we need more mean butches in media that never reconnect with their feminity and never feel longing for the nuclear life they gave up on. and I mean nowwwwww

AND THEY DONT BECOME COPS

Nobody likes you! Nobody likes you! Do you know when you’re drunk and you cry to me, “Oh, I’m afraid nobody likes me because I’m mean and a bitch and I suck!” Well, you do, okay? You fucking suck! And I only hang out with you out of pity, and the suffocating weight of our shared history, and that is all.

BODIES BODIES BODIES 2022 | dir. Halina Reijn

sniffs. my beautiful evil princess jenni. so cuteness

Future

Used to sit outside and talk with my cousins all the time

Remember that one disney channel movie where the kid found out his mom's family were all leprechauns and he was half-leprechaun and he had to beat an evil leprechaun in a set of three challenges with the condition that the evil one would be banished to "The land of my father, on the shores of Erie" if he lost. And then the kid won and the evil leprechaun was like "joke's on you, once I return to Ireland I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine; by the way, it's pronounced 'Eire'!"

And the kid goes "No, no. I said what I meant. My dad's from Cleveland. You are going to Ohio."

Luck of the Irish. Ryan Coogler said it was a “touchpoint” for Sinners. Cinema is a rich tapestry.

so my mom's been clearing out her mom's house in order to sell it and has been gifting me a lot of random odds and ends from it— cut crystal jewelry, rose scented soaps, a brita pitcher, etc— but she also just emptied that house's entire spice cabinet and just dumped it all in a box and brought it to me to pick through bc i do a lot of cooking/baking. and. people. listen. most of it was 5, 10, even 20 years past its expiration date. but nothing could have prepared me for this one tiny tin of white pepper.

NINETEEN EIGHTY NINE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

No, this is not a scene out of a movie...

there will never be another destiel

Good morning, please support Venezuelan voices today. I also like to reblog memes about how the US is making the world miserable and I appreciate all the rage over what's happening to us, but it's very important that our voices are heard.

They're trying to distract the people and bury the truth, trivialize what's going on as just one more moment of Trump being evil and one more time that the US is fucking with South America.

This is reversible. There's hope for Venezuela. This just started and we need to speak up loud and clear against it NOW.

You can change this if even a little. Create art for it. Infographics. Share stories about Venezuelans. Verify information and point out fake news. Every effort is worth it right now.

Thank you so much for listening to me and I hope you have a good day.

Sambil la Candelaria, Caracas. January 4th 2026.

A video showing the queue to buy groceries / supplies.

For those of you who don't know:

USA just sent an air strike to multiple cities in Venezuela, including the city where I live. It started around 3 am in the morning while most people were on vacation or sleeping. We're waiting for the official harm and death count, since we still don't know the extent of the damage, but right now things have somewhat "calmed down".

It's been confirmed that they took the president, so the future is uncertain. We don't know what will happen, I don't know what I'll do, but I am fine

Please if you can, pray for us. We didn't expect to start the year with an open war. After all Trump has done against Venezuelans in United States and now this...

Pray for me and my family, or the equivalent according to your religion. I love you all and thank you for the good memories.

I'll try to keep informing you.

still not sure why he did that. I saw that a bunch of Floridian-Venezuelans were cheering it apparently so I thought it was a good thing but I guess those people where just idiots

the video for anyone wondering

Live images from Venezuela, posted by the people living in the Capital, therefore suffering the most the consequences of the air strikes.

Some streets are completely empty because they are in fear of walking outside. In some places the supermarkets are empty after people went to queue for supplies. The people living where the missiles affected electricity were charging their phones on the sidewalks.

Do you need the links to? Here they are:

Empty supermarkets.

People charging their phones in sidewalks.

Empty streets.

People queueing to buy supplies.

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

GIRLIE PLEASE

The fact that the US can invade a country with no regard for any law internal or international, they can take the head of government, bomb some of the main cities, threaten to do it again, say that they will take control of the government and their main industries and the world just goes on...

It's not even trending. It's just something that happened, something common, daily life. That's the kind of reality we're living in right now and the future is looking bleak.

If I hear one more person insult me because they didn't take the time to fucking READ that I am a Venezuelan in Venezuela...

I am reporting in English because I want to share what we are going through to people outside of the country who don't understand the context.

I am sharing our reality in daily life acts. What's going on in the streets, the rumours we've heard, things that are really happening to my family and friends, to me.

If you idolize Trump and think he's a saviour, if you want to lecture me when you're either not from Venezuela or outside Venezuela right now, if you can't see the complexity of a situation that's not a comic book with purely good or bad guys, if you don't have a minimum of common sense, critical thinking or empathy: shut the fuck up.