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Worlds largest single firework shell

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Me: Ah yes, this character, they’re my fav.

Me: …

Me: Time to find fanfic of TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPENING TO THEM.

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Gather ‘round kids: I had a coworker mention to me this morning that it’s impossible to get grease stains out of fabric. As a former chemistry minor who worked two years under the table doing housekeeping and who generally tends to be a fucking disaster, I am here to tell everyone that it absolutely is not impossible, in case this is a widespread belief. Here are a few of my favorite cleaning stain removers that I always have at home.

Here are some options:

A Tide™ pen.

I’m a generic kinda lady. I hate promoting brands 99% of the time. BUT if you catch absolutely any kind of stain before it gets ground in, you can get most of it out with one of these babies. I’ve tested it on blood, chocolate, coffee, guacamole, pizza sauce, red wine on, on that one time i accidentally slopped some oil I was supposed to be using on antiques onto a fancy rug (also an antique but not the one I was gunning for). If you’re washing something delicate, pump it onto your finger a couple of times and gently rub it in. I’m not sure what they put in these things but I’m pretty sure it’s an arcane secret.

Dish soap

Granted, this is a little trickier for upholstery/carpet, but it can still be done using a rag, some water, and some patience. But for clothing, just pour some soap on the stain and rub it in under cold running water.

Absolutely any clear alcohol is your new best friend

You know the old “white wine to clean red” trick? Well, this is its updated sister I like to call “you, too, can use coconut rum to get red jello shot out of your nice white dress”. It’s a nice party trick. Straight vodka works even better. For every day situations involving any kind of alcohol-related spills (including markers)–and especially work situations–rubbing alcohol is ideal. To quote another adage, this one from every chemistry teacher you will ever meet, “like dissolves like.”

Hydrogen Peroxide

It can get blood out of absolutely anything, including your mattress. It reacts with the iron in hemoglobin, which breaks down the molecule, causing it to lose its red color. So make sure you’re not using a cast iron skillet to wash your period underwear in.

Vinegar

This will dissolve lime buildup overnight. Fill a bag, tie it around your showerhead, and presto. You can also use it to scrub the area around your sink and to break up any buildup in pipes. (Limeaway™ is for rich people.) 

Baking soda

This is great if you have a pet or child who peed on the carpet. Just cover the area, wait until it dries, and vacuum it up. The longer you leave it, the better it will do at removing the smell. It’s also good removing mild odors from a small space, like a fridge or a laundry hamper. 

Charcoal

This is your heavy duty odor killer. A little goes a long way. In chemistry, activated charcoal is used as a purifier in reactions, and in medicine, it can be used to treat mild poisoning/overdoses. In your car that smells like someone died because you forgot you had potatoes in the trunk for six months? All you need are regular old charcoal briquettes. Stick a couple handfuls in a flat box and the smell will be gone overnight. Guaranteed. For larger areas, just use more charcoal.

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Coming into a fandom late

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peter and wade are fighting side by side and when peter runs out of web fluid, he grabs a gun off wade’s belt and wade has this transcendent moment of i’m going to watch spiderman shoot my gun at a real live bad guy

but peter just fucking throws it at a bad guy’s face and knocks him out cold

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THIS HAD BEEN DRIVING ME NUTS FOR FOREVER. 

So there.  Now I have figured it out. 

People who I suspect have thought about this less than me:

Tolkien

Peter Jackson

real geneticists

God

anyone

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@leveragehunters right now. This picture couldn’t be more accurate!

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reading emotional fanfic

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Winter’s Herald: a Steve/Bucky Heralds of Valdemar AU

Words: 112,551 Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey Rating: Teen And Up Audiences, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, James “Bucky” Barnes & Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Original Companion Character, James “Bucky” Barnes & Original Companion Character Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Original Companion Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Captain America Valdemar AU, Alternate Universe - Valdemar Series Fusion, Marvel Cameos, Fluff, Captain America canon typical violence, minor Valdemar canon non-compliance, Soulmates, Lifebonds, Additional Warnings In Author’s Note, absolutely no Valdemar knowledge required, Heavy Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Happy Ending

“Steve, if there’s a time when you don’t have to worry about anything, it’s now. I’m a Herald-Trainee, Winter’s a Companion. You’re exhausted. Just…trust us. We’ll get you home safely.”

 For a long moment, a moment in which Bucky felt gifted with sudden insight into who Steve was, he thought it could go either way. Then Steve smiled, this one warm and bright and just for Bucky, and it raced through him, lodging inside him like a miniature sun. “Guess I’d be a bit ungrateful to say no.”

Some Heralds change the world. Some Heralds save it. Some Herald’s names are woven through the very fabric of Valdemar. But most don’t, and most aren’t. Most Heralds simply do their duty, their Companions by their side, their stories recorded in dusty Crown records, not Bardic ballads.

Steve and Bucky figured they were most Heralds—no ballads required, thanks—and they were mostly right. What they didn’t account for was that no Herald was ordinary—and with two of them bound so tight together, extraordinary was sure to happen.

 [Absolutely no knowledge of the Valdemar series required for this fic]

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Just finished my re-watch through Leverage.

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I’ve been out of it for what seems like forever! Internet probs then computer probs and most recently I’ve been down the little black hole of Guardian..... @xparrot for posting/rebloging all the images of Shen Wei and ZYL! I watched got exteremely attached to the characters and was soooo sad when I saw english translation of novel was about 1/2 way thru the novel. 

Well, I just found the viet translation (audio book) of the novels so i’m going to be down this deep dark hole for a while longer. I’ve got a few crochet projects that i need to get done in the near future (aka bday gifs and such) so after that I will be back with updating podfics! I’m apologize for the long wait but some of the stuff I almost had ready to post was lost when computer died and I wasn’t able to recover them so it will be a while longer before i update again. 

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Middle of nowhere, Nebraska! 

STARGATE FANS REBLOG THIS WITH WHERE YOU ARE FROM.

I thought it would be cool to see where the Fandom is around the world.

I wish I could start a sorta Stargate fan club where we all can meet up in person to talk/watch all things Stargate a couple times a month. That would be so fun!

Currently I live in Memphis Tennessee.

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is this what growing up is like

me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!

me at 28: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHILD SOLDIERS? WHERE ARE ALL THE ADULTS? WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING PROSECUTED BY LAW WITHIN THESE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES

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Why Did They Come?

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｢ “If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there’s a mysterious way in which that truth will find you”｣

- Marianne Williamson

镇魂 04丨Guardian 04 [Weilan Moment: Your person of interest is overreacting]

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Introducing the latest competitor in the shipping business.