#absolutely nutty

[sahxyelart]

Poem: Excerpt from Invictus by William Ernest Henley

[b1tterb1tch]

Birthdays are pretty cool cause like?? Hey I'm still here?? That's pretty wack my guy, imma celebrate that shit

[ricky-olson]

no but watching some people twist jonathan’s every move and then defend billy is 🤡

is the circus in town because i see way too many CLOWNS!!!

[deadmomjokes]

I used to hate herbal tea. I drank it for medicinal purposes, but it was a chore. But then I learned The Secret, the one that makes herbal tea not only palatable, but enjoyable. Tasty. Delightful, even. I will tell it to you now:

Herbal tea is not tea.

Duh, you say, but let me explain further.

Herbal tea is not tea, and it will suck if you treat it like tea.

Actual tea, as in the tea plant Camellia sinensis, has very specific steep times and temperatures. This varies by variety (green vs black vs white), but it all comes down to a common factor:

Tea is high in tannins.

Tannins make stuff bitter. Tannins are released from the tea if you heat it too high or too long (again, specifics depend on variety but the point stands). If you steep it too long, BOOM, tannins. You put it in water that is still boiling or hasn’t cooled down enough from boiling? TANNINS. You get nasty, bitter, burnt-grass-tasting tea.

Herbal tea almost universally doesn’t have tannins. This means you almost universally can’t over-steep herbal tea. And in fact, and listen up because this is the practical part of the secret, you need to steep it way longer than actual tea if you want to get the flavors into the water!

Those recommended steep times on your herbal tea box are based off actual tea (black tea to be specific). It’s usually somewhere around 5-7 minutes, but what you actually need is something like 10-15 minutes.

And most conventional tea-making wisdom will tell you to not put the water in too soon after boiling, but again, that’s for tannin-rich Camellia sinensis. You could literally boil* your herbal tea if you wanted. It might make it slightly less sweet depending on variety, and you will probably bust your tea bag doing so, but my point is that you should put as hot of water as you can get into your steeping vessel. As in kettle starts whistling, pour it in immediately over the tea bag. Then let it sit for 10-15 minutes as discussed above.

The only exceptions that I know of personally are meadowsweet, red raspberry leaf, and yarrow, and only one of those is a very common herbal tea ingredient. And honestly, it’s not even high enough in tannins to affect your whole cup if it’s just part of a blend.

So please stop drinking weak plant-adjacent water and start getting the actual flavors you paid for.

*I have actually just dumped herbs in a pot and boiled them and it made a delicious tea. I used lavender, chamomile, lemon balm, and mint, all of which I’d grown myself, and literally just tossed the fresh-picked sprigs into a pot and boiled the crap out of it for close to 10 minutes because I forgot about it while I was rearranging the freezer. It was delicious and not bitter at all despite being a color I can only describe as “positively murky,” and I could taste every single one of the herbs I put in there. It also made my whole apartment smell like a sunny meadow. Do with this information what you will. Am I recommending you boil the devil out of your herbal tea bags? Not necessarily. But I’m also not not recommending it.

[theggning]

My favorite underrated/undiscussed Godot detail/joke: 

In Bridge to the Turnabout, revealing a heretofore unknown soft spot for children, Godot gives a stranded Pearl his last cup of coffee. He seasoned it for her with milk and sugar, to “cover up the bitter truth.” Godot, as we all know, only takes his coffee black. 

So not only did Godot carry enough coffee on his person to still have a cup leftover after more than 36 hours on the mountain, but even though he will never need them himself, he readily carries milk and sugar JUST IN CASE somebody needs their coffee seasoned. 

What an absolute fucking lunatic. I love him. 

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Where’s a supercut of Sousuke eating when i need it? He’s so funny!

And some other versions and stills:

[milianthus]

CLAUDE ALT CLAUDE ALT!!! one move and a thanksgiving later i've finally finished golden breeze claude!! of whom can have a beard with his ng+ hair as a treat

we finally have our fifth claude in feh, even if he doesn't quite fit the theme the other two have going on

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i love driving on perilous roads at night when it's just me and my good friend Cars Behind Me

[patrickztump]

if i was one of the twenty random people selected to have allie replaced with my name in 2011 and, after saying it repeatedly, patrick stump said “tonight we ought to do naughty things” i would have a stroke

[placetneplacet]

ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

GONG JUN SUGAR BABY UNIVERSE OFFICIALLY ON VIKI!

Come one, come all QL Corner to the Utter Insanity of post censorship, but already shot CBL at its height!

Come for Gong Jun Sugar Baby, stay for Daddy Body Guard, Artful Dodger and Femme Fake Boyfriend…

(Now who do I speak to at Viki regarding Like Love…)

Run don’t walk to the show that must be SEEN to be Believed…

[bow4thecamera]

im quite endeared by the fact that fake peppino backs the fuck up if he catches up to n hits you during the chase sequence like........bro is just playing around !! he's sillying to the best of his abilities and accidentally gave you a bop

[fizzytoo]

[lemonsweet]

WHHHOAAT!!!! YOU'VE NEVER HAD CHOCOLATE‼️⁉️⁉️

[curi0uscreature]

* Pondering about the dynamics in my head again and the idea of Lumpy and Nutty’s one sided rivalry that’s majority on Nutty’s side to the point he just despises Lumpy is so good because there’s several key examples backing this up 

[kingdom-dance]

TY @asian-ascian​ for this @shepherds-of-haven relationship chart that I spent so much time on 💙 it’s fun to be insane about these little guys. Anyway under the cut as promised is more about Chase and Niamh’s relationship because I’m super normal about them.

Chase gives Niamh much needed permission to be just a little selfish for once. He protects her from her fate as a martyr, as she is inclined to become, keeps her from pouring from an empty cup, and uses his own to fill hers without complaint, without expectation of return. Niamh is a lighthouse,not an anchor for him. She won’t stifle him, but she is that constant that he can come home to. Safety, a beacon of sorts. She is often stuck in her own head with her thoughts and Chase is very good at pulling her out of that and knowing when she needs it. I think also they are very in-tune with each other, and anticipating the other’s needs (not wants) is a big part of it. I think to her, Chase is most willing to see her as a person and not this holder of enormous power or some mysterious creature. He knows her without pretense, and she, with some patience learns him just as well.

[dirtyoldmanhole]

by the power of my dick for a geriatric i will learn how to Art

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