “We roast both so that we can compare our decaf with the regular to be sure we are spot-on with our roast profiles.
“We have a large family (eight children) and we home educate, which makes for crazy-busy days,” Carol explains via email. “A few months after our last child was born, I suffered with extreme adrenal fatigue, which required, among other things, that I give up caffeine. That was really hard because I love coffee and really depended on it to function throughout the day.”
In similar want of salubrious substitution, Kait Brown last year founded Savorista Coffee in Dayton, Ohio. “I first fell in love with coffee as a teenage barista for Boston Stoker,” she recalls. But as an adult, a stressful period compounded by work pressures and her father’s cancer compelled Brown to quit caffeine because it was exacerbating sleeplessness. Eventually, she went seeking drinkable decaf.
“In Colombia, at a blind cupping of decaf and caffeinated coffees, I tasted an incredible coffee. It was one of my two favorites on the table, the flavor notes were really complex and it had a lot of brightness,” she relays by email. “I was shocked to learn that this coffee was a decaf! I realized incredible decaf was possible.”
That Colombian was Savorista’s first coffee. Nowadays, Brown is launching a remarkably berry-toned Ethiopian decaf and “actively looking for more coffees to add to our portfolio, but this has been very challenging,” she says. “I’m not looking for coffee that is ‘good for a decaf.’ I’m looking for coffee that is incredible, full stop, and just happens to be a decaf.”
Some decaf roasteries were born to fulfill not the founders’ desires, but rather their loved ones. Peter Andrews began Sydney’s Playground Roasters in 2016, “when my special lady gone and got herself pregnant, again,” he writes. “It occurred to me that no one was really putting a strong focus on decaf for the coffee enthusiasts amongst us.”
People who connect most with his decaf blend, which is available in cafes around the city, comprise “the growing world of healthy-lifers, the sugar-free movement,” Andrews finds, and “typical cafe-loving mums who so want to have a great coffee, but feel like they just have to go without until they ween the little one.” Though decaf is something he himself has only “occasionally in the afternoon or evening,” he admires the loyalists—included among them are his wife, presently expecting their third child.
“When a customer orders decaf, they are genuinely ordering a coffee for flavor alone—no buzz attached! You could put a case forward that the decaf drinker is the true coffee purist, searching for flavor and flavor alone, while the rest of us are just addicts needing a hit!” he says.
What is more, not all decaf projects are a response to doctor’s orders or an antidote to the jitters.
“We were visiting family in Maine and giving coffee we had roasted as a gift,” Jamie Morganstern recollects of a winter holiday in 2017, when he and his partner, Sara Serino, conceptualized Dewired Coffee. “The days are short in Maine that time of year so we were drinking a lot of decaf, especially when the sun went down. Everyone loved this ritual!”
Today their Berkeley, California-based business offers, on average, three types of decaf. They themselves drink it regularly, but when Morganstern blames buns in the oven, he is not referring to pregnancy. “Sara is always a huge baker, so we’ve pretty much gotten accustomed to having a cup [of decaf] in the evening with a plate of cookies or a slice of pie,” Morganstern says via email.
Though their nights sound traditionally more momcore than millennial-chic, Morganstern is 33 and Serino is 32. They substantiate industry claims that decaf is having a renaissance and young people are its patrons.
“Decaf coffee is also shedding its stigma of being a drink that only the older generation enjoys,” Andrea Piccolo, a senior brand manager at leading specialty decaffeination plant Swiss Water, tells Sprudge. “With millennials leading decaf consumption, the demand is surely to continue its upward growth.”
Still, others attribute decaf’s slow evolution thus far to the specialty scene’s relative infancy.
“Most caffeine-troubled people are not so young and outside of the interest span of these young baristas and roasters,” theorizes Rob Berghmans, who 16 years ago revolutionized Antwerp’s coffee scene with his espresso bar and roastery, Caffènation. “Me myself, I am not addicted,” he says with a laugh.
Yet even Berghmans, ever upfront about the nature of the psychotropic he peddles—his company’s slogan is “One drug, one nation, one Caffènation”—says they have “always been roasting decaf” and are lately enjoying the popularity of their new Caldono.
Another playing-both-sides perspective comes courtesy long-time San Francisco Sprudge contributor Noah Sanders. In “Searching For The Dark Art Of Decaf,” Sanders reveals how during the early aughts he and fellow baristas sometimes punished “the very worst type of customers” by secretly serving them decaf.
Questioned in 2019 about his own relationship with the substance, he admits: “When I was a barista, I drank six cups of coffee a day until an acupuncturist told me it was undoubtedly the cause of the mildly crippling panic attacks I’d been experiencing. I drank some decaf after that.” These days, he notes: “I try—and fail—to give up caffeine every six months or so and decaf is the lifeline I then cling to, but then only paired with a large-ish amount of steamed milk.”
Now, disguise with dairy no more. At any time, sun up or sun down, you can have your coffee and drink it too. Thanks to these emergent micro-roasteries, contemporary decaf little resembles Grandpa’s Sanka (though what a cute corporate portmanteau that name turns out to be: from the French for sans caffeine). This is certainly NYMD (not your mother’s decaf). As specialty coffee grows up, the black-or-white big-gulp attitudes of yesterday are getting displaced by the nuanced fluidity of personal preference.
We say bring it on. Or more simply put, decaf gives us life.
Karina Hof is a Sprudge staff writer based in Amsterdam. Read more Karina Hof on Sprudge.
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