#shell stock

[fieriframes]

[Thank you. Mmm. Nice, big saffron flavor. The chorizo is spot on. Your seafood depth, all that shell stock]

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

my partner insists i use this to make jambalaya but i refuse to follow the instructions. brought to you by disneys haunted mansion

[uter-us]

radfem question!!

i'm having a conversation with someone about female only spaces (this specifically pertains to bathrooms) and they said that the rule of having female-only bathrooms would "act more like an enforcement of femininity more than anything else."

I think their point is about butch lesbians and/or women who present "masculinely," and so because there is ofc no female identification at the door, and policy would likely just make it more acceptable for women and girls to report if there was a male in the bathroom (without having to determine if the male identifies as a woman), this could end up hurting "masculine"-presenting women (implying that they could be mistaken as male), and in turn just reinforce femininity. Thoughts? (mine are in tags)

[kah-way-loh]

What if we sat by the pond to feed the fish...

... and we were both bivalves?

[Image description: Erie is a silver and blue 2001 Blue Moon Shelby, sitting next to an unnamed 2001 Lilac Shelby with a sun-damaged yellowing shell. They're sitting on a wooden dock. Ahead of them is a pond, with several small fish eating in front of them. A few reeds border the pond. End ID.]

[columboscreens]

[thewhimsyturtle]

New Christmas strategy: I’m going to wait for Santa Tort right here next to my stocking! 🎄🧦🫚🍪👨‍🍳🐢🦕🎅😴🕛

[theowlhousefanboy]

Notable And Underrated Anime That Have Excellent English Dubs, In My Opinion - A List (With Some Extra Banter or Whatever)

The works of Shinichirō Watanabe, ranging from Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy, and Carole & Tuesday (so much so that they're better off disqualified from lists likes this, due to being way too obvious choices... moving on)

FLCL (heck, would even say the same to the otherwise derivative Progressive and Alternative)

The Read or Die OVA, alongside its sequel series R.O.D the TV (so good, that even the likes of Yomiko "The Paper" Readman changing accents actually doesn't feel as jarring as I thought it would be)

Azumanga Daioh (on a side note, Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga sounds a bit like Steven Universe's Amethyst and The Owl House's Vee Noceda; can't really say why)

Lucky Star (so, which part of the Choco cornets should we eat first?)

Nichijou ('nuff said)

K-On!/K-On!! (might sound a bit jarring if one also watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica on the English dub (a bit good, but nothing compared to the Rebellion movie and maybe the compilation films; case in point, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka, Tsumugi Kotobuki, and Azusa Nakano are Homura Akemi, Kyubey, -bloody- Hitomi Shizuki, and Madoka Kaname respectively)

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan (kinda sucks that the two compilation movies don't have dubs; would have loved seeing the extra hamminess of the characters' English voices in those)

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - ADV (even if the occasional accents are inaccurate, the emotional delivery of the VAs is hard to deny, especially the vile Gargoyle's)

Kill la Kill (if one has witnessed it, then you know that they sure had a lot of fun playing the characters in this extremely fun gainaxy romp)

Toradora! (...basically the closest we get to seeing Madoka verbally beat down Kyubey in romance and stuff)

Ghost in the Shell, both the movie duology (1 and 2: Innocence) and Stand Alone Complex, including the Tachikomatic Days extras and the Solid State Society movie (so much so that the latter's DVDs are mostly set with the English dub on default, reportedly even in Japan)

REDLINE (can't speak enough for it so to describe its epicness)

Dead Leaves (you can actually watch it on YouTube... it might overwhelm you)

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (telling that it's way more raunchy than even the original Japanese)

Golden Boy (you know, at least the show didn't continue on, lest it might have gotten way too weirder like the manga it's adapted from)

Black Lagoon (so good, that it resulted with the Roberta's Blood Trail OVAs having the cast reprise their roles due to fan demand)

Excel Saga and Puni Puni Poemy (so madcap, the former's titular character's VA broke her voice halfway through the show)

Honorable mentions:

Neon Genesis Evangelion - particularly the ADV dub, with Manga Entertainment's efforts on The End of Evangelion and the Director's Cut versions of Episodes 21-24 (it might be correctly deemed as flawed, but nowadays, it sure has proven its worth, albeit at the cost of the Netflix dub being derided as lacking in emotion and perhaps also nuance)

The Manga Entertainment dubs for the Patlabor movie duology (a shame the OVA series preceding it doesn't share the same cast, while the Patlabor TV series dub... eludes me)

GaoGaiGar (flaw: it's unfinished, and thus never even reached the FINAL parts)

In the meantime, hopeful readers, feel free to put on personal recommendations, in case there'll be a second part, if not a commenter's edition.

[window-view-orion]

Pixlings character artwork

(for the life of me I could not find any actual art of Wynter, the closest is the photo on the front of her packaging that I am 96% certain is just a stock photo Photoshopped to smooth out the elbow joints and make the skirt ruffly, but the more I look at it the more I second guess myself)

all images taken/cropped from stock photos from youloveit and the Moose Toys website

[bitchapalooza]

Please let this lady at rent a center come thru get me this deal 😭 it’s a bunk bed that comes with both mattress just for 113 a month like??? Like pleaaase I’ll sell my left kidney, anything to finally sleep without the smell of surprise dog waste wafting into my nose

[big-d-cat]

Another style challenge, but anime edition.

[zelda-posting]

tears of the kingdom could have been so good if it were built around like, its story or its characters instead of being a clunky shell to show off the mechanic no one asked for that it forces you to use

[neobastard]

four more shells left before i get the avatar!

[alternian-survival-advice]

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! STOP THROWING AWAY THE CARAPACES OF BUGS YOU EAT! ESPECIALLY THE REALLY BIG ONES! YOU CAN USE THE SHELLS TO MAKE STOCK FOR SOUP OR STEW!!! ITS NOT THAT HARD I PROMISE AND YOU GET MORE FOOD PER BUG THAT WAY! AND IF THEY'RE TOO SMALL FOR MAKING A STOCK TO BE EFFICIENT WHY DONT YOU JUST EAT THEM WITH THEIR CARAPACE ON YOU COWARD

[tuzi-arts]

Just finished set 6634!!

[educationaldm]

A lovely Mermaid for your weekend colouring pleasure from the Adobe Stock Pictures.

[sysig]

I thought I was done being feral about Tamagotchis but no, it was just a lull