#'well he's not. he's a vegetarian.'

[andy-clutterbuck]

1x05 - Become | The Ones Who Live

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

this one's for all the yuri enjoyers out there — nsft under cut

meronia event prompt(s): scar

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

the amount of effort that goes into figuring out what to cook and eat every day is RIDICULOUS. i used to think people were so weird and boring for eating the same thing every single day but it truly does make life so much easier

[srhe203]

You know whats crazy is like 3 years ago my mom literally predicted Nikacado Avacado would do this like how did she know

[bluesundaymorn]

Having a vegetarian dog is great until he will eat any and everything you put on your plate and suddenty he's eaten half of your brocolli and is still begging

[mermaidsirennikita]

reading Thea Harrison's Dragon Bound and

a) the first true contemporary urban fantasy PNR that has REEEEEALLY gotten me to sit up and listen since IAD

b) have realized that I have a weird thing for the "big scary monster man provides food for his less scary captive and watches her eat" thing, and I didn't actually get that it was a thing until now

[sexcromancy]

there's 2 things that are interesting to me about bridgerton beyond the fun silly television appeal. the first is that it's doing the actual gossip girl plot way better than gossip girl ever did. and then what it takes and leaves in terms of historical realism, especially that it discards any racial or imperial marginalization, but maintains just enough sexist social structure to demand courting, marriage and heirs. similar to my reasoning for why Ali built a paranormal world out of omegaverse kink, i think this must be due to the effect of period romance in general. whether it's Austen contemporaries or Scottish Highlands or the gilded age, it's fun to play romance in a world with rules. rules that constrain and prohibit, or create forced situations, or otherwise introduce tension into relationships. tension makes everything sexier! this we know. obviously the rules in bridgerton have as little to do with regency etiquette as the clothes do, but everyone can suspend disbelief to have fun.

[deva-arts]

Is Nate technically a carnivore since he has fangs?

While this would have worked for other variant species, Nathaniel doesn't abide by the rules of nature in any respect, especially as an atypical-form shifter.

His body has a predisposition towards humanoid forms, so it's safe to assume he'd have the same overall conditions that a human would- omnivorous. He's made a nutritional plan for himself that incorporates more veggies and less saturated fats. Ew! boring!

(Can you tell I love talking about Variant physiology)

[hippo-pot]

Do y'all know about Benjamin Lay? love this guy. I'm like 10 pages into his biography and already can't summarize him without doing him justice. i'll repeat the opening anecdote tho.

You're at a big Quaker meeting in New Jersey in 1738. This is a religion that has declared its dedication to peace, and has renounced weapons.

At these meetings, everyone can talk as the spirit moves them. It moves a 4-foot-tall man with a big white beard and kyphosis. His topic is the evils of slavery. A lot of people start looking uncomfortable, as you might upon being told you're committing the world's greatest sin.

After telling you all that God will "shed the blood of those persons who enslave their fellow creatures," he throws off his greatcoat, revealing a military uniform, a sword, and a book. He lifts the book in the air and stabs it. Something that looks a lot like blood pours out. He makes sure it splatters some of the uncomfortable people. Women are swooning. He is bodily removed from the premises

[true-bean]

I hate how hard it is for skinny people to understand that weight is genetic. Like of course you can be fat in a skinny family or skinny in a fat family but it takes a lot. Like my family, extended and all, tends to be overweight. My fiancés family on the other hand tend to be skinny. It all just depends on your ancestors and your metabolism

[whomst-the-hell]

if youre egg free but not vegan do i have some good news for you (from your neighbourhood lacto-vegetarian!): any recipe with fewer than four or five eggs (meaning the base recipe, dont worry abt doubling etc) will probably work if you substitute 1 egg=1 tblsp of plain yoghurt or sour cream. if thats not enough, also use 1 tblsp custard powder.

this applies to cakes, muffins, pastries, honestly most baked goods — give it a try other places, it’ll probably be fine!

in most recipes egg is a binding agent, not a flavour, so yoghurt/sour cream will do the trick!

this makes finding recipes wayyy easier — most recipes are either completely normal or completely vegan which both have their faults, so its pretty useful to just modify an existing something!

[softpine]

have u thought about doing a frozen pines face claims post? i wonder if you changed ur mind about some of the old ones over the years and how you picture some of the newer characters <3

tbh i find face claims to be more of a hindrance than an inspiration. i see people on the street all the time who remind me of my characters, but i never see actors who jump out at me in the same way. part of it is because obviously actors can dye their hair / put on fake tattoos or cover up tattoos / style themselves completely differently, and i'm not a casting director so it's hard for me to look past an actor's natural appearance to see what they could actually bring to the table for a certain character. but also part of it is my general distaste for the average actor right now; everyone feels so cookie cutter attractive (and they're all in their mid 20s whether they're playing a high school kid or a middle aged dad... like no one ever looks their age) i know that sounds really annoying and pretentious lmao and it's not true in every case, it's just what i'm feeling lately. so if i were picking actors for frozen pines i would choose them based more on vibes & performance rather than strictly appearance, while keeping everyone's core physical characteristics the same, which is a tall order 😭

long story short, i overthink everything and i find it frustrating to even try :( it's a lot more fun for me to remember the fictional characters who have inspired my own characters in some way (either through appearance, personality, or circumstances) so i do that way more often than face claims!!

BUT i do have one. just one ;-; river phoenix as finn

[vintageseawitch]

eddie boi was at the peak of "him being interesting in any way, shape or form" when he was feeding on baddies & he did more for the sake of humanity than the Cullen & Denali ✨️ecological disaster✨️ clans put together 🥰🧛‍♂️🩸

[turtlemagnum]

when i was younger and hung out around my uncle a lot more than i do now, i remember whenever he referred to things regarding his native heritage, he always just called it "indian". called himself an indian, called the words he taught us indian, so on. since i was a little kid who didn't know any better, i didn't know that "indian" in the context of indigenous americans was a very broad, frankly bastardized term to paint a vast variety of cultures spanning two whole damn continents with one brush. it only occurred to me as i got much older than i was at the time that there'd be more than one "indian" language, and up until now since i had no idea what tribe(s) he even is i couldn't even begin to know where to look unless i found a download of every goddamn interlingual dictionary available and painstakingly checked every godddamn one for what their word for "thunder" is

the word he taught us meant thunder was hiloha. i didn't even know how to spell it until now, because he only ever said it aloud. literally just a few minutes ago, i decided to ask my grandma (his sister) if we knew what tribe(s) he belonged to. and apparently he's a mix of choctaw and makah. which gave me a lead, which led to me finding a dictionary on libgen, which led to me word searching "thunder" in the choctaw to english dictionary. it's the only word i remember him teaching us, and i'm unsure if he ever tried teaching us others. but it was his dogs name, and he was a damn good boy, so i remembered it clear as day. though, they normally shortened it to "hilo".

so, i guess what came out of this is that i now know a bit more about my uncle's heritage, and where to look for more research. so, if you're gonna have a takeaway from this, i'd appreciate it if you remembered the word "hiloha". it means thunder. and aside from being the name of a very good boy who deserves to be remembered, i think it's even more important to remember the histories, cultures, and of course the languages of all the indigenous folks who came before us and did their damndest to preserve their cultures in spite of it all.

[belladonnaprice]

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[legbite]

austin can handle seeing blood but. catch him on a bad day and he will 1) maybe puke and 2) possibly panic due to some ptsd flashbacks.. it does not help that the smell is especially strong to him, as werewolves are naturally drawn to blood (for food reasons)