oh please make that nasty side blog "Your nasty fave Louis" for fun and to piss some people off. I would love to see it, it might even cause BL extinction and sweep the larrnasties away if you get the vision right. Not saying this as a sarcastic or naggy comment, I'm actually invested in that idea and it seems fun.
Maybe I will, anon, maybe I will--we shall see how much time I have to devote to @yournastyfavelouis
1. Schuman metro stabbing: Suspect investigated for attempted murder
The perpetrator of the stabbing attack in the Schuman metro station in Brussels European Quarter on Monday evening is under investigation for attempted murder and will be subject to a psychiatric examination, announced Brussels Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday. Read more.
2. 'Kill them all': Walloon politicians receive death threats over municipality merger
Wallonia's Minister for Local Authorities Christophe Collignon, as well as two local mayors, have received death threats over the merger of two of the region's municipalities. They add their name to the long list of Belgian politicians to have been violently threatened in recent times. Read more.
3. Belgium should be split through 'extralegal reform' next year, says De Wever
Belgium's federal elections are still more than a year away, but Bart De Wever of the Flemish rightwing separatist N-VA party is getting more insistent to move to a confederal Belgium in 2024. While he stops short of proposing an actual coup this time, he added that an "extra-legal reform" might be necessary. Read more.
4. 'Laughing gas' capsules cause explosions in waste incinerators
In the first three weeks of January, street sweepers in Brussels collected nearly 2 tonnes of nitrous oxide cartridges. The distinctive silver capsules have become a familiar sight around the city and more occasionally, the larger dispensers that release the gas (intended for culinary purposes such as whipping cream). Read more.
5. Brussels City Hall, now empty, to open as museum
Though known around the world for its splendour and gilded facades, the jewel of the Brussels Grand Place is undoubtedly the City Hall, whose ornate spire marks the centre of the city. From Wednesday (1 February), the magnificent building will open to the public as a museum. Read more.
6. Mega to offer fixed-rate energy contract again
After Luminus, energy provider Mega will now also offer a fixed-price energy contract from March – but only for customers who currently are already connected to the supplier. Read more.
7. Hidden Belgium: Postbar
This creative Bruges coffee bar and lunch spot has brought a new concept to the trendy and not too touristy Langestraat. As well as serving good coffee in handmade ceramic cups, the friendly owners encourage customers to buy an artistic postcard in their stationery shop. Read more.
last night i had a dream that i was playing minecraft and i noticed i had 77 blocks of cobblestone in one slot instead of it being capped at 64 and it was so jarring to me that it literally booted me out of the dream. like sure you can fly now and your childhood home is a pharmacy but 77 pieces of cobblestone? unthinkable. wake the fuck up.
Because i feel like i might be overestimating what the average is, i shall Conduct Research
This isn't about how many languages you speak, but how many youre able to count up to at least 10 in, since basic numbers are some of the first words you learn in a foreign language and sometimes you catch them without having studied the language at all
I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.
I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:
Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)
Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)
Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often
Eat dessert first
Celebrate well, and often
Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)
Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.
Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate
Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)
Walk without having a specific destination or goal
Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.
I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.
Do you ever become mutuals with someone you share an intense interest with and it becomes this limbo of "I want to be your friend SO fucking bad but I'll eat a shoe before dm-ing first"
So it’s Kabru right. Laios’s regent is Kabru. If anything happened to Laios, Kabru would have regency. He would have control over the kingdom. If he wanted. Because he knows how to kill people and could easily take that power for himself. But he won’t, because he likes Laios and thinks he’s a good king. But he could.
I didn’t realize Kabru had This much power. He’s essentially next-in-line until Laios produces an heir.
probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.
we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."
at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.
the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.
the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.
what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.
here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.