#just me going to fancy food

[heretherebedork]

I wil be leaving very soon for my birthday dinner at Esme which is another prix fixe restaurant in Chicago so I will, again, be live bloggin myself eating artistic foods so... if you don't wanna see me reblogging this post like 100000 times with pictures of food, the tags are francis eats or francis irl.

Anyway!

Otherwise, welcome to another magical and wild journey of REALLY EXPENSIVE food on a snowy day now that I've turned a prime number. It's gonna, hopefully, be a delicious ride!

Also, they have a non-alcoholic drinks pairing I could get and I am seriously tempted.

(@absolutebl I always gotta tag you on a gastronomic journey, right?)

[izzystizzys]

not to be a party pooper on the usual crack programming of this blog, but one thing i’ve noticed really turns me off in fic is the tendency to really go in on senator orn free taa’s size in some corners of fandom

and i don’t mean this as an accusation, more as like from the perspective of someon who’s maybe uncommonly sensitive on topics like that due to extensive experience with EDs across the board, i can’t help but notice how pervasive the conflation of morality and body is in our society. and this doesn’t mean everyone does it, obviously, or that people do it maliciously or even consciously, it’s just something i noticed about this character in particular

anyways just food for thought

[woahthisguy4721]

YOU CANNOT EAT SOFT FOODS THAT HAVE MOLDED YOU CANNOT PLEASE P L E A S E DO NOT CUT MOLD OFF OF SOFT FOOD AND EAT IT

[rxttenfish]

one thing that i keep waffling back and forth on (because im still thinking about writing out the Symptoms Of A Merfolk Crush (Merfolk Has Crush On You) and its relevant) is the topic of merfolk social grooming, mostly in the form of licking each other

primarily this is because theyre. you know. marine animals. grooming is important to them yes but licking isnt really how its done and wouldnt do as much as it does on land - usually it would occur in the past more of removing sufficiently large enough objects with the hands or mouth and anything smaller usually getting taken care of by rubbing themselves on the sea floor or using found items to rub against, and primarily to dislodge parasites. and ofc nowadays they have the domestic cleaner wrasse colonies that handle it best of all.

theres not really... a reason that licking each other would help in removing anything from their bodies that wouldnt be handled otherwise. but also i really like them licking each other and an impulse to lick the other as a bonding thing is something that's stuck in my head and i cant get it out, so im figuring out other reasons that merfolk would do it

and primarily i think it just has to do with smell/taste again. both senses in merfolk are greatly heightened and sharp, and they already have an urge to try and make those theyre close to smell like themselves. they produce a slime layer over their skin that specially dries on land and helps seal in moisture, so usually when theyre doing that this is what is getting involved, as a vector for other scent-marking and communication proteins and All That. it might also tend to boost the health of merfolk that get marked in this way? as in, if their own slime layer isnt being produced as well or theyre already ill, the protective qualities from a healthy individual's slime layer can be shared with them and give them a little boost, but maybe theres also more complex underlying mechanisms, im not sure

which would also make merfolk licking more of a social grooming thing again, but licking as a contact exercise would also help to spread their own slime layer on the other merfolk, with the additional benefit of this also working on land (and maybe being something more basal to the group than i had been imagining), thus making them smell a little more like the groom-er.

but also because merfolk smell/taste is so important, merfolk also have this... sort of mental pressure to bond by examining and exploring other merfolk's bodies? which sounds weird when i say it like that, but its more comparable to wanting to play with someone you likes hair, or touch their legs and their arms, and otherwise just feel them and enjoying the experience of learning this sensory information about them. and because smell/taste is such a huge aspect of merfolk, this also includes putting other merfolk in their mouth, basically.

which is basically just an extension of playbiting in the first place? merfolk are very mouthy creatures and interact with a lot of their environment using their mouths, basically being a third hand for them. and they like to play with each other and bond with each other and cuddle with each other, so they also have a lot of different types of bites that say different things and have different emotional connotations. they have flirty bites, they have play bites, they have being an annoying pest for fun bites, they have "look at me" bites, they have "i just wanna chew on you without hurting you" bites, they have "i am bored and seeking sensory information" bites, they have "i want you carnally" bites, and they have all the aggressive and threatening bites you can imagine. they have a lot of bites and types of bites and ways of biting each other, its a whole thing.

so broadly i think licking each other would just kinda be an extension of that. a sort of calmer non-bite where they want to groom each other and make them smell like each other but also where theyre just genuinely examining each other and tasting each other as a more platonic attempt to learn about each other. and i feel happy enough with that, that works with me.

[good-beans]

Went to a really cool Japanese culture festival yesterday -- I wasn't sure if it would lean more towards serious culture or weeb territory, but it ended up a pretty even mix of both 😂

It was a really good time hanging out with some super nice new people and trying out a local event! I even got a little Sayori charm as well as earrings that look a lot like Mappi's ;--;

[drumlincountry]

Do you have any idea what its like to be a sustainable agriculture girlie with a hatred of permaculture. Do you have any idea how much I suffer every day.

[arolesbianism]

Mental health shit is kicking my ass but at least I have my silly guys

[b-blushes]

also i'm disproportionately excited about GUMMY VITAMIN tomorrow because my normal disgusting ones were out of stock (most sarcastic oh no ever) but that did make me realise i should just. buy some sweets for real.

[im2tired4usernames]

My parents should be fuckin ashamed

[solemntitty]

i'm having an 'it's a banana michael' moment

[whoredmode]

"Yo, let's kill these bitches quick! I wanna take Aisha out for dinner!"

[welcometogrouchland]

I will feel so tired that it's like my atoms are coming undone and I'm being made unreal...and then I will have a little chocolate treat and for 15 minutes I am whole and present again. Then the horrors

[giantkillerjack]

Literally every piece of cookware/dish that has ever been devised in the history of mankind: You can wash me with soap and water!

Cast iron skillet: tehe 🤭 soap and water? I guess that's fine if you like your steak rusty haha 🙈 I can only be washed with salt and oil and lemon and spit or I will immediately die haha so just spit on me okay spit on me and make me clean, mommy 🤗🥵😏💦👅👅👅

Me:

[quaranmine]

i need to pick up backpacking as a hobby <- is watching adventurearchives on youtube again

[glitter50000]

The statement of “The Little Palace has done significant process of the treatment of Grisha in Ravka and it provides safety after what they went through” but also “It’s not wrong to not want to go as you’ll serve as a soldier and the Grisha do act like pompous assholes sometimes” can co exist I think

[cherry-shipping]

GYEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE I HAD A CUTE DREAM W SANS >:D!!!!!!!! it was in like two parts the first was us just meeting and hitting it off right away which was fun and the other part was. nevermind im too embarrassed to not say it in the tags The tags r my safe cringe space The tags r like my house i live down there