#Bagel etc . . .

[icewindandboringhorror]

What would you choose? :0c

(note: original image is from HERE (link) - but I edited it to add a wider variety of options.. also added $3 extra to the total, even though I know that makes it more uneven lol, I thought if you're adding 10 whole extra items, the money to spend should at least be increased slightly, if that makes sense..)

[crimeronan]

pour one out folks. just ate 3/4ths of a moldy bagel bc i didn't unearth the visibly green parts til i'd chewed thru it.

and my autoimmune disease reacts.... So Badly.... to mold.

[titleleaf]

I haven't been able to eat any wheat or any dairy for a month now, and won't be able to do so for a month more when I get my biopsy and thus biopsy results, but if they turn me loose on wheat the first thing I'm doing once I get out of that hospital is eat a goddamn bagel.

[mummer]

brought back some New York Bagels and these taste exactly the same as the bagels i get from my local west coast jewish bagelry so what now. “it’s to do with the heaviness of the water” kill yourself. you guys think you invented corner stores AND bagels. Wrong!

[fizzingwizard]

dear internet stop throwing pictures of beautifully toasted bagels slathered in cream cheese at me i don't have a toaster i don't have room in my teeny kitchenette for a toaster a toaster is a luxury here in japan as are bagels as is cream cheese

bagel places here that ask me "do you want that heated up" make me want to cry tears of joy even though all they mean is they're gonna stick the bagel in the microwave for ten seconds so it's slightly warm-ish but not enough to crisp up or melt the cream cheese a little

[professional-termite]

* smacks with loki season 2 ending *

jay i am about to hop across the pond and toast all the toastable stuff in your house and leave all of it sitting on your front porch

[tsukasalover]

i always forget that i actually have over 1k followers on my twt main (how did we get here.) until my most simple wxs posts constantly get at least 300-500 likes and im always just like God someone is gonna complain about this or make it about ships. Oh and i still get idolized that comes with being on prsktwt. Every time someone still calls me “The Tsukasa Guy” and isnt a close friend i begin scratching the walls thinking No No No No That Was Last Year And Like Early January This Year and i personally felt like my analyses were So Wrong (not all of it but at least some of it)

the discussions i have on here and in dms with people are always 1000x better than. whatever happened last year. i might be exaggerating a bit but i just didnt like anything i wrote.

[jerseyclown]

Please don’t judge but I still don’t know what an everything bagel is.

thats okay apparently my understanding of the everything bagel (fundamental to my understanding of the universe apparently) seems to not be as locally universal as i thought

[bagelbucket]

Learning languages for casual use needs to be less of “here’s how to say ‘where’s the bathroom” and more of “here are the pronouns and correct grammar you need to know along with basic words” I feel like the structure of language isn’t taught enough compared to random phrases people probably won’t even use

[17gz]

BIG AND GREEDY!

[fedoranon]

do you like bread?

this feels like a trap but yes bread is legitimately a comfort food for me :)

[elvhenyoung]

I caved and made a Dark Urge. I was supposed to just remake Sylvas but... decided this might be more fun. So here we go—

✨ it's Silavth ✨

And oh, they are terrifying and I love them.

[semiotomatics]

thinkin about absence

...was gonna put the rest in the tags but fuck it, have a read more like it's 2014

yeah. thinkin abt absence.

as in, "the absence of–"

"devoid of–"

"a–"

I hate defining something by what it lacks. it becomes deficient by nature. it becomes perpetually, intrinsically incomplete.

nothing is intrinsically incomplete.

take mars. mars lacks liquid water* and an oxygen-rich atmosphere. it does, however, have both water ice and water vapour, as well as an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide. it also has two moons, several volcanoes, seasons, and even weather. it has a past, and a present, and a future. it is, without qualification or limitation. and yet we still define it by what it lacks, because what it lacks happens to be the things that matter most to humans on earth.

should this matter to mars? no. mars is a planet, and this is a metaphor. I really hope I don't need to explain to you that this is a metaphor.

anyway, the thing about defining yourself by what you lack or how you differ from those around you is that it frames every experience within that absence, leaving no room for anything else to fill the space. it blinds you to what exists beyond the absence, to what is. to use another hamfisted metaphor, a bagel is more than just the hole in its centre.

...actually, scratch that. I was trying to make a point but then I googled whether there's such a thing as a bagel without a hole and found the truest, most personally resonant statement I've ever read, and it's in an essay about bagels on a website called myrecipes.com, because of course true self-actualization would be found on a recipe website in an essay about bagels.

anyway, the line is:

The fact is, of course, that the bagel’s hole is not the absence of bagel, but rather its very essence. To have “more bagel,” as it were, at the center of a bagel, would really mean having less of a bagel.

that's it. that's literally it. the bagel isn't whole despite the hole, it's whole because of it. it isn't an absence, it's an essence.

idk, maybe bagels aren't the best metaphor for aromanticism, which is what this entire post has been about all along (surprise!). maybe I should've stuck to mars. maybe none of this makes any sense at all. in any case, the point I was originally trying to make is that absence, like reality, is subjective. the only reason aromantics are considered to be lacking love is because someone decided to compare us to alloromantics, and the only reason the bagel is considered to be lacking a centre is because someone decided to compare it to a bialy. in truth, it's the comparison that lacks (in this case, nuance regarding the definition of love/a centre), not us (in this case, me/the bagel). that's all I was trying to say.

[fireemblemseries]

modern griss is from new jersey

reasoning: ppl from new jersey are just like that.

source: i am from new jersey

[milkweedman]

Am in so much pain right now its unreal

[fraseris]

also this is insane i cant believe they made the BAGEL GUY from itsv the villain