#the food in my fridge

[qvincvnx]

i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"

i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.

if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.

genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.

more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?

we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!

notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.

LIVE WHIMSICALLY.

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

My heart so broke that I could beg for affection

[sylvanianfamilieslove]

[fishnchip3011]

microwave use 101

[meloooooonade]

NGL I FORGOT TO POST AND DRAW!!!! uuuuuuuuuuh...

Have the sillies vjslvjslvjssljv

He just can't help it guys c'mon 😞😞😞

[storminormins]

While you were waiting for season 2, I was studying the memes

Echo listening to the Batch’s insane plans like:

[patrothestupid]

"It's sold time !"

[doctorwhoarchive]

she’s the type to be like ‘we have food at home.’ whenever Tara + the twins beg her to buy them food in public

she’s also gonna be the first person to bitch about how expensive everything is nowadays

[crabsnpersimmons]

Happy birthday!! I hope u enjoy ur special day!

unfortunately it's not my birthday, dear anon

which means it's my unbirthday!! huzzah!

(featuring @ren-054's Hatter Sun, Alice, and Cheshire Moon from their Alice in Wonderland AU, go check out their art, they're amazing!!)

i will enjoy this special day! and i will treat myself to a cake! thank you, dear anon! happy unbirthday to you too! i hope you take some time to treat yourself too!

picture of my cake under the cut, to be respectful during Ramadan:

wonderful timing, anon! i actually have some cake to eat! it was my uncle's birthday recently, so i have a smaller cake made of leftovers:

it's just made from the cut off top and bottom of the real cake, that's why it looks so thin and why the strawberry is so disproportionately big 😂 it was still delicious tho!

here's a photo of the actual cake for my uncle's birthday:

it was a kid-friendly tiramisu! so basically a chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting.

all credit goes to my mom, all i did to help was eating 😋

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

I bought a chest freezer recently so I can finally indulge my grandma instincts of Make An Unreasonable Amount Of Food For Not Much Money And Eat Of It For Months

Today I bought two rotisserie chickens and made SIX large chicken pot pies (9" pie tins), used the leftover carcasses and have chicken stock going in the slow cooker, with enough leftover chicken meat and veg to make chicken rice soup tomorrow for DnD and probably have quite a bit to freeze as well.

[scandals-r-us]

Did you know peppermint oil is in all natural insect repellents? I mentioned in an earlier post since Miguel is literally 50% spider, and spiders are repelled by peppermint... I bet it WOULD get his ass

GET MINT-BANGED IDIOT

To be fair though migs, no matter the scent we all have experienced the mist of doom

[stealingyourbones]

Spent so much time making sushi for dinner and was so excited to have a funky little sushi roll and eat it like a burrito but then my nori ripped apart mid roll and I had to eat it as a salad and apparently my brain doesn’t like the texture of imitation crab + seaweed and rice rn :(

[femmeidiot]

pro tip if you have adhd and you forget what food is in your fridge you can open it and find out what’s in there

[meloooooonade]

Modern Cahara bc why not???

[thejacketscloset]

Soap is a chronic stomach pain warrior, he wakes up with a stomach ache and he goes to sleep with a stomach ache. He's always so brave about it. (Gaz is so so tired of hearing him whine about his stomach issues when he just watched Soap scarf down something he's certain has been in the fridge for over a week)

[sketchyleman]

A little late night snack wouldn’t hurt

Hey guys! I’ll gradually post a bunch of my art from twitter here