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I had a busy day so this is all I drew

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let's never go home again

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2-YEAR CHEDDAR

from GRAFTON VILLAGE

I usually try to review cheeses virginally - that is, ones that I’ve never had before. In this case, this is a cheddar I’ve had many times before. But I couldn’t leave it off the blog, what with its obvious appeal to leather and rubber fetishists.

As far as cheddars go, Grafton’s 2-year aged isn’t going to shock you. It’s mild, light on the salt, with a slightly sweet and grassy flavour. It’s got a nice texture. It’s dense, more moist than I expected, and smooth.

So what is the deal with the gummi suit on this cheese anyway? Well, cheese has obviously been around a lot longer than fridges. Fresh cheeses like mozzarella are too moist to last very long outside of a cold place (bacteria and fungi do so love damp places), though I don’t think anyone was too mad about eating that stuff quickly. But cheeses that have been aged (and dried) more have some more preservation options, which is where cheese wax comes in. The wax is a physical barrier, stopping fungal spores from landing, and also blocks moisture and air, making the cheese a pretty unfriendly place to grow. Even drier cheeses can be bandaged in cheesecloth and then slathered in lard to preserve them while allowing some ventilation.

I gotta admit: hot wax isn’t really my thing. But cheesecloth bondage and grease… it has potential.

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GROW.

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“Don’t do that, it will explode!” is a very dangerous thing to say to someone who used to do science shows!

Anyway, here’s a video about shooting lithium-iron batteries…

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Saw similar pose and decided to draw Blue Pearl. Well, for now at least in sketch form :)

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Bug-tenna 📺🐜

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Maka

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fighting the problematic stereotype of 'only the bad guys are weird sex perverts' by making the good-hearted protagonist an even weirder sex pervert

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i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds

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“are u okay?” no i need more money

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Dinosaur Comes to Town illustrated by Art Seiden, 1963

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Empirically testing the efficacy of "reblog for good luck" posts by making posts which promise increasingly strange and specific positive outcomes and measuring whether this has any effect on the number of people as a proportion of total interactions who claim the good fortune in question indeed came to pass.

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