"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.

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obligatory reblog of this after I forgot to bookmark them (again)

Today starts suicide awareness week. Reblog to show your support! <3

life is good, just look at what it has given us so far…

marshmallows

hugs

tumblr

this sexy thing

music

bromances

and on top of all of that, life gave us the Once-ler :D

Lets Celebrate life, in general, yea life is a bitch, but there are so many awesome things life has to offer. It just takes a little searching to go find out what they are :)

date of origin: 9th of september, 2012.

I was born in the exact right generation I love being an unmarried woman in my twenties with my own bank account and no children

This getting reblogged with “and my thirties” “and my forties” “and my fifties” “and my sixties”

the new york times has such a great series of elevated butter noodles, if you ever want a super fast easy dinner that still feels grown up and you can emulsify pasta water + butter together basically the sky is your limit

ya got

gochujang butter noodles

peanut butter noodles

chili crisp fettuccine alfredo

miso butter noodles

any one of these + a bag of salad or whatever vegetable side you find easiest/cheapest, and you've got yourself a full meal that tastes far above the effort you put in.

"THERE ARE NO DARK/GRITTY GL SERIES TO WATCH"

CLAIREBELL

Synopsis: Claire and Bell meet in a place no one enters by choice: prison. Wrongly convicted of drug possession, Bell begins her fifteen-month sentence only to find herself targeted by a powerful group within the grounds. Even the warden turns a blind eye to their actions. Her only path to safety is to go to Claire, a violent inmate no one dares mess with. Nothing is as easy as she'd hoped. As their bond deepens, their path reaches a crossroads and they must choose between life and love.

Episodes: 8

Country: Thailand

Genre: Thriller, Crime

Available to watch on oneD and YouTube.

FRIENDLY RIVALRY

Synopsis: Seulgi, an orphan from a provincial town, moves to Seoul to attend Chaehwa High School, an elite school for the top 1% of students. She struggles to fit in until she meets Jaeyi, the school's top student. Jaeyi is intelligent, wealthy, and aware of her status, and she becomes intrigued by Seulgi. Their growing connection soon turns into a complex obsessive relationship.

Episodes: 16

Country: South Korea

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Psychological

Available to watch on Netflix.

PETRICHOR

Lieutenant Tul, a rookie officer in the Criminal Investigation Department, faces challenges during her first field deployment when she meets Dr. Cherran, a physician from the Institute of Forensic Sciences. Their differing work styles create tension, but as they analyze evidence together, they begin to trust each other. Amid societal pressures and a system favoring the influential, Tul remains committed to justice, working alongside Cherran to identify perpetrators and protect the innocent. Through their collaboration, they strive to deliver justice to the victims' families.

Episodes: 10

Country: Thailand

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Crime

Available to watch on iQIYI.

RUNAWAY

With only 168 hours left before death claims her, Winrawi finds herself the target of a relentless, vengeful spirit whose dark presence draws closer with each passing second. A chilling voice whispers hoarsely, threatening to take her life and pushing her to the brink of despair. Desperate and alone, she encounters a woman with a cold, indifferent gaze — the only person who holds hope of escape from this haunting pursuit, but her plea is met with merciless rejection. As time slips away, Winrawi is forced to confront the shadows of her past, unraveling secrets that reveal a horrifying truth, spiraling toward a tragedy no one could have foreseen.

Episodes: 8

Country: Thailand

Genre: Horror, Supernatural

Available to watch on YouTube.

COUPLE OF MIRRORS

You Yi is a young, innocent, and kind-hearted socialite and a successful author, living with everyone's adoration and envy. Her perfect life is turned upside-down when she discovers a betrayal by the two most trusted people in her life. With no one left to turn to, she finds refuge and support in Yan Wei, a young photographer with a cold personality. Unbeknownst to all, Yan Wei has a deadly secret identity.

Episodes: 12

Country: China

Genre: Thriller, Historical, Mystery

Available to watch on YouTube.

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Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.

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WLW Shows for Heated Rivalry Fans

There have been several conversations since Heated Rivalry got popular about what a lesbian version would look like (I ended up already reblogging one of them). But the thing is, we do have a lot of great lesbian content already, it can just be hard to find. And so I'm going to shamelessly use the platform of Heated Rivalry 's finale to plug just a small sampling of it. Here are 5 shows to watch after you've finished Heated Rivalry, women loving women edition.

Show Me Love (Thailand, 2023)

Starting off with the one I already recced: This is for the folks who wanted lesbian beauty queens and didn't know it already existed. This Thai show's main characters have to navigate their own sexual awakening, complicated by fans wanting to see them flirt with each other in promotional content, all while knowing if they actually came out for real it could end their careers. It's available for free on YouTube.

Roller Coaster (Thailand, 2025)

If you are more interested in a story about women who know they should not be together but are having great sex anyway, and you don't care about the reason being a sports rivalry, this Thai show is for you. It lived up to its name as an emotional roller-coaster between a woman who has been waiting for her ex to change her mind and come back, and the woman who wants to keep her company in the meantime. This one is also available for free on YouTube.

A League of Their Own (USA, 2022)

If you do care about the sports, actually, and also appreciated the element that Shane being mixed-race brought to the story (and maybe even wanted that theme explored in more depth), this American series includes women loving women, trans characters, and while it primarily follows women in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, it also follows the exponentially more difficult challenges of Black women who love women and who love baseball and just want to be allowed to pursue both despite the constraints of 1940s America in parallel. This one is streaming on Prime in most territories.

The Hockey Girls (Spain, 2019)

If you wanted more of the sports than we got in Heated Rivalry actually, and don't mind the characters being a little younger (and emotionally messier), this Catalan-language show has sport and mess in spades, and is available on Netflix.

Glow (USA, 2017)

If, on the other hand, your favourite part of Heated Rivalry was Ilya slamming Shane into the boards of the rink, and then slamming into each other, you'll enjoy the romance in seasons 2-3 of this American comedy drama about the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling in the 1980s. This one is also available on Netflix.

Bonus: The Handmaiden (Korea, 2016)

Not a series, but I could not make this rec list without including one of my favourite lesbian pieces of media of all time, as well as one of the unabashedly horniest. This Korean film is full of twists and turns, but at its core is a relationship between two women who absolutely should not be getting involved with one another. If you want "they had a lot of sex before they actually had an honest conversation", this delivers. This is available for free on Hoopla using your local library card (available in US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; other areas of the world, you may have to search).

If you want more, please feel free to reach out, or browse my recs tag.

I am holding your face in my hands so gently when I say this:

You cannot optimise your way out of being human

You can take every supplement, superfood, and nootropic going, and you'll still have days when you're ill, when you're tired, when you make stupid mistakes for no good goddamn reason.

You can read every book on non-violent communication, or gentle parenting, you can go to therapy, and be ever so mindful about the people you fill your time with, and you're still going to experience conflict, and misunderstandings, and grief.

You can plan your schedule 24/7 in carefully calculated 3 minute increments to ensure maximum productivity, but that train will still be late, that project will still run over, you'll somehow still never get around to learning that language, or that instrument, or that sport.

You can do your cardio, and track your macros, you can carb-load, or keto, or whatever the fuck dumbass extreme diet is this week's fountain of youth. You can do crosswords, and sudoku, and keep up a 12-step nightly beauty routine, but you're still going to age. You're still going to live through the gradual dissolution of the self, both physical and mental - and that's if you're lucky.

There is no one right way to live your life. Everyone you look at who is somehow managing to live the life you imagine is perfect for you has sacrificed something important to you, or has resources you don't.

I get it. I do! This mortal coil is wrapped so tight around you that you can't breathe if you stop a moment and let yourself be aware of it. There is a book on the shelf in your local library right now that would change you as a person if you read it, but you never will, because it's one of a million and there just isn't enough time.

You are an animal, just electricity in meat. The product of millions of generations of 'just good enough'. Let yourself be that. Learn to be just good enough. Let yourself lie in a sunbeam like a cat. Let yourself search for small pieces of joy like a magpie. Feel every transcendent and wretched inch of your humanity and howl at the moon like a wolf when there's too much of you to fit inside your skin.

You don't have to be perfect, but please, let yourself be you.

can anyone suggest some truly good, well written pieces of non-queerbait queer media to the masses right now? three years worth of analysis and the chance for a beautiful queer story feel sorta… flushed down the drain right now.

Multiple countries in Asia make a LOT of queer shows, there’s truly so much out there it’s a delight! If you are looking for somewhere to start I’d maybe suggest the shows “Bad Buddy” or “Semantic Error”, or if you want darker themes the shows “Khemjira” and “Clairebell” are both very gay and very good.

I'm getting tired of eating chicken soup all week, but it's been great because I can just cook the chicken on the bottom of the pot, successively add vegetables based on their cook time, and I dirty just the pot, the knife, and the cutting board.

Do y'all have any low-effort, low-cost soup suggestions for the week?

Chickpea Harissa Soup

In its most basic form, cook some onion + garlic in some olive oil, then add 2 cans of chickpeas (with the liquid!) into the pot + harissa paste to taste + broth/stock/bouillon + whatever vegetables you would additionally like. Finish with lemon juice if desired. I usually serve with egg (poached directly in the soup) + hearty bread but that’s not required ofc.

I like a mushroom and pearl barley soup, even though it takes a little bit of cooking time.

Fry an onion in oil, add sliced mushrooms + salt, fry until the mushrooms shrink a bit (plus more oil, if the pot goes to dry). Add garlic, pepper, thyme or other herbs, cook for another minute or so, then add broth (vegetable or meat, either works) and the pearl barley, about 50 grams per portion. Probably around a quarter cup? I measure mine with a Turkish tea glass, that looks about right in terms of size. Boil until the barley is tender - the one I have currently is coarsely milled instead of whole grains and will take around half an hour.

Curried lentil soup, where you fry up some onion, ginger, and garlic, add a generous amount of the curry seasoning of your choosing (Indian curry paste, thai curry paste, curry powder, etc), then add in some carrots, fry a little longer. Add maybe 3-4 cups of stock (if you're using a very salty stock and a saltier curry paste, thin a little with water, if you're using curry powder, taste at the end and add salt if needed) and a cup or so of red lentils (double it if you're planning on a big pot and lots of leftovers), cook on an enthusiastic simmer until the lentils are soft, maybe 15-20 minutes. Add some chopped green vegetables like kale, spinach, etc (I like the individually frozen cubes you can get, they're a great thing to keep in the freezer and chuck into stuff for added nutrition) in the last few minutes of cooking, if you've got them, and a generous spoonful or two of lemon or lime juice right before serving (I usually go for lemon if Indian curry seasonings, lime if Thai). It's a very forgiving base recipe and good for using up what you have. If you've got some yams or potatoes, that's good to add some small cubed ones in when you add the lentils and stock. If you don't have any green vegetables, it works well without. If you've got cabbage or bell peppers, add some in in the same stage when you're frying the carrots. If you want some extra protein, peanut butter is good in here as well and adds extra creaminess. If you've got some coconut milk that's a great thing to add, too. Tomatoes or tomato paste, can also be added if you like em, use a lil less citrus if you're doing that. For a slightly sweeter variant you can add some chopped apples. If you don't have lemon juice or lime juice, a dash of a nicely flavoured vinegar is good too, like apple cider or white wine vinegar.

Sausage, Goat Cheese, and Winter Squash soup. It's legit got five ingredients and is insanely good

cut 2 winter squash in half (any squash that isn't spaghetti squash, butternut, or summer squash will do) and put them in the oven for about an hour (or until the squash is soft) at 350. Fry up 1lb of breakfast sausage and a chopped white onion. Get a pot, put in 2 containers of chicken stock (64oz), the breakfast sausage/onions, and the scooped-out inside of the squash. Simmer lightly for 15min. Mash up any big chunks of the squash that are still left, then add goat cheese to taste.

A recent conversation in a discord group reminded me of something important. If you're on the younger side (under 25 or 30) and you haven't seen all the incredible, dark and disturbing fantasy films that came out in the 1980s and late 1970s, then I would strongly encourage you to do so. There was something so dark about that genre during that time that I absolutely adore and that isn't really around in modern films for children and young adults (once they learned that it traumatized a whole generation of us).

My faves in case you need any recommendations. (Some of these are really not appropriate for children, so keep that in mind lol).

The Dark Crystal - 1982 - the Skeksis will give you nightmares. I am honestly very proud of the remake for being just as disturbing if not more so than the original.

Watership Down - 1978- NOT FOR CHILDREN - Jesus Christ why did so many of our parents show us this film at a formative age? It's all about trauma and death and displacement and there's literal blood and murder. Not a G Rated Film. Still, it's very good. Loads better than that CGI remake from a decade ago.

The Secret Of NIMH - 1982 - Incredible movie. Minor disturbing elements. Probably my favorite on the list. It's just a great adventure story with real world issues (animal experimentation, mental health problems, disabilities) and there's even a lovely romance. Highly recommend.

Legend - 1985- This film is just straight up disturbing. Yes, there's a lot of beautiful shots of unicorns and sexy, 20-something year old (insane Scientology wack job) Tom Cruise and gorgeous Mia Sara, but there's also torture, madness and literally the Devil (Tim Curry is the entire reason you should watch this film)

Labyrinth - 1986 - I only really have two words. David. Bowie. My 10 year old self found out about a lot of burgeoning kinks while watching that man prance around in eyeliner and a codpiece. It's a wonderful adventure as well - if you ignore the blatant romantic and sexual tension between Bowie and an underage Jennifer Connelly (none of us could)

The NeverEnding Story - 1984 - Lots of disturbing imagery in this one! The Nothing was fucking terrifying, and the creatures in this world seemed uniformly creepy, but still incredibly well done. Love the adventure of it.

The Princess Bride - 1987 - Not technically a kids film maybe? Lots of adult themes and adult jokes, but safe for kids imo. I adored it and still do. Incredible performances by Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin. R.O.U.S, Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! (need I say more?)

The Last Unicorn - 1982 - A beautiful film with stunning representations of innocence, good and evil. Just gorgeous really. I should rewatch it as it's been 20 years or so.

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Adding a couple...

LadyHawk.

A romance / Action film about a knight and a maiden who are cursed. Her to transform into a hawk during the day & him into a wolf at night. Forever keeping them apart.

DragonSlayer

A coming of age tale about a wizard apprentice who must save a village from a dragon & the sacrifice lottery the village has established around it.

(Rare example of 1980s genderfuckery)

Willow

LOTR before we ever thought a LOTR film would ever be possible. You've probably seen this one, but just in case.

The Flight of Dragons

Transplanted into the body of a dragon a scientist must come to terms with magic, even while explaining it.

Krull

Classic adventure story severely undervalued in its time.

Some of the creepiest spider stop motion to ever exist.

let me add another of my childhood favorites but from the 90s

Dragonheart - 1996

Friendship between a dragon slayer and the last dragon on earth. They both teamed up to become scammer. The dragon pretended to attack villages and the knight let himself get hired to defeat the dragon. Ah and then they also had to fight against the evil king the knight worked for.

Slightly different fantasy category but I’d also add all the Greek myth movies animated by stop-motion legend Ray Harryhausen between the 1960s-1980s such as…

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Loosely based on the myth of Perseus, it stars legends like Harry Hamlin, Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, and more! Way better than the most recent version. And Bubo, Harryhausen’s iconic mechanical owl, is one of my favorite props in all of cinema!

so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.

the garlic. it beckons you

3rd Year in This Corner of Tumblr: (Some of) My Fav Reads (so far)

Early December marks my second third year in this space (yay!). It's been an odd one, since there were very few shows that made me join the fandom craze. Still, it's interesting to observe how this space evolves; people come and go, engagement fluctuates, trends change, the world changes... Sometimes I feel like @absolutebl's weekly round-ups are the only stable thing hah.

Anyways, even during this quiet year, I tried to highlight 10 (well, more) texts that stuck with me. They're presented without any particular order.

-> If you missed it here are my 1st Year Reads, 2nd Year Reads

#1 Generative AI in Fic and Fandom by @lillupon

I've been struggling with AI on every front this year. At work, in daily life, in fandom spaces... It's honestly overwhelming. I have extremely mixed feelings about it, especially in its generative form, and especially in art. I came across OPs text through the AO3 fic, and it was honestly super heartbreaking to read quotes like this one:

The author is offering thoughts on AI in the fanfiction world and how hard it is to see which works have been augmented using AI and which have not, and how it changes the fandom dynamics. It's a great opportunity to read a fic writer's point of view on the issue.

#2 Visual Analysis: Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island by @romchat

This was the most beautiful little series I watched this year. Maybe it was vibes only, but oh, what vibes! I want to live inside this series, inside that summer, and OPs post perfectly captures the essence of show's visual tricks.

#3 Why is Revenged Love So Compelling by @biochemjess & Queer Relationships in Revenged Love by @bronte-blues

I think those two posts sum up very well why I went insane about this show (honestly, I haven't left the fanfics rabbit hole yet). There's something about the dynamic between all the characters that just hit the right spot, messy as they all are. It might be the delicious tension and acts of care that @biochemjess points out or its take on relationships described by @bronte-blues but I was bought quite instantly.

#4 Integrating Real Space and Digital Space in Gelboys by @moutheyes

I still have to finish this one (the first episodes were a little too much for me at the time) but I admired gifs and read the discourse. It was definitely one of the most interesting series of the year on so many levels, but especially when it comes to the format and realistic way of presenting social media in teenage life. OPs post delves into the aspect of space that made that "realness" possible.

#5 On Apologies (via My Sweetheart Jom) - @befuddledcinnamonroll post with @he-is-lightning-in-a-bottle and @dribs-and-drabbles responses

I have never really thought that much about how differently each culture approaches apologies. But this conversation made me look back on all the times I thought the characters are taking the blame for no reason. Maybe there is a very valid reason indeed, maybe they just don't see it as blame, and I should have looked at it from a different perspective.

#6 My Personal Weatherman Can Be a Comfort Show by @nabi-unveiled

I've been reading OP's takes throughout the year (and enjoying them a lot - Nabi, you are a powerhouse, my gosh), and this one is one of my favourites. It's such an elegant answer to the ask that half of the people wouldn't have the energy to counter. If anyone has any doubts about why people like Taikan Yoho, this is the post to read. It made me even want to rewatch some scenes.

#7 How slutty is his ponytail? (Rating men's ponytails in wuxia/xianxia I've seen.) PART 1 & PART 2 by @fiftysevenacademics

I need more unserious rankings on my dash. I LOVE these types of posts. I may have watched only 1.5 of these shows and seen the rest through my dash, but this is such a hilarious concept I must applaud. Made my day. And the year, probably.

#8 Grieving & Poverty in When Life Gives You Tangerines by @hoekhti

What can I say, WLGYT is my series of the year. There were many beautiful meta written about it (e.g. things that @lurkingshan wrote halfway through that fortunately stayed true to the end), but this post stuck with me cause it's about a loss, and grief under harsh circumstances - the theme that this series tackled extremely well which surprised me a lot (it's woven into the series until the very end).

#9 Khemjira Must Know companion posts by @hinmotion

Those posts were vital for me to get to know the landscape, so to say, especially at the beginning when I felt quite lost. They made me enjoy this show even more with all the neatly compiled cultural context!

#10 Pat Grows Up by @telomeke-bbs

@telomeke-bbs blog and @waitmyturtles posts were a great companion during my first Bad Buddy's watch. I am especially fond of episode 11, Pat's perspective, as it presents all the details that I missed but instinctively felt. Pat's realisation and coming to terms with reality is one of my favourite little twists in the series.

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Once again, to each creator of any kind of content that I reblogged or liked stuff from, and to people I shout at in asks and dms (@colourme-feral needs an honourable mention):

keep doing what you're doing, you are fantastic and you make this space awesome

Let's see what the 4th year brings!

I'll keep learning this art style.

The Blood Moon again!

I drew The Blood Moon back in October using my previous art style. Here’s another version, but still kept in the same color tone. What do you think?

Link - Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Most people I talk with assume that the only way to stop corporate and dark money in American politics is either to wait for the Supreme Court to undo Citizens United (we could wait a very long time) or amend the U.S. Constitution (this is extraordinarily difficult). But there’s another way! It will be on the ballot next November in Montana. Maybe you can get it on the ballot in your state, too. Here’s the thing: Individual states have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because they determine what powers corporations have. In American law, corporations are creatures of state laws. For more than two centuries, the power to define their form, limits, and privilege has belonged only to the states. States don’t have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics. In fact, they could decide not to give corporations that power. This isn’t about corporate rights, as the Supreme Court determined in Citizens United. It’s about corporate powers. When a state exercises its authority to define corporations as entities without the power to spend in politics, it will no longer be relevant whether corporations have a right to spend in politics — because without the power to do so, the right to do so has no meaning. Delaware’s corporation code already declines to grant private foundations the power to spend in elections. Importantly, a state that no longer grants its corporations the power to spend in elections also denies that power to corporations chartered in the other 49 states, if they wish to do business in that state. All a state would need to do is enact a law with a provision something like this: “Every corporation operating under the laws of this state has all the corporate powers it held previously, except that nothing in this statute grants or recognizes any power to engage in election activity or ballot-issue activity.” Sound farfetched? Not at all. In Montana, local organizers have drafted and submitted a constitutional initiative for voters to consider in 2026 — the first step in a movement built to spread nationwide. It would decline to grant to all corporations the power to spend in elections.

Glad to know I’m not the only one who appreciates a good informational plaque