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once again asking WHAT is all this then

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the vast majority of diy an average person needs in their life for basic maintenance is absolutely dogshit easy

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whoever made the decision to make umpires wear cameras... you are a legend

this is genuinely the funniest thing i've ever seen

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This is how the first Avengers went, right?

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Has this been done before? 😅

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One unexpected thing about being on T is the way that cis men are also jealous of you

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This was like, stupidly good, and despite the tomato + cream no it’s not even in the same zip code as pasta alla vodka.

If you’re looking at this and balking at preserved lemons—a) if you’re anywhere near a Whole Foods, they sell a preserved lemon purée thingie which would work fine, maybe even better, since it texturally blends without any effort b) while I personally cannot be arsed, it’s not that hard to MAKE preserved lemon (chop up some lemons, put them in a jar with salt, ignore for awhile) c) and frankly, if it really came to it, I believe you could could swap in judicious use of straight lemon juice and some extra salt for the preserved lemon.

(Sourcing or replacing the preserved lemon, by the way, is the only even slightly tricky part here. Otherwise this takes like ten minutes and that is accounting for time spent tasting the sauce with your pinky finger and going “hm. another dab of honey and a whisper more of salt, perhaps” five times in a row.)

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WHAT!!!!

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crazy that sam’s otherness was so integral to the plot in the early seasons. sammy’s a freak. sammy’s a little off. There’s Something A Bit Different about sammy. nondescript guy w blueberry shot. but then in the later seasons, dean is so fundamentally Othered and they just straight up. don’t go into it. dean doesn’t have a female soulmate in heaven bc reasons. dean wants to experience people & feelings Differently than he has before but we won’t go into it. dean’s own subconscious asks him ‘how come you only want what you can’t have?’: dean as a character is aware of his own otherness, but the narrative itself bends to ignore it. dean has to die on the rusty nail bc sam is the normal one now and dean wouldn’t fit the mold of 1 wife and 2.5 kids: that’s intrinsically not who he is anymore. dean winchester constantly toes the line of this spoken/unspoken Difference and the story ties itself into knots with this dichotomy of introducing and acknowledging it, but simultaneously avoiding its resolution. (the resolution being of course, that dean is queer and loves cas back). just. so interesting that we have this direct comparison of sam (otherness by design) vs dean (otherness by mistake). spn truly did the Most to avoid following the natural path of the narrative huh

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anyways (I say this as someone who is deeply critical of the united states government, military, unchecked capitalism, police, etc) I am SICK of people treating america as if it has no cultural value or positives so….. I love u 85 million acres (bigger than italy) of national parks. I love u harlem renaissance. I love u groundhogs day. I love u sweet tea and fried chicken and jambalaya. I love u apple cider donuts and maizes on crisp autumn days. I love u 95k miles of coastlines and new england fisherman and hand knitted sweaters. I love u halloween where millions of people dress up and give candy to strangers and carve jack o’lanterns. I love u small talk and small towns and potlucks and bringing over casseroles to your struggling neighbors. I love u cowboys and ranch hands and arizonian cactus. I love u appalachian trail and dirtbikes and divebars. I love u sparklers and fireflies. I love u mark twain and toni morrison and emily dickinson and henry david thoreau. I love u rock n roll i love u bluegrass and hippies i love u jimi hendrix and nirvana and CCR and janis joplin. I love u victorian houses and jonny appleseed and john henry and mothman and bigfoot. I love u foggy days in the pacific northwest and neon signs and roadside attractions. I love u baseball and 1950s diners and soft serve. I love u native american art and pop art and poptarts. I love u blue jeans and barbecues and jazz musicians 

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Fucking killer story map from NPR. A+++

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this specific meme has been wedged in my brain for over a decade now. i'm going to be randomly chuckling to myself about it in the retirement home

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Even Weird Al has had that™ experience with Tony Hawk

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Do you think Luke knew he was descended from slaves? Do you think he even knew about his grandmother Shmi at all?

i think it would've been pretty hard to avoid/hide, especially given shmi's grave being at the farm. the more fun question is does leia know

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