#and i don't like wine lol

[poet-tree-lines]

since the weather changed again I wanted to put my 'Liquid Warmth’ mulled wine (not ‘mold’ wine eugh) recipe out there

- 1 bottle fruity wine (substitute for other wines at your own risk/discretion) - 1 stovetop burner & suitable size pot (2-3 liter? gallon?) - 1 bottle/package/serving of mulling spices mix (IKEA makes a bottle, some place make a box mix, World Market has I don’t know what since it’s in german, you can also apparently sub in a thing of sangria mix, I don’t care)

- 1 bag of apple cider tea AND/OR - spices of your choice (think nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, etc., but keep in mind this is fruit themed)

Dump everything but the tea (if you’re using it) into a pot on the stove.

Set the stove to medium heat

Let it heat up. Bring it almost but not quite to a boil

Add tea (if you’re using it)

Let simmer (low low heat) for 15 min. or until you’re ready to serve it, whichever comes first

Pour into cups and consume, once it has reached a drinkable temperature

[sergle]

I think my favorite thing about doing ginger red hair instead of cherry red hair is: lying to people about it

[almondcroissantsandink]

was absolutely stopped in my tracks and BLOWN away yesterday at work when a coworker called me pure; I literally haven't been called that in over a decade and there's always been something about it that rubs me the wrong way

[trans-cuchulainn]

two questions to ask yourself when you start looking for pre-christian material in medieval literature:

1. when are these texts from

2. when did christianity come to this area

i can guarantee you in the vast majority of celtic-language sources (and others) the answer to 2. is several centuries before 1. and at that point you gotta ask yourself... how likely is it that these people would be writing about something that has not been a thing for them or anyone they know for, like, four hundred years (or, in many cases, eight or nine hundred years), especially given that most of the people doing that writing are not merely passively existing in a christian society but are, yunno, monks

there are exceptions! but there are way fewer exceptions than you think there are gonna be! and the exceptions are almost always extremely nebulous sub layers that can't be disentangled from the other layers (which are christian) with any certainty so are always somewhat speculative!

and most importantly those other layers are interesting too, but if you only ever treat them like dirt to dig through to get to something "real" underneath you're sure gonna be disappointed a lot of the time (and you're gonna miss a lot of cool shit that would be really exciting if this was an actual archaeological dig and not a metaphor)!!

[tennessoui]

can’t believe there’s no balcony neighbors to friends to lovers obikin au

so like imagine like anakin and obi-wan live in apartments that face each other and are separated by a narrrow alleyway, so when both are out on their own balconies, they can pretty easily see each other and talk. they don’t but they could is the thing, it’s just a weird sort of line to step over, being in someone’s space so intimately but not being invited there, witnessing someone’s life move along like an unstoppable ocean current, but not being in the water with them.

anakin knows what book obi-wan is reading and which newspaper he subscribes to. obi-wan knows anakin’s favored brand of beer and how he sounds when he sings his baby to sleep. anakin has overheard many arguments between obi-wan and his lawyer and his estranged wife about the divorce case. they’re physically close enough that when anakin steps out one summer night, obi-wan can wordlessly pass him a cigarette over the divide. “i don’t smoke normally,” obi-wan says, with a flick of his wrist to shake loose the ash. “i know,” anakin says, because he does. “divorce was finalized yesterday,” obi-wan says. “i know,” anakin says, because he does. “my name’s obi-wan,” obi-wan says. “anakin,” anakin says because he hadn’t known that.

[velvetwyrme]

So OG Sans can play the trombone, Underfell! Sans plays a trumpet according to his creator. Do you think any of the other au skeletons play instruments? Part of me wants Swap! Papyrus to play the drums solely so he can make the ba dum tss sound. Other other half of me wants to give him an electric keyboard that is always set to the silly sound effects setting like duck quacks and dogs barking.

Ooooo that's a good question!!! 👀!!!!!!! I have many many thoughts on this and have settled on exactly 0 of them!! (I have multiple opposing headcanons and simply pick and choose whatever I think is funniest/most interesting for the situation)

ONE of them is "all the Sanses play brass wind instruments, and all the Papyri play percussion or strings" (One of the bits in the Papyrus QnA also reinforced this for me)

I love love love the idea of Swap!Pap playing drums!! He also strikes me as a guitar guy tbh (*pointedly looks away from the Bard in Flipping Fate*) I feel like he's also the most likely to own a kazoo or a ukelele though. Maybe even an omatone.

... Funny you mention using a keyboard for silly sounds! In a deleted scene from EOVD, Swapfell!Papyrus has a soundboard lmao. I can also see him playing a cello or bass... (or at least, for the way I write him.) Speaking of the way I write him- I've also made reference to him being a trombone player for a one off gag lol. Bwuuu.

In the same vein of "things I've written about/gestured at before", but I don't think classic Pap ever settles on an instrument. He tries out a bunch but never ends up playing one more than any other. So in a way I can see him with any and all instruments lol.

If sticking by the Sans=Brass rule, I feel like Swap!Sans and Swapfell!Sans would have either a saxophone (more like saxobone) or a tuba. Either combination works in my mind. If not sticking by that rule, I could see Swapfell!Sans playing a string instrument maybe? Or a clarinet lol. Swap!Sans also strikes me as a trumpet guy, if you don't mind overlaps.

Underfell!Papyrus ... I like to think he plays piano :] In contrast to the existing discussions about where the piano falls on the scale between percussion and strings; any instrument is a percussion instrument if you hit it hard enough.

Additionally. I think he was taught to play piano by UF!dyne and you can pry this headcanon from my cold dead hands !!!!!!!

Also as a bonus, I think Horror!Pap would play the harp. No particular reason, I just like the visual of it lol. Horror!Sans probably just... stopped playing his trombone, and after getting his head injury either picks it up again or resorts to humming/tapping along instead because fine motor control is harder for him :p

[why-the-heck-not]

31.01.23, tuesday

going on a wine course with my mom !!  and we also went for drinks after bc yes <3 Nice times, seems like tuesdays are going to be my fave days for the next couple of weeks

[theramblingvoid]

Thinking about Mr Wines today (possible spoilers ahead? for something implied in several places but never outright said)

If the theory that Wines is a demoted Judgement is true, I wonder how that must feel for it, physically...imagine being an entity of light and law and pure heat only, a literal star, and then suddenly a physical flesh-and-bones creature.

- it probably forgot to eat a lot in the beginning, and then got dizzy and remembered oh, right, this lesser form doesn't even fuel itself with elemental fusion >:/

- what if when it's not actively doing something it's just. Completely still. It's used to just hanging in a set place in the cosmos, so it doesn't really have the instincts to fidget or keep track of where its limbs are when at rest. The other Masters will sometimes just find it staring at a wall in the Bazaar with one wing held kinda weird like it just forgot about it there, until it gets broken out of its train of thought

- maybe it likes to drink because alcohol makes it feel warm and invincible and a little bit foggy, the closest it can get to the way existence used to feel outside of the limits of a biological body. (well yknow, that reason and the depression, but it can multitask)

- on a more light-hearted note, I wonder how long it took for it to learn how to work the wings? I'm guessing Very Long. And many crash landings.

- ...I wonder if it bonded with Veils in the Neath because it could relate to feeling trapped down here and wanting to rebell against the limits imposed on it by law, even though Veils yearned for something lower (the hunt, the kill) and Wines for its old higher power back

[wewontbesleeping]

i'm so glad i didn't inherit the alcohol enjoying gene

[afaramir]

Your ™ (aside from faramir obv) is how unhinged you are about denethor AND having the most correct takes abt him🧡. Oh and also oranges maybe

AAAA...THANK YOU ??? THIS KNOCKED ME FLAT like for real i cannot express how much ive been thinking about this ask all day. like i was in the grocery store thinking about it. i cant decide if it's funnier if you've been here since i was 19 and a hater and watched me have my dramatic change of heart in real time or if youre new here and don't know my tragic backstory. TO ME it's hilarious to be assigned denethor girl bc like teenage me is having a heart attack but i bear the badge with pride nevertheless <3333 and thats what we call character growth!

pj had totally got me with the mad-and-vindictive-with-despair denethor gambit for years and years but literally i started working on the faramir goes to rivendell au and thought for about two seconds about how complex both faramir and boromir's relationships with their father are and how the film changes genuinely weaken all of their characters so much and did a total 180 degree turn on a dime. by doing denethor dirty i would automatically be doing faramir dirty and then i started thinking and went hang on a second he is so complex and interesting actually. like i can't emphasize how much that was the exact logic that allowed me to achieve this development.

i mean okay LISTEN TO ME oh my GOD denethor IS a good leader there's a reason why gondor stood so long alone against the enemy and he NEARLY fucking beat SAURON in 30 years worth of head-to-head knock-down-drag-out psychic stalemate warfare and he only falls into despair when he loses both of his sons. you don't need to like him to respect the achievement!

i almost put a read more here but fuck it denethorposting on main. hit j on your keyboard or do a big scroll if youre sick of me LOL

i am very well known for going totally feral over duty vs love dynamics and that is literally what is going on between denethor and his sons. he cannot be their father and their commander at the same time and they are at war!!! being their commander has to win out above all else!!! whether any of them like it or not!!! do you know what ruthlessness means do you understand that duty wins this one.

do u guys understand that denethor and faramir are a father and son who love each other above else and yet do not like each other at all. there was a schism somewhere there along the line and love without bitterness and political sniping and ideological misalignment is a DISTANT MEMORY. No Of Course He Shouldn't Have Said He Wished Faramir And Boromir's Places Exchanged Jesus Christ No Son Should Have To Hear That From Their Father But Girl Sometimes When You're Grieving You Say Stupid Shit That You Shouldn't Have. doesn't mean you should've said it but [pippin voice] we can understand poor denethor a bit better, huh?

its just so interesting to me to think about faramir and denethor's relationship from a standpoint of like. ok listen good stewards that are not good fathers and dutiful sons who will not compromise their moral compasses for love. i don't like you and i agree with approximately 1% of everything you've said ever and your expectations of me have always been unreasonably high even when i was a child but you also are the only person who could ever understand the terrifying psychic powers that just live inside my brain and you are probably the incarnation of lordly dignity and power that i have had and i have wanted to emulate all my life and i still have the instinct to ask for your approval even if i'm going to hate what you're going to say. and when i'm dying i will call out for you. and i don't like you and your moral compass is going to get you and me and everyone in our city killed and you haven't listened to a single thing i've said since you were fourteen and i fucking hate that you're listening to and trusting the fucking wizard over me but you are my best captain and you are everything that i wished i could've been without the war and you'll never understand that that's why i pushed you so hard i just wanted you to live. and if you couldn't live at least we could die together. LISTEN i am a faramir girl until the death you all KNOW THIS BUT THESE TWO THINGS ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE- [i am forcibly yanked offstage]

[icewindandboringhorror]

more photo diary posts.. various life images...

[wine-and-madness]

Me, with my grandma, drinking wine, internally: Yo Dionysus how should I drink this wine

Dionysus: CHUG

Me: Pfft if you say so

[rosegardenpink]

i think my ultimate ot4 is naviidi/astarion/jaheria/halsin

[bolly--quinn]

What do you think that scene at the end of "Bethic Twinstinct" with Rick hiding the wine is supposed to mean?

I love that moment! And I think it's really a double meaning imo. One, the writers are shelving this plotline (like the Meeseeks box is in that cabinet too and when's the last time we saw them??) like a 'been there, done that' situation. Two, in the actual show, I think it shows how Rick feels about the situation as a whole. Like sure, he 'seemed' cool with it to Beth (although, he warned her about how it would affect the family and how that kind of pure self indulgence can negatively impact your loved ones) but his body language especially at the end of the ep signifies otherwise (he even remarks to Jerry that he 'learned a lesson' too) and his response to the situation as a whole is to inact preventive measures 'saving' Beth from herself and those kind of choices. I feel like a portion of the fandom seem confused about the wine as a 'love potion' of sorts, although I see it more of an aphrodiac (it is Venusian after all, Venus named after the Goddess of Love. It made them speak 'Venusian' which in reality was just french and is sexy as hell, etc.) like oysters or chocolate. Rick getting rid of the wine, in my opinion, is very similar to babyproofing a liquor cabinet. He saw the outcome of Beth and Space Beth accessing it and doesn't want to take the chance of it happening again, essentially locking it away and destroying the remote access to it (I'm sure if HE really wanted to, he could find a way to access that cabinet again but the most important part is keeping HER out of it, i.e babyproofing)

[maxsix]

[supercantaloupe]

that "does alcohol Actually taste good/bad" discourse du jour on this website is so silly to me. sometimes people just have different tastes