#a la boiling a frog

[catmaidetho]

For the hermit ask: 🧥🌻 🪻 (also love the username lol)

🧥 who’s new skin is your favourite? THE JUPPET... joe as a muppet makes so much sense. its perfect. it's beautiful. i want to throw him across the room.

🌻 which povs will you be watching the most this season? it's a little early to tell who i'll be sticking with, but in order of importance as of now: etho, cleo, skizz, scar, bdubs, tango, mumbo, grian, joel. this is subject to change as the season goes on but thats more or less who i wanna keep up with!

🪻 what are some things you hope to see this season? on my floor smashing my etho and joel barbie dolls together DO SOMETHING TOGETHER. ANYTHING. an adventure a build a minigame something please i dont care i'll even take just passing comments at each other.

season 10 ask game!

[dreadeves]

yknow, thinking about azula & ursa… we all know azula’s pov on ursa is biased due to her own interpretation of events that happened as a child. ursa didn’t think she was a monster; i think there’s an argument for her being afraid of azula when she was particularly cruel, but largely, i think she was scared for azula considering she knew azula’s abilities would get ozai’s attention because azula’s perceived strength aligned with ozai’s idea of strength.

i think ozai saw a lot of himself in azula. id even argue he loved her, because love and abuse aren’t exclusive things. a talented, powerful second child who deserves the throne in the way the soft first doesn’t. she’s proof that he is powerful. i wouldn’t know exactly how he was raised, but id speculate that he & his family were raised to believe they were better and stronger because of who they are by default all divine right-like. like, id compare him to those like, medieval boy kings who were considered to be bloodthirsty & batshit because no one ever told them no, they had almost unlimited power, and they were told they deserved their throne solely by their blood. and then ozai taught azula this, but azula had the added pressure that she had to be perfect and the most powerful at anything, or else she’d have failed ozai & it wouldn’t be true and her life would be a lie. and ozai is mid at best. like i don’t even think he fought in the military a la we know firstborn heir iroh did, so his pov that he was the most powerful is like, based on the privilege he gained as the second son to the throne (ie best training, food, medical care, etc) as well as divine right of kings bs.

continuing to my original point: yknow how azula disliked iroh/thought he was looking down on her for the doll present? well first off, iroh was not as involved in either azula or zuko’s lives as fandom likes to pretend he was. like he was off committing war crimes. but he gets the doll for azula, because last time he visited her she was [insert age younger than ~7] and like, kids usually like dolls. and she takes it as an insult because can’t you see?? she’s in training to be her father’s heir. she’s good at firebending and fighting. she feels he’s trying to make her into something she’s not because he doesn’t like who she is. he doesn’t know her.

ursa encouraged azula’s friendships with mai and ty lee. she wanted them to be friends and play and be kids. but see: ozai wanted azula to be an extension of himself. she thought she wanted her father’s favor, his pride, and being the best in firebending and ruling and etc is how she could do that.

so ultimately, for me: i feel like azula’s perspective of her mother was shaped by the undercurrents going on here. to azula, ursa didn’t like who she was because ursa was constantly trying to change her (be the kid that she is, discipline her when she messes up, and have friends and play with them). i think this and azula’s first time firebending (ie, where ursa watches azula firebend in horror, knowing that ozai is gonna love to have a firebending prodigy in the family) (& probably other moments tbh) made azula think ursa didn’t love her, and that she thought she was a monster. it’s not true, but i can get why azula thought that way.

like. azula in canon is only 14. she’s grown up in a high stakes high pressure abusive environment. i don’t know if she even knows all the behind the scenes details about the family and in particular, ursa. i don’t know why she’s suddenly the expert on her mother, who disappeared when she was a very young child. some things have to be taken with a grain of salt, yknow?

[ceasarslegion]

Thinking of making a cole/roy toxic ship comic set to some of the lyrics of first love by mitski

[coquelicoq]

Ce n'est pas pourtant que M. Mabeuf eût été dans cette occasion autre chose que l'agent calme et impassible de la providence. Il avait éclairé Marius par hasard et sans le savoir, comme fait une chandelle que quelqu'un apporte; il avait été la chandelle et non le quelqu'un. (t. III, 5, iii, p. 865)

C'est ainsi qu'à travers cet obscurcissement qui se faisait autour de lui, toutes ses espérances s'éteignant l'une après l'autre, M. Mabeuf était resté serein, un peu puérilement, mais très profondément. Ses habitudes d'esprit avaient le va-et-vient d'un pendule. Une fois monté par une illusion, il allait très longtemps, même quand l'illusion avait disparu. Une horloge ne s'arrête pas court au moment précis où l'on en perd la clef. (t. III, 5, iv, p. 869)

i love both of these. so clear and evocative. hugo has such a facility for metaphor.

[exhuastedpigeon]

✨ 2023 writing round-up ✨

I posted the more words to Ao3 this year than I have in any other previous year, which is wild since I only really started writing again in June. It's wild the choke hold that Eddie Diaz and Evan Buckley have on me. Here's my writing round-up for 2023 :)

June

If we’re both still single… Teen || 2.9k

This was my first Buddie fic. Little did I know I was about to fall down the fucking rabbit hole.

“I’m sorry, you’re gonna have to repeat that for me?” Eddie had a beer halfway to his lips, his arm slung lazily on the back of the couch. “If we’re both still single when we’re 35, we should just get married,” Buck repeated, as casually as if he was saying they should order pizza or change the channel from the basketball game to hockey. 

let me see them tan lines Teen || 2.8k

Four times the 118 notices Eddie Diaz's ring tan line and one time he was wearing a ring.

give me a sign, I want you next to me Teen || 7k

Buck loves working at the 118. He loves living in LA. He loves his kid. He loves the life they've manage to build. The only thing he doesn't love is that his husband is across the world in a war zone. OR The 118 knows Buck has a really cute kid and a partner he loves, they just think that partner is his husbands ex.

July

it's like everything you say is a sweet revelation Mature || 5.6k

“Marry me,” Eddie said. It wasn’t a question, it was a sentence. He said it like he was commenting on the weather or last night's Dodgers game. Buck slowly lowered his coffee cup, eyes wide. Eddie lifted his drink and took a sip, a satisfied hum escaped him as he did. “Come again?” “Marry me,” Eddie took another sip of his coffee. “Please?”

boiling point Teen || 2k

Growing up, Buck heard the story about frogs and boiling water, that if you put a frog into boiling water, it’ll jump out, but if you put the frog is put in room temperature water and then slowly bring it to a boil, the frog won’t perceive the danger and will be boiled to death. When he was a kid, he had believed it, like so many other stories and fables. OR Evan Buckley's extremely extended metaphor for loving Eddie Diaz.

August

wet your lips (and smile to the camera) Mature || 6.8k

Buck has a problem and that problem is that Eddie Diaz is going to ruin his life. OR Eddie starts modeling on the side and Buck can't stop looking at his pictures, mostly because Eddie's ads are everywhere.

you are the only one that needs to know Teen || 2k

"You're not my dirty little secret. And I never want you to think that,” Buck says it practically into Eddie’s mouth, with a hand on Eddie’s chest. He shoves him, gently, into the Grant-Nash laundry room next to the bathroom. “But…” “But?” Eddie grins, feels the way Buck is grinning against his lips too and lets himself be moved backward until he collides with the washing machine. “But… I will miss sneaking off to make out with you when we finally tell everyone."

this kiss is something I can't resist Mature || 1.6k

Happiness snuck up on Evan Buckley like a summer storm in Florida, but unlike a summer storm, the happiness he was feeling didn’t seem to be going anywhere. If anything, it was getting bigger, the feeling threatening to jump out of his chest at any moment. 

take my hand, don't let it go Teen || 2.3k

In retrospect, dating a death doula pretty soon after one of the most traumatic experiences of Buck’s life, an experience where he actually died, was maybe not Buck’s smartest decision. In which Buck realizes that dating Natalia isn't what he needs and talks to Eddie about their shared death related trauma.

you're the cream in my coffee Explicit || 8.6k

“Dad, did you know there’s a coffee that’s made of poop!” “It’s not actually made of poop, bud,” Buck grinned, handing Eddie Chris’s backpack. “It’s partially digested cherries. The cherries actually ferment as they’re being passed through the civet’s intestines. They disinfect them and everything before they’re consumed.” “Yeah! That! It’s called copy loo-wake” “Kopi luwak.” “Uh huh!” “I take it you had fun with your Buck today, huh?” “Buck's the best dad!”

September

a dream is a wish your heart makes General || 3.3k

It takes a soft, domestic dream about Buck for Eddie to realize what's been true for a long time - he's in love with his best friend.

October

Hot and Heavy Explicit || 9.4k

Eddie can admit without shame that he’s having a bit of a hoe phase. He’s thirty, recently out of the closet, and even more recently single, he’s allowed to have some fun. In fact, he’s pretty sure it’s basically a requirement that he fuck around since he didn’t get to do it when he was younger. OR Five times Eddie had casual sex with someone who wasn't Buck and the time they finally got their shit together

Feels Like Magic Teen || 47.8k

“You used too much magic again,” Buck’s voice was quiet as he spoke, but he knew Eddie heard him. “You’re alive,” Eddie’s eyes were closed, but Buck knew the look Eddie would be giving him if they had been open. It was the same look Eddie had given him when he had said ‘because, Evan, you think you’re expendable but you’re not’. It was a look that made Buck feel truly and completely seen in a way he never had before. “There’s no such thing as too much if it saves you.” “Go to sleep,” Buck said, because if he left himself say anything else he’d be telling Eddie he loved him and he didn’t think in the bunk room at two in the morning after an exhausting call was the right moment, but then again, Buck was pretty sure he’d be taking that secret to his grave.

November

kiss and make up Explicit || 3.3k

Eddie always thought that if he and Buck ever kissed it would be in the heat of the moment, it would be pure relief that they were still alive. Maybe after a big rescue or (another) near death experience. That if it wasn’t in the heat of the moment as they both came down from an adrenaline rush that it would be something soft, probably in one of their kitchens while they did the dishes. He always figured that the first kiss would be like a homecoming. (Not that Eddie thought about kissing Buck often, because he doesn’t do that.) Instead of being soft and sweet or adrenaline fueled and filled with love and thanks that they're both alive, their first kiss comes in the middle of a fight in Eddie’s living room.

gold when you see me Teen || 4.3k

"Ouch,” Eddie says when he lands, his teeth clacking in his head. His ass hurts in an extremely unfun way, his ankle feels terrible, and he’s seeing spots. None of that is good news. “Eddie?” Buck sounds panicked. “Eddie?” “Down here,” Eddie calls up. He’s definitely going to have a bruised tail bone and there’s a pretty decadent chance that he’s sprained his ankle, if not broken it. He’s a little too shaken up to try to get up right now, especially since it's not like he’s not going to be able to get himself out of here. He takes a deep breath and feels every second of it in his ribs. On the bright side, they don't feel broken, just bruised. Buck’s face, illuminated by nothing but Eddie’s flashlight and Buck’s own, appears in the hole that Eddie fell through. “You okay?” Eddie will explore the tremor in Buck’s voice later, right now he needs to get out of this fucking hole before it caves in even more. “Definitely a little banged up, but I landed on the ground, not anything else.”

wanna lose my mind in a hotel room with you Explicit || 4.1k

"Think you’ll ever have that kind of love?” Eddie asks as he leans against the wall with a beer in his hand at Maddie and Chimney’s engagement party. He’s got a fond look on his face, if not a little wistful as he turns to face Buck. “I hope so,” Buck says with a small smile on his face as he looks from Maddie and Chim dancing with Jee-Yun between them to Eddie. He’s pretty sure he’s already got half of a love like that standing next to him, he just isn’t sure if it’s reciprocated. “I-I really hope so.” “Want to dance with me?” Eddie asks after a few seconds of quiet between them, his eyes bright in the yellow light of the string lights that crisscross the patio. 

December

it hurts to hope for more Mature || 15.5k

“I’m never - I’m never going to be a dad,” Buck sobs into Eddie’s shoulder. “She didn’t want kids. Why do I keep dating people who don’t want the same things as me? Is- is the universe telling me that I don’t deserve it?” “Hey, no,” Eddie pulls back from the hug and Buck lets out a pitiful sound at the loss of contact. “The universe doesn’t do that. The universe doesn’t scream and it definitely doesn’t get to tell you what you deserve, because you deserve everything Buck. Everything.” OR Buck wants to be a dad, it takes a couple break-ups and a major non-romantic heartbreak for him to figure out that maybe he already is.

can't make it stop, give me all you got Explicit || 4.1k

“Are we really doing this?” Buck’s lips graze the shell of Eddie’s ear as he speaks. They're in a club, the music is loud, so Eddie would have chalked the proximity of Buck’s mouth up to that, but Buck nips at his earlobe. “I think we are,” Eddie grins and turns his face to capture Buck’s mouth with his. He doesn’t care that they’re probably in view of all of their friends. He doesn’t care that there are sweaty, dancing bodies all around them. All he can think about is the way Buck’s hands feel on his waist, the way Buck’s breath hitches as Eddie grabs a handful of his ass. OR Eddie and Buck fuck in a club at Pride

[palettepainter]

Here are those Dr Pepper headcannons I accidentally wrote out in that ask just incase any of you Dr Pepper enjoyers wanna read em

-Tina didn't like Floyd from the beginning, so she wasn't exactly pleased when she kept finding her sweet baby boy hanging him. She was convinced that no good busker boy was gonna be a bad influence on her baby. While Teeth and Floyd often tried to keep more intimate moments to themselves, with Tina's constant hovering it was pretty difficult. On the few occasions Tina did allow Floyd over (often after being persuaded by Gerald that everything would be fine) the two had to be very careful, Floyd especially, since Tina would study his every move as if waiting for him to mess up or do something impolite. This is what started Floyd's habit of calling Tina ma'am

-The flashbacks in episode 6 take place during the 1960's, a time where homophobia was still strong in many parts of the world. Tina was suspicious of Floyd, but everytime she got close to thinking there was something more to their friendship she'd laugh lightly to herself, there was no way her sweet boy would fall for someone like Floyd. Whenever the two where round at Floyd's house his parents - Terri and Mick - were only slightly less suspicious. Floyd and Teeth didn't feel quite as pressured and on edge as they did around Tina, they were still careful to keep any actual kissing and such for when they where totally in private, but their facade of being platonic pals sometimes slipped every now and then: Mick and Terri would find the two huddled suspiciously close to each other on the sofa, sometimes they'd catch the way Floyd would smile at Teeth a little longer then he would at others, sometimes they'd catch the two being flustered and sheepish around each other for no reason. Mick was probably the first to put two and two together, neither decided to say anything, figuring Floyd would come to them and tell them if he wanted to

-Any dates they had in private where often in Jerry's Tunes. I like the hc of Floyd and Terri working at the shop, owned by a chap named Jerry (theres a Jim Henson puppet, so I think it'd be sweet if the owner to the shop was a Jerry Nelson puppet), with Terri working as like a second boss whenever Jerry was out of town. Floyd has had to lock up/open shop before so he has access to the keys, and on his shifts, during the boiling summer afternoons when everybody was out or in the cold winters when everybody was huddled inside, the two would hang out in Jerry's Tunes. Durning his later shifts in the evenings sometimes the two would hang out in the small staff only room (basically a very small kitchen with drinks, food, some chairs and a toilet), they'd talk about random things and practise music together, exchange eager but still shy kisses, just a lot of innocent messing about

-When he was younger Floyd was not a picky eater and generally ate anything, which sometimes meant he didn't eat the most nutritious food. Teeth took note of this after watching Floyd eat so microwavable snacks at work, so one day he brought Floyd a small tub of his families famous gumbo. Floyd promptly devoured the serving in ten minutes, and to this day swears up and down that no body cooks gumbo the way Teeth does. When they where younger it was one of the few ways Teeth could make a gesture of affection without drawing suspicion

-They had a few dates down by the swamps. Teeth's Grandma lives down in the bayou so he's not scared of the place, but he knows to respect it and not mess around. Floyd often walked across precariously floating logs at the edge of the swamp just to mess with Teeth, or he'd pick up a frog and surprise Teeth with it - by letting it jump at him when Teeth least expected it. Floyd would always apologise and never took things too far to the point either where in actual danger though (the two did get chased a little by an alligator one time though, causing Teeth to become very angry at Floyd when all he could do was laugh - albeit from fear and the rush of aniety. They where fine in the end)

-The two have very different builds to each other, and that was the same when they where younger. Teeth was short and plump while Floyd was skinny and lean. The two didn't really share their clothes, but Teeth one time offered Floyd his signature jacket to wear when Floyd left his at home. Teeth's jacket was too big on Floyd, especially concerning the sleeves, which dangled over his hands. He laughed while he rolled the sleeves up saying how he was "I'm practically drownin' in this thing!" Teeth thought he looked very cute, and made a habit of offering his jacket to Floyd whenever he could

-During his early teen years Floyd was very self conscious about his eyes, or lack there of, so he started to wear glasses in an act to try and look more normal (also because his eyesight was bad, Floyd has long since given up trying to understand how one without pupils has bad eyesight). Teeth always knew Floyd had...well, voids in the place of eyes, but when he first saw Floyd with his glasses off it felt special to him, because he got to admire Floyd's face in it's entirety. To Floyd's surprise Teeth was actually enwrapped with Floyd's eyes, he found them fascinating, unique, special. It was one of the few things that got Floyd flustered when they where younger

[thisisnotthenerd]

Neverafter Episode 14: Daughters of the Crown thoughts and musings. Spoilers Ahead.

Well, I got my wish for a gerelody reunion, almost verbatim.

I’m glad that it wasn’t cut-and-dry. That both of them had the opportunity to say the things they needed to say and had the time and space to process a reunion. I think a truer aspect of Gerard’s curse is coming forth--that the ratio of frog to man isn’t really dependent on Elody and how much she loved him, but more on his own sense of self and what defines his nature, after having lived so long as a frog.

Elody got into the meat of her issue with the world, being that the simplest parts of her life are the only things being preserved in story. That the person she is and the struggles she has experienced beyond that aren’t worth remembering. I think her motivation there is definitely closer to the party than it is to the princesses, but who knows how that will change.

As for the princesses, I’m concerned about the next action they will take. The suicidal nature of their mission to destroy and restructure the Neverafter is unsettling and speaks to a lack of regard for stories and people other than themselves as well as a deeply sad reason for their mission. They all want a better future for themselves by whatever means necessary; at the very least, those that have been in on it the longest don’t have a regard for other stories and/or people if they stand in their way. Emily hit it on the head: we didn’t know if they were right or just young, hot, and good with magic and weapons. Now we know their interests diverge, and a fight with them will not go well for the party.

The prehensile hair on Rapunzel is terrifying, and only knowing that her persona is performative on a nat 20 perception check tells me that there’s a lot more going on under that hair of hers. Also, they know that Cinderella is more of a frontlines person, but have no idea the extent of la Bête’s power, and Snow White literally has an army. Elody and Mira are newer--not Twice-Upon-A-Time. I think they’re unlikely to do battle against Destiny’s Children unless they’re heavily coerced. They’re hostages, whether they’ve realized it or not.

However, Destiny’s Children has been collecting power and information in a way that somewhat destabilizes them; each party member has something they could do to dramatically change their course of action.

From a terrestrial perspective, while Gerard and Elody aren’t in a perfect place, I have a feeling that a proper conversation with her could deeply influence her perspective on the princesses, especially if the party is advocating to get her out. Rosamund’s first loyalty isn’t to the princesses; if she refuses to commit to the plan, and Elody or even Mira choose not to as well, the princesses are going to lose their advantage in numbers and probably seek to take them back by force, which detracts from their greater goal.

On a multiversal scale, four of Destiny’s Children are working with a power set was specifically granted to them by a higher power, greater than the princesses or fairies. Ylfa has the blessing of Death on her--my theory being that if the Wolf was not saved, she was being unknowingly set up to take on the role. He wanted her to live even when she was killing herself before him. There’s a little inconsistency in that she didn’t gain a greater awareness upon consuming the Wolf the way the Baron of Bricks did, but that could come down to a few things: he wasn’t boiled down the way he was in the soup, she was still confined to her original story and thus could not become aware immediately, or even that he simply wanted to preserve her remaining innocence with regard to the Neverafter, when she had already lost so much.

Pib, while technically only functioning with the memories of a Twice-Upon-A-Time, is fundamentally a trickster archetype. Theory time: he may not have the power that the BBW or the various Geese do, but being an archetype grants these characters a certain amount of power and perspective that the ‘protagonist’ characters don’t have. Pib has been the one to make discoveries on a wide variety of fronts--he got the true books out of the Lines Between, which gave the party a major advantage in terms of figuring out the Neverafter and gave Pinocchio the opportunity to seize his own destiny. He can make big swings without compromising his role and thus isn’t as constrained as the other party members. We know that the Stepmother, who gains from consumption of other stories, is a powerful threat; however, though she was a warlock patron, I don’t think she’s quite on same axis as the bigger players like the BBW, the Geese, or the Baba Yaga. She doesn’t have a universal awareness. Pib could theoretically take that on.

Pinocchio, on the other hand, is the boy of destiny. He’s wielding his story like a weapon. There is a great deal of power to that--I think he’s one of the party members they’d try to control immediately aside from Timothy. He can call on parts of his story that are actively dangerous i.e. il Terribile Pescecane--maybe not consciously, but it’s a risk they’d have to take with him around. For all that Pinocchio suffered in his tales, there’s a lot that could come out of that book.

Speaking of books, I think Timothy is going to be in a tight spot after this. Knowing that all they have to do is get the ink to him, I think the princesses may be gunning for him as a tool. There’s no way he would put it down, but I’d be willing to bet that the prehensile hair would be in the room while he’s sleeping, just waiting for an opportunity. Also, if they know he’s on his last wish, the idea may be to trigger that into killing him and then just take the book for themselves. The princesses are certainly ruthless and I wouldn’t put it past them, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel especially, to do that.

[momo-t-daye]

@cerise-grenadine asked me for 1, 4, 11, 21, and 27 for the Snapedom AU Ask Game!

1.) Do you have a name and/or a tag and/or a master post for your AU (so I can peruse your blog and admire your creativity)?

I usually remember to tag my AU as: “Self-indulgent AU” here, on Ao3 I have the student years grouped as “Viridian by Volition” and Harry years mostly under “The Godmother”, my master post (more or less in story order and usually updated) is here (and pinned on my blog!)

4.) What your favorite thing about your AU? (Does it make you cackle with glee or do you break your own heart?)

I am very much a cackler rather than an angst-er and thinking about the change in relationship dynamics between my AU!Severus and various other characters— particularly Lily and Tobias and Harry and Sirius— is a good way to make myself cackle.  Especially when I can come up with absurd shenanigans that escalate into chaos and mayhem because Severus isn’t so painfully isolated/hated.

11.) Do you know if Severus going to escape the gravitational pull of the canon narrative/fate in your AU?

I love Snape!lives and one of the fun things for me in playing with AU thoughts is trying to figure out how various changes can cascade in ways that will lead to Severus surviving and getting to deal with the daunting task of living after the war and mission are over, so, yes, the gravitational pull of the canon narrative will be quite strong and some story beats are very clingy (…because it is what I like to build off of and reflect on), but I do expect the changes in interactions/relationships/events to provide sufficient escape velocity!

21.) Is there another canon character that plays a major role in your AU!Snape’s life?  What role do they play and how does it differ from their canon relationship with Snape?

Aside from his parents, Lily, the Marauders, the Malfoys, Voldemort, Dumbledore and Harry, hmm… none with quite as major role in AU!Sev’s life, but Tuney and Tonks both play larger roles in my silly little AU than in canon.  I am fascinated by the Cokeworth years and Tuney was there and she has so much story potential of her own!  Tonks, for her part, is recognized as one of the leading experts on Polyjuice Potion to her exasperation and it is all Severus’ fault (golly, I should get back to writing that…)

27.) Do you have a snippet of prose (or an art piece or a list of headcanons) from your AU that you particularly enjoy and want to share?

Heh heh heh, an excuse to share snippets from “Revising Their Stars” (the title is a bit of a pun, I really like puns and terrible wordplay and maybe that’s obvious) because I’m still happy I managed to do words! Sirius’ POV (post willow incident, but there were consequences in this AU that stymied the escalation that led to SWM):

Snape was hardly a simpleton, but he could leap to conclusions like a rubber frog with springs on. With the way his scrawny body seemed to be trying to meld arse first into the stone wall, he had probably hopped his head right into some dire soup.

(Because frogs can leap, and rubber bounces so a rubber frog could probably cross quite a distance, and once springs get added on even oceans are hardly a barrier; and then there’s the oblique reference to the “boiling frog” urban legend)

Severus Snape had such tar pit eyes. The gaze was dark and inexplicably sticky as he studied Sirius. There was no escape from that sort of stare. … … Severus Snape’s full attention was intoxicating. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad, drowning in those lightless eyes. His bones could rest with all the other skeletons buried down there.

(Maybe it’s Legilimency, maybe it’s Maybelline. Unfortunately the geology in the UK doesn’t appear to have anything comparable to the La Brea tar pits, but I liked the idea because tar pits are dark and dangerous and very capable of holding onto skeletons from the past, right?)

[chuck-snowbug]

Kazenomori(Japanese Sake/風の森 ALPHA 1 夏の夜空 2023), Tianfu Sauce Duck feat. Hungry "I WANNA EAT" Frog, Spicy Tomato Stew, Boiled Egg with Homemade Mayonnaise, Steamed Corncob & Chinese Dumpling of "Shangri-La" - June 2024

[sing-me-under]

Karlity for my AO3 fic “Frog In A Boiling Pot”

The Basic Premise of the fic is that Karl shows up in Las Nevadas with no memory of the past two-ish years. After an awkward reunion with Quackity, Karl finds out that Sapnap has been missing for about a month, when Dream attacked Kinoko.

Anyway, this fic started with me just wanting to write Karl flirting with Quackity. At some point I was like “where is Sapnap? I don’t know how to introduce Sapnap. Guess he’s MIA now” and then the plot grew around that lol. I don’t normally pants my stories, but the first eight chapters of Frog In A Boiling Pot were spawned into existence at 3AM on the Apple notes app then edited in grammarly just before I post them. Don’t worry. I figured out what I was doing soon enough.

[lesbian-gnf-archive]

(lurker anon here) my god thats so evil . ever since i started to lurk around the face reveal i got the impression that dream was the one who was head over heels for him but somehow its fitting that george was Like That .

funny story is that i had Never heard about dream before he face revealed lol sometimes im surprised to see he was involved in so much discourse and i managed to completely miss everything. i only found out abt him because the day he face revealed was also the day of the first term of brazilian elections and it was so fcking funny seeing the votes being counted and some people losing their minds about the reveal in my timeline lmaooo and also he looked very nice (and handsome!!) and everybody was being so mean :( made my heart ache a bit BUT glad to see hes happy and living his best life and hanging out in LA with his boyfriend 🫶 its what he deserves

Ohhhh wow ur a post face reveal person Yeah uhm. The internet has never been normal about Dream when he came out in April last year his doxx trended for five days straight and literally all he said was "I'm not gay, I find women very attractive. Some men are okay too" after being more specific and personal on reddit months before. The internet needs to die and my heart breaks for him every but Anyways

Yeah George has always been down bad and has always treated Dream very differently than he treats everyone else. And to be clear Dream is too but he was frog boiled by his feelings late 2020/early 2021 and then hit with a train by them. Here's a clip from 2019.

And also just a very few pics of George listening/talking to Dream before he ever saw his face

The first one he is literally sitting right next to Sapnap for the first time and they're talking about SKEPPY.

[bandcampsnoop]

2/24/24.

DIIV (Brooklyn, New York) has a new album coming out in late May. "Brown Paper Bag" is the only song currently available. It reminds me of the underrated Erik Blood.

Without a doubt DIIV get filed under shoegaze. But there is definitely the melodic sensibilities of Deerhunter. I'd also like to redirect everyone to Launder - an LA based project that enlisted the help of DIIV's Zachary Cole Smith.

"Frog In Boiling Water" will be released via Fantasy Records. Their website still has a signed copy of the LP for sale.

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could you explain the nursery rhyme 'une souris verte'? i know its just a silly nonsense song for children, but i simply cant comprehend it. is it about a frog? i dont know!

Salut ! (I apologize in advance for any spelling/grammar errors) Honestly, this song doesn't make any sense for French speakers either... A green mouse running in the grass, dipped in water, dipped in oil, who then becomes a hot snail... this doesn't really make any sense to anyone. So, short answer : I don't know what this nursery rhyme means, sorry! Long answer : Many French nursery rhymes have hidden meanings about dark subjects, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was the case here as well. I have tried to search for its real (hidden) meaning, but its origin is a bit blurry. I have found some "resources" (x , x, x) that offer some possible explanations : 1. The green mouse might refer to a royalist soldier who was captured during "la guerre de Vendée" ( War in the Vendée, a civil war in the west of France between the Republicans and the Royalists during the French Revolution). So this royalist soldier/green mouse gets captured by a republican soldier. The republican soldier then shows the prisoner to his superiors ( je la montre à ses messieurs // I show it to these gentlemen). They, then, decide to torture the captive, by either boiling him in water or in oil (or both), transforming him into a hot snail... (?) Other version : They do torture him but he gives them information and is rewarded with a coin symbolized by the "hot snail" (?) Critique of this explanation (Source : x, x) It seems that this explanation kind of appeared out of nowhere in 2010 : there are no sources to back it up. This explanation remains "ambiguë et douteuse" (ambiguous and questionable.) 2. The green mouse might refer to a woman hunted during a witch hunt (chasse aux sorcières). Accused of being a witch, she is dipped in oil/water before being burnt at the stake (aka turned into a hot snail)... Again, nothing to back it up... So long answer : I still don't know what this nursery rhyme means, sorry ! PS : The song is now stuck in my head.

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*pops back in from the void* I GOT CAJUN FOOD HOMIES!! BOTH VEGAN AND NON VEGAN!! Some food might be spicy so be careful!

*starts passing out food* here is some Vegan Gumbo, Cajun Hummus, Cajun Cauliflower With Cilantro-Avocado Sauce, Cajun Style Vegan Red Beans and Rice, Spicy Vegan Cajun Pasta and it’s non spicy version, Vegan Étouffée, and Vegan Jambalaya! For the vegetarian peeps!

Potato salad, Pecan pralines, Tarte à la Bouillie, for both sides!

And for the non vegetarian peeps, I got: Traditional Gumbo both spicy and non spicy, Etouffee, Traditional Jambalaya, Crawfish Boil, Boudin Sausage, Traditional Beans and Rice, Boudin Balls, Dirty Rice, Fried frog legs, and Rice and gravy!

Enjoy!! I got myself some Dirty Rice and Jambalaya, some of the crawfish boil, and some frog legs!

Oh, I love you. Sorry Golden. -Zenith🌩️

None taken. You’re still my husband even if you love them for Cajun food. -Golden Freddy🐻

I can’t eat right now. My baby is absolutely wrecking my appetite. Mommy loves you but you’re making me so nauseous right now. -Eclipse��

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tumblr desktop slowly morphing into a sleeker site a la beta editor (not too bad) and then the popups at the bottom (terrible) and the option to blaze a post as a popup at the bottom (garish, inviting violence) is a development thats like... boiling frogging us i think

[a-still-small-vox]

le vicomte de valmont and la présidente de tourvel is a very boil-the-frog situation, but i did NOT expect the whole cécile and valmont situation to go from 0 to 1,000 on the horrible scale in literally one day

la détérioration de la situation avec le vicomte de valmont et la présidente de tourvel est assez lent que l’horreur de la situation ne me frappe pas dans le moment, mais la situation avec cécile et valmont est devenu épouvantable dans un seul jour