#love alabama

[icaruspendragon]

Hey I just wanted to say thanks, because idk why this didn't just occur to me, but I've been missing "family" meals, the kind of meals I get to make for people and sit down with people I love since I came out and had to leave my house, and idk why but you posting about having family dinners with your friends where you host them made me realize that like, that's something I can still do. If I don't have the people who will invite me over to eat a meal anymore I can always be the person who invites others over myself and idk, I just wanted to say thanks

this warmed my heart in ways i don’t know how to describe.

family dinner started because i’d get some friends over on tuesdays to watch supernatural prequel the winchesters and i’d make them dinner for their troubles. i was feeding like five people max. but then the show ended and one of my friends got a new job and had to move an hour away so we moved it to the weekend so she could still come.

and then i realized that cooking is actually a form of self care for me (let’s not examine too closely how my self care is still taking care of others, it’s been discussed enough in therapy). so we started inviting other folks. and family dinner went from five people regularly to seven. and then i’d have friends from out of town come and it’d be 15-17. and now it’s not unusual for a dozen people to show up at my house on a saturday night to drink and eat and make merry.

there’s a particular kind of warmth that comes from leaning against the entry to my dining room, glass of wine curled against my chest, seeing so many of the people i love sitting around my table as they laugh and bicker and eat a meal that i used so much love to make. food that i spent hours creating because they gave me the confidence and the desire to learn how to make new things. because the effort it takes for me to make pasta or gnocchi or sauces or broths from scratch is worth it. the hours i will spend standing over a hot stove as i make gumbo or chicken and dumplings or fried everything is worth it. the easy smiles and whiskey-reddened cheeks and raucous laughter and full bellies and warm togetherness is worth the trouble.

it makes me understand the last supper (you know, minus the foreboding of betrayal). there’s a divinity in making a meal to share with those you love.

i’ve yet to find a better way express my devotion than to say, “take this, all of you, and eat of it. for it is my love given up for you.”

because even though the darkness can be chasm-wide and canyon-deep, my love is wider and deeper. it’s the bridge over the consumption of it all.

when people sit at my table and break bread that my hands have tenderly prepared i see the point of it all. loving and be loved in return.

and sometimes that love is stored in poetic words and grand gestures. and sometimes, that love is stored in a stockpot full of soup. but they both accomplish the same thing at the end of the day. warmth and safety and care and devotion.

it’s love. plain and simple and small.

[queerism1969]

[catfindr]

[chevs-and-spiders]

[streamsofstardust]

hey baby 🤭

[soulmates-for-real]

Jensen Ackles Appreciation Week

Favourite Singing / music moments

JIB 2015

Jensen being self-conscious and hesitant. Changing lyrics and tearing up 🥹❤️

[northduhcodeuh]

Happy Birthday to this Absolute moron <3333

(More photos under the cut)

I don’t even know why I started to like him 🧍‍♂️

[sirendeepity]

Just started hofas audiobook, and in the span of something like 3 pages sjm Bryce has already kissed Riceman's ass four times, calling him 'beautiful' and comparing him to a king 🤢🤢🤢

[xiaq]

Valentine's Day Pro Tip

Take your sweetheart to the grocery store.

Go to the card aisle.

Set an alarm for a predetermined time.

Select cards (keep your selection a secret).

When time is up, trade cards.

Make the proper noises: Oooh, ahhh, so sweet, so thoughtful.

Put the cards back.

Spend the $10 you've just saved on pizza.

Play footsie while eating the pizza.

(The most romantic valentines celebrations give obligatory consumerism the finger)

[blue-phones]

Random Hot Rod/Rodimus headcanons I have based on NOTHING

- would be allergic to citrus

-has torn his ACL before

-had a biting problem as a kid (but not other people. He just bit random objects for no reason)

-has zero ability to be patient and quite until it comes to fishing. That man is a god at fishing

-cannot surf, BUT can buggy board like no other

[realsafari]

i forgot that certain types of jokes REALLY arent funny and i made 2 yesterday after being told the first time that it wasnt funny uhhh...

yeah um.

this week is not going so fun.

[marinacourage]

you don’t need mind reading powers to know what way’s side eye means

[mamawasatesttube]

Bart and Tim go to visit Kon at the same time but he’s not home so they just hang out together instead and Kon comes home to find them on his gaming system and his snack stash empty

has definitely happened at least once. depending on how snacky he's feeling he either goes "ughghhhh guys seriously :/" or just goes wow my besties :] and lays on top of both of them. if that makes one or both of them lose whatever level of the game they're on, all the better.

bonus (has definitely happened more than once): bart and kon both go to visit tim at the same time, but tim isn't home, so kon raids his kitchen to make cookies for when he gets back, but bart eats all of them before then just so he can look at tim and go "kon made you a cookie, but i eated it."

[asterwild]

The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) is a large marine mammal who can live in both saltwater and freshwater. These large, docile herbivores are typically found in shallow coastal areas, rivers, and estuaries. Both subspecies (Florida manatee in the US, Antillean in the Caribbean) are considered endangered by the IUCN.

[ifelllikeastar]

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton was born December 11, 1926 and died July 25, 1984 at the age of 57

[kuja-kujaku]

none of you have any clue how happy I am to see fallout on all my social media again, I simply do not care how much spam of any one character there is. spam me more. post 90000 gifs of the show and the games, send me every Cooper post. I don’t care if he’s the most popular b’lorb de jour, I’m just glad to see ghouls get attention and I’m out here cheering on the sidelines for every character that gets even a glimmer of the spotlight. gimme all your art of random NPCs from the games idc how obscure they are. post those OCs and post them often. I’ve been in love with this franchise for SOOO long, seeing it be loved and enjoyed on such a massive scale just brings me infinite joy. show me your MtG fallout cards. tell me how you got into it, I don’t care if it was from 4 or 76 or 1 or New Vegas. or just the show. or maybe even the tabletop. no gatekeeping, no one-upping, just. enjoy. enjoy that we got a show that isn’t garbage. enjoy that there’s so many new people and show them around if you’re an old critter like me.