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the locked tomb series is really like. maybe love doesn't conquer all. maybe love is not pure and good and holy. maybe love is not a white dove come to save you from yourself. maybe it won't fix you. maybe it'll make everything worse. maybe love is dirty and ugly and terrifying and awful. maybe it'll kill you. maybe it'll warp you into something unrecognizable. maybe love is a parasite and by the time you realize it's there, it's too late to tear it out of you, no matter how badly you might want to. maybe it's a cordiceps fungus, tangled up in your nerves, making you do things you'd never ordinarily do. maybe love is a dog with its jaw locked on your arm. maybe love is an angry ghost. maybe love is a brain hemorrhage, a seizure, two weeks of sleeplessness and cracking open your own tibia unanesthetized in a bathroom. maybe it's the ocean you'll drown in. maybe it's poison. maybe it's scary and filthy and difficult and bad for you.

so what now? are you going to stop? are you even going to try?

no. of course you aren't.

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really the best part of having boobs is what other people do with them.

the second best part is having somewhere to put my phone.

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this is the future of transit imo

Corgi Fairy

Ride out the hollow hills, my corgi steed Though your size is tiny Your brave heart is almighty!

Cutest folklore I've ever come across: According to Welsh legends, corgis are fairy mounts used to ride to battle, pull carriages, etc.

Wrote a little poem about this lovely legend. I tried to use an englyn as the poem form, because Welsh.

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This is so accurate

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"Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children."

Absolutely damning statement. Quisling behavior. Vinchy France behavior.

That's what we are to all these organizations (NCMEC, hospitals, The Democratic Party)

An acceptable sacrifice. I'm so tired of it. Trans people are real. We're living, breathing people with hopes and dreams and wants and needs, not a sacrificial lamb to offer up to appease MAGA.

Especially because the MAGA beast won't be satiated after it consumes us

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first they came for the trans women, and i indignantly claimed that we are all hated equally & that it is infighting to suggest otherwise

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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guys wake up brian lee o'malley just posted a transfem scott pilgrim meme

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What is this prompt thing?

What is this prompt thing?

Was today typical? Today will be decidedly atypical because it’s the first time my parents are visiting me in California (they live in NJ where I grew up). Mostly I’m curious how this ends up looking and if it notifies people like a post does. Let’s find out!

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Upgrading to a Broadcom 9600-24i on TrueNAS Dragonfish

Earlier this year, PG&E hiked up our electricity rates significantly in California. What last year was painful but acceptable electric bill each month rapidly became unacceptable, and so we started looking for opportunities to lower our consumption. One of the first things to come to mind here is the NAS we use for media storage/backups/etc. This NAS is slightly overbuilt for home user needs – it…

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Hi I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games

Can you test for drift compatibility via improv comedy

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me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

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Sisko's Aubergine Stew

I thought it might be nice to stay on Deep Space Nine this week (since it was the 20th Anniversary of the series premiere last week) and sample some of Benjamin Sisko’s wonderful Aubergine stew. Judging by Dax’s reaction in The Nagus, this stew is well worth waiting for. And having tried it now myself, I must admit being pleasantly surprised about how good this was.

Sisko was apparently famous for this dish; he made it when he first met Jennifer, his future wife, and Dax was clearly very familiar with it. I followed the basic structure for a classic aubergine stew but feel free to change the type of meat in there if you wish.

Replicate your own (Serves 4)

2 eggplants (aubergines), diced into medium pieces 1 onion, diced 1 green capsicum, diced 2 cloves garlic, diced fine ½ leek, chopped into small rings 1 tin crushed tomatoes ½ teaspoon each of: dried oregano, dried thyme, cayenne pepper, ground tumeric, cumin and black pepper Salt 2 or 3 chicken drumsticks, with the bone in 1 or 2 sprigs of parsley, to garnish Olive oil

Begin by chopping the eggplant and sprinkle the pieces liberally with salt. Set aside while you chop the other vegetables.

In a large pot or saucepan, heat a splash of olive oil. Cook the onion and garlic until soft, then add the spices and cook for a minute or so until they are fragrant. Brush any excess salt off the eggplant and add to the pot, and cook for another couple of minutes.

Add the rest of the vegetables (capsicum and leek) and cook until they soften slightly. Then add the crushed tomatoes and stir so everything is coated in the tomatoes. Push the chicken drumsticks down into the vegetables, then put the lid on the pot and cook on a low heat for about 45 minutes, until the chicken is falling off the bones and the vegetables are soft. 

Remove the chicken from the stew and shred the meat. Set aside, along with about ¼ of the stew mixture. Blend the remaining ¾ of the stew so that it is broken into smaller pieces but is still somewhat chunky.

To serve, mix the chicken meat back into the blended stew mixture, and top with the unblended pieces of vegetables. Garnish with parsley and serve.

Notes:

You can skip the step of salting the eggplant if you wish, but I find it helps the eggplant keep its shape while cooking and also means the eggplant doesn’t go bitter

This can be served with rice if wished.

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wtnv content in (approximate) order

hi guys! if you're getting into wtnv for the first time, or getting back into it after a brief enjoyment, you may not know wntv is more than just the podcast. here's a rough list of where the other media fits into the timeline. liveshows can be purchased here but are not necessarily required listening. iirc "the debate" is the only one that had plot relevant information in it

Episodes 1-31 Liveshow: The Debate Episodes: 32-36 Liveshow: Condos Episode: 37-39 Liveshow: The Librarian Episodes: 40-50 Liveshow: The Thrilling Adventure Hour & WTNV crossover Episodes: 51-75 Book: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes: 76-87 Liveshow: The Investigators Episodes: 88-107 Liveshow: Ghost Stories Episodes: 108-115 Book: It Devours! Episodes: 116-132 Liveshow: All Hail Episodes: 133-160 Liveshow: A Spy in the Desert Episodes: 161-164 Book: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home Episodes: 165-Present

there's one more liveshow that isn't available yet (The Haunting of Night Vale) and there's patreon exclusive episodes and in-character Q&As which aren't plot relevant but are very fun

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Bernadetta and Kirby!!

Please Vote Bernie for CYL7!!! ☺️💜✨

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